Mother/Daughter cards

My husband went out with a friend last night, so my daughter and I had a mother/daughter crafting night! She is 10, and she really wanted to make a card with me. So I made a card and she made one. She has really specific taste, so even though she is entering the same challenges as me, she made a quite different card!

We're entering these challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches
Color Throwdown
Simon Says - Stars
Word Art Wednesday

I'll start with Leah's card:

Leah used a Lagoon card base with Pear and White Daisy for her tilted panel. She wanted a pinwheel from the Pinwheel stamp set for her focal point. She embellished with stars from the Home of the Brave stamp set, and her sentiment is from the Thoughtful Tidings set. She used Holiday Red, Honey, and Pear for her colors. Then she added stars from the Peacock Fundamental assortment and some aqua dots.

For the inside she stamped a sentiment from the Pinwheel stampset in Holiday red and added a gold puffy heart. Isn't it cute?



 Next my card:

I used Topiary for my card base and Lagoon for my tilted panel. I created a background paper by random stamping a sand dollar in Lagoon, Topiary, Tulip, and Canary on White Daisy cardstock. I then added blue and green Bitty Sparkles. For my focal point, I stamped the Starfish from Under the Sea in Tulip, then layered it with a Canary Layer, covered in Liquid Glass. The bubbles are stamped in Lagoon. The bubbles and sand dollar are from the Footloose Workshop stamp set.

The inside of the card is random stamped in the same colors with the star from the Pinwheel set. Then I added a Bible verse, Psalm 119:105, in Tulip.

Come play along with us for these challenges!

Christmas in July

This week at Color My Heart they are asking us to use Emerald, Sea Glass and Raspberry with Black, White and Silver. I did not get any of the new colors unfortunately before I quit Close To My Heart. It was hard to find similar colors because they are unique. I found raspberry in the Flirty paper pack. I guess it is the same color. Absolutely beautiful. I love this color and hopefully I can order the ink soon. Instead of Emerald and Sea Glass, I ended up using Lagoon and Glacier. It's bluer than it should be, but still pretty. Not as Christmasy as I'd hoped though.

I am entering this into the Christmas in July challenge at Merry Monday. The sketch is from CAS(E) This Sketch, and I am also entering the "Oh the Places You'll Go" challenge at Heart 2 Heart. I interpreted this for a Christmas card as "I'm going home for Christmas." I actually don't know where I'll be for Christmas this year, and I did get to spend the last Christmas before my mom died with her for the first time since I'd been married. It was such a special time and a true gift.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Lagoon, Glacier, Flirty Raspberry, white Daisy
Stamps: Home for the Holidays
Ink: Lagoon
Other: Silver Shimmer Trim, Flirty Assortment, Seam Binding Ribbon, My Legacy Writer, Art Philosophy

Fun Summer Colors

I like the colors they're asking us to use this week at Color Throwdown. They are summery, and they reminded me of the Calypso paper pack from about a year ago. I made the Calypso Workshop pages, then life spun out of control and I hadn't revisited it since. For this card I used the My Stickease and some plaid paper I found at Joanne's today that matched perfectly. It is from Core-dinations.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made, and I used plaid for the challenge at Simon Says. I am also entering this into the inspiration challenge at Word Art Wednesday.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy
B&Ts: Calypso
Paper: pink plaid core'dinations (not CTMH)
Compliments: Calypso

Color Dare 251

Hi everybody! I was browsing through the beginning of the Color Dare Challenge blog and getting sentimental about crafting. I haven't done it in so long! So, I got a sketch from Atlantic Hearts and created this useless card (because it's been a full year since we moved to Alabama!). I still like it. Isn't it pretty? I had a tough time with the lemon in this combination, so I just used a touch of it.

I used Juniper, Black, White Daisy, and Sorbet cardstock. I used Juniper ribbon and gold Shimmer Trim. The stamp sets I used are Heartwarming Hello, and the sun is from Cityscape. I stamped the sun in Sunny Yellow, since I don't have the new Lemon color. I also used some black ink and ShinHan markers.

 

Come play along with me at Color My Heart and Atlantic Hearts!

Leah's birthday invitations (with Color My Heart #211)

Well, hello there! It's been a long time since I've done any blogging. I have been so busy homeschooling, knitting, and trying to get into shape, that I haven't had much time for my card-making. But I needed invitations for my daughter's birthday, and I have so many great stamps, I can't justify buying invitations (even though I'm super busy!). So I made these cards using the colors from Color My Heart - Poppy, Saffron, Fern, and Colonial White. My daughter wanted a strawberry theme for her birthday, so I made these with the Taste of Summer stamp set.

I would have loved to embellish these a little, but I wanted to keep them mailable, and I was in a hurry. Leah really liked them, so that's what counts!



Materials used:
Cardstock: Saffron, Fern, Colonial White
Stamps: Taste of Summer, Tea Time, Art Philosophy, You are My Happy Alphabet, Curlicue Alphabet
Ink; Poppy, Saffron, Fern

Banner bunches

I may have found my mojo! I have not been creating lately, but now I'm back at it. I made this card with the challenges at Color Throwdown and Pals Paper Arts.

I used Fern for the green, Goldrush for the orange, Gypsy for the purple and Glacier for the aqua. I used some of the Paper Fundamentals for patterned paper. The stamp set was from the current Seasonal Expressions - A Bunch of Love. To color the flowers, I took a paintbrush and collected some of the ink from the lid of the stamp pad and painted with water.

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Glacier
Paper Fundamentals: Goldrush, Gypsy, Fern
Stamps: A Bunch of Love
Ink: Archival Black, Gypsy, Glacier, Fern, Goldrush
Other: Chevron Embossing Folder

Color Dare # 203

Since the last time I blogged here, I have moved from Wisconsin to Alabama. It took me a while to settle in and get all unpacked, but I finally forced myself to clear off my craft table and get busy creating. Here was my table before:

And here's my table after I shoved all the junk off:

Granted, this isn't my best work, but it'll do for a start. The colors for Color My Heart this week are Sorbet, Canary, and Crystal Blue with White Daisy as the neutral. I used this week's sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch.

Here is the birthday card. Maybe I'll send it to my sister. August 6th is her birthday. She's getting old! LOL:

 

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Sorbet
Stamps: Just a Number, Swirls Around
Ink: Sorbet, Canary, Crystal Blue