Party Hearty! CCMC272, RS#85

Happy Tuesday... again!  This is my second post for the day... scroll down to see my post for Stampin' Celebration!  I had a little time to make a card while my sweetie was at preschool, and here's what I did!  A card for my nephew who will turn 9 on Thursday!

For this  card I played along with the colour challenge at Create With Connie and Mary and used the sketch from RetroSketches!  It worked perfectly for this card!

I actually started this card in MDS!  I used one of the talking bubbles from the Lemonade Stand stamp brush kit, took the 'party hearty!' stamp brush from the Party Hearty stamp brush set, cropped each word to orientate one underneath the other, made it bigger to fit in the talking bubble (ignored the pixelation warning!  it's totally fine!) and... Voila!  Print! (after changing the colours of course!)  I cut it out using my paper trimmer, rounded the corners and cut carefully around the little arrow thing-y at the bottom!  Then I started using my 'real stuff' to finish it off!  Neat-o, huh?

Check out the challenge sites... they always have great stuff going on.

Hopefully my nephew will love his card... I know he is super excited about his birthday this week!  Nine is super important... next to ten of course, which is double digits!  

Thanks for looking!  Hopefully I'll have some more time later to make yet another card!  Off to pick up my sweetie!

xo Anita

PP163, PPA171, FMS103

Hello... Happy Monday!  It's the start of a brand new work week... so I'll just get the show on the road here, as I have lots of fun things to do.... and some not so fun.... my Big Shot bit the dust this weekend.  It is five years old, so it was bound to happen sometime.  My husband took it all apart and found that it needs a couple new parts.... so we'll see what that costs!!!! (fingers crossed!)

I am linking up with three challenges today.  I needed to make a birthday card for my niece, she'll be having a birthday in a couple weeks, so I played along at the Paper Players with their CAS For Kids challenge!  I used the Freshly Made Sketch and the fresh colour combo from the Pals Paper Arts.  

Here's my card!

It's a pretty easy card to replicate... and I have to be honest.... I am not totally happy with this because I had wanted to run the card base through the Big Shot with an embossing folder.... but ALAS.... BROKEN BIG SHOT!!!  Boo hoo!  So I went ahead with the sponging and no embossing, and I guess it looks alright, but still.... you know when you had something different pictured in your mind, right?

 

Now... go check out those blogs for yourself, get inspired by all the crafty creations, and link up your own card or project!  Thanks for taking the time to look at mine!

Have a great week!  xo Anita

For You-Masculine Birthday

Hello again!  Another quick post for now.

I've got a really nice masculine card for you again.  This one uses the (retired) Backwoods stamp set.  It's got some great images in it for guys cards, I think it's too bad it's retired!  I also used the Vintage Labels stamp set, along with the Curly Label Punch.  The Spiral Punch is also the one thing that I don't think I will EVER get rid of.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Hope you've been inspired to make something today!

xo Anita

Friday Mashup... On Tuesday!

I really wanted to play along with the Friday Mashup this week.  I've been meaning to do something with hexagons, but my crafting time is pretty short these days, so I quickly sat down this morning and created this fun card, while my youngest was napping.  I CASEd the layout from Ilina Crouse, a fellow demo.  I wanted to include those hexagons, and make it girly, so I changed it up a little to suit my needs, and it worked out perfectly.

Here's the challenge from Erica over on the Friday Mashup....

1. Create a project using "Hexagons".
2. Create a "Girly project".
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Girly project using Hexagons".

 

 

Here's the card I made...

I used Rose Red, Wild Wasabi, and Bashful Blue for this card.  I got my colour combo off of my Colour Coach (the retired one)  I embossed the background DSP after adhering them together.  They definitely get a little 'distressed' looking after you run them through the embossing folder.  I like it though!  I used my SAMJ to get the clouds and strings and streamers 'just right'.  The button with the twine bow is the finishing touch.  My niece will be getting this card in the mail.  She's turning 15 in a couple weeks!  I can't believe it.

Thanks for looking!  Don't forget to click on over to the Friday Mashup blog, check out what everyone has made, and maybe even play along yourself!

Happy Birthday Cupcake!

   

This is a cute girlie card!  I love it!  I haven't used my cupcake punch in way too long.  As soon as school is out and things settle down for the summer I am going to get down to my scrap room again and make something with this punch.  A little punch trick on this card is the scalloped edge, which I made with my corner rounder punch.

Happy Birthday!

OK, not my favourite card, but this is not a blog of my favourite cards, it is a record for me of what I've made.  There you have it!