Thinking of You Card with Distress Inks

Oh how I love using distress inks for my backgrounds! The blending is always so smooth and beautiful. I wanted this card to look like a sunrise.

I stamped these little birds from the Lawn Fawns "Hello Sunshine" stamp set in memento tuxedo black ink so I could color them with my copics. I think they turned out really cute.  I masked off my birds and inked up my background and then I stamped my greeting.

The greeting is from the Simon Says Dies and Stamps "From Me To You". I love this set, it is two stamps set full of greetings and two word dies that coordinate. I mounted my image on black cardstock for a nice pop!

I hope your inspired to try out distress inks on your next background. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting :)

CAS Card for Case this sketch #107

Today I wanted to share with you a card that I made for the CAS(E) this sketch! challenge. I love that it is a CAS layout. I have always struggled with white space on my cards but I am learning to love the look  now. These make wonderful cards to mass produce. You could easily change the sentiement and the hearts for any occasion.

Here's a close up so you can see the detail that the crystal effects gave the hearts!

Below you can see the sketch that I used to create my card. 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting! :)

Andrea

Valentines Note card

I am loving little note cards lately. They are so quick and easy to make and small enough to stick in my kids lunchbox or my husbands planner. I made this one to stick in my daughters lunch on Valentines day.

I think this stamp is so stinking cute. It is actually a wood mount stamp that I found at my local craft store and I had to have it.  I colored the pig with copics and added some sparkle to his wings and trunks with a Wink of Stella glitter pen. The background was also a stamp I found that same day and knew it would be perfect together.

I stamped the background stamp with versa mark ink and cleared embossed it. To finish it of I added a few clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. Who doesn't love a cute Cupig?  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are inspired to make little note cards for someone special in your life.

Happy Crafting! :)

Back to Blogging!

Hi everyone. It has been a year since I have posted anything on this blog site. I decided last January to try out having my own website to post my crafting projects on and to sell Stampin' Up! After finishing out the year I have decided to step down from the Stampin' Up! career and just have my blog. I absolutely love my time crafting, it is my happy place, but I have a son in the 10th grade and a daughter in Kindergarten and trying balance family, my full time job as a bookkeeper and Stampin' Up! was a bit much.

My kindergartener is 5 years old and one of the youngest in her class. She has had a bit of a challenge learning all the sight words and keeping up. As a parent, we are the ones that go the extra mile to help them feel confident and give them the gentle push right? So, I am devoting more time to her, encouraging and working with her on her school work. I am pleased at the progress she has made since Christmas!

My son just turned 16 but NO car yet. We are not in a big hurry for him to be driving on his own! He will be eligible to take the drivers test this Spring so we may start looking at cars this summer. He plays the snare drum in the marching band and also takes private drum lessons weekly so he keeps me busy!

I am looking forward to this new year and seeing what God has in store for me and for our family.

I'm excited to start my blogging back up and have a place to share my crafting inspiration. I hope you will check in again soon and be inspired!

HUGS..

Do you need Thank You Cards?

We'll now that the holidays are over I am finding myself in need of Thank You cards, how about you?
I have made four beautiful Thank You Cards that you could easily mass produce. These were made with all Stampin' Up Supplies. I will have a list of supplies at the bottom for you. Here they are.

This first set was made in the Pool Party and Bermuda Bay colors. This is one of my favorite card stock colors! I think they turned out so pretty and you could make them in all differant colors too. Which of course I did! Here they are in Strawberry Slush and Crisp Cantaloupe. 

So I hope this gave you some inspiration to make some Thank You cards for you own stash. Let me

know what you think and what your favorite colors is. 

Supplies: All supplies listed are Stampin' Up

Card stock - Whisper White, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Winter Frost DSP, Silver Glimmer, Strawberry Slush, Brights DSP, 2013-2015 DSP, Crisp Cantaloupe and Pistachio Pudding

Ink - Pool Party, Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding and Smokey Slate

Stamps sets - Another Thank You and Sweetly Framed

Punches - Decorative Label Punch, Elegant Butterfly, Punch Pack (small flower)

Embellishments - Basic Rhinestone Jewels 

Ribbon - Whisper White Taffeta