Showing posts with label You Brighten My Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You Brighten My Day. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Miss You!

I'm sad...
My daughter-in-law's parents have moved.  They used to live about 40 minutes from my home, and we often got together to share a meal and a laugh and enjoy our combined families.
Now they're gone...6  hours to the south.  I know we'll always be friends, but I miss them already.  So here's a card I made, using the Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch #139.  Here's the sketch:

Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch 139 #stampinup #papercraftcrew #papercrafts #cardchallenge

and here's my card:

Lots of retired goodies on this card, some of which I barely played with before they retired (darn that Sale-a-Bration! <grin>).

My base is Calypso Coral, with a layer of Whisper White.  I used the square framelits to cut my Crisp Cantaloupe square, and used the corner rounder on all four corners.  The top half was run through my Big Shot with the vintage Clouds embossing folder.

The houses (from You Brighten My Day) were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and colored with the now-gone Blendabilities.  They were punched out with the What's Up punch.  I paper-snipped some grass from Wild Wasabi card stock.

My sun was double stamped--using the "sun" from So You, I first stamped it on the corner of my Whisper White Layer, and again on a piece from the Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper.  I snipped each ray, and added it to my card.  Finally, the sentiments from Just Sayin' and Holiday Home were stamped, cut (Word Bubbles) and punched (Banner Punch).  And three candy dots from the Subtles Collection kept me true to the sketch.

It makes me feel a little better to send this card to my friends...but not much...

What do you create when you're feeling blue?  Won't you leave me a comment and let me know?

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Graffiti Anniversary

My husband and I just celebrated our wedding anniversary, and I made him this card.  Nothing fancy or flowery...but he really liked it.

The brick wall DSP is from the Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack.  One side of each page is a photo--they make great backgrounds!  The other side is a traditional DSP, but uses colors suitable for "man cards".



I searched my stamps and found a number of them that could pass as graffiti on a wall; these were stamped in Versamark ink and heat-embossed with White Embossing Powder.  The brick DSP was then adhered to a layer of Early Espresso Cardstock, then added to a Crumb Cake card base.

Simple and cute:



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What have you created today?