The Cuttlebug Spot - Trifold Valentines

This week the challenge at The Cuttlebug Spot is to make a Valentine card that is a trifold.  This was a great one as I get stuck in a rut making the traditional card so it was a nice reminder that they don't all have to be traditional. 

I used a new to me folder called candy cane stripe.  I tried to get the folder during the holidays, but unable to find it in stock anywhere.  Of course as soon as the holidays were over I was able to find it.  I think it is one that can be used year round even if it has a Chistmasy name.

I hope you can play along.  Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT and see their gorgeous creations over at The Cuttlebug Spot.  Thank you for stopping by.

Ride-em Cowboy

This is an image called Weiman Wranglers it can be purchased through Pink Cat Studio to raise money for Make a Wish in honor of Ethan Weiman. You can find all the details here. This was my first digital stamp and it was very easy. So for the details about the card, it for four challenges. Can you tell I love combining challenges? I like to see how many I can make work on one card so far I think 6 is the most I have done. I created the denim background and the bandanna as well. It is hard to tell in the photo but the tan strip is and piece of suede fringe trim I bought at the fabric store.

Challenges:
StampTV: Sketch
SplitCoast Stampers: TLC226 Faux Denim
Our Creative Corner: To use stars on your project
My Time My Creations My Stampendence: To use the Wieman Wranglers digi image in a project.




copics:100 black, B24, BG01, C3, C5, E31, E33, E35, E37,E51, E57, R27, YR00
Stamps; Weiman Wranglers digital download, Polka Dots and Paisley (SU)
paper; pure luxury white(GKD), real red (SU)
ink; ballet blue, brilliant blue (SU) moonlight white (Brilliance)
Other; gel pen, suede fringe star brads

These boots are made for walking

Today's try a new technique challenge on SCS, I have been wanting to try this. My first thought was Theresa's new stamp set Out West, then I saw that the color challenge on STV was red/black/white. I also use polka dots and paisley from Stampin' Up. This card came together so easy from that point. It is a super basic card, if you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you for stopping by.


copic R27, memento tuxedo black, and white signo gel pen

I'd Pick You

Today's card is for last week's Friday Potluck challenge hosted by Joanne. For this challenge Joanne choose an inspiration, you can see it here. I picked up on the purple flowers on the cups and came up with this card. The base is lavender lace, pure luxury white and elegant eggplant are the mats. For the flowers I stamped and heat embossed them before coloring, then after coloring with memento markers I went over the images with a versamark pen and heat embossed again. next I sponged so saffron in the center and perfectly plum on the outer edges. The pearls were white but I colored them with a copic marker to make the a matching color to my card. I have to apologize for my poor photography skills, today is a dark and rainy day here and so my normal mediocre photo skills are much worse today due to poor lighting.
Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda



Memento markers used:
grape jelly, lulu lavender, new sprout, bamboo leaves, desert sand

Spring Flowers

A quick post. I made this for last Friday's potluck challenge, to use something from your kitchen on your card. I used party toothpicks for the stems. Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda

Yellow Orchids

I made this card for another challenge on StampTV. This one hosted by Kurtis. It is a sketch challenge, I decided to make a simple clean card. I used the orchid from Botanical Dreams from Gina K Designs. I colored the orchid with copic markers. The mat and base colors are certainly celery and so saffron and the designer paper is delicate dots which is from the Sale-a-bration catalog. Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda

Top Note Quilt

I got in some new goodies today from my last Stampin' Up order. I finally broke down and bought the top note die, and I am so glad I did, love it!

I was lucky today and spent the day stamping and visiting with a friend (Hi Jackie) and I had a blast. I didn't get a lot done, but that is just fine we had fun talking and going to lunch and I squeezed in a bit of stamping and made this card.

So on to my card, I got the idea from Diane from Stamping with Di to make a quilt and then cut it out with the die. Diane did a wonderful tutorial on it here. I used Delicate Dots from the Sale-A-Bration catalog to make the quilt pieces, I used a 1" square punch as I didn't have a 1 1/4" like Diane used so I needed to add a extra roll of squares to the top and side, I also needed to make the white base 4" x 5". The card base is bashful blue that I stamped with Itty Bitty Backgrounds in bashful blue. I sponged the "quilt" with bashful blue . The medallion is from Figures of Speech (retired). The layers of the medallion are so saffron, bashful blue and certainly celery. This card is an all Stampin' Up card except the little bit of coloring on the baby. I also made this card for two challenges on SCS, Thursdays ways to use it (WT206) and today's limited supplies (LSC208).
Thanks fro stopping by.
Brenda

Casing Lori Craig

Today's featured stamper on SCS is Lori Craig aka stamp_momma. Here is the card I choose. Lori has a beautiful gallery with a ton of cards to choose from, making this a hard choice.
So when you case for a featured stamper you need to change at least two things on the card, it does appear at first glance that I completely cased Lori, but there are several changes to my card. They are:
1. A couple of color changes, ink and my blue paper are very close, but are still different.
2. The stamps are different.
3. The ribbon and slide are different and I didn't use a sentiment because mine was on my slide. Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

Butterfly Beauty

This is a card a made using Unity's Butterfly Beauty and Gratitude = Joy. The butterfly was stamp and colored with koh-i-noor pencils and blended with OMS, then cut out and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. For the antennae I just cut them off and after attaching the butterfly to the card I drew in new ones. For the background I sponged with blue bayou, old olive and so saffron, then I stamped the bamboo with close to cocoa. The sentiment is from warmest regards (retired) from Stampin' Up. Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda

Casing Your Royal Highness...

Julie Ebersole (JulieHRR) on SCS. Julie is today's featured stamper on SCS and wow she is one talented lady. I choose a card from way back in 2005, Phone call away... The things I changed are...
1. the stamps used (I needed a thank you card for Christmas)
2. the background paper
3. I changed the theme to winter

Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda

Wide Ride

I made this card for today's Limited Supplies Challenge on SCS. I am having a lot of fun playing with my new copics. Sorry for another bad photo there is still lousy weather here and I can't seem to get a good picture of anything. It is very hard to tell but the trees are stamped on very vanilla in chocolate chip and the ground is sponged with close to cocoa. For the sky I lightly sponged with so saffron. The truck is colored with copics and then heat embossed with clear three times. Thanks for stopping by.
Brenda

Gift Card Holder

Yesterday on Carolina's blog she posted the cutest gift card holder with a great tutorial. I loved it and was in the need for a gift card holder so I made one. It is easy to do, I made my own designer paper. I stamped the snowflakes from Snow Swirled in certainly celery and real red then I lightly sponged certainly celery all over. I saw this done on one of the blogs I visit yesterday but I can't remember who, sorry if you know whose it is please let me know so I can give credit.
Thanks for looking.
Brenda

Snowy Trees

This is a card I made using Stampin' Up's Lovey as a Tree, I love that set. To create the background I sponged starting with bashful blue, then ballet blue and last I sponged brilliant blue. I stamped the trees and heat embossed them. I used my white gel pen to make the snow. To create the the horizon I tore post-it notes through the sticky part and then used it as a mask. Last I layered it on basic gray and a card base of bashful blue. Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

Sunflower Thank you

Have you heard of Paper Craft Planet yet? If you have been living under a rock and haven't it is a wonderful new paper crafting site. Most of the stamping companies have groups on there. In the Gina K. Designs group there are a couple of challenges, and this card is for one of them. Jessica Flick posted a challenge to make a thank you card using Gina K. stamps. This is my card for the challenge using Melanie Muenchinger's newest stamp set A Year of Flowers.
I stamped the first sunflower and then made two masks so I could stamp the other flowers to give them depth. The flowers and leaves are colored with koh-i-noor pencils and blended with OMS. Next I cut them out and inked them with versamark and clear embossed them, I repeated this three or four times. This really adds a lot of depth to the image. The flowers are mounted with pop dots on a so saffron oval which in on a really rust scallop oval. Behind the ovals I stamped leaves from Aslea Hopkin's set Botanical Dreams, with more mustard ink on more mustard paper. Lastly I mounted it on really rust and a card base of so saffron. The sentiment is from Rupa Shevde's set What Ever Floats your Boat.
Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

Pepperment Spiders

I Have been seeing these spiders and of course I had to make some of these too.
Thank you for stopping by.
I hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween.
Brenda

Frankie and Frannie

Well I have been loving every bodies Frankie's and had to make some for a couple of special kids that come by my house and of course my son and his girlfriend. they maybe 17 and 18 but they will just love them. I named Frankie's girlfriend Frannie. I had a blast making them. They are boxes that I will fill with candies for them. Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

In the mood for......Christmas

So what were you thinking LOL. Here are four Christmas cards I made for the land cruise contest they were having on for Gina K. Designs on SCS on Wednesday.
My first card was made for the chipboard challenge. I use koh-i-noor pencils and OMS to color the sleigh. This one was for Carolyn King's challenge to use water on your card, I chose frozen water. I just love this new set of stamps by Rupa Shevde, The Magic of Christmas. I started off with white paper and clear embossed the four snowflakes( all on one clear block this made stamping fast). After completing the snowflakes I sponged on brilliant blue until I was happy with the color. The sleigh was colored with koh-i-noor pencils and OMS.


The next two cards were for the Easy 1,2,3 challenge. You were to use one ribbon, two layers (counting the base) and three embellishments (all the same).

For the reindeer card I clear embossed three of the snowflakes from The Magic of Christmas on the base, colored the reindeer with my koh-i-noor pencils(can you tell I love those things) cut it out with a scallop oval nestabilities, and last added the sheer ribbon and rhinestones.

The last card I used up some scraps I had laying around. It is a 4 1/4 square card. The dress is from Rupa's Retro Boutique set colored with a sharpie marker. In the background I stamped the swirl from the Joy of Christmas set by Stampin' Up. The sentiment is from The Magic of Christmas. then added the ribbon and rhinestones. Thank you for taking the time to stop by and look.
Brenda

Botanical Birthday

This is birthday card I made last week using Asela Hopkins set from Gina K. Designs. I started by stamping the flower at random on very vanilla card stock. To color the flowers I sponged them with lavender lace heavier in the center and working lighter to the outer edges. Next I very lightly sponged certainly celery between the flowers. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Lots of thoughts. Thank you for taking the time to look.
Brenda

Crazy Cupcakes

I made this for today's Try a new technique challenge (tlc191). I used Stampin' Up's crazy for cupcakes. I colored the images and then being as I don't have any twinkling H2o's I used my versamark pen on the cupcakes and then heat embossed with my new iridescent super sparkle embossing powder I won from Hero Arts. I used the new scallop edge punch from SU to make the frame. The ribbon on the bottom is to hide where I messed up, I am not completely happy with the card. Thank you for taking the time to look.
Brenda

Blossom in Unity

I made this card for a challenge about a month ago for Unity's hip hop and didn't enter it. So anyway I stumbled across it today and thought I would share it with you. I have to apologize for being a slacker blogger. It isn't that I haven't been making cards, but I have dropped the ball about posting. I will try to be more consistent, but I will be having surgery on my knee in a few weeks and I am not sure how much I will be able to post during that time. The up side is that once I get to feeling better I will still be off work and hopefully able to spend my time recuperating making cards and blogging.

About my card I used Unity's blossom single and Stampin' Up's chocolate chip paper and ribbon. I also used some of Stampin' Up's bella bliss dsp from last year. I finished off by adding mini rhinestones to the flowers and the top corners of the sentiment. Thank you for taking the time to look.
Brenda