Happy Birthday Kendra!

Hi!

Today I'm hopping along with some of the other Crafter's Companion girls to wish Kendra a 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

You can find the full hop list on the Crafter's Companion Blog.  :)

To create this card for Kendra, I used Moonbeam Meadow Everyday: Time for Tea along with some Distress Ink: Stormy Sky.  I colored everything in with Spectrum Noir Markers: IG1 (outline) and Spectrum Noir Blendable Colored Pencils:
Teapot: 038, 039, 040
Tag: 040
Grass: 047, 046
Mouse: 092, 097
Flowers: 063, 013
Banner: 090, 013, 061, 079, 066, 017, 028

Lori Barnett

Taylor Usry

Tenia Nelson

Giovana Smith

Melissa Cash

Chrissie Tobas (YOU ARE HERE)

Wendy Price

Trena Brannon

Swarup Murthy
Jenn Cochran
Roxanne O'Brien
Christy Reuling

All supplies are linked above and available in the Crafter's Companion store unless otherwise noted!

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Happy Birthday Nette!

Today is Lynnette's birthday! I made her a card to celebrate this special occasion!

I used Hero Arts images along with a Paper Smooches sentiment.

You can see more cards made for Lynnette on the Lawnscaping Challenge blog!!!

Happy Birthday Nette!!!!

Spectrum Noir Markers	*Tsukineko Memento Ink Pad NORTHERN PINE	*Paper Smooches CHIT CHAT Clear Stamps Kim Hughes
Hero Arts CL158 Cupcakes

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Happy Birthday Laurel!

Today is Laurel's birthday and we're celebrating by having a little Blog Hop!!! So, Happy Birthday!!!

Here is the card I created in honor of Laurel!

Please head on over to Lynnette's Blog - she has the full list of ladies participating in Laurel's birthday celebration today!

Absolutely Fabulous Birthday!

Today I have a super fun birthday card to share with you! I made it for a SP and Company DT call, but I also made it with a specific person in mind! First, I need to tell you about these stamps!!! Let me just say that I discovered SP & Company a few days ago and I'm hooked already.  I can't stop checking out the galleries and the stamp sets.  Obsess much?! :-)  I just adore their stamp designs - some of them seem like they were made just for me (which is cool, yet weird at the same time - can they read my mind?!)! They have everything from sentiments to frames to adorable images! My favorite thing is that some of the sets are the 2-step kind - you have a base stamp and then another stamp that goes with it... LOVE this - the possibilites are endless... Go and check them out!!!

Now, for the challenge.... The requirement was to use blue.  No problems there! I decided to make blue the accented color, though, not the focal color.  Why? Well, I decided that this card was going to go to the wonderful 87-year old woman that works with me and she loves purple.  She is just incredible.  We work in a print shop together - I'm in the Pre-Press/Design/Print area and she is in the bindery.  I swear she has more energy than I do on most days and when she laughs, EVERYONE laughs! She just has the best attitude and the craziest sense of humor.

OK, enough chit chat, right?! On to the card!!!!

I used white cardstock for the background, which I've been doing more recently.  Most of the time, I want color, but white just felt right for this one.  The other stocks I used were Kraft and Deja Views (purple).  The little punchy-punch at the bottom is a Martha Stewart punch (one of my favorites that I use WAY too much!).  I made sure the little butterfly at the top had blue and purple wings.  I used Copics for that.

You can see some of the detail of the butterfly here.  I actually cut him out twice, so there are two layers of wings.

Needless to say, she was thrilled with the card and that made me so happy.  I love watching the expression on the face of the recipient when they look at a card and realize for the first time that I made it.  It doesn't get much better than that.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the weekend! I'm waiting for the hubby to come home (he's out of town for a wedding), so the kids and I will be out and about, trying to stay busy this weekend! I'm sure I will find time to make some cards, though - I always do!!!!



Birthday Girl

Today I have a fun and bright card.  I chose my colors and theme from this weeks' Cupcake Inspirations Challenge (#100 - woot woot!!!).  I was inspired to use foam on my card from this week's Make it Monday by Papertrey Ink.  I decided to get funky and I die cut some fun foam (from my son's stash, of course!) and I then embossed it.  I inked it up and used it as a stamp.  You can see in the above picture the resist I got from embossing.  Cool, huh?

At that point, I was still wanting to use more foam, so I die cut some more and I stamped designs on them.  I used some stamps from the PTI Frames set and a butterfly from thte PTI Butterfly Dreams.  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the dimensional butterfly and another PTI die for the scalloped tag that's partially hidden in the background.

My friend's daughter has a birthday coming up this month and this one is perfect for her.

I have to say that I'm going to use the foam technique to make my own stamps more often.  I just used some removable adhesive and adhered it to a clear block to stamp it.  It came right off with no problems and the results are one of a kind!

Thanks for stopping by today!!!



Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 176

Well, we've all crawled out from under the snow here in Chicago! It was crazy yesterday.  I don't think anyone made it into work anywhere.  Since I was home, I had a little bit of time to work on a card.  I'm really loving the Mojo Monday Blog! I love the sketch challenges and the inspiration that comes along with it!  Here is this week's sketch challenge:

I ended up doing the square design, only because I wanted to use banners and I thought they would look better on the square instead of the circle.  I do LOVE circle cards, so I'm hoping to use this in the future for something.  I also decided to be a little different and I flipped the sketch upside down.

I used papers from My Mind's Eye and Kraft cardstock.  I also heat embossed all of the letters on the card to make them pop.

I used Papertrey Ink's Banner Builder Stamp Set for the banner and Fancy Flourishes for the background.  This is a clean and simple one that I really had fun making.  This was a color combo I haven't tried before!!!

Thanks for looking!

Mojo Monday #175

I'm back!!! This week I'm doing the Mojo Monday Challenge for the first time.  I came upon this blog unexpectly and I just love it! Mojo Monday is part of Verve Stamps, which I also discovered recently.  Their stamp designs are just flat out awesome and their Design Team is amazing!!! :-)  So, here is the sketch challenge for this week:

I decided to go with some bright colors to temporarily get away from the gloom and doom of winter! I thought that some bright orange and blue would help keep the cold away.

I used some cute, summery Hero Arts birds that I cut out separately and pieced back onto the image I stamped.  I colored in the branch and leaves with watercolor pencils.

I added a flower up at the top instead of a bow... I just wanted to keep with the whole leaves/floral theme.  A bow just didn't seem to fit.

Here is the finished card:




 Thanks for looking and I'd love to hear feedback on this one!



Papertrey Ink January Blog Hop

I'm particpating in the PTI Blog Hop today! The challenge:

New Year's Resolution

With the new year comes a clean slate along with many resolutions. This month's blog hop challenge involves you challenging yourself to use a Papertrey stamp set that has yet to see ink or even one that might be collecting a little dust! Go through your stash and see what little used treasure it might hold.

So, today I have a quick little card for you.  I used the cupcake from Baby Button Bits since I've never used that one before.  This is a set that I often look at, but almost never use and I just don't know why.  There are so many cute elements!!!

Here's the card:

I did some paper piecing for the cupcake and I also used stamps from Little Bitty Bird and Mixed Messages.  I stamped the bottom elements with VersaInk green and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.  For the cupcake, I used some Copics to give a little shading on the base and on the leaves.  The button is tied with a smidge of Baker's Twine.  I don't normally do rectangular cards OR use black as the base, so these were two new things for me.  I know the photograph isn't great - I didn't have any natural light since I did this one at night.  Photoshop can only take me so far!!!!

 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the Hop!!!!

 



Happy Birthday!

Today I have a fun little birthday card I made for a friend of mine.

I used a set that I got last month from Papertrey Ink (aren't gift cards great???!).  I did some paper piecing for the birdie and stamped the rest on Kraft cardstock.  I colored in the leaves with Copics.

I stamped the music notes in VersaMark.  I love the way it looks on the Kraft! I also used my Tim Holtz edge distresser for the edges.  Here is the final card:

Clean and simple, huh?



Thanks for stopping by.  I'll have my December Daily posts up soon as well as some other things I've been working on!


-Chrissie

Happy Birthday Cards

Today I wanted to share two birthday cards I made last weekend.  My niece and my brother-in-law both have birthdays in late August, so I had to make two cards.  The first one is the one I made for my niece.  I absolutely love cupcakes (who doesn't??!!), so I was pretty excited to use the cupcake set from Hero Arts.

I used my watercolor pencils to add some touches of color.  I finished the frosting and cherry off with Diamond Glaze.  For the card base, I die cut a circle in the center of the card and placed acetate behind it.  Then I covered up the glue on the inside with orange cardstock.

I stamped some sentiments on the front with VersaMark and some flowers in white ink.  I think this card is bright and fun, perfect for a birthday!!!


The second card I made was for my brother-in-law, so it had to be more masculine.  I used my new favorite stamp set from Papertrey Ink, Enjoy the Ride.  I colored in the car with watercolor pencils and used acetate again, but in a different form.

Diamond Glaze was also used again on the license plate and headlights.  I used some VersaMark to stamp some circles in the background and some black Staz-On for the sentiment on the acetate.  Here is the finished piece:

I hope everyone has a great week.  My family and I are moving this week into a larger home, so I'm not sure how much I will be able to post.  All of my scrapping items are packed (ICK!!!), but I do have a few cards that I haven't posted, so I will try to at least get those up.  Once we are moved in, I will actually have a scrapping ROOM, not just the Dining Room table, so I should be able to get more projects done!

Thanks for looking!

-Chrissie