Thinking of you

Hello. Trust you had a great weekend and found some time to get creative. I've been working on some thinking of you type cards. Our church has started a new care ministry and I thought it would be good to have a stash of cards to take when visiting or just to send to some of the elderly who aren't able to get out much. Here are a couple of quick and easy cards I made this weekend that use the same greeting.

This card uses a new Spellbinders die and embossing folder. These are super easy to use and look amazing in real life. I die cut and embossed the white panel, stamped the greeting, added the blue ribbon and attached it to a blue card base. Super quick. 

The Old World Map and greeting were stamped onto the kraft CS with TH Distress Oxide Vintage Photo ink. The sailboat was also stamped with the same ink, die cut and some Vintage Photo was sponged around the edges. This panel was attached to a brown CS layer and then attached to a kraft card base.

Be sure to check back this week for a sneak peek at some awesome new stamps DRS Designs will soon be releasing. You're gonna like them!

Thanks for stopping by today!

shelia

Happy Birthday!

Hi. I created this card for the biweekly Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. It's a color challenge this time. Here's the cupcake for inspiration.

Don't those cupcakes look yummy!! I decided to use some flowers on my card too. The flowers were die cut using this month's small die of the month from Spellbinders. The sunburst background was die cut from a Hero Arts Die that came in their July card kit. The Happy Birthday greeting is from DRS Designs and was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I like this bright and cheerful birthday card. The die cut flowers are so pretty.

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,

shelia

Christmas/Winter in July

Well after a beautiful spell of gorgeous weather, it has turned super hot again. So I decided to create a winter/Christmas card to help me think cool thoughts!!

I stamped the adorable cowboy snowman with Memento Black ink onto white CS, colored him with some Copics and die cut using SB oval dies. Isn't he the cutest!?!

The background was created using the paisley die from the SB small die of the month Kit for July. I die cut 6 of them, glued them on, cut off the pieces hanging over the edges of the panel and then used some of those pieces to fill in the places that needed something. Other than all the gluing, this was a pretty quick and easy card to create. 

I will also post this on the Crafting from the Heart blogsite since this week DRS is sponsoring their challenge. It's an anything goes challenge and the prize is a 20% off coupon from DRS Designs. Hope you can join in the fun! We'd love to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,

shelia

TMS 461

I created this card for the sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches. I like the CAS look of this week's sketch design.

I stayed pretty true to the sketch. The only thing different is I used another oval behind the sentiment instead of a rectangle.

The sentiment is from DRS Designs. The flowers were die cut using this month's small die of the month from Spellbinders. The white panel was embossed with a Darice basket weave folder. The ovals were made with the stitched oval die from Our Daily Bread Designs.

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,

shelia

Summer Fun!

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend. We have been having some unusually hot weather, but this weekend it cooled down quite a bit. Perfect weather for being outside. My card today celebrates being outdoors.

This was super easy to create. The card features our Golf Cart Girl and the Golf is greeting. Both were stamped with Archival ink onto white CS, colored with water color pencils, die cut and layered on red. For the white panel I dry embossed it with the CB Swiss Dots folder and turned it over. The back side looks more like the dimples on a golf ball. Once everything was attached to the white embossed panel I added some red Nuvo drops for interest.

I hope you are experiencing some nice weather and able to get outside and enjoy your favorite summer fun activity!

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

Joy!

We are having such unusually hot weather right now, I decided to create a cool snowflake card, hoping it'd cool me off. It didn't, but that's ok. Soon enough the heat will be gone and we'll be having usually cold weather. :-)

Here's my card.

I started with some watercolor paper and sponged on three different TH Distress Oxide inks added some water splashes and set it aside to dry. The word "Joy" was die cut using Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Kit from May 2017. The snowflakes are buttons that I purchased somewhere several years ago. I had exactly enough to do this layout, which is from this week's sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches. Here's the sketch:

Once the panel dried, I added it to a white card base. The snowflake buttons were added with some strong adhesive and then the word "Joy" was glued in place.

Thanks for stopping by today!

blessings,

shelia

Cupcake Inspiration!

Here's a card I created for this week's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge. 

Here's the cupcake:

I used the sketch design from today's Sketch Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. I started with two watercolor panels, stamped the wavy lines on one and the palm trees on the other. The trees were heat embossed with black EP and the wavy lines with clear EP. Next I sponged on some Distress Oxide inks for the ocean and sky. The banners were die cut using SB dies and some of the leftover watercolor paper. The Happy Birthday was stamped onto the white panel with Versfine Onyx. The happy seal and octopus were stamped with Memento Black ink, colored with copics, fussy cut and glued onto the card. The starfish was added with a pop dot.

Thanks for stopping by!

blessings,

shelia