Dreams

Happy Monday Everyone. Trust you had a great weekend and found some time to get inky. I don't know about you, but it is so relaxing and soothing for me to create cards, especially cards for a specific person or reason. I love sharing my cards with family and friends.

Today I have another grad card. It is getting to that time of year!  This one uses the new Grad Hat Hooray image as well as the new Dreams Inspire Greeting which is perfect for grad cards.

I started with the yellow card base. Stamped the Grad Hat Hooray onto the white panel with Versafine Black ink. The new greeting is also stamped with Versafine Black ink. Both panels are layered onto black CS before adding them to the yellow. To comeplete the look I die cut a grad hat with a yellow tassel and the diploma with a yellow seal. A pretty quick and easy card.

Images used:

Dreams Inspire Future Greeting (898F)

Grad Hat Hooray (889G)

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

Hats Off

Greetings Everyone. Trust you had a wonderful Easter weekend. We were able to spend the weekend celebrating with family which is always special. Today I have a grad card to share with you. It features two new images Hats Off Grad Greeting and Grad Hat Hooray. I enjoy making graduation cards, especially when I know the school colors and can use those colors to personalize the card. 

I started with a piece of white CS, stamped the Grad Hat Hooray image for my background, then die cut a circle from the center. I die cut a black frame for the panel too. After gluing these two pieces onto the red card base, I used the next smaller circle die to cut out the red card base leaving a red border as a frame. The new greeting was stamped on the inside so it shows through. The grad cap was created with an IO mini die set.

Images used:

Hats Off Grad Greeting (894D)

Grad Hat Hooray (889G)

You can see these new images along with all the others here at the DRS Designs on line store.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

shelia

Love, Joy and Happiness Always

Hi Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I'm excited to share a new image with you from DRS Designs. It's called the Wooden Frame Collection. It has so much potential. I think you're going to love it!

For my card today I stamped the Wooden Frame Collection onto white CS, masked off the frames and stamped the images and greetings and then colored them with Copics. Once that was done I decided I wanted to pop them up on the card, so I fussy cut them and added them to the panel after stamping the wooden background image. To make sure I got the placement just right, I stamped the Wooden Frame Collection onto the card front too.

Images used:

Wooden Frame Collection (914M)

Life Together Happiness Greeting (907F)

Wood Grain Background

Loved You Yesterday Greeting

Silhouette Bride and Groom

Triple Silhouette Hearts

Be sure to check back all this week to see some more soon to be released images. You're gonna love them.

Thanks for stopping by.

shelia

Tweetie Bird

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend! We had some fabulous weather, lots of sunshine and warmth. Maybe Spring is really here!

I have a couple of cards to share with you today that feature the recently released Silly Bird image. He's a lot of fun to stamp and color. For my first card I die cut the collage frame out of white and teal CS. I used the white cut out pieces to stamp my images and then put them back into the teal frame. I somehow managed to get black ink on the bird's eyes so I added some googlie eyes to cover it up.

Images used: 

Silly Bird, Silhouette Branch and Wishing You a Tweet Day

On this next card I popped the Silly Bird up with an Action Wobble Spring. 

Images used:

Silly Bird, Feathers 3 in 1

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

Pop Up Shadow Boxes

Happy Monday Everyone. I don't know about you, but I'm freezing cold right now. After several days of sunshine and warmer temps, we got blasted Saturday night with bitter cold and snow!! Not a lot of snow, but enough to cover the ground and make the temps drop. I know this won't last long so I'm hanging on to that thought. To help make me feel warmer, I decided to create some Easter cards for my grands. A couple of weeks ago I shared a pop up shadow box and mentioned that I wanted to do that type of card for my grands. The idea for these came from a Jennifer McGuire post which you can see here. These cards are easy and fun to make. Plus they fold flat and fit into a standard envelop.

Here are my cards.

This first one is for my almost 13 year old grandson. I think he might be getting too big for an Easter bunny card. Though I'm certain he's looking forward to an Easter Basket full of goodies!!  For this card I used the following stamps:

Three Wooden Crosses

Happy Easter from the Peeps Greeting

For this card I used:

Happy Easter from the Peeps greeting

Jelly Beans

Big Bunny Face

For this card I used:

Puff Circle

Big Bunny Face

Happy Easter from the Peeps Greeting

I felt like this card needed a little something extra so I die cut a layering butterfly and added it.

Thanks for stopping by today.

shelia

Easter Bunny Wannabe

Today I have some Easter cards to share with you that features the recently released Easter Ears Leonard Pig image, I couldn't resist creating some Easter cards with this fun image. Isn't he the cutest. Leonard is one of my favorite images from DRS Designs.

For my first card, I started by sponging on blue and pink DO ink using a stencil. While that dried, I stamped Leonard, colored him with Copics, die cut and sponged a little pink around the edge of the oval. The Happy Easter greeting was stamped with the same pink DO ink, die cut and also sponged along the edges. Some pink ric rac was added to the stenciled panel before attaching it to the card base. Leonard is popped up on foam dots.

On this card, Leonard was stamped, colored and fussy cut. I also stamped him a couple more times, colored the egg only and fussy cut them. The background was created by sponging in the sky and ground. The greeting was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink. The fence was die cut and added to the panel after the tall leaves were added. The leaves are a Concord and 9th die, the fence is Memory box. Leonard was added with foam tape and the two eggs were glued on. 

I really like how these two cards came out. Thanks for stopping by today.  Be sure to check out Leonard and all the other new images from DRS Designs here.

Blessings,

shelia

Extra Tweet!

Happy Monday everyone. Hope your weekend was great! I've been sick for the last couple of weeks with a severe sinus infection. I'm just starting to feel normal again for which I am grateful. It feels so good to be able to get into the craft room and create some cards. I did have lots of time to peruse the internet for new ideas and my card today is a result of a video I saw by Jennifer McGuire. This is a pop up shadow box card. Super easy to create and lots of fun. You can see her video here.

I started with two pieces of light blue heavy weight CS (6 1/4 by 5 1/2), scored both ends at half an inch and one inch. Die cut the circle and added a piece of black CS with a smaller die cut circle. This adds some stability to the card front. I stamped the Silly Bird image onto watercolor paper, colored him with some Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens, fussy cut and added him and the greeting to the blue CS before adding the black support panel. I stamped the open leaf branch a few times onto white CS, colored the leaves with Copics and added it to the back panel. The 3 in 1 feathers were stamped onto watercolor paper and colored with the same Nuvo pens, fussy cut and glued onto the front.

What I like about this shadow box card is it does fold flat for mailing. When you take it out of the envelop it pops up and can stand on its own. I think I'm going to do some Pop Up Shadow box cards for my grandkids for Easter this year. I have just the bunny image in mind too - Big Bunny Face. It's my favorite bunny image and will look awesome peeking through a pop up card!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have fun creating!

blessings,

shelia