Apothecary Art Birthday Card

Hi everyone, I hope your week is off to a good start!  We had a very quite, restful Father's day here at our house, which is really very nice!

Today I want to share this pretty card that I case'd from a fellow demo.  You can see her beautiful card HERE.  My daughter asked if I would make a birthday card for one of her friends, really you had to ask?, of course I would!  She said that her friend likes pink so when I saw this card, I wanted to try my hand at making one.  The bottom card is the first one that I made and well it didn't turn out just like the one I saw, so I went back to the table and made the second one.  Well I did change the color of the card stock, but it still is pretty close to hers.  Now this is not the card that my daughter choose to give to her friend, I'll show you that one in a couple of days.

Supplies used all Stampin' Up!

Card stock:Very Vanilla, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette

Stamps:Apothecary Art

Framelits:Labels

Very Vanilla Seam Binding

Antique Brad and a Sale-A-Bration Brad (retired)

Markers

Scallop Edge punch

Homemade Glimmer Mist

Well that does it for this post, I want to thank you all for coming by and would love to hear your comments too!  Have a crafty day!                     Mary



Happy Father's Day 2012

Hi everyone!!  I hope you all are having fun with your husband's, dad's or anyone you consider to be like a father to you!

I wanted to share the card that I made to give to my dad.  He and my mom use to camp alot when I was in my early 20's and then when I had kids, they would go with them and I would tag along too.  Then we bought an old camper, that look pretty close to this one but was white and we would meet my parent's out at a local camp ground.  I don't know who had more fun, my dad or my kids! 

This is a retired Stampin' Up! set called, Loads of Love and also Loads of Fun.  When I stamped it I must admit I was alittle bit intimated by the thought of coloring this in and having it look nice, but then I knew my parents would not notice that and would focus on the image!  My mom said that it brought back alot of wonderful memories!

I used SU markers to color it in with and used Whisper White, Marina Mist and Crumb Cake card stock.  After I had the envelope sealed I realized I could have stamped the lady image looking out of the camper window, oh well, maybe next time!

Well, I hope to see you again soon, have lots of pictures on the camera to share with you!   Mary

Any Occasion Card, Petite Pansies

Hi everyone, glad you stopped by to see one of my cards today, I hope your day/week is going well too!

Ok, one night I got tired of making wedding thank you cards and shoved them off to the side and picked up some scaps of card stock and set out to use some up and make a card too.  Here is what I came up with!  Everything is really a scrap; ribbon, card stock and the embossed image too! 

I pulled out a retired stamp set called, Petite Pansies.  I had some embossing that didn't turn out right so I cut out a mask to put over my oval and was able to stamp the image inside the frame without going onto the frame, does that make sense?  Then I took my En Francais background stamp (love this stamp) to add to my scrap of Pink Pirouette card stock, used Pretty In Pink ink with the stamp.  Used black Staz-on and my markers to color with.  It really was a quick and easy card to make!  I used one of my circle punches to round the corners with.  Card base is Elegant Eggplant.

There you go, a scrappy card and pretty too!

Have a great day,                 Mary

Wedding Thank You Notes

Well happy June 2nd to all of you!  Summer official beginning will be here sooner than we think, but according to our neighbor's pool, it's all ready here, the kids are having a blast!

Today I want to share with you the thank you cards that I'm making for my daughter to use for the wedding gifts that they receive.  She said I didn't have to make them but I really wanted to try my hand at these.  I found this thank you card on Dawn Olchefske blog, she has a video that you can view HERE.  Instead of Black ink I used Perfect Plum, Denise's wedding color.  I'm using the stamp set Sincere Salutations, which just retired, it is a wonderful set to own.  I also used the stamp set from Sale-A-Bration, Fresh Vintage, also retired and the current oval embossing folder.  Very simple but elegant card.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful day and stay cool too,    Mary

Happy Birthday Justin

Well this month is almost over, man where has the time gone?!  Today I'm going to share the card that I made for my future son-in-law!  His birthday fell on Mother's day this year.  Oh, are dinner with his parents went very well and we really like them, they are so nice!  Denise is very lucky to have them as her future in-laws.

As you all know I struggle with making cards for guys, don't know why but I do.  I hope he didn't think it was too childish for him, but the gift inside was appreciate though!  I used an embossing folder from Stampin' Up! that has hearts on it, after I had embossed it I used my Simply Score to add the lines above and below the embossing.  Used the Cupcake Builder punch (this punch really makes it easy to add that something extra to the card).  Punched out a circle and a scalloped circle and added a few pieces of scrap ribbon (see those scraps come in handy)!  Card stock I used is Crumb Cake, Whisper White and Night of Navy.

Well, thank you for taking the time to drop in to see me, I appreciate it so much!             Mary

Bella, in Punch Art Form

Today I want to share with you the card that we sent to our vet who was helping us with Bella when she was sick.  Our vet came to her office, on a Sunday night, to help us.  We so appreciated her giving the time to us when we really needed her help!

I used non-Stampin' Up! dies to make this card, the rest of the card is product from Stampin' Up!

Recipe:

Card stock: Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Basic Black, Pretty In Pink, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Black Staz-on
Designer Series Paper: Twitterpated
Pearls
White gel pen
Dimensionals

My daughter saw the vet a couple days after she had received her card and she told Kelly that it made her cry.  That was Bay-bay, everyone who knew her loved her!

Hope you are having a great day too,    Mary

Ribbon Lace Cards

Hello everyone!  Sorry I was gone for awhile, it has been busy around here with losing Bella and then working on the wedding invites.  I've got all the response cards printed, cut and stamped and even stamped on the envelope too, so that is one less thing on the to-do list, it is getting shorter.  Now on to the thank you cards for wedding gifts.

The cards in the picture above are two that I made after watching a video made by Frances Martin, you can view it HERE.  Once you get the hang of it, they are very easy to make.  The one on the right is one that I gave to my mom for Mother's day, yes, these pictures have been sitting on my camera for awhile!  Everything is from Stampin' Up!

Recipe:

Stamp set: Just Believe

Card stock: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry

Ribbon: Pretty In Pink, Whisper White

Pearl

Brad from Sale-A-Bration

Ink: Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery

I hope you are all enjoying this Memorial Day week-end too.  Hubby and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary last night, we went to a friends wedding!  Have a great crafty week-end!    Mary

Good-bye Sweet Bella

Today was again a very sad day at our house.  We had to make that painful decision to say good-bye to our cute little Parti-Color Cocker Spaniel, Bella.  She has been sick since Thursday (totally out of nowhere) and losing ground everyday.  Darn we so wanted to have more than just three short years with her but we do know that those three years were the best she ever had: love, care, food and doggy companionship and humans that totally loved her!  Bella was only nine, we think, not knowing for sure when she was born.  Our favorite memories are of watching her shoot out of the house like a bullet, keeping up with the labs, which by the way, she was not a cocker, she really thought she was a lab, just like the big kids!  Her coming to me every morning wanting me to pick her up and "love" on her, and her laying in my arms, like a baby, and letting me rub her tummy!  My husband is totally lost, Bella had him wrapped around her little paw and we teased him about how much he spoiled her.  Hopefully we erased all the bad memories of being a puppy mill dog.  So go love on your pets today and tell them how much you love them!

RAK Card for Teenager

Hi everyone, hope your day is going well, I'm off to work today so it is going great too!

I had so much fun stamping and color this image for another card that I made, you can see that one HERE, that I made another one to send to a teenager who is recovering from a car accident.  Boy, if you think making a card is hard when for a man, try making one for a male teenager!  I hope he likes it and that he is doing better by now too!  This time I left off the flowers and added some bakers twine and also embossed the background to add some texture to it.

Well, this is my share for today, hope you have a great rest of the week too!   Mary

Flip Card

Good morning to all of my blogger friends!  I hope your week is off to a great start, mine is going well but I will be busy, busy trying to clean the house as Justin's parents are coming on Saturday so that we can finally meet them!  Then the next day we are having my parents over for Mother's day, so I will be busy and need to make my list of things to do, whew!

Today's card is one that I found over at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.  Her's was so pretty that I just had to try my hand at making one and she even made a video too.  You can view the video HERE.  I use a different color of card stock and forgot to add a couple of flowers, but I was still happy with the results.

Here is what I used, Stampin' Up!

Card stock: Marina Mist and Whisper White
Designer Series Paper: Subtles collection
Ink: Marina Mist and Black Staz-on
Framelits Label dies
Big Shot
White gel pen
Sponge
White glimmer mist spray

Well I think this does it for this post, please stop in again to visit, love having you here!  Mary