Friday Fun For Dads!

Happy Saturday! As promised, here is my Friday Fun card. This week our hostess, Jimmi challenged us to make cards for our fathers OR any other special man in our lives in honor of Father's Day. Since I need a Father's Day card soon (I am not sending it to my Dad because he will be coming to visit soon so he can pick it up IN PERSON!!) I decided to make one for my dad. Since his birthday card was more serious I decided to with something more "cute" this time. This is Airplane Riley from Hanna Stamps. Riley is so cute, I should definitely use him more often. He is colored with my new Prismacolor Pencils. I am having LOTS of fun with them.
Be sure to check out everyone else's Friday Fun cards:
Jimmi
Kim
Kimme

Feel free to play along- just use keyword FFC37 when uploading to SCS or link your creation to my blog OR one of the above blogs. Can't wait to see what you make! Thanks for stopping by!

Sassy Sunshine!

It's Wednesday and time for a Sassy Challenge Card. This week we had to make a rain-themed card since it's the first of April and everyone knows April Showers bring May Flowers. :) I thought this challenge would be easy for me.....but I was proved wrong as it took me a couple hours to come up with this card and I am still not sure if I like it. And yes, I am aware that the card says "Hey Sunshine." My thought is this: Our friends and family are the sunshine through the rain so this card can be given to someone I love. Yes, it's corny- but DEAL WITH IT! LOL!

I finally got to use my new Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. It was very exciting! I used my markers to color the images and the umbrella is paper-pieced with Uptown DSP. I accented the images with my Sakura Gelly Roll Pens. I used Black on the boots and the umbrella handle, Star Dust on the buckle of the boot and the umbrella stick, and white on the scalloped edges.





All Images are from Hanna Stamps. All Cardstock and DSP is from Stampin' Up.

Stamps: Rain Rain, Things Hanna Would Say

Card Stock: Almost Amethyst, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi, Uptown DSP

Ink: Black Stazon, Almost Amethyst, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi

Accessories: Wasabi Ribbon, Saffron Brads, Swiss Dots CB Folder, Circle Punches, Marvy Scallop Punch, Word Window Punch, Sakura White and Black and StarDust Gelly Rol pens.

Sassy Faux Metal Card

It's Thursday which means I am a day late for my weekly Sassy Challenge! Sorry! I have had the week from Hell at work and my stamping mojo disappeared.


This card has actually been sitting on my table partially completed for several days. It wasn't until today that I had the energy and mental capacity to finish it.





This week's challenge with my FAB and Sassy friends was to create a card using a faux technique in honor of April Fool's Day which is coming up soon. I was going to use Faux stitching but I realized with the dog theme of this card that Faux Metal would be really cute.

The card is a 5.25" by 5.25" square. I don't normally do square cards but I originally wanted to try the Hanna Sketch Challenge from last week. When that didn't work out I thought I would I would do the Sketch from the challenge from My Favorite Things. As you can see, other than a square card and the dog image being in a circle, it is nothing like those sketches. I told you I was having a bad week! LOL!

The stamped images are from Hanna Stamps. I recently received my order with the My Best Friend and the Large Breed Stamp sets and could not wait to use them. The Faux Metal charm is the collar from the My Best Friend set. I used Silver Embossing Powder and the tutorial on SCS to achieve the look of a metal embellishment. I only had a tiny little piece of silver thread so I had to use hemp twine to attach it to the ribbon.

Anyway- this card didn't turn out exactly as I had first, or second or probably even third evisioned it. (LOL!) But it is done and I think I like it. Thanks for looking!!


All CS is from Stampin Up: Old Olive, Blue Bayou, Whisper White, DSP - Spring Break

Ink: Black Stazon, Old Olive, Blue Bayou, River Rock

Stamps: Hanna Stamps My Best Friend and Large Breed Sets

Accessories/Tools: Old Olive 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Hemp Twine, Marvy Giga and Mega Scallop Circle Punches, Stylized Silver HPH, Paper Piercing Tool, Silver Embossing Powder and Heat Gun

Help! Work is driving me NUTS!!!

I had a REALLY bad day at work and even though I was exhausted I knew I needed to do something to relieve stress and pick myself back up. I received my order from Hanna Stamps in the mail today including Things Hanna Would Say and the Heidi Swapp brads in pink and brown. That definitely started the cheering up process so I decided to use them to make a card. I don't know why but this sentiment is my favorite- I have a lot of ideas for it in the future. ;)

I colored the puddle with a blender pen and ink pad and the rest of the image was colored with markers. The umbrella was paper-pieced with Groovy Guava Prints DP, the edges were sponged with soft Sky, and I paper-pierced the corner. I used my cuttlebug on the chocolate chip cs and finished it off with ribbon and two brown brads.

Boy, I feel better already! TFL!!