field of dreams

I experimented on this card by  taking a stack of inks and inking 'rows' of color. I was going for the effect of a flowers in a sunny field. The card size is 4 x4.

stamps- Hero Arts butterfly field

how ya' been?

Where is summer running off to? I can't believe it will be July this week! 

It's been a fun and busy summer so far. Here is one highlight- an impromtu visit to hear one of my favorite authors speak in my own town, Jennifer Weiner. She was absolutely hilarious. My sister and I had the shoulder-shaking laughs nearly the entire time. We were able to get a photo with her at the end of her talk- I'm the 'where's waldo behind Jennifer'- and that's my sister with her new BFF, Jennifer.  

Good times. And for any 'Good in Bed' fans, my sister said she'd have given me anything if I would have yelled NIFKIN when we all clapped for her at the end. Anybody think that's funny or is it just me?

Onto the card....Here is a card I made for the CAS sketch from last week....

card recipe:

stamps- aviary- Stampin UP, Birthday- Card Chatter- CTMH

tools- woodgrain impression plate- PaperTrey Ink, MS Score Board

baby card for twins

 

Here is a card I made for some friends who had twins (a boy and a girl). I tried to taylor the colors to items that were similar to the registry (I think it was kind of a monkey/animal theme). 

The paper is kind of a cement colored stock- love it. Anyhow, I ran a layer through the cuttlebug using my taylored expressions impression plate. I layered that onto the card front, but not before wrapping some twine and topping the layer off with a wooden button from CTMH (love those and would like to find them in bulk somewhere- any ideas where???). The letters are a in a font that I love, it's an old CTMH set of stamps that i have and at the moment I can't recall the name of them. I stamped each of them and mounted the D and E (baby initials)...rounded the bottom corners of both layers, and there we have it.

textured happy birthday

JUGS has a great sketch this week so I used it as the inspiration for this card.

I used a texture plate on both of the inside and outside layer. Then I stamped the doily images and die cut and embossed them using my nestabilities and cuttlebug. Stamped the birthday sentiment and decided to add a doily to the inside of the card as well.