I am so Excited and I just can't hide it....!!!

 

I just ordered all sorts of fun new products and I am bursting at the seams!!!!

I am so excited, I just can't hide it..... and I did lose control, oops!!!

There are just so many great new products, I ordered the whole blendable alcohol marker set.

I almost bought the copics this winter, I am so glad I didn't!!!

Plus I ordered supplies for project life which Stampin Up just came out with!

You can tell I am a wee bit manic, by all of my exclamation's!!!!

Wow, lets see if I can come down enough to tell you about this card!

I like this card, very gender neutral but I will use it as a guy card!

For the background, I used a sponged with white craft ink on it and just rubbed it on the card stock.

I also sprinkled some white embossing powder on the background, 

just to give it a bit of a different look.

The, Happy birthday, is also embossed!

  Colors: Crushed Curry, Island Indigo, Early Espresso

The dreaded Guy card!

 

I am excited to have some masculine cards in my card box.

I don't know why I dread making them, maybe because they are not as sparkly!

I love this card and the inspiration came straight out of the current Catalog!

For the bits of gravel shooting up I just used the large end of my Crumb Cake marker.

My sewing is a little crazy, totally unintentional but it works for this card. 

Birthday wishes!

 

I am so happy to have my card box full of cards again, 

birthdays just seem to pop up and I like to have a card ready.

I love all the layers on this card!

The bottom strip of paper is actually embossed with the chevron folder, 

hard to tell in this picture.

I also used the spritz tool with Early Espresso marker on the main card stock.

I got the idea for this card right from the current Stampin Up Catalog!

The Catalog is such a great resource for ideas; 

I am very excited for the new catalog!!!

Wedding Card!

I love this ribbon, I have used it on countless cards and a mixed media canvas!

 

Supplies: Dress up framelits, flocked DSP (from previous catty), Basic Rhinestones, basic pearls, Vanilla, crumb cake and basic black cardstock.



Sympathy Card!

For this card I actually cut out a page of the bible, see it on the bottom layer.

Seeing's how it is a sympathy card I felt it was appropriate.

The background is stamped with the wood stamp.

And I used my favorite die cut, butterflies!

 

Last night we went to the movie "Heaven is for Real".

It is really good and if you haven't seen it, you should.

After the movie my 16 year old daughter asked if it was real

I said yes this actually happened with a four year old boy.

I think if my daughter had known it was a real story at the beginning she would have enjoyed it more.

It really is an amazing story of God great love for us.

The little boy that plays the part is adorable!!

Masculine Cards, oh my!

I don't know why masculine cards are so hard to do!

Maybe because men don't really appreciate a card!

For these cards I goggled sunsets, I wanted them to be somewhat accurate.

Very easy to do, you just use a square of a sponge, I buy mine at the dollar store and cut them up.

Then you press the sponge on the ink pad then rub it on the paper, easy!

For the sun, I punched a circle out of a sticky sheet so it wouldn't move as I was rubbing ink.

I used just a piece of paper to get the straight line,

I always do the black last!

For the sunset use the lightest color first.

The animals that I stamped aren't solid so I filled them in with a black marker.

Simple and pretty!

I Love this card, it is simple yet so pretty!

I now have a sewing room, so it makes it very easy to add a few stiches on a card:

which you will notice I do often now.

This winter I remounted most of my wood stamps,

to clear mount which made lining up the words so much easier!

 

Supplies used:

old olive, whisper white, tempting turquoise, tangerine tango, Daffodil delight and melon mambo cardstock and ink.  Rhinestone basic jewels, button and butterfly punches, bigz butterfly die and  butterfly embosslit.  I also used the chevron folder for the one butterfly.  Everyday flexible phrases, and Happiest birthday wishes stamp sets.