Baby Shower Card

Hello and Happy Friday! 

Today's card is for a friend's baby shower that I'm attending.  It's a simple card that features several sweet baby animals. 

The animals are from the stamp set Storybook Friends and the sentiment is from the set Teeny Tiny Wishes, which are both from Stampin' Up!.  I colored the animals with copics and used a 1 inch circle punch to cut them out.  I then embossed the sentiment with black powder and used antique linen distress ink to add dimension to the circles and sentiment strip.  The card ends up measuring 4x4.  

Thanks for visiting today!  

-Lizzy

Snowflakes

Happy November, Everyone!

The weather is definitely starting to get chilly these days, which makes it perfect to be inside and making cards!

Today's card is a bright and cheery holiday card.  I used the Snowflake Medley and the Think Big Favorites #8 stamp sets from Papertrey ink for this.  I stamped the snowflakes with pumpkin pie, melon mambo, and certainly celery inks from Stampin' Up!.

The sentiment is stamped in black.  I thought the card looked a little plain, so I added some silver striped washi tape and bakers twine to the card.  The front panel is mounted on pumpkin pie cardstock from Stampin' Up!. 

I like how this card turned out, but the ink seemed to really saturate the stamp and all the pretty "etchings" in the snowflakes weren't visible.  So, I re-did the card with some distress inks, but with the same layout.  

  
Since the snowflakes looked a little bland by themselves again, I stamped some small ones in the center using antique linen distress ink.  I like how it turned out AND I like that it was easy and simple to make! 

That's all for today!  Thanks for stopping by! 

-Lizzy

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween Everyone! 

I can't believe it's the end of October already!  This fall is just flying by.  It's going to be Christmas before I know it!

I don't have a lot of (e.g. more than 1) Halloween stamps, since I don't really send out Halloween cards.  However, when I saw this cute little bat, I couldn't pass it up.  It's an adorable stamp from Eat Cake Graphics.  I stamped it twice, colored it with copics, and cut it out.  

I had a lot of fun masking and playing with distress inks.  I masked the scene so the top and bottom of the card were left white.  I started by sponging the harvest moon with a variety of yellows and oranges and then daubed the clouds with memento london fog and a little dusty concord distress ink.  Next I stamped the bats on the card and placed their cut-out-versions on top.  This way I could preserve all the little details on the stamp that I wasn't able to cut out: 

As I mentioned before, since I don't own Halloween stamps, I had to create my own sentiment.  I did this using "smitty's ABCs" from Lawn Fawn, which was really easy to do since the letters line up so nicely.  Lastly, I added a border below the scene with another Lawn Fawn stamp "Belinda's borders."  The border and sentiment were both stamped with dusty concord distress ink.  

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a Happy Halloween! 

-Lizzy

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: Entry #2

Hi Everyone! 

I thought I'd enter another card into the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: KRAFT ON. 

Here's my card: 

This card features a kitty and moon stamp from Rosie's Roadshow and a square stamp from Stamps by Judith.  I paper-pieced the kitty and moon to add some color to the card.  The sentiment is embossed in black and the card is finished with some brown baker's twine and outlined with a black pen.  

Thanks for visiting today! 

-Lizzy

 

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge

Hello Everyone! 

I'll keep this post short as the lights are flickering as Sandy approaches... 

Today's card is for the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge: Kraft on.  The objective is to create a clean and simple project using Kraft.  

Here's my take on it: 

I used Kraft cardstock, washi tape, and vellum to create the card.  I embossed the sentiment in cherry cobbler (Stampin' Up!) powder and added some pretty rhinestones to balance the card.  The sentiment embossed really nicely on the vellum: 

And there you have it-- my take on the challenge! 

Thanks for stopping by!  

-Lizzy 

Another Happy Birthday!

Today's posting is for a very special person to me-- my only favorite baby sister, Kelly, turns 18!  Woo-hoo!  She loves pattern and bright colors and I think her birthday card is perfect for her. 

I had such a fun time creating this card!  When I saw this washi tape, I couldn't help but think of Kelly.  It had such a fun assortment of colors and provided the inspiration for the colors used in the card.  I started by embossing the background (Hero Arts Snow Dots) with JudiKins egyptian gold embossing powder (a glittery gold powder).  Since it was stamped on white paper and, in hindsight, thought it would have looked better with vanilla paper, I used antique linen distress ink to tone down the white cardstock.  I then stamped the sentiment background with "Belinda's Borders" from Lawn Fawn and then embossed the sentiment (Lawn Fawn Sophie's sentiments) with black embossing powder.  The heart is also from Sophie's sentiments and it was embossed in black and colored with copics.  I couldn't resist adding a little glass effects gel-- see: 

Lastly, the front was mounted on pumpkin pie cardstock from Stampin' Up!.  

And there's another birthday card!  Thanks for visiting today!  Happy 18th Birthday, Kelly! 

-Lizzy 

Hello!

Just stopping in for a quick hello today!  This card is made with Papertrey Ink's "In Bloom" stamp set.  I colored the large flower and leaf stamp with copics, cut them out, and mounted them with foam tape for added dimension.  The background stamp is an Impression Obsession cover-a-card stamp. 

Lastly, the sentiment is from the same stamp set and embossed with black. 

Thanks for visiting today! 

-Lizzy