My apologies

I have been extremely MIA lately. Between millions (at least it seems like millions at times) of activities going on and the hard drive in my two month old laptop completely crashing, I have not had a chance to blog or even really read my normal blogs that I visit. Luckily Dell did send me a new hard drive so I can at least come on now to check on what I have been missing. I would love to have some new cards to post and show but it will be a few days probably before I get anything done.

Sympathy Card

I cannot take credit for this card. It is cased from sympathy card I saw online. The problem is I have been on so many different blogs and look at the scs gallery everyday that I am not sure whose card it was. I went back through the scs gallery for sympathy cards until mid April and can’t find it so I am sorry I can not credit whoever inspired me. It isn’t a complete case, the other card had some beautiful dsp paper and a lovely border on it also. I am happy with how the ribbon bow turned out, when I tied it the middle knot looks like a little flower! I ran the white paper through the big shot with a small dot texture plate and just could not keep from adding stickles to the flowers.

UPDATE! I finally found where I saw the card I was thinking of and would like to give credit. This beautiful card was the inspiration for this sympathy card.

Fathers Day card

I made this card for my grandpa for Father’s Day and thought I would let the kids give it to him. He has horses and the kids go out every weekend to help with them so I thought I would use this cute image from the Doodle Palace for his card. The papers I have had a Loooooooong time waiting to use them and thought now was the perfect time. The image is colored with markers (not very well either, I might add) and then I sponged a couple white clouds in the sky with my fingertip. Yeah, I know that’s not the best way to get the clouds on there and not the neatest but I couldn’t find my sponges and didn’t want to go look for one.  When I took the lid off the green marker it put a few green spots on the horse, so I had to touch them up.

Thanks for taking the time to read all of that, lol. I had to come down to my craft room today to make another sympathy card. There have just been way too many people I know passing away lately. I am lucky though they are not close family just family members of friends but I know they are going through very rough times and wanted to be able to let them know I am thinking of them. I will post the sympathy card as soon as the stickles dry so that I can scan it.

Stair step beach card

What I wouldn't give to be sitting on the beach right now!! We normally go to VA Beach over the summer for a week or so but won't be going this year and I am a little bummed. I guess I will just have to settle for setting my desktop background to a pretty tropical picture.

I have been wanting to make one of these cards ever since I saw them on SCS a couple weeks ago. When I saw this beach girl at squigglefly I thought immediately about using her on a stair step card. I used some papers and small seashell buttons that had been in my stash forever and used my Silhouette to cut the waves, palm trees, and dolphin. I added some stickles to the tops of the waves and the clouds were added by dipping my finger into my white inkpad then tapping my paper, lol. All in all I like how the card turned out but couldn't really find a sentiment that I liked to put on it since I wasn't sure who I was going to send it to, so I guess that will wait for now.

Birthday card for dh

Well technically his birthday isn’t until Tuesday but since I had to give away four cards I made this week before I could get a chance to upload them, I thought I would post this card. I have been trying to use some things from my stash that I have had for awhile and this one uses some magic mesh and Heidi Swapp rub ons (the stars).  The Corvette is from Rubbernecker stamps and thought it would be great for dh’s card since he is really into old classic muscle cars. Too bad I couldn’t find an old Camaro stamp but the Vette will do.

I am so happy that most of the graduation parties are over now and with only two days left of school for my kids, I will finally get more time to stamp!! I have had so many challenges that I wanted to do the last couple weeks but have not had the time.

Two for Tuesday!

I have two cards for you today. I think they both still need something I just can’t find anything I am happy with to put on them. The first one is a tri-shutter card for the technique challenge TLC221 from last week at scs. I really love these papers and knew I wanted to use them.

They are from the DCWV Sweet glitter stack and they are so summery! The sno-cone and popscicle stickers are from my stash and unfortunately since I had previously used some the wrapper was missing and I’m not sure who made the5 m. The panel on the left is what I feel “needs” something still. I have put buttons on it, flowers, and ribbon but still don’t really like any of it. If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them! This card looked so complicated to make but I was surprised how easy it actually was.

The second card I used the same gorgeous papers and stickers for a quick birthday card (if you read yesterdays post then you know I need tons by this weekend!) I really should have stamped something or not went with the entire sheet of the squiggle paper for my background because again I think it seems like it’s not quite finished.

Two cards down and about 5 left to go! Hopefully I can get all my cleaning done before the baby lays down to nap so I can get a few more finished!

Clear and Simple Graduation Card

I have yet another graduation party coming up this weekend. This one id for my husbands cousins boy. I don’t have the Ian digi image to match the one I made for my niece but I did have these great stamps from Clear and Simple stamps. With the exception of I could not find my sentiment stamp so had to use my SU one.  I used the diploma stamp from the set for the background (kind of messed it up some and the last row has some white space) then I used a gold gel pen to color all the diplomas.

The graduate himself is colored with bic markits and that gold gel pen.  It’s a fairly simple card and I done the inside just like the other one with a pocket on the inside to hold some cash.

I have his grad party this weekend, two birthdays on the 29th, one birthday on the 31st, and my husband and his sisters birthdays the beginning of June so I have ALOT more cardmaking to do this week. Plus I need a sympathy card for a relative whose father passed away last week.

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I really want to get one of the TLC211 cards done for one of them, that looks so pretty.