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- Stamps – from The Cat’s Pajamas “Wish” set (includes bunny, sentiment and stars)
- Dies – Spellbinders Nestabilities “Labels Twenty-Two”
- Patterned paper – Reminisce “Out of this world” and BoBunny “Buttercup Dot”
- Cardstock – Bazzill
- Sakura Gelly Roll pen – Stardust
Happy Birthday, Trenton! This is Trenton’s card for today, celebrating his 16 years of age. It features a great set from The Cat’s Pajamas. The bunny is colored with Copic markers, cut out and popped up with some dimensional adhesive. I carried the star theme through by finding some star patterned paper in my stash for a backdrop and then stamped the little twin stars in the “Wish” set and created a border at the bottom. I trimmed along the star border on the front of the card and colored in the stars with the Stardust Gelly Roll pen so they’d twinkle. I added a strip of red cardstock on the inside of the card to bring out the star border.
This is my candidate for The Cat’s Pajamas Tuesday Challenge #275: Anything Goes. Thanks for stopping by.
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- Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas “Hearts and Flowers” and “Commemorating You” sets
- Corner punch – Fiskars “Romantique” 3-way punch
- Border punch – Stampin’ Up “Scallop Edge”
- Patterned papers – Doodlebug Designs and BoBunny
- Cardstock – Bazzill
- Stickers – Stampendous “Class A’Peel – Geo Shapes Sparklers Blue”
- Trim – from stash
Whew! It has been a long while since I’ve posted. This card features a fairy standing atop a sunflower. This is the time of year for sunflowers and I should probably head out to the garden to see if I can catch a fairy standing on any of our sunflowers. I created this card for the TCP Tuesday Inspiration Challenge. The inspiration for this challenge consists of photos of sunflowers and one with sunflowers and globe thistles for a rich blue. I colored my stamped image from The Cat’s Pajamas with watercolor pencils and filled in with a water brush to soup up the color into watercolor. I added some salt to the background to give it a little more visual interest. This will be a nice card for an overseas hero to send home to a birthday girl, so it will be included in my Operation Write Home box. Thanks for visiting today.
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- Stamps – Cat’s Pajamas “Make Merry” set
- Patterned papers – My Mind’s Eye “Stomp: Best Buddies” (green) and K.I. Memories “Flourish” (black with dots)
- Edger punch – EK Success “Argyle”
- Cardstock – Bazzill
I made this card using the Freshly Made Sketches Sketch #66. It also features argyle, which is in response to the 365 Cards Day 306 challenge. Happy New Year!
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- Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas “Smells Like Cake” clear set
- Dies – Spellbinders Nestabilities – Classic Ovals and Lacey Ovals
- Border punch – EK Success
- Patterned paper – Basic Grey “Lime Rickey” 6 X 6″ pad
- Buttons – Buttons Galore and More – “Vintage Button Bonanza” and Stampin’ Up “Designer Brights Collection”
- Flower punch – EK Success
- Cardstock – Bazzill
Wow. It is sort of amazing that in a year and a half of having this blog, this is my 300th post! So that is 300 cards! Woo Hoo!
This challenge was to follow a specific recipe at 365 Cards for Day 210 for a Surprise Guest Spot. The recipe is:
4.25 x 5.5 card
1 Stamped image (digi or rubber)
5 buttons
3 different ribbons
1 patterned paper
Sentiment
The real challenge for me in following this recipe was the three different ribbons on one fairly small card. It is fun to follow a specific recipe and see what I can come up with. Thanks for stopping by!
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- Stamps – Cat’s Pajamas “Away We Go” clear set and Hero Arts “Year Round Sentiments” clear set
- Patterned paper – Die Cuts with a View “Dragonfly Flower”
- Die cut made with Spellbinders Nestabilities “Labels Nine”
- Flowers – Prima
- Pearls – KaiserCraft
- Glitter dots – Mark Richards
This is a sparkly birthday card for my great niece. I am getting it to her late, but it has a bunny on it in time for Easter! I used the current card sketch at Card Patterns this week: Sketch #160. I’ve had the image colored for quite some time with Copic markers, but just didn’t find the right combination of papers and sketch for it. I like having the contrasting lights and darks with such busy paper. The sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder so that it stands out. And there is a lot of sparkle for a six year old! Thanks for visiting today and Happy Easter!
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- Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas “Raining Cats” and Studio G “With Love”
- Patterned cardstock – BoBunny Dot-to-Dot
- Embossing folder – Cuttlebug
- Trim – Model Crafts
- Punches – Marvy Uchida and Recollections
- Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
This Valentine was made for the CPS 5th Anniversary celebration: Challenge 13. I used the sketch (Sketch 121) as a point of departure. This card has lots of polka dots and texture. Thanks for visiting today!
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- Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas set N-7475
- Die cuts – Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Lacey Circles” and “Standard Circles Large”
- Border punch – Martha Stewart
- Embossing Folder – from the Cuttlebug “Christmas Set”
- Cardstock – Bazzill and BoBunny
- Ribbon – JoAnn
It has been a long time since I’ve posted with all of the holiday preparations and all! This is one of the cards I made to send from our family. Unfortunately I didn’t make as many as I would have liked to get in the mail. I do love all of the penguins that The Cat’s Pajamas has in their sets! These guys are doing the “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” thing! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!
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- Stamp set – The Cat’s Pajamas “Presto” (both rabbit/hat and sentiment) – image colored with Copic markers
- Die cuts – Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Labels Twenty” and “Ribbon Banners”
- Patterned paper – American Crafts “a la Carte: Balsamic”
- Cardstock – solids – Bazzill; Dots – BoBunny “Wine Dot”
This stamp set couldn’t have been more perfect for my needs this week. I just happened to spot it on the Cat’s Pajamas’ site last week and quickly ordered it, knowing that I planned to make cards to present to Trenton’s magic mentors at their magic show tonight. Not a lot of time, but I got the set very quickly (Thank you!) and went about making four of these cards for the mentors. I was inspired by the current Clean & Simple sketch #167 for the card design. I colored and cut out the bunny image and popped it up, along with the sentiment banner, for some dimension. It was fun to layer this card with the different patterns and textures. Thanks for stopping by.
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- Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas “Candyland Christmas”
- Patterned papers – Basic Grey “Jovial: Pomegranate” (red) and Echo Park Paper Company “Garland” (green)
- Cardstock – WorldWin
I made this card for the Operation Write Home Christmas Card Challenge. I colored the penguins with Copic markers and inked the edges of the green and red pieces with Charcoal ColorBox Chalk ink. Thanks for stopping by.
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- Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas “TuTu Much” clear set
- Patterned papers – Paper Salon “Sorbet: Tangerine” and BoBunny “Turquoise Flourish”
- Die cut – Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Labels Seventeen”
- Cardstock – Bazzill
I made this card using the current sketch at Card Positioning System: CPS Sketch #238. I used the great bunny set from The Cat’s Pajamas (and they aren’t even penguins!). The image is colored with Copic markers. Thanks for your visit and I’ll see you soon.
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