Mother's Day and Father's Day Cards

These 3 cards were my Sunday morning project. I wanted to make some cards to bring to my office or to mail to my friends. Haven't deceided which. Well I did the pik card first . I happened to have this card stock and this page from a book of designed paper. I remembered the pattern stamp set from Stampin up ( a friend got this set from me as a gift.) and I thought I would use only 1 of the women in the picture. I stamped her and cut it out. I then stamped it again on green paper dotted with pink dots. I cut out just the dress and placed it over the print I did before. From the designed paper I cut the three flower squares and glued them in step like arrangements . I then cut out the flower pot and using the little demintion dots I put three dots under the picture and attached it to the card over one of the steps. I like the butterfly so I cut it out and then put three little demintion dots on the body of the butterfly and glued him over the flower pot. I stamped the words mother and day on Whisper white card stock and cut them out with the plain oval punch. Then I cut the scalloped ovals from the green pink dotted paper. I used demintions and put the wording on the scalloped pieces . I used a edge punch along the fron of the card, top and side and punched this little decoration. The second card has the deer scene and the tree. I had this card stock with this pretty green and blue stripping and thought it would make a good card for a man. I especially wanted to use the deer scene and got the set out and used the deer scene and the tree. I think I made a mistale coloring in the pictures. It was prettier just stamped in brown . Well done is done and I cut out the backing piece in dark brown and attached the pictures with light brown brads. I had the staw like ribbon and tied it around the card itself. It still looks good. The third is the old car another favorite of mine. I had the bluish green textured card stock and measured and cut the card to fit the available envelope I had. Then I layered the card with dark brown again and the bluish green. Using whisper white card stock I stamped the old car and painted it with stampin up pens. I saw this old truck down my street that was all rusty and surrounded by blue flowers and I loved the colors together so thats why I used the colors I did. I also put the wording at the top in strong block form. I used screw looking brads to attach the cards together. I had seen them used on other cards and thought well working on cars always has a bunch of screws left over. Ok .... well I think the screw are cute . I then added a brown bow and two little birds from another stamp set. Wala' the card is finished. I could work on cards all day and all night but alas I have transcription work that must get done by tonight so that it is for today.

Mother of Pearl

Don't even ask. I don't know why I did it. I have this crazy thing for buttons . The vision just popped in my head when I saw those round buttons . It grew from there. Maybe my choice of back ground material isn't perfect but it matched the room where I plan on displaying the picture. It is really relaxing to have needle and thread in hand and the vision just came as I sewed. Being the buttons are made from mother of pearl thats what I named it. It took two days to put it all together . I have to get back to making some cards now and I plan on using buttons on a few of them also. Why NOt???

THE PLAYROOM

Here are a few views of the play room. My paper is stored under the counter to the left of my work area and under the work area itself. My stamps are aliened on the shelf and the sets are stored in bins to the left. Pens, paints, chalks and other items are stored on theleft a;so. To the right I have one compter and a sewing machine. I have another computer in the other corner for internet work and the table in the center has the Cricuit, the Cuttlebug, and other craft items . I could be in here for hours and never notice the time passing.

EXPLOSION CARD

Well those of you that know me , know that if I see something and I "think" I can do it , I will or at least attempt it. I saw this card yesterday on Splitcoaststampers under the "search" for graduation cards. I had to try it. Her card was located on pg. 20 and its an "explosion card" . She has a blog site called allycatcards.com.blogspot.com

I wanted to give her credit for the idea. I found the secret to the explosion card is that the cap has to be a perfect square to start. You take the square and fold it in half point to point and press seam. Then open the square and fold the opposite corners point to point and press seam and now the tricky part for me was you open the squard again and you fold it in half side to side , press and then open the square. Now you take two points and pull them together to the inside and then press the two sided together and it forms a square. Beleive it or not I had no instructions and mine came together by accident because I just had the picture to look at. I then used a top fold card and attached the cap to the card near the top by gluing the back part of the square to the card . I used double sided tape for this . The colors for the school are red and black (like you couldn't tell) and I opened the card and put the reciepients name inside and them spelling out her name on each panel I used the letters for certain meanings . Ex> Tracy= T true to the end. R reliable at all times. A always there C capable of anything she puts her mind to, Y yesterday is gone and the future is yours to create. Put your own version or just put photos or nothing at all. On the top of the had at the top point I added a charm of the school mascot ( a mustang) and stamped graduation caps and wrote the year. The initials of the school are stamped and embossed on scalloped squares and I used a clip heart to hold the explosion card closed. Inside on the front cover side I put the school almata and on the right I used two pieces of card stock, one red , one white and stamped two different greetings. There are so many ways to use this explosion card and I had fun creating this one.

I made this graduation card for a neighbor . It is for the high school in our parish. Their school colors are red and black.

I made the base card in black . Since the colors are red and black for the parish I used those colors to layer the front of the card, I made two seperate layering. One for the Congratulations and one for the graduation picuture. I used a stamp for the graduate and colored the robe red. I also placed two pieces of ribbon under the greeting portion of the card. I added brads on the corners and the silver wire clip on the graduation portion. I hand wrote the ASH 2010 .

THIS IS MY EASTER GIFT

This is going to really look great in a scrapbook and can't wait to start putting it together . Everything is so bright and pretty . It was a great Easter with a lot of love and peace and sharing with all the family.