Arrr Matey!

I was asked to create a card with a pirate theme for a man that was getting married, using a photo of the man's face as the pirate.  Here's what I came up with.  What do you think?

I found this pirate ship paper in my DCWV All About Boys stack and created the plank with some kraft cardstock and a woodgrain stamp.  The man and woman pirates were found on clip art. 

Sentiment on the inside, along with some hooks!

And a gift tag to go with the bottle of rum they gave him as a gift.

Thanks for stopping by, appreciate your visits and love to read your comments.

I'd like to link to the following challenges:

Handmade Harbour Midweek Papercraft Party - men and boys

Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes challenge

Little Scrap Pieces Fun Friday Linky Party - any card, project, or layout

Fall Colors

Here's a card I made back in August but never posted. This was made for a woman at work to give to a very close friend that was getting married.  Beautiful poem she chose to put on the front, which I typed and printed onto cardstock.  The frame is MS Punch around the Page Doily Lace.  Embossed the  background layer with Divine Swirls.  The flowers are from Michael's dollar bins, and the green swirls are a Sizzix die cut.

I do love the colors, and they remind me of fall. Fall is my favorite season. When you start seeing the gold, orange, and greens of the leaves changing, it's so pretty.  It hasn't quite gotten to that stage yet here in Maryland.  I see some single trees here and there turning orange, so it's coming soon!

Thought I'd enter my card into some challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - fall colors -- Hi Ladies!  :)
Papercraft Stars - fall colors
Docerela Creations - photo inspiration, fall colors
Little Scrap Pieces - Thanksgiving or fall colors
The Pink Elephant - photo inspiration challenge

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Another Wedding Card

We had another wedding in our family this past Sunday -- my cousin's daughter was married.   Her colors were pink, white and navy blue.  I made this card for the new couple.

I really like using these birds for a wedding card.  They're from Celebrate with Flourish.  The plain oval was made using a punch, and the scalloped oval with a Spellbinders die. Background glitter paper was embossed with Kassie's Brocade, and I used Divine Swirls on the doves wings. The stamp is from a Fiskars Wedding set.  

I appreciate your stopping by!

White and Silver Wedding Card

I worked very closely with the requester of this card to make it custom and personalized for the recipient. I think it's my best card ever--I really love how it turned out!

Since I made this several weeks ago, I might not remember the cut sizes exactly, but I'll tell you everything else about it.  Here's how it started out.

I used a 5x7 white card, layered with silver foil paper.  This is the first time I used foil (which I got from Walmart--2 sheets in a pack for 97 cents), and I had no problem cutting it.  On top of the foil, I layered a piece of white Coredinations Premium Cardstock with Canvas Texture called Snowcap.  The center mat is white glitter cardstock embossed with Kassie's Brocade Cuttlebug folder, layered on another piece of silver foil.

Here's another view of it so you can see the glitter and shine!

The doves were cut on white cardstock using Celebrate with Flourish at about 3".   I embossed the wings with Divine Swirls and the bird's bodies with Swiss Dots.  The shadow is cut in silver glitter cardstock, and I layered that on top of a second shadow with foam squares.  The rings are from the Sweethearts cartridge cut at probably 1-1/4".  Because they're so small, I just layered them on top of each other to get the height I needed.

This sentiment was actually a stamp from Fiskars Just Married Quotes (a set of 19 clear stamps). I cut the plain oval from a Cricut cartridge at the size needed to fit the scalloped oval which is a Spellbinders die.  I used Brilliance Lightning Black ink to stamp it.

Here you can hopefully see the layers on all the images.  The sentiment inside is computer generated on white cardstock layered on silver foil to match the front of the card.

I have to say that the pictures don't really do the card justice.  I wish you could have seen it in person!

Thanks for stopping by!


I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
My Grafico Crafts - Wedding Bells are Ringing
Little Scrap Pieces - Anything Goes

A wedding card for my niece!

Hi Everyone,

Thought I could share the wedding card I made for my niece. She's getting married at 5:00 pm TODAY, so she's a little busy now--won't be catching my blog anytime soon.  Her colors are purple, green, and brown--here's what I made for the newlyweds!

I used Tie the Knot cartridge for all the cuts.  The banner is Spellbinders.  Everything is double layered and popped up.   Sentiments from Docerela Stamps and Fiskars.  Thanks for stopping by! 

Die Cuttin' Divas Tuesday Challenge

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the Die Cuttin' Divas challenge this week!  What a great response we had last week with the sketch challenge and blog hop.  So many adorable cupcake cards!   Everyone did a great job playing along.

I have a winner to announce from the hop for the goodies I am giving away.

I received 35 comments on my cupcake card; thank you all so much! And thanks to those of you who became a new follower--I really appreciate that!  I used Random.org to select the winner, who is #16...

TeenaBugg38 said...

Oh my gosh what an adorable little card!!! Great take on the sketch and thanks for the chance to win!

TeenaBugg, please send me your mailing address via email (in my profile) and I'll get these goodies out to you.

Now onto this week's challenge.  This week is a color challenge.  You are to use blue, white and silver in your project, including a Cricut cut, of course.  The theme can be anything you want, but be sure to use those colors, and tell us what cartridge you used for your image. 

I made a card for a friend who is getting married soon.  I used the Sweethearts cartridge -- just love the images that you can use as silhouettes.

Recipe:

Sweethearts Cart, pg 32, Couple cut at 5"

Shift <Balloon> cut at 1-1/4"

Fiskars Heart Corner Punch

Silver Ribbon

Blue Gems

Sentiments are Studio 112 mini-stamps

Blue and white cardstock, silver glitter

cardstock, blue flowered paper is from

The Paper Company

 

Now go work on your project and enter it by Monday, January 16 at Die Cuttin' Divas.  Thanks for visiting us this week; hope you'll join in the challenge!!

Wedding Card

This is the first wedding card I've made.  Used the Sweethearts cartridge for the heart, shadow, and silhouette cut at 3-1/2".  Sentiments from my computer printed on photo paper.  Ribbon from my stash, actually 3 different ribbons (I love them together!).  Silver, black, and red papers are from the DCWV Shimmer Stack.  White is from the DCWV Glitter Matstack.  (the picture doesn't show the shimmer and glitter that well.)  Used Cuttlebug Victoria to emboss the silver background paper.  This card is 5" x 6.5".  Punched the inside red paper with a Fiskars Heart corner punch.

I had a hard time getting a decent picture of this.  It was late and I was tired when I took it!!