Birthday card inspired by Polly's Paper Studio

My oldest DD turned 25 yesterday and I wanted to make her a special, but really different, birthday card and I knew exactly where to go for inspiration.  Polly's Paper Studio.  If you've never see Ginny's stuff, you are really missing out.  She is so incredibly talented.  This is my take on Ginny's style of cards, which I adore!

I used lots and lots of layers!!  I make a base card (5x5) from white CS, then cut the first layer (grid type paper I had in my stash) 5x5 and distressed the edges.  The next layer was script writing paper (again in my stash), which i cut 4.75 x 4.75, distressed.  I then took creme CS and cut two heart borders from Elegant Edges.  That was cut at 4.5 and if you look closely you can see it at the top and bottom of the script paper.  Next layer was an inked doily then a piece of dark brown twill ribbon.   I then cut out the fleur de lis and the post card (under the flowers and ribbon) from Teresa Collins World Traveler paper, and finally the little girl from Graphic 45 Little Darlings.  I used a piece of creme seam binding and made a ribbon, put a brown pearl brad in the middle, surrounded by paper roses and hand cut a strip of the paper from the first layer (the grid type) and stamped Happy Birthday with CTMH Card Word Puzzle stamp then added three vintage buttons at the top right hand corner!  All edges were inked with Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Vintage Photo.

The card took me 2 hours to make but I loved how it came out!  More importantly DD loved it!

Bo Bunny Frame

I'm back from the Circle Meet Up in Dallas and had a wonderful time. When I download all of my photos, I'll post them with more details!

We spent Saturday at a LSS called PS Scrapbook in Allen, TX. We met up with Val, from the Cricut Demo Army. This was the first time I've met Val and she is one very talented, sweet lady! We had a blast. I also met several other really fun women, as we spent the day cropping!

While at the store, this kit from Bo Bunny caught my eye. Of course I had to buy and begin working on it immediately. This is the finished project:



This is all laid out on a 12" x 12" very thick piece of wood (about 3/4"). Naturally I wanted (or should I say needed) to ink it up. Val suggested I use glimmer mist and threw over her bottle of Brick Red Glimmer Mist. WOW what an idea! I finished up inking the sides with my Fired Brick Distressed Ink and I love the way it came out!

The only thing left to do is to add photos which I haven't done because I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it or give it to my niece who's getting married next month. I want to give it to her, but not sure it's her taste. We'll see.........

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentine's Day! This was a quick and easy card to make - my favorite kind! I had just bought the large Hero's Art heart stamp at Michael's and I had the small SU heart stamp in my stash. I used a sheet of craft cardstock, stamped both hearts with black VersaMark ink and then inked the edges with Distressed Ink - Pumice Stone, while distressing the edges a bit. I found the red paper in a K&Company stack I had - it's actually double sided paper, but I really liked the plain dark red with the very faint swirls. Used a "Bee Mine" stamp which I believe is Hero's Arts (I got that at Michael's as well) for the sentiment and some Prima Flowers.

Better Late Than Never

I didn't post at all on my blog during December, so I'm trying to make up for it now. I did two different Christmas cards this year, one from Celebrate With A Flourish and one from Reminisce Accents.

The first one is the poinsettia card. The poinsettia was from Celebrate With A Flourish. The flowers and leaves were colored by hand using my Le Plume pens, which gave it a velvety look. I used glitter cardstock for the base (shadow feature). The then used glossy accents on the green swirly layer. I used Bazzil white cardstock for the base and the flowers and added pearls to the centers of the flowers.



The next one was the snowflake from Reminisce Accents. This one I didn't color, but instead used 4 different layers, 3 different shades of blue and one white and added some pearls and stickles to give it a little glimmer.



I ran the background of both cards through the Cuttlebug with the Divine Swirls folder. The tag idea came from watching Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas. I used his method of daubber inking the edges, distressed color inking the tag, and stamping the sentiment. I used the Tim Holtz "Merry Christmas" stamp.

Inkadinkadoo stamp "My Mother's Dress"

Wow! I can't believe it's been over a month since I've posted. I knew I was busy, I just didn't realize how busy until now!

Okay - so today I'll post a card I made with my all time favorite stamp from Inkadinkadoo. It was stamped on plain white cardstock and hand cut. Added a couple of layers of Tim Holtz' distress inks (Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain). After it dried, my daughter blinged it up with her favorite embellishment - STICKLES!



The background paper is gold and silver and is from the Simple Elegance Foiled Paper stack by The Paper Studio. I used a brown and tan solid C'oredinations paper which I cut with my Nestabilities scalloped circles. I added some Liquid Pearls and a gold ribbon, stamped the smaller scallop with my Happy Birthday stamp and there it is.

I did pop dot the dress as well as the Happy Birthday.

I hope you like the finished product. My friend did!