Missing Time to Stamp

Hello friends!

No time since vacation to post. Have made a few cards along the way and decided to post tonight. I always enjoy other card blogs and am sad when some of my favorite bloggers seem to have vanished for weeks at a time, so here we go!!

The first card is one I started on vacation. Several friends have recently lost parents, so sympathy was on my mind. This card was SIMPLE. I embossed some metallic paper with an embossing folder, rounded the edges, placed a simple sentiment on the embossed paper and added a few pearls!!
The card below was a card I made this evening. I have a birthday lunch this week and needed a card for it. Saw a great card on Jen del Muro's site that gave me an idea. I pulled out a Quikutz flower die I've had for a long time and some paper I had been saving for something special. (I have a hard time using my stash of beautiful papers. Some of you know what I mean...) Added a few smaller punches with bling and was nearly done. I did score the moss paper. Love the sewn look. I used the leftovers for the inside, added a happy birthday stamp and it's ready for my friend!
This card is one of my favorite. My son is in the U.S. Navy, so I am always thinking about cards for him. Since he doesn't look at this site, I can post them before they are sent. I have seen several cards lately with multiple border punches, so came up with this combination. The white one reminds me of rope. Added a few anchors, a great soldier stamp and a USN seal, and soon it will be on its way to encourage one of the strong ones who fight for our freedom. Thanks TDG!
This card was for the Navy son's wife. I HAVE sent this one, since my dear daughter-in-law is a card maker too! She is the sweetest daughter-in-law anyone could ask for. This combination of colors always reminds me of her. And the sentiments fit what I was feeling... A little blue missing her.
The die cuts are from the Spellbinder's Scallop frame set. I love the little flowers too! So I added some of them to the inside of the card.
The congrats card was inspired from a Making Memories pad I got from Archiever's. I loved the black and white with just a hint of another color on each page. I added the border, a little bling and it was ready to send.
It's late Sunday night, with a big week of work ahead. (For those of you who do not know, my real job is public health nursing. Flu season is upon us, so, too little time for fun with card making.) Blessings to each of you.

On vacation and making cards!! Whahoo!  Some fun ones and EASY ones today.  

First is the fan mail card.  Recently I purchased the Quickutz "Pop up door."  This is a really fun die cut!  Three sides are cut and one is perforated for easy bending.  The Fan stamp is from SU and the House Mouse Stamp was found at a great little store in Colorado Springs called Simple Pleasures.  I only shop at this store once a year while on vacation.  Love it!  

My daughter and I hit another little scrapbook store in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.  Great store by the name of The Kraftin Post.  I found some great Heidi Grace papers.  It is kind of hard to tell by the pictures, but, some of the paper is flocked.  Loved the colors.  Can mix with olive, navy, lime, light blue or white!!
I have had some Heidi Grace embellishment pins that matched perfectly!!  I bought them years ago - really!
I was really needing to add to my stash of sympathy cards, so made a few of those as well.  I used some old SU Simply Scrappin materials for this card.  Added a few pearls and a stamp and done!
Love this stamp.  Doesn't take much more to finish the card.  I did emboss the SU baroque swirl with versamark, old olive and clear powder.  Then I added the sympathy stamp, pearls and done!
Used my Spellbinders scalloped rectangles for the inside.  Yes, I know it's not exacting like I want it to be...
This was a fun card again using the pop up door die cut.  This was the sample the store made for me when I was debating about purchasing the pop up door.  They used great Bazzil paper, so I could not throw it away.  Thanks Scrapbook Page in Kansas City!!


Again, used some old supplies from a Simply Scrappin kit.  Don't you just love the circle?  Goes great with the swirls on the paper.
Not sure I like this card.  The peach card stock feels really dated.  So I again used the baroque swirl stamp to help it along.  
The next few cards I made to send to my sons.  They are the best sons a mom could have.  I like to send them stuff in the US mail.  I think anyone loves something in the mail, don't you??  I put the "# 1 favorite" sticker on both their cards, because they are!!  And so is my SWEET daughter!



And, last, but not least, I am always trying to come up with cards for my oldest son who is currently serving in the Navy.  It may look a little corny, but I like it!  Hope he does!

Just realized I forgot to take pictures of my daughter's birthday card.  I'll have to get some pictures to share for next time...  It was my first slider card thanks to Dawn of Dawn's stamping studio blog.  I got SO excited when I saw how easy they were to make!! And with Walmart bags no less!!  My incredible daughter-in-law and I made some over the 4th of July weekend when we went to see them.  It was FUN!!

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Hopefully you will want to sit down and make some cards of your own after reading today!!

Wedding and a few others

Today I spent a little time making cards for the 4, yes, 4 weddings we have been invited to on July 25th.  Must be a great day to get married!  The first one is fairly easy.  Especially with the GREAT new SU Mediallion stamp.  Add a little background, ribbon, a few words and 3 gems and the outside is done!!  

I really like to coordinate the inside of my cards.  This medallion stamp is SO versatile.  I did have a great little ring punch, added a gem to the punch, a few more words and some leftover thin strips to make the cross and DONE!

This is a variation on the wedding card.  I added a little bling.  Just placed some gems on the medallion stamp and CONGRATULATIONS and the card has a lot more sparkle.  Depends on the bride...
This card was my trial for the new Flower Soft.  I really like how it looks.  And, again, simple.  

The background is one of the new Quickutz embossing folders that really matches one of the SU Mini Silhouettes stamps.  Love it when that happens! 
Finally, I really wanted to try to color my chipboard.  Been trying to figure out how to color chipboard.  Ink pads with daubers from SU works the best.  The rest of this is from an old SU Simply Scrappin pack.  I love the borders and shapes.  Great to take on trips so that card making doesn't go on hold.  Plus,  we need to have fun when we travel too, right?
Hope you enjoyed the cards today.  I  had a great time making them.  You will too!

Mini Book

As I told you yesterday, I am adding pictures of the "card" I made for my son who just graduated from dental school.  Originally I was going to only make a traditional card.  I purchased the Jolee's dental 3-D stickers about 3 years ago.  I knew I wanted to use them for his grad card.  Well, I recently purchased the clear 6 x 6 album and thought this would be a fun project.  As you can see it morphed into a fairly large project. 
You cannot read the puzzle pieces on the following page, but they spell, SUPERMAN!




There was obviously not enough room to write everything the grad's Dad and I wanted to say in this small space, so I changed it to a pocket after taking this picture.  That way we could both write our letters and they could be kept in the pocket.  

 Now, if you are wondering what type of card I made for my high school graduate, that's a whole other story.  When our children have graduate from high school, we produce a video of their life.  With the last child there should not be too many pictures, right?  Well, not this one.  We cut it to 447 pictures - with the video lasting 23 minutes.  I have worked on this since March and finished it only with the help of my DH 4 days before his graduation.  

Long time, no post

It has been a long time since I have posted.  May was a very busy month.  My oldest son graduated from dental school and my youngest from high school.  

So here are a few cards.  The first one is using the new embossing plate from Stampin Up.  Makes a quick and beautiful card.  I love it!
This one is part of a new "collection" I am making for my son and wife who moved the day after graduation.   I will post the "card" I made for him in my next post.
Another "missing you" card.
The next two cards are using stickers from the new Yellow Bicycle Zinnia collection  I love the papers and stickers.  I really like the stamps too, just have not purchased those.  

Daisy Day

Today is a dreary day, cold and with little hope for seeing daisies anytime soon.  But, hope springs eternal, so I decided to make a daisy card.  I found this gorgeous blue paper on a clearance rack with 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch matching envelopes.  I could not pass them up.   So I wanted to make something that would really be great on the blue.  I spotted some of my white glitter paper and my Quickutz daisy die cut and now the card is done.  Not that it was quick or anything...   I tried several different borders, but liked this fiskars one the best.    I kept thinking of the "He loves me, he loves me not" but couldn't think of what type of card I would sent with that saying on it, so I thought the "I made a wish and you came true"  would be more useable.  I stamped words on the edge and just as I lifted the stamp it shifted.  SO... as you will note if you look closely, I had to improvise.  All stampers know a mistake is an opportunity for something even better.  The inside now has a scalloped border too!!     

Hope all of you have a great Easter - celebrating the REAL reason for this season - Jesus death and resurrection.  That is our true Hope!

Paper:  Juniper blue "Petalics"

Die cut:  Quickutz flower

Border punch:  Fiskars 

Stamp:  Hero Arts

Had a day at home today.  It was fabulous not to get up to the alarm.  Spent a little time and came up with this card.  I think the Fiskars Egg punch is fun.  The second picture is the inside.

The fun thing with this card was finding the buttons and ribbon.  I found it in my stash of vintage stuff I kept from when my Mom cleaned out her house.  I guess "What goes around, comes around," works for card stuff too!!