Psalm 19 Card

Recently I've been working on making some scripture cards for my Bible Study Fellowship teaching leader. I'd like to finish 100 cards for her by the second week of May, and I have 36 done so far.
This card design uses a Verve clear stamp with Psalm 19:14. I die cut the verse with a WPlus9 Sunshine Layers die and added some PoppyStamps tulip die cuts to the bottom of the cards. The card bases are Paper Studio cards I purchased at Hobby Lobby.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
YNS Challenges - 2W , SIR (Top Pick) SIO, (Winner and Stand out) - No.38 - (W1 of 2) -
Pink and Main Challenge
http://pinkandmainchallenges.blogspot.com

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Gerda Steiner April Progressive Challenge

This month for the Gerda Steiner Designs challenge, Gerda created this darling little monkey for us to play with! Isn't he adorable?! I have plans to use him on a birthday card with some bananas and a "Go bananas on your birthday" sentiment, but for this card, I wanted a message for a friend who is struggling to regain the use of her left side after a stroke. She's been in physical therapy and speech therapy for several months now and tries to be cheerful and upbeat, but she's had a rough couple of weeks recently, so I thought I could use Gerda's cute little monkey with a "Hang in there" sentiment to encourage her.

I used a 5X7 inch white card base I embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I used my Silhouette Design Studio software to size up the monkey and then digitally paper piece him and the leaves of the tree. I also wrote the sentiment, sized everything up and printed them out. I colored the tree branch with a Copic marker and die cut the image with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Square die. I matted the image with some green glitter cardstock. I die cut the sentiment with a Gina Marie Designs Wonky Rectangle die and matted it on the same green glitter cardstock I used to mat the image. It's a simple design, but I pray the Lord will use this card to encourage my friend.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Gerda Steiner Designs April Challenge

http://gsd-stamps.com/blogs/news/114622916-hang-in-there

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God Gave Me You Card

This week over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge, our twist is "Anything Goes"! Hope you can join us!
Our sponsors this month are Gina Marie Designs and Ppinkydolls. Gina Marie Designs is giving the following X Stitch Rectangle Die Set away to this month's winner (U.S. addresses only), and we are also being sponsored by Ppinkydolls this month (digital stamps available to worldwide addresses for that prize). You can check out Gina Marie Design's dies and stamps at http://wholesalecraftingsupplies.com/t/-gina-marie-designs- and Ppinkydolls digi stamps at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ppinkydollsart?section_id=13880735&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1#

Here's a look at the dies Gina is offering this month:

My card uses a sweet digi from Ppinkydolls with my youngest daughter's favorite animal: a unicorn! I paired the digi with a sentiment from Gina Marie Designs' clear stamp set "Great Bible Quotes 3."
I used a gatefold cut file on my Silhouette to create the card base. I also used my Silhouette Design Studio software to size up my digi and print her before I die cut her with Gina Marie Designs "Stitched Squares" set. I colored her and her unicorn with Copic and MEXPY markers.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

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FTHS "How've you bean?" Card

This week over at the FTHS blog, the sketch challenge is a fun one as usual! The twist is to use washi tape, and I decided to do both the sketch and the twist.

I made a top-fold 6X6 inch card using Richard Garay dp for my card base. Then I sized up my FTHS digi using my Silhouette Design Studio software and printed it out along with the cute sentiment that came with this adorable set. I can't take credit for the lovely coloring here, by the way. Faith Skrdla offered a choice of one of her colored digis awhile back for donating to her daughter's hockey team (who made it to Nationals this year! Woot woot!), and I chose this colorful image. I die cut the image with a Gina Marie Designs Scalloped Stitched Frame set. I then used a yellow Gelato to add some color to the frame. I die cut the sentiment with a Gina Marie Designs Drop Pennant die and added some yellow Gelato to that, as well. I used some fun washi tapes to add my strips behind the image and popped up the frame and sentiment with foam tape. It's a bit busy, but I think it turned out bright and cheery. 

 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

I {heart} sketches with a tWist

http://fromtheheartstamps.com/community/2016/04/18/i-heart-sketches-with-a-twist-148/

Tic Tac Toe Challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday

This week over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge, our twist is to use 3 elements in a row from our Tic Tac Toe board. I've chosen glitter, flowers and brads for my card.
Our sponsors this month are Gina Marie Designs and Ppinkydolls. Gina Marie Designs is giving the following X-Stitched Rectangle Die Set away to this month's winner (U.S. addresses only), and we are also being sponsored by Ppinkydolls this month (digital stamps available to worldwide addresses for that prize). You can check out Gina Marie Design's dies and stamps at http://wholesalecraftingsupplies.com/t/-gina-marie-designs- and Ppinkydolls digi stamps at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ppinkydollsart?section_id=13880735&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1#

My card uses a darling digi by Ppinkydolls as well as die cuts from the same X Stitch Rectangle set that Gina is giving away this month. The glittery dragonfly and butterfly die cuts are from also Gina Marie Designs dies. I die cut some double-sided adhesive paper and then adhered the die cuts to the card. I poured glitter over the die cuts and voila! An easy way to add a sparkly touch to a card! I also tried something new after watching a Make it Monday video over at Papertrey Ink this week. I cut a white panel and scored it using one of the patterns on my Ultimate Crafter's Companion scoreboard. I think it added a little something extra to this card.

I added my flower brads and debated whether to add some chipboard flowers I had in my stash. In the end, I decided I had enough going on already, and the chipboard would have been too much with everything else.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

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Verve Psalm 19:14 Card

This is my second card playing with the new stamps I won from Verve Stamps during the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Sprig Blog Hop. Thanks, Julee! They stamp beautifully!

This time I followed the second April sketch over at Viva La Verve but kept to the colors from the inspiration challenge on the Verve blog again. I love these cheerful spring colors!

I used a 5x7 inch card base and scored it using my Ultimate Crafter's Companion. The score lines don't show up very well in the photo, but they add a nice touch that's more noticeable in person. 

I die cut some papers from PTI, Richard Garay and some gold foil from Spellbinders for the elements on this card. I used Gina Marie Designs stitched rounded rectangle and lacey doily dies and stamped the verse on white cardstock. I adhered all the elements with glue tape except for the verse panel which I popped up with foam squares. Since Gina is a friend of mine, I'd like to give you the link to her online store where you can buy either of these sets for only $10. She has lots of wonderful dies at really reasonable prices. http://wholesalecraftingsupplies.com/t/-gina-marie-designs

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Viva La Verve Sketches http://vlvsketches.blogspot.com/

Verve Stamps April Inspiration Challenge http://vervestamps.blogspot.com/p/inspiration-challenge.html
Craft Rocket Challenges 2W,3E #13 Favourite Colour Combo (W1 of 2)  
613 Avenue Create - W, 3E, Any Craft Accepted - #171 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Recycled materials
AAA - 2W, 3E, CAS/Modern/Nearly Clean - #62 Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Addicted to Stamps 2W  Must include Stamping (no pre-colored digi's) #124 Pastel Colours + a Stamp (W2 of 2)
Dare 2B Artzy Challenges - M 1st Sunday, E3, Polka Dot
CAS on Sunday - 2W, 1E, CAS only (patterned paper, stamp and something shiny-gold foil)
YNS Challenges - 2W , SIR (Top Pick) SIO, (Winner and Stand out) - No.37 - (W1 of 2) - Sketch* and Inspirational Photo* use either the sketch or the photo or use  both
Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 26 (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - 2W - No.107 - (W1 of 2) - Use Stitching (real or faux)
Creative Fingers -  2W , 3E, No totally digital projects - No.107 - (W1 of 2) Anything Goes
Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Anything Goes
Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 194 - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5 #153 Anything Goes(W1 of 2) 
Crafty Gals Corner -  W, E2 - #67 Die Cuts or Punches
Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #91 Always Anything Goes/ optional twist Make It Funny (Week 1 of 2) 
Inspiration Destination - W, F- #81 Always Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Let's Do The Polka
The Crafty Addicts 2W, E #13 - Anything Goes with optional theme of Girly (Week 1 of 2)
WordArt Wednesdays - W,5E , scriptural word art freebie offered each week- #226/227 - Anything Goes 
Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew 2W - #110 Die Cut (week 2)
Retarte 2W, E3 - #74 - Anything Goes (Week 2) 
Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown W- #289 -  Use your Die Cuts






 

My Grace is Sufficient Card

I recently won a $25 gift certificate to Verve Stamps during the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring Blog Hop, and this is one of the stamps I chose with my gift certificate. Thanks, Julee! 

I followed the sketch at Viva La Verve and the color challenge on the Verve blog to design this card. It's a little more CAS than I usually do, but I like how it turned out. I was tempted to add some more details at the bottom, but I think this design really keeps your eyes on the scripture. It's such a beautiful verse! If you are feeling weary and weak today, I hope you will take comfort in this truth.

The card base I used is a 5X7 inch white cardstock base. I added some blue washi tape to match the color inspiration along with the hot pink and yellow in the photo. The squares were cut out using Gina Marie Stitched Squares (you can find this set for $10 at http://wholesalecraftingsupplies.com/t/-gina-marie-designs

I added a few Studio G buttons to finish off the card. Simple and easy!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Viva La Verve Sketch Challenge http://vlvsketches.blogspot.com/

Verve Stamps April Inspiration Challenge http://vervestamps.blogspot.com/p/inspiration-challenge.html
Craft Rocket Challenges 2W,3E #13 Favourite Colour Combo (W1 of 2)  
613 Avenue Create - W, 3E, Any Craft Accepted - #171 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Recycled materials
Retarte 2W, E3 - #74 - Anything Goes (Week 2) 
Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown W- #289 -  Use your Die Cuts

Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Let's Do The Polka
The Crafty Addicts 2W, E #13 - Anything Goes with optional theme of Girly (Week 1 of 2)
WordArt Wednesdays - W,5E , scriptural word art freebie offered each week- #226/227 - Anything Goes 
Creative Card Crew 2W - #110 Die Cut (week 2)
Inspiration Destination - W, F- #81 Always Anything Goes
AAA - 2W, 3E, CAS/Modern/Nearly Clean - #62 Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Addicted to Stamps 2W  Must include Stamping (no pre-colored digi's) #124 Pastel Colours + a Stamp (W2 of 2)
C.R.A.F.T. W,5E #359 Clean & Simple
Dare 2B Artzy Challenges - M 1st Sunday, E3, Polka Dot
YNS Challenges - 2W , SIR (Top Pick) SIO, (Winner and Stand out) - No.37 - (W1 of 2) - Sketch* and Inspirational Photo* use either the sketch or the photo or use  both
Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 26 (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - 2W - No.107 - (W1 of 2) - Use Stitching (real or faux)
Creative Fingers -  2W , 3E, No totally digital projects - No.107 - (W1 of 2) Anything Goes
Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 194 - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations 2W,3E Always Anything Goes
Cre8tive Hands Friends 2W, SIO - Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #91 Always Anything Goes/ optional twist Make It Funny (Week 1 of 2) 
Crafty Creations - 2W - #313 Stitching Real or Fake  (Week 1 of 2)
 Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5 #153 Anything Goes(W1 of 2)

Mother's Day Card with SheepskiDesigns

This month over at The Outlawz Progressive Monthly Freebie Challenge, we've been gifted with a lovely Mother's Day floral digi created by Andrea Norris of SheepskiDesigns. Thanks, Andrea! Anyone can join our monthly challenge and receive this month's digi for free simply by joining the Outlawz group and requesting the digi. Hope you can play along with us! With this great digi, you can get your Mother's Day cards taken care of in time for May!

For my card, I created a 7X6 inch white card base using a shimmery white cardstock. I sized and printed the digi using my Silhouette Design Studio software and then colored it with MEXPY markers. I die cut it with a WPlus9 die (from "Sunshine Layers") and added some pearls over the flower centers. I had originally colored them pink, but the card seemed to need a little more dimension. I chose some purple and yellow cardstock by PTI in matching colors and die cut the rectangle with a Marianne die and the doily with a Gina Marie Designs die. The "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment was die cut with a Lawn Fawn die. 

 I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - 2W, SIO - (Week 1) Use a Sentiment
Incy Wincy Designs - 2W (1st & 3rd Monday), 5E - (Week 2) Use your Favorite COlouring Medium
Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 2W, 2E, SIO - (Week 1) Girly
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Anything goes with option of Flowers
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - W, 5E - April Showers Bring May Flowers
 Colouring in Scrapland - M, 1st Monday, E2, No digital colouring - (April) Three in a row* (flower, pearls, and die)
Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5 #153 Anything Goes(W1 of 2) 
Star Stampz Challenge 2W,3E,SIO Use A Digi (W1 of 2)
Crafty Gals Corner -  W, E2 - #67 Die Cuts or Punches
Inspiration Destination - W, F- #81 Always Anything Goes
Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes
Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #124 Tic Tac Toe * (Week 1 of 2 ) Girly, digi image, flowers
Creative Card Crew 2W - #110 Die Cut (week 2)
Lemon Shortbread 2W, E3, no digital projects Always Anything Goes (Week 1) 

The Outlawz Progressive Monthly Freebie Challenge
My Sheri Crafts 2W (W2) #179 Mother's Day Flowers 
http://vlvsketches.blogspot.com/ Viva La Verve Sketch Challenge


Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #244 Flowers Everywhere
Crafty Girls Creations 2W,3E Always Anything Goes 

Favorite Color Challenge Card

It's Thursday again, and that means a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday! Our twist for this week is to use your favorite color(s)! That's a bit tricky for me since I love the whole rainbow, but for this week, I went with the lovely combination of pink, green and blue. They look especially nice with this vintage paper from Graphic 45.
Our sponsors this month are Gina Marie Designs and Ppinkydolls. Gina Marie Designs is giving the following X-Stitched Rectangle Die Set away to this month's winner (U.S. addresses only), and we are also being sponsored by Ppinkydolls this month (digital stamps available to worldwide addresses for that prize). You can check out Gina Marie Design's dies and stamps at http://wholesalecraftingsupplies.com/t/-gina-marie-designs- and Ppinkydolls digi stamps at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ppinkydollsart?section_id=13880735&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1#

I made a square top fold card using the largest die in the Spellbinders Grand Squares die set. Then I die cut 2 X Stitch Rectangles from Gina Marie Designs and overlapped them slightly to give me the size I wanted behind my digi and sentiment. I adhered them to a cream panel and added a couple of the flower stamps from another area of the Graphic 45 paper I used. I popped them up with foam tape. I also added a few Dew Drops to the card.

I colored the digi with Copic and MEXPY markers and die cut her with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Oval die. I also printed this same digi on Kraft paper and then fussy cut the puppy out and adhered him with a foam square to give the image a bit of dimension. I stamped the sentiment on some of the back of this same Graphic 45 cardstock and die cut it with a smaller size of the Gina Marie Designs Stitched Oval die set. I adhered both the digi and the sentiment with foam tape. The sentiment is from Gina Marie Designs clear stamp set "Great Bible Quotes."

Side view of the dimension on the card front:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #244 Flowers Everywhere
Crafting from the Heart - W, E3, F - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
Crafty Boots - 2W, SIO - (Week 1) Use a Sentiment
Incy Wincy Designs - 2W (1st & 3rd Monday), 5E - (Week 2) Use your Favorite COlouring Medium
Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 2W, 2E, SIO - (Week 1) Girly
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Anything goes with option of Flowers
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - W, 5E - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5 #153 Anything Goes(W1 of 2) 
Crafty Girls Creations 2W,3E Always Anything Goes
Cre8tive Hands Friends 2W, SIO - Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #91 Always Anything Goes/ optional twist Make It Funny (Week 1 of 2) 
Star Stampz Challenge 2W,3E,SIO Use A Digi (W1 of 2)
Inspiration Destination - W, F- #81 Always Anything Goes
Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #124 Tic Tac Toe * (Week 1 of 2 ) Girly, Digi image, flowers
Lemon Shortbread 2W, E3, no digital projects Always Anything Goes (Week 1) 

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Balloon Shaker Card

I love shaker cards, but I find them pretty time consuming to make. I recently invested in some of Papertrey Ink's double-sided adhesive foam, and I used it to make a set of 10 birthday cards for my mom. It was still a pretty time-consuming batch of cards to make, but I do think the double-sided adhesive helped. 

The balloon shaker element is a die set from PTI that includes some die cut confetti, stars, strings and the "Hooray" sentiment I added in the balloon. I also added some beads and metallic balloons and confetti. The smaller balloon on the right side is an Avery Elle die. 

The card base is an A2 DCWV card. 

Inside the card, I used a Bugaboo image and sentiment that I colored digitally and then die cut using a Poppy Stamps die. I die cut a mat for it from the same Poppy Stamps set. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Happy Birthday
Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party by Craftin Desert Divas - 2W - (Week 1) Shaker

Birthday Parade Card

I recently won my choice of 7 images from Bugaboo and just had to pick this darling little parade of animals! I was working on an order of birthday cards, so I added "Happy Birthday" to the banner, but you could add "Congratulations" or another fun sentiment to match whatever occasion you need. 

After digitally coloring the image, I printed it out and die cut it with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Square die and made a mat for it using some Papertrey Ink paper and another Gina Marie Designs Stitched Square die. I adhered it to a square of white paper and then used foam tape to pop it up in my A2 sparkly green card base.

For the inside, I used a PTI die and more PTI paper to die cut the sentiment and then adhered it with my Zig glue pen. 

I love that a hedgehog is in the Bugaboo digi! This is Henry, my 7-month-old hedgehog. Now that Henry is part of my life, I find myself noticing all the cute hedgehog stamps out there! 

 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - W, 5E - Happy Birthday

From The Heart Stamps April Monthly Freebie

This month over at From The Heart Stamps, Faith Skrdla has really outdone herself in creating a lovely digi set with 3 images and 6 sentiments for the progressive monthly freebie challenge! This set is beautiful and so versatile! Thanks, Faith!

For my card, I followed this week's sketch on the FTHS blog. The card base is a 6X6 square card. I used my Silhouette Design Studio software to size up the digi and sentiment and then did a trace of the digi. I printed it out and cut it several times so I could do some layering of the flowers. I fussy cut several elements and added different thicknesses of foam tape to add some dimension to the digi after coloring it with Tim Holtz distress, Marvey and MEXPY markers.

Next I die cut a panel of Papertrey Ink cardstock with script writing on it using a Spellbinders border die. I used the same paper to cut a panel for my sentiment to go on. I printed the sentiment directly onto the design paper I wanted to use and then trimmed it down. I also die cut a piece of antique teal design paper for the border separating my digi from my sentiment and added some lace just above it for texture.

I adhered some cream silk ribbon before adding my digi to the top panel with foam tape.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• House of Cards - M, cards (CAS, Classic, Cute, Vintage), C10 - (April) Script and/or Color Inspiration*
• I {heart} Sketches Challenge - W (2W in summer), SIR - Sketch* and/or Twist: Lots of Patterned Paper
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• From The Heart Stamps Progressive Monthly Freebie Challenge

 

 

 

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