FTHS Sweet Anniversary Card

This Friday will be my parents' 49th wedding anniversary, and they are driving up from Indiana to our house in Michigan to watch my youngest daughter perform in a play that evening. We're planning to take them out for a nice dinner to celebrate with them, and I had a family picture made into a 16 X 20 inch canvas to give to them. 

For their anniversary card, I used this month's freebie for the From the Heart Stamps Monthly Progressive Challenge. This dish of ice cream is one of 3 ice cream treats featured in the set. There are also some great sentiments that go perfectly with the ice cream theme, but I opted to make my own message to personalize it for my parents' 49th anniversary. 

I made the ice cream dish into a card shape by making a cut file around the edges of the ice cream dish and then using the "mirror above" feature and arranging the top ice cream to overlap the bottom one and welding the two together. Then I did a print and cut of just the ice cream dish for the front of the card. I colored it with Copic and MEXPY markers and adhered it to the card base.

For the sentiment, I wrote the message in my Silhouette program, colored it digitally and added an oval cut file around it. I printed it out and cut it with my Silhouette machine. 

 I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

From the Heart Stamps Progressive Monthly Freebie Challenge

http://fromtheheartstamps.com/community/2016/06/03/free-stamp-of-the-month-june-2016-ice-cream-lineup/

Super Birdbrain Father's Day Card

With Father's Day coming up this Sunday already, I thought I would make some Father's Day cards for my dad, my father-in-law and my husband. I decided to use the sketch over on the FTHS blog since I try to play most weeks and have been wanting to use the "Super Birdbrain" digi for awhile now. I'd also like to use him to make some fun birthday cards, but first things first. I need 3 Father's Day cards by Sunday!

For this card, I used a 5X7 inch card base and covered the front with Tim Holtz' "Broken China" distress paint.  Using the dauber, I applied it in circular motions trying to imitate the look of the sky. I sized the sentiment to fit in a circle so it would fit the sketch and then die cut it with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Circle die. For the image, I sized up the Birdbrain and did a trace file so I could use the offset feature and create a cut file around him for a print and cut. After printing him out and using my Silhouette to cut him out, I colored him with Copics and popped him up using foam squares. 

For the cityscape, I used a Tim Holtz Sizzix die and cut it at various points to get the lengths I wanted to match the sketch. I used black adhesive-backed foam for the buildings to give some dimension to the card. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

http://fromtheheartstamps.com/community/2016/06/13/i-heart-sketches-with-a-twist-156/

Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #252 Sentimental

FTHS Birdbrain Graduation Card

I still have a few more graduation cards to make, so I once again turned to this darling Birdbrain by From The Heart Stamps and used this week's sketch over in the FTHS blog for this card.

I started with a white blank A2 card base and trimmed it down a bit on the sides. Then I used my Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper to round the edges. I made a mat out of green paper and used that behind my die cuts. I die cut some school-themed design papers with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Rounded Rectangle die and a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Square die to follow the sketch. Then I used the print and cut feature of my Silhouette machine to print out the digi and cut a circle around it. I colored it in with Copics. 

There wasn't much room left on the card front for a sentiment, so I made a panel using green cardstock for the sentiment and stamped it with a stamp by CTMH from the "You Did It" clear stamp set and adhered it to the inside. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• I {heart} Sketches Challenge - W (2W in summer), SIR - Sketch* and/or Twist: Circle Card

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday Copic Shading Card

This week at PTI, the Make it Monday challenge was to use Copics to add some shading to a die cut word. I needed to make some 4th of July cards, so I used PTI's "Red, White and Blue" stamp set and their "Celebrate" die from the "Birthday Cheer" collection. I stamped the fireworks and some random stars onto my A2 card base and then stamped rockets onto vellum and fussy cut them out. I die cut the sentiment from red cardstock and then did a very amateur job of using a Copic marker to add some shading around the word.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

PTI Make it Monday challenge

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Butterfly Girl Card

This week over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge, our "twist" is "TRANSPORTATION." You can interpret this many different ways. I chose to use this sweet digi "Butterfly Girl" by our sponsor Ppinkydolls for my card. You can find it and many other adorable digis at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ppinkydollsart?section_id=13880735&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1

I used Spellbinders Grand Labels 1 dies to make the top-fold card base. Then I de cut some cloud design paper to cover the card front. I used a large pink felt flower as a background for the digi which I colored with Copic and MEXPY markers and die cut with a Gina Marie Designs Stitched Square die. I added clouds, a sun and the word "sunshine" from WPlus9 Designs "Sunshine Layers" die set. Wouldn't it be fun to travel by butterfly?!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #252 Sentimental
WordArt Wednesdays - W,5E , scriptural word art freebie offered each week- #234/235 - Family Friendly/Anything Goes 

Birdbrain Graduate

This week was graduation at our local high school, and I'm still catching up on graduation cards to take to the upcoming open houses I've been invited to. I decided to use this darling Birdbrain Graduate digi stamp by From the Heart Stamps and play along with the I {heart} sketches with a tWist challenge.

Using a blank white A2 card base, I layered some red paper and then some school-themed paper for the background. I sized up and printed out the digi using my Silhouette Design Studio software and then colored it with Copics.

I added a Gina Marie Designs stitched circle die cut behind the digi and die cut some Gina Marie Designs stitched banners to match the sketch. I matted them with some red paper I trimmed to size.

I stamped the sentiment using a clear stamp from CTMH's "You Did It" stamp set and Ranger jet black ink. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges: 

I {heart} Sketches Challenge - W (2W in summer), SIR - Sketch* and/or Twist: Show off your Coloring skills

Purr-fect Birthday Card

This week over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday, our "twist" is ANIMALS. You can include any kind of animal(s) on your project!

For my card, I started out by making a card base using Gina Marie Wonky Rectangles largest die to make a top-fold card. Then I die cut a Wonky Rectangle die using some fun Richard Garay design paper to adhere to the card front. 

I sized up and printed out the digi "Fifi" by our sponsor Ppinkydolls and then colored her and the kitty with Copic and MEXPY markers. You can find this adorable digi and many others at  https://www.etsy.com/shop/ppinkydollsart?section_id=13880735&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1

I die cut the image with a Gina Marie Designs Fancy Doily die. Then I mounted that on an orange felt doily by Studio G and adhered those layers to another die cut made with the largest of the Gina Marie Designs Famcy Doily dies. I used my Silhouette Design Studio software to write the sentiment, and then I printed it out and die cut it with the smallest of the Gina Marie Wonky Rectangles dies. I made a background layer using the same design paper I had used for the largest doily ie cut. I also die cut a kitten using a die from the now closed Top Dog Dies.