You Rock

Don't know what took me so long to get around to casing this card. I have been wanting to do this since I saw Brian King's cool card here.

I love the critters from Stampin' Up!'s Cheerful Critters! So versatile, and they are the cutest messengers for any sign. I made this for a family friend (78 this year), who is one of the funnest (if this is a word?) guy with the best laugh. He promptly sent an email to say thank you for the REAL COOL CARD, and he's saving it! I actually fussy cut it, the hardest part was between the arms. I just love it, and wish I had reams of this DSP.

Perfect card to share in our Inking Royalty group, since I just read Brian has hit a milestone in sales so far this SU fiscal year. Whooo-hoooo!!! Brian really does ROCK! Not surprising, the best in customer service and everyone loves him!

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Cheerful Critters, Stamps of Life tinytitles2stamp (you rock)

Paper: Adventure Bound designer series paper stack

After I get over the redeye jet lag I'll be excited to get back into the craft room. Thanks for the visit!

90 and Amazing

Happy 90th, Dad!!! We ate crab and many favorite food dishes. Dad had a wonderful evening. Lots of laughs and love around the table.

Very hard to photograph a shiny card, so here it is at an angle. The mirrored cardstock is gold, background is silver cardstock. Black number and sentiment was cut three times and stacked for strength. All dies on this card! The large numbers pair so well with the sunburst die.

Stampin' Up! Sunburst thinlit

Stampin' Up! Large Numbers thinlits (90)

Stampin' Up! Celebrate You thinlits (amazing)

MFT Little Numbers dies (ampersand)

Thanks for joining my today, always love when you stop by!

Anniversary card for CAS(E) this Sketch #253

Playing along with CAS(E) this sketch this week in honor of Brian King! He just joined the design team, woo-hoooo!

Here's the sketch:

I was pretty true to the sketch, as Brian does so brilliantly.

In honor of this retro sketch, I selected retro Stampin' Up! retired but loved supplies.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Teeny Tiny Wishes (current)

Paper: Stampin' Up! Stacked With Love 4x6 pad (retired)

Misc: Stampin' Up! Classic Label punch (current), Stampin' Up! Happy Heart embossing folder (retired), Stampin' Up! Fashionable Hearts embosslits (retired)

Happy 39th Anniversary to my wonderful husband!

Lawn Fawn Let's Roll

Had so much fun making this card today!

So cute, don't you love Lawn Fawn? Shhh - this card is for my BIL who isn't on social media. He puts shoyu on everything, I'm serious! Used colored pencils from my stash from different companies (not Prismas) to color the shoyu bottle and sushi. Got my inner Sandy Allnock going and attempted to leave highlights. Yay, right? The tray is stamped on wood patterned paper. No dies, but I probably would have fussy cut the images for this card even if I did have dies for this set. Background paper is origami paper.

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Let's Roll, Lawn Fawn Party Animal
Dies: Stampin' Up! Labels Collection 
Paper: origami paper
Embellies: Pretty Pink Posh Large Gold Star Confetti

Linking up for the first time to a Lawn Fawn challenge, the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 20 - Fun with Food! 

Happy you dropped by!

Vintage Leaves on Acetate

Happy New Year!

I just love the Vintage Leaves stamp set. This set can really be used year round, not just in the fall.

Used some wintery colors on this card, so cool! Played with some heat resistant acetate for the first time and I love it! Very handy to have a stamp press to stamp on a slippery surface like acetate. The leaf is embossed with silver.

This banner is fun to pop the center up:

Stamps: Stampin' Up Vintage Leaves, Stampin' Up Thoughtful Banners
Inks: Stampin' Up Smoky Slate, Versamark (for embossing)
Tools: Stampin' Up Vintage Leaflets framelits, SU Duet Banner punch
Papers: Stampin' Up Color Theory DSP, silver cardstock, whisper white cardstock

Wishing you a wonderful & creative 2018!

Inky Embossing Folder Birthday

Got a little inky making this card, but it was fun! Saw this technique on a video shared by Dayna Lum-Akana on Facebook, link here. Thank you for sharing fun techniques you find, Dayna!

Apply distress inks randomly on one side of your embossing folder, spritz, then run it through. I chose to ink up the debossed side. It's a "wow" when you pull it out of the folder, and every card it different. I like that you can spritz it more or less for degrees of distressed inkyness. I didn't want to hide the colors so went with a die cut "happy" and flagged "birthday".

Stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop Happy Birthday (birthday)

Dies: MFT Happy Birthday (happy)

Inks: Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, & Broken China distress inks

Embossing Folder: Anna Griffin April Garden

Tickled you could join me today!

InKing Royalty Blog Hop You Warm My Heart

Welcome to InKing Royalty's December Blog Hop! We have a fun Blog Hop theme today - Wrap it Up! The hop is filled with projects that are perfect for this time of year - everything from gift-packaging ideas to bundling up to stay warm. We are excited to share our creations with you today.  After you read my post, I hope you'll hop over to the next person on the list at the base of this post.

What's warmer than a cable knit sweater. Even better, a cable knit sweater with a gift card bundled up inside!

It's been a while since I made a criss cross card. The hardest part is making the embossed (or patterned paper) panel insert. Can never get the angles right. I now cut the cardstock or patterned paper the same size as the base card, then cut on the diagonal and shave 1/8" or 1/4" off the diagonal side. The sentiment is from Sheltering Tree. I masked "heart" so I could pop up a heart in the center.

The pull-up tab is made from the Pretty Label punch.

Finally, I made a shallow pocket at the bottom and rounded the corners.

Editing to add some measurements. Base: two 9 x 5-1/4, scored at 4-1/2, adhered together in the center. Cut the ends diagonally in opposite directions (see linked Splitcoast tutorial). The insert is 4-3/8 x 4-3/4. Tutorial here.

Stampin' Up! supplies:

   Stamps: Sheltering Tree

   Paper: Cherry Cobbler cardstock

   Misc: Cable Knit Dynamic embossing folder, Pretty Label punch

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you'll hop along to the next stop on the blog hop, Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping . There's lots of inspiration to be found in this group - and you don't want to miss it!

Thank you for hopping along with us.  If you get stuck during the Blog Hop, please use this line-up as a guide:

Brian King at Stamp with Brian

Jenny Hall at Jenny Hall Designs

Candy Ford at Stamp Candy

Sheryl Sharp at Sharp Notes by Sheryl    <---- You are here

Jackie Beers at Blue Line Stamping

Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps

Robbye Hamilton at Miss Hammie's Crafts

Sue Jackson at Just Peachy Stamping

Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie