Piece of Cake Card

Our challenge to you at 

Making Memories Crafting this month

is to create a card that is not a square/rectangle shape.
I'm looking forward to seeing all of the fun shapes
our participants come up with !

We also have two sponsors this month !

The Cutting Cafe - http://thecuttingcafe.typepad.com
Cute As A Button - https://cuteasabuttonstamps.com

My card is a piece of cake !

It is from an old paper painting kit made by Tulip.

The shape was precut and had a pattern that I 

followed to fill in with puffy paper paints.

Fun!

Be sure to visit the rest of the design team members' blogs
to see their inspiring shaped card ideas. 

PB&J digi kit

Peanut Butter and Jelly Time !

That is the name of a sweet, fun new digi kit by

JMC Designs 

and available now, on sale for a limited time,

at With Love Studio.

I've used elements and papers in the kit to create a

facebook timeline cover and a printable card front, above.

KIT CONTENTS:

2 Alphabet -1 in 8 colors

9 Cardstock 12X12 300ppi

24 Patterned Papers 12X12 300ppi

72 Unique Elements – arrow, 7 flowers, glass of milk, grape jelly, grapes, 2 hearts, knife, milk, milk cap, 4 sandwiches, peanut butter, peanuts, strawberry jelly, strawberry, clock, 8 Buttons, 3 frames, 8 ribbons, 3 ricrac, 7 stars, staples, 2 stitching, 8 strings, 3 WordArt and 4 WordBits

Digi Scrap Freebies

As an affiliate for My Memories,

I am able to offer you exclusive free content

for a very limited time (expires 7/9/17).

This week you can pick up these fun digi scrap elements

by following the provided links (you will need to create a free account).

You do not need the My Memories software to use these,
there are general files for use with other programs.

You can download a copy of My Memories Suite
to try for free, then if you like it buy it for full functionality.

Be sure to use my discount code STMMMS23251 to save $10
and get a couple of bonuses!

A huge THANK YOU to those that have purchased the program

or had items printed through My Memories using my affiliate number !

Today we have a perfect quick page for scrapping BBQ/picnic photos in addition to a pretty cluster.

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2

Happy Fourth !

Happy  Fourth  of July ! 

What an old card, probably 15+ years old !!!!  Seriously ! 

I started stamping in 2000. This is one of the earliest things I remember making

and still had around the house. It was actually just an over sized card front that I would

put out on display. This year I glued it to a large card base and mailed it off to a 

longtime pen pal along with several stamped images. 

Have a fun and safe holiday ! 

Patriotic Digi Scrap Page

Today I'm sharing my Design Team project for

Digitally Made Challenge blog.

This months theme is Patriotic/Summer Fun.

This is a 100% digital scrap book page.

I used the following items to create it:

Let Freedom Ring digital scrapbook kit by JMC Designs

Template from Made by Keuntje

Photoshop Elements 14

BONUS design:

Since one of the team members was unable to participate this month,

I made a second 100% digital project to share on the blog.

This one is an invitation.

I had fun layering various elements from the 

To The Mountains kit by JMC Designs.

Many were reduced in size, some were flipped.

This particular project was created with

My Memories Suite V8 software. 

Thanks for looking =)

Be sure to visit the  challenge blog

to see more inspiring digital ideas

by the design team.

You have all month to 

create and share a 100% digital (nothing handmade)

project with us.

House Of Cards Challenge July

The current challenge at 

House of Cards

is to use stripes and/or the colors

in the inspiration photo below:

I used use similar colors, 

with an added pop of black, on my card.

The flower was created from crepe paper banner !

You know, the long rolls of lightweight colored paper

 bought at party supply stores.

I free hand cut petals and leaves then

applied a tiny dab of liquid glue (too much and

the paper falls apart, it is so thin) to hold them in place.

Double stick tape would work better.

I chose a rhinestone for the center of this flower,

but decorative brads, buttons, etc would look nice, too. 

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed white

on black card stock then trimmed. 

It created a faux embossed lettering tape.

I cut small pieces of chipboard to attach them

to then glued them to the card front.

This gave the word strips a bit of dimension.

Thanks for looking =)

Be sure to visit the rest of the design team members' blogs

for more inspiring card ideas !

Chanya13 | Cohenna | Donna | Em | Heather | Jane | Judy 

Karen | Katarina | Merethe

Michele | Mynn | Paula | Rocky | Rosi 

Shawna | Shirley | Sue N. | Susan 

Distressed Flower Card

Oops, I meant to post this June 21st, the first day of summer !


Putting an old scrap to use !

The floral image was stamped onto a piece of card stock I "distressed"
oh so long ago, but never finished. I wasn't happy with the way it looked.
I recently came across this old discard/scrap piece and decided I ought to fix
it up into a usable piece - or throw it away !

I partially stamped the French Script background on it and then water colored
the flower image. I had also trimmed the piece down, it was originally
stamped off center.

Because the trimming made the piece smaller than an entire card front,
I added some green mulberry paper behind a part of it.

I then tied on some thin yellow twine and two tags. I'll stamp a greeting
onto the white tag when I decide to put the card to use. It might
be for a birthday, a hello, even a thank you.

I may add a metal rimmed tag (I've many of those to use still!)
on the lower right corner, stamped with the bee image in that floral set.
Or perhaps add a couple of faux brads.......


Thanks for looking! Perhaps I've inspired you to put some of your scraps to use ;)

Truckin' Birthday Card

I've been under the weather the past few days, which really stinks because our part of the country has been having gorgeous, fall like weather ! I had planned on painting a room over the weekend, but an extreme case of vertigo on top of a summer cold put me in bed/on the couch. Blech.

I was finally feeling nearly like my old self last evening, so after some prep work on the walls to be painted, I decided to whip up this card for a couple of challenges I enjoy playing along with. It's always good to have a masculine card on hand!

I used Classic Pickups, 2005, and Highways and Byways, 2003, stamp sets from Stampin' Up! These are a couple of my favorite, most used sets, in addition to Classic Convertibles.

The truck was colored with two shades of red and a silver Prismacolor colored pencils. Details on the map were also done with colored pencils.

I sponged Bashful Blue ink for a sky and Barely Banana lightly over the map.

The sentiment was heat embossed white on a scrap of black card stock to resemble raised white letter tires! It is mounted with dimensionals.

The card measures 4.25" x 5.5". I couldn't really trim it any narrower due to the length of the truck image to mount it on a piece of black card stock cut to the 4.25 x 5.5 size. It is bugging me that there is no black backing piece, so I will cut a larger piece and mail it out in a bigger envelope when the time comes. I may run a wide black marker along the "ground" under the truck the length of the card. Yes, that bugs me too, the line between the top and bottom is too thin...... I imagine many of you can relate, especially when we think it needs something else and should have quit when we were ahead, that one more thing we added ruined it in our eyes (which is what I am afraid I may do to this card!). We are our own worst critics, I know ;)


Thanks for looking =)



I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Retro Rubber Challenge #65 Feeling Sketchy 
my stamp sets are 12 and 14 years old
EDITED TO ADD 7/2/2017: My card was a Top Pick !!!


Use Your Stuff Challenge #269 Road Trip
I recently made a road trip scrap page for a previous challenge here (and the other two challenges  I am entering today) , so I made a card that may fit the theme since it has a map and a truck on it !  I do have many more photos I could - should! - scrap from road trips over the years.....

Love to Scrap #98 - Boyz Rule
create a masculine project

Digi Scrap Freebies

As an affiliate for My Memories (STMMMS23251), I am able to offer links to you for free digi scrap products from time to time.  Today I am sharing the newest freebies. You will need to make an account (free!) to download the freebies. These are only available until July 2, 2017 !

You do not need the My Memories software to use these,
there are general files for use with other programs.

You can download a copy of  My Memories Suite
to try for free, then if you like it buy it for full functionality.

Be sure to use my discount code STMMMS23251 to save $10
and get a couple of bonuses!

 THANK YOU to those that have purchased the program

or had items printed through My Memories using my affiliate number !

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1

A lovely quick page.

To use a quick page, download and install it into the My Memories Suite software . Open a new  "Create Your Own Project" and insert the Quick Page as an Embellishment. Layer your photos behind the windows on the page. So easy, so fast  !

http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2

Three page elements. 

These will no longer be available for free after July 2, 2017 !

Birdhouse Shaped Card

I've had a bird house shaped card sample for years,

knowing one day I would trace it to 

make my own bird house shaped card. 

I finally got around to it !

I assume the original card was a die cut card

bought somewhere, it is perfectly trimmed

and folds neatly. I carefully traced the outlines

of the opened up card then did my best to

get the lines in the correct places to

cut along for the top of the birdhouse. 

It is cut from one piece of card stock. 

The original is below:

Here are a couple of closeups of my version:

SUPPLIES:

Everything other than the texture plate was from Stampin' Up!

Naturals card stock

Baroque Burgundy card stock

Various inks and markers

DD Ivy stamp set

Crackle Background stamp

Speckled background stamp, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Bird image (don't remember the set name)

Bird paper punch

Circle punches

Hand cut bird legs

Scraps of chipboard used for dimension behind roof and peg

Dimensionals under the bird

Texture plate, Fiskars

I thought about stamping and cutting the ivy from 

separate paper then attaching it to the birdhouse

for a more 3-D look, as if it were growing

up on it. I already had the other dimensional 

parts going on with it, so it would have looked nice.

Then I thought I'd rather stamp it directly

on the birdhouse so it looked like a cute,

painted and weathered birdhouse.

It saved time doing it that way, too ;) 

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs - Animals (bird)

Use Your Stuff #268- Try Something New

(creating the birdhouse shaped card that I've never done before;

this is also the first time I've used this particular texture plate)

Thanks for looking =) 

EDITED TO ADD 6/25/2017
Honored to have my card chosen as one of the Top Picks at Use Your Stuff :)