Tonight I needed a train-themed birthday card for a three-year-old boy.
I combined EAD Designs Birthday Trains Stickerz & rub-ons with paper from Echo Park's Summer Days & this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch ... I love those fun little birthday balloons.
My card for the EAD Designs Color Challenge reminds me of my granddad ... I can still hear his rich voice singing these notes at least once a day. It also reminds me of playing the xylophone in marching band for several years (the theme from Ice Castles still ringing in my ears).
The layout is from a new Sketch Blog called Retro Sketches.
Since I didn't own the featured stickerz for this month's color challenge, I rummaged through my EAD Designs drawer and found these fun Classic Toy stickerz that contained all three hues.
The Flashback Friday 21.0 Challenge is to re-post your first ever paper pieced card. I went all the way back to November 2009 for this fun little robot card ... lots of detailed paper piecing for my cute little Bloop.
I still love theese happy colors and the embossed background ... always fun to revisit these older designs.
Go take a walk through your blog posts and join the fun.
At the Bo Bunny Blog this week, the Card Challenge Tuesday sketch theme is love. This was perfect, since I needed to create an Anniversary Card.
I used a combination of papers from Bo Bunny's Gabrielle Collection together with stamps from Creschendoh & Hero Arts, a rub-on sentiment from Random Words by EAD Designs, and a Memory Box Kaleidoscope Butterfly die cut ... and of course the center piece of my creation ... a lovely crocheted paper circle I received from One Crafty Mama.
I die cut the butterfly three times & layered two colors togehter for the wings and added a third color for the body.
Here's another card I made using the sketch (confession ... this was actually the first card I made before I realized that even though I read the *love* theme in the challenge post, I completely forgot about it in the 5 seconds it took me to walk from my computer to my studio table ... although I suppose I could stretch and say that sending anyone a card for their birthday is an act of *love*).
For this card I used Bo Bunny's Blast Off! Collection. I punched some additional stars from the green paper and added them with foam tape for a bit of dimension in my sky. I finished with an EAD Design white rub-on sentiment and a spaceship & a star sticker.
Here's another fun valentine using some children's valentine cards from Target & CPS Sketch 37 for their birthday celebration. I stuck with color-blocking in primary colors for my design ... the red between the blocks helps tie it together.
And here's my CPS37 card from November 2007 ... I was working on mailable holiday cards back then ... still two of my favorite holiday stamps.
Enjoy the day.
When I saw these cute little Monster Valentine's at Target, I couldn't resist putting them into my card.
They have little messages on the back and are intended to be stand-alone children's valentines, but I thought they would be perfect to incorporate into cards for my nieces & nephews.
The first one uses CPS Sketch 38 for the CPS 5 Year birthday celebration ... since it's for the kiddos I kept my design very simple & basic.
I used scraps of cardstock to pull out the colors from my valentine & added a few heart stickers. As I was reading my Real Simple Magazine at the gym, they had a fashion section on Color-Blocking, so that's the style element I incorporated into my design ... I think it works well with bold primary colors.
And here's my card I made with CPS Sketch 38 waaaaay back in November 2007.
This month at Gingersnap Creations we're celebrating Holiday Lights including candles & lumieries ... and our Spicy Supply Challenge is Wax. My card features a Wax Paper Cuttlebug Resist technique.
I used the Tim Holtz Alterations Gear embossing folder on waxed paper for my background. I sponged on several shades of brown Distress and Chalk ink to bring out the resist.
I love that it looks abstract, but if you really focus in you can see the gears ... very fun technique & great use for scraps of glossy cardstock ... so many possibilities.
I added some fun Boy Vinyl Rub-ons from EAD Designs to complete the design.
Check out all of the Design Team cards for lots of different ideas for using wax in your creations.
This week's SCS Inspiration Challenge comes from the wonderful bedding of Glenna Jean. Chose the fantastic Cooper Collection ... and more specifically that fun picture hanging on the wall above the bed ... to inspire my card.
Here's a close-up shot. I loved the dinosaurs along the top and the two different colors of polka dots along the bottom, so those are the elements I incorporated into my design.
I started with vintage Basic Grey Archaic paper and then added a stamped images in several colors from Artistic Outpost's Whimsical Melange (that cluster of circles is so versatile). Next I used sequin waste as a mask and sponged orange & blue ink along the bottom.
I added a several rows of border stickers and a sticker sentiment from the collection (matted on brown cardstock & attached with foam tape) to complete the design.
I hope you find inspiration.
I found these forgotten-about little Sassafras Felties in my stash, and decided to make a couple of quick cards using this week's Fetch-A-Sketch. It's perfect for the Sticker Challenge at Shopping our Stash.
The cards are Kraft Cardstock with Bo Bunny Blast Off Papers.
The sticker sentiments are from Reminisce's Unwritten Collection.
Fun cards for the great little guys in my life.
Another quick & oh-so-fun card using EAD Designs Stickerz & Rub-ons ... I can't get enough of Birthday Monstahs.
I added a few extra cupcakes, because one is never enough.
Layout is from {Freshly Made} Sketches.
And colors are from Just Us Girls.
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