Shoebox Thursday by Jean

For today's shoebox project it was Jean's turn and she had this lovely frame.

We did the frame with score board. The embossing folder is Sizzix the flower dies in frame and words are by The Stamps of Life. The two oval punches, butterfly and flowers on outside frame are SU punches, rhinestones from her stash

Legos

This is another card as gift plus donation box. For the gift I use the great-grandkid birthday for the donation box I didn't put a birthday number so it could be given to anyone. The idea was from Tina White.

You can't really tell but the black piece is embossed with polka dots by Cuttlebug, the legos were done with EK Success's 1" square and Itty Bitty punch by SU, the happy birthday is Rubber Marbles and the number is SU punched out with Martha Stewart punch

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox I got the idea from a card on Pinterest by Tracy Ercole that she did for a Less is more challenge using mostly purple so of course the card called me right away :0) this is my take to her card

I used an Inkadinkado stamp, the message is by Simon Says Stamp, the butterfly is by Memory Box I stamped it then cut with Brother Scan N Cut then masked and added another stamp by Memory Box as this butterfly originally has only design on one side the other side is blank. When I bought the two stamps they had thought they were cool but obviously as time when by didn't like too much that one side is blank as somehow don't like it. I can't remember any samples with it so not sure what the intention of being this way :0) anyway I kind of like it having two textures. I only glued one side of the butterfly down and added some pearls from my stash

Cookie monster

I normally give my adoptive grandma a set of cards as a gift for Christmas so this gift also included the cards. I made extras so I can put in my donation box for Send A Smile 4 Kids obviously there weren't enough to fill a box so had to work on some more cards also asked my friends if they wanted to help. Also decided to recycle cards I had gotten in my mingles and some RAKs that were suitable for kids

This is one of the cards I made, the idea was from Rachel Tessman used misc. circle punches

Proud Marine

Today the son of my dearest friend had his ceremony of becoming Lieutenant Colonel in the Marines.

This is the card I made for him, pretty simple card idea from Pinterest, it didn't have watermark and the link provided didn't work so don't know who created the card. I used papers from my stash, the message is Hero Arts, punched the stars with a SU punch

Pet sympathy

While searching Split Coast Stampers saw that May's card for a cause was Rose's Fund for Animals. Since I found it quite late I just checked my stash and found a couple card designs that could work for them so send them right away.

This one was a pretty clean and simple the dies are Spellbinders and the message is Northwood Rubber Stamps

And this one, the stamp is a by Stamp Gallery a King Charles Cavalier, the background is from a Hero Arts tiny backgrounds and the message by Stamptastic

Thank you brown & pink

Found one more thank you card for Gray Matters Foundation, the message is by The Cottage Stamper

Birthday card

Today is Bret's birthday so this is the card I made for him. Pretty simple as this time I was sort of running late deciding what I wanted to do. This image just as the one I used on his father's day card was colored with Copic Markers back in 2014. This image is by Mo's digital pencil. Used a Spellbinders' die to frame it and made it into a slanted easel card. For my stop I used several die cuts of the happy birthday die by Little B

Pink thank you

This is the last card for Gray Matters Foundation on the last donation box. I already started the next box so will share those when the box is done.

The message is Stampendous

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox I had another clean an simple card I did for my donation box. I stamped the flowers (gift of kindness set by SU) to make my background then I stamped the whole image and my message, also from the same set and then used one of the old piercing templates from SU to frame it, added a couple pearls as accents

Sympathy

The husband of one of my adoptive aunts passed away suddenly. His memorial service was last Saturday and this is the card I made for the family

The idea was from Lisa Young, love checking her blog as I not only do I get inspired by her but she puts pictures of her cute dog Cuffy (I believe that's its name) anyway her dog reminds me of my baby Charlotte, we lost her in Nov. 2009 and still is missed. She was a King Charles Cavalier

Anyway, I used sheltering tree and world of dreams stamp sets by SU, the message is by Sweet Impressions

Happy Father's Day

This is the card I made for Bret. I had colored the digital image from Justinklined with Copic Markers wow back in 2014!! just never got around to make a card. It's an easel card using Elizabeth Craft Designs stand up helper. The message by Memory Box, and the sun rays are from a SU set

Swing father's day card

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for my dad for father's day, which is the same day as here in the US, but I had this SU folder that wanted to use on something and an email from YouTube came to my inbox with a tutorial by Tami White so figure now is as good as any :0)

Except for the washi tape and inside message everything else was SU...the open sea, guy greetings, circle card Thinlits, circle dies, world traveler folder

Inchies thank you

I didn't have a lot of this paper not even sure why I kept the pieces but I'm guessing as must of us I might be able to use it for something :0) so I cut the pieces into 1" squares and looked for a paper that would go with it and a card came out. The thank you is by The Cottage Stamper

Shoebox Thursday

Today was my turn to host the shoebox project and I did another thank you card, very clean and simple design using the inlaid die cutting technique. The swirly heart is a die by Poppy Stamps, the message by Lawn Fawn, pearls from stash

Thank you diagonal

Another clean and simple thank you card for Gray Matters Foundation.  Message is from a Lawn Fawn stamp set

Shoebox Tuesday

I continue working on cards for my donation box so once again used the cards I worked on for the box for my shoebox project. The idea came from Pinterest/Split Coast Stampers by jadoherty. All the stamping was done with SU products, the pearls from my stash.

Washi tape thank you

I seem to collect washi tape as much as any other card making supplies :0) I know bad right!? Well thinking of what I could do to fill my box wanted mostly quick and simple most important nice thank you cards for Gray Matters Foundation; thought washi tape so I dig all my washi tapes and came up with these two cards

Love black and white so that was the first card I made, the thank you is from a Lawn Fawn stamp set

Later I saw that I also had enough red tapes to do the same thing. The message is by Worth Repeating

While I had everything out I decided to make some extra cards as RAKs for some of the ladies in one of my Yahoo groups that I missed mailing them a card early this year...message is from the same Lawn Fawn stamp set

Gate fold thank you card

This is another of the cards for Gray Matters Foundation. The thank you die is by Spellbinders, the butterfly is a punch by SU, pearls from my stash. I used the butterfly to keep the gate fold closed

Pink bow thank you

This is another card I sent to Gray Matters Foundation. I used curly cute stamp set and ribbon from SU, the pearl bows from were from Dollar Tree

Thank you black

Another clean and simple thank you card. Can you tell I had been trying to use up my background papers? those are another addiction, I tried really hard not to buy more but here or there something comes out that has something I like but mostly are packs so you get all these other papers some nice other not my style either way my stash is pretty big!!

The message is by PSX the ribbon from my stash I believe SU

Shoebox Thursday by Kathy

For today's shoebox project Kathy had a birthday card. The message is SU and the folder is Darice

Thank you split panel

I made these cards for the Gray Matters Foundation donation box I really like the layout here so made some more.

This one, uses awesomely artistic, blooming with kindness and butterfly basic stamp sets by SU

On this one I used fabulous florets, butterfly basics, wild about flowers stamp set by SU, background stamp by Rubbernecker and thank you stamp by The Cottage Stamper 

Shoebox Tuesday

In one of my Yahoo groups, the theme for the current mingle (also known as swap) was Coffee or tea. While working on my card decided to use this design as my shoebox project.

I am working on my next card donation box which is thank you cards for Gray Matters Foundation so wanted my message to be thank you.

For my shoebox I let them choose the messages from the set and for my mingle I used for you. Haven't used this SU set for a while so it was the perfect excuse to use it :0)

The heart doily is from my stash, the "steam" is rhinestones by Recollections, everything else is SU. I cut must of my cups with Brother Scan N Cut which was a pain as it would read most of them :0( amazing same image, same dark black color and still some read perfectly and other just bits and pieces

Baby bib

This is another of the baby cards, again I made boy and girl. Embossing folders are Cuttlebug and Craft Concepts, Spellbinders die, misc. punches, stamp by SU, ribbon and brads from stash

Baby carriage

I guess I had forgotten about the cards for a cause from Split Coast Stampers, somehow it doesn't seem that is "out there" I get their weekly email but as far as I remember it is only about their technique, not sure if there is a way to get other emails anyway when I found Rose's Fund for Animals that was May's card for a cause I found that they have a different charity to donate cards some of them are not just for the month so checked the ones they had open for donations and somehow I seem to enjoy making baby cards. Guess hoping for the kids to get married and start having kids of their own although Bret is not too fond with the idea of being a grandpa. He said he is as ready as he was becoming a dad LOL

Any way the place I donated the cards is Community Pregnancy Center and since they were several designs I post them all in the following days 

For today is this one, of course I had to do boy and girl :0) both embossing folders are Cuttlebug, the die Spellbinders, misc. punches and ribbon from my stash

Sympathy

One of my adoptive aunts passed away recently so this is the card I made for the rest of the relatives, today was her memorial service. The card idea was from Terri J from Pinterest & Split Coast Stampers. The tree is CTMH and the thinking of you Penny Black

Baby shoes

These cards were pretty clean and simple, both boy & girl :0) the embossing folders are Cuttlebug & SU, ribbon from stash, baby shoes by Rubber Stampede

Red flower thinking of you

This is one of the cards I sent to Taylored Expressions card drive. They were able to collect more than 1500 handmade cards!! Can't wait for their next card drive. The idea was from TeeJay Creations

The flower is from a SU set the message unknown

While I was doing the thinking of you cards thought I could use the same design for birthday cards so changed the message in English is by My Sentiments Exactly

The message in Spanish is SU

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox, I had another flowery card seems that is so easy to do cards for women :0) This idea came from Alisons Crafts.

I used several of SU products...hardwood stamp, petite petals stamp & matching punch, bird builder punch, label love set and matching punch and the little flower punch is by Marvy Uchida and used pearls from my stash