Happy Retirement

Bret's nurse or whatever her position is the lady that gives him his allergy shots was reting. Bret knew him from high school, well her brother went to school with him and now for 4 years she had been giving him his allergy shots. Anyway he wanted to give her a card and since she said their plan would be to travel this is what I made for her.

I stamped my image which is an old stamp have no idea who makes it with MFT Hybrid black licorice ink then I sort of mask it and did my background using Distress Oxide ink with ergonomic brush by Altenew, faded jeans, broken china, pumice stone. Used my DIY stencil clouds, used a Memento dual maker cantaloupe to draw the road. Colored my image with Copic Markers. Words are from Happy Retirement stamp set by Waffle Flower with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne. Used warm honey sequins mix from Honey Bee Stamps

Happy Birthday

Quick male birthday card. First I stamped my background with Egyptian wall background stamp by Local King Rubber Stamp with Amalgam ink whisper then die cut my layer with stitched rectangle die by The Stamps of Life and stamped the car from Route 66 stamp set by Local King Rubber Stamp with distress ink fired brick and using dual marker tuxedo black cover the tires then used a washi tape I got at Impress. I stamped my message from happycalligraphy2stamp set by The Stamps of Life with VersaFine Clair ink nocturne

9th Day of Christmas

I made this card for a mingle (aka swap) it was a stamp I had never used since I bought it yes I loved the stamps but for one thing or another it never got inked so finally after all the years I own it has!!

I did my background first with distress spray stain candied apple, distress oxide spray fired brick, Nuvo mica mist midnight horizon and Sheer shimmer craft spray frost after it was complete dry I cut my layer with stitched rectangle die by The Stamps of Life, then stamped my Santa’s boot stamp by The Cottage Stamper with VersaFine Clair ink nocturne did some coloring with Zig memory system pigment ink pure black, Memento dual marker bamboo leaves and added the red pearls by MB and finally added my message by Rubber Marbles with same VersaFine Clair ink nocturne

after I had the card ready to mail and all had an extra piece and kept looking at it and decided to step it up so added some Copic opaque white and of course changed the message one that was custom made

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox project I have another St Patrick's Day project. This one was inspired by Kim Wilson on Pinterest. I originally was going to colored the frame which I did but it took too long so decided to use green paper instead so no color was needed

This was my first card

I colored the shamrocks with Copic Markers as well as the chick and the grass

then I went for this as it was easier or quicker

I stamped by shamrock frame by Stamp Happen with cottage ivy ink then cut just around all edges and matted on my white base leaving 1/16" border for my top layer I cut it with The Stamps of life stitched rectangle die; then stamped my hat from the set here's lookin' at you by My Creative Time also with cottage ivy ink masked it stamped my chicken which is from hey chick's SU SAB set with tuxedo black ink, stamped grass which is a Posh Impressions/Rubber Stampede stamp. Finally the message is by Stamptastic also with cottage ivy ink I colored the chick with Spectrum Noir and Memento dual markers

Flower Vase

This is another of the cards that went in the donation box. Another any day card. Many years ago one of my friends used to go to the places that sold wallpaper and asked for the books that they no longer needed and was always doing things with them. One of the things she did was punched some vases from Emagination punches and gave us some with different papers and shapes. I never did anything with mine so after seeing a card on Pinterest it reminded me of those punched outs so I dug them out and made these cards.

The embosed frame is a folder by Cuttlebug, the flowers are part of a SU set colored with Memento dual markers and a bit of Copic markers, twine from stash and the message is from those mini sets that sorry don't know who makes it. It was a gift and I was trying to save room by putting all those little sets all together :0) since I was using the punched out ended up with a bunch of different colored vases but they were all the same otherwise. I did glue 2-3 together to make them thicker as they were too flimsy