Happy Father's day

After I made the card for my dad that I showed yesterday I made one pretty much the same for Bret just changed the image. I like lighthouses and as hobby we like to hike looking for lighthouses, we have seen almost everyone in Oregon and Washington that are not privately own. Like I mention the cards were inspired from a card I saw at Stamp Owl and she got the tutorial from Blankina Creations. Her dimensions were in metric so I had to work it to inches but wasn't that hard since I like fun folds and I still remember a little my metric system.

I first stamped the lighthouse from sailing home set by SU with VersaFine Clair ink nocturne then masked it and did my background with distress oxide inks with Picket Fence Studios life changing blender brushes with vintage photo and tumbled glass and a cloud stencil with broken china oxide ink cut the layers with A7 layered die set by Waffle Flower

Cut my top white layer with Double stitch design rectangle small die set by Gina K Design then stamped with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne with three sets big bold you set by Winnie & Walter (to), ways to say happy anniversary set by Picket Fence Studios (you are my favorite husband) and  here’s lookin’ at you set by My Creative Time (Happy Father’s Day) then mounted on black and white

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

Graduation

My favorite and only nephew graduated from Secundaria which is equivalent to 9th grade on Friday don't know if he already got his card or not as it takes forever for mail to get to Mexico. Also, the daughter of my hair dresser graduated from College & High School at the same time so I made the same card for both of them. The idea was from Stacey's corner.

I used stitched rectangles die by The Stamps of Life for the two big layer cuts and double stitched rectangles die from Kat Scrappiness for the opening of my shaker card as I needed the stitching to be on the opening not on the piece that was staying off. The graduation hat is from My Creative Time set here's lookin' at you and class of 2017 is from CTMH set class of in tuxedo black ink. The junk in the shaker card are sequins that I have been setting aside that I don't like from past paper pumpkins that surprisingly matched my cardstock so of course had to use so I didn't have to go buy something LOL

Hello Sunshine Paper Pumpkin

This is the last card design included in the donation box, long with some recycled cards it contained about 158 cards. For these cards I used February 2016 hello sunshine paper pumpkin kit.

For this card I just added the message by My Creative Time and pearls from stash 

For this one I used the thank you embossing folder by Cuttlebug, the message was from the kit

For this one I use Hello Thinlits die by SU

for this one I used rhinestones from stash and the words are part of a set by Winnie & Walter and used pokey thingy to add a border/frame

This were not part of the donation card but came from the negative part of the kit. This first card used the same thanks embossing folder by Cuttlebug

Paper Pumpkin

These cards were also for the donation box, again just any day or birthday cards. I use the May 2016 paper pumpkin kit Many Manly Occasions.

The words are from a Hero Arts stamp set, the balloons a SU punch, enamel dot as well as twine from my stash

This one is a shaker card unfortunately I picked the wrong micro beads to use as you can't tell with the dark background but they sure were noisy :0) the birthday is part of Printworks stamp

 

These other cards were made with the same kit but were not part of the donation box. 

This one the message is from the same Hero Arts set, everything else except the background paper is from kit 

For this one the feliz is part of a Memory Box die, the words are from a SU set, the mustache is from My Creative Time set

Gold graduations

For this graduation card, I used the celebrate today set by SU, vellum paper I got at JoAnn Fabrics, the graduation cap is My Creative Time. I added a frame to the front to cover where the adhesive on vellum was also to hold the twine of the balloon

Graduation caps

I had this nice paper that wanted to use so decided to use it as the main card front and while looking in one of my boxes I found some stickers so added that to the card, the message is by My Creative Time

Black & white graduation

This card was also inspired by something I saw on Pinterest. I went through my black & white papers and picked a busy pattern and one not so much. The message is from a SU set and the graduation cap is by My Creative Time

Green Graduation

This is another of the graduation cards I made. The card itself was from Michaels and as you can see was pretty simple just plain white with the opening. I added the splatter with SU gorgeous grunge, the tassels is a Stampendous stamp, the message is by SU, the graduation cap is die by My Creative Time

Shoebox Tuesday

Taylored Expressions is having another card drive. This time is thinking of you card for adults. I get their newsletter so not sure where you can find info in their website sorry. Anyway, cards have to arrive by Apr. 30, 2016.

Decided to start working on some cards so my shoebox project for today is a thinking of you card. The tree is a Rubbernecker multistep set, the thinking of you in English is part of a My Creative Time set and in Spanish is SU set. The ribbon is Offray. The background was done with a stamp from a SU set using the same colors as the tree

Doc Penguin

A friend was having surgery on both of his eyes and wanted to make him a card so used a set by My Creative Time for the background and the main image is an old Memory Box stamp colored with Copic markers. Used punches for matting the penguin

Shoebox Tuesday

How bad things are when you are hooked to internet/computers! when you don't have it whatever you need it has to be with that. Even the stupid people at Century Link tells you to check for technical support on their web site but how can you check for technical support when the problem is internet connection?!!!

Anyway for shoebox project on Tuesday  I made these triple stamping look but my way

for these two cards I used SU Kinda Eclectic set and elegant butterfly punch, Spellbinders dies

for this one I also  embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder

For this on I used SU dapper dad set and LifeStyle Crafts dies,message is My Sentiment Exactly

For this one SU dapper dad set & My Creative Time stamp set, LifeStyle Crafts dies, message Endless Creations

Male card

The themes for the mingles in different Yahoo groups were I see you, anything with eyes, glasses even binoculars and for the other group was Letter H so I decided to kill two birds with one stone :0) As always, I bought a few sets from My Creative Time back in May but after all this time I still hadn't used any of them :0( so that is what I did. I used two of them...the matching dies only.  The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug.

The gray card became Letter H for hat as I figure it would point out better what I was using :0)

and for the I see you I use this as it didn't really matter other than it had the eyeglasses :0)

I think is a very clean and simple manly card that could be use for birthday or Father's day