Shoebox Tuesday

For today's project I have a very simple Halloween card. All stamping was done with distress ink picket fence, the top message as well as the skeleton border are by Northwoods Rubber Stamps and the Happy Halloween is by Holly Pond Hill Uptown. To ground my skeletons I tried a white gel pen but it didn't work on black cardstock so I went over it with Copic opaque white but it's been a while since I used it so it was kind of dry.

One of my girlfriends had an EK Success Zig Memory System white writer chalk pen so we were able to do the card better

Happy Retirement

A friend of the family retired from Seattle Police after 26 years so I had a couple ideas on what to do at the end I went for this bridge fold card. A stamping friend gave me the cop image, retired stamp by Whimsy Stamps stamped with tuxedo black colored with Copic markers and fuzzy cut.

The city scape stamp is by Savvy Stamps stamped with London fog ink, the Space Needle is from Impress stamped with VersaFine Clair nocturne, I grounded my Cop on a rock walkway made with a stamp by Uptown also stamped with London Fog ink, the thank you is an old D.O.T.S. stamps with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink, all the numbers were from CTMH's class of set and the "year" was from wonderful set by HA, I added the s with marker, the other message is from SU's wild about flowers all blue was done with Danube blue ink

Sunday Tip or Technique

On one of my Yahoo groups the Sunday TT was the impossible card fold. It was an easy card to do and not lots of papers. The original tutorial was done with background paper or DSP but then I saw another tutorial that was with cardstock and decorated so I like that better so that's how I did mine. I had some papers on my desk from working on something else so just used those to decorate my card.

This message is I'm so happy stamp by Paper Inspirations with hickory smoke ink

this stamp is script I love you stamp by Uptown Rubber Stamps also with hickory smoke ink, the butterflies are bitty butterfly and elegant butterfly punches by SU, rhinestones from stash

According to tutorials the band across was not necessary but it was to flimsy without it

Red wedding

And this is the other wedding card I made my sister. For this one I decided to cut the dies 5 times and mount them on top of each other to give dimension and then add pearls. The message is by Uptown Stamps with rhubarb stalk ink. Because of the dimension it would cost more to mail but she was hand-delivering this card so it didn't matter

Spinner bear baby card

This passed February we had another addition to my foster family, Nola, so did another version of yesterday's card for the parents and brother. Again the spinner card idea was from Carolyn Bennie

I used stitched circles dies by The Stamps of Life, the bear is from the set a little wild by SU stamped on pink polka dot paper with tuxedo black and cut with the matching die. I attached it to the opening with fishing line

the top message is by Uptown/Holly Pond Hill stamped with tuxedo black sweet bundle and the bottom message is by Sonlight Impressions congratulations parents & family

Spinner lion baby card

This is the card I sent to Thunwa's parents and little sister. The idea is by Carolyn Bennie

I used stitched circles dies by The Stamps of Life, the lion is from the set a little wild by SU stamped on blue polka dot paper with tuxedo black and cut with the matching die. I attached it to the opening with fishing line

the top message is by Uptown/Holly Pond Hill stamped with tuxedo black sweet bundle and the bottom message is by Sonlight Impressions congratulations parents & family

Ghosts

While I was digging into my scrap box I found some ghost I had die cut many years ago out of the very old Sizzix die with the original Sizzix machine!! yes back when and I never did anything with them until now :0) anyway I thought I was going to have to wait until next year to use them but Janet from Send A Smile 4 Kids send and email that if we had some Halloween card she could use them for the senior home so send them right way. Pretty much was the same design I found a scrapbook paper that didn't think I could use for anything but when I saw the ghost it was like they would go together so this is what I did

Added some wiggly eyes on all of them for this first card I stamped my message with tuxedo black which was a stamp by Art Impressions them punched with decorative label by SU but cut off some of the label as I didn't want that much label

For this one I stamped my message which is a stamp by Uptown also with tuxedo black then cut a strip that would fit into the word window punch by SU and punched the edges

and for this last one stamped my message a stamp by Make an Impression also with tuxedo black and then cut a strip that would fit into the modern label punch by SU