Happy 40th

Today our oldest is turning 40! amazing how old our kids make us feel 😂 this is the card I made him. I had seen varios tutorials since last year Sam at Mixed up crafts was the first but she never makes anything small which doesn't matter much as I have all kinds of envelopes or can make my own but recently some SU demonstrators made some smaller versions that still didn't fit A2 envelopes but fit A6 envelopes which are the envelopes I use for my personal use so decided to try that version, Bret is the only one that gets any size cards 😀 had to go around a bit all their tutorial as I have OCD and don't like scoring lines where they are not needed plus as you can see I used what everyone had been using as the back as my front. For my base I used Recollections 110 lb. elementary cardstock pack, the key paper is by Recollections, the car is paper by Karen Foster Design let’s go surfin’, the top is map paper by Best Creations Inc Craft n Craftin, the tracks is paper I got at Joann's so it's probably Core'dinations. The message is Big 40 stamp by Creative Vision with VersaFine Clair fallen leaves

I made a mini card on back to cover the personal message with Recollections 110 lb. white cardstock and used 5mm x 1mm magnets to keep closed

Feliz Día de las Madres

Today is Mother's Day in Mexico and I am lucky to still have my mom to celebrate her or at least send her a card and call her. This is the card I sent her this year on the clean and simple I guess compare to the cards I sent to everyone else for Mother's day but they were different and I hope she liked it

I cut my black cardstock by Park Lane 110 lb with Cindy Echtinaw Designs Card Creator Perfect Layers A and my white cardstock by Recollections 110 lb with double stitched rectangle die by Kat Scrappiness. I used for all the flowers and leaves the build-a-flower: Rose set which includes dies by Altenew with Altenew crisp dye ink. For message I used Feliz Día de la Madre international set by CTMH with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink

For leaves: green valley collection inks firefly, grass field, shadow creek & mountain pine

For flower pink flower: cherry blossom collection inks pink diamond, pinkalicious, rubellite & razzleberry and razzleberry (double stamped for last layer)

For yellow flower: pocketful of sunshine collection inks citrus burst, fresh lemon, maple yellow, honey drizzle, & warm sunshine

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's day to all mom out there from step mom's, adopted moms, foster moms and biological moms.

This is the card I sent this year except for my mom. Slimline easel card, it was not quite 8.5 x 3.5 but there are no rules for this type of cards, everyone does whatever size they want or like so for these cards I used a napkin I got at Dollar Tree a few years ago so had to use the size of the napkin. I added a gold dragonfly as embellishment on the front. I mounted the napkin on cardstock I had in my scrap drawer then mounted on the blue cardstock that was 65 lb. by Recollections from those variety packs then mounted on white core Ivory 110 lb. cardstock by Park Lane and finally used Accent Opaque Digital International Paper 100 lb. Cover Smooth white cardstock as my base since it was 11x17 perfect for slimline size cards. For the stopper I used large oval punch and scallop oval punch (this was a few layers to make it higher) both by SU

 for the Spanish version I used Deseos pequeñitos set with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink also by SU

for the English version itty bitty greetings set also with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink

Paper Pumpkin

This is one of my alternative to my A Kit in Color May 2020 kit. I used Recollections 110 lb. white cardstock for my base, cut my black cardstock 110 lb. by Recollections with Cindy Echtinaw Designs Card Creator Perfect Layers A then cut one of the card in kit in half added one of the vellum and clouds die-cuts. Added Spectrum Noir sparkle Crystal clear glitter brush to the clouds. Using the kit's set I stamped with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne and finished by adding some liquid pearls dimensional pearlescent paint white opal

Paper Pumpkin

This is one of my alternatives to the May 2020 a kit in color kit. For this card I used one of the printed envelope from kit as a layer on top of a base of Recollections 110 lb. white cardstock then using another piece of white cardstock I dried embossed it with cloudy sky embossing essentials by Darice, used one of the printed die-cut from kit, added some scraps of the envelope to match it, one of the die-cut label from kit and stamped my message from blissful blooms paper pumpkin stamp set Aug. 2018 with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne 

 

Paper Pumpkin

I made this card as an alternative to my January 2020 I'll bee yours kit. I used crushed curry cardstock then stamped with crushed curry stampin spot ink the chicken wire image by Deep Red/Picture My Stamp used the printed die-cut circles from kit but 3 of them I cut a 1” circle with an EK punch Success/Martha Stewart to make my shakers on the other 3 I stamped messages from the kit with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne and flowers with crushed curry stampin spot, the gold beads were from my stash, the printed die-cut bees are from kit, used Darice foam strips to create dimension on the shaker circles

Thinking of you

For this today since it's May 5 and some of you may celebrate Cinco de Mayo thought I would put a southwest card. 

I stamped my cactus on white cougar opaque slimline layer by The Paper Cut with succulents2stamp & moresucculents2stamp by The Stamps of Life with Altenew crisp dye ink evergreen and patterns4secculents with frayed leaf, olive, parrot, forest glades, the details were done with Copic markers then masked the cactus and did my clouds with DIY template of cloud border die by Honey Bee Stamps and Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink tumbled glass with Picket Fence Studios life changing blender brush, ground with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink pumice stone also blender brush. Then I added my thinking of you steel cutting die by Elizabeth Craft Design. Mounted on a green bean cardstock by Core’dinations then mounted on a white base Micey Nice Paper by Stampa Rosa