Go Bananas!

Hello! Today I have a birthday card I made for my hubby. Today is his birthday and MINE! Yes, I know it is unusual for a married couple to have the same birthday, but we do! He always says he's younger ... not! I am 52 today and he is 58! Fortunately, I can make fun cards for him, and so I decided to go with one of the monkeys from Inky Antics. The stamp I used is two monkeys arm in arm, kinda like us, right? Let me show you my card! Enjoy!

And the inside:

You know I always make cards from some sketch.  This is what I used ...

I love sketches with circles!  I think my card came out pretty cute, what do you think?

Recipe:

Paper - My Minds Eye Quite Contrary - Jack & Jill 6 x 6 pad, Cardstock White, Green
Stamps - Inky Antics - Monkeys Celebrating clear set
Ink - Memento Black, Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol
Tools - Spellbinders Circles
Other - Rhinestones, Stampendous Sparkler sticker for flower center.

Gary and I are off to the metroplex to have lunch at The Keg, which is a fabulous steak house!  Yummy!  I have a homemade organizational idea to show tomorrow, so stop back when you can!

Happy Stamping!
Tina

A Day Sprinkled with Fun!

Hello! Today's card is for my monthly entry into Jen's SFYTT. As you know, sometime in every month, I do a card for this challenge. I knew I needed a card for today, so I decided to work on Jen's challenge so I could have this one for you. Let's get right to it. I will show you my card and the sketch. Enjoy!

 

I recently got this paper with birthday and cupcake sentiments on it, so I went to find a cupcake to use for my main image.  Of course, now that the card is completed, I can see that the sentiment paper doesn't show enough that it mattered that I had a cupcake for my main image.  Even so, the cupcake is kinda fun.  This cupcake is from a Hero Arts set that I sold when I had my store.  We could not keep this set in stock.  I did not make this card for anyone special, but I am sure it will come in handy the next birthday that comes up.  I actually think I probably have birthdays on the brain, since mine is tomorrow! 

Recipe:

Paper - My Minds Eye Hip-Hooray Girl Line:  Three Cheers, & Happy Day, Cardstock White, Lime Green
Stamps - Cupcake and Sentiment from Hero Arts, Sprinkles from A Muse
Ink - Memento Black, Prismacolor Pencils, Copics, (yes I combined), Marvy Matchable Carribean Blue for Sprinkles
Tools - shhh ... no dies used ... don't tell the card police!
Other - Baubles by Stamping Bella

I will be back tomorrow with Gary's (my hubby) birthday card as he and I share a birthday!

Happy Stamping!
Tina  

Happy Mother's Day!

Hello! Today I want to show you the card I made for my mom for Mother's Day. I took it to her this morning along with some pink irises. I didn't get too much response from her about either, other than a slight smile. Frankly, I am not sure she knew who I was. I waited until this afternoon to post, hoping that I could tell you a more positive outcome. I went back and looked at my mom's day post from a year ago. At that time, she had started progressing into the third stage of Alzheimer's but still knew me. Well, a year later, she is considerably worse. But she is 96. Thanks for listening. Let's get on to the pretty card I made. Yesterday, I saw this sketch on Mojo monday as their current challenge, and I decided it would be perfect for my card I had in my head. So, I will also show you the sketch I used. Enjoy!

Of course, it is pink!  It is her favorite color (and mine)!  And oh, how pretty it is!

Recipe:

Paper - My Minds Eye Quite Contrary Little Miss Muffett Line: Hello Beautiful and Delight, Cardstock Pink, White, Pink and Green Felt
Stamps - Sentiment by Verve from One Person, Inside sentiment from same set that reads "To the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.  When my mom was more responsive, this sentiment would always make her cry ... she loved it)!
Ink- Versafine Black
Tools - MFT Die-namics Open Scallop Doily Duo (the largest of the two), Prima Donna Petals, Royal Leaves, Spellbinders Classic Circles
Other - Pink Rhinestones

See you soon!  Have a great day!

Happy Stamping!
Tina

Saturday Sketch Share!

Hello! I am back with anothe share between Donna, Debbie, and I. Let's get right to it! I will show you my card, Donna's card, Debbie's card and the sketch we all used. Enjoy!

My Card

Donna's Card

Debbie's Card!

The Sketch

I love how all three came out.  At first glance, I wasn't sure about the sketch, but after seeing it completed, I think it's a keeper!  What do you think?

I've got to get my mom's day card done today, so I should be back tomorrow to show you what I come up with.  I went by a florist I like and got her a simple bud vase with some pink lilies to take to her at the nursing home tomorrow.  She doesn't always know me and she definitely will not know it is mother's day, but it doesn't mean I don't know it and that is all that is important. 

Happy Stamping!
Tina

May Class Share Card #3 & #4!

Hello! I promised to be back today with two different posts to show you the last two cards that I have yet to show you that are part of my May Class that I will be teaching at The Crafty Scrapper week after next. Well, before I had a chance to do my blog post this morning, my hubby decided we should go see a movie and so off we went ... so, now it's Friday night and there is no time for two different posts. I will be sharing both cards right here, right now!   Enjoy!

I wanted these last two cards to be very clean and simple and to show great use of DP, which I think I have done!  Masculine cards are very difficult to come up with ideas for, especially when the man doesn't do a specific hobby like golfing, or fishing.  I wanted to do a couple of cards that would be great for any man.  What do you think? 
Now here are the class details, in case you are interested.  Don't forget, local or not, if you can't come to the store, I can always send you a kit, complete with instructions, pics and all the pieces.  The price is the same. Either contact the store or me.

Two for Her, Two for Him Wed. May 23rd 11 a.m. and Friday May 25th 7:00 p.m. $25
Yes, you read right ... in this class you will create four cards, two unique and fun designs for females, and two clean and simple designs for males. You will be using new product from Inky Antics to create fun flowers and pretty borders out of their honeycomb pads. You will be giving a new look to an old favorite, the flower pot card. Next, you will create an upright Z fold card with a special fun mechanism. And the last two are special layouts with beautiful papers just in time for Father's Day, but could also be manly birthday cards.  Please bring adhesive, small pop-up dots, small glue dots, an X by Xyron (if you have one), detailed scissors, and your preferred coloring medium (Copics, colored pencils, etc.) All other supplies provided.

See you tomorrow for the Saturday class share. 
Happy Stamping!
Tina

May Class Share Card #2

Hello!  Today I have the second of four class creations that I will be teaching at The Crafty Scrapper in a couple of weeks.  I am showing you the four samples in four separate posts.  The card today is what is called an Upright Z-Fold card.  That is one thing you can always find in my classes are different kinds of folded cards because I think they are so fun to learn.  Let me show you this one ... enjoy!


Not only will you create this adorable Z-fold, but you will also get to stamp out another one of the Inky Antics new sets that allow you to make pretty borders with the honeycomb paper pads, as it is done on the bottom of this one with the ribbon going thru the holes.  Plus, the girl wobbles with a product called Wobbles. (how original!).  It really wobbles more from side to side than up and down which it should be if she was really jumping rope, but I think it's o.k. as it at least shows motion.  I need to show you the side view so that you can see the "Z" better and the wobble mechanism.

O.k. so I don't really see a Z either but ... an upside down one, maybe?  Whatever the name, it came out pretty cute.  And if you are local, maybe you want to sign up for the class?  Remember, you will also make yesterday's card, and two more that I will show you tomorrow.

One more thing, unrelated, did you see the watermark on my first card down on the left corner?  I have been wanting to do this forever!  I think it is important that one gets credit for their creations.  Without it, it is possible for anyone to claim they made something that was actually a creation of someone else.  I am not sure how often this happens, but I am sure it does.  I have tried to figure out how before with different editing software, with no luck.  I am not that computer savvy when it comes to things like this.  A couple of days ago, I saw on Pinterest a how-to from a site called Picmonkey.  Oh my goodness, it is so EASY!  And it works!  And it doesn't cost anything.  If you are interested in a tutorial, let me know.  Or go to my Pinterest boards (link on right side of my blog) and go to my Papercrafting Board and you can check out her tutorial.  Too cool!   

See you tomorrow.
Happy Stamping!
Tina 

May Class Share Card #1!

Hello! I spent the last couple of days out in my shack working on creating my next class samples. For some reason, the creating process for the class samples is more intense than me just creating a card for me. I am always relieved when they are finished and I can show them to you. Normally, I show you all my class samples for each class in one email. But ... since the class samples are the only cards I have made this week (except for the Sat. share card, which I can't show you until Sat.), I am going to show the cards to you in four separate posts, one tonight, one on Thursday, and two on Friday! You see my May class includes 4 cards. And, that way I can get my 5 posts in for the week! A little cheating, but it is what it is! Let me show you card #1. Enjoy!

Last year, in one of my classes I did a flower pot card.  You can see that one here.  I went with the same designed pot but this one is different because each flower pulls out of the pot to reveal a sentiment.  Here is a pic of the flowers pulled out ...

The flowers are really special too!  I used a new stamp set from Inky Antics that when stamped on their honeycomb pads will create different flowers.  So, all 5 flowers are different.  Such a fun new way to use all the small leftover pieces I had after making honeypop cards.  Here is a pic of the set I used.

So, that I don't have to repeat the class details on the next 4 posts, I will wait and add them on my last Friday post.   So, what do you think about card #1?  I love how it came out, don't you?

See you tomorrow with card #2.
Happy Stamping!
Tina