Great Gift Card #1

Here is the first card from the Great Gift Idea #1.
All supplies are from Stampin Up unless noted otherwise.


This card was so quick and easy to make. It makes a great WOW card with little effort.

The colors for cardstock I used are Lost Lagoon (retired) and Crumb Cake.

The card base is 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" from Lost Lagoon, Any blue cardstock would look great.

You will need 2 pieces of Very Vanilla cardstock cut at 3-3/4" x 5".  One piece has a 3" circle cut out.
(The circle is saved for the second card in the series.) The second piece is run through the Big Shot with the Gently Falling embossing folder. I lightly sponged the dots with a sponge and crumb cake dye ink.

The piece of Very Vanilla was sponged with Lost Lagoon and Crumb Cake to make a "beachy" image. I used post it notes for the horizon line.

The sentiment was stamped on a scrap strip of Lost Lagoon and cut trimmed into a banner. I used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.

The starfish was stamped with Crumb Cake and cut out by hand.

In putting the card together I first attached the circle piece to the beach scene piece. I added this to the card base. I then attached the starfish image with clue on three legs and foam tape on two legs. Place within the circle as you like. I then attached the banner with double sided tape.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Missy

Card Bowl 2014 - Our Daily Bread Designs February Challenge

Yay, I did it all three of the Card Bowl 2014 challenges will be completed with this post.

The challenge was to use Brown as our prominent color in a masculine card. Does anyone else have problems doing masculine cards besides me? It has really been a challenge to do 3 this weekend.

Here is my card.

 

It is hard to see in the photo but two of flags have wording. One says Hi and the next says Love.

 

The great thing about the Our Daily Bread Design Challenge at Operation Write Home is for every 25 cards posted in the inlinkz a large priority box of cards is shipped free courtesy of Our Daily Bread to our deployed heroes around the world (limited to 2 boxes). Oh and did I say there is a gift certificate given to someone who adds a link to the inlinkz? Go check it out here.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Marianne

 

 

All the supplies are from Stampin' Up.

Longtime No Post

Here is a card I made recently...just because.
It is time to just make cards for no reason. It seems to be so freeing.

The beads are from PWA. They are called Bubble Beads and the picture does not show all the great colors in each bead.

I hope you have each had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Marianne

Shoebox party

Here are a series of cards that were one project at the Shoebox Party. This project was done by the party girl herself. The first item is a holder for the cards made from a school type folder.

This was a fun project plus it gave me great ideas to work other cards from.

Have a wonderful Monday.

Marianne

S&S Sketch Challenge #27

Here is my card for the Sketch Challenge over at Stars and Stamps.
If you want to do something to support our deployed men and women why not use your cardmaking talents making cards for them to send home to loved ones. Click here to see the other challenge cards and to find more information on joining this wonderful group of cardmakers.

Both these stamps came from JoAnns clear $1 stamps. I purchased them after halloween last year for half price.

Marianne