Happy Birthday Horses

This is a belated Birthday card I made for my father. His birthday was in November but I just hand delivered it to him this morning. I'm not sure of the source of the image but I love those galloping horses. I used SU! Crumb Cake (I still have to stop myself from typing Kraft!) for the card base. I embossed at piece of Cajun Craze cs with the SU! Houndstooth embossing folder and mounted that to the card base. I added a piece of Chocolate Chip strip to the Cajun Craze layer. I stamped the image and sentiment on a piece of Crumb Cake with Chocolate Chip ink and mounted it a Chocolate Chip piece. I used my new Corner Chomper on the image and Chocolate Chip layer and added three brads.

Crafty Gals December Challenge

The Crafty Gals Blog Group's December Challenge is the THE POWER OF THREE! We were required to make a holiday card keeping the number 3 in mind. Everything on the card had to be in 3's. 3 layers (card base does NOT count as a layer), 3 stamped images (or an image with 3 things on it), 3 embellishments (3 buttons, 3 ribbons etc. or 1 ribbon, 1 pearl, and 1 brad etc).

I used my favorite Stampin Up! set, Lovely as a Tree, again. I stamped it in Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and then cut the image into 3 pieces. I then mounted the images on to pieces to Chocolate Chip cardstock and then mounted those pieces to an embossed piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock making up my three layers excluding the Crumb Cake based that I used. I finished the card by adding three brads in the bottom corner.

Gold Embossed Lovely as a Tree

This is a quick card I made for one of my daughter's friends for her birthday. I cased this from a card my mother made a few years ago and she may have cased it from someone else, so that is my official disclaimer.

I used glitter embossing powder from Creations Unlimited, the Lovely as a Tree stamp set and Whisper White and Brushed card stock from Stampin Up.

Upsy Daisy Gell Well Soon

I made a get well card for the Topic of the Month (TOTM) swap on the Glitter Gals and Guys Yahoo Group. The requirement was to make a get well card using blue and a touch of silver. I used the same layout and stamp set as my last post so that's why they look so similar.


Stamps: SU Upsy Daisy, Sincere Salutations

Cardstock: Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Silver

Ink: Marina Mist, Night of Navy

Hope You Can Cling To 2011 - Give 'Em A Squeeze

I made this card for today's Splitcoastampers Hope You Can Cling Challenge (HYCCT1119) and I used the latest sketch from today's Splitcoastampers Sketch Challenge (SC355). I used the Stampin Up set, Upsy Daisy, and lots of pink paper. The challenge was to use dry embossing on the card.

For the entire month of October, Splitcoaststampers is hosting at least one challenge each day. Most of the cards made for these challenges will be donated to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas to be used by visitors for the patients. This is the first card I have been able to make so far, but I plan to catch up before the end of the month.

Stamps: SU Upsy Daisy, Hampton Arts (sentiment)

Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Rose Red, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Ink: SU Melon Mambo, Rose Red, Black

Misc: DSP Candy Lane (retired), Polka Dot Embossing Folder

OWH World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop 2011

Welcome and Happy World Card Making Day. I am participating in the 2011 Operation Write Home World Card Making Day Blog Hop. Operation Write Home's mission is support our nation's armed forces by sending them handmade greeting cards to use, as well as cards of gratitiude to encourage them. For more info, please visit http://www.operationwritehome.org.

The theme for this hop is Holidays. To see the full list of 132 participants, you can click on the badge at the top of this post.

Stamps: SU! Christmas Postcard

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Letters to Santa DSP, Deck the Hall Designer Buttons (retired)

Hoppin For the Fun of it's First Blog Hop

Thanks for hopping with us at Hoppin For the Fun of it. Today's theme is All Holidays. Plan on visiting us each month, the next hop will be the first Saturday in October.

You may have arrived here from Shelly's blog, http://www.stampinandscrappingnews.com/, if not you can start at the beginning of the hop at http://www.theloveofstamping.com/hopping_just_for_the_fun_/.

I decided to make a Christmas card and used the Stiched Stockings stamp set from the current Stampin Up Holiday Mini. I also used some Designer Series Paper that I bought when it was on sale last month.

Stamps: Stitched Stockings, Delightful Dozen
Cardstock: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist
DSP: Letters to Santa, Well Worn,
Glimmer Paper: Red and Silver


To continue on the hop please visit Raissa at http://www.raissastamps.com/