SOS 35 - borders

I had a request from one of my tweeps to make a card for a mutual friend who will be doing an IUI cycle in a month or so. Would I make a card to help cheer her on? Sure thing! I found these great cheerleader digis at Squigglefly - how cute are they?!?

Anyway, I colored 'em in using my SU markers (& a blender pen for the hair), and then popped 'em up on dimensionals. I'm submitting this for SOS 35, as the "borders" on my card are both cut from MFT dies - banner & grass. Everything but the card base & paper the girls are printed on was already in the scrap bin.

And yes, the banner says #cougareggs. :D

pdcc114

I'm getting in (just) under the wire for PDCC114 - the colors were burgundy, gold & purple.The colors I used are SU cherry cobbler, kraft (spritzed with shimmer paint for sparkle), and concord crush DSP (no, really). Gold embossing powder & smooch spray shimmer up the card. I used Unity's Shoot for the Moon set to create this card, which is actually a congratulations card for my friend Mariam whose first book was released earlier this month. Check it out!

Mojo Monday 224

I made the trek to the big scrapbooky store on the other side of the harbour this past weekend to pick up some paper I'd had put on hold & found this great Lego paper while I was there. Saturday was also the birthday of a friend's little guy, and he's a big Lego fan, so I set out to make him a (belated) card with my new goodies. I made the 4 panel on the weekend, then I got stuck. Once I saw today's Mojo Monday sketch tho, the juices started flowing again and I was able to finish the card.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp challenge blog we're to use stripes and/or spots and I have both covered, so yay! two challenges covered! (i count the gingham paper & texture of grosgrain ribbon as stripey...)

multi-challenge card...

I made this card for a friend's son, who will be receiving books from my son in a book exchange. I love Flopsey with his little specs, and "how to grow carrots" book. I wasn't very pleased with my PDCC card from earlier in the week, so I'm adding this one into the mix. It uses the colors specified by PDCC113, the sketch from MFTWSC53 & Flopsey is a critter, so SOS33 (rewind of challenge 16, again) is met too.The shading on his paws/ears/tail is mostly from using a blender pen with the early espresso he was stamped in.. The DSP is all SU - vanilla, baja & sage. Flopsey's stamped on a vanilla panel from MFT & he's got crystal effects on his specs. The sentiment is from my own head - "grow a" uses my LF alphabet set, and i handwrote (badly) the "reader" part of it.

My first Play Date Cafe challenge!

I needed to do up a "quick" card tonight for my fabulous sister who's been visiting us this past week. I'd seen Leslie & Libby talking about this week's PDCC on twitter earlier today, and decided to try it with a lil 3x3 card.

The challenge was to use "Juniper, Mint & Vanilla", which I changed into SU colors to be Baja Breeze, Sage & Very Vanilla. the vanillaish paper between the sage & baja comes from a Basic Grey pad (but I don't remember which one ATM...) The ribbon is SU VV, and Shep the Sheep (from Lawn Fawn's Critters on the Farm) is stamped in light grey on SU VV card stock & colored with teh same. the sentiment is stamped in BB

Once I had Shep the Sheep stamped, I realized I also met the criterion for this week's SOS - redo a challenge from the past year (or use a Meljen's image). So, I redid Challenge 16 - birds/bugs/beasts. Not that Shep is a beast, but he's not a person, so i think it qualifies.

Holiday cards...

While we sent out photo cards this year, I still had a few "real" cards to make this holiday season.  These first two were for various secret santa exchanges I took part in. The first card was for a girl who loves "things with handwriting on them" so I used SU's presto DSP & sponged night of navy and bashful blue, cut a navy ornament & stamped a Merry Christmas greeting on it & "hung" it via a tiny strip of cardstock onto the presto panel. I used shimmer paint & rubbing alcohol spray to sparkle up the embossed panel & mounted it all on a navy base. some sheer white organza ribbon & finito!

Mr. Monkey man was for a kids exchange - same sentiment, and one of the child's favorite animals is a monkey (at least the day his mom asked him ;)) so I figured a sock monkey Santa was safe. i flocked up the hat & colored the presents with spica pens for some blingy-ness.

These last two were for one of my naturopaths - she commissions some cards every year. I based the lovely tree one on the prettiest holiday card EVER and the mittens card on Lydia's card...  I'd seen the tree stamped somewhere else (Unity blog/FB perhaps?) and ordered it before I saw that card, but man, am I ever glad I have it. I looooove that tree. And really, it's Unity. are we surprised? Didn't think so. :P I added a few of Taylored Expressions' Twinkles in the tree to hide the glue dots under the vellum, hah...

SOS 30 - Tag it, krafty!

This week's challenge is Tag It, Krafty! - either use a tag, kraft card stock or a DillyBeans digital image to create a project. Seeing as I love kraft card stock (sooo versatile!), I went with that. Oh ya, and our printer's borked (again) as well, so digi's are out ATM.

Anywhooo.. (heh). A friend emailed me last week, and told me her sis was about to adopt a 9yo, and asked me to create a card for each her sis & soon-to-be nephew. I had NO SWEET CLUE what to make, but I got to thinking about some of the baby cards I make.. trees... owls.. searched my pinned cards on pinterest & found more trees & owls... but not the "right" card. THEN I sat down at my desk tonight, and what's looking back at me? This Freakin' Adorable stamp from Unity.  and look - mom & "son" right next to each other. Poifect! I grabbed my markers, and started coloring away. Eventually, I based the cards on chat's lovely merry & bright card, but used kraft/crumb cake & baja breeze instead of her more vivid colors, as well as a kraft base & shimmery white square & main image panel/sentiment vs whisper white. A bit of baja breeze sponging & seam binding ribbon, et voilà! I've put a pic of both cards to the left, and a close up of "mom's" card below.