Lawn Fawn Love

One of my favorite love sets is this one from Lawn Fawn. It's cute and punny and fun to use. I kept these simple and stamped and layered the images on some Taylored Expressions hexagons. They were still a bit plain, even for a masculine card, so of course I had to add some sparkle.

 

Smile

I just love this set from The Alley Way Stamps. The faces are great to use on the front, inside or back of cards and don't take up a lot of space. They also work well as a little smile on an envelope. I wanted to keep it simple and let the smile shine, so there's just a bit of Copic marker in the eyes to add some depth and some bling to add sparkle. The inside is stamped with "so very thankful" from this TAWS set.

Happy Monsters

I love this stamp set from Recollections. For this card, I did some masking so they're standing on each other's heads. They're colored with Copics and accented with some googlie eyes. I used several layers to help draw out the colors and mounted it on some Bella Blvd star paper. There's a Stampendous happy birthday stamped on the inside.

Work of Art Thank You

This card uses my current favorite Stampin' Up set, Work of Art. The honeycomb embossing folder is Darice and the inks are ColorBox. For the color around the edges, I used a Copic marker. The layout for this is right here.

This star misses you

This was fun to make and took a lot of concentration for that square. Thank goodness I have a clear ruler to make it a bit easier. The card here struck me as a perfect card for this Hero Arts sentiment. I used some Fawn Bazzill for the base and Dena Designs paper for the bottom and star. The lines were done with my Copic Multi Liner. To accent the sentiment, I used some Triveni bling.

Circles to Celebrate

Here's another CASE from Pinterest. I did a masculine and feminine version. My Stamp-a-ma-jig was essential in placing all of these SU circles close together. After coloring a few details with Copics, I added a couple of black Triveni rhinestones along with a Paper Smooches sentiment.

Birthday Monsters

Here's another card using the EK Success border punch and square Spellbinders. I'm really enjoying the variety of cards I can make with this basic window idea. For this one, I used Recollections "My Little Monsters" set and colored them with Copics. They were practically begging for some googlie eyes and I simply couldn't say no. With a Paper Smooches sentiment, they're ready to make someone smile.

Make a Wish

I truly love Paper Smooches...their images and their sentiments. So when I saw this card, I just knew I had to CASE it. I did some masking to stack the images then used Copics to color them. That's some scrap DCWV paper they're standing on. Since I didn't have the cupcake stamp, I used my SU cupcake punch and some SU papers. The sentiment is stamped in SU Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive with matching background layers. 

It's Your Birdday

This DCWV paper fits Freshly Made sketch 129 really well. I like the two different tones of matching papers. The image and sentiment are both Hero Arts and I colored the bird with Copics. With a bit of Triveni bling, the card was finished.

Swirly Birthday

I wanted to make a simple, yet elegant, birthday card and found this one on Pinterest. I took the design and adapted it to the Fiskars swirly stamps I have and used a Hot Off the Press sentiment. The lines were made with a clear ruler and my Copic Multi Liner. To add a bit of shine to the card, I used some small silver Stampendous stickers on some of the dots.

Juggling Penguin Note Cards

I was obviously in a washi tape mood when I started these cards. They were originally going to be all the same, but since I ended up with 16 card fronts I decided to make four note card sets. The juggling penguin stamp is by Memory Box and I used Triveni bling to make the juggling balls. Those stripes of washi tape are from Queen & Co. and the sentiments are all Paper Smooches. I used an orange Copic to color the beak and feet.

How great is it that these fit perfectly with the current Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge?

Love you forever

This is my take on the card you can find here. I didn't add extra bling on the hearts for two reasons. One: It would've make the card too thick for Operation Write Home since the hearts are all popped up with dimensional adhesive. Two: I wanted to keep the card more clean, simple and masculine. The hearts are done with Spellbinders and the sentiment is Impression Obsession. I used a ruler and my Copic Multi Liner for the black lines.

Double whammy

When I saw this card on Pinterest, I knew I had to make my own version. Then, the new OWH sketch shows up and it's basically the same thing! I love it when things happen like that, don't you? 

The flower is from Impression Obsession and the sentiment circle is DeNami. I colored the flowers and flower brad with Copics. The circles are all done with Spellbinders while the ribbon and brad is from my stash. I used a white Gelly Roll pen for the faux stitching. 

Easter bunnies

This jelly bean paper by Paper Pizzaz always seems to find a place in my piles of paper. This time I used it with a Great Impressions stamp which got colored with some Copics. The Happy Easter is from SU and was punched and layered with two SU punches.

Savvy Easter

Doesn't Easter make you smile? It makes me think of spring flowers and warmer weather. And, of course, Easter bunnies! This bunny cupcake stamp is from Savvy and had to be colored with Copics then cut out with Spellbinders. The Easter paper is DCWV and the sentiment is SU punched out with some SU punches. That pretty blue ribbon is from my stash. This card is perfect for the current Easter challenge over at Cards in Envy.

Ray of Sunshine

One of my friends has asked if our craft group could send some uplifting cards to her sister who has cancer. This is the one I made for her. This cute MFT Flopsey bunny always makes me smile. I did some paper piecing and colored the bunny with a Copic marker. The clouds have some pale blue Copic streaks in them. Both polka dot papers are Bella Press. The clouds are a Fiskars punch. I'm also entering the card for clean & simple 281.

Loads of Love

I love how this card turned out and you can see the original one here. The heart stamp came with the SU Loads of Love Accessories set and the sentiment is part of the original SU Loads of Love set. I colored the hearts with some red and pink Copics and heat embossed the sentiment. The pearls are Recollections. A Spellbinders die was used to shape the sentiment and a Cuttlebug folder for the dry embossing. This card fits in perfectly with the Cards in Envy challenge to use red, pink and/or white.

Penguin in Turquoise

I'm loving my Mama Elephant Polar Pals stamp set which includes this cute penguin. I thought it was perfect for this Pinterest idea. I started with black, white and turquoise card stock and some Spellbinders for the circles. After stamping her in Memento Tuxedo Black, I colored her with Copics and added googlie eyes. The Stampendous sentiment is heat embossed in black. I used a Darice embossing folder for the background. 

Owl Miss You

I had some more fun with my SU owl punch on this card for the OWH MWT Color Challenge. The idea came from here. I like how the black really pops on the pastel colors. I dry embossed the background using some yellow Bazzill and chose some patterned scraps. The eyes have a smidge of Pearl Pen for the pupils. The eyelashes and mouths were done with a Copic Multi Liner. Black and white card stock were also used. For the sentiment, I used one from Lawn Fawn and stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black.

Merry and Bright

Today I used my new Mama Elephant Polar Pals again to make a pretty pink Christmas card. It uses OWH sketch 207, has snowmen for Merry Monday 91, and I used some of my new stash for A Blog Named Hero 36. I enjoyed making this with non-traditional colors and I'm pretty sure my hubby won't be sending this to any of his friends! 

I used pink and white card stock and some SU striped paper. Everything was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black. The coloring is done with Copics and the brads are American Crafts.