Colorful Hello

Here's a fun OWH bonus sketch from way back in 2012. I used some American Crafts papers, some Hero Arts stamps and a bit of Triveni bling.

Be Yourself

This card definitely turned out different from the one I was looking at here. Sometimes you just have to go with what you end up with, though, right? I used a Rubbernecker stamp with some Fresh Ink Chocolate and Memento London Fog to make the background. The sentiment is also a Rubbernecker stamped in SU Old Olive. Those stars are all from scraps I had on hand.

Lone Tree

I like the simplicity of this card and decided to make my own version. I used a SU Work of Art stamp and stamped it with Memento Cottage Ivy three times in a row without re-inking it. Then I embossed a stamp from SU Lovely as a Tree with Ranger Copper powder. Adding three American Crafts brads finishes it off.

Green Tree

I really liked this card I saw on Pinterest and needed to figure out how to make it since I didn't have that particular die. I found this Taylored Expressions die in my die collection and this pretty SU tree stamp that fit inside it. The Cuttlebug embossing folder gives the whole thing a kind of wood look. The tree is stamped in Memento Cottage Ivy. I was going to originally stamp it in brown, but thought it would look too much like a sympathy card.

Another Work of Art

Continuing with my current favorite stamp set, SU Work of Art, I made some masculine and feminine versions of the same card I saw here. The masculine one uses SU Pumpkin Pie and Fresh Ink Chocolate inks. To get the four different ink colors, I simply stamped each color twice before re-inking my stamp. The chevron and sentiment are heat embossed with Ranger Copper. I love the rough texture of the Ranger powder.

This feminine one uses SU Melon Mambo and Memento London Fog inks. The heat embossing is Ranger Silver.

Totally Nuts

Oh my gosh, when I saw this card I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I got out my Taylored Expressions hexagon dies and Spellbinders circles and made the "nuts." Using Memento London Fog and Fresh Ink Chocolate along with a dauber, I added an aged look to them. The background was done with a dauber, a nut and London Fog. I cut apart a Hero Arts sentiment so it would fit better then stamped it in SU Real Red. The squirrel is from the same stamp set and is stamped inside for a double pun. I love how this one turned out.

 

Swish Swish

That's what this SU Work of Art stamp set reminds me of...swishes of a paintbrush. I used SU Night of Navy, Memento Cottage Ivy and London Fog, as well as Fresh Ink Chocolate. The embellishments are years old from Recollections. 

Leafy Love

I've used these SU and Memento colors together before and really like how well they go together, so I used them again on this card. The SU Work of Art set works well for this layout and covered just enough for those Spellbinders circles. I added a Hero Arts leaf and words from SU and Paper Smooches. The Triveni bling give just the right amount of extra detail.

Missing you flowers

I found a pad of adhesive paper in my stash the other day and was excited to use it. It has some fun bright colors in it like this pink, blue and yellow. It was a little tricky taking off the backing, but totally worth not having to glue those flowers. The large flower was done with a SU Petite Petals punch and the small white center is a Recollections punch. The brad is American Crafts. I used a Darice folder for the embossing and a Stampendous sentiment stamped in Memento London Fog.

Flowerful Fancy

I used a lot of different inks for this card: Stampin' Up, Memento, ColorBox, Powderpuff. This fun set is from Close to My Heart and I did some masking to get the vases placed close together. A few pieces of Triveni bling give it just enough sparkle.

Happy Halloween!

I'm not big on Halloween cards, but I did make a card with some orange. I liked the layout of this card, and decided to make my own version. It uses a Cuttlebug embossing folder and the stamp set/punch Petite Petals from Stampin' Up. I used SU Pumpkin Pie ink for the flowers and Memento Cottage Ivy for the Inkadinkado sentiment.

Spin for your birthday

Don't you love spinner cards? This set from Stamps of Life is perfect to make one. I used ColorBox Violet, Memento Lilac Posies and SU Tempting Turquoise for the sentiments. The arrow was cut with a Cricut and colored yellow with Powder Puff Lemonade. For the background, I used a piece of Lily Bee and some brads from American Crafts.

You Are My Anchor

I made a simple card today using my new Lawn Fawn stamp set and matching die set. For the anchor, I used my Memento London Fog because it stamps with an odd pattern and works perfectly to make the anchor look aged. Mounting it on a piece of black and adding a pop of red with Triveni bling finished off this easy card.

God Bless

This card is much brighter in person with its Memento Lilac Posies ink popping against the white and black. The circles are from SU "Circle Circus" and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches. After placing the baker's twine and sentiment square, it still needed something else. I chose to place a black Triveni rhinestone on each circle and it looked much better. The idea for this particular layout can be found here.

Let's Celebrate!

When I was getting ready to get inky today, I decided it was time to use up some ribbon. I chose this blue ribbon because it went well with the Memento Danube Blue ink I felt like using. I also used Memento Rhubarb Stalk, Brilliance Chocolate and Powder Puff Lemonade. The stamp set is SU Circle Circus. Three cards similar to this and I completed my task of using up a spool of ribbon!

#1 Mom

When the Operation Write Home Mother's Day and Father's Day deadlines were looming ever closer, I was working on some cards for those special days, as well as cards that have a mom or dad sentiment. So...here's a card you could send your mom at any time of the year. I started with SU Circle Circus and stamped it in Memento Lilac Posies, Color Box Violet and Powder Puff Lemonade. Next was trimming it down and adding the squares to a piece of popped up white. Then I added the Fiskars sentiment in black, but it looked way too harsh against those pretty colors. I tried it again with SU Tempting Turquoise and it looks so much better. This is my version of a card I found here. 

Simply the Best

When I saw this card on Pinterest, I knew I wanted to do my own version of it. And how perfect that "brown" is the current OWH MWT! So I dragged out my brown inks (Fresh Ink, StazOn, Memento) and my SU Circle Circus stamp set. I had some sheer brown ribbon in my ribbon scraps and noticed the yellow ribbon, too. I decided to use some Color Box yellow ink to brighten up the card along with the yellow ribbon. I layered it on some brown Bazzill and used a sentiment from Mama Elephant.

Epic Love

I love this Hero Arts sentiment with all of these hearts. I found the idea on Pinterest and knew between my mom and myself we had enough different heart dies to make this card. I used three different Spellbinders sets and another one that didn't have it's name on it. The white hearts are stamped with Lawn Fawn stamps in two separate Memento colors. Three different embossing folders add to the texture.

Lots of Eggs

These Inkadinkado stamps are perfect for an Easter card. I used some Memento and StazOn inks for the background then my watercolor pencils on the Oogaloo stamp and sentiment. The bling is from my stash as is the ribbon. I think the egg needs to be colored with Copics...it's too soft with that bold background. What do you think?

I'm entering this card in the current "Anything Goes" challenge at Cards in Envy.

Christmas CAS

I was going through some challenge blogs today and found three that work well together. The first one comes from Sparkle Creations to make a Christmas card and use heat embossing if you want. I didn't heat emboss because I couldn't find my silver embossing powder. The second challenge from CAS-ual Fridays is to use two shades of grey and the third challenge is sketch 282 over at clean & simple.

I used a piece of grey DeNami card stock for the background and two shades of grey ribbon. The turquoise paper is SU and so are the stamps. The grey ink is Memento and the turquoise is SU. The bling is JoAnn Craft Essentials. To make it a Christmas card instead of a possible birthday card, I put a Penny Black sentiment inside that reads: May your holiday be wonderful and wonder-full.