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.

Ice Cream Time!

I really like this Stamps of Life spinner set my friend let me borrow. For the fun sentiment sections I used three inks from SU: Real Red, Pacific Point and Old Olive. The background paper is from Authentique and the brads are American Crafts. 

OWH VCMP Challenge Cards

Here are my cards for the day one challenges.

His and Her SKETCH cards: Make a his and her set of cards using an OWH sketch.

TGIF Thank You: Make a thank you card.

Paper Piecing for Kids: Make a kid's card using paper piecing.

Red, White and Blue Birthday: Make a birthday card using red, white and blue.

Colored Background: Make a card using a background created with ink, paint or scraps.

Two Winter Cards: Make one with traditional Christmas colors and one that can be sent all season.

Birthday Wishes to you!

The May ODBD challenge is to make a card using embossing. I started with some grey DCWV paper that had a rather rough texture, kind of like sand paper but not quite as harsh. Using the Cuttlebug Diamond Plate embossing folder, I dry embossed it then dragged my Powder Puff Coconut ink across it to make the emobssing stand out better. The sentiment is from Stamps of Life and stamped with SU Pacific Point on a Cuttlebug die cut and the ribbon is from my stash. Those brads are Recollections and started out silver, but I wanted them to stand out more so I colored them with a black Sharpie.

I miss you mums

My friend, Sheila, brought her Stamps of Life for me to use at our last crafting get together. I had such fun going through them and dreaming up ideas. This card uses chalk and distress inks. It's mounted on two layers of Bazzill, one brown for some dirt and purple to match the big mum. Since OWH needs "miss you" cards, I used the miss you stamp that came with the set. The flowers were done with Nesties and the centers are from my stash.

Do you work on specific need cards? Or just general? Do you make any of the holiday deadlines?

Cherie