Mom

 Hi Everyone,

Now that I'm done with my Easter cardmaking, I thought I would move on to the next holiday for giving cards, Mother's Day!

To celebrate mom, I used the Flower Scroll stamp that was still on my stamping table from a previous card to create a pattern on my card base.  

The panel was created using both the Splatter Background, and the Easy Dot Background stamps, and I added a punched flower border to match the daisy theme.  A ribbon was added before attaching it to the base.  

One Medium Daisy Bloom was colored and die cut and the other was fussy cut and attached, and some glitter glue was added to the flower centers for some shine. 

Finally, I stamped and punched out the Happy Mother's Day using a scallop punch to once again match up with the flower theme. 

Hope your day is filled with sunshine and flowers!
Karin

 

Mother's Day

 Hi Everyone,

Since the new You Were Right Mother's Day Greeting mentions forgoing flowers and teacups, I thought I would make the card using non floral stamps.

I used my favorite Splatter Background stamp and inked it up multiple times using yellow, pink, orange and green ink.  I then used those same colors to color up the stamped Small Stained-Glass image.  

To finish it off, I added a couple of rows of matching gems.

Virtual stamping hugs to all the crafty moms out there!
Karin

Daisy Basket

 

                                           

Hi Everyone,

I've loved seeing all the bright, cheerful cards here on the blog.  It looks like we're all ready for spring to show up and I'm joining in with my Mother's Day card that's an explosion of daises.  

I stamped, colored and die cut the Daisy Basket and layered it onto a background.  For that I used the Medium Daisy Bloom and colored it to match. 

I added an embossed strip along with the Happy Mother's Day sentiment that I created using my circle punches and finished it with some glitter glue to give the flower centers some pizazz!

Happy Stamping!
Karin

 

Super Woman

Hi Everyone,

It's fun to use stamps in multiple ways, and here I've used the Tired Walking Woman for both a Mother's Day card and also a birthday card.  

I stamped both the image and Super Tired Greeting and then die cut and colored her up using Copic markers.  I used an embossed flower background and accented it with a strip stamped with flowers from the Four Flower Background stamp.  

I finished it off with a few resin flower embellishments. 

Here I made an over the hill birthday card in a simple black and white color combo.  I made a little scene using the Winter Trees and RIP Tombstone stamps and a portion of the Over the Hill Greeting.

And here's the inside finishing off the card with the second half of the greeting and the tired woman.

Sometimes all you need is some great stamps to make a successful, simple card!

Thanks for peeking in today!
Karin

On Mother's Day

Hi Everyone,

Well, I must say I feel on top of things regarding this holiday. Not only do I have a Mother's Day card finished and ready to share with you today, but I actually have my mother-in-law's gift purchased and ready to give! Woo-hoo :) I had a floral arrangement (silk, obviously) made for her coffee table. It was something she asked for at Christmas, but I wasn't able to make it happen. I'm famous for thinking, I gotta remember this idea for next time. And of course I don't. The exception being now...However, I like to think this is a turning point, and a sign that I might be more organized this year ;)

Anyway, I chose one of my favorite floral stamps from DRS Designs, the Dogwood Branch. I colored it with Copics, die cut it and added some Stickles. I chose the background stamps,

Three Butterflies and Background Branch and colored them to match the main image.

 

 

I embossed one of the die cuts and was so excited to find that my flowered ribbon fit in my punched border strip perfectly. I love happy accidents. Finally, I simply added the On Mother's Day greeting to finish it off.

As a reminder, the current challenge at DRS Designs is "Bows", so I hope you get a chance to enter!

Have a great day!



Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Everyone!

I just wanted to pop in and let you know about the sale today.  Everything at Lindsay's Stamp Stuff 40% off in honor of all the mom's out there.

To honor my awesome mom, gosh I still miss her everyday, here is one of my favorite pictures of her.  This was maybe around 1950 in Germany.  I love her braids, and with her name being Heidi, I always thought she looked just like THE Heidi from the story. 

I love you mom. 

Hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating and remembering too...



Spotlight on the Basket

Hi Everyone,

This is the card I will be giving to my mother in law for Mother's Day this year.  I used the Daisy Basket stamp from DRS Designs for the focal image, along with the spotlight technique. Have you ever tried this before?  I really should use it more often because the effect is really cool.

 I stamped the image and cut it out with my Nesties. Then I stamped the image a second time on a separate piece of cardstock, cutting out a portion using a 1 3/4" punch.  This circular part is the only thing that is then colored, and adhered onto the main image with a pop dot.  I cut out one of the butterflies from the Three Butterflies stamp and used it like an embellishment, and of course my favorite Polka Dot stamp from the latest release had to make its way onto the card :)

With the dots and the bow at the top, I needed to balance out the bottom with some black as well, so I used a Martha Stewart border punch and some bling to make it even more girlie.

Thanks for visiting and I'm also posting at DRS Designs today, so stop by over there and say hi!

Challenges for this card:

2 Sisters Challenge-For a Mom

Crafty Calender-April Showers bring May Flowers

Stamp Scrap and Doodle-Mother's Day

Sweet Stampin' Challenge-Try something New (Spotlight Technique)

Crafts 4 Eternity-Anything Goes

Prarie Fairy-April Showers bring May Flowers

Fairy Tale Challenge-Mother's Day

If the Shoe fits...-Things with Wings

Fussy and Fancy-Spring

Paper Cutz-Anything Goes

Phindys Place-Glitter, Glamor, Glitz

Stamp Something-Things with Wings

Totally Papercrafts-Glitter

Wags n Wiskers-Die or Punch

CCEE Stampers-Add a Butterfly

Charisma Cardz-April Showers bring May Flowers

Craft Us Crazy-Mother's Day

Dutch Dare-For Mom

Papercrafting Journey-Bling

Rubber Cafe-Mom

Some Odd Girl-All About Mom

Little Red Wagon-Mom

My Mums Craft Shop-Flowers

Paper Shelter-Mom

Sisterhood of Crafters-Mom

Paper Variety-Polka Dots

Stampin Sisters in Christ-No DP

Clear it Out-Ribbon or trim

Ladybug Crafts Ink-Going Dotty

Details not listed above-Paper: The Paper Company, Ink: Momento, Stickles, Bling: Love 2 scrap, Ribbon: JoAnn's

Sketchy Cosmos

Hi Everyone,

I used my favorite flower image from the set Fancy Flowers from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff today.  I love this little sketchy flower for a general feminine type card. This card is for my stash, so I just stamped a small "for you" in the corner, so I can use it for whatever occassion I choose.  Since I can only do super messy stitching with my hand held sewer thingy, this is fake and done by hand.  Not perfectly straight, but you get the idea.

 

Here is the entire set of flowers:

Thanks for visiting me this Thursday and make sure you visit Lindsay's Blog for all kinds of crafty goodness...Hope the flowers are starting to bloom where you live :)

Challenges for this card:

Anita Be Stampin'-Anything Goes

My Grafico-Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps-For the Ladies

Top Tip Tuesday-Spring

DDH-Stitiches

Paper Cupcakes-Fabric and Stitching

Details not listed above: Paper: The Paper Company, Cosmo Cricket, Ribbon: Offray, Punch: Fiskars, Stampin' Up, Copics, Stamp: Stampin' Up, Buttons and lace from my supplies.

Funky Flower

Hi Everyone,

Look!  Happy news :)   Sale at My Grafico and  Lindsay's Stamp Stuff for today only!

My card for today's post was made with a free image I got when I visited Lindsay's personal blog, The Frugal Crafter a few weeks back.  She always had something fun to share in the form of ideas, videos and freebies, so be sure to visit her often!

If you like this flower, perhaps you need to check out this set Doodle Flowers from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.  The entire set is on sale for 30% off!

Challenges this card is linked to-

Craft Your Passion-Anything Goes

Paper Playtime-Anything Goes

Crazy Challenge-Just Add Flowers

Paper Cupcakes-Flowers

Crafty Pad-Flowers

I also got this sweet digi from Cheri Wenger Designs at My Grafico.  It's called Peek a Boo Bug and I combined it with some traditional stamps and papers from the set  Bold Black and White Patterns from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, to make this fun card.  I added gems to the background for some sparkle.

Here are peeks at these products which are 30% off as well.

Thanks for visiting today!  Remember to visit Lindsay's blog for for ideas and freebies all week long and her shop at Lindsay's Stamp Stuff for lots of great products.

Have a great day!

Challenges this card is linked to:

Dream Valley-Things with Wings

Paper Sundaes-Spring Blossoms

Details not listed above-Paper: The Paper Company,  K & Company, Ink: Momento, Copics, Nesties, Cuttlebug, gems and ribbon from my supplies.

Spring Time Bunny

Hi Everyone,

Did you have a nice weekend?  I'm so thrilled to have left the month of March behind, that I'm celebrating by showing off my latest card made with a digi from I Brake for Digis.  I used the sweet Bunny and Flower Pots image for this spring themed card. 

 I wish I was British, because then I could use the word "chuffed" and not come off as lame...Isn't that the greatest word?  I really am chuffed over my coloring of the bunny and flowers.  I know it's not much, since there are so many experts out there, but this is one of my better attempts :) :) :) 

 

If you want to grab this digi for yourself, remember to use the code SAVE10KARIN and you will save 10% off your purchase at I Brake For Digis.

Happy Spring!

Challenges for this card:

Crafty Creations-Bunnies

Creative Craft-Easter

Craft Us Crazy-Easter/Spring

Delightful Challenges-Flowers

Rubber Cafe-Spring Flowers

Paper Issues-Spring creations

Aly's Sunday Challenge-Bunnies

Creative Cowgirls-Spring or Easter

Paper Sundaes-Spring Blossoms

Scrappy Frogs-Flowers and Lace

Sparkles Forum-Springtime

AllSorts Challenge-Blooming Blossoms

Catch the Bug-Anything Goes

Marks Finest Paper-Animal

Cardmadfairy Digi-Easter

Digis w/Attitude-Anything Goes

Floweret-Easter

Details not listed above-Paper: The Paper Company, Heidi Grace, Markers: Copic, Nesties, Punch: Martha Stewart, Pearls: Recollections, Lace from my supplies

Fancy Flowers for Mom

Hi Friends!

Today is the day that the entire Lindsay's Stamp Stuff team is posting their Mother's Day creations for you. Remember, from now on, I will be bringing you my weekly Lindsay's Stamp Stuff posts on Thursday's from here on out :)

I chose to use what might be one of my favorite LSS images from the set Fancy Flowers. It seemed perfect for the card I was making for my Mother's Day card for my mother- in-law. It also uses a freebie sentiment from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff called Lovely Tickets.


I used this paper on my post earlier this week and combined it with a traditional flourish stamp for embellishment on the solid card base.

The rest of the team has lots of new ideas too, so stop by the team blogs by clicking below.

Lindsay (Owner & Designer) Visit her blog for a freebie today!
Jennifer
Cheryl (Coordinator)
Micki
Rhonda
LeAnne
Margie
Lisa
Erin
Tracy
Melissa
Tamara
Cindi
Rebekah

Here are the challenges this card is linked to:

Creative Card Crew-April showers bring May flowers
Forever Friends-Flowers and Nature
Kaboodle Doodle-Celebrate Spring
Pink Elephant- Mommy I Love You
Totally Stampalicious-Flower Power

Thanks ever so much for the visit today...If you think about it, say a prayer for my Mom in law, she is having severe back issues and we are trying to help her deal with them. Pray for wisdom for the doctors as they continue to evaluate her.

Details not listed above- Paper: The Paper Company, Georgia Pacific, Unknown source, Markers: Copic, Bic Mark its, Punches: Stampin' Up!, Nesties, Stickles, Chalk: Stampin' Up, ribbon and rhinestones from my supplies.

Mother's Day Sketch Challenge

Hi Everyone!

Today I have another sketch challenge from the My Grafico challenge blog. The stamp set that the design team is using in the challenge is Roses and Posies by Sarah Paris. If you would like to win this set of flower images, use your My Grafico stamps and play along! Here is the sketch to follow...

And my card :)

Visit the My Grafico challenge blog for more inspiration and to link up your card to win!

Challenges that this card is linked to are as follows:

Double Dutch -Mum's the word

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp-Flowers

Have a great day and thanks for visiting.

Details not listed above-Stamps: Scrolls Work, Paper: The Paper Company and unknown source, Markers: Copic, Chalk: Stampin' Up!, Punches: McGill, Nesties, ribbon from my supplies.

Happy Mother's and Father's Day

Hi Everyone!

How is everyone today? I'm fine, but feeling behind on what I need to get done regarding some home improvement projects...That always seems to be the case for me. So, what do I do to make myself feel better and continue the avoidance? What every good paper crafter does, STAMP! LOL!

I was playing around with my stamps from Scrolls Work and here are a couple of CAS cards. (Clean & Simple)

This first card uses a the Kit 2 Large Round (#2538) stamp that I used as a background stamp on this card, only this time it's the focal image. I used a solid square stamp from my current inventory (you can also get the same effect by using a small ink pad, and stamping directly onto the card with it) for the background grid, and then stamped on top with the medallion and added a brad to the center. The sentiment is from Holidays (#1602) and I finished it off with a piece of twill ribbon.
This card fits the following challenges:
The Crazy Challenge-Buttons, brads and or eyelets

The second card uses the current sketch from Clean and Simple Stamping. I used the Asian Star stamp (#6336) and stamped it 3 times. I cut out two of the images, covered them in embossing powder and layered them on top of each other, turning them slightly to get the dimentional layered effect. The sentiment is also from Holidays (#1602).

Here is my close up.

This card also fits the following challenges:

Rosie D's - Red & White

Kaboodle Doodle-Embossing

Thanks for visiting today! Make sure you check out the Scrolls Work Blog for contests and prizes!

Details not listed above-Ink: Stampin' Up!, Paper: Georgia Pacific, Nesties, Corner Rounder: Creative Memories, brad, ribbon and patterned from my supplies

Happy Mother's Day

Hi Everyone!

Wow, this week flew by for me! There always seems like so much to do once spring comes around.

I went to my first Indians game the other night too...Go Tribe! Yeah, they lost. Oh well, I did get hugged by "Slider" (the mascot) and danced for the camera man who put it on the Jumbo-tron...Woo-Hoo! I seriously hope no one I know was there to see it :)

'Nuff, about that...

Today I have another card that I made using my stamps from Scrolls Work. I believe the next major holiday coming up is Mother's Day, so I thought I would get a head start on ideas for you.

I used vintage looking papers and this sweet flower bouquet called Floral Color Spot #4506, that I colored to match. The whole card just reminds me of an antique sitting room in a Victorian mansion.

I added antique ink to a layered flower embellishment to set off the sentiment which actually comes in a group of holiday sentiments (#1602).

Well, I hope you are planning on making your Mom's day a special one...And if your mom is no longer with you, let me inspire you to reach out to someone else on that day. Someone who is important to you...Remind them that they are!

Here are the challenges this card is linked to :

Cute Card Thursday-Touchy Feely

Belli Challenge-Die Cut

My Time To Craft-Pearls

Details not listed above-Ink: Versafine, Marker: Copic, Paper: K & Company, The Paper Company, Prima Flowers, Brad and ribbon from my supplies.

I Love Digi Challenge #2 - Sketch for Mum

Hello Everyone!


Are you ready for another challenge where you can showcase your digital stamping? This week our sponsor is Lexi's Doodles!Our last challenge at I Love Digi was a color challenge, so we are mixing it up and bringing you a sketch challenge this time out, created by Dawny P.

Here is the sketch...

And to help get the creative juices flowing, here is my card! What could be better for celebrating Mum than a sweet spring daffodil? This image came from the set Fancy Flowers by Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.

The base of my card is 5 1/4"square, decorated with traditional stamps. The main image was colored with Bic Mark its and 3 pearl accents finish it off. I was unsure if I should use this for my Mother-in-laws birthday or for Mothers day, so I left the sentiment off for now.

You can check the rest of the Design Team blogs below, or head straight to I Love Digi and link up your Sketch for Mum card for a chance at a prize from our sponsor.

Elaine

Poppy

Bev

Callie

Dee

Paul

Jane

Guest Designer:

Dawn

Thanks for the visit and Good Luck creating!

Details- Stamps: Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, PTI, Stampin' Up!, Ink: Stampin' Up!, Paper: The Paper Company, DCWV, Markers: Bic Mark-its, Nesties, black pearl accents from my supplies.