Enjoy Today!

Enjoy today! Who wouldn’t want a card that told you to do that?!? 🙂 This is a great card for a birthday, graduation, wedding, or just an any day card. I don’t think you always need a reason to give a card. I used the Card Patterns sketch #99 as inspiration. I made the card quite simple compared to the examples the design team did, but I like that about this card. I really am loving the kraft paper and use it quite a bit for card bases. I think its fun to have something other than white sometimes.

Thanks for looking!

~Beth~

Boy Birthday

I usually like to make cards that are pink and frilly and glittery, but wanted to have something on hand for a little boy. I used the sketch from CPS #202 to create this cute card. I had some DCWV Animal Crackers paper that I used for the background and embellished it with an elephant stamp. I had never tried paper piecing with a stamp before and I’m proud of how my elephant came out. I stamped the image on the kraft circle, a piece of plaid paper, and a piece of blue paper. I cut the elephant body out of the plaid paper, ear out of the blue one and glued them to the kraft one. Not too hard so I will definitely try to do this again!

Thanks for looking!

~Beth~

Birthday Card

Woo hoo! My third card of the night! I’ve enjoyed
submitting cards to sketch challnege sites, and this one is for
Inspirational card sketches sketch 97.

I had bought this fiskars stamp roll
thing at Joann’s one day and broke it out for the first time
tonight. It took me a little bit to get it to work properly. I had
a hard time rolling the stamp around the roller and then it wasn’t
inking properly, but I realized it wasn’t on the roller right.
After I fixed it it started to work pretty well. I think I need to
practice more with it. Anyway, I stamped the numbers along the side
of the card. Then I stamped the cake and added some Stickles to
glitterize the image. I made some accordian flowers to embellish
just a little more. I didn’t know What to put at the bottom, but it needed something. Ribbon didn’t look right, so I used the same paper as I used behind the cake and made a couple of lines to anchor the flowers. I like how the card turned out but still think I need to practice more with stamps.

Pink and Black Birthday

Hi there! I found a new challenge site called Card Pattern Sketch. This card was inspired by Card Pattern Sketch 97.

http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2011/01/sketch-97.html

I really love pink and black together, so as soon as I thought to
put black with the “Happy Birthday” chipboard sticker I used I was
really excited for this card. The chipboard sticker is something I
got from the CKC scrapbook convention last year from the vendor
Boxer Scrapbooks. I created the card from pink cardstock, ran some
black squares through embossing folders on my cuttlebug and made
the accordian flower out of paper I found at Target. I think it
turned out pretty good. I can’t wait to give this out for someone
birthday!

Thanks for
looking! ~Beth~