Happy Birthday, Midge

What a special birthday this is!   Congratulations on the big one!!

The daisies are digistamps by Floppe Latte designs, digtially- painted in Photoshop.Papers by Core Essentials and C&K and the bow and stitching is done with pearl cotton, after using Stampin UP piercing templates, and the Score Bug piercer. 

At Joan's Gardens Week #23 Challenge

Create a Oldies but Goodies kind of card.

Use Blue on your card

Use some kind of corner embellishment

Make your card for a friend

 

 

 

Lace and pearls, and fabric flowers make this special gate-card "vintage", These are placed over paper (inside) that is like calico fabrics found in the '40s.  A Paper flower with corduroy center is commercial by C&K.  Border treatment on the gate is an EK Flourish punch.  The leaves are Sizzlits "Little Leaves."  Aquamarine blue paper is by Colorbok and so is the inside vintage print.  The inside of the card sentiment reads "May you always have Walls for the  Wind, a Roof for the Rain, Tea beside the Fire, Laughter to Cheer you, Those you love near you, and all that your heart may desire." the card is created for a friend who just suffered a loss.

Friendship_Week 23 Challenge

Create a Oldies but Goodies kind of card.

Use Blue on your card

Use some kind of corner embellishment

Make your card for a friend

This Gate-fold card is made with  Ribbons and punched trimmed fleur-di-lis, Butterflies are Cheery Lynn Die, and the Friendship greeting is by Paulette at TLCreations. 

Friendships

This card was made from The Sweetest Gift collection (Friendship), by Paulette (Create with TLC) with her "Reading Rendezvous" graphic. It is finished with pencils, blended with Gamsol.  The corners are created from Sizzix, #656537 (Decorative Label Set #4). Sizzix Dies are available at Joan's Gardens Store. Those diecut labels were halved, clipped and then traced with pencil to create corner mounts. The oval blue rhinestones are "petals"  are from a stick on rhinestone set's flower. Best Wishes greeting is an outline sticker from popuptemplates. 
My DGD helped me with this card! 

At Joan's Gardens Challenge Week #23

Create a Oldies but Goodies kind of card.

Use Blue on your card

Use some kind of corner embellishment

Make your card for a friend

At Joan's Gardens Week #23 Challenge

Create a Oldies but Goodies kind of card.

Use Blue on your card

Use some kind of corner embellishment

Make your card for a friend

This adorable vintage graphic was created by Grands9Creations, recolored and diecut with Spellbinders Labels #15. These and other Spellbinder's dies are available At Joan's Gardens. Inside sentiment is the Irish swinging "song." My mother used to say this one when she would swing me as a little girl.  I made this for my childhood friend.

Swinging free, swinging free,
far across the land I see
Swinging high, swinging low
Seeing just how far I go
Swinging low swinging high
I can almost reach the sky.

Pop-Up-Card

Here is a Pop-em-Up Card I made following Nancy Adam's fun tutorial found on p. 55, February 2012 issue of the Papers and Pixels Magazine. The die is a Spellbinders Shapeabilities, Fold and Tuck die #S5-114.  The tag says "Every  Little  Thing is  Gonna Be Fine."

At Joan's Gardens Challenge Week #23

The challenge this week is;

Create a Oldies but Goodies kind of card.

Use Blue on your card

Use some kind of corner embellishment

Make your card for a friend

 

 

 

For this challenge I chose a digital floral frame designed by Jessica at Floppy Latte Designs.  The vintage style frame is colored with pencils.   The frame is cut with the Spellbinders Labels 20 die, and then that is matted with a "Top Note" die cut inked blue mat.  Patterned blue paper is below that.  The corner mounts are cut pieces of the Quinn Flourish by Memory Box, available at At Joan's.  Gardens.

The sentiment is written in Jellyka Cutty Cupcakes font and reads "Once in a while a friend comes along and changes everything."   The inside says:  "That would be YOU!   Thank you, (her name,)"

At Joan's Gardens Week # 22 Challenge

Challenge is a card for a child. 

This is little Bongo the Patriotic Dog, a Digital Stamp that Wendy Hall created at Louby Lou Designs.  The blue cardstock is Core-essentials, Ranger Paper that  is embossed with A Sizzix Embossing Folder.  The little head of the dog is cut away (a second print), and suspended on a spring so it is a bobble heade card for a little fellow for his first Independence day.

At Joan's Garden Week #22 Challenge

Challenge is to create a child's card. We made this little birthday card at a Papers and Pixels Club Card Making afternoon, with the help of our member Nancy Adams who shared projects with us.   This little birthday cupcakes, and cherries card for a child is done with one of Stampin Up's new punches called Build a Cupcake. It is a "z-fold" or "tri-fold" card. 

At Joan's Garden Week #22 Challenge

A Child's Card.

This Have a Ball (on your first time going to the beach) card was inspired by Kaylyn Kepner's shaped cards tutorial in the July/August issue of Paper Crafts Magazine.  The banner is cut with Sizzix Framelets "Bitty Banners.  The beach is sandpaper.  I used Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots Embossing folder on parchment for some of the sections of the beach ball.  The card is machine stitched.