Butterfly Birthday

For a special friend I used  SU papers, pearls, and Recollections gold foil cardstock with Les Papillons (Spellbinders S4-395) and SU Butterfly Embosslits dies.The inside sentiment Happy Birthday (vertical) sticker is from Pop Ups Etc.

Sun City Papers 'N Pixels Club

The February Make-it-and Take-It workshop for the  Sun City Papers 'N Pixels Club was taught by members Jeanine and Priss.  The project was Money Tuxedo shirt card-fronts, and they just came out cuter than CUTEST!  

The paper and circle bead elements I used for this layout are from Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen's Hearts and Flowers Mini kit.

Happy Hello

This sweet card uses SU Hello You thinlits, Island Indigo paper, and SU's All Abloom DP for this cutaway Birthday Card. The Little graphics (Magnolia stamps) are colored with Staedtler Ergo Soft Aquarell pencils and a brush of Wink of Stella gold on the daisy and red Stickles for the little sending your a heart-hug graphic.  Inside ovals are cut with SU Ovals Collection and Spellbinders oval scallops.  The birthday sentiment is stamped from SU Sassy Salutations.

Peek A Boo Card

This adorable project was inspired by Norma Lee at Splitcoast Stampers in the Wednesday Tutorial posted Feb 18,  2015.  I used papers for the inside and the card front cut from papers and elements found in Karen Schulz new "Follow your Heart" kit.  I used SU ovals for the window cuts, and Labels 18 (S4-310) by Spellbinders for the oval frames. The graphics are little Tilde's from Magnolia Stamps collections colored with colored pencils and finished with  Gamsol.  Papers are Island Indigo by SU and Red River Paper Polar Matte for the printed designer papers.  The slide-out Peek a Boo on this card is just SO cute, as the daisy she offers turns into a hug and a heart for the recipient as the card is opened.

Glittery Glitzy BD

These two cards use cocktail napkins, scor-tape and warm diamond microfine glitter to create the banners.  The sentiments and borders use stickers (from pop-ups etc)  The card base on the right is water washed with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Ripe Persimmon.

Bekka's pretty Boxes

This beautiful notecard holder box was part of a series of decorative boxes inspired by Bekka at Amazing Paper Grace during project posts and videos  around January 22, 2015.  The Gate die (the gold paper) is by Spellbinders, S2108, and the box lid is cut from Spellbinders Labels 27  S4-376 and fitted to the long narrow box.  Note cards that are 2 1/8 inches wide, and topped with the gate die ornaments are inside the  5 3/8 inches tall and 2 3/8 inches wide and deep box.  Each project Bekka had in this series of three was just beautiful.  The pearl button closure was created with a gold punched shape (SU) and large pearl.

Scattered Valentine

I used Real Red papers and ink by SU to stamp Seasonally Scattered Love stamp for this Valentine. The hearts are cut from holographic paper using Sizzix Hearts #657561 dies.  The edge hearts are SU Textured Impressions Adorning Accents.  The red heart and letters are touched with Wink of Stella Clear.  I also used Perfect Layers rulers, Best Glue Ever and Tim Holtz edge distresser to finish this card.

Another card created with  Seasonally Scattered hearts stamp that is embossed with white ultra fine detail embossing powder on pink, beige and brown DP. This is layered onto SU Crumb Cake cut and ready pre-folded cardstock..  The little hearts are from SU Hearts sizzlits, and the "u" is cut from SU Label Card die set. The lattice heart is cut from Martha Stewart lattice hearts edge punch. The edges are burnished with  Tim Holtz Festive Berries distress ink, and the papers, stitched ribbon  and rhinestones are from my stash.

Vellum and Valentines

This card was inspired by a technique tutorial by Sandi MacIver at  StampingandBlogging.com in her member's area.  For this card I used SU  DP from "Stacked with Love" the  SU Hearts stencil, Real red and Regal Rose inks, the SU embosslits Fashionable Hearts, and SU pearls.
The little lovebird is an EK Designs (Jolee) embelli.   The corners are edged with the scallop chomp-a-dile (and I don't like it left alone..I'm going to put a heart with the point forming the corner under all the corners to square it up and accent the "heart shape" that will be formed of the scallop cut.) The largest heart is cut from Sizzix 675561 Hearts (dieset smallest heart).  Changes I would make would be to watch the directionality of the teeny black and white hearts on the DP so that this card might be top, instead of side-folded.  My Love You sentiment is stamped on vellum from the Just  Right Fancy Sentiment stampset.  AGAIN---pay attention to what you do with the "do not discard" top for the Staz-On ink that you stamp on vellum.  I found that the inkpad needed to be reinked to get a tack sharp image, and since it hadn't been when I stamped this, I went over the sentiment with a black Sakura Glaze pen.  My vellum is tacked down with vellum tape, which is virtually invisible. There are no embellishments where that tape has been applied.   There are lots of possibilities to the "blushing stencil" design.  Thanks Sandi for the ideas.  It is for a card like this that I am SERIOUSLY considering working with Craft attitude printable film and some digital graphic sentiment lines  instead of stamping on vellum.  The printable film simply is "ironed on" or laminated into your base. 

Lotus Birthday Pop Up

This card was inspired by Julie Davidson in her Wednesday Techniques Tutorial for a Pop Up Diorama Card.  I used SU Hello Honey and Blackberry Bliss papers, ribbons and inks.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from SU stampset Elementary Elegance, and the INSIDE sentiment is from Impressions Obsessions Maya stampset and reads:  "Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that the quicker we will be able to treat life as Art."  The inside detail is SU Designer Washi tape (Stamped with Love) on Hello Honey.  The Butterfly is from Le Papillon 2 dieset. (a Spellbinder die).  The yellow outline flower is centered with Wink of Stella clear and so is the butterfly's body.

Get Well Shadow box Window Card

I was inspired for this card by the pretty shadow box card created by Barb HERE.  I used SU designer paper from the Moonlight collection, and coordinating cardstock. SU's teeny tiny wishes stamp and some grosgrain to finish the card. For coloring, I used SU Blendabilities (Rich Razzleberry) collection, and the blue collection (as well as Tim Holtz distress markers) The graphic is by Elizabeth Bell.
        

Inside there are fitted triangular cuts of the coordinating paper on the right hand side, under the inside sentiment and note area.  They are 4 x 1 1/2 inch strips cut diagonally and placed in the upper left and lower right corners underneath the ivory square cut sentiment area...for a "sorry you are under the weather" sentiment!