Many Miles Away

While looking for my beach stamps, I came across this coffee cup stamp.  I lost this stamp a while ago, panicked when I couldn't find it and quickly contacted My Creative Time to see if they still sold the stamp.  The stamp is part of a set and not sold separately.  I must have sounded pitiful cause Emma at My Creative Time was willing to part with her own stamp to help me out.  Thankfully, I found the coffee cup stamp clinging to the back of another set.

I found two other stamps I have not used yet.  The 'hello' is from Altenew's Just Wanted To Say Hello set.  I picked this up just a few weeks ago at the local stamp shop.  The other stamp is the verse inside the card.  This stamp is from Clearly Wordsworth.  Are they still in business?  The stamp set is all yellowed and kind of sticky, but the stamp worked okay.

My sister is miles away so I think I will make a similar card for her -- change the hello to something with sister but keep the sentiment.  I chose this sentiment cause it is different and sweet.

 

Entering this card in the My Creative Time Designer Challenge

 

Ok, that's it for now.  Tomorrow I start my flower pot cards.  Love 'em.

take care,

Kathy

Ahoy

February is almost here and then March and then April....  YAY!  I'm already tired of the cold and snow.  So, I'm thinking of warmer weather,  the beach and flowers.  So for the next week I will be making beachy cards and flower pot cards.  Can't wait.

Here is the first beachy card.  A world map in the background, compass and little flag with waves and AHOY!  You can't really see it, but the compass is stamped beneath the raised cutout compass.

Entering this card in the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

Take care,

Kathy

Happy Birthday

The other day I saw a card at the local stamp store with embossed flowers in black on a patterned paper.  Rather striking.  So I thought I would try this technique.  But I used white embossing powder on a white card.  Then I sponged purple and green inks around the edges of the white leaves.  I love purple and green together.

I used a Paper Smooches leaf cluster stamp and a PS sentiment.  I think I will play with this technique more.  Some of the leaves caught the ink colors.  I may not have waited long enough for the embossing to dry thoroughly. 

 

I'll be posting this card to the Paper Smooches January Sketch Challenge

Have a great week - stay warm!
Kathy

Valentine #2

Another Valentine's Day card made with premade hearts.  I don't remember where I picked up these hearts, but I sure do like them.  I like the foam on the back as it gives the card a great 3-D effect.  I added dimensionals to the back of the black, red and white hearts. 

This second card has tiny sequin hearts and bling on the paper hearts. 

Hope you like it.

Take care,
Kathy

with love

Valentine's Day is just around the corner so I'm trying to be proactive by making my Valentine Cards early.   One of my resolutions this year is to send birthday and holiday cards to all my friends and family.  Only one birthday in January so that one is easy and then Valentine's day and two birthdays.  An easy start....

Below is Valentine #1.  In my stash I found these premade hearts with foam on the back.  Then I embossed white, red and black card stock with small dots and punched out the hearts and added a little bling for pizzazz.

Cute.  Simple. Pretty.

Have a great day!
Kathy

It's Wine O'Clock!

Oh look, it's wine o'clock!  

I saw a similar sign on Pinterest and just cracked up in laughter.  I have a couple friends who came immediately to mind and I thought I would make them a card.  But I don't have a stamp with that phrase so I printed one with my computer.  The wine bottle stamp I have had for a while -- glad to finally use it!   Maybe this card could be the start of a goal of mine to start using stamps I haven't used yet.    hmmmmm.


Hope you enjoy the card --  I know my friends will love it!

Happy Sunday,
Kathy

Christmas Thank You

Guess I should make a new year's resolution to blog and post more cards in 2015.  I could, but don't know if I would be successful.  Sometimes life just gets in the way.

But not today!!  I needed a thank you card to send to someone who is really special and that was my goal for the day.  But as I was looking at my emails this morning I saw I could make my thank you card which could also be a card for the Cas-ual Fridays Challenge, Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge and the Christmas Card Challenge.  Wow!  Four goals accomplished with one card.  Eureka!!

NOTE:  This a new picture that I loaded a day later.  Better light = better picture!

This is the original picture.  Sad, I know.

Wish my camera took better pictures of red- sorry about that.  The base of the card is a kraft card.  Kraft paper always looks so good with red, white and green.  Love it.

The layout of the card follows the sketch for the Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge.The Cas-ual Fridays challenge required felt and sequins.   So I cut the felt poinsettia with the die set from Paper Smooches and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches as well.

I hope my friend likes this card.  It was fun to make.

         

 Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge

  Christmas Card Challenge #4 

 

Ok, that's for the start of 2015.  Happy New Year!!!

 Kathy