CAS-ual Fridays Banners & Flags

This is a quick post because of so many reasons...

I have thought about this card for weeks. A neighbors son has come home from duty and I wanted to give him a card. I hope this will be nice enough. He is a great kid and I am thankful for his courage and commitment to our country.

CAS-ual Fridays has a great challenge for banners and flags. Stop by and see all there is to see at CAS-ual Fridays!

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Make it Monday Challenge

Make It Monday #79: Fabric Die Cuts

Melissa Phillips knew what she was talking about when she made her video about using fabric and diecuts. So easy with the adhesive spray...trust me, I tried it without spray and it wasn't pretty. Adding texture to your card really makes the card, in my opinion. 

I used material from a pair of shorts that I made for my daughter when she was two. She is twenty-two now. I am blessed to have her in my life. I know she will love this card. She lives 800 miles away from us for her new job... this goes in the mail first thing in the morning!

Supplies:

Papertrey Counting My Blessings Die and Mini Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink Challenge - Autumn Textiles

{PHOTO CREDITS: scarf, flower, button holes, baby hat & shoes, need for tweed, suit}

So excited to get this card in just in time...

Working with textiles can be a challenge in itself! I loved the video about putting the cloth on card stock with adhesive spray and then using the dies. I can't wait to make a ton of cards using that method. Smelly but fun!

I am loving all my new Papertrey Ink goodies that my girlfriend ordered for me. We enjoyed talking about the newest release and what we wanted. It came just in time for me to make this card. Yay! She even surprised me with some Papertrey Ink!

I am so THANKFUL for this friend! :~)

My laptop is about to die so I will come back and list my supplies... Papertrey etc...

CAS-ual Fridays #61

Huge surprise to me that I am back today for another challenge, especially since I am leaving tomorrow on a road trip to Chicago. Long, happy, sad story... have my first daughter, daughter grows up, she goes to college, we move away from that college, she stays at the college, she graduates from college and finds a wonderful job near her college. So I am happy for her success and so very proud of the wonderful job she will be starting as a pediatric nurse. I am so sad she is getting an apartment 800 miles away from us. Couldn't she commute?

The challenge this week is to use strips of colors or pattern in your Clean and Simple Design. I just so happened to have rub-on's by K&Company. I have never used rub-on's on a card but I loved how easy it was to do. (I feel I cheated a little bit.) I also didn't make a card but a little note pad for my daughter to leave on her bookcase at the door in her apartment. She can use it for making little notes or for her shopping list. The colors match the vase we bought for the bookcase.

I made the cover from two pieces of card stock so it is nice and firm and wrapped it around the tablet.

Maybe she will drop me a note in the mail?!?!


I cried when I made this for her. Haha - no surprise. She is my love. I am happy that she has succeeded so far in life. I am glad that I can help her move, starting tomorrow. I guess I have been helping her move for years.  : (


Check out CAS-ual Friday's blog to see all the great cards over there and add some work of your own!

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Christmas In July (sorry- I was even humming Christmas songs)

I have to confess, the second I started making this card, I started humming a Christmas carol. I immediately realized that I had to stop at one card or I'd be playing Christmas songs on my play list. But, it did get me in the mood for Christmas. Here's my card....

I tried to meet Jay Gee's Nook Challenge by keeping the card crisp and clean like the photograph of the headboard. That is a beautiful headboard! I used Papertrey white Card stock and also the Papertrey Mehndi Medallion Stamp Set. It is embossed with opaque embossing powder.

Little Red Wagon just wanted a lovely Christmas card ... so easy to add the SU sentiment, embossed with Ranger silver embossing powder. I used the two punches to give it a nice layered look when I popped it up. Adding the bling just gives it a little sparkle for the holiday.

Over at The Craft's Meow they had a sketch to follow. I did my best to follow the sketch by using the medallion and then having the sentiment coming off to the side. I went pretty CAS with this card. 

These are the links to the three challenges, Great ideas at all three blogs. I enjoyed viewing the DT's cards. Stop by and take a look.

Jay Gee's Nook Challenge #21

Little Red Wagon's Challenge # 141-Christmas In July

The Craft's Meow July Sketch Challenge!

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Casual Friday Challenge Card 2

                             CFC60 USE TEXT IN YOUR CLEAN AND SIMPLE DESIGN

So, I am back with my second card for CAS-ual Friday. This card idea has been floating around in my head for months, sans the text inside the letters. This morning I thought it would look pretty neat if the text were in each letter. I was going to make the heart smaller but when I cut this heart out I loved what words, and parts of words, showed up... crosswords, horoscopes, weather, gossip, food, reviews of movies. I had to leave the heart the size it was and send the card to my girlfriend. She does so much for others and she never gets much thanks.

I used SU black Cardstock and newspaper print paper.

Wine and Jennifer Rzasa

Jennifer Rzasa had adorable wine charms over on her blog. You can click here to see them. I am moving my daughter 800 miles away next week to start her new life as a nurse - she just graduated from college. She has been away for the last four years but this seems so final. So, I decided to make her a little gift that had pictures of things that remind me of her. And every time she has a glass of wine she can think of me... right.

I used a sheet of shrink film, punched a 2 1/2" circle, and punched a small circle in that so I could put a ring on it after I shrunk it. Then I took the 2 1/2" circle and stamped it with a design using StazOn Black Ink Pad. I than colored it with permanent markers. This one is an old Stampin Up stamp with a little girl in overalls tending a garden. My girls always wore cute little overalls - I put Kate's name on it, the name of her new hometown, and "est. July 2012". It came out so cute. They shrink down to about 1" in size. I made 8 wine charms for her. 

Cats, sending her kisses, and St. Pat's Day...

...Believe, KKG and a key, a tree, and Mowgli, of course.

Today we were downtown Philadelphia in this cute little wine shop. They had this adorable 'can' of wine called Red Barn. Taste delicious and is from a local winery called Paradocx Vineyard. The can of paint wine comes with a paint stirrer that says 

PAINT THE TOWN RESPONSIBLY. 

I just love the whole marketing idea that they went with for this wine. 

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