Vintage Truck Inspiration

When I saw this amazing tutorial from Sara Emily Barker I just had to have the Lumber 3D Texture Fade embossing folder.  In trying to locate this particular tutorial I came across several other projects where Sara Emily used this folder, and all are quite amazing!

This particular card is for a nephew's birthday, and there was a vintage truck on the property where he grew up so I was inspired to use the Tim Holtz Clear Stamp set, The Journey.  I was in a bit of a hurry to get the card in the mail and feel I could have spent a little more time on the Lumber background, but I will definitely play with this folder again!

Current challenge at Frilly and Funkie: Inspired by

Thanks for looking (and thanks for the inspiration)!

Birthday Carousel

As I mentioned in my previous post, I broke away from the holiday themed cards to create a couple of birthday cards. This is for my sweet grandaughter, who just turned 3. We took the grandkids to Disneyland recently and all she wanted to ride were the carousel horses. So I found this cute image and colored it, matted it with some black card embossed with swiss dots, cut out an oval for a frame and added a birthday tag.

If you look closely, you can see that she has 'pink hair' which explains the pink mane on the carousel horse!

Anyhow, sweet birthday card for a sweet birthday girl!

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Simon Says: 'B' is for?

Birthday Dude

I broke away from the holiday themed projects to make a couple of birthday cards. The first is for a special boy who is turning 13!  I was inspired to add sunglasses to the Tim Holtz Crazy Dogs image because of this recent picture of Corbin with his band mates. In retrospect I should have created the necktie in blue and white!

Anyhow, I cut out an oval to add 13 brand new one dollar bills to the inside of his card. What kid doesn't like to receive money?

The theme at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is 'B' is for? Blue Birthday Boy Balloons.

Hope you like it! Thanks for looking!

Christmas Advent

I made this perpetual advent calendar for my 3 year old and 5 year old grandkids. My daughter-in-law was excited to see it, because the little boxes are large enough for a treat for both of them, and it doesn't have to be a piece of chocolate every day!

I really dug into my Christmas stash for this one! I used a combination of a retired 6 x 6 paper pack by Little Yellow Bicycle, a sheet of 12 x 12 DSP by BoBunny, several stamps by various vendors, some embellishments I've been hoarding for several years, some dies from various vendors and some vintage looking DSP for the sides and back.

I distressed the surrounding chipboard with ink and then applied the strips of dsp to the sides and back of the calendar base.

Anyhow, I was able to get it in the mail so they would have it for December 1st!

Frilly and Funkie-Tis the season for gift giving

Simon Says Stamp - Gift It

As always, thanks for looking!

Halloween Treats

My grandkids have gotten used to receiving treats with their cards, Halloween treats are a must! I created these little slider tags to be able to keep the card after the treats have been removed since my daughter in law likes to save them.

The trick is lining up the circles in each of the 3 layers.  Then I decorated the sliding tag, front and back.  I'll add a little note from 'Grandma Cutie' before I give it to them!

And here's a shot with the candy inside!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge-Spooky

Hummingbird Watch

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching all the sweet hummingbirds this year, and when I thought about adding them to the grandkids' scrapbook, I thought of this image from Tim Holtz Crazy Birds set.

Doesn't he remind you of this little guy standing guard over this feeder?

Then one day I spotted a visitor, he must have been thinking of building a nest under the eaves.

At one point we counted as many as twelve hummingbirds between the two feeders. It's funny how some of them were very accommodating, and others were quite aggressive, chasing the others away.

The album for the grandkids is 8 x 8, and has pocket pages to fit 4 x 4 photos.

I was inspired by the challenge at Frilly and Funkie: All Creatures Great and Small. He's a tiny bit Funkie, don't you think?

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Happy 30th Birthday

A couple of challenges for this birthday card for my daughter-in-law.  Her birthday is October 1st and she enjoys Halloween themed cards.  The first challenge is Frilly and Funkie: All Creatures Great and Small.

I used the crow from Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints.

The second challenge is Simon Says: Use More Than One Stencil.

I used the stencil letter dies from Tim Holtz Gift Card Bag, love the hashtag die, and she will be 30 and uses Instagram!  The second stencil is from Tim Holtz Mini Stencil 3 for the brick, with Texture Paste and Distress Ink.

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