Just Bee-cause

Here's this week's OWH Stars and Stamps Sketch #177...

and here's my card. This is a pre-colored digi with a hand-stamped sentiment. The gold panel was embossed with a SU! ef, and the dsp's are by Recollections & LilyBee Designs. A few snippets of ribbon, 3 brads, and this was done!

Back to the father's day meal...........

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Carol

Simon Says Transport

Here's my card for the Simon Says Stamp challenge which is "transport." I love this old truck image from Tim Holtz and think it always makes the greatest masculine cards. I stamped it on a scrap of retired SU! True Thyme cardstock and clear embossed it before cutting with a SB labels 18 die. The background was done with a SB kickin' rubber M-bossabilities folder and sponged with some true thyme ink to distress it. The sentiment panel was stamped on cream cardstock using a SNSS image and sentiment. The dsp and card base were scraps from my bin and I don't know the mfr. The stars were done with a SU! mini merry punch using more scraps, and 3 mini brads completed this card.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Flag Day and Mapquest

Happy Flag Day everyone! Cocoa Mouse is back to celebrate flag day by showing off the red, white, & blue! While posting this picture, I noticed I  forgot to color the last red stripe! Oops!! I'll fix that before I send this out to one of our OWH heroes. I quickly made this last night when I realized it was flag day, so I rushed it. Usually I forget to color Cocoa's tail, but this time it was the bottom stripe :)

I made a semi-CAS card yesterday that I think qualifies for the CAS-ual Fridays CFC105 challenge today. I love when I'm one step ahead of a challenge!

I've been carrying an old Atlas around in my car for years and decided it would be more useful for cards since we don't travel anymore. I was playing with my new SU! hexagon punch yesterday and came up with this idea. I punched all the hexes with the same punch, but trimmed the map pieces down a little bit and adhered them to solid cardstock. I added a few hearts to coordinate with the sentiment, and this card was done! It will be going into my next OWH box along with a matching envelope made of map papers. {note to self - I need to remember to add the blank address labels to the front of the envies.}

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great weekend!

Carol

HMFMC146

I was fortunate enough to win the House Mouse & Friends Challenge twice recently, and one of the prizes was a gift certificate to the House Mouse store! As soon as I received the prize code, I ordered some new mousey stamps and they arrived in 2 days!! I decided the time was right to get one of these "great catch" stamps for myself since my friend Donna makes the most adorable cards with this image! I colored him with Copics, adding fluorescent inks to the baseball cap. The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp - another great stamp set I won! The die cut is SB labels 25, and I embossed a piece of brown cardstock with a diamonds in the rough embossing folder by CB. The dsp is by K& Co and has baseball words all throughout, with the word "catcher" at the very top. I matted everything with teal cardstock and added some blue & yellow star gems for the final touch. Thanks for the inspiration Donna, and thanks to House Mouse for the great prize!! Thanks to Simon Says Stamp for sending me such a fun stamp set too!!

This card is for the House Mouse & Friends Challenge HMFMC146 - make a Father's day or masculine card.

That's it for me - 2 posts is enough for one day :)

Carol

Things with Wings

Here's my card for the OWH Stars & Stamps midweek throwdown challenge which is "things with wings." I made this card from scraps in my stash and embossed the panels with a SU! Vine Street embossing folder. The butterflies were done with a Punch-a-Bunch and I added some chocolate pearls and a pink gemstone. Sentiment by Hero Arts done in early espresso ink. Quick, simple, and I'm really pleased with how this one turned out!

Since I used leftover snippets, I'm also entering this into the Snippets Playground 76.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carol

Graduation Time

There's a funny story involved with making this graduation card. We were invited to a graduation party by some distant neighbors we don't know very well, and their son hand-delivered the invitation to us with the message from his parents that we are not expected to bring gifts, but just come and have fun and get to know them a little better. Since it's within walking distance, we agreed to go. I thought the least I could do was make her a nice card to mark the occasion, and as I was finishing this card (made in our local high school  colors), my husband walked into the room and asked who I was making this card for. I said it was for the upcoming graduation party we were invited to. My husband said "Oh no!! Her brother said she just graduated from college, not high school! What?!?!?! I called another neighbor who knows this family better than we do, and she told me what university she attended, so I was able to look it up online and get the correct school colors. Back to the drawing board :)

Here's the card I'll give her, done in her university colors. Thank goodness I found out before I showed up at her graduation and gave her a card with a different school's colors! I would have been SOOO embarrassed! LOL The path of my life is well-paved with lots and lots of those good intentions :)
I think she'll be pleasantly surprised because we've never met her and this was made especially for her. I'm glad I didn't put the year on the first card, because I can most likely make use of it next year - whew!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

Carol

1st card
stamps - unknown stamp from Michael's $1 bin
paper - red, silver, black, white
ink - versafine onyx black, versamark
accessories - clear detail ep, Cuttlebug decorative tiles ef, red crochet thread, silver cording, red brad

2nd card
stamps - unknown stamp from Michael's $1 bin
paper - Bassill burgundy textured, gold foil cardstock
ink - versamark
accessories - gold ep, gold brads, gold crochet thread for the tassel,square punch to make the banner ends

Super Dad

Here's the sketch for the Sweet Stop SSS214 and I made a card for Father's day...

I used 2 SNSS digi images for this card. First I printed the Cocoa's Baseball Cap image and colored it to match the Moments dsp. Then I printed the Super Dad digi image, colored it, hand cut and popped it up on foam tape. I added a SU! punched border along with some Pizzazz Aplenty navy ribbon, and 4 sparkly brads and called this one done!

I think I may need a new camera because all my photos seem a tad out of focus regardless of what I do. I may have the settings wrong too - if anyone can give me any helpful tips, I'd appreciate it! In the meantime, if you click the photo you'll see a more focused version.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a wonderful Tuesday!

Carol

OWH Challenges

Here's this week's OWH Stars & Stamps sketch #176...

and here's my card, done with Echo Park dsp, PTI Enchanted Evening & SU! Summer Starfruit card stock. The sentiment is by G Studio, ribbon by PTI, and the accents at the bottom are pieces of cardstock done with a SU! owl punch and pressed into a mousepad with the eraser end of a pencil, then popped up on foam tape. The embossed panel was done with a Sizzix curlycue ef.

The midweek throwdown challenge this week is "water." I heat embossed the SNSS image, sponged it with Pacific Point ink, then sponged the sky with Ranger Tumbled Glass ink. The background panels were embossed on Pacific Point cardstock with a Tim Holtz woodgrain ef, as they reminded me of still waters. I haven't decided on a sentiment for this one yet, so I may just leave it blank.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a wonderful day!

Carol

Last Day of School

It's the last day of school here in my area, and a neighbor asked me if I'd make a couple thank you cards for 2 school bus drivers. One was for a lady who drove bus #44 and the other was for a gentleman. I googled "school bus" and found these 2 colored pictures I printed for the cards. For this one, I added some red gems from Pizzazz Aplenty for the stop lights on the bus, and did my favorite hexagon background in yellow. The sentiment is by Hero Arts, and I added 4 plus 4 blue gemstones (also from Pizzazz Aplenty) indicating the number 44 again.

This image cracked me up! Mamma squirrel is waiting with her "baby" for the school bus to come! Notice the baby is wearing a backpack and carrying a little book! LOL Too funny :) I used a SB  kickin' rubber embossing folder which would represent this bus driver working in snow, rain, and all kinds of weather. The sentiment was done with a MFP stamp and a tab punch from SU! I used a green snippet of left-over green cardstock for this, so I'm entering it into Pixie's Crafty's Snippets Playground #75.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Carol

Another Card for Maddy

Here's another card I'm sending off to Maddy and you can read about her story by clicking the links here on the Simon Says Stamp blog. If you have any uplifting, happy cards you can share with this brave young girl, I encourage you to send them to her now, because she can really use the support.

I embossed the SU! doily with white ep, sponged around it with a soft grey ink and then popped a fancy gold brad in the center. The ribbon is from Walmart and the sentiment is by Northwoods.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you'll consider joining me in sending some of your cards to Maddy too.

Carol