Thank You's Sweet Day Style

So I made these cards as thank you's for things I received at my lovely baby shower. I got the new Sweet Day collection from Echo park and just had to try it out! Because I was making these in bulk, the  layout is super simple.

I actually made 7 of these but I can't find the other one! I may have already sent it out. 

Here is the 7th one that I actually created. I only had enough card stock for the 6, but I had left over scraps so I just layered them and voila! It's not the prettiest one, but at least I didn't have to throw any card stock away and it was enough to make a 7th card. :) 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park: Sweet Day "Fancy Floral"™ (pink stripe)
• Echo Park: Sweet Day "Delightful"™ (hexagons)
• Echo Park: Sweet Day "Cheerful Stripe"™ (printed paper)
• Stamp: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™ (an oldie but goodie... and discontinued so grab it if you want it!)

Honey Bee Post - Cameos

Good morning everyone!

For those of you going, I would LOVE to see you at CHA! Please email me so that we can meet up! 

This week at Betty Bee's Buzz, we are showing you cameos! Pop on over and see what all of the other Honey Bees have created for you.

Recipe:

Cartridges: Heritage™ (charm and cameo) and Sentimentals™ (card base)

Paper: My Mind's Eye: MeadowLark: Dawn "Damask", Dawn "Cards", Dawn "Floral Display"™

Embossing folder: Kassie's Brocade™

Ribbon from my stash

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™ 

Faux Embossing - Thinking of You

Good morning! 

The Honey Bees are all buzzing over at Betty Bee's Buzz about with faux embossing samples for you this morning! 

I did a spin-off of faux embossing using the technique, but not how it is classically used. I hope you enjoy it!

Recipe:

All paper is from the My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy™ lines

Cartridges: Straight from the Nest™ (the butterfly) and Picturesque™ (leaves)

Stamp sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™

Ribbon: Chocolate is from Paper Trey Ink and the pink is from my stash

Glossy Accents

Momento Ink

Stickles in Waterfall™

Glue Arts Perma-Tac and Extreme Adhesive Squares™

Now hop on over to see what the other Honey Bees have created for you and don't forget to come back on Friday for the My Pink Designer blog hop! It's going to be moo-velous!

Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge #30

These are a couple of quick thank you cards that I made using my new Paper Trey Ink supplies that I ordered while in London! I love the name "ripe avocado". Being from California, we get a lot of avocados, but we still eat them ALL the time because we love them so much! However, this color does not look like a ripe avocado on the inside or the outside, but I still like it!

Recipe:

Card stock: Ripe Avocado™, "White"

Ribbon: Dark Chocolate Classic Grosgrain Ribbon™

Embossing Powder: A la Mode: White, Filigree: Gold (from Paper Trey Ink™)

Hero Arts Adhesive Gems

Colorizer from EK Success Heat Tool™

Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™, Hero Arts CL272™, Inkadinkado 97626™

These two cards are for the Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge of green, brown, and white. Looking on the color swatches now, my green is a bit off. I used my favorite - olive green. I hope it's okay! :) Here is the inspiration photo and balloon color swatches:

I have some spooky cards coming up for you tomorrow for Be Inspired Wednesday at Passionately Artistic (the new name for the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog).

Be Inspired Wednesday #104 - Breast Cancer Awareness

Good morning. Today at the Cuttlebug Challenge we are making cards for a wonderful cause: Breast Cancer Awareness. 

This card dawned upon be very quickly and I love how it turned out! Joanna did one similar a while ago and while I also had the idea to make it a shape card, I used hers as inspiration for the doodling since she is the doodle queen!

Recipe: 
Gypsy™
Cartridge: Tie the Knot™, Designer's Calendar™
Embossing: A2 Victoria Emboss Folder™
Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Pixie Stix from Pink Paislee™(black glitter)
Hero Arts Gems
Glossy Accents
Pop Dots

Instructions:

1. Select bodice, bodice blackout, and bodice shadow (twice) on your Gypsy™ from the Tie the Knot Cartridge™.

2. Weld two of the bodice shadows together to make the card base. This is the light pink layer.

3. Select Designer's Calendar™ pink ribbon from the October page twice. In the Gypsy™ you can see both the bodice and the bodice blackout. Lay them perfectly on top of each other on their individual layers.

4. Place one of the ribbons in the middle of the bodice. Place the other one on the layer with the bodice black out and also make sure these are perfectly on top of one another. This method allowed me to the cut ribbon out of both layers where you could see the pink of the card base all the way through.

5. Cut out all layers.

6. Doodle white around the edges of the dark pink layer.

7. Run dark pink layer through the Cuttlebug™ with the A2 Victoria Emboss Folder™. 

8. Adhere to black layer (bodice shadow).

9. Doodle black around the light pink layer.

10. Place pink and black layers over the card base.

11. Take My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions ribbon (it's the black ribbon) and stamp it in black in the middle of the cut out ribbon.

12. Use Glossy Accents™ on top of the black ribbon stamp. 

13. Sprinkle Pink Paislee Pixie Stix in black over the top. Tap the card to remove excess.

14. Use pop dots to adhere dark pink and black layers to the light pink base. The black ribbon should be showing through the center cut out ribbon.

15. Add Hero Arts™ adhesive gems to the top in the middle and the points of the cut out ribbon on the bottom (you can barely see mine, but they are hot pink). 

16. Give it to someone who is fighting the pink fight! 

I went to a Crop for the Cure on October 2nd in honor of Monique Griffith. So I gave this card to her! 

Head on over to the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and play along with us! 

Cuttin' Up Saturdays with Whoopsi Daisy!

This Saturday edition of Cuttin' Up is sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy!

I LOVE ELEPHANTS. I saw this one and HAD to have it. Isn't he the cutest? There are lots of people pregnant in my life right now and they all seem to be having boys! :) So I knew this card would come in handy.

I colored theWhoopsi Daisy Sheet 33™ image with my Sharpie™ markers. I used to use them for marking my golf ball so that it would differ from other people's. They sure came in handy!

I made this shaped card using my Gypsy™ and the Graphically Speaking Cartridge™. I used the clock shadow, hid the center hole, and then welded the moon (with holes hidden) to the front. Next I re-cut the moon in an off white, embossed it with the Checkerboard embossing folder, and used bright blue ColorBox™ ink to ink up the front inconsistently so it would look like the moon a bit. Obviously the moon isn't checkered - I do know that. :) I glued my image down so I could have him just peeking out and embellished with some Hero Arts™ adhesive stars.

Now, let me tell you it is no small feat taking a picture of a perfectly round card. I just kept rolling! But I was able to open it a bit and snap this picture. Haha. You should have seen me trying to do it. It was pretty funny.

Recipe:
Paper: white printer paper for the image and Core'dinations for the orange, DCWV for the off-white
Elephant: Whoopsi Daisy Sheet 33™
Markers: Sharpie™
Embossing: OhMyCrafts Exclusive Everyday Bundle: Checkerboard™
Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Cartridges: Graphically Speaking™
Ink: ColorBox™, gStudio™
Hero Arts™ adhesive stars and gems

Don't forget to play along this week in our Be Inspired Wednesday challenge and you might 4 sheets (that's 16 images!) of Whoopsi Daisy images! :)

Thanks for your Service

Happy Weekend!

I am making this for several challenges:
My Pink Stamper's: Make and send a card to someone in service on this day of remembrance.
CricutCardzChallenge: Fall card without using brown, orange and yellow (MUCH harder than I thought)
Wee Memories: Fall card

Recipe:
Cartridge: Heritage™
Paper: K&Co.™, Cricut™, Cosmo Cricket™ Material Girl
Stamp: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Vinyl Rub-ons: EAD Designs Caged Vinyl Rub-ons™ in white
Ribbon: JillyBeanSoup™
Buttons

Have a beautiful day! I'm off to downtown San Francisco with my parents who just got into town. :)

My Pink Stamper thank you and Torendi One Year Anniversary!

Hi everyone!

Just a quick post today showing you a thank you card I made for Robyn at My Pink Stamper for sending some stamps my way for the Cuttlebug Challenges (she should have gotten it by now hopefully) as well as an announcement that Torendi is having their one year anniversary and doing giveaways on their blog and facebook page!

I used some Sassafras paper from the Indie Girl Wee Bundle (back in stock!) for this thank you that I picked up at Torendi. Torendi also just got some new Sassafras paper in and they have an anniversary kit going that there are only 5 of, so pick one up if you want it! The sentiment came from My Pink Stamper's Everyday Occasions  - LOVE it.

The pink paper is Provo Craft Cricut Paper Pads Reds and Pinks™ and the grunge tag I won over at Mad Hatter Stamps a while ago. The flower is from the Gypsy Wanderings™ cartridge and embossed with Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™.


I just finished a huge project that I hope to share with you all soon - but I can't yet just in case it gets published. If it doesn't, it will be up very soon! I am very excited about it!

That's all for now! Have a beautiful day!

Quick thank you and challenges!

I made this super quick card for a guy who helped out with the HOA summer party that I helped throw last Saturday. I feel like I can't even say I made this card. My Minds Eye™ did all of the work. It's from the Ooh La La™ pack that my best friend Kourt gave me for my birthday (thanks Kourt!).

This paper was called "For Him 'Over the Top' Paper Item#OLL118". I simply made an A2 sized cut (8.5x5.5"), folded it, glued one of the journaling cards to the inside that came with it, and stamped it with My Pink Stamper's Everyday Occasions™ stamp set.

Easy Peasy. Sometimes it's okay to let the paper do the work.

Speaking of paper... have you seen the paper by Echo Park? I think I'm in love. If you happen to head over to their Facebook page and "like it" please also put a comment on their wall that says that Courtney Lee sent you! :)

Don't forget to head over to Wee Memories to play in this week's "In the Forest" challenge where you could win a GC to Third Coast Rubber Stamps. You have a little over 3 days to complete something! So head on over there! :)

Come back tomorrow to see the anniversary card that I made for my husband and the Be Inspired Wednesday posts at the Cuttlebug Challenges!