Bringing Home Baby

I decided to make a baby card for this week's sketch. My brother and his wife have a new baby girl! She is soooo cute!

I used Bringing Home Baby for this card.  I also used Bringing Home Baby Girl digi paper.  I also decided to try a new card style (that makes two new ones for me in so many days)!  I made a recessed window card.  You can see the dimensions better in the following photos.

The center of the card is recessed so it cannot lay flat - but that's ok, I delivered the card in person when we went to visit my brother's family and to meet my new niece.

You can see the dimensions more clearly in the photo below.

Some fun details - bling for the buggy...

I love the little storks on the paper in the upper corner left-hand corner.  I also used my sewing machine to stitch around the card and between the different papers to make it look like a quilt.

I hope you will stop by the other design team blogs and see what they have for you and don't forget to play along. 

I hope you enjoyed your visit today - please leave a comment - they really make my day!

Underwater Wonderment - new MTME digi release

Good morning everyone!  I'm so excited about My Time Made Easy's new digi images called Underwater Wonderment.  They will be in the store a little later this morning... Lauren is working on it as I speak... erm, type!

I made a wiper card using the new images... I think the only image I didn't use is a dolphin and that's because I just didn't have enough room on the card.  All the images are so stinkin' cute!

Here's the front of the card:

 

Now, when you open the card you get a little surprise:

How sneaky is that little seahorse?!  He pops right up because he wants to join in the fun.

This is called a wiper card.  I found the directions on Splitcoast Stampers wiper card tutorial.  Give it a try!  It was a lot of fun.

Every image and paper (except for the base which is SU) is My Time Made Easy's digi paper.  I printed Alexa the mermaid onto the orange paper so I could cut out the parts I needed to paper piece her outfit. 

For my sketch for the front of the card I used Splitcoast Stampers sketch challenge#SC337. 

There are other challenges I am entering:
A Spoonfull of Sugar- Splish Splash
ScrapCreations - anything goes


Thank you for stopping by!  I appreciate each comment - they really help keep me going!

MTME Pretty Patterns #13

A dear friend of mine told me that her pastor is getting married and she needs a card for his wedding.  Instead of giving her one of my other cards, I decided to make a new card using MTME's wedding cake image and MTME designer paper, Wildflowers. I'm so excited about this week's sketch.  It was a lot of fun to work with. 

I made the flower - oh yes I did!  I've made one similar to this one but it was quite big so I used the two middles sized flowers in this Sizzix die for this flower.  The instructions on how to make this fun flower is on my friend, Linda's blog: The Funkie Junkie - Easy Apple Blossom Tutorial

 The center of the flower is... a button of course!  Last week JoAnn's was having 40% all buttons so I stocked up on a few of my favorites.  I'm not sure if they are still on sale - they could be... another JoAnn's flyer just came in the mail today for next week. 

I just LOVE MTME's digi wedding cake found in the stamp set called On Display.  I wanted the cake to be a little larger than the original size so I easily enlarged it and then printed it up.  Lauren has a lot of video tutorials that are easy-peasy to follow. She also has a link to a FREE program that you can use with your digi stamps. Changing a stamp's size is one of the perks of buying digi! 

I colored the cake with copics added the little pearls and then added a tiny bit of shimmer by outlining the roses with my star dust pen. (I totally forgot the name of it.  lol)  I gathered some lace down the middle in a zig-zag fashion and adhered it to the card (before I attached the flower of course).

 I dry embossed the white background with Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder, cut the lattice with Cherrylynndesigns Lattice #2... and then I had to re-size it to fit in the area I wanted it to.  You can see the dry embossing a little better in the photo below:

I cut out the sentiment, To the Happy Couple from the set So Sentimental, with Spellbinder's fancy tags.

 All the fun, frilly, layers and details.  What fun!

 

 This sentiment, "Love" is stamped on the inside of the card.  I found this and several other rubber stamps mounted on wood at Michael's that were originally $1 each but were on sale for $.60.  You just can't beat that!

 

Thank you for visiting and I hope you will stop by My Time Made Easy Blog  and join in the fun!  Here is this week's sketch:

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

CR84FN: light pink, med green, neutral (white!)

Wee Memories: anything goes

Truly Scrumptious: Summer & Sparkle- June weddings & pearls & shimmer on roses

Mark's Finest Papers:  use a 3-D flower

Paper Take Weekly: anything goes!

The Shabby Tea Room: embossing
Stamp TV's Mix it up Monday: add texture to your card.  (if my card doesn't qualify with all the different textures... then I don't know what does!  tee-hee!)

MTME Pretty Pattern #12!

Wow, are we already on sketch twelve?  As they say, time flies when you're having fun.... well it's certainly true as far as these challenges go.  They are very fun indeed!

My Time Made Easy has a new release - it's all digi this time - check it out here!  

I used MTME's newest digi paper called Spring is Here. Isn't it gorgeous?!  I used one of their acrylic stamp set called Singing Silhouette.  I bought the acrylic because I love to stamp solid images (such as the birds, flowers and leaves) right into my different colors of ink.  It was a lot of fun!  I also enjoy embossing which can't be done when you print a digi image, but I did not do it on this project. 

(As always, click on photos to enlarge)

Here are some close-ups of the new paper that I used on my card:


Can you see the orange birds amongst the flowers?

 This pattern has vertical stripes of flowers.  The stripes just happened to be the right width to use with this sketch. What's great about digi paper is that you can resize the print and make it fit whatever project you are working on.  See?  I am becoming accustomed to using digi stuff.  ;)

My usual 3-d shot.  I like this photo.. it makes it look like the pearls are all lined up straight.  LOL

 Here are the love birds!  I don't have a pretty orange ink pad so I used a marker to color the orange bird's body.  I couldn't get the ink to come out smooth like the pink.  It looks like it has scratches on it.  Does anyone know what to do about that?

I hope you will join us and play along!  Just click on the sketch and it will take you there. 

Thank you all for coming by!  Please leave a little comment so I know you were here... and stop by the other Pretty Patterns design team members to see what they've come up with and leave them a little love too! 

• Pretty Patterns Sketch Team

  • Bonnie Ratzloff
  • Debbie Marcinkiewicz
  • Fran Baker
  • Kathryn Berthiaume
  • Lauren Meader
  • Maja Gomboc
  • Monique Hansen
  • Nancy Jansen - (that's me!)
  • Tangii Crain – Pattern Leader
  • Wendy McGaffey
  
  
  I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:
  Simon Says Stamp and Show:  use your favorite stamp
  Tip Top Tuesday: use ribbon (bow)
  Paper Play Challenge:  "Summer Citrus Splash"
  

  Spoonful of Sugar: "Flower power"

  Wee Memories: "Pintrist/Etsy Inspired"  Here's my inspiration photo - click on photo for link to Etsy

  

  Cupcake Inspirations: inspiration photo that includes flowers and spring theme:
  

  

Pretty Patterns # 11

We have another great sketch for you this week.  Here's my take on it:

With Father's Day just around the corner I decided to use one of the new digi stamps that was released last week at My Time Made Easy.  I really like this Papa Bear and daughter image called #1 Dad - the daughter sure is proud of her Daddy!  I also made a #1 Dad ribbon to go on the image.  For the ribbon I used the digi set  called, For Dad - 16 images.

The designer paper was also from My Time Made Easy called Romance,

I wanted to make the image look like a framed photo so I hope I accomplished it.  I like that the bow really gives the card dimension as does the popped up image (in frame) and poppsed up #1 Dad ribbon.

Thank you so much for visiting!  I hope you will go by and visit the rest of the Pretty Pattern's team blogs and see what they've made for you.

• Pretty Patterns Sketch Team

  • Bonnie Ratzloff
  • Debbie Marcinkiewicz
  • Fran Baker
  • Kathryn Berthiaume
  • Lauren Meader
  • Maja Gomboc
  • Monique Hansen
  • Nancy Jansen - (that's me!)
  • Tangii Crain – Pattern Leader
  • Wendy McGaffey

Have a great day!

Other challenges:
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Teddy Bears

The Kindness You Share...

"The Kindness You Share is a Blessing".  Isn't it true that the kindness that others show us blesses our lives?  We are also blessed when we show kindness to others.  I know that when I've been having a hard time and someone shows me kindness whether it be a meal brought in, prayers offered on mine and my family's behalf or even just a smile... it really lightens my mood.  So many people were so very kind to us when my daughter was so sick and after she passed away.  I am forever thankful to those people who showed us such kindness.  So...  when I saw this Justrite set, Kindness, I knew that I HAD to have it. I will be using this set a lot!

I stamped the frame in light blue and cut it out with Spellbinders dies.  The sentiment, "The Kindness you share is a blessing" is stamped onto a doily that I made out of SU Kraft paper.

As you can see the frame is propped up with pop dots to give it dimension and opens in the center to show the sentiment.  I love how the frame was made to fit perfectly with the Spellbinders.  I almost forgot to mention that I colored the pearls on the frame with my copic marker to match the ribbon.  They are the same pearls that are all around the doily.

I LOVE butterflies so I added one in the right-hand corner.  I added some shiny bling to add motion to the butterfly which I had glued in the center and formed the wings to add dimension.

I added a bow made from hand-dyed seam binding.  One of these days I'm going to try dying my own but for now I have some on hand that I purchased online and at my local scrapbook store.

For this card I used sketch #116 from Cardpatterns:

I also am entering the following challenges:

Really Reasonable Ribbon: anything goes and use ribbon

JustRite Friday Challenge 055: Color:  Light-Medium Blue & Ivory, Kraft or Tan

StampTV Free for all Friday: "Let's be Krafty =  use Kraft" doily is made of Kraft paper

CES Challenges:  Embellish it! = pearls all around the doily, copic colored pearls around sentiment, hand-made butterfly with bling and a big bow

Truly Scrumptious: anything goes & DT call!

WMS 2nd Birthday - Tea Party!

Waltzingmouse Stamps turns 2 and in celebration they are having a tea party!  We are to make a tea bag, tea pot or pastry themed projects - anything that you would find at a tea party!  Claire provided a FREE tea bag template which I printed and put together for this fun contest!

I used several Waltzingmouse stamps.  The flower is the smaller of two in Roses in Bloom.  I also used Very Vintage Labels No 5.  For the background I used Musical Backgrounds.  Enjoy the rest of the photos!  Lots of details in this project.

I even stamped the back of the tea bag.  I punched a hole in the top and tied it together with string so that I can later open it and fill it with goodies.  (I'm not a tea drinker so I don't keep it on hand... but I know quite a few ladies who would love a few chocolates in a fun container!)

oooooh, shiny!  I used a glitter pen in the center of the flower.  I also used copics to color and shade the rose which was stamped onto designer paper.  I stamped it again and layered the rose.

Hand-dyed seambinding tied in a bow with a light pink pears half attached.  It's the same color as the pearl flourishes around the rose.

 

I used chocolate chip ink for the decorative stamp on the top and the bottom of the tea bag.

 I'm also entering this project in Papertake Weekly:  Bloom and Growand the Shabby Tea Room:  monochromatic

Super Dad - My Hero!

I'm so excited about My Time Made Easy's latest digital stamp release.  I'm in love with the new bear images.  The papa bear doing things with his cubs just melts my heart.  I chose to use Super Dad for my card today.  My husband has sure been a SUPER DAD to our children and he's definitely my HERO. 

I popped up the frame on pop-dots to give it some dimension.  I also used a strip of the floral pattern from Cheerful Chirps digi paper.  I love that I can print up what I want - when I want.  I'm really enjoying using the digi products!

 

Here is MTME's Pretty Pattern sketch... I just turned it onto it's side and used is that way.

Don't forget to stop by the rest of the design team's blogs and see what they've prepared for you today.  The list is on the right side column.  I also hope you will join us in this fun sketch challenge!

Taylored Expressions May Blog Hop

This month we were challenged to make a masculine card. I was a little concerned on how I was going to do it because most of the stamps I have are so girly.  I went through my TE stamps and decided that the sentiment "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you've imagined" by Thoreau was a great sentiment to use.  It's from TE's New Beginnings.  ( I LOVE that set and really wanted to use the butterflies and roses images but no - they're not "manly" so I'll save them for another card... tee-hee!) 

I used the dandelions and daisies from the stamp set Discover Your Wings for the background.  Even though they are flowers, I think that stamped on the chocolate background and embossed in white allows for enough masculinity for it to be given to any self-respecting man.  Am I right?  ;)

This card could be a great for graduation!  My son, Brandon, will be graduating from High School NEXT WEEK!  I don't know how this happened... it seems like just yesterday he was throwing his things off his high chair and wanting us to pick them up for him so he could throw them again.  haha!  That's one of the many fun memories we tease him about. 

 I had a terrible time photographing this card - I'm not sure why.  The photos just don't do it justice.   I photographed it with a white background and the designer paper behind it but I'm still not happy with how the photos turned out.  It's just been one of those days I guess.  
I hope you've enjoyed your visit here and will continue visiting the rest of the blog hop participants. 

My Time Made Easy ~ May 15 release

I'm so excited about My Time Made Easy's release.  Isn't this the sweeties image?  I LOVE butterflies and Amber sure is out to catch some! I used the new digi image Chase Your Dreams.

I used the color scheme from Pretty Palette #8.  I'm a little late to actually enter that challenge but I loved the color scheme so I went with it.  The Pretty Palette #9 is up and just as great!     The paper is also from MTME -  Wistful Wonder and Serenity.

This is the first ribbon rose I've made this way.  I saw the pleated ribbon at the scrapbooking store recently and just had to have it.  It's a little poofy but I'll get the hang of it.

 

I used Martha Stewart punches for the butterflies and of course I used Spellbinders to accentuate the image.  Other challenges: SCS sketch challenge and Papertake Weekly - use punches.  Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to go see the full release.