Special Anniversary Moment

The challenge this week at A La Card Monkey was to create a card to celebrate a special moment. Friends of mine are celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary - that seemed pretty momentous to me. Following the sketch:

I came up with this card:

The Twitterpated DSP is mounted on SU cardstock - I'm not sure what the color name is, it's some kind of lavender. One of the Four Frames is stamped in Basic Gray and punched with the decorative label punch. I used the Sizzix Decorative label die for the background. I didn't have a "Happy Anniversary" stamp that would fit within the frame, so I hand-wrote the greeting. I finished the card off with a scallop die, lavender silk ribbon and pearls.

By the way, A La Card Monkey is getting close to challenge #100 - I hear there's blog candy to be had.

Snoopy Says You're the Sweetest

It's almost Valentine's Day, so not much more time to make a red, pink & white card! Snoopy & Woodstock are enjoying their ice cream on a park bench. I just picked up the sentiment stamp a couple of weeks ago out of the clearance bin at Michaels. This was the first opportunity to match it up. The theme this week at A La Card Monkey is Sweet + Sketch. Here's the sketch:

It's only a coincidence that the foil heart on my card has polka dots like the heart in the sketch LOL. You can't really tell from the photo, but the heart is red. The basic card is Real Red cardstock topped by Melon Mambo that has been embossed with the Sizzix 3-dot folder. The image is stamped on white cardstock using Stazon black and then colored with markers. The sentiment stamp was stamped using Real Red and Chocolate Chip markers and then colored in. RR cardstock was layered underneath the images. Glimmer brads complete the card.

This is the last week for Shirley's Valentine Blog Hop, I'm entering this card there as well.

Hope you'll play along. The rules are simple:

1. Anything goes, Card, 3D project it just has to be Valentines.

2. Add the Hop to your Post, by using the code from Linky tools.

3. Add badge to post with a link to Shirley's blog.

4. Has to be a new post.

Valentine Owls

I case'd this design from Kelly Larson. I used different papers, different embossing folder, changed from an anniversary card to a valentine. I didn't have a heart punch for the middle heart, so I made a template the way I learned wa-a-a--a-a-a-a-a-a-ay back in grammar school (the things that stick with you LOL), cut the heart out by hand and embossed it with the polka dot folder.The center band is embossed with hearts. This was just a scrap of card stock, I think it's pink pirouette, but I could be wrong. I'm entering it in Shirley's Valentine Blog Hop.

 This is the LAST week for the hop, so join in now.

The rules are simple:

1. Anything goes, Card, 3D project it just has to be Valentines.

 2. Add the Hop to your Post, by using the code from Linky tools.

3. Add badge to post with a link to my blog.

4. Has to be a new post

Kitten Birthday Wishes

I made this green and blue card for this week's A La Card Monkey challenge #94. Here's this week's sketch:

For my card, the background is a layer of Certainly Celery topped by a green on green Recollections dsp all layered on white card stock. The kitten is a Stampabilities stamp and stamped with Tempting Turquoise. The butterflies are punched from a scrap piece of (I think) Tempting Turquoise card stock. They have tiny green pearls on their bodies. The sentiment is also TT and both sentiment and image are sponged around the edges with CC ink. I used the Decorative Label punch, once on white card stock, once on CC. A turquoise ribbon and Old Olive button complete the card.

A Valentine for Monkey 93

It's Love + Sketch for this week's Monkey Challenge 93. The big thing is that you have to use pennants. Since I have neither pennant stamps nor pennant punches, it put the "challenge" into this card. I made a little template and then cut my pennants from Cherry Cobbler card stock that had been embossed with hearts.  The base card is Melon Mambo, layered with white cardstock (with corners punched for a little decoration) then some Recollections DSP. The large heart was die cut from Cherry Cobbler and overlaid with the sentiment (stamped in CC on white) and overlaid again with white die cut heart-shaped "lace". The smaller hearts were punched from CC and MM cardstock. I added little pink pearls on the pennants. It doesn't really show, but the pennants are attached with dimensionals so they do stick out a little from the card. The 3 little hearts are also attached with dimensionals.

Here's this week's sketch:

Cute little kitten eh? I love the little pink tongue sticking out.  

I'm also entering this in Shirley's Valentine Blog Hop.

Anyone can enter, the rules are simple:

1. Anything goes, card, 3D project - just has to be Valentines.

2. Add the hop to your post, by using the code from Linky tools.

3. Add the above badge to your post with a link back to Shirley's blog.

4. Has to be a new post.

Snoopy Valentine for Blog hop

It's week two of Shirley's four-week Valentine Blog hop! You know I had to make a Snoopy card LOL!

I've been wanting to try a center step card and finally went for it.  The card base is Melon Mambo. I embossed the center section with the polka dot folder. The DSP is DCWV. The scalloped circle is made with Cherry Cobbler cardstock and the Bigz circle die. I used my paper piercer to add holes in the scallops. I cut a smaller Melon Mambo circle with my circle cutter. The image itself I stamped twice on white cardstock using black Stazon ink. The second image I cut out just the Snoopy and the envelope. I used glitter on Snoopy and attached him with dimensionals to the first image. I colored in the envelope with a Pink Pirouette marker. I traced around the bottom image with Bashful Blue and used Certainly Celery on the grass.

The two hearts are punched from Cherry Cobbler cardstock and run through the polka-dot embellishment folder. The sentiment is stamped in Melon Mambo on white cardstock and adhered to layers of CC & MM.

Come on and join the blog hop, it's easy:

Rules are simple:

1. Anything goes, card, 3D project - just has to be Valentines.

2. Add the hop to your post, by using the code from Linky tools.

3. Add the above badge to your post with a link back to Shirley's blog.

4. Has to be a new post.

Anything Goes for Monkey 92

It was time to get out some scraps and make a card for challenge 92 at A La Card Monkey. The sketch is pretty simple:

What a cute little owl! Anyway, I opened my "scrap" drawer and went to work. I heat-embossed the sentiment and image. It took me a couple of tries to get the heat-embossing right on the image - I kept scorching the paper LOL. I colored in the image - from the "Its a Loop Thing" stamp set - using pink pirouette and bashful blue markers. The only paper that I'm sure of where it came from is the lower left DSP, that's from the Ice Cream Parlor package that I got at last year's Sale-a-bration. The embossed ink has a sparkle to it, and the flash on my camera made the "Happy Birthday" look a little faded out on the right side, but in person it's all there.