Sarah Kay Cutie

Good Monday morning folks!  Today I have a really cute card to share using one of Sarah Kay's stamps.  These of course are retired.  This is Isabella and Cocoa.  I printed on Neenah white cardstock and colored with copics.  The card base is Stampin Up Real Red with a Neenah white top the I hit with a Martha Stewart Doily Lace border punch.  I added some Martha Stewart butterflies punched in Real Red cardstock and added flatback pearls to add a little umph.  I used Spellbinders oval die and scalloped oval dies for the image.  The red ribbon is from my stash.  Really simple card but very cute. Thanks for stopping by.  Until tomorrow.

Clara

Tiddly Inks Be My Sunshine

Woot Woot it's Friday!  Don't you just love the weekends.  Today I have a sweet little card to share with you.  I started with my card base of Stampin Up Crumb Cake with a layer of Chocolate Chip. The pattern papers are Simple Stories Harvest Lane.  I printed Tiddly Inks Be My Sunshine on Neenah white card stock and colored with Copics (skin E000, E00, E11, E13, R20, R22, R30 ; hair E51, E53, E55, E57; hat, dress, and shoes Y11, Y21, YR21, YR23, R35, R37,; R39, E39, E95, E97, E08, BG11, BG72, BG75; flowers E93, E95, E97; shading BG000, WI, W3, W5.  The little stips were cut on an angle.  To finish it off I added flat back pearls from my stash.  That's it for today.  I hope you all have a great weekend.

Clara 

Bordering on Romance

Hello and Happy Friday Eve!  I have a card today that I actually used a stamp set to make instead of a digi image.  I stamped Stampin Up Bordering on Romance (retired) onto Stampin Up Confetti Cream card stock. Colored with copics.  The card base is Stampin Up Ridinghood Red with a layer of Stampin Up Pretty in Pink card stock (retired).  The pattern paper is Stampin Up Twitterpated (retired).  I used Spellbinders Borderabilities A-2 Bracket dies for the decorative edge of the pink and patterned paper. The ribbon is Stampin Up Pretty in Pink pleated (retired).  The center of the flowers and top edge of flower image are self adhesive pearls from my stash.  Over all I like how it turned out.  Thanks for stopping by.  See you again.

Clara

QKR Stampede Digitals

Good morning and Happy Hump Day.  I'm starting the day off with another birthday card.  For this one I used News Boy digital from QKR Stampede.  They have some really great digi's.  I printed on Neenah white card stock and colored with copis.  The card base is Stampin Up Daffodil Delight card stock.  The patterned papers are My Minds Eye.  The wave at the bottom is Spellbinders Border dies. the sentiment is computer generated and cut out with Spellbinders small circle die and Stampin Up circle punch.  That's all I have for today.  I hope you have a good one.

Clara

Saturated Canary Catching Butterflies

Good morning.  It's not Monday any longer so I'm in a better frame of mind.  And today I have another birthday card for another niece.  My birthday season is really heating up now.  We have a ton of August birthdays and I'm trying to stay ahead of them.  So far so good!  I used another digital image for this card.  Unfortunately this digi artist is no long selling.  I used Saturated Canary Chasing Butterflies.  I colored her with copic markers and cut her out with a Spellbinders Oval die.  I then matted her on a Spellbinders Lacey Oval die in Stampin Up Taken With Teal card stock (retired).  the card base is Neenah white with Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie and Taken With Teal card stock layers.  The patterned paper is My Minds Eye On the Bright Side Too (retired).  I added a Martha Stewart butterfly punch in Pumpkin Pie.  The flowers and bling are from my stash.  I really like how she turned out.  Back again tomorrow.  Until then have a really great day.

Clara

Stamping Bella Uptown Girl

It's Monday again.  Not my favorite day of the week.  I find it difficult to transition back into the work week.  But on the up side I did get much needed birthday cards done this weekend.  The first one is for my niece.  Her birthday is Friday.  I stamped Stamping Bella Uptown Girl Posh has a Present on Neenah white card stock.  And this gal is tall.  As you can see she's as tall as my card which is 5.25" x 5.25".  I colored her with copic markers and matted her with Stampin Up Ballet Blue (retired).   The card base is Neenah white with a layer of Ballet Blue with My Minds Eye Stella & Rose Hattie paper pad.  The blue script paper is GCD Bella Blue paper pad.  The sentiment comes with the stamp and I stamped using Stazon Jet Black and cut into a tag.  I used Wink of Stella clear glitter pen around the ruffle on her dress.  It doesn't show in the photo but it's really cute.  I finished it off with flowers, pearl and and blue self adhesive gems.   I hope she likes it.  Thanks for stopping by.

Clara

Sarah Kay Birthday

It's Friday Eve!  Woot Woot!  Today I have a cute little card to share.  A birthday card I made for one of my cute little nieces.  I used Sarah Kay Bernadette Admiring Spring Flowers (retired).  Colored here using copics.  The card base is Neenah white card stock with layers of Stampin Up Real Red. The pattern papers are from Nitwit Collections Prints Charming.  The red decorative piece across the card is Martha Stewart deep edge punch Garden Trellis (discontinued).  The little leave are Stampin Up Garden Green card stock cut with Martha Stewart fern punch.  The flowers and pearls are from my stash.  That's it for today.  Again tomorrow.

Clara

Penny Black

Happy Hump Day! I have another birthday card to share today.  I made it for my DIL.  Her birthday was yesterday.  I stamped my image Penny Black's Grass Cake on Neenah white card stock.  I used a few copics to color.  The card base is Neenah card stock, then Stampin Up Bashful Blue (retired). The grass is cut from Stampin Up Certain Celery (retired) using a My Favorite Things grass die (retired) but they still have this grass die.  The clouds are also MFT die.  The cloud sentiment is computer generated.  That's all I have today.  I hope you have a really good day.  See you.

Clara

Get Well

Good morning all.  I spoke with my brother Sunday and found out that my sister-in-law was in the hospital.  She's one of the healthiest people I know but there she was in the hospital.  She had to have her appendix removed.  She's too funny.  She asked the doctor if they could schedule it for next month.  When the doctor said oh sure when next month she started to get up to leave and he had to tell her no way.  It had to come out today.  Oh how she hates being down.  So to make recovery a little less inconvenient I made her a get well card.

I started by printing the Sassy Cheryl image Sam's Rainy Day (which is part of a three digi set) on Neenah white cardstock.  Colored with copics.  Card base is Stampin Up Real Red.  The patterned papers are Basic Grey's June Bug 6x6 pad.  I used Martha Stewart's heart border punch along with Stampin Up corner punch and some flowers from my stash.  I hope this cheers her up a bit.  That's all for today.  I'll see you again tomorrow.

Clara

Stampin Up Card

Happy Friday once again!  Woot Woot!  I am ready for the weekend.  I bet you are as well.  Moving on to today's card.  I start by stampin the flower bunch from Stampin Up's Bordering on Romance (which is retired) on Neenah white card stock.  I used my copics to color.  My card base is Stampin Up Not Quite Navy with mats of Bashful Blue (also retired) and Stampin Up Twitterpated designer papers (retired).  Added flat back pearls to the flower centers and part of a bling flourish in the corners.  And that does it.  I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Clara

Uptown Girl

Hello friends.  We're moving ever closer to the weekend and I'm happy for that.  Hopefully I will actually make a card this weekend.  I really need to.  I have birthdays coming up.  Today's card is one I made for a co-worker's birthday.  I started with Stampin Up Real Red card stock.  I stamped the image Stamping Bella's Uptown Girl Audrey loves Makeup on Neenah white card stock.  Colored with copics and fussy cut.  I added a layer of patterned paper from My Minds Eye Lost & Found Union Square.  I cut a scalloped border using My Favorite Things medium scallop border die and added black grosgrain ribbon and pearls from my stash.  I love these Uptown Girl stamps.  I hope to see you again tomorrow with something new.  See you then.

Clara

Pretty Plaid Flowers

Good morning!  Wow this month is moving quickly.  We're halfway through already.  I won't even blink in case I miss something.  I need to get off my duff and start making stuff.  I have a lot of cards to make for August birthdays.  I need to get those done so I can move on to Christmas crafts.  If I don't start soon I'll run out of time to get everything done.  I am a world class PROCRASTINATOR!

Any was on to today's card.  I have become quite addicted to digital stamps.  And I thought I would hate them.  I have printed a Power Poppy digi Countryside Bouquet on Neenah white card stock. Colored with Copics (oranges - YR02, YR04, YR07, R24 * yellows - Y32, Y35, Y38 * pinks - RV21, RV23, RV25 * greens - G21, G24, G28, G40, G43, BG93).  Stampin Up's Barely Banana is my card base with a layer of Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid patterned paper.  I matted the image with Barely Banana.  Added orange gems and called it a day.  I really like the oranges and pinks together.  That's it for now.  See you tomorrow.

Clara

Tiddly Inks Wren

Well, it's the start of a new week.  I didn't get any cards made this weekend.  I had planned to get a couple done but my book called to me instead.  So today I'll share one I made earlier.  This is a super simple card.  Base is Stampin Up Basic Black card stock with a layer of Whisper White and then another black layer.  Then I used Martha Stewart's Doily Lace border punch for a white layer and then a black with white dots patterned paper from my stash.  Finished it with a thin strip of white card stock for a ribbon look.  The image is colored with copics, fussy cut and popped up with foam dots. The image is digital Tiddly Inks Wren Grow a Little Love.

Taylored Expressions Flowers

Happy Friday!  It has been a crazy week.  I took a little time off at the first of the week to flow into the 4th of July holiday.  I had big plans for my time off too.  Only you know what they say about plans......... Anyway my A/C unit died Sunday and you know South Texas is hot, hot, hot, hot, hot in the summer.  So no card making for me.  We do have A/C again so I'm going to try and hit the August birthday cards again this weekend.  In the mean time I have this one to share.

I started with Stampin Up Crumb Cake card stock with a Basic Black layer.  On top of that is a layer of My Minds Eye Miss Caroline patterned paper.  I stamped the Taylored Expressions Daisy Bouquet, colored it with copics and cut it out with the coordinating die.  I cut out the Spellbinder Picot Edge Circle in Basic Black card stock with a white circle.  Then I popped the flowers up with foam dots.  The ribbon and black pearls are from my stash.  That's it, hope you like it and hope you have a great weekend.  Back next week with new cards.

Clara