See Ya Later

Alligator...

Alligator party that is. 

See Ya Later, Alligator

One of our friend's daughter is turning 1 and I made 12 invitations for her little party. Mom's theme was alligators because of her favorite stuffed animal. I found the perfect stamp in the Stampin' Up Wild About You set. I heat embossed the alligator, then stamped the flowers without embossing.

I paired that with some hot pink reptile skin paper, which I die cut using a scalloped rectangle Spellbinder. The base layer is from the DCWV Animal Crackers stack. 

Glitter Glue on Die Cuts

The 1's were cut on my Cricut. 

They seemed pretty plain, so I coated them with orange glitter glue and let them dry.  They proved to be fairly difficult to adhere because they curled.  I used some heavy duty GlueDots to ensure they stuck down.  One thing I can't stand is for my cards to fall apart in 6 months, so I am fairly picky about making sure the layers and embellishments are thoroughly attached.

Alligator Birthday

The dark brown cardstock bases are a set of blank cards by Paper Studio.  We printed the party information on white and adhered it inside the card. 

I ended up with a cute set of party invitations that are not too girly and not too pink - exactly the effect desired. 

Thanks for looking.  See you later!

WOYWW #216 - Finishing Up

Just finishing up 4 cards for SIL -- she wanted a set of the sympathy card using the My Daily Bread Amazing Grace chalkboard stamp.   I spent last Saturday with a patient DH searching for the same paper, and/or stamps that would produce the same effect. 

I did not have any of the correctly colored flowers, so I added some Stamping Up Aqua ink refiller drops (7) to a mini-mister bottle and sprayed some white and beige paper flowers.  They seemed too blue, so I added Tsukineko Sheer Shimmer Spritz in gold.  Had to wait for those to dry. I also tried buttons, but that didn't look right.

I just need some leaf sprays in the bottom left corner of the last 2 cards, and I finished them while I was taking pix this morning!  After downloading, I see that every desk picture I took is way too blurry, but no time to re-take, gotta scoot to work! 

Have a lovely day!

See other workdesks via the links at Julia's Stamping Ground.

WOYWW#215 Amazing Sympathy#2

Today I realized I needed two sympathy cards for a recent family member's passing. So it rapidly became what was on my workdesk!


I had already stamped two Amazing Grace chalkboard pieces so I quickly selected coordinating paper.

I used a Die Cuts With a View matstack called Garden Party and selected a nicely raised, embossed, and glittered paper with butterflies and flowers.

I cut the mat for an ivory card and backed it with a Bazzill Basics Herbal Garden Medium green layer. I used the same green to layer the chalkboard stamp. This stamp was one of my MUST HAVE's at the Creating Keepsakes convention I attended in April with my stepmom & stepsister!

By fussy-cutting the flowers I was able to get some depth to the card in addition to the lace behind the chalkboard.  

A sheer bow on the bouquet and gems for the flower centers are the finishing touches. 


Below is a close-up of the fussy-cut flowers.

 
I can always use the other piece of the mat I used to cut the flowers as a layer on another card.




The gems are lovely green Michael's gems.










Now father and daughter will receive similar cards.

Amazing Sympathy #2

Thank you for looking today! And if you want to see more WOYWW blogs, start at Julia's Stamping Ground blog!

MOJO299 Calling

MOJO299

MOJO299

I think this is the fastest card I have EVER made.  

It took me about 30 minutes from start to finish. I'm loving MOJO sketches!

I had already been playing with the striped patterned paper by DCWV, in the My Sunshine stack, on my CTMH blog (see the link on the sidebar) and it made a great banner shape and just worked perfectly on the Tim Holtz, Vintage Shabby background paper. The card base and the dotty green is by Studio G.


I had a chance to include the phone box from the Stampin' Up Feeling Sentimental set.  I inked it up with Night of Navy SU ink, and heat embossed it with a blue lustre embossing powder. Watercolor pencil in red highlighted the phone box and I inked the edges of the layer as well.

I cut the circle using a large Spellbinders circle die, and the outside CTMH pear cardstock is punched with a 2-1/2" circle punch.

The sketch gave a choice of round or square - again, so since I did a round card last time, I chose square! 







A lot of fun to put together! Thanks for stopping by!