Any Occasion Flower Card, non-Cricut

It's finally beginning to feel like Spring in the Mid-west.  The past week was nasty; cold, hail, wet snow, and freezing temps!  My poor daffodils took a beating.  Be GONE Winter!  HELLO Spring!  :)

This past week I made five cards for different occasions; two were sympathy cards, one get well card, one Easter card and one birthday card.  I started off making one card and liked it so much that I decided to use the same card for all five occasions and then just changed my sentiment accordingly.

Goodies used:

• Papertrey Ink (PTI) cardstock; Sweet Blush (card base), Ripe Avocado (matting), Rustic Cream (stamped and heat embossed layer)
• Stamp is Penny Black "Fireworks" and heat embossed with Stampendous "Blushing Pink" embossing powder
• Ranger Distressed Inks used; tattered rose, victorian velvet, pumice stone, and bundled sage - LOVE this product!
• Lightly stamped Script Stamp (Inkadinkado) with DI - pumice stone
• PTI Ribbon Spring Moss and PTI button with Rustic Cream twine 

Thanks for stopping by to visit.  If you haven't already, don't forget to leave me your blog address so I can come and visit you!

Have a great weekend.

Toodles,   Jude

Ribbon Shelf made from Foam Core Board

Hope everyone is having an awesome day in Blogland!

I've been itching to organize my ribbon and when bloggers post pictures of their craft room reorganized my ears perk up (and my eyes bulge with envy!) as I'm always curious how people organize their goodies.  I consider myself an organized person and definitely craft/scrap better when my "goodies" are organized.  I used to store my ribbon in four picture-storage type boxes (grouped by color families) and every time I wanted to use ribbon, I had to open each box to see what ribbon I had on hand and then decide what I wanted to use.  Let me tell you, it was a pain!  :)

Finally, when I saw that Denise over at www.paperpastime.com created a ribbon shelf from foam core board, I decided to give it a try.  I bought the foam core board at Wal-Mart.  Denise used white foam core board and my Wal-Mart didn't have enough pieces of white (3 x 20"x30" needed), but they had ample sheets of black, which fit in better with my craft room decor anyway!

If you're interested in the tutorial, Denise has them posted on her website.  Her directions are very clear and I had absolutely NO problem following them.  I will say though, when using the black foam core board, my excess glue showed a little where it seeped through when I was putting the pieces together.  I'm the only one who sees it so it really doesn't matter. :)

Here are some pictures of my completed project:

It appears sturdy enough to attach to the wall, so that's what I'll likely do with it.

Total cost of the foam core board - $12.  Creating this myself - PRICELESS!

If you have any questions, please leave me a comment with your email address and I'll be happy to try and answer them.

Thanks Denise for sharing your talent and awesome project with us!


Toodles, Jude

Happy Birthday card using Paper Pups, Cricut

This is another card I made for my son's birthday ~ given to him by another of his fur-sisters!  He has two fur-sisters, Lulu and Roxy!

All of the die cuts are from the Cricut cart. Paper Pups, with the exception of the fire hydrant and the green paper with the paw prints (both are from DCWV The Pet Stack).

The base cardstock is PTI "Pure Poppy" and miscellaneous scraps of paper were used to cut out the dog, the dog house, and the sentiment.  For the dog house, I embossed the white cardstock layer with my Cuttlebug folder Distressed Stripes, and then inked it lightly with Ranger's Antique Linen Distressed Ink.  The base cardstock was also embossed with the Fiskars "Paws" texture plate.

I also used Stickles for the party hat, which was from Paper Pups.  The "Happy Birthday" sentiment was also from Paper Pups.

Toodles,
Jude

Happy Birthday "Best Buddies" card for Boy, using Cricut

The above card was made for my son's birthday ~ given to him by one of his fur-sisters!  LOL

The image was cut from A Child's Year Cricut cartridge, along with the shadow feature (PTI Dark Chocolate).

I used ink blending techniques with different colored Distressed Inks to give the background layer some shading and color, as well as around the outside of my boy/dog cutout. I then stamped used Background Text Styles (PTI) with chocolate brown ink.  I LOVE this look!  I stitched around the outside of this layer with a tan colored thread.

To do the sentiment, I used an embossing pen to write the sentiment (it's not very straight though!) and then and embossed it with white embossing powder.  I also stiched the sides of the brown cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by to visit!

Toodles,
Jude

Manchester United Soccer Jersey - customized!

My son is a huge ManU fan and his 12th birthday is on Friday (he's an April Fool's baby!) so I made this card for him.  Hopefully he will like it! 

I've made a couple similar cards for his friends' birthdays; FC Barcelona card http://judestersworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/fc-barcelona-soccer-jersey-card-using.html and Brasil card http://judestersworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/brasil-soccer-jersey-card-with-cricut.html.

This card was created in SCAL2 and customized with our surname and his actual jersey number on the back of the jersey.  The ManuU crest was hand drawn.  The red cardstock is PTI Pure Poppy. 

Here are some pics ~

Thanks for stopping by to visit!


Toodles,  Jude

Dragonfly Male birthday card

Wow, I'm on a roll with posting!  I think this is the most I have posted in one month!  LOL 

I made this birthday card for my BIL, who is celebrating his birthday at the end of this month.  It's a super simple card.  I'm just "ok" with the end result, but then again, I rarely get over the top with making masculine cards anyway.  Making girly things are SO MUCH MORE FUN!  Don't you think so?

IMO, this card looks much better in person than in the picture ~

  
Goodies used:

• All card stock used is PTI; card base - Rustic White, matting - Enchanted Evening (used pop dots for dimension)
• Background Woodgrain stamp is PTI; Dragonfly stamp is miscellaneous from my stash; and sentiment is from PTI Button Bits
• Ribbon is PTI Enchanted Evening
• The dragonfly and sentiment were stamped with Distessed Inks (Broken China, Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint and Marigold)
• Distressed inks around edges with Tea Dye and Brushed Corduroy

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!
 
Toodles,  Jude

Get Well Card for a Boy - Throwback Thursday's Challenge with Emma

Happy Monday! ... well, hope it's a happy Monday for you.  So far so good here.  My son went back to school today. He was off sick again for part of last week.  It appears he had a relapse with the flu.  There are a ton of kids off sick at his school.  He was feeling better by the weekend, but I made him stay home and take it easy all weekend.  It was a good thing too as he had lots of homework to catch up on!

One of my son's soccer friends (Austin) had emergency surgery on the weekend.  They thought he had the flu, but ended up with a bowel blockage due to scar tissue from a previous surgery when he was little.  Thank the good Lord that he is doing well and they caught it before things got worse.

This is the card I made for Austin:

Goodies used:

• The AUSTIN font is from Cricut Old West cart (shadow feature) and was welded to a 4"x6" box using my Gypsy.  The card stock is PTI Dark Chocolate.
• I layered the name again (regular font from Old West) in the stars patterned paper and welded "get" "well" "soon" (Cricut Calligraphy Collection shadow feature used) to the name.  I used foam tape to adhere this layer to the brown layer.  The stars paper is from DCWV The Guy Stack.
• Then I created a separate layer in blue, for the "get" "well" "soon" again. This paper was scraps from my stash
• I added a piece of dark red patterned paper (DCWV The Guy Stack) behind the brown name and taped it to the inside of the card.
• The inside is coordinated with the stars patterned paper and PTI kraft card stock.
• I inked the edges with Distressed Ink Tea dye, added metal stars and some cool gold circle clip (not sure the proper name of this embellishment, but I think it's cool!).  Oh, I added faux stitching along the edge of the card too.

I'm happy with the results and hope Austin likes his card.  We're going to visit him tonight in the hospital.  Apparently he will be in the hospital for the entire week and then no school the following week.  Poor boy.  He's a great kid and we're looking forward to seeing him.

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Toodles,  Jude