Happy Memorial Day!

I hope you are all having a wonderful day. I'm happily enjoying the day off work and creating more cards.

This is another Father's Day card. One of the ladies at work has a father that loves to garden so I thought this would make him smile...



And here is the inside:



Have you ever "lost" a stamp? I knew that I had a tiny bee stamp and it wasn't where I thought it should be. I started searching my scraproom and finally found it stuck among the stamps that still need to be mounted and put in my binders! I better get busy getting the rest of those stamps where they belong.

Cuddlebug Challenge - Butterflies

I have entered this card in the challenge over at the cuddlebug challenge blog. I don't have the cuddlebug butterfly and heart die/folder so I used my cricut and cut the butterfly from my new Home Decor cartridge at 2". I then ran it through the cuddlebug using the swiss dots folder. To highlight some of the dots I used a white gel pan and also put clear rhinestones on some random dots. This is also my first "joy fold" card and I have to say it was a lot of fun to create. I got the information from SCS. Stickles were add to parts of the paper to add even more bling!

Hope you enjoy!



and here is the inside:

Father's Day Card #3

I have to admit that this card is my favorite so far. Have you tried Bugawump stamps? They are such fun!



This card is embossed, and embossed, and embossed..... etc. I think I used almost a whole jar of clear embossing powder on this card! I stamped all the images using Stazon Black. Then colored them in using colored embossing markers and heat set them with the clear powder. Even the white dots are embossed. This allowed me to use my inks to create the background. When that was finished I used a paper towel to wipe off any excess ink from the images. Don't you just love the firefly?

Anyway... here is the inside.



I got a little carried away with the fireflys but I couldn't help myself! The inside sentiment was printed onto the cardstock using my printer.

Father's Day Card #2

So you ready for the next one? Well, ready or not, here it comes....



I love this sailboat stamp from Stamping Sensations. I ran into them at a scrapbook expo.
I stamped the sailboat with Black Stazon and colored it in with my prismacolor pencils. I created a mask for the sailboat then stamped the script background using Stampin'up River Rock ink. I also stamped the sailboat a second time and cut out the green sail and used pop dots to mount it on top of the stamped image. I added a touch of stickles to the waves for sparkle.

The anchor is cut from the Mickey & Friends cartridge at 1 1/2". I added glossy accents on the anchor to give it a wet look.

I think the inside sentiment is very appropriate. Here is a pic of the inside of the card.



Remember, you can click on the pictures for a larger view.

Finally got time to create!

It's been quite a long time since I had any time to be creative. But I started working on Father's Day Cards. I hope you get some inspiration from them.

This first one was made using a stamp set from Darcie's Stamps called Fishing Fun. Darcie's stamps are high quality unmounted rubber that are ready for acrylic blocks and come in a great plastic case. She even provides sample cards for you with each stamp set. (I am not affiliated in any way.)

This card is my version of one of the samples.




It was a little challenging for me since I am "Sissor challenged". But I ended up using an xacto knife to cut out the fish and that worked much better.

Here is the inside:



If you click on the picture you can see a larger version.