Congrats Grad!! - MSC dt

Tis the season for grad parties!!  We had a special one to attend yesterday and I created a special card and drink tumbler for the grad.

To create my card I used My Scrap Chick's "Girl Grad Emoji Box".  I deleted the layers for the box and only used the layers for the emoji.  I then created an offset and cut two of them to create my card base.  I scored one of the offsets about 1 inch down and adhered the two offsets together with some scor tape.  I added the bling since all the grads like to decorate their caps these days!  I also used some glossy accents to the sunglasses.

For the drink tumbler I used My Scrap Chick's "Grad's With Class" set and cut out vinyl in colors that matched the recipient's school colors.  I then filled the tumbler with money - all in $1 bills!!

School gets out in late June here so I know many of you are past graduation season but I hope I have inspired you for future opportunities.  Thanks for stopping by today!!

#birthday wishes - MSC dt

Happy Tuesday my crafty friends!!  I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend and perhaps even got some crafty time in!!  My hubby's birthday was yesterday and I wanted to share with you the card I made for him -

I used My Scrap Chick's "Hashtag Birthday Wishes" file and created a shaped card with it.  I used my Silhouette software and created a large offset of the base layer from the cut file (the gray part of the card).  I cut the offset out twice from some heavy cardstock (110 pound).  Because the offset was long I couldn't weld and make a base for my card in one cut so instead I scored the bottom layer of the card with my Scor Pal at about 1 inch in from the left and used some Scor Tape to adhere the two layers together thus creating my card base.  The photo below shows this more clearly -

I used some bright colored papers to make the card fun and added some balloons which I cut out from My Scrap Chick's "Snowball's Havin' A Ball" file.  I decided to use twine for the string on my balloons and finished up the card with some bright enamel dots and pen stitching using my white gel pen.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!  I hope I have inspired you with an idea for the next time you need a birthday card and especially one for a masculine recipient ;)  Hugs!!

Comfy Chair Easel Card - MSC dt

Happy Monday my crafty friends!  I hope you moms had a great mothers day yesterday!!   I wanted to share a card I made specifically for a friend who is going through some health issues and I thought this card would be the right "touch" to let her know I am thinking about her.  I used the "Comfy Chair Easel Card" file from My Scrap Chick to create this card.  The fun with putting this card together is selecting the papers/patterns for your chair ;) 

My friend really likes retro - furniture, clothes, hair, etc. ... so I tried to make my chair with that concept in mind.

I didn't photograph the back side but I added a square of blank white cardstock to the underside of the card for a place to write a note.  Thanks so much for stopping by today - I hope I have inspired your crafty side today ;)

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!!

Hi my crafty friends!!  Popping in to share a card I made with you recently.  I have a lot of colored images hanging around from the past couple of 30 Day Coloring Challenges and I am trying to get them onto some actual cards now.  That is how this card came about -

I used Lawn Fawn's "Baked With Love" stamp set for all of the images.  The sentiment is from an older Cardz TV Stamps set.  The twine is also from Lawn Fawn.  I colored all of my images using my Copic markers.  I used a die from Craftin Desert Divas for the window panes and the pattern paper is from My Favorite Things.

I am entering this into the following challenges -

Cardz TV Stamps - "Anything Goes #1"
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - "A Hint of Pink"
Crafting By Designs - "May Anything Goes"

Birthday Card for my Daughter

Popping in today to share a birthday card I created for my oldest daughter.   I sneak peeked this already on my IG account but wanted to share here too :-)

I used the Lawn Fawn "Fairy Friends" stamp set for my images.  I also used a few dies and sequins from Craftin Desert Divas for my background, fence and grass layers.  I used some distress inks to create my background layer.  Thanks for stopping by today!!

Mother's Day Purse Tote Bag - MSC dt

Hi there my crafty friends!!  I had a moment this weekend to get a head start on some Mother's Day projects and wanted to pop in and share my creations with you.  I created these Purse Tote Bags to fill with some goodies for both my mom and my mother in law.  

I used the My Scrap Chick "Trendy Tote Bag and Purse" file to cut these out.  The patterned paper is from Joanns.  I wanted to add a tag to the tote bags so I used another file from My Scrap Chick -  "Rubber Ducky Tag"  which is my favorite file lately to use for making tags. 

I used adhesive velcro for the closure so that the bag could be opened and reused.

I had the perfect sentiment from an older Cardz TV Stamps' set to add to my tags!!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!!  I hope I have inspired you with some ideas for Mother's Day or another special occasion!

Springtime Thank You card

April showers bring May flowers (so they say!!)  Well, if that is the case we should have a ton of flowers here in May!!  I decided to play along with the Craftin Desert Divas Monthly Mood Board Challenge and also needed to create a thank you card and this is what I came up with -

I drew my inspiration from the spring like flowers in the Photo inspiration - 

It was nice to be able to envision what spring should look like and create it - a much needed distraction from the constant gloomy, gray skies of the Pacific Northwest this year.  Hugs!!  and thanks for stopping by!!