If... and a giveaway

Good Morning my friends. Today is a good day. First it is my last day of classes. I still have to take 2 classes this Summer but for the most part I am done. Totally excited. :-)

15 years ago today at 5:21pm my life would forever change. 15 years ago today my daughter was born.  FIFTEEN!!!!!!  Within a year she will be taking driver's ed classes, within a year she will be working, dating, becoming a little more independent.  HAPPY 15th BIRTHDAY LORENA NICOLE (Nicki)!!! 

Today I have a super sweet LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Julie created using our April scrapbook kit.  

Super cute LO!!  For more details about this LO and a ton of inspiration, please visit Julie's blog.  :-) 

AND to celebrate my daughter's birthday I thought we would have another giveaway.  I was able to come up with another April kit.  SO just leave me a comment and you will get a chance to win our April scrapbook kit.  :-)  


The giveaway will end on tomorrow night and I will announce the winner on Wednesday with our monthly kit reveal.  :-)  


I hope everyone has an extra special day!!!  :-) 

Wishing you.....

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday!!

Today I have a card to share with you that I created for my Grandma's birthday on July 1. :-) I am making sure to be ahead of the game this time. Every year it seems I am forgetting until the minute to make a card.

The svg file I purchased from My Grafico and it came with an svg file for 3 different kinds of blossoms. Now I didn't have any lilac paper laying around so I cut the little blossoms in white and sponged them with Dusty Concord distress ink.

It doesn't totally look like a lilac blossom but I really like the way it turned out. I also sponged the white cardstock from American Crafts with some Old Paper distress ink. Although this card was VERY time consuming, I had a ton of fun making it. It was a bit therapeutic, lol. My kids were playing and I just glued away! :-) I am sharing a picture of my process before I had too much glued on.


I made about 100+ of those little flowers and sponged them with the distress ink. Then I "folded" them, basically just folded the petals up and that left me with a small little base to apply some glue and put it in place. It gave the card some awesome dimension. I wanted to take a picture of what that process looked like but it was so small you couldn't really see anything in the picture, I did try. LOL!! :-)

Note to self: wear gloves!! LOL!!

The sentiment is from Practicing Creativity Designs and stamped with the Dusty Concord distress ink.

I am entering this card in this week's challenge over at The Paper Variety. The challenge is to use 2 different text. When I was choosing the stamps to use for this card (believe it or not I don't have but one or two Happy Birthday stamps, lol) as soon as I saw the different text in the PCD stamp set I knew I wanted to use it so I could enter in the challenge. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

From all of us.....

Good Morning my friends. This morning I am getting ready for my daughter's 8th grade graduation. Ahhh brings tears to my eyes. Really, where has the time gone?? Last night we went to her award ceremony, she won honor roll and outstanding academic achievement! YAY Nicki!!!!

For today I have a card to share with you that I created. This month I have several cards to make, from birthdays, to a Father's Day card (that's right I haven't made it yet which I need to do so I can get it in the mail), a retirement card, and a couple congratulations cards. So last night I created a birthday card for my brother. :-)

When I was making this card I thought to myself whose bright idea was it to have to many darn kids, lol! You will see what I am talking about. So I found this card at June's blog, Simply Elegant Paper Crafts, she won at Fantabulous Cricut for this card. The original source was over at DarleneDesign.com, she has a wonderful tutorial on how to make this card as well as PDF instructions with the measurements. Anywho, here is my card:





So if you have seen this card either at June's blog or Darlene's blog you would see there was only a place for either 3 or 4 owls (she has two styles of cards) but because there are 6 of us (thus my cursing about having so many kids, lol, not really cursing at all, lol) I had to alter the card a bit to fit my family (of owls).

I fussy cut the owls from Jillibean Soup's Spotted Owl Soup collection. The stamp set I used for the "Happy Birthday Bro" is from Practicing Creativity Design. I hand wrote "from all of us".

When I get home from Nicki's graduation I did want to add one more thing to the front of the card, the owls on the paper had balloons, I want to add some to the owl on the front of the card. I think that will look cute. :-)

This card was a little time consuming but SUPER fun! I will be making more in my future. :-)

Thank you June and Darlene for the wonderful inspiration. :-)

That's all for now! Off to Nicki's graduation.

Happy Crafting!!

Twisted Cards #005

I would first like to say that I don't follow directions very well. It would seem as though I didn't read the rules for this challenge at at, LOL! It clearly said ribbon and my card CLEARLY in the end had NO ribbon. So as I was going to upload my card I realized oh poop, no ribbon. So instead of re-doing the whole card or not submitting it in the challenge, I threw some ribbon on there. It ended up looking ok. I am sure it will grow on me. Lesson learned, read challenge before spending an hour and a half making a card. LOL!

So here is the sketch:

And my card with ribbon included:

Wow that photo is really crappy. I may have to take a new one and replace this one. It is gloomy and dark outside and the light on my craft table is just not helping. Well this is what we call a "mut" card. LOL! It has a variety of products from American Crafts, Basic Grey and Stampin' UP!. Ok so where do I begin. The pattern paper is from American Crafts called Twitterpated. The card base is Kraft with a layer of So Saffron both from SU. I used a Birthday Block stamp sentiment from Stampin' UP! Summer Mini Catalog. Which I used my Stampin' UP! Markers to color in with different colors. The candles are from the July Fourth stamp set also from the Summer Mini. I cut out "flames" and used heat and stick powder to stick glitter to them. The glazed brads are from Basic Grey's Green at Heart collection. Last minute after reading the challenge and seeing I had to use ribbon, silly me, I added some Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon from SU.

Overall I think the card is really cheerful and bright. I think it was from having girly withdraws from the last card I made. Making a masculine card using Practicing Creativity Designs super cool May release You're the Man (available May 6) I needed to make a floofy card. I hope ya'll don't think the ribbon is placed in a ridiculously out of place spot and thanks again Twisted Sketches for a super fab sketch challenge to play along with.

Supplies:

Stamp: Birthday Block from SU

Paper: Kraft, So Saffron, Summer Sun and Rose Red from SU, pattern paper from American Crafts Twitterpated collection

Ink: Stampin' Write markers: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Pixie Pink and Chocolate Chip

Misc: Glazed Brads from Basic Grey's Green at Heart collection, Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon from SU, Martha Stewart glitter

To purchase any of the Basic Grey or American Crafts products used in this card or a variety of other paper crafting products check out Artfuldelight.com

Happy Crafting!

Happy Birthday!

This is a card I made for my dad's birthday in the beginning of March. Yeah I know I could have posted it then but I have been trying to get "all my ducks in a row" before I plunged into daily blogging and crafting. Again, it will take some time to get regular.

I will give credit to where credit is due, I saw this layout/design on another blog. I was looking for a masculine card design for my dad. At My Chic'n Scratch she made a card for her dad and this was the layout. I did however use different paper. I just loved the look of the card and wanted to make one of my own. BTW, my dad loved the card. :-) Again with the Kraft cardstock for the base and a layer of So Saffron to get the card started. I used PP from Basic Grey's Origins collection (I believe). I also used a layer of Chocolate Chip cardstock. The stamp sets I used were Stampin' UP!, Happy Moments and Well Scripted. I love SU's Well Scripted set, it is so beautiful!

I colored in the presents with my Copics and Blender Pens. I added a little crystal effects to the dots on the package. I also sponged a light brown chalk ink on the edges of the white cardstock. I am not sure the name of it.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin' UP! Well Scripted and Happy Moments

Paper: Kraft, So Saffron and Chocolate Chip, Stampin' UP!....PP from Basic Grey's Origins Collection

Ink: Black Stazon

Misc: Crystal Effects, Copics, Blender Pens

**If you would like to purchase products from Basic Grey, American Crafts, Zutter, Cosmo Cricket, Practicing Creativity Designs or Sassafras check out my online Store.......

ARTFULDELIGHT.COM

Happy Birthday Friend

Happy Tuesday, well it is the evening but that is ok. I have a card to share with you, I had it done a couple days ago but I have had no time to upload it. It is a card using the You're Dandy stamp set, this set just has so many possibilities and combinations, I just love it.






Please excuse the quality of photos for now. I have to use my iPhone because the only camera we have right now is some hi-tech one that I don't know how to use. LOL!
Anywho, this is a 4 1/4x5 1/2 Kraft card base. The designer paper is from Basic Grey's Kioshi collection. The flower border is also from Kioshi and it is called ribbon doilies. Super cute and a lot of soft colors. I really like that collection. I used the You're Dandy stamp set by Practicing Creativity Designs. I used Versamark to ink the clouds and then embossed with white embossing powder, I cut out the clouds and used dimensionals to adhere it to the card. The cloud outline was embossed with clear powder.
For the kite I used black Stazon and inked it on one of the Kioshi papers. I cut it out and also adhered with dimensionals. I used crystal effects on the kite to give it a little shine. The kite string is a piece of thread I glued down. The Happy Birthday Friend sentiment is also from You're Dandy. I finished the project off with a corner rounder and some pink satin ribbon from Stampin' UP!

To purchase any of the Basic Grey products please check out my store, Artfuldelight.com. I also have products from American Craft, Cosmo Cricket, Zutter and some Stampin' UP!
I hope to have products from Hero Arts, Ranger and iCopic soon.

Supplies:

Stamps - Practicing Creativity Designs (You're Dandy)
Paper - Stampin' UP! (Kraft), Basic Grey (Kioshi collection)
Ink - Versamark and black Stazon
Misc - clear and white embossing powder (Stampin' UP!), dimensional adhesive (Stampin' UP!), satin ribbon (Stampin' UP!), crystal effects (Stampin' UP!), ribbon doilies (Basic Grey - Kioshi collection)