Thinking of You/FMS 171

I'm just making this Freshly Made Sketches challenge under the wire! I did have it finished up last night, but decided to wait until this morning. Wrong decision. :0(

I needed a manly Thinking of You card and this sketch was perfect. I love the images in the set By the Tide,and decided to use it for a masculine feel. There is a card in the SU 2014-2015 catalog ( pg 130) that I CASEd my focal image from, although I did use the new stamp, Crazy about You and Gorgeous Grunge on my card.


Other stuff you might want to know:
The color combination: Marina Mist, Crushed Curry: Ink and Paper,Pear Pizzazz: Ink and Paper.I also used one of my favorite SU papers for a more rustic look, Naturals White. The banners were embossed with the SU Decorative Dots EF.

I hope you have and wonderful and CRAFTY day!

Hugs,
BernieBee

The Open Sea Waterfall Card

 

My card today is a fun, interactive card that I had never created before. I believe it has been around for at least 7 or 8 years. Gads! I need to get with it and get out of my comfort zone...

Linda over at stampingschool.com encouraged us to try one if we hadn't before. With trepidation,I took her challenge, and created this one.

Although, it took me more time to choose the stamps and colors then actually putting this card together! 

Here is a closer look at the layers:

 Linda had covered her brads with 1" circles, but since I had earmarked this card for a family members birthday, adding a 2"x4" strip across the back , and only adding sticky strip along the short sides and the bottom, I'm able to slip a check at the back.

SU PRODUCTS USED

Paper: High Tide DSP (132992)

Pacific Point CS, Soft Sky CS, Whisper White CS

Stamps:

The Open Sea(123030)

By the Tide(129120)

Gorgeous Grunge(130517)

Bring on the Cake(121958)

Ink: Pacific Point(126951), Soft Sky(131181)

Candy Dot Bases(132293)

Subtles Candy Dots (130933)

Sticky Strip(104924)

That's about it for Monday. I hope you create this type of card, if you haven't already. If you haven't, get out your paper and stamps, and try one! 

Can you sense I'm feeling empowered! ;}

What a fun card this would be to send to the little people in your life.  I'm planning to.

Stay CRAFTY!

BERNADETTE

A Blue "Lobsta"?

Boy, did I have a hard time stamping this great Lobster image from By the Tide in blue! But it needed to be done. I wanted to use the 2 new beautiful 2013-2014 In Colors, Coastal Cabana and Baked Brown Sugar paper, and just thought the blue would give me a softer look.

This is for a young lady who just was hired for a teller position at a bank in Maine, and I wanted to keep the colors on the feminine side. I hope she likes it.

By the Tide 129120, Happy Day 130297

Coastal Cabana 131297, Baked Brown Sugar 131296 

 Crushed Curry 131199

Very Vanilla 101650

Coastal Cabana ink  131175, Crushed Curry ink 131173

Neutrals Candy Dots (Chocolate Chip)  130934

1" circle Punch 119868 

 Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack 118309

Square Lattice Folder 119976, Honeycomb 129378

 

Additional SU! Products

SNAIL Adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals, Glue Dots

** This is an older Mojo Monday sketch(#178)**

Thanks for stopping by today and stay CRAFTY!

BERNADETTE

Simple and Quick Masculine Tag

I just couldn't resist. I had the By the Tide set still on my mind 

from using it the other day for my TNT Thursday and knew 

I had to create something else with it. 

A tag came to mind when I was flipping through the new catalog and

saw that tags were certainly highlighted.

This is a simple and quick project and all the products used are going to be still available in the NEW 2013-2014 Catalog. 

I am giving you a sneak peak of two NEW items.

Artisan Label - 130920

 Label Love - 130622

I  just love the shape of that punch, don't you?

RECIPE

Papers: Crumb Cake 120953, Midnight Muse 126843

Naturals White 102316

 

  Stamps: By the Tide 129120, Label Love 130622

Ink: Crumb Cake 126975 , Midnight Muse 126860

 

Sweet Additions: 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon - Early Espresso 119959

Tools of the Trade: Artisan Label punch - 130920,  

Woodgrain Folder 127821, 1" Circle 119868, 

1/2"Circle 119869, 3/16 Corner 119871

 

Stampin' Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue , SNAIL Adhesive

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a CRAFTY weekend.

 

BERNADETTE

TNT Thursday

FUN TRI-FOLD CARD

For my tutorial today I will be showing another folded card 

which was inspired by Linda Heller and Connie Stewart. 

**I realized after I had posted this yesterday to go live this morning, that I missed named the project. It is just a tri-fold , not an offset tri-fold!**

Let's get started

1. Cut the base pieces of the card. 

You will need 1 - 5 1/2" x 41/4" piece of CS / 1 - 5 x 8" piece of CS

2 - 1 3/4" x 4 3/4" pieces of DSP

3 - 1 1/4" x 3" pieces of CS for layering

3 - 1 x 2 3/4" pieces of CS for your stamped images 

** The solid Crumb Cake CS is not shown. 

I forgot to put it with the paper when I was photographing it!

2. Score the 5x 8 piece at 2" and 6", fold and score.

3. Adhere DSP centering it to the front of card. Stamp your inside sentiment. When that is complete, take the folded card and center 

that onto your 5 1/5" x 4 1/4" solid card stock.

4. Layer

 your stamped images.

5. Cut a 6" length of ribbon, I used the 7/8" Natural Ribbon. 

Fold it in half holding it together with a Glue Dot. Add another Glue Dot and adhere to the back of each stamped image. Place a Stampin' Dimensionals on either side of the ribbon and on the edge of one side as shown.  

This is the unit that will make up the Offset Tri Fun Fold.

6. Place each section to the front of the card staggering them 

as shown on the completed card below.

Thank you for stopping by. Why not give this a try an let me know how you did. Just enter a comment here on MY BLOG. Have a wonderful and CRAFTY day!

BERNADETTE

Happy Birthday

  

Today is a card  I made for the MOJO Monday challenge #288. I have been wanting to use the lobster in the, By the Tide set and I decided that it would work on this layout. 

Cutting around the lobster was a little bit of a challenge, 

but I think it trimmed up better then I expected.

RECIPE

Paper: Parker's  Patterns DSP  131021, Midnight Muse 126843, Cherry Cobbler CS 119685,

 Daffodil Delight CS 119683, Crumb Cake 120953 , Naturals White 102306

Ink: Cherry Cobbler 126966, Midnight Muse 126860

Stamps: By the Tide 129120, Itty Bitty Banners 126257

Sweet Additions: Argyle Folder 127751

Circles Original #2 Originals 114526, Bitty Banners Framelits 129267

Corner Rounder - non SU

To Hold things Together

Multipurpose Liquid Glue 110755

Stampin' Dimensionals 104430

Have a wonderful and CRAFTY  day!

 We are picking up my youngest daughter in LA today to spend a few days with us. Her hubby was  coming to the West Coast for a conference and she decided to come visit. YEAH!!! I am super excited, especially since we don't get to see any of our children much with

them  all living on the East Coast  except one.

BERNADETTE

Thank You

I made this today as my January Customer thank you. I just received this stamp set several days ago and couldn't wait to ink it up! I recently moved to Oceanside, CA from Scottsdale, AZ and we live only a 10 minute walk to the beach. These stamps just shouted BEACH!

RECIPE

Paper: Very Vanilla #101650, Marina Mist #119682, Parker's Pattern DSP #131021

Ink: Not Quite Navy #126971, Cajun Craze #126965

Stamps Set: By the Tide #129120 (C) Perfectly Penned #122892

Extras: Multipurpose Liquid Glue #110755, SNAIL Adhesive #104332

Retired Ticket Punch

Thank you for stopping by and have a CRAFTY weekend!