I Owe You One

Tonight I'm posting another card, but this one will be added to two challenges.  This site, coffee loving cardmakers blog I just ran across this week. What a fun Blog. I will also be linking this over at Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 537. A great sketch to turn into a coffee themed card.

I used all MFT products except the Stitched Circle which is by SU. The MFT products were Stitched Rectangles, Cup of Love Stamp, Mini Cafe' All Day Die-namics, and Distressed Patterns.

I'm going to link these cards and then off to bed for me. I apologize for the color of the photo. It was taken at night with not the best lighting available.

Have a great Friday. Stay Safe and Stay Well...

Blessings

Bernie B

Happiest of Birthdays to You

Happy Wednesday morning. I just finished up this card for one of my SIL's and will link it over at CASE(E) This Sketch blog.

Inside of Card

I used the SU Sailing Home suite as I have done on several other cards that I have made recently for the men in our family. I really love all the images with matching dies. I used Neenah Solar White 110# for the base with a layer of  SU Night of Navy topped with Balmy Blue which was embossed with SU's Subtle Dynamic embossing folder and cut with one of MFT's Stitched Rectangles. The sentiment is from MFT'S Bitty Birthday Wishes and cut with MFT's Skinny Strip Die-Namics.

The inside was stamped with the sailboat from the SU set and the sentiment is from MFT's Anything-but-Basics Birthday Wishes.

Well, I'm off to work on several more cards for family members who have October birthdays. Enjoy your day and I hope you get to do something you LOVE!

Blessings,

Bernie

Nothing Goes Better With Cake Birthday

HAPPY WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!

I'm popping in today with I card I finished this afternoon to put into my masculine card folder. I recently bought this Birthday Cake die-namic from MFT and was itching to use it. This is a very simple card using only SU Crumb Cake CS accented with Mango Melody, Granny Apple Green, and Bermuda Bay. I felt that the black accents using Jet Black Memento Ink on the sentiment and the companion pieces to the stacked cake gave it a crisp modern look, especially for a man card. I used the MFT' Stitched Rectangles and SU's Stitched Shapes. The sentiment is from MFT's Anything But Basic Birthday Wishes.

 I'm will be linking this over to MFT's Sketch Challenge and Seize the Birthday today. 

That's it for me today. I need to put together a similar card and organize some die cuts. I hope you have a blessed and happy weekend and are able to do something you LOVE!

Blessings,

Bernie

Friends...

Hello all, I had a chance today to finish up a card that I will be linking to FMS401 sketch challenge.

I hadn't used the SU Bird Ballad DSP that I received several months ago. Since I do not have the coordinating stamp set, I decided just to cut the birds with a circle from the SU Stitched Shape Dies and mounted it on a circle from an older die cut set. The stamp is from a retired, I believe, SU set, Garden in Bloom inked with Memento Jet Black Ink. This was cut out with the smaller rectangle from MFT Stitched Rectangles and glued to a strip of SU Pretty Peacock. The base is also Pretty Peacock and the white layer is Neenah Solar White 110# paper that was run through the Big Shot using the SU Subtle Dynamics Embossing Folder. That was it, Easy Peasy!

Have a great evening and a wonderful Monday and as always I hope you get to do something you LOVE this coming week!


Blessings,
Bernie

You are so Kind

Good afternoon. I'm here today posting a card that I will be linking to CAS(E)#338 Sketch challenge and the Flower Challenge.

I needed to add some thank you cards to my stash and decided to use the Poppy stamp and sentiments by GinaK Designs Inspiring Poppies set which were lacking some love.

I heat embossed the flower with WOW Metallic Gold Rich embossing powder, added the sentiment and layered the pieces that I cut with the MFT Stitched Rectangles to a piece of SU Melon Mambo and then to a Neenah Solar white 110# base. I finished it off with SU Noble Peacock Rhinestones. Since I did not have Melon Mambo ink I used Altenews Rubellite Ink Cube to stamp the sentiment.


That's it for today. I need to make a card for one of my sons and some extra masculine birthday cards this coming week. We were blessed to get very little of the effects of Hurricane Dorian here in our neck of NC. Lots of rain and wind, but thankfully no damage. My heart and prayers go out to those poor people in the Bahamas. I can't even imagine that extent of the damage.

Have a great and blessed weekend and go do something you LOVE!

Blessings,
Bernie

Congratulations!

Today I finished up a card for one of my younger daughters and her husband. They just sold their home, bought an RV that they will be living in until they build a home on their recently purchased 5 acres. It will be quite an adventure for them and their 3 children. 

This card is to congratulate them on their new NEST, the RV, that will be their home for at least a year. I haven't used these dies in quite a while but thought the birdhouse would be perfect.

I will be entering it in the current ColorThrowdown challenge. The colors at first stumped me, but thinking it through and pulling out different shades of SU colors helped make the process a little easier. 

PARTICULARS:

MFT Die-Namics: Stitched Sentiments Strips, Stitched Rectangle Frames, Birds of a Feather

SU Paper: Blueberry Bushel, Daffodil Delight, Shaded Spruce, Highland Heather, Bermuda Bay

Stamp: SU Something to Say

MFT Stencil: Colored the Mini Cloud Edges with Pool Party ink 

Ink: GinaK  Black Amalgam 

That's it for this evening. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday and are able to do something you LOVE!

Blessings, 

Bernie

A Quick Masculine Thank You

We just returned home from our Maine trip visiting our son and his family on Friday. I'm playing catch up since Saturday. We had a wonderful time visiting family in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Maine, then on our return trip to NC, New York to visit my MIL and more family. The weather was fairly decent while we drove. We did hit some rainy patches, but on the most part, it was clear. The scenery was beautiful and we actually saw a Moose while headed towards my son's house in Maine.

 My next door neighbor was kind enough to water my plants while I was gone for 9 days and I wanted to give him a small gift and a thank you card. Unfortunately, I had thank you cards but they were all on the feminine side. So I went to work to do a quick and simple card using SU Lovely as a Tree stamp set, now retired.

I used all SU products except the rectangle die cut from MFT and was pleased the way it came together.  Colors used: Soft Suede for the base, although it is not showing up like that in this picture, Chocolate Chip Ink for the trees and sentiment, and Night of Navy for the outline rectangle.

Have a wonderful evening and take some time to do something you LOVE!

Blessings,

BernieB

Tweeting You a Sweet Hello

Here is another card I finished up yesterday. I have had this set by MFT, Cute Critters for over a month and have played with it some.  I created this card for my new grandson with some of the images that are included in the set.

I had been wanting to use the sweet little bird and the birdhouse from the same set, so I set about creating a card using them. I really like the way it came together. I hope who I am sending it to will enjoy it as much as I did making it.

PARTICULARS

Neenah Solar White 100# paper, SU Gingham Gala DSP, SU Grapefruit Grove, SU Shaded Spruce for the leaves, SU Soft Suede
Prismacolor Pencils
GinaK Amalgam Black Ink
MFT Cute Critters
MFT Stitched Rectangles, SU Stitched Shapes Framelits
Subtles Dynamics EF

Have a great weekend and please go do something you LOVE!

Blessings,
BernieB