You Are So Worth Celebrating

I'm back today with a birthday card for my son who will turn 40 next week. He lives in Maine where lighthouses are abundant so the lighthouse image from SU's Sailing Home with matching die seemed appropriate.

This card will be linked over at Seize the Birthday

I used SU Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, and Mossy Meadow CS for the solid colors and paired it with one of the patterns from SU's Come Sail Away DSP. The number forty was cut from my  CRICUT cut 4x's and glued together to give it dimension.  The lighthouse, compass, and sentiment from MFT Anything - But - Basic - Birthday Wishes, were stamped with SU's Soft Suede ink. Both panels were cut with MFT Stitched Rectangles and the circle is from SU Stitched Shapes.

That will be it for today. I'm off to start dinner and probably do some crafting after that. Have a blessed evening and I hope you get to do something you LOVE!

Blessings,
Bernadette

Have a Lovely Birthday

Just checking in today with a birthday card I made for one of my DIL's who celebrating her birthday next week. This card and several others were put together rather quickly.  I already had the birds cut from the DSP and had glued them on the stitched circles laying on my desk for several days. I wanted to finish using them for some needed "stash" cards before I put them away and completely forgot about them!

 This paper is from SU's Bird Ballard DSP and this particular sheet of birds now is all used up.

This card will be linked to the Seize Birthday Blog

The SU Daffodil Delight CS was cut with the MFT Stitch, Scallop Basic Edges 2 and the sentiment is from MFT's LDJ Birthday Greetings. The layers were cut to fit a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card base of Neenah Solar White 110# paper.

That's it for this Friday. I hope you have a blessed and relaxing weekend, and 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

Happy Birthday To You

I'm posting a card today that I just finished up for my oldest sons birthday on Friday. It's hard to believe he will be 50! I still can remember most of the details of that day.

I decided to make another card using the Sailing Home Stamp Set with matching dies and the Come Sail Away DSP.  This will be my go-to choice for all the men in my family for the year.  I'll be posting this over at Seize the Birthday, where the TOPPINGS was to make a square card.  I make very few 5x5 cards, although I do like them it placement and layout was a bit of a challenge.

I stamped and cut the sailboats and the compass with a stitched round die which fit perfectly. On the large sailboat and the wheel, I added dimensionals.


PARTICULARS:

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110# for the base, SU Soft Suede, SU Night of Navy, Come Sail Away DSP
Ink: SU Soft Suede, Night of Navy, Memento Jet Black Ink
Stamp: MFT Bitty Birthday Wishes
Dies: MFT  Stitched Sentiments Strip Die-Namics, SU Stitched Circle Die

That's about it for this evening. I hope you had a wonderful and restful day

 and got to do something you LOVE!

Blessings,

Bernie

With Love From Owl Us

I just finished up a card today that I will be linking over at Freshly Made Sketches and Seize the Birthday Challenges.

This is FMS #400 challenge card and this MFT stamp set came to my mind immediately and so did the SU paper from the Sail Away suite.  I just love Mossy Meadow and would say it's one of my favorite greens.

PARTICULARS:

Stamp Sets: MFT Wild Woodland w/ matching dies, MFT Anything-But-Basic Birthday Wishes, Bitty Birthday Wishes

Ink: SU Mossy Meadow, Memento Jet Black, SU Soft Sky

MFT Die-Namics: Stitched Clouds, Skinny Strips, Grassy Edges

MFT Stencil: Mini Clouds

Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol

Hope you have a wonderful Holiday Weekend. We are laying low since my hubby had Rotator Cuff surgery only 2 weeks ago. ENJOY! And if you are staying at home I hope you get to do something you LOVE!

Blessings
Bernie

Masculine Happy Birthday Wishes

Hello All! Today I am posting a birthday card that I created for my husband. It is my first time using the Sailing Home Stamp Set with matching dies and the Come Sail Away DSP. I had fallen in love with this set and the matching paper but found my self stumped trying to create a card. I perused Pinterest and gathered some ideas and just plowed through trying to create my own take on others designs.

After taking quite a bit of time with this card I realized I put the side panel with the ropes different then what I intended. I wanted the blue rope design on the outside edge, blah! Oh well, I just need to live with it. I'm almost sure my sweet husband will not even notice ;}

I used SU Night of Navy ink for the Lighthouse and Birds, SU Soft Suede, Night of  Navy, and Crumb Cake. The sentiment is from an older retired stamp: "Petite Pairs". I used dimensional on the Lighthouse.