You Matter

 

I'm posting a card that I made this morning using Altenews Mini Delight: Tiny Foliage with matching dies. I'll be linking this over on two challenges, Freshly Made Sketches 497 and CAS Colours and Setches #431. There were very few products used on this card which made easy to be put together. The sketch and colors certainly helped!

PRODUCTS USED:

Altenew Mini Delight: Tiny Foliage

SU TAsteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder

MFT Skinny Strips

SU Card Stock; Balmy Blue, Rich Razzelberry, Smoky Slate

Ink - Versafine Black

That will be all for today. I hope you have restful weekend.

Blessings, Bernadette

*I'm pleased to announce my recent selection of my card over on CAS Colours & Sketches#430. Thank you design team for choosing my card.*

Happy Birthday Wishes

 

Tonight I'm posting a card that I put together earlier this afternoon to link over at the TGIF Challenge. Since birthday cards are always needed, I chose to create another card for my stash. 

I haven't made a Banner card in a very long time. It seems like it's not even under my radar. This was the perfect opportunity to pull out some older punches, dies, and stamps and to create this particular one.

PRODUCTS USED:

Paper: MFT Birthday Brights 6x6, SU Granny Apple Green, Flirty Flaming, Neenah Solar White#110

MFT Bitty Birthday Wishes for the sentiment

Taylored Expressions Whimsical Wishes for the Cupcake

MFT Captions Alphabet Die-namics for the letters on the banner

SU Banner Punch, MFT Skinny Strips, A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set

White Twin, SU Jewels

That will be all for this evening. Have a good Thursday tomorrow!

Blessings, Bernadette

Happy Birthday Tag

 

I just finished up a project that I will be posting over on Just Us Girls blog. It was a great challenge for me since I lean towards all occasion cards. So I chose to create a Birthday Tag for anything but a card challenge. 

PRODUCTS USED:

SU Stamp and Punch- Sweet Ice Cream

MFT Essential Sentiments for the Happy Birthday

MFT Skinny Strips dies

SU Papers - Bermuda Bay, Coordinating paper for the ice cream cone, Sprinkle paper from the same set

SU Pool Party Twine

SU Ink- Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Versafine Black

SU Label Punch

That will be all for today. I hope you have a wonderful Monday and the rest of the week.

Blessings, Bernadette

Bring on the Balloons

Today's card is one I created for 2 challenges. Cupcake Inspiration #524 and Freshly Made Sketches 496. Since I do have a granddaughter who is turning 8 in October, and I'm planning on using the card I just created.  Between the FM Sketch and the Cupcake Inspiration, I found that it went together fairly quickly, but that will be it for today. This afternoon I'm planning to look over several blog challenges and to get some more inspiration and a head start on the week ahead.

Announcement: I am pleased that my card for CAS C&S Color Challenge #429 was chosen as a weekly winner! Thank you Design Team. Why not stop by their Blog and see the other wonderful cards that were chosen.

Products Used on this Card:

MFT Safari Party for Bear and Sentiment

MFT In Stitches Numbers

MFT Captions Alphabet Die-namics

Paper: Neenah Solar White #110 for base

SU Card Stock

MFT  Birthday Brights 6x6 pad papers

Altenew Gems

Prismacolor Pencils:Light Umber, Blush Pink, Violet

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your Sunday!

Blessings, Bernadette

Sending Sunshine

Today I created a card that I will post over on the CAS C&S challenge for the week which is a sketch challenge. I chose a few older and/or retired products to create the card. 

Products:
Paper: SU Daffodil Delight, Blue unknown, MFT Birthday Brights, Neenah Solar White #80

SU Tasteful Textile 3D EF, MFT Sunny Skies, MFT A2 Stitched STAX Set, Sunshine die(unknown)

Taylored Expressions Sending Sunshine stamp set

Several people have asked about the Brick Wall on my I Miss Mew card. I used the 6x6 Brick and Mortar 3D EF by SU and covered it with  Basic Gray. Lightly in some areas more in others. I used a 4 1/4 x 51/2 piece of 80# Nenaah Solar White. I then ran it through my die and embossing machine about 3 or 4x's. Chose the section I liked and cut it with the Stitched circle. That's it. Nothing special. I did like the way it turned out also and will be using it for other projects. 

That is it for today. Have a wonderful evening. We have a severe storm rolling in soon. Hopefully, it will not be as damaging as it has been predicted!

Blessings, Bernadette

Happy Birthday Cupcake!

 

I am posting tonight a card that I just finished up to link over on AAA Birthday Challenge and Seize the Birthday. I dug around my older stamps and the one decided on for this card below is by Taylored Expressions Build a Treat and using one of the sentiments from that set. I really don't know how long it's been in my stamp stash, but I love the cupcake images, sentiments, and die cuts. The challenge over on the AAA Birthday blog called for using an Embossing Folder on your design. I chose a retired SU folder and used my embossing and die-cutting machine to emboss a piece of SU Fresh Freesia. My cupcakes were inked with SU Fresh Freesia and Pale Papaya. On the white panel, I chose one of the shapes from Stitched Scallop Basic Edges from MFT. I finished the card using some Altenew Gemstones which matched the SU paper.

That will be it for the evening. Have a wonderful week!

Blessings, Bernadette

I Miss Mew

 Good evening. I'm posting a card tonight which will be linked over at CAS Colours&Sketches blog. This week's challenge is a color challenge which sometimes stumps me, but I think I succeeded with little effort this week. I have just recently received a few new stamp sets and was wanting to give them a try. There seem to be so many wonderful examples using the SU Plentiful Plants Suite. I'm sure I will not be at a loss for design ideas. And how I love the MFT Mini Meows stamp set! I hope to incorporate it in some upcoming cards.

PRODUCTS:

SU Plentiful Plants w/matching dies

MFT Mini Meows stamp w/ Dies and sentiments

SU Brick Wall EF which I inked with SU Smokey Slate and cut with SU's Stitched Shapes

INKS: SU BumbleBee, Pear Pizzazz, Ranger Mowed Lawn Distress Ink, Versafine Black

Kitten colored with my Prismacolor Pencils and blended with Gamsol

MFT Cat & Plant Perches cut from black cardstock 

Background layer SU Dynamics 3D EF

That will be all for this evening. Have a blessed and wonderful Sunday.

Blessings, Bernadette