another vegetable basket thank you

My lovely friend gave us another basket of lemon cucumbers, and pepers with tomatoes so I had to send him another thank you.

The background was embossed with Stampin Up Exposed brick EF to add some texture.

a layer of Real red and then whisper white cardstock. 

Used the crumbcake cardstock to diecut the crate from Lawn Fawn Harvest Crate and used some dies from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Gourds dieset, the Concord &9th Garden Grown die set for the tomatoes and the jalapeno and my new favorite die from Spellbinders Seasonal Decor for the Green pepper on the side - the proportions were just perfect! If I had not glued down the big tomatoes on the inside the crate I would have used the tomatoes from this set which is just perfect for this crate. 

The sentiment is from an old PTI set called Round and Round. Love that font and size.

 I am keeping this on my craft table in my "try to play with it" basket to see how I will use all the dies in there throughout the year especially the present die but I did get it because I just wanted a little smaller tomatoes for cards I need to make in the future- I hope he will continue to share his bounty- my garden was taken over by the local squirrels who got really fat on my veggies so now I only grow things they would not like - green onions, lemongrass, nopales- you get the idea. but his tomatoes were so sweet and delicious maybe I will try again next year.

A teenager Birthday

 I can't believe my son is now officially a teenager. I remember when I held him in my hand the night he was born. His whole body just fit on my hand and forearm and now here he is- riding his bike to his friend's house alone, eyes rolling at things I say, embarrassed by me kissing him in public and a total gamer.

This was a set I got a long time ago for such an occasion from PTI.  I embossed Real Red CS with the start EF from CB then mounted the Brocade Blue CS (retired SU) stamped with versamark and heat embossed with white EP with dimensionals.  Finally a layer of Whisper White CS and then the game controller heat embossed with black EP cut out and mounted with dimensionals again.

I added some color on the inside using the sentiment embossed with white EP and a strip of DSP.  I took the color cues from the DSP for the whole card in case you are wondering why I used retired color- besides the fact that I have 3 shelf-fuls of papers.....

A simple card

Julie just had a birthday
and of course my card was about 2 weeks late- how can it be that someone that makes as many cards as I do cannot remember to send a birthday greeting to people they love in time? Got me! My mom just got a phone call this year... Shame on me.

But better late than never so I sent an unbirthday card to Julie and a few cards that I stamped with her name on it. The sentiment and the alphabet stamp are from PTI. You're a Gem sentiment from the Occasions Mini from SU. Crystals jewels from SU. I layered white with Poppy Parade then another layer of whisper white. I stamped the sentiment and then used my black pen to draw a line between the sentiments and 1/4 inch away from the edge. I tried both crystals on either side of her name and to dot the i. A clean and simple cardset for a real gem of a person!

Lynda

This has been a life changing month for me. I closed my office of 17 years, had my partner retire, and started a new job. My youngest twins started kindergarten and with them in school most of the days I let my nanny of 9 years go too. She was more than a nanny, with me working all those hours she was their surrogate mom. I know for one of my twins, who was really attached to her, this si going to be really traumatic.

This is the card I made for her to say what I could not say in words. She has alway liked my flower cards so I hoped she would like this.

It is a big card 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 - half sheet not quarter like I normally make. The base is whisper white with a large pear pizazz sheet that I embossed twice with the elegant lines embossing folder.

There were some extra lines that got impressed using the folder twice but
I tried to put the center panel to hide most of the unsightly lines behind it so it worked out fine. I added the pumpkin and the daffodil 1/8 ribbon and used a corduroy button to anchor it but it was too plain so I added a flower brad- cut off the legs and glued it on and added a small pearl in the center and it was kind of pretty.

I also added some extra pearls here and there to add some sparkle on the embossed area where the circles fell.

The flowers are larkspur from the year of flower series from PTI, colored in cop*cs. I stamped extra pieces so I can color and pop them out. as you see here

The sentiment is from spiral bouquet stamped in black and I added a tiny pearl where the i was dotted- it was perfect size!

The whole family and the kids signed it on the inside with a special sentiment. I hope she liked it.

Lynda

Farmer Owl

I confess I have become the Owl lady- I keep dreaming different owls when I sleep and see owls in things that have nothing to do with owls.

I was thinking about doing overalls with owls for a farmer then a splitcoast challenge came up for using buttons on a card and I thought - I have those tiny buttons for a baby card I have been hoarding and thought I would bring them out. I think I would like to try it for a baby owl card as well- I think it could be cute- but that's another card, another day.

This used a base white cardstock, stamped with crumbcake, the corn- can't remember whose stamp that is- no markings, sorrry!

then sponged with baja using scallop circle technique. Punched a bunch of grass from MS by EK success in pear pizazz and added it on. The barn is from Pink Cat Studi*s in Poppy, stamped in black and cut out. The owl is in crumbcake, the bib in bajablue, the pocket is word window punched out in baha, sponched and I used the baja marker to add some stitching lines, The hat is daffodil punched out with a pot punch and the bottom of the owl belly cut off and embossed using the square lattice to make the texture and popped up using the dimensionals. The sentiment is from forest friends set from PTI. Enjoy!

Andy Warhowl inspired

I was called into Jury duty and most of you probably know there is a LOT of waiting- and waiting- as nervous as I was about missing work and having to reschedule all my poor patients who had already waited for their appointments- it did give me opportunity to peruse through my well worn stampin up catalogue and idea book for things I wanted to case, buy and lots of ideas to jot down for future use and this is one of them.

I have been playing around with the Andy Warh-owl inspirations and his colors are oh so vivid so I thought I would play with the idea and it really is fun. Punch the owl in 4 different colors- here is daffodil, real red, tempting turquoise and pacific blue and cut out 2 inch squares of the same colors. Adhere to the card as shown. The sentiment is from PTI Wise Owl set stamped in pacific blue. This really is a 10 minute card- although I find I cannot do it without my tweezers and my tombow multomono to get that fine dot of glue where I need it for the eyeballs and the eyeball dots always seem to disappear into some mysterious 4th dimension where I can never find it again.....

Have fun with this! Thanks for looking!

Lynda

SCS challenge CAS65, TLC271 and CC249

Is it May already? Mother's Day is just around the corner and SCS put a couple of challenges that I rolled into one card.

The base card is whisper white. The Sweet Pea Image from Papertr*y is stamped in black on Vellum Cardstock in the front, turned over and colored in with Cameo Coral and Gable Green SU Markers using the blender pen to soften - on vellum it takes longer to dry so easier to do then on plain cardstock.

Then I took the vellum and used Long Oval die from Spellb*nders to impress the oval without cutting then used my Sc*repad to score the lines evey 1/2 inch on a diagonal then used my stampin up brass template and an empressor to make the little polka dots in the center. The whole thing was mounted using Xyr*n to get a clean adhesion to the cardstock ( I find even the vellum tape still sometimes show and it bugs me) The TLC271 challenge was to use vellum with some embossing technique.

The sentiment is from Women of Life from PTI as well on white in Lovely Lilac mounted on same color CS (CC249 challenge was to use cameo, liliac and gable green- all retiring, SIGH!

The sentiment is mounted using dimensionals and glue dots to create the banner effect.

Button is from SU Button Latte collection with a gable green cardstock leaf I freehand cut.

So here is my clean and simple Mother's day card for CAS65.

Enjoy!

Lynda

Sweet Peas

This is definitely better. Someone needs to teach me how to make a one layer card because I can't seem to be able to do it, oh well.

Sweet Peas

I have been working on a little project for my twins. Their preschool is run by a wonderful woman who has an organic garden that the children participate in caring for that has berries, flowers and vegetables they use to feed their rabbit. I came home yesterday and found this little bouquet that Dylan made for me with sweet peas and daisies and it just made my day.

Funny thing is that I had been working on some cards for the teacher and had ordered the flower of the month Sweet Pea from PTI that I just received. I am not so familiar with sweet pea but knew she loved it so I will use these as color inspirations in the future. But this is what I had made. A very simple one layer card using the 110 heavy duty PTI cardstock wtih sentiment from the women of life set. It was colored with Cop*cs in the BV tones.

I just have to figure out how to resolve the issue with the color bleeding through the back on a one layer card- I may have to change it to 2 layers to accomodate this- yes, yes, me and my obsession for clean cards......

seriously, take time to smell the flowers- there are many lovely blooms out there.

My favorite lily of the valley are in bloom right now outside my back door.......

Lynda

No Candy Valentine Day Treats

I saw this idea at Mish Mash's blog here http://michellewooderson.blogspot.com/2010/01/one-sheet-wonder-valentine-bookmarks.html . She pieced the paper together with a variety of papers but then I saw this double sided MS paper from M*chael's and figured it would be an easy way to make the bookmark sans piecing. I cut the 12x12 paper into 2inches strips by about 6 inches. Knowing I had to make 50 of these, I loved this idea. Especially the non-candy route that the school are going this seemed like a fun idea.

I had gotten the pencils from OTC for this purpose and the ribbon I found at M*chael's and it called out to me. Isn't it just perfect?

I stamped Tiny Treats Valentine from PTI in black inside a circle border stamped in red from Take Note and colored in the image with Cop*cs and punched it out with a circle punch. the sentiment was punched with word window from Stampin Up.

I stamped Happy Valentine's in the back and had each of the kids pick the image and message and glue it on and sign the back.

I laminated the bookcard using Xyr*n and punched the hole with a horizontal slot punch then tied on the ribbon. I wanted to be pencils to be taped on but not mar the bookmark so I used painter's tape (my DH tells me that there is some fluorescent green that we could have used but oh well,,,)

So here are a variety of bookmarks and pencils I made for the kids- (I ran out of the striped papers so there were some polka dot paper with hearts on the back)-and of course Dylan only wanted the doggie ones.......

Lynda

Gingerbread money envelopes

I wanted to give my nieces and nephews Holiday gifts but find that ultimately money is what they find most useful. I still wanted to give it in a little something special that I made so I used this gingerbread man and sentiment stamp from Hol*day buttonb*ts from Papertr*y, added some buttons tied with hemp twine in natural and attached it to pocket diecut from Sizz*x and added some crisp $20 bills inside for them. Pretty simple but shows them I care enough to make something personal for them.
Merry Christmas to All and to all a good night!
Lynda

Tyler is 8 today

Tyler is 8 years old today. I cannot believe that this little boy that fit into the palm of my hand when he was born could be 8 already. Where has all the time gone?

-He loves to play the Wii- Mario Galaxy this and Mario Galaxy that- He would live in front the TV and play the game forever if we should let him- He loves to put things together- He can put fairly complicated Lego pieces together in no time- He loves to ride his bike, his scooter and he swims like a fish. He is testing the ground talking back at times and muttering under his breath but he is really sweet inside and loves to goof around with play on words. This is a little card I am putting inside his lunchbox as a surprise with a small treat.

His school teacher said I could bring in a small treat so I made carrot cupcakes I hope everyone can eat. I made the little flags and the little card using the sentiment from PTI- Birthday wishes and It's a celebration.

This is a close up of the little flags on the little toothpicks. If only I could do this for a living- how fun it would be!