Celebrating Your Birthday!

Hi everyone,
My card today uses more of the Papertrey Ink Movers & Shakers die sets … on the front of my card I have used the Movers & Shakers Zipper die along with the Movers & Shakers Sentiment set.
I have also added the cute little owl which is one of Eline’s Owls from Marianne Designs … it’s hard for me to pass up owl stamps!

The zipped section on the front of the card can be torn open to reveal a secret message. You can see what the message is under mine as I took a photo of it before I adhered the two layers together.

And here is the inside of my card … this uses another Papertrey Ink Movers & Shakers die set … the pop up dies … these aren’t as easy to use as my pop n cuts dies but I like that I can now create Happy pop ups whenever I like.
As you can see I also added two more of the owls to the inside of my card.

Stamps: Eline’s Owls – Marianne Designs; Movers & Shakers Sentiments; Faux Ribbon – Papertrey Ink

Paper: White; Blue; Yellow; Oxford Lane DP – My Mind’s Eye

Other: Black Ink; PTI Movers & Shakers Poppers Die Collection; PTI Movers & Shakers Zippers Die Collection; PTI Wonderful Words Birthday Die; Taylored Expressions Star Border; Foam Tape; Copics

Nuts for You!

Hi everyone and happy Sunday to you all. I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

My card today is another Slider Card this time using Papertrey Ink’s Movers & Shakers  Slider Dies. I discovered that Papertrey Ink had fun dies to create interactive cards when I was searching on Pinterest recently for Slider card ideas.

This time round I have placed the slider on the front of a normal top folding card.

Here is my card again this time laying down so you can see the slider in action. The squirrel is also from Papertrey Ink … Nuts for You Stamp & Die set. I paper pieced the squirrel using designer paper.

Here is one last shot of the front of my card so you can see the whole card when the slider is open.

And finally the inside of my card. I used two SU birthday sentiments on the inside and another die cut squirrel.

Stamps: Nuts for You; Movers & Shakers Sentiments – Papertrey Ink; Remembering Your Birthday – SU

Paper: Kraft; Rust; Sugar Hill DP – Farmhouse Paper Co

Other: Black Ink; Green Ink; PTI Movers & Shakers Slider Dies; Hemp Cord; Green Button; Foam Tape

 

Happy Birthday

Hello everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.  Our challenge hostess for September Cindy Haffner, continues to bring us fun challenges.

Being the third Saturday of the month it is sketch week … and Cindy who is the Queen of sketches has a fun one for us this week .

For my card this week I used the cute Cinnamon stamp set from There She Goes Stamps.

Here is the inside of my card using a birthday sentiment from MFT Stamps.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Andrea Murdock	Anja de Regt	Barb Anders	Betty Wright	Jessie Rone	Joanne Grzelak	Kelli Hull
Kristine Reynolds	Peggy McCurry	Sarah Gough	Silke Ledlow	Silke Kittman (taking a break)	Tosh Leyendekker September Guest Designer

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Stamps: Cinnamon – There She Goes; Birthday Greetings – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Dark Pink; Birthday Basics DP – SU

Other: Black Ink; MFT Die-namics Oval Stax 1 & 2; MFT Die-namics Layered Rose; MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags; MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags Layers; MFT Die-namics Jumbo Banner Fishtail; MFT Die-namics Leaf Filled Flourish; PTI Wonderful Words Birthday Die; Foam Tape; Copics

 

Ahoy!

 Hi everyone,

Today I have another card for Talk Like A Pirate Day (19th September), It's a day late for me but it is still the 19th in the US! For my card today I used this Pure Innocence Pirate Boy stamp set, I paper pieced his shirt and pants using designer paper.

The "ahoy" sentiment was cut from designer paper using an alphabet die set.




Here is the inside of my card, I added a sentiment from the stamp set.

Stamps: Pure Innocence Pirate Boy – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Red; Lost & Found Union Square DP – My Minds Eye

Die-namics: Rectangle Stax 1 & 2; Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax; High Rise Alphabet Lowercase; Well Worn Greetings; Fishtail Flags Stax

Other: Black Ink; Antique Linen Distress Ink; Black & Red Twine; Button; Foam Tape; Copics

Talk Like A Pirate

Ahoy there Me Hearties,

It’s challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Lois Bak our challenge hostess for September continues to bring us fun challenges.

The week of September 15 – 21 is National Singles Week. To celebrate this our challenge this week is to make a one-layer card.

Today (19th September) is also Talk Like A Pirate Day so I decided to create a card using pirates as the theme … I love playing with pirate stamps. The pirate and barrel behind him are both from Magnolia.

Here is the inside of my card … this time I stamped another of my Magnolia Pirates so that it was sitting on the barrel.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Charlene Merrick (on a break)	Joanne Grzelak	Shirley Quarry	Anne Harmon	Lois Bok	Vicky Gould
Sabrina Friel	Kathy Bradley	Amber Hillman

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Stamps: Captain Edwin; Pirate Edwin; Barrel, Skull & Anchor – Magnolia Stamps; Palm Tree & Sand – Darcies; Pirate Polly & Pirate Cooper – Paper Pretties (sentiments)

Paper: White

Other: Black Ink; Yellow Ink; Copics

 

Let It Snow!

Hi everyone,

A couple of weeks ago I posted a Pop n Cuts Flying Easel Card which was inspired by one Karen Burniston created her classes for the UStamp with Dawn and Friends: Cards With Cool Moves online classes. You can see my card here.

Karen saw my card and left a comment asking if I could make one using a snowflake … well I always like a challenge so added that to my to do list. My card today is the result!

This card uses Karen’s SU Exclusive Pop N Cuts Card Base and also the Sizzix Funky Labels Framelits.

I wanted to keep my snowflake 3D just like I had the tree in my previous card … but it was a lot harder to do as it has such intricate pieces to it. It didn’t help that I used white and silver glitter papers which made it harder to work with … but I got there. I have used a snowflake die and a snowflake punch and also a rhinestone. I die cut 4 of each and folded the snowflakes in half so they could be attached to each other.

A friend recently gave me some of the new SU Winter Frost designer papers to play with which is what I used for this card.

I added a few more snowflakes to the base and some icicles under my sentiment.

Here is my card when it is folded closed … the Snowflake can be folded flat so it will be suitable to be placed in an envelope to be mailed if needed.

Stamps: Cold Play (retired) – SU

Paper: White; Blue; White Glitter Card; Silver Glitter Card; Winter Frost DP – SU

Other: SU Exclusive Pop N Cuts Card Base; Sizzix Funky Labels Framelits; MFT Die-namics Let it Snowflake; MFT Die-namics Icicle Border Die; Snowflake Punch; Snowflake Button; Silver & Blue Ribbon; Rhinestones; Foam Tape

 

Only One Glass of Wine

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time again over on the Riley and Company blog. This week our challenge hostess is Laurie Clout.

Laurie tells us that they celebrate the season with a Grape & Wine festival in their town, be inspired by grapes or wine, literally or the colour, a sentiment etc.

I took my inspiration for my card today by the color of grapes and as I have also used wine related sentiments wine … so I think I am covered tee hee!

My card today is a Penny Slider or Spinner card … see my animated version below!

I have been wanting to make one of this for a long time, but never got around to it. Recently I discovered a die set that you can get to create the track and the mechanism that makes the image slide.

For my card I used Riley and Company’s Bouncy Ball Riley and also the funny bones sentiment I'll Only Have One Glass. I figured with a little imagination the bouncy ball might be a grape hehe … oh and maybe if you have too much wine this might be what you do .
 

Here is the inside of my card … I added Bouncy Ball Riley again along with another wine related Funny Bones Sentiment The Glass Half Empty.

Want to play along????

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you!  So get stamping Riley fans :).

To play create a card using Riley and Company images. Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword RILEY1913. We can't wait to see what you create!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs today so see what they created for this challenge.

• Jovita Torres

• Joy Stagg

• Kelly Santi

• Laurie Clout

• Michele L

Stamps: Bouncy Ball Riley; The Glass Half Empty; I’ll Only Have One Glass – Riley and Company

Paper: White; Purple; A Beautiful Life DP – My Mind’s Eye

Other: Black Ink; Papertrey Ink Movers & Shakers Spinners Die Collection; MFT Die-namics Peek A Boo Chevrons; MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags Stax;