This card uses a great dog image from Whippersnapper Designs stamps and some fun layering to make a great masculine birthday card. The dog image is colored with watercolor pencils and a blender pen and layered with coordinating DP and Bazzill cardstock - adding a layer punched with an EK pawprint border punch. Add a few brads and you have a great card!
Yep, Charlie Brown is one of our all-time favorite underdogs and he is at it on the pitching mound in this card! This is another great Peanuts stamp from Stampabilities. I stamped the image with black Memento ink and colored it with Copic markers. I cut it out with a cicrle Spellbinders die, added a second straight circle in black for highlights, then added a red scallop circle. I used a couple coordinating papers and a green strip cut with an EK border punch. I used a word stamp from Great Impressions and added some black dew drops in the corners for accent.
This card was made with the Butterfly Garden set from JustRite Stampers. I stamped and embossed the image with white embossing powder on vellum - then colored the image from the back with Copic markers. Copics work great on vellum because they dry quickly. I then took one of the borders and stamped it with Colorbox Aqua pigment ink on white cardstock and cut it out in a frame with 2 Spellbinder circle dies. Next I used the new Spellbinders Picot Edge circle die set (LOVE these!) and layered the butterfly piece to that. I placed it on a yellow card with a DP from Memory Box - very delicate design and perfect for this card. I used a couple crinkle ribbon from Creative Impressions and did a double-thickness bow out of the light blue ribbon. This ribbon ties like a dream! Add a few pearls in the corner and you're done!
In honor of the US Open Tennis Tournament how going on in Flushing Meadow, NY, today I'll show a fun little card with Snoopy plating tennis. These Peanut stamps have been VERY popular - with all ages. I stamped the image with Momento ink and colored him with Copic markers. Cut the image out with a circle Spellbinders and did a coordinating color layer and a scallop layer, then added a little happy birthday image cut out in a circle (like a tennis ball) and added that and some ribbon. A simple card, but a good one to have in your stash!
Fall is quickly approaching - you can feel it in the air. We've also lost 2-1/2 hours of daylight since June 21st - quite sad! I would like winter much better if the daylight hours were longer! September's calendar page features both kitties - doing one of their favorite things - sitting in a window looking out over the "front 40." I took several fall colors of scrap cardstock and punched various maple leaves and adorned the page with them for a real Fall feel! It's been wet and damp here for 2 days - the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee. After Irene came through, we don't need a lot of rain. I wish I could send it to those poor folks in Texas - they cannot buy rain these days.
Today's card is a simple one using one of the Mimi stamps from Penny Black. Mimi is stamped with black Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. It is not real visible in the photo, but I did what I call "emboss/deboss" with an embossing folder. After you color the image, run it through an embossing folder so that the raised edge is on the top of the image. Then, run it through again so that the card is not inside the folder - this reduces the height of the embossed image and leaves an interesting effect. To finish off this card, I layered it to some fun printed paper and added punched flowers to the 4 corners of the image. Very girly!
Remember making pinwheels when you were a kid? This fun design has come back into vogue and The Cat's Pajamas has created a fun pinwheel die to make creating one on a card very easy. The bear and word stamps used on this card is also from TCP - a fun little bear with a lot of possibilities. The bear is colored with Copics and then I created a stick with a piece of Bazzill cardstock. The pinwheel is held together with a small brad and then attached to the card. I used a Memory Box stamp to create the background on the light purple card.