Youth Group Thank You Card

Hi everyone:

I found a picture of this card and realized that I never showed you.  For Easter this year, our youth group put on a very dramatic skit.  We wanted to give them a note to let them know we appreciated them serving during the service with the skit.

Here is their card:

This card was mostly done on the computer.  I knew I wanted to use Psalm 100 on the card.  I copies the words from Bible software, formated it, changed the font color, then I layered it over an image of a cross.  After I printed it out, I layered it on blue card stock, then on a white card base that I had embossed with zebra print.

Thanks for stopping by:
    Marcia

Happy Birthday Jessica

Hi everyone -

Today is my daughters birthday - she is turning 15.  It's a big time in her life - almost done with her freshman year of high school and just got her drivers permit last week.

Every year for my girls birthdays I let them pick what shape they would like their cake - over the past few years I have made cell phones, jungles, dolls, etc....  the list goes on and on......

This year she has requested a music note for her cake, so being the crafty mother that I am, I coordinate her card with her cake.

Here is her card for this year:

I stamped the microphone image in pink, then cut out with my lacy ovals nestabilities, sponged it with some distressed inks, then layered on pattern paper and card stock.

Supplies:
Stamp - Unity Stmap Company - Singing Souls
Ink - Momento - Rose bud
      - Tim Holtz Distressed Ink - antique linen, victorian velvet
Pattern Paper - piece from my stash
Card Stock - Ginak Designs Pure Luxury - Brown
Nestabilities - lacy oval

Thanks for stopping by:
      Marcia

Play Date Cafe PDCC130

Hi everyone -

I have a quick tag that I made for a birthday present.  I made this using the colors in this weeks Play Date Cafe challenge.

I cut the tag shape out on my cricut then cut a smaller white piece to layer inside, rounding the corners like the tag was.  I then stamped my image and greeting with London Fog (grey) ink, sponged over it with angel pink ink, added some rhinestone and twine.

Supply list:
Stamp - GinaK Designs - Garden Silhouettes
Card Stock - GinaK Designs - Pure luxury - Ocean Mist, White
Ink - Momento - London fog, Angel pink
Twine - Twinery - Stone

Thanks for stopping by:
   Marcia

Quail Birthday

Hello everyone:

Today I have a fun wilderness card for you - as you can tell I love making scenes with my stamp sets - its so fun to put things together that remind me of all of Gods beauty!

I started with the mountain stamp - stamped it once then masked it to stamp it again to look like a range of mountains.  Then I stamped the row of tress in front of my mountain range.  I then sponged the sun, sky and water.  I colored the mountains, added the shore line and colored.  The bird is stamped on scrap paper cut out and place on the scene with small pop dots.  I added some extra grass also along the shore line.  This was so much fun to keep adding things to in order to get the scene I had pictured in my mind.

Supplies:
Stamps - GinaK Designs - Mountain Wilderness (mountains, trees, bird), By the Sea (grass), Follow Your Dreams (seashore), King of the Grill (Happy Birthday)
Card stock - GinaK designs

Thanks for stopping by:
   Marcia

Riley Birthday Picnic

Hello Everyone:

I have a fun picnic card for you today - great for all those summer holidays coming up also.

I stuck with a traditional red, white, and blue theme.  This is picnic Riley, which I colored with a red check tablecloth.  Then I found this scrap piece of pattern paper that went so well with the tablecloth I colored.  I added some red pieces and mounted it all on a blue card base.  Classic but fun picnic.

Supplies:
Stamps - Riley picnic
             - Happy Birthday (not sure just one I picked up somewhere - it has no label on it anymore)
CardStock - SU
Pattern Paper - scrap from my bin (can you tell I'm on a mission to use some scrap up)

Thanks for stopping by:
   Marcia

Mother's Day Card

Hello Everyone!

Today I have a card I made for my mom for mothers day.  My mom loves to look out at a relaxing lake and watch sailboats.  So I created a little scene to mimic what she loves.

Here is the inside:

I am absolutely loving creating window scenes with this window die - it is so easy.  I sponged the background water and sunset with momento ink then stamped the boat and seal gulls in black.  The boat is colored in dark grey to give the silhouette look.  For the window frame itself, I used my wood grain stamp then cut out the window.  I really love how this turned out!

I made a couple more similar cards as I needs some birthday cards.  Basically the same, just slightly different looks.

Supply list:

Stamps - GinaK Designs - By the Sea

               Cornish Heritage Farms - Wood grain background stamp

Card Stock - GinaK Designs Pure Luxury

Pattern Paper - Some scraps from my scrap bin

Window Die - Grand Madison Window die

Nestabilities

Thanks for stopping by:

  Marcia

Hunter Birthday Card

I needed a card for a teenage boy's birthday and I had nothing in my stash.  He is a hunter (as are most of the men and boys in the UP), so I thought a little scene with this buck would be perfect for him.

I created the sky using momento ink and some sponge daubers.  A great resource for how to create sky backgrounds is Theresa Mombers blog - she does picture tutorials.  I try to recreat the look here and added mountains in the background.  I stamped the buck then masked him off and sponged a hill shape for him to stand on in black ink.  When stamping the buck I got a sumdge next to him, so I added grass with my Copic marker to cover it up.  I then stamped the cute little sign and cut it out.

All stamps are from Gina K designs.

Thanks for stopping by:

Marcia