Happy Birthday Soccer Fan

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A Cowboy Birthday

This is a birthday card for the horse person in your life.

I printed the cowboy boots picture and cut out a pair of boots that I aded in surimpression with a 3D sticky. 

The rope was tied in a noose around the sentiment.

I chose a "cowboy" font, panhead, but you could also go with 

rosewood STD, or 

wild western shadow.

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Latest Clean and Simple creations

Thank you card:

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Birthday card with a pretty dress:

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Birthday card with a tutu:

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Christmas trees:

 made with a silhouette file from Birds (birdscards.com)

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Happy Birthday:

using my silhouette

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More new cards!

"You...are a wonderful friend",

say no one enough time...

Fresh card, with a yellow card stock ribbon made with a Martha Stewart punch.

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Baby shower: I am never tired of making new baby cards...

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Clean and simple thank you: using the same little canning jar as in a few of my past cards.

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Happy Happy Birthday: fresh flowery ribbon and a yellow backing.

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Every girl deserves:

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Sea Scene Birthday

I am posting a last card for today... so I can go back to making new ones!

This one makes use of embossing folders and cuttlebug.

The clouds one is a Sizzix, and the distressed stripes a Cuttlebug.

The sentiment  stamp is from papertrey ink, and by now you should recognize my Fiskars cloud punch... my all time favorite!

I added 3 little pylons and some baker's twine.

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Until next time...

Have a Good One

The second card with another cutting file from Pam Kenward (getsilvered.blogspot.com), is also altered from the original cutting file. 

It was designed for a square card and I prefer the A2 format.

I used a silver paper for the  cut out piece.

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A clean and simple card, that could go for a masculine birthday.

Thank you Pam!

Happy Birthday Kraft and Birdies

Two new cards this morning, thanks to some free silhouette cameo cutting files from Pam Kenward, on her blog:

getsilvered.blogspot.com

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I altered this cutting file, it was a gift card holder and I wanted a regular card.

I used some kraft paper and matted the underside in a dark brown card stock.

I found this ribbon in my pile of forgotten spools.

Do visit Pam's blog, she is a wonderful artist!

Thanks... to Bird

Thanks to Bird, I used two of her cutting files. The "thanks" one and the cut out card.

Check out her blog and free cutting files on:

birdscards.com

The happy birthday cutting file is a silhouette cameo file.

I mated the two cards in silver paper and thread a blue/silver ribbon.

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Happy 21st Birthday!

Well, it happened again... another of my kids reach 21!

This came from an idea on Pinterest (MJE on "cards I've made"), I have just updated the "jeans" part.

My rag pile is full of used boxer, I found one of his old pair and he did notice that.

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One more kid to go and our house will only have adults in it. Where did the time go....

Happy Birthday by an Elephant

Sometimes a cutting file is all you need to create a cute little card.

I found this one on the internet, on Lauren blog (thinking closet.com). She made the cutest onesies, and has on her blog some free cutting files as well as some free fonts... Check it out:

http://www.thinkingcloset.com/2013/03/11/gender-neutral-onesies-free-cut-files/

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Thank you Lauren!

Adironback Chairs Birthday Cards

I made this adironback chairs card using a silhouette cameo cutting file I found on Einnej's blog, (einnej.typepad.com). 

 That lady is an artist, generous enough to share some of her cutting files, go check out her beautiful blog...

I frame the scene in a blue background with eyelets on the rounded corners, and printed a sentiment in a cloud.

I added texture in the white card stock.

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Wishing You a Happy Birthday, with Transparency

A few months back, I found that pack of transparent papers, not really vellum but more of an acetate with some flocked gifts on it. They are from Fancy Pants Designs, "It's Your Day".

I printed the sentiment on a white linen card stock and added some of the cut out designs around it for the first card.

On the second one, I actually added a half page of transparency. The picture doesn't give it justice, but, you really can read the sentiment through it.

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Something different...

Until next time...

Happy Birthday Silhouette

Those two cards are made with two different cutting files from the Silhouette Studio.

I was shooting for simple as can be...

The circle in this card is distorted because this cutting fils is actually made for a square card, and I adapted it to an A2 one.

I added a silver lining to it and rounded the corners.

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This is actually a free standing "happy birthday"  lined on a red paper.

Both those cutting files come from the Silhouette Studio.

Until next time...

Happy Birthday and A Thousand Thanks

This is another easy way to make a card...

Just write something, anything, choose the right font (and when I say right, I mean, do not go into detailed font or it might not be very neat once you try to get the paper out of the cutting mat), and add a liner...

The most important part is to fuse the writing with the card itself so that the letters are not "free standing"...

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This font was a little too detailed , and as a result, it was very difficult to get the letters out neatly...

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Check the detail below and you'll understand what I mean...

Still,  think the results are amazing!

Until next time...

Silhouette Birthday Balloons

The possibilities with the Silhouette Cameo are endless, and the web is full of beautiful cutting files and very easy to follow tutorials. 

My favorite tutorial so far is the one telling you how to make a cutting file for Silhouette when you start with an image from the web.

I pinned this tutorial on my pinterest "Silhouette Cameo" board, 

(   http://pinterest.com/pin/202943526931194298/   )

I plan to add tutorials and cutting files to this board, so check often.

This is a birthday card I made as another try...

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I simply glued the negative part of the cut on a Tiffany blue paper.

Until next time...

Wishing You a Happy Birthday

Wishing You a Happy Birthday

Simplicity is the word. My favorite cards are the one that scream simplicity.

In the same spirit than my post # 264, 

a nice sentiment and a lightly stamped image.

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I used a studio g stamp, inked in pale khaki color and used puffy paint for the flowers.

The sentiment is from my computer, with two different fonts.

Until next time!

Happy Birthday in Flip Flops

Happy Birthday...

... in flip flops

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I am back...

After 5 months and 6 days of complete inaction on the posting department, I am almost afraid to post again.

Not that I have been unproductive for this whole time, but my card making has been on the back burner as I was trying to catch up with my kids scrapbooking.

I made this card for a dear friend of mine, she is exactly that: a row of colorful flip flops on a line with a flowery and lively background. Every time I make a card, I have the image of the person it goes to, and this time, it was a no brainer.

I used a Whipper Snapper Designs stamp (www.whippersnapperdesigns.com) that I purchased at the Sacramento craft fair last october.

I then got my Copic markers out, which made me realized that I really need more of those.

The paper I used in the backing is a "Me and My Big Ideas" one that i have also forever but found too "bold" to use. Well when you only leave a little showing it is of the best effect.

Until very soon this time...

Happy 29th Birthday...

HAPPY 29th BIRTHDAY...

... from your 110 lb. friend

Hi there! Just came back from the Scrapbook Expo fair with some wonderful new toys/tools. My favorite new addition, is no contest that new stamp from Arts Impressions:

How funny is that?

I also was blown away by this booth ScrapYard 329 carrying all kind of embossed metal embellishments. Those are tins, lightweight and easy enough to tape anywhere. I chose to tape them to a band of black card stock on the inside of a ACutAbove windows card.

I fell for the Birthday tins below:

And here is the card that was created as I was listening to the last hour before the French President was announced... (don't start me on that...)

I am so much more productive when I am stressed....

 Adorable, isn't it????

With an afterthought, I also made one of those:

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Not everybody is lucky enough to be stuck at 110 lb... HA :)

This last sentiment is from a set called Party Words; I am pretty sure it is an old Stampin' Up set... 

The stars stamp is from Anita's.

Until next time....

Happy Birthday (with the help of Martha Stewart)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY...

... with the help of Martha Stewart.

When I first discovered those "punches around the pages" I thought this was the idea of a genius. 

How many time, I ask you, you want to punch a shape in a paper or card only to discover that the "punch" is too close to the edge or not where you want it.

Well, this is where those "punches around the page" come in. 

Exit the frustration, hello the OH MY...

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To keep with the simplicity I am feeling comfortable with these days, I chose to punch a column, and insert a simple sentiment in between.

And to make the motive stand out, I put an insert of white paper inside, which will make it also easier to write a message.

There is not much to it... less than 4 mn start to finish.

Until next time....

Birthday Flowers

BIRTHDAY...
...flowers.

 Opening an envelope and finding this card inside is like receiving a huge bouquet of white flowers.

I love the white on white, and added a touch of color with the multicolors brads holding the punched flowers.

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I used a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background. It actually has a flat square part in the middle.

The sentiment is a stamp from Sparkle n' Sprinkle.

The mini brads are from eyeletoutlet.com.