Mother's Day Cards

Traditionally we have a Mother's Day BBQ and have both sides of the family come for supper, and inevitably it rains or even snows. This year both our mothers are away for this day so it'll be a quiet day for us. I made these cards to send with the mothers and for the other mothers in our family.

These cards are all totally cased from several other demos and on-line blogs that I follow.

Hope you enjoy.








I cased this card from Tiffany Bauer: her blog can be found here: www.mycraftyworld.blogspot.com
I used Rich Razzleberry Classic Ink, Cards Stock and Polka Dotted Ribbon along with DSP from the Cottage Wall Collection. The image from Messages for Mom was stamped on Whisper White. I then attached a flower and half pearl from the pretties kit.









This card was cased from Carl Bazhenow's blog found here: www.carlascraps.com
The same image as above was used and then colored with inks and the blender pen. Layers were made from Shades of Spring DSP, Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo, the edge was punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch. I used the small rhinestone brads found in the pretties kit to finish it off.






The Pink and Green cards were cased from Diana Gibbs, her blog can be found here:
www.stampingwithdi.com

I love the new satin ribbons, the purple one is one I had in my stash but it matches the Shades of Spring DSP perfectly). The sentiment is from Well Scripted set.

The Bermuda Bay card was cased from Jen Sannes, her blog can be found here: www.simpleandsincere.com
This one uses the SAB Welcome Neighbor DSP and the SAB set as well.

Thanks for looking!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all you mothers!

Sharri

Vintage Vogue and Butterflies

This pretty card is very simply done; colors are Whisper White and Bermuda Bay. I rolled the Very Vintage wheel inked in Bermuda Bay across a piece of Whisper white cardstock twice to create a background, this was layered onto a piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock which was then layered onto a Whisper White card base. The oval is the centre from the oval frame Bigshot die. The flowers were stamped using the Vintage Vogue set and the Bermuda Bay classic ink, the different shades were created by stamping off once and then stamping on the whie cardstock. I trimmed these out and layered the two sizes these were then placed around the oval which has been sponged with Frost White Shimmer Paint along the edges. The sentiment was also inked with the Shimmer paint. I then finished it off by adding a layered Butterfly which is composed of three butterflies from the Beautiful Wings embosslit. The stamp set, wheel and the embosslit can be found in the new Occaisions Mini catalogue. The Shimmer Paint was introduced in the Holiday mini but is still available. The other supplies can be found in the current Idea Book and Catalogue.

Hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great weekend!!
Sharri

Wonderful Weekend!

Well, the weekend was wonderful and fun! Not much sleep though I think I got more than most. The weekend was a crop hosted by my upline, Evelyn Wood. I don't do much/any scrapbooking and that is what everyone was doing there. I had no idea as I had never been to a crop before. Ha! Ha!
I took some tools, two stamp sets ( Vintage Vogue and With All My Heart) and some white, black and Bermuda Bay cards stock with me, as well as the new SAB paper pack Welcome Neighbour. All my stuff fit into the Big Shot Doctor's bag; most of the others looked like they had moved everything they owned into the hall where we were staying. There were 20 of us so there were lots of paper and tools everywhere.
There were a two Make and Takes which I did and an amazing goody bag; I knew ahead of time there would be a card swap so I figured I would work on those there as well.
This is one of the cards I came up with with limited the supplies I had.
It was really fun and challenging at the same time.

This card is using the new SAB paper pad( three different designs), the Butterfly Wings Emboslit, Bermuda Bay and Whisper White card stock, the large oval and the scalloped oval punch, the sentiment comes from the Vintage Vogue Set in the new Occaisions Mini Catalogue.

I will show you more as the days go on over the next little while so stay tuned.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

For Mia....

Mia is my grand daughter, she is 4 years old, soon to be 5 in November and even though she lives in Montreal, a days drive away, she keep us all on our toes. My husband will be driving through Montreal early next week so I made this card for him to take to her. She likes butterflies so, after casing the basic card from the new Holiday mini catalogue, I added them to the front for her.

It took me forever to figure out how I was going to make this so she could get the treats out of the card, I finally did after looking at several blogs to see how they were doing it. I eventually made a slider panel on the inside so it could be pulled out and the candy would fall out of the hole in the back. I made the slider by using strips of cardstock on 2 sides and the bottom that were popped up on strips from the sides of the dimensionals then the panel in front of the hole could slide in and out to retrieve the candy. This was my challenge for today.

I used Sweet Centers, Flight of the Butterfly and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp sets, Mambo Melon and Bermuda Bay inks and cardstock, Whisper White cardstock and Mambo Melon Polka Dotted Ribbon as well as the butterfly and the scalloped border punches, and the new Sweet Centers cups all from Stampin'Up.

Hope you're enjoying your long weekend!

Thanks for looking, Sharri

I did this card front for a swap at our demo group's summer meeting.
It was cased from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbR5ZXw1k5Y

I love the combination of the Soft Suede and Bermuda Bay; two of the new in colors.

I ran the soft suede base through the big shot with an embossing folder, alternated the layers of the daisies #2 bigshot die, used a length of Bermuda Bay polka dot ribbon, then stamped the greeting from Oval All on Whisper White in Soft Suede, which was then punched out with the large oval punch and matted on the scalloped oval in Bermuda Bay.

Over all a pretty card that can be used for almost any occaision.

Have a great day!

Sharri

Butterflies....

I love butterflies, dragonflies etc. and can't resist them at all.I cased this card from a blog but I'm sorry to say I can't remember who's, I saved the picture and recreated it. The stamp set is Flight of the Butterfly, the colors are Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede, two of the new In-colors all from Stampin'Up.

It's a very simple but elegant card. (please if you know the original designer of this card, let me know and I will be sure to give proper credit)

It is finally Friday, seems like it's been a long week!

Hope you have a great weekend! Sharri