A New Discovery...My Besties!

Recently I came upon a called Grandma Bonnie's Place and I fell in love with the My Besties from Sherri Baldy's Etsy Shop!  Wow, these Besties are so stinkin' cute and are available both as traditional stamps or digital, I went for the digital version!  So what I decided to do is take one of my stock Birthday Cards and bump it up a knotch with one of Sherri's Besties.

So I removed the sentiment which had been mounted with dimensional tape and repositioned it.  I then changed out the deep pink flower with two yellow and one light pink on the lower tab.  Lastly, but most definitely not least, I added this adorable Bestie named Ginger.

I colored Ginger with Copics after allowing the ink from my printer to dry.  I think I need to practice a bit more, especially on the hair, but all in all, I am very satisfied with this girl.

I would love to hear from you. Tell me what you think.
Have a wonderful 4th of July!

Thank You Card To Bring In Summertime!

I have been working with my stash of patterned papers and believe me when I tell you that I have a ton! Can you relate? I am on a mission to use up some of this paper before I spend another dime on more...wish me luck!

I created a 5" x 7" card base with white cardstock. I then cut a piece of patterned paper from a beautiful paper pack (Bountiful) from Hot Off The Press, and attached that to the front of the card. The beautiful butterfly is a 3-D sticker from Paper Studio.

This is the inside of the card and is another sheet of patterned paper from the same paper pack. I used a die and my Big Shot to cut out the white panel to write my message to the recipient. The small green butterfly came from my stash and is a sticker.

From the scraps I covered the flap of the envelope to created a complementary set. I love decorating my envelopes to match my cards.

Bumble Bee Marci Such a Delight

I hope you are having a Happy Wednesday. Today I have created a card for this week's Card Concept challenge #11. This week they have a fun color combo for us play with, Black, Gray, Yellow and White. I also used CASology's challenge #97 for the theme of this card - Bee!

Here is my card:

I love this color combo! To keep with my CAS style I kept all of my stamping to the bottom section of my card. By doing this it still gives me lots of white space. I did however, pop Marci (Lala Land Crafts) on an Action Wobble. These are so fun! I printed Marci out on 80# Pure Luxury cardstock from Gina K. Designs and used Copics to color her. Isn't she just adorable!

Creatively Redeeming Treasures Team Blog Hop July 2013

Wow, we are already over half way through the year, can you believe it!  It is so amazing how fast the time goes by.  Does it feel the same for you?

 

"Welcome to the Creatively Redeeming Treasures Team Blog Hop if you are coming from Helen Gullett's Blog you are in the right place! If you are just stopping by, feel free to follow the links and hop the whole way through and see everyone's artwork. We will be doing this Hop every month on the 19th so make sure to scribe to my blog so that you won't miss any of the great projects!

In celebration of the wonderful food of the season AND our July Stamp of the Month - Sweet Life, I created this card. You can get your Sweet Life stamp set, valued at $17.95 at a 72% discount (only $5) when you place an order of $50 or more in Close To My Heart products. 

I also played around with our Exclusive Inks markers to create these lovely peaches! First I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black fade-resistant dye ink, as I have found it is the ONLY ink that doesn't bleed when using alcohol markers. I then used Buttercup, Blush, Cranberry, Pear, and Topiary to color the image.

I used Spellbinders Nestablilites Classic Ovals and Classic Scalloped Ovals to cut out the image after I had stamped and colored it. Popped that up on 3-D Foam Tape. I embossed the Honey Cardstock with a Sizzix Dots embossing folder, then used a corner rounder on all four corners. Then I layered this on a piece of Black Cardstock and used the corner rounder on that as well. Next I wrapped a piece of Color-Ready Seam Binding Ribbon around this panel. Tied a separate bow and attached that to the left side of the panel on top of the ribbon with a Memory Book Mini Glue Dots®.

I then attached the panel to the card base, attached the oval piece and then used the corner rounder once again! Walla, here you have it! 

If you would like to purchase any of the products that I have used, please contact me or head over to my Close To My Heart website.

Thanks for being fantastic and stopping by. Now hop on over to my CRAFTY FRIEND, Kara LaSala's blog to see what she created."  

Just in case you got lost, here’s the complete list of Blog Hop:

Elizabeth Mindemann
Meredith Hainsworth
Dolores Cancel
Heather Flaherty
Elizabeth Kennedy Cammack
Nancy Duhaime
Helen Gullett
Angelina Romero— YOU ARE HERE
Kara LaSala - Next Hop

Thanks again for stopping by! ~Angelina

Mojo Monday 294

This week's sketch, #294 by Julee Tilman, is just another example of how we can combine simple yet fun embellishments to dress up a card. Once again I had fun using some of the super colorful papers from Close To My Heart's Dream Pop collection.

The A Flowering Bunch is the upcoming Stamp Of The Month from Close To My Heart and will be available beginning June 1st. I used Exclusive Inks® Markers to color the petals and match the fun colors of the paper pack.

The stitching around the card face was done using the For Always Cardmaking Workshop stitching stamp. I enjoyed using this stamp to accomplish the stitching. The stitching around the focal image was done free-hand.  I used Pink Glitter Gems in 3 different sizes as final accents to this fun and versatile card. A sentiment can easily be added when it is time to send this beauty!

Hope you enjoyed and I invite you to play along.  Here is the sketch for this week.

Thanks again for stopping by!  Please leave a comment.
Happy Paper Crafting!
~Angelina

 

Graduation Is Upon Us

As summer approaches so does Graduation!  From Pre-School to Graduate School and everything thing in between.  I love receiving all of the wonderful announcements and seeing the pictures of all of the young people that I have come to know. For some, I have been receiving the announcements since their birth! For others, this is the first time. 

I have been scouring the internet looking for inspiration for creating my own version of a variety of Graduation Cards for these events. Below are a few of my examples or versions of what I found.

Do you have any graduates in your family?  We do! Our lovely daughter and youngest of our blended family, graduates High School and will be moving on to New Mexico State University in the Fall. 

I hope you enjoy.

The darling little gal (Flower Power Daisy Graduates) on these cards comes from Digital Delights by Louby Loo. Both of these cards are, Gift Card/Money holders, of course!

I am still working on creating a better tassel. I have seen a few versions on YouTube and just need to come up with something that works for me. I found the tutorial for the Graduation Hat card over at DigitalDelights on YouTube. I did change up the measurements as I wanted the card to fit in a standard A2 envelope. Final measurements are 4-1/4" x 5-1/2". The second card was made with the Cricut Artiste Cartridge page 55.  This card was cut at 5".

This is an A2 standard card (4-1/4" x 5-1/2") and I used the Cricut Artiste Cartridge to cut out the star (pg. 68), banner (pg. 35), medallion under the DREAM sentiment (pg. 35) and the circle (pg. 48) on White Daisy card stock. The DREAM stamp is from the Wheel of Life Flair (D1545), the medallion, banners, Congrats and doodle around the Congrats are from the Kudos Collection that is one of three (3) stamps sets that are included with the Cricut Artiste Cartridge. The Celebrate! sentiment and Cap are stickers that I had left over from years of card making.

Here is one last card along with a tutorial.

If you like what you see, please leave a comment.
Thank you and as always..... Happy Paper Crafting!

~Angelina