Jessie's Birthday Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 579 - I Lost my Honey in a Gray Lagoon, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 373 - It's About Birthdays and Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 444.
My darling hubby will be celebrating a birthday in August and as I put this together it just screamed for him so I went on and wrote his name on the envelope so I wouldn't change my mind later. LOL.
I used some dp from MME - Home stack for the 3 panels and unusual for me I used the basic gray cs for my card base. I usually use either white or vanilla since they are in more abundance and easier to restock.

I used white on the inside so I could stamp the sentiment and stamped in lost lagoon the Birthday Innies sentiment from sweet-n-sassy stamps.  I love this sentiment and can not believe it is the first time I have used it.  On the envelope I used the balloon stamp from Favorite Teddy Stampin Up set in hello honey ink. 
I lost my SU demonstrator and have to find a new one. I also thought I had lost my mojo since a month had past and I just could NOT get inspired by the challenges. Still not sure I ever had any mojo but gave it a shot today anyway. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Favorite Teddy, Birthday Innies, SNS, 
Paper: White, basic gray, My Minds Eye - Home, hello honey, lost lagoon 
Ink: hello honey, lost lagoon 
Accessories: HB Die - Impression Obsession 
Techniques: CAS, 3D, die cuts

God's Blessed Painted Garden Silhouettes

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 575 - Paint Your Stamps and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 366 - Glittery Sentiment. I inked the flower section with rose red and the stems with old olive markers then stamped on the focal panel and then on the inside of the card after huffing on the stamp.

I did the same with the HB sentiment on the inside and envelope. I then traced over the HB on the front panel with my glitter pen.
Hope you like it
RECIPE:
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, God's Blessings 
Paper: white, rose red 
Ink: rose red, old olive 
Accessories: glitter pen 
Techniques: paint your stamps, 

Bootiful Occassions Purple Birthday card for Madison

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 571 - Naked Stamping and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 362 - A Purple Birthday. I have a granddaughter, Madison, who thinks purple is the only acceptable color so this will be her birthday card this year. She also loves her boots. I used one of my fav techniques, ink spray and smash, to make this.

I did the same stamping on the inside and stamped the Happy Bootday on the envelope all in black ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Bootiful Occassions 
Paper: white, glossy white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Perfect Plum 
Accessories: glossy white paper 
Techniques: ink, spray and smash, Naked Stamping, masking

God's Short & Sweet Birthday Blessings

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 574. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 564 - I have a Crush on Pacific Sand. I inked up the negative side of the Happy Birthday embossing folder with pacific point then embossed sahara sand circle and ran it through the cuttlebug for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a stamp. I choose to make another HAPPY Birthday card for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are You HAPPY?. I stamped the short & sweet sentiment in cucumber crush on sahara sand cs and punched out a balloon from Martha Stewart punch in pacific point and popped both up on dimensionals.

I also stamped this on the front of the envelope. For the inside I used God's Blessings set and stamped in cucumber crush ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: God's Blessings, Short & Sweet 
Paper: Vanilla, Pacific Point, Cucumber Crush, Sahara Sand, The Paper Studio - Day at the Beach 
Ink: Pacific Point, Cucumber Crush 
Accessories: dimensionals, HB embossing folder, 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, Inking the negative embossing folder

Happy Birthday with Aspen Trees

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 564 - I Have a crush on pacific sand. For Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a stamp I sponged some pacific point on white using TCW Aspen Tree Stencil then matted on pacific point cs. For Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are you HAPPY? I cut the HB die from memory box using cucumber crush cs and glued it to the pacific point circle then popped it up on dimensionals. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 429.
The only stamping done here was on the inside using a set of birthday quotes I picked up at JoAnne's last year in pacific point and on the envelope. I also am going to extend my resolution this year to stamping on the back of the card with my signature stamp. I did this today. YAH! I love picking up a card to give and it is completely finished except for signing a name on the inside. This card was so fun to make and I hope whomever I pass it on to enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed making it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Quotes - Joanne's 
Paper: white, cucumber crush, pacific point, sahara sand 
Ink: Pacific Point 
Accessories: Memory Box HB die, TCW Aspen Trees Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, stenciling, sponging, paper piercing

It's your 10th Birthday Makayla

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a Stamp, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are You Happy? and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 429. We have 3 granddaughter's celebrating birthday's next month so I made Makayla's today who will be turning 10, WOW where does the time go. I cut the circle with a Marvy circle punch then I inked the negative side of the HB embossing folder with watermelon wonder then ran it thru the cuttlebug. This panel is popped up on dimensionals. the panel under that was inked with Tim Holtz Splatter stencil using all 3 colors then matted on watermelon wonder.

The sentiment on the inside and envelope were stamped in watermelon wonder. Hope you like it now let's get back to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday 
Paper: white, crisp cantelope, watermelon wonder, crumb cake 
Ink: crisp cantelope, watermelon wonder, crumb cake 
Accessories: dimensionals, cuttlebug Happy Birthday EF, Tim Holtz Splatter Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, stenciling, cuttlebug negative inking

Happy Birthday Big Boy for James

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 569. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENG E# 559 - Honey there's a rose in my garden and the popped up HAPPY is from the MFP set I used stamped in garden green, cut and popped up on dimensionals for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 562 - Pieced and Cut Words the rose red HB are from It's Your Birthday SU Set. 

I used a sentiment from IYB set for the inside and the HHB for the envelope. I needed a masculine birthday card for Jessie's brother so this will go in the mail today.  Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday & All Year Cheer II - SU, Big Boy Toys - MFP 
Paper: white, hello honey, garden green, rose red 
Ink: Garden Green, rose red 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, clear glaze 
Techniques: sponging, copics, 3D

A Lotus for your Birthday

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 556 - Tempting Red Petals, for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 559 - A CASe In Point where I choose today to CASE my ROSE BIRTHDAY CARD and used a technique that I loved called TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE 551 - COLOR BLOCKING WITH CARD STOCK. This is also for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 350 - To Grandma's House we go. I know nothing about my father's mother since I was 3 yrs old when my parents divorced and my mom moved us from Indiana to GA with her mother. She passed away when I was only 4 but I do remember everyone talking about how she could stick her thumb in a pot with dead flowers and bring them back to life so this is in the honor of those memories. I color blocked with primrose petals and real red cs the top layer of the flower and the HB sentiment. I embossed the tempting turquoise panel with Darice Brick Wall embossing folder.

I stamped the sentiments on the inside and envelope in tempting turquoise ink. I hope you like it and off to work I go. Have a blessed day everyone.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Greetings - Joanne's 
Paper: white, tempting turquoise, Real red, primrose petals, wild wasabi 
Ink: Tempting turquoise 
Accessories: Lotus Blossom die, HB die, Cuttlebug, Brick Wall EF 
Techniques: 3D, color blocking with card stock, CAS, dry embossing

CAS Silly Sealife Birthday

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 547 - Only One, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 338 - Cute Critters. My color combo is from last Tuesday's COLOR COMBO # 543 - No Gray days in Lucky Bermuda. CAS is so much my style, the more I add to a card the less I tend to like it. I stamped the whale in momento tuxedo black on white then colored with copics C1,C3, C5. I colored the water below, around and above the whale with BG10, BG11. I matted the whale on Bermuda bay. The tiny bubbles die was cut with Bermuda bay and pool party. I stamped the sentiment in lucky limeade below.

On the inside in lucky limeade I used a sentiment from Sweet and Sassy's Birthday Innies. All of my famiy are beach lovers so some lucky family member will receive this birthday card soon. Hope you like it. Off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: SU - AYC II, Silly Sealife; SNS - Birthday Innies
Paper: white, bermuda bay 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black ,Bermuda Bay, Lucky Limeade 
Accessories: ribbon, oval punches, Memory Box tiny bubbles die 
Techniques: CAS

It's Your Rusty Ole Birthday Danny

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 552, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 542 - Elegant and delightful Cajun meadows, and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 545 - Fussy Cutting. I used a fiskars guide to cut my circle then doodled around the edge. I stamped the rusty tractor then cut it out and colored with copics, I fussy cut the grass underneath and the sentiment as well.

My SIL has a birthday this month so I will probably pass this to him as I am always teasing him about aging to the 40's. I hope he likes it and I hope you do too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Rusty Tractor, Stonewall - deep red; SU It's your birthday; ?? - Birthday greeting 
Paper: vanilla, ?? dp, mossy meadow, cajun craze 
Ink: momento tuxedo black, elegant eggplant, cajun craze 
Accessories: dimensionals 
Techniques: tone on tone, fussy cutting, 3D, doodling

Madison's 13th BD Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 542 - Elegant delightful Cajun meadows, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 545 - Fussy Cutting, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 336 - Under the Stars, and my layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 409.
I used a set I have not used in years from when I was on the DT for H&M which is no longer in business. I stamped the image on white then on 3 of the colors in todays CC then fussy cut them out to paper piece them. I used some dp from a new paper stack that was as close as I could come to and punched a star to fussy cut around it. Hope you like it, now off to work I go.

RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday, Birthday Greetings - SU, Livin' The Girls Life - H&M Stamps 
Paper: white, elegant eggplant, deightlful dijon, cajun craze, mossy meadow, colorbox Carvnival dp 
Ink: momento tuxedo black, elegant eggplant 
Accessories: dimensionals, cuttlebug Star EF 
Techniques: paper piecing, fussy cutting, 3D

 

Summer Cathedral Window of Patchwork

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 551, Tuesday's  COLOR CHALLENGE # 541 - ROSES and MINTS are a TIP TOE treat, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 544 - Cathedral Window Patchwork and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 335 - Let's get beachy. I was so happy to get to play this week and look forward to more daily creations by me again as my job duties have changed back to later hours so I can play again daily. God is so GOOD to me even though I do not deserve His blessings He freely gives them.
I did the patchwork on the slatted panel of the front and the inside as well. I sponged the backside of my dp with mint macaron ink. After stamping the image on the focal panel I colored with copics.

I stamped the inside and envelope with rose red ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Summer by the Sea, Birthday Greetings 
Paper: white, mint macaron, rose red, tip toe taupe, colorbox Light Bright dp 
Ink: momento tuxedo black, mint macaron, rose red 
Accessories: ribbon, copics, dimensionals 
Techniques: cathedral window patchwork

A Ghostly Birthday Card for my darling Hubby

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 540 - Tempting Smoky Curry with Birthday for dessert, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 543 - Can you Resist? where I attempted Ghosting twice and finally gave up with what I had, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 334 - Summer Treats, we seem to eat a lot of birthday cake during summer months and the blowfish is usually what we catch when we go fishing because it is too dang hot for the trout or redfish to bite, LOL. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 407. This has been a fun sketch to play with. I made this for my dh for his birthday next month. He gets so mad when he pulls one of these guys in. My darling daughter (e3stamper) Shannon stamped me some images from her last purchase and I just had to color them up with copics. I cut the fish and the cake out and punched the sentiment with a circle punch. Needless to say my Ghosting needs more work as it did not do like I expected and this is the 3rd attempt for this card. I finally said, it is what it is.

I had made a stamp image from a die cut years ago and I used it on the inside of the card stamped in crushed curry after stamping first on the envelope and the sentiment from a Birthday quote set in temping turquoise. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: SU Small Sayings, AI Deep Breath, home made balloon 
Paper: white, glossy cs, temping turquoise, crushed curry, 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, versamark, Tempting Turquoise, Crushed Curry 
Accessories: dimensionals, Tim Holtz Rays embossing folder, balloon image made from die cut 
Techniques: Ghosting, dry embossing

Spinkled Butterfly Birthday Latch Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 534 - Pools of Wisteria Bliss, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 537 - On A Roll, my layout if from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 401. I decided the sketch would fit well with the new LATCH CARD following the tutorial from SCS HERE. I used the pool party rolled edge ribbon bow and attached a butterfly cut in white and colored with copies and matted on wisteria wonder angel wings for the catch holding the card together. The ribbon covers the scored lines allowing for the bending. I stamped the sentiment on the focal panel in blackberry bliss then tore the bottom edge and rolled it, matted on blackberry bliss and wisteria wonder with the bottom edges torn and rolled. I stamped the butterfly image from Sprinkles in blackberry bliss on the envelope. 

 I stamped the sprinkles butterfly image in wisteria wonder on the inside after stamping off and the HB sentiment is from All Holidays stamped in blackberry bliss.  Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: SU - Sprinkles & All Holidays, Joanne's - Birthday sentiments
Paper: White, Wisteria Wonder, Blackberry Bliss, 
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Wisteria Wonder 
Accessories: ribbon, stickles, Cheery Lynn Dies, Torn edges 
Techniques: Rolled Edges, Latch Card, stamp off

Pop Up Book Shore Thing Beachy Birthday

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 535 - Pop Up Book Card. Well this took quite some time for me but I did use a lot of dies too. I found some sandy looking dp for the beach scene and some 12x6 CS not sure where I got it. I am going to try to find a sentiment for the inside that says "kick back and relax". I know there has to be one somewhere.
Hope you like it
RECIPE:
Stamps: Shore Thing 
Paper: vanilla, Pool Party, white, crumb cake, old olive, DCWV Day at the Beach dp, ? sandy dp 
Ink: momento brown 
Accessories: IO Flip Flops, Clouds, Sea Birds, Birds, Happy Birthday, Adirondeck Chairs; Frantic stamper Palm Tree Techniques: Pop Up Book Card, 3d

Make A Wish at the Beach

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Under a Soft Sky our Blushing Bride eats Crumb Cake, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 531 - Stencil this or Stencil that, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 322 - Cupcakes, and my layout is from last Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 537. Well not sure this is very simple but not difficult either since I had the dies already cut out. The longest time taken was cleaning up after getting dazzling diamonds everywhere. LOL . I popped the focal panel up and then popped the cupcake up so that it was sitting in the chair. Can you tell my family is a beach loving family? Well we are. This will go to my niece later this year for her birthday. Hope she likes it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Die Versions - Make a Wish 
Paper: white, Soft Sky, Crumb Cake, The Paper Studio - A Day at the Beach 
Ink: Soft Sky 
Accessories: Die Versions - Make a Wish Die, Impression Obsession Flip Flops, Clouds & Adirondeck Chair, Dazzling Diamonds, Stickles, dimensionals, Plaid - Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, Glittered Stenciling, die cuts

Glittered Stencil Treat Yourself

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 531 - Stencil This or Stencil That, and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENG E# 322 - Cupcakes. My colors are from last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 527 - Wild Pirouettes on the Sahara and last Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 537. I have a granddaughter birthday coming up and so I went with a birthday theme. I have not used this set in quite some time. I stamped and cut out the icing and candle part to make a stencil then applied some glue and some pink glitter then white for the candle. I used some stickles for the flame. After drying I cut the entire image out and popped it up on dimensionals. I used my airbrush and a copic with the Jim Holz Splatters stencil. Love how that turned out. The sentiment is stamped in Sahara Sand ink. Hope you like it. See everyone tomorrow in the color challenge I hope.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Treat Yourself 
Paper: White, Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand 
Accessories: Dimensionals, Glitter, Doodlebug Design Sugar Coating Glitter, Jim Holz Splatters Stencil, ribbon
Techniques: Glittered Stenciling, Copic Airbrushing, 3D, yellow and red stickles

Fishy Birthday

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 535, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 525 - Bingo Game, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 528 - Cluster Stamping and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 319 - Make It Masculine. I went with a Fishy birthday card for my grandson that is coming up in the next few months. Hope he likes it. I punched out an oval and used it for my reverse masking. I stamped the fish on my white cs then on paper and cut it out to use as a mask. The small images were stamped around the fish in crisp cantelope. I colore
d the fish with copics then used some stickles on the fish and the sun. I mean you just can not have a sun and fish without some bling now can you? LOL. My color choices were from the first row down on the bingo map : So Saffron, Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Shore Thing, Fishy Friends 
Paper: white, Soft Sky, The Paper Studio - A Day At the Beach dp 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Crisp Canteloupe, So Saffron 
Accessories: Stickles, 
Techniques: Cluster Stamping, Masking, Reverse Masking, Copic Air Brushing

Wild Rose Birthday

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 533, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENG E# 523 - Melons and Chocolates in my Garden, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 526 - Punch and Pleat, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 317 - Bulb or Bulb Flowers. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig and did some 2 step stamping with Wild Roses then cut out the roses and leaves to attach where I wanted them. I punched some MME - Home dp using Martha Stewarts grass border punch then scored and pleated it to go under the roses. The sentiment is from Full of Life stamped and matted in melon mambo. I used choc chip cs for my base.

 

I cut out and attached another rose to the envelope, for the inside I adhered some white cs and stamped Happy Birthday on it. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Wild Rose, Full Of Life 
Paper: White, Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, My Minds Eye - Home dp 
Ink: Melon Mambo, Garden Green 
Accessories: Martha Stewart Grass Border, stamp-a-ma-jig, dimensionals 
Techniques: Pleated Border, 3D, 2 step stamping

It's Jimmy's Birthday

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 447 - Fill It Up. I used the small HB solid image and stamped in all 3 colors in today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 238 - Color Challenge (smokey slate grey, melon mambo, midnight muse. My layout is from today's MONDAY'S MOJO SKETCH CHALLENGE # 311.
I embossed the smokey slate circle using cuttlebugs Happy Birthday embossing folder then brushed the raised images with midnight muse ink.
I needed a birthday card this afternoon for our brother in law, the family is coming over for a fish supper. Hope he likes it.

RECIPE: 
Stamps: It's Your Day 
Paper: white, smokey slate, midnight muse 
Ink: Smokey Slate, Melon Mambo, Midnight Muse 
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Happy Birthday EF, Fiskars Birthday Candle border 
Techniques: Fill It Up, Dry Embossing