This One's For Mom

Good Morning!  The Challenge over at the House of Cards Challenge Blog for March is to "Add A Button." So this two weeks of the month is for Clean & Simple Cards (CAS) or Classic & Elegant cards with a button on them.  Hop on over and play along with us.  Here is my DT card for the challenge.

I got carried away with the button theme and went with a whole sewing theme on this one.  I have decided this will be my Mother's Day card to my Mom.  She loves to sew and quilt but with Macular Degeneration she can no longer do so.  I might have gone a little bit vintage on this card versus Classic & Elegant .

I love how I thought of having the scissors cut the edge of the paper.  Here's a close-up of that.

The DP is Authentique Original 6x6 pad.  The bodice stamp is Tim Holtz  Stamper's Anonymous Sew Exceptional.  Scissors, button and thread spool are from the Tim Holtz Sizzix Sewing Edge.  Scissors and button are cut from Ranger mirror foil.  I topped the scissors with dot of  silver Perfect Pearl  for the screw.  Sentiment stamp is from Great Impressions Stamps.  Inks used are Distressed Inks Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire and Vintage Photo.  Flower is made from the Tim Holtz Sizzix Tattered Floral Die.  Jute and lace are from my stash.    

Hope you come and play with us at the House of Cards Challenge Blog.

I am also entering this in the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge #4 - Show Some Sparkle,Glitz, or Glam (what's more sparkly or shinier than that Ranger foil?)

Happy Crafting!
Donna

Pet Sympathy

A friend of our just lost their 17 year old dog.  I came up with this card to show our sympathy for his loss.  As a dog lover we know how hard it is to let one go.  Our Wiemeraner "Ghost" pictured over on the right side of my blog page is just one of the nine Wiermeraners we have rescued over the last 30 years.

 The background stamp is from Great Impressions (it must be retired but they have other paw print stamps.)  I cut the large paw with a SU heart framelit and the small oval punch.

Happy Crafting!
Donna

Virtual Card Making Party Challenge 2

The next challenge at the Virtual Card Making Party (hereafter referred to as VCMP) was a recipe challenge of 1 image, 2 designer papers and 3 words.  Here is my take on the challenge.

I had fun with the "ribbon candy" using the idea that Sandy Allnock posted on the May Arts You Tube Channel.  The top DSP is the Luxury Paper Collection from Raspberry Road Designs.  I got it free by subscribing to Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine.  I stamped the paper with two stamps from the Stampers Best Sewing Kit Stamp Set using Tea Dye distressed ink.  I stamped the scissors from the same set  and the sentiment from Great Impression Stamps on Stampin'Up! Very Vanilla card stock using Vintage Photo distressed ink.  I used Stampin'Up! Apothecary Accents framelit to cut out the sentiment and hand cut the background cardstock to frame it.  The second DSP is from the Creative Memories Give Thanks Digital Kit.  The pink pearls are from Creative Charms (sadly no longer in business).  See you at the next challenge!

Happy Crafting

Donna

You can visit my Creative Memories Website HERE.

OWH Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge

The Color Challenge this week for Operation Write Home's Midweek Throwdown is blue and yellow.  I am barely getting this in under the wire!

I know this looks kind of orange but in real life it really is more yellow and the blue is more turquoise.  I just can't seem to get the colors right with the photo editing software.  The paper is Raspberry Road Designs Luxury Paper Collection. It reminded me of the illustrations on sewing patterns back in the day.   It was a gift from Cardmaking and Papercrafting Magazine.  I got the idea to use it from Desert Rose Outpost because she used one of the papers in the collection for one of her cards (and she did a very beautiful job).  The sewing thread and scissor stamps are from Stampers Best Sewing Kit Stamp Set and the sentiment is from Great Impressions Stamps.  I used Stampin'Up! Tempting Turquoise ink and Creative Memories cardstock.

Happy Crafting!
Donna
You can visit my Creative Memories website HERE.

OWH Bonus Sketch Challenge Take 2

Operation Write Home Bonus Sketch is such a fun one I had to do one more card with this sketch.

The stamps are my absolute favorites.  They are from Great Impressions Stamps #G269S and #H157S.  I inked them up with Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink.  I just love this little doggie!  I colored his ears with Prismacolor markers and his pink tounge with Tim Holtz Distressed marker in Worn Lipstick.  Cardstock is from Creative Memories.

Happy Crafting!
Donna
Visit my Creative Memories Website HERE.

Great Impressions Anything Goes Challenge

Great Impression Stamps challenge for this month was "Anything Goes."  I just got these two stamps from them in the mail yesterday and couldn't wait to ink them up.  This card will go to Operation Write Home.  I know many Heroes miss their dogs as well as their families so I thought this would be a cute card for them.

The stamps are G269S and H157S from Great Impressions Stamps.  I used Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink and a black Prismacolor marker. The cardstock is Creative Memories. The spot of red on the dogs tongue is Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick distressed marker.  I used a black Pigma pen for the penwork around the edge of the card.  I hope to see you all on the Operation Write Home Memorial Day Sketch Bloghop on May 26th.

Happy Crafting!
Donna
You can view my Creative Memories website HERE.