For Ali...

I made this card for a sweet young lady who is having a biopsy done Thursday on a tumor in her brain. She's such a little angel, I thought she'd like this sweet little image called Lily (Stampavie). The image is colored with copics, and the wings are vellum coated with Sparkly Fluff from Our Craft Lounge. It will be available in Michelle's store Stamper's Dream really soon. It's like fun flock, but it has a fun sparkle to it. Beautiful!!

The flowers are velvet brads by Making Memories, and the ribbon is Doodlebug. I added some Kaisercraft rhinestone stickers to the flower centers too.

Finally, the paper is from g.c.d. studios.

My daughter wanted to make a card for Ali too. This is what she came up with.
Now, she has a completely different style than I do. I kept asking her if she wanted to add certain things, and she said..."No, I like my cards clean and crisp." I have no idea where in the world she came up with those words, cause they're never mentioned in MY stamproom. That is one huge struggle of mine...clean and crisp. I actually have to hold myself back from adding embellishments.

I did, however, convince her that her card needed ink distressing...*grin* I mean...after all, the dp already had some on it, so of course the rest needed it too....right? She did it all by herself too...even though she was afraid she'd mess everything up.

The giraffe image is from Imaginisce, and the paper is Archaic (Basicgrey). The circle charm is from Michaels.
Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you're having a fabulous week!!

Inspired Giraffe

The last Monday of every month, one of the CCEEers sends supplies to the others. It's so much fun to see what the others come up with with these supplies.

Deb Mills sent us all a bunch of fabulous ribbon in May, but due to some schedule conflicts, we weren't able to do her challenge until this month. Per her instructions, we were to design a card around the patterned ribbon of our choice. I chose this wide blue/pink/yellow/white plaid.

If you'd like to see what the other girls have created, head on over to our blog: CCEE Stampers

A young lady who used to baby sit my kids back in the day, just had her second baby. So I thought this was the perfect chance to use this ribbon. Most of this card was made with Nestabilities and the cuttlebug. I love the soft, cute look the Swiss Dots give the background. The blue dots are Baby Blue Liquid pearls, and the giraffe is colored with copics.

Supplies:
Stamps - Giraffe (Imaginisce Snag 'em Stamps Baby Powder Collection), Simply Said (MFT)
Paper - Papertrey
Ink - Tuxedo black (Memento)
Accessories - Copics, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Liquid Pearls, Brads (Making Memories), Corner Ticket Punch, Word window Punch (Stampin' Up), Twill Ribbon (Papertrey), Rotary scallops

Beachy Keen Monday!!

It's time for a card challenge that I do with my zany SCS friends. This week we were to use supplies that Frances (StampOwl) sent us. She gave us each this adorable penguin stamp and another *girl* penguin. We could use either, or both. She also sent us this fun DP. The other side of it is a pink/brown stripe. I couldn't match mine well enough, so I just used this side instead.

If you'd like to see the other ccee cards, click HERE.

I used a CD as a template to design my beach ball, and drew my own lines, cut out each individual section, and traced the odd ones onto the dp. All the edges are ink distressed with Walnut Distress Ink by Ranger. Now that I have the photo edited and uploaded, I realize there were some "extras" I was going to do and forgot....Bummer!!! Oh well, it took me quite a few photos to get this one, so I'm not starting over. The penguin image was cut out with the nestabilities circles and the scallops were chopped off by using a slightly smaller circle. I feel this gives it a more masculine feel. I brayered white SU craft ink over the embossed bg and heated white ep over it. The penguin is from Imaginisce, and the sentiment is from the Lizzie Anne designs "shore thoughts" set. Thanks for stopping by!!!!! ;o)

Supplies:
Stamps - Penquin Dude (Snag'em Stamps - Imaginisce), Shore Thoughts (Lizzie Anne designs)
Paper - DP (Imaginisce), Choc. Chip, Groovy Guava, Barely Banana (Stampin' Up), White (Papertrey)
Ink - Black Soot, Walnut Distress Inks (Ranger), Craft White (Stampin' Up)
Accessories - Copics, CD, Quickie Glue Pen, Ultrafine Crystal Glitter, Nestabilities, Key Tag Punch (Stampin' Up), sponge, Scotch Mounting Tape