Anniversary card

I made this card for my sweet cousin, Nicole and her wonderful Hubby, Jeff.  They just celebrated their wedding anniversary.  I made it using a Recollections paper stack called Elegance, and the sentiment label is a Spellbinders die, fancy labels II, the sentiment stamp is from Close to my Heart the Say it in Style stamp set, along with the label stamp, its from the Frame it up Flair set. Both the hearts are a cricut cut from the Artiste cartridge.  I embossed the sentiment with red embossing powder from Ranger.  The die cut for the background is also a cricut cut from the Elegant edges cartridge and the label was stamped with Warm Red chalk ink from Clearsnap. I just added some black lace and some small red pearls to finish it off.  Hope you enjoyed my card today. I will be back tomorrow with another card. Today is my birthday and I'm off to get the day started after sleeping in this morning.  I would like to say thank you to all the nice people who wished me a Happy Birthday already this morning.  I'm really feeling the love today and that somehow makes getting older not so bad. lol. And to think I will be 40 in no time at all.. where has all the time gone? :) I would also like to say thank you to all you guys who read my blog, you mean the world to me and keep me going strong. you encourage me to keep creating and sharing with the world. Thank you for being ever faithful.  Tomorrow me and my Husband celebrate our 12th anniversary. I am looking forward to spending the day with him. Thankfully it falls on a weekend so that he doesnt have to work on our anniversary and we will get to spend it together.  No gifts this year just a nice dinner and lots of Love. Hugs to you all, amy k

Masculine Birthday card for Brother

I made this card for my wonderful baby brother.  I used papers from 7 gypsies and stamps from Tim Holtz , I used a prima flower and a piece of burlap ribbon to finish it off.  I distressed all the edges with gathered twigs distress ink.  Its a simple and easy to assemble card but I think its good for a masculine card. I hope Brother liked it anyway. Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a great day. Hugs, amy k

Masculine Birthday card for Tony

I made this card for our good friend, Tony. I used the Teresa Collins "World Traveler:" designer paper on a  kraft card base with some Tim Holtz tickets and light bulb, prima flowers in white that have been glimmer misted to match the paper and some recollections bling. I also used some thin leather trim and a vintage button for the flower center and the door lock and key brads. I think this card turned out so good, I hope Tony likes it too. Thanks for stopping by my blog today, Hope you have a great Sunday. Hugs, amy k

Hexagon birthday card for female

I made this pretty little card for my beautiful cousin, Nicole.  I just printed some images of hexagons out from google and then found one the size I liked.  Then I used a piece of clear plastic from packaging and laid it over the image I'd selected and with a ruler I traced it out then cut it out from the plastic.  Then I had a template that I could use to lay over my design paper and trace it out and cut out the patterned hexagons that I wanted.  Sorry, I didn't think of it while i was making the card but next time I do a process like that I'll try and remember to take pictures so you guys get a better understanding of how I work.  The design paper came from a 6x6 pad of My Minds Eye paper from the Dolled up collection. I fussy cut the butterflies from the paper and cut the felt roses from a sizzix die.  The sentiment and frame were a studio G stamp set from Micheals. The bling was just from my stash.  Hope you liked the card today.  Be back soon with a birthday card for a male. I think you will like it. Hugs, amy k

50th wedding anniversary card

I made this card for my Hubby, Brian's, aunt and uncle, Martha and Ray Teems.  They truly are such sweet people and they are very involved in the community and the church.  I've never visited their church with my husband and found Ray and Mot missing.  They are always there sitting right up front and Ray singing the loudest. lol.  Can't you tell I just love them to death? Because I really do.  I've known Ray practically all my life because when I was growing up he worked for the school and he would sometimes drive the bus and he just loved to go on with us kids and tell us girls how ugly we were. Course we all knew ugly meant pretty but he didn't want to say so ..lol.  We had some good times with ole' Ray.  

The children threw a very nice party for their anniversary and Ray gave us all some words of wisdom and advice on a long marriage mostly by saying the woman was always right. lol  She's just as sweet as they come and he's just a cut up and a card.  Love them both.

The card was made with designer paper from My Minds Eye and I think it was one of the lost and found collection.  The sentiment was die cut using a spellbinders die and the rosette was cut from the same paper pad.  for the center of the rosette I used one of the clay pieces I've been working on.  It's the mold of a button and I just left the clay white and rubbed over it with gold rub and buff to hit the high spots.  I hope you enjoyed my card and story today.  I'll be back later tonight or in the morning with two new cards. till then, be good,, hugs, amy k

Masculine Birthday card for Husband

I made this collage style card for my Husband's 36th birthday this year.  I used paper from 7 gypsies, the calendar stamp if from Close To My Heart and the sticker is from Basic Grey.  I really didn't have to do too much to this card as the background designer paper did most of the heavy lifting here for me.  I just added the stamped images and the sticker. I also added an ephemera pieces from 7 gypsies and K and co. too. I got the number stamps from my stash and just added it to another strip of design paper.  I hope you like my card.  I had fun making it and he seemed to like it. I don't do much with collage and I am trying to stretch my creative muscles to getting more comfortable with it. Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a great day, Hugs, amy k

"Count your age...." Birthday card for Mom, Shabby Chic

 

I made this lovely card for  my Mother's Birthday back in January and yes, I'm just now getting around to posting it. lol. Shame on me, I know!  I do hope she enjoyed this card as much as I enjoyed making it. It was fun to just get into my craft room and play.  On to the card first, then I will show you a picture of what I made for her gift ok. So to make this card I took design paper from Prima and a paper dollie that I sprayed with glimmer mist in a Kraft color.  The flower is, of course, made by Prima. The sentiment stamp is from Hot off the Press and I used some distress ink to color the punch out. The punch is by ek Sucess.  The gathered trim at the bottom is from Close to my Heart and the teal lace is from my stash. I just layered all that on a Kraft card base.  Now on to the gift...

I just think this bird house turned out so cute! All I did was add a few coats of paint and some bling from my stash and most of the  flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the rest are from my stash.  I've had the butterfly for ages and just now found the right project to use it on.  That's all for this post thanks for stopping by. Hugs, amy k

XO Valentine's card

For this card I used a K and Co.  paper pad by Kelly Panacci called KP Valentine. For the  top note shape I used a Tim Holtz alterations die called Ornamental. For the flowers and the XO die cuts I used a cricut cartridge called Sweethearts.  The banner shape is just one that I hand cut from a rectangle.  I used my bow easy to make a double bow from satin ribbon from Wild Orchid Crafts and the green glitter is from Doodlebug. The card stock is from Bazzill basics.  Other than that I just added a little bling to the flowers centers and that is all for this card.  Thank you for stopping by to check out my card. Hugs, amy k

Sweet Friend Valentine's day card for Robin

I used the gypsy to make this card base using the heart from the Close to my Heart Artiste cartridge.  I then used the same cartridge to cut out the doilly from patterned paper and then used the heart cut again to cut out the smaller heart from red patterned paper.  I stamped the sweet friend with versa mark ink and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. It's a pretty simple card made so easy by the cricut and the gypsy hand  held device for altering the cuts.  Thanks for stopping by to check out my card. I'll be right back, I've still got one more Valentine's day card to show you so don't go far.:) Hugs, amy k

Happy Valentines day card for Hubby start to finish

I made this card from a Close To my Heart paper collection called Roxy and a CTMH stamp set called Cherish the Day and punched it out with an ek Success punch, for the flourish, I used a Cherry Lynn Designs die and black card stock.  The strip at the bottom is punched out with a Martha Stewart's boarder punch. I made the flower from Bazzill card stock, added a satin leaf that I colored with olive vine glimmer mist, and then added some black satin rolled flowers by offray and a couple of rolled rose buds from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I'm including the video and it will give you any further information like the cut sizes etc. Don't forget to stay turned to the end of the video to see my first attempt at art journaling.  Thanks for stopping by today and having a look at my card. and I hope you enjoy the video. Hugs, Amy k