What a Monster Birthday card! I started with the Gerda Steiner set Monster Fun and colored up the images using my Copic markers. I fussy cut the images and added the blue monster with his daily mocha and some presents to the front.
Inside I used the Karen Burniston Cupcake Pop Up die and the rest of the cute images to make a birthday card. The dots on the paper where punched – just needed a bit more interest. Super fun! Hugs, Fran
This month’s Paper Pro challenge was to pick a die that uses the first letter of your name. I chose the Fancy Label die and used the Coffee Charms – that’s so me! I also used the Fancy Label Frames and the retired Stampin Up coffee paper.
The charms that are hanging are the coffee charms – the coffee cups across the bottom are cut from the paper.
I even tied a little sentiment to the stirrer! Make sure to check out the other Pros – lots of fun designs! Hugs, Fran
Karen Burniston – http://karenburniston.typepad.com
Sandy Diller – http://sandydiller.blogspot.com
Karen Aicken – http://paintedmountaincards.blogspot.ca
Raquel Mason – http://raquelmason.blogspot.com
Frances Byrne – http://stampowl.blogspot.com
Fran Sabad – https://fransabad.com
Sweet Summer! For this month’s design challenge I chose the new Karen Burniston Crosshatch Circle and Circle Charm dies to make a donut card. The little girl image is a Tiddywinks Digi stamp.
Inside features donut charm from the Sweet Treats charms dies and the word Sweet from Summer Words. The icing was hand cut – just die cut a circle and “go wavy” around it!
There’s lots of sparkle and glossy accents to make the icing on the donuts shine. Sorry the camera angle is a bit off! Make sure to check out the other designers today and Karen’s post tomorrow. It will be sweet 🙂 Hugs, Fran
Karen Burniston – http://karenburniston.typepad.com
Shelly Hickox – http://shellyhickox.blogspot.com
Summer – Hills Painter – http://1craftypainter.blogspot.com
Karen Aicken – http://paintedmountaincards.blogspot.ca
Helen Cryer – http://diningroomdrawers.blogspot.com
Kelly Booth – http://cruzinkellster.blogspot.com
Frances Byrne – http://stampowl.blogspot.com
Fran Sabad – https://fransabad.com
This Broadway Birthday suite is so much fun! I created a split card for this suite. It opens from the middle.
The specialty paper that goes with this set has lots of fun foil designs. Hugs,Fran
A day late AND using retired products! This is the Karen Burniston Spinner Square and the Truly Tailored suite from Stampin Up.
This Spinner Square is so easy to adapt to any theme/stamp! The block is large enough to show off any sentiment or image. Hugs, Fran
Sandy Allnock did a video using trees and watercolors and I wanted to play along. The only tree I had at hand was the Sheltering Tree stamp so I went with it. Using markers and watercolor paper, I stamped the tree and then added the leaves with re-inkers and an aqua painter. The idea was to create a shadowed area underneath the leaves. Think I might need to try again 🙂 But it was fun and great way to stretch my watercoloring abilities. Hugs, Fran
This is my Father’s Day card for my dad. I used all kinds of stuff to make this card! The stamps are MFT Animal Farm and the sentiment is Stampin Up’s Stitched All Around. Those cute clouds are Karen Burniston’s Outdoor Scenes. The card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 Crumb Cake with Old Olive patterned paper.
Inside features the Karen Burniston Tree Pop Up and the House & Fence Pop Up. I fashioned the house to match our farm house by stenciling the background with a brick stencil very lightly – going for the look of stone. The grass is also from the Outdoor Scenes die.
I made a few simple boxes to pop up some of the animals and some are attached directly to the back. I had to trim the tree (!) so the horse could peek through! And yes, we raise black angus cattle so the poor dairy cow had to have a make over!
The sentiments are from Stampin Up’s Another Wonderful Year and Truly Tailored (retired.) This is when I realize I’ve used a birthday sentiment!! So in the final version I’ve covered up the birthday part with Happy Father’s Day! Sheesh! Hugs, Fran
I’m using up some retired Stampin Up paper and stamps making cakes! 🙂 This card also uses the Karen Burniston Cake Trim on the front.
Inside is the Karen Burniston Cake Pop Up and some fun animal images fussy cut from paper.
With an elephant on top because – why not? Too much fun!
Here’s a more elegant cake card, again using up retired paper and products.
The soft colors make such a pretty cake.
The Cake Trim is done in glitter paper. Just making the most of my stash! Hugs, Fran
This is my Catalog Case of Accented Blooms – done in Old Olive. The banner flag is embossed with the Layered Leaves embossing folder and the image is colored with Stampin Blends. The sentiment is punched out with the Tailored Tag Punch and it[‘s all finished off with some enamel glitter dots (retired.) I think this set is just beautiful. Hugs, Fran
So this is a very busy card 🙂 I started with the new background stamp, Handwritten, that was stamped on a piece of Gorgeous Grape card stock and embossed in white. Over that is a die from the Springtime Impressions Thinlits in white. I die cut a circle in So Saffron and another one from vellum. The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings.
The butterfly is die cut in Highland Heather and a scrap piece of printed vellum and a piece of black. I added antenna from fishing line dipped in Dazzling Diamonds.
The card is finished off with rhinestones and a coat of Glossy Accents on the body of the butterfly. Hugs, Fran
