Father's Day

Father's Day is tomorrow and I have been procrastinating on making some cards. I just had no ideas. I find masculine cards the hardest to make. Over the past couple of days I have been surfing the gallery on splitcoaststampers.com to get some inspiration. Today I finally was able to get some ideas for the two father's day cards I needed to make.

My dad is into fish and has an aquarium so I thought I would use the fish from 'All Wrapped Up'. I had the designer paper sampler pad that I just received sitting on my table so I started to flip through it and I was inspired. This is the result:

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: All Wrapped Up, All Year Cheer II
Ink: Basic Black, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Certainly Celery Designer Paper
Accessories: Ribbon, Dimensionals

When my Father-in-Law was younger he used to have a old convertible. My husband said that one of the cars from the 'Classic Convertibles' set looked just like it, so I decided to use that car stamp for his card and I made the car the same colour as the car he used to have. I tried to make the background of the card match the wrapping paper on his gift. It was black and white with the word dad written all over it. This card is not my favourite colour combination, but my husband likes it, so hopefully his dad does too.

Supplies:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Classic Convertibles, Brushstroke Alphabet
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Craft White
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White

Nephew's Birthday Cards

Over the past couple of days I have been working on birthday cards for three of our nephews. Two of the boys birthday's are on June 16th and the third is on July 3rd. I decided since I was working on two boys cards, I might as well do the third one at the same. I ordered the set 'All Wrapped Up' quite a while ago with the thought that I would use it for the boys birthday's. This was the first time I used it. I really like this set and now that I have started using it, I am sad that it is retiring.

For David who is turning 10 :

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: All Wrapped Up, Hot to Dot Wheel
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie Marker
Accessories: Bluebird Ribbon, Crystal Effects

For Josh who is turning 8:

Supplies Used:
(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: All Wrapped Up, Smile
Cardstock: Brocade Blue, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla
Ink: Brocade Blue, Mellow Moss, More Mustard
Accessories: Brads

For Tim who is turning 6:

Supplies Used:

(All Stampin' Up!)
Stamp Sets: All Wrapped Up, All Wrapped Up Accessories
Cardstock: Garden Green, Green Galore, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Garden Green, Basic Black, Real Red

First Use of Eat Cake!

I needed to make a birthday card for a friend's birthday coming up soon, and just last week I got the stamp set, Eat Cake. It normally takes me a while to get around to mounting and using a new stamp set, but I decided this time that I had to use it right away. It worked great, cause I needed a birthday card and it is an ideal set for that. This card is for a guy, so I had to make sure I picked masculine colours. Soft Subtles is my favourite colour family and so of course I used one colour from that family - sage shadow. I hope Trev likes this card. I am so proud of myself for using a new stamp set right away.

Supplies Used:
(all Stampin' Up! unless noted)

Cardstock - Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow, Whisper White, Stripped Paper from Designer Series - Pool Party.
Stamps - Eat Cake
Ink - Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow, Summer Sun
Accessories - Brads, Chocolate Ribbon, Round Tab Punch, White Gel Pen

Knott's Berry Farm

Today I took advantage of the holiday Monday and worked on my California scrapbook. I scrapbooked our pictures from our day at Knott's Berry Farm. I got four more pages done now. I am almost finished the album. I only need to do the last page, which will be our trip home. Here's the pictures of the pages I did today.

Supplies used:
Cardstock - Ballet Blue

Supplies used:
(All Stampin' Up! unless noted)
Cardstock - Brocade Blue, Certainly Celery, So Saffron
Stamps - Simply Circles, Headline Alphabet, Everyday Flexible Phrases
Ink - Brocade Blue, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, White Craft
Accessories - 1 1/4 Circle Punch, 1 3/8 Circle Punch, Vellum Metal Edge Tags, Brads

Busy Again

I really needed to get some anniversary cards made so I decided I would work on them today. This is the card I did:


I also made a birthday card for my nephew who will be turning 2 at the end of the month. Here is the finished product:

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is approaching very quickly and I had yet to do some cards for it. Today I finally sat down and made myself make some cards for my mom and mother-in-law. Here they are:



I get most of my inspiration for cards from the gallery on splitcoaststampers.com and this is where the ideas for these cards came from. It has been brought to my attention that the green card is a case from a card in R_liston's gallery. I am sorry I did not give her previous credit when I first posted this card. It was a complete oversight, I did not realize that I had cased the card. I am really sorry for not realizing this before and giving proper credit to r_liston.

Our Anniversary

Today is my wedding anniversary. I have not done any scrapping or card making since we put our house up for sale but I really needed a card to give to Andrew for our anniversary. And I would be in his bad books if I went and bought one instead of using my stamping stuff to make him one. So I sat down today and made this card for him. He really likes penguins so I think he will like it.