Masculine Birthday and L'Shanah Tovah

This week, we are challenged to use florals on a masculine card at PTI Make it Monday #261.  I used Peaceful Gardens and Larger than Life and a masculine color palatte for my card.

I often use trees or leaves on masculine cards, but this is the first time I have actually used flowers.  I picked some flowers that did not look too floral, along with other nature images.

I am in the process of mass producing a bunch of Jewish New Years cards that I need to mail by next week.  The design fits the challege this week at The Paper Players #313: CAS Taste of Fall.

I used PTI What the Doodle Apple and a sentiment from L'Shanah Tovah.

Here is a peek at the inside.

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Weekend Recap

As the weekend winds down, I am here to post 3 of the cards that I made.  First up is the last card I made, but perhaps my favorite--I had a lot of fun with it.

I was inspired by the photo at Time Out, where they are celebrating their first birthday with Challenge #26.  I was inspired by the frames, the colors, and the beadboard that I saw behind those frames.  I used WPlus9 and Hero Arts inks in colors matching the photo--with the exception that I switched the pink to more of a red because I wanted to make a masculine card.  I stamped a variety of frames from Label Basics and then filled them in with various birthday sentiments.  I scored lines every 1/2 inch across the card front before adhering my front panel with foam tape.

The fun part was selecting the sentiments.  I used sentiments from the following sets:
PTI:  Mat Stack 3, Peaceful Garden, and Tiny Treats Birthday: Hero Arts Birthday Messages, and Waltzingmouse Eat Cake.  I was able to find all those sentiments pretty quickly because I stamp all my sentiments into a sentiment binder--I turned to the Birthday section, and I could see which sentiments might fit each frame.

A peek at 2 pages of my sentiment binder

I am also entering this card at Just Us Girls #283 where the challenge is Masculine, and Seize the Birthday where the topping is Masculine.

Next up is a card that uses the sketch from this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #113 and is also inspired by the current challenge at The Card Concept #30.  I believe my style on this card is Clean and Layered.

I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps #134 where the challenge is CAS, CAS on Sunday #53 where the challenge is Girl Power, and Simon Says Wednesday Girly Challenge.

Last up is a card where I tried the ink layering technique that Jennifer McGuire shows in this video. I used a Hero Arts stencil on Soft Sky paper, inking first with white pigment ink and then with Blueberry Sky dye ink after slightly offsetting the stencil.  And, yes, I'm still playing around with Frilly Flowers.

I am entering this card at RetroSketches #156, ColourQ #282, CAS on Sunday #53 where the challenge is Girl Power, and Simon Says Wednesday Girly Challenge.

That's it for me today.

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CASE-ing My Friends

I am popping in ever so quickly to share 2 cards I made yesterday.  They were so quick to make because they are both CASEs of cards I saw while visiting my blogging friends yesterday.

This first card is CASEd from Bobby--I just fell in love with her faux quilting card and had to make my own.  I used the Building Blocks die to cut some sheets from a Recollections Valentine pad that was sitting around, and laid it out just like Bobby did.  According to Bobby's description, this is a rail fence pattern.  So, I learned something about quilts yesterday, too.  After gluing down all my strips, I ran it through the Circles and Diamonds Lil Inker Cover Plate to give it a quilted texture.  I cannot wait to make more of these.  It was a really fun (and easy) card to make.

My second card is a CASE of Kim from Cupcakes, Cards & Kim.  I often CASE Kim, but usually not so soon after she posts her card.  But, what can I say except that I was immediately inspired, and I also needed to replenish my sympathy stash.  I went monochrome with this one--I think it sets the right tone for this card, using Kraft ink and paper along with Rustic Cream paper.

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Sympathy Cards

My mom has requested some sympathy cards, and I noticed that my supply of those was getting low, so I've been making some sympathy cards here and there for my stash.  This is one kind of card that I never like to make when I need it--I'd much prefer to just be able to pull something out that is ready made.

These two are the same except for color--the first one is SU Soft Sky and the second one is SU Baja Breeze.  These cards are a redo of this birthday card.  Stamps are Crackle Background and Peaceful Garden, and the die is Memorybox Prim Poppy.

I couldn't lighten this one up without the colors looking totally garish--they are Fine Linen, Kraft and Versafine Vintage Sepia.

I was inspired by this card for my next card.   The die is from Sizzix and I can't remember the exact name, and the sentiment is from Verve Forever in Our Hearts.

My last card uses generational stamping with a variety of PTI greens and stamps from Verve Forever in Our Hearts.

That's it for me today.  I sure hope that we won't use up all these cards too quickly.  

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