Birthday Celebration

Good Monday morning everyone!  
One of my dear friends is celebrating a birthday on Wednesday and I will be taking her to lunch tomorrow after a shopping visit to a yarn shop.  We are both knitters and she is a beach lover, so I made this card for her.  As inspiration, I used the CR84FN32 colours pic and this is what I came up with.
I started with an aqua card front (Coredinations) and this great colourful letter print paper (October Afternoon).  I rounded 2 of the corners and sponged the panel with SU crumbcake ink.  I used 2 new circular dies from MemoryBox that I bought from Ellen Hutson and layered together.  I then stamped a SU heart that has French printing and a floral image, cur out, sponged and coloured.  I have had these great cocktail picks with shells on them that I bought at Anthropologie last Summer and finally using one of them.  The Celebrate sentiment is from the SU set Fancy Phrases and I stamped it onto another MemoryBox "pastry labels" die that I also recently acquired from Ellen's store.  The little charm is removable for my friend to add to a bracelet or necklace and I tied a SU Pear Pizzazz seam binding length and tied into a simple bow.  I hope she will like the card and the yarn and I know we will both enjoy the Margarita that we will have with lunch in celebration of her birthday :)
Thanks for taking a peek,
Cheers ~ Chriss

MFW Cosmopolitan Neopolitan

Cosmopolitan Neopolitan

Here's my take on the MoxieFabWorld Tuesday Trigger
I love pink and brown together and and I couldn't resist trying my hand at this delightful Tuesday Trigger.  I got out my inks and sponged the center part of my card front, stamped this sundae image from an older SU set (Sweet Treats) and coloured with Copic and Spica markers, can you see the sparkles in the chocolate brown?.  I cut out and embossed with a Spellbinder curvy rectangle and sponged the edges of it with the pink on one side and the brown on the other.   The Celebrate sentiment is stamped in the same cocoa craft ink and I added these resin flowers on the side to duplicate the same colour repetition.  I guess there is no explanation needed for my inspiration on this card...:)
Thanks for taking a peek,
Cheers! ~ Chriss

Dad's pocket rose

Good afternoon all!  Still hot here... a good excuse to stay inside and play with my crafting goodies.  I made a card for Ellen Hutson's "pocket/pochette" challenge using these MemoryBox Brioche papers that I have had for a little while now.  There are some great patterns in this collection and I selected these 3 from the 6 X 6 pad that I think are masculine.  I started off by making the card front with some strips of the paper and then cut out a plaid piece with a Spellbinders label # Eighteen die.  I cut the top off and used the little strip as the fold-over on the front of pockets and went over the edges with a vermillion Copic marker, using the broad end tip.  I then ran some red stitches over it and was more convinced that it looked like a pocket :)  I wanted a little pop of colour and added the resin Prima flower, like a boutonniere, but from the pocket corner.  The sentiment is made with Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type alpha stickers, so, so easy!

Congratulatory Wedding Wishes

Hello there!  Is it hot in your part of the country?  It sure is warm here in Austin!  It was 104 yesterday!  Feels like we will have much of the same today.

I had some time to create a wedding card today using Verve's Love Story and the congratulations is from Papertrey Ink's Boards and Beams set.  This card is a try at the Papercrafts Gallery Idol.  I have only ever submitted 3 cards for anything "designer" like and I am trying to get better about this, so...

I used a sheet of K and CO that I thought was so perfect for a wedding card, classic pattern and neutral colours, my kind of comfortable :)

I stamped and coloured the heart image from Verve and then stamped the sentiment in the middle.  I popped this onto a beaded circle die cut that I made using PTI Vintage Linen card stock (I used this for the card base also).  I added a few yellow Prima roses that go so well with the paper and also punched out some MS fronds and leaves in the linen cs and a kraft cs.  The congratulations was stamped and trimmed off from the rest of the sentiment phrase and I sponged the edges in SU crumb cake ink (all of the edges on the card are sponged with this).  The last little detail is the seam binding as my ribbon and I placed a bronze brad with a pearl center through the bow center.  

Hope you have a great day and enjoy the summery weather!

Cheers,

Chriss