Lighthouse Happy Birthday

Hello there! Today's card share uses the retired SU! set Winds of Grace.  I love this type of image on watercolour paper and must miss decorative art painting more than I realize because I could sit for hours and hours, watercolouring images. :)

This card is really quite plain and simple, but the image, colouring and sparkle of the H20's really speak for themselves when you see this card in person, so I just added brads for a bit of embellishment.  Masculine cards don't really need to be too ribbony or frilly I guess :)

The details for this card are as follows: Basic Black, W. White & Bordering Blue cardstocks, watercolour paper, SU! markers, Twinkling H2O's, Silver Brads.

Thanks for dropping by and hope you are having a great weekend!

Deb :)

Nature Prints Revisted

Good Morning! I was able to spend some time in the stamp room this past weekend, I really enjoyed pulling out a few old stamps and reaquainting myself with them! I have always loved this stamp set Nature Prints for masculine cards, as its so easy to work with.  The sentiment is from the Oval All set.

This card has a Chocolate Chip base, along with Very Vanilla and Marina Mist.  The background paper is from my stash, from the Stella Ruby Collection. I also used the oval punches, retired Chocolate Chip stitched grosgrain and a couple of chocolate coloured pearls from my stash.

Thank you for dropping by my blog, I'll be posting more this week so be sure to check back :)

Deb :)

Motorcycle Madness!

Ha, no madness here really, just seemed like a zippy title!! :)

This card is another we did at our workshop last week. Just {heart} this gorgeous Lattice embossing folder.  We did a cool, quick technique my upline recently taught us at our last meeting.  Using Designer paper, run a piece (any size you like) through your Big Shot with any embossing folder of your choice.

Very carefully sand away the raised portion of the dsp and you will get a completely different look on your designer paper!!  The reason you must use Designer paper is that it has a white core; part of what I love about SU! solid cardstock is that its dyed completely through, so even when you cut a piece there are no "white" edges showing. However, designer paper is created by printing onto white cardstock, and so when you sand away, you sand to the colour beneath the dsp, which is white.

Also, on this particular card I clear embossed the whole image, giving it a glassy look.

Details:
Stamp Set: Motorcyle,  newest Mini,Happy Birthday from retired SAB
Cardstock: Dusty Durango, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Throughly Modern DSP
Ink: Soft Suede & Versamark
Accessories:  Jumbo Eyelet (oh let them NEVER retire these, I just love them!!), Dusty Durango polka dot grosgrain ribbon, Lattice Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Clear embossing powder

Have a great day!!
Deb

Nouveau Chic meets Bird Punch!

Good Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend! Our weather was fantastic ~ sunny and warm, a bit breezey, definitely flip flop and shorts weather!!

Today's card share is one we did at my latest workshop ~ don't you just love this bird punch??? I think its so versatile, as it suits both masculine and feminine cards.  Also, this Lattice Embossing Folder is the BEST one yet!! It creates the most wonderful texture, really working the cardstock when it embosses, making it very detailed.  Another folder that could be used on just about any type of occasion card.

Details:
Stamp Set: None!! The punches and designer paper do all the work for me!! I'll add a sentiment inside though.
Cardstock:  The soon to be retired Soft Sage, Very Vanilla, Basic Grey and Nouveau Chic dsp
Ink: none
Accessories:  Big Shot, Lattice Embossing folder, Circle die, Scalloped Border Punch, Two Step Bird Punch, dots embossing folder, silver brads, 2 way glue pen.

Thanks for dropping by and have a great day!
Deb

Masculine Birthday Wishes

Good Morning!! I have a masculine birthday card to share with you today. The Motorcycle stamp is from the latest SU! Mini Catalogue, I've got a link on the side bar if you'd like to take a look  :-)  The Happy Birthday is from an old SAB set.

The Designer paper I've used is Throughly Modern. This a great paper pack for all types of cards ~ its a fun colour combination that's easy to work with.  I can hardly believe we are almost at the end of a catalogue year and alot of these designer papers will be retiring! Time seems to fly, especially in the crafting world!!

Today we are celebrating my DS's birthday, so I've been busy marinating steaks, (I've been using an awesome recipe for a teriyaki  marinade,) as well as making Greek salad and a German chocolate birthday cake, with the most marvelous icing/spread with toasted pecans....mmm!!! I make all my cakes from scratch now and will never go back to a boxed cake mix again. The Devil's food cake mix that I've made is so incredibly yummy!  Rich, chocolately, and sweet yet still has a slight bitter/coffee flavour to it as well.  Can you tell at all that I'm sooooo looking foward to dinner!! :)

We are experiencing not very pleasant weather here today, its snowing and blowing. The snow is wet and heavy, I've already been out to shake the branches of our trees so they don't get too heavy and break.  I feel bad for the trees, so many have buds just ready to burst but I'm sure they are now all confused about when to open!! We had gorgeous spring weather a few weeks back.....I guess that's Alberta for you. As they say, if you don't like the weather, just wait an hour and it'll change...:-)

Thank you for dropping by and I'm still working on photos of those flower pins, so stay tuned, I'm hoping to get a chance to post them today. :-)

Deb

Happy Father's Day!!

Hi there! Father's Day is just around the corner and I thought I'd post the card I made for my DD and Sons to give to their Dad. Isnt' this a great image? I really like this stamp set, its great for Masculine Birthdays as well as Father's Day. It seems we always struggle with those masculine cards so its kind of nice to have one that's simple and easy to use and does all th work for you with the image and the sentiments. No guessing here as to who this card is for! :-)

Thanks for stopping by and please see below the next picture for the recipe. Have a great day!

Debbie

Winds of Grace - Retiring!!

Good Morning Blogger Friends! I wanted to get this card posted today, but I'm not overly happy with the photo. Its hard to take a really good pic of this card as I can't quite find the right lighting for it, but rest assured the colours in it are really beautiful.

I've used some shimmery Lumiere in the water to make it sparkle and kept the card free of brads, scallops etc, as the scene & sentiment both speak for themselves. I had so much fun painting this scene, I'm definitely going to make a few more. Its a good design & stamp set for a masculine birthday, congrats, really anything! I'm also seeing this sailboat stamped on glossy card stock that's been treated with the Polished Stone Technique. Remember that one ladies?? Its a little messy, but so much fun and you get such wonderful variance of colours in it.

I'll be away from my computer for a few days so take care and hope you enjoy the thaw this weekend!! Looks to be a pretty warm forecast (now I just have shovel all that snow that fell yesterday!)

Debbie

Cracked Glass

Hi there! We worked on the Cracked Glass Technique the other day, and it was alot of fun. I really like using Ultra Thick Embossing Powder, and whether or not you decide to "crack" it is up to you. Either way looks wonderful and really adds to a card.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Lovely as a Tree & Words

Cardstock: Kraft, Kiwi, Chocolate, Vanilla & Bella Rosa (I know, AGAIN!) Told you that Bella Rosa is versatile :-)

Ink: Brown StazOn, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate

Accessories: Scallop Border Punch, White Gel Pen

Lovely (?) As a Tree

Hi there Bloggers! I made this card for my DH for his Birthday, but just couldn't decide if it was finished or not. I keep thinking that it needs something more, what do you think? I used a Glassy Glaze finish on the tree image, it looks really cool.

Have a great evening, and we'll see you soon! :-)

Debbie