I made up for no card yesterday!

Happy Monday!

Well ladies I felt so bad for not having a card to post that I spent all day in my craft room and to day I will be sharing all my work with you.

The first card I made was for the color challenge at The Color Dare blog. You were to use Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Summer Sun, and Very Vanilla. I also used the sketch challenge at Stamping 411. Finally since I was planning on doing flowers I was able to have the card fit the blossoms challenge at Our Creative Corner blog. I wanted something different so I played with the gate fold card and here is what I came up with. The flowered panel at the top holds the left flap closed. I stamped the vine from Vintage Vogue down the edge and followed the vine to cut a decorative edge. I stamped and cut out the small flower and used crystal brads for the center. I like the way it turned out. Here is the sketch and my creation.

card opened part way

inside of card

All information will be at the end.

My next card was one I made for my workshop. I used a color challenge on this card. I saw a card on Julie’s Paper Pleasing Ideas blog that was my inspiration for this card. I modified it a little to fit my needs. I chose my colors from the challenge from the Stampin’ B’s Design Team which was to use white, yellow, soft blue or soft mint. My card uses the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder. A piece of white was embossed and the embossing was sponged with Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, and Certainly Celery. I then used the scallop trim border punch to do the edge of the top fold down piece. I stamped a sentiment and added my ribbon. Here is my card I will be using for my May workshop.

card with top flap open

inside of card

My next card is another one we will be making in our workshop. I can’t remember where I got the idea for this background from as I read so many blogs. I don’t have many man stamps as I don’t have the need for them. I thought it would be a good card for Father’s Day to use aluminum foil and emboss the background to look like the storage boxes the guys have in the back of their trucks. Once I did this I then had to find a stamp set I could use. I went looking through the catalog and found the Loads of Love stamp set. How appropriate to use the truck with the background. I then had to put my card together. Here is what I came up with that we will be using in our Workshop.

My last share for today is a remake of the tag I did for a previous challenge. I used the idea and made my ATC for my swap this month. Since it was explained in the previous post I will just share the ATC.

Stampin’ Up Supplies

Card 1
Stamps: Vintage Vogue Paper: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Summer Sun, Very Vanilla Ink: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Summer Sun Accessories: Very Vanilla tafeta ribbon, Zots, sticky tape, dimensionals

Card 2
Stamps: Whimsical Words, Watercolor Trio Paper: Barely Banana, white Ink: Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery Accessories: Elegant Bouquet embossing folder, scallop trim border and corner punch, Zots, sticky tape

Card 3
Stamps: All Holidays, Loads of Love Paper: Basic Black, Real Red, white Ink: Real Red Accessories: Perfect Details texturz plate, aquapainter, sticky tape dimensionals

ATC
Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly, Painted Posies (retired), Vintage Labels Paper: Summer Sun, white, Sweet Pea DS Ink: Bashful Blue, Garden Green, Lovely Lilac, Old Olive, So Saffron, Summer Sun Accessories: dimensionals

Well I hope I made up for not posting yesterday. I will only have 1 card for you tomorrow so don’t expect another day like today! Thanks for looking and have a Marvelous Monday!

Robbie