Mother's Day Hybrid Card

Today I have a really quick (well it was quick once I got the sentiment figured out in Word), Clean and Simple Mother's Day card to share with you.

The sentiment was created in MS Word with a free font (Saginaw Medium)

 that I downloaded from http://www.searchfreefonts.com/.  The font is colored to Early Espresso using the Stampin Up color codes.  I used naturals white cardstock for the base.  The flower was cut from Rich Razzelberry and Blushing Bride cardstock using the Blossom Party Sizzix Die from Stampin Up.

I used the layout from this week's Less is More sketch challenge.

I'm also including this in this week's CAS-ual Friday's Flowers Challenge.

THANK You  for stopping by and checking out my card today!

A Digital Freebie to Thank You!!

I'm excited to show you the digital paper I've been working on!  You might remember from a previous post that I created some digital paper with a chevron pattern.  I'm taking that digital pattern and making color families for all of the Stampin Up colors so that I will have custom DP to match all of my paper.

I thought it would be fun to offer the Subtles Collection as a FREEBIE to THANK my followers.   

(I'm still working on the other color families)

Subtles Colors:  Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, Wild Wassabi

Each color is saved to 8.5 x 11 JPEG file so it can be easily printed from a standard color printer.  I made the jpeg file above to display all of the pages using My Digital Studio.

You can see the cards I made with the digital paper HERE.

To get this FREEBIE  you must:

1. Be a follower of my blog. If you haven't already, follow my blog by clicking on the "Join this Site" button on my side bar.  This freebie is to THANK my wonderful followers.
2. Comment on this post to let me know you want the Freebie.
3. I'd love it if you share a link to this post on your blog sidebar - but it's not required for you to get the freebie.
4. I will respond to your comment with an email that includes the zip file with all 10 JPEG images as quickly as possible.  I'm online daily so it shouldn't take more than a day or two.
5. This is a limited time offer - please comment by May 31, 2012 to receive your free digital paper.

 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my digital paper today!

CAS-ual Friday Sketch Challenge

It's been a couple week's since I've had time to play along in the CAS-ual Friday challenge.  This week they have a sketch challenge.  Here is my "congratulations" card based on the sketch.

Supplies

Stamps: Hero Arts Everyday Sayings

Paper: Bazzil White Textured, Night of Navy

Ink:  White Gel Pen

Accessories: Large and Small Star Punch

I'm still not sure about this card.  Yes, it's CAS, yes it follows the sketch (mostly).  My daughter loves this card, she's always so very sweet.  Still it is a very quick and easy card that you could use for a graduation or to congratulate someone so I thought I'd share it.

I punched the large star in the night of navy paper and then punched it out of the textured white cs and popped it in the opening.  The small star was just popped up on a glue dot.  I used a white gel pen to outline the stars and the border.  The sentiment was stamped with white ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.

How do you like my red glitter background?  I've been noticing people putting pretty paper backdrops behind their cards and I thought I'd give it a try. 

Here's the sketch in case you want to play along!!!

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Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card!

More Chevrons....

Today I have 2 cards to share with you.  I made them both for the Embellish Magazine Chevron Color Trends Challenge.

In my last post I mentioned that I don't have any chevron stamps or dies or designer paper.  Well, that is still the case.  So, I decided to design my own chevrons using Microsoft Excel.  The background paper I used for these two cards was created digitally by ME.  It's a close tie for me between my love for card making and my love for Excel.  Being able to combine these two makes me HAPPY!  

 Here's my first card.......

I decided to make use of my extra paper and created a second card.....

Here's what my paper looked like when I printed out my chevron pattern:

I printed this page up with grey chevrons on grey paper.  I can easily change the color on this pattern to make it work with any project I'm working on. 

I'd love to know what you think of my digitally created chevrons!  I did spend quite a few hours fussing with the pattern and in the end I'm happy with how they turned out.

Thanks for stopping by 

and checking out my card today!

Julie