My Sheri Crafts #84

April Showers Bring May Flowers... to Mom!

You've guessed it!  This week at My Sheri Crafts, the theme is all about Mother's Day!  Come join us and share your creations!

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - corner punch
• Sizzix - leafy branch
• Spellbinder - Fleur de lis square
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed
• Flourish is cut with SCAL

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-25 (sketch 3)

This is a graduation card I made for Kiara, my eldest daughter, who will be graduating from Elementary school this June

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - border punch
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed
• Cricut cartridge: George and Basic Shapes - graduation cap using Design Studio

The extra credit challenge for this week was to make "hand-made" embellishments.  I made the tassel from DMC cross-stitching floss and rolled up a scrap piece of white paper for the diploma.  The graduation cap was made from 3 shapes using George and Basic Shapes cartridge and Design Studio

Made for RAQ's 4-25 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by AcrossThePond

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-25 (sketch 1)

I made this for my dad... he loves cars so I thought this was the perfect paper for him.  This is also in this week's Ad colors (red, white, blue)

• Card size - 5.5" x 8.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Cricut cartridges:
• Don Juan - "#1 dad"
• George and Basic Shapes - banners (cut in Design Studio)
• Wedding - car ("just married" cuts in Design Studio)

Made for RAQ's 4-25 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by AcrossThePond

CONGRATS

I made this for mission 874 for the Cricut Fairy Army.  It is for a young boy named Ben.  He is a Special Olympian that just won a silver medal

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Sentiment is a stamp and colored with glitter gel pen
• Cricut cartridge: Wild Card -  stars (welded in Design Studio)

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-18 (sketches 2 & 3)

Birthday Greeting for Camila

These are for my friend, Camila, for her birthday.  I had so much fun making the notepad covers, that I decided these were the perfect gift to send in the mail for a a quickie birthday present to someone I don't see too often

I used sketch 2 for the notepad cover and sketch 3 for the card and both are in this week's Ad colors (navy blue, pink, white, and silver)

• Notepad size - 3" x 3"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - corner punch colored with gel pen
• Spellbinder - navy frame and square
• Small flowers are from a punch and painted with glitter
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Cheery Lynn - flourish
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Fiskars - corner punch colored with gel pen
• Spellbinder - tag and oval
• Small flowers are from a punch and painted with glitter
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed

Made for RAQ's 4-18 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SandyPalmer

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-18 (sketch 1)

This is a quickie note I made for my daughter to slip into her lunchbox to tell her she had an awesome report card

• Card size: 5.5" x 4.25"
• Papers: DCWV
• I-Brad - green squarish flower punch
• "Congrats" is a stamp
• Cricut cartridges:
• Stamping - "you rock" colored with gel pens
• Wedding - banner

Made for RAQ's 4-18 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SandyPalmer

Playing in Paradise #63

Fabulous Flowers

Well, I needed a a sympathy card and I'm a huge fan of flowers and found this particular challenge at  Scrapbooker's Paradise through Debbie... bless her heart.  She is so sweet to always come and visit my blog.  Go check out her blog at Debbie's Dash of This and That, she has a lot of beautiful creations in there... such an inspiration!

The theme is all about using flowers and well... I have tons in my stash that I need to use up.  I'm currently concentrating on using up small silk flowers I bought ages ago for $1 a bundle... so I bought a lot of different colors.

• Card size - 7.25" x 5.5"
• Cheery Lynn - butterfly die cut
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Sizzix - leaves
• Spellbinder - Fleur de lis Square
• Cricut cartridge: Home Decor - flourish
• Sentiment is a stamp
• Silk flowers have 8 layers each and painted with glitter

Made also for sketch 3 of RAQ's 4-18 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SandyPalmer

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-11 (sketch 3)

I got some new toys and I wanted to play with at least one of them.  I recently bought 4 new die sets from Cheery Lynn.  Here is one of them... mini flourish one.  I'm also using the Ad colors from this week's challenge (green, blue, yellow, and pink)

• Card size - 5.25" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV 
• Cheery Lynn - flourish
• Fiskars - border punch
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Spellbinder - Lacey Ovals
• Satin flowers are in 8 layers and brushed on with stickles
• Sentiment is a stamp and colored with glitter gel pen

Made for RAQ's 4-11 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by cstanzione

JustRite Friday Challenge #70

"Pretty Papers"

This week's theme at JustRite Friday Challenge is all about making your own background paper using any JustRite stamps.  I don't have any background stamps from JustRite, so I had to create my own using a 2" circle stamper and 3 different stamps from different sets.  I also used heat embossing to make it stand out a bit

• Card size - 5.5" x 8.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• JustRite - stamped sentiment and background and heat embossed
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Spellbinder - Lacey Circles
• Stickles - center of flowers
• Satin flowers are in 8 layers and sprayed with faux glimmer mist
• Cricut cartridge: Home Decor - flourish

Made also for sketch 1 of RAQ's 4-11 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by cstanzione

My Sheri Crafts #83

Marvelous Monograms

Welcome to another week with My Sheri Crafts.  The theme this time around is all about monograms.  Create any project with monograms as your focal point.  I've been meaning to make "post-it note" covers to give away as gifts.  I found this week's theme to be the perfect time to finally do this. 

I bought a 10-pack "post-it notes" with bright colors.  2 each of white, pink, aqua, green, and orange.  I just happened to have a paper pack that I got from My Sheri Crafts store to fit the colors.    I used the Euphoria collection for the following covers which matched perfectly with the white, pink, aqua, and green "post-it notes"

I used the Gypsy collection, also available at My Sheri Crafts store, to use up the remaining 2 orange "post-it notes"

• Cover size (closed) - 3" x 3"
• Cover size (open) - 3" x 6.5"
• Papers - Basic Gray
• Sizzix - leafy branch
• Spellbinder - Lacy Squares
• Cricut cartridge: Plantin Schoolbook - monogram letters

These little "post-it notes" were made specifically for each of the wonderful ladies that help me keep RAQ's Card Sketch Challenge alive.  The talented ladies that currently take turn hosting each week (Tami, Michelle, Sandy, Josie, Lydia, Cindy, and Sue), were sent one of the covers with the Euphoria papers.  The 2 orange ones went to two special ladies (Dee and Donna), that also help the challenge going.  Shhhh... don't tell them!

Jingle Belles - April 6th

'Twas the Sketch Before Christmas...

This week at Jingle Belles challenge, we are to follow a simple sketch.  I found a bunch of paper flowers in my stash and thought they were perfect for Christmas colors.  I painted the largest flowers with glitter because it seemed a bit too plain even with the printed plaid.  Then I copied a flourish image from the internet and cut it with SCAL

• Card size - 5.5" x 8.5"
• Papers - JoAnn's 
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Fiskar - border punch
• Sentiment is a stamp colored with glitter gel pen

Made also for sketch 2 of RAQ's 4-11 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by cstanzione

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-4 (sketch 3)

A mother's day card for my cousin, Monica.  I finally made my own set of "scrunched up" roses using a small flower punch.  Each of the flowers have five layers of punch them squished them all after spraying them with glimmer mist.  I'm not too happy with the grungy look to the flowers for now, but I think it works well.  Next time, I'm not using the spray before I squish them!

• Card size - 8.5" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• ek success - border punch 
• Sentiment is a stamp
• Flowers are made from stacking 5 flower punch
• Flourish cut from SCAL
• Precious Moment image downloaded from Coloring Book 4 Kids colored with Copics
• Cricut cartridge: Sentimentals - frame

Made for RAQ's 4-4 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by BingoLady

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-4 (sketch 2)

I needed to add more "male" cards in my stash, so I made this simple birthday card from scraps

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Fiskars - paper crimper
• Sentiment is a stamp colored with glitter gel pen
• Cricut cartridge: Celebrations - gift

Made for RAQ's 4-4 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by BingoLady

Card Sketch Challenge: 4-4 (sketch 1)

This week's Ad colors were magenta, black, and yellow.  I had a hard time tackling this combination of colors!  LoL!  I decided that this would be the perfect time to experiment and make my very first "scrunched up" flowers and I also made my first home-made glimmer mist spray.  Woohoo!

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Fiskar - scalloped circle (8 layers to make the scrunched up flower)
• Sizzix - leafy branch
• Stamp - "hello" and heat embossed
• Cricut cartridge: Pagoda - black bamboo

Made for RAQ's 4-4 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by BingoLady

Smile

I made this for mission 871 for the Cricut Fairy Army.  I love this "smile" cut from Wild Card cartridge and thought it would be a perfect "pick me up" for the recipient

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• Cuttlebug - embossing 
• Cricut cartridge: Wild Card - "Smile"

Happy 30th Birthday Rye!

This card is for my sister-in-law that is about to turn 30 this year.  I used the extra credit requirement from RAQ's 3-28 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Turtlebug.  The extra credit calls for any card that has numbers on them

• Card size - 5" x 4"
• Papers - DCWV
• Stamp - cupcake colored with gel pens and stickles
• Tag - memory maker tag maker
• Cricut cartridge: Don Juan - "30" and "Happy Birthday Rye"

Card Sketch Challenge: 3-28 (sketch 3)

I haven't quite decided yet what to use this card for so I didn't put any sentiment.  I will probably end up using this as a Mother's Day card.

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Card size when opened - 12" x 4.25"
• Papers - Close to My Heart
• Close to My Heart - stamps inside
• Cuttlebug - embossing
• Sizzix - leafy branches
• Cricut cartridges:
• Fabulous Finds - card base welded to the shaped flap
• Home Accents - flourish
• Home Decor - shaped flap welded using Design Studio

Made for RAQ's 3-28 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Turtlebug