June birthdays

June birthdays... There are many June birthdays around here so along with Graduations for my son,  I have been spinning!  I was lucky enough to get a head start and mass produce some cards a head of time.  

Here is a great card I made that can cover teenager to music lover. 

 

 I love the way it all came together, and added some more stars in the middle. And a "blob" - since I do not know the technical term... ha ha. 

  

There have been a few milestone birthdays in the last few weeks as well. Guess that shows  my age as well... hahah. I loved this card from the moment I had the layout sketched. 

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Rock it Dad - Recycle

I used multiple recycled items.

I needed a ROCK STAR card and I am happy with the end result!

I made my own paper - spritzed water and ink drops on the white paper, with Cool Carribean (yeah I still have the in my stash) and Wild Wasabi. I stamped the Guitar in Wild Wasabi, the Crown in Cherry Chobbler, the stars in Cool Carribean as well.  Using the brads in three sizes in the silver gave it more of masculine card. As did the recycled cardboard behind the front panel.

I love the way it all comes together. Especially since its been a while in my craft room !!!

I promise to be back again.

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Whooooooooooooooo's birthday?

Happy Birthday to YOU, Happy birthday to HOOO? 

 I love March birthdays! The cards can be bright, fun, flowers, because it almost spring time!!  I love these little owls too - so that made this card even better!  I love them even more since my own birthday is in March!

I used the owl punch for my critters in Indigo, Pumpkin Pie & Lucky Limeade, punched Pennant & itty bitty for the party hats, 2 step bird for their arms & limb. I used the diamonds stamp from Grunge Rock on their hats and bodies. The Night of Navy is actually run thru the Big Shot, with woodgrain embossing, topped it with a piece of retired Tropical Oasis DSP, then tied grosgrain ribbon on. Added a few rhinstones and called it complete!

Now its your turn! Get your birthday groove on and head to the Bloggers Challenge, you will have so much fun!!

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Two for Tuesday...

Whew... Its 60 degrees out here in Central PA, and I am stuck inside  making the benjamins {that my teens lingo).. but look what I have for you!!!

TWO CARDS! 

 Each is with the same sketch challenge but two different Color Challenges!  Yes, they are both Colour Q, but I didn't enter them - since they are not current. So without further adue.

 

Grunge Rock! Again! Though you cannot see some of its beauty, believe me, the Rich Razzleberry makes this card pop!

 Then I used for the first time {that I can remember!}, Precious Butterflies.  This card is in a more recent color combo challenge but I didn't get to post in the time allowance. For two reasons, 1) I wasn't so electronically attached this weekend, due to quality time with the teens. 2) I forgot until today, I didn't post it!

 I love the Colour Q gals! They really help move things along when I am in crisis mode! 

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Rockin' Out!

If you didn't know I had teens, you would just believe I was totally still a kid myself! ... both of those are true {{wink wink}}.  I love the Grunge Rock set... as a matter of fact, since the Extreme Sports have retired, this one has taken the place of many of the cards that I would have made. ... but I digress..

Not too long ago, I made a simple little valentine card with this same DSP, and I knew that I could use it again - maybe a birthday card, maybe something else.

Cutting the guitars out isn't my favorite but I love the effect it gave the card!  I popped them up with dimensionals.

I used the Perfect Words for the "U ROCK", which I must keep out for more Valentines... right?  Plus, I am limited on those little fun Valentine sentiments!

I was a professional photographer I would have seen this before I took the pictures...  had to share... my guitar fell  .. guess I am not as much of a rockstar as I had hoped!  



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Stamp sets: Grunge Rock, Perfect Words

Punches: Decorative label, oval punch, heart from owl punch

Otheres: Clear itty bitty buttons, twine, Cherry Cobbler seam ribbon

Indigo Girls ... Rock!

Indigo Girls.. who even remembers them? I heard some bits of their new album on the World Cafe radio, and was like dang, they are still around? I must really have grown up... {that remains to be seen though! LOL} 

Which brings us to this new In Color... Island Indigo!  I {heart} this color! I mean, I could plan events around this color! Pairing it with Pool Party just makes the card even better in my eyes!  Seriously.. two colors that represent water... tropics... warm weather.. where can you go wrong?

 This is for a 14 yo... {gasp!} I hope she likes it - as I wasn't informed but the night of that we needed this card. There isn't alot of glitter, or glist to the card, but I still think it has a cool factor! I distressed the edges as well. The silver brad on the top is not retired, but I still like them!

The Grunge Rock set is going to get a lot of use in my {teenage} world, since the Extreme sets are gone.   I used the really awesome Ruffled ribbon in Island Indigo to completely tie the look together.  I managed to use the Extreme Elements for the envelope. The colors I used are  Pool Party, Island Indigo and Tempting Turquoise - which I think together are just "cool".

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** Special Birthday shout out to my sister - HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUTUMN.. may you have the best birth DAY ever - even though you think it needs to be celebrated all MONTH long... {wink wink}} **

U ROCK!

Lets start with the bad news...

We have water! .... Its flooding like mad here in Central PA!

We will NOT be attending the Washington DC festivities for the Nations Tri!

Now the good news...

I have power!

I have my family!

..and my daughters mold allegeries are in check (fingers crossed it remains)!

So therefore I need a feeling of appreciation... like the world isn't crumbling around me... because its soggy enough that it definately feels that way!...  So I put some scraps together...in the new cool Pool Party color!

I paired the Pool Party with River Rock, using the Grunge Rock stamp set- gives it the edge that I wanted, plus, it was cut and laying on the table.. LOL.  I will definately be taking this to another level but at the moment this helps make me feel better!

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ROCK OUT!

Creative Sketches

Its that time of  year, where SU! is retiring the goodies from one catalog and preparing for another. This is difficult for me, since I really begun to have favorites that I like to ink up when my mojo is low! I also have some go to when it comes to teenager cards and of course, masculine, since not everything can have ribbon and flowers!

I actually had great hopes for the Extreme Guitar, along with his other Extreme friends....biker, snowboard, skateboard & surfboard. So they may retire, but I think they will remain in my personal stash... unless the book has some great replacements.

The colors with Creative Sketches, may have cried HOLIDAY card, but I thought I would get a fun teen card out of it! It works.  The layout comes from 365 Cards, its simple enough but shows off the Rocker!

Mr. Guitar needed sponged since he stuck out really bad, and I like the effect it gave the card. I coordinated the Grunge Rock set with it... not retiring! YIPEE!

Doesn't he make you want to tune the radio up LOUD, and grab your AIR GUITAR? GO AHEAD! ... NO ONE IS LOOKING!!!!

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Grunge Rock

In my quest for a stash of teen cards -  I grabbed Grunge rock in hopes that since these kids are addicted to music in their ears - this would be a winner! I haven't spent much time with it - but I do like it! I really like the design on the guitar!

I incorporated the Stampotique Designers Challenge of SDC28: Newsprint/Old Book Pages, mainly because Kim Howard forced me convinced me to try it. I paired it with the colors of the Colour Q. I was going to use flowers for this color challenge, but I am glad I used it with the Grunge Rock set instead!

I have a few pictures of what I was up to earlier this week - that I hope to share soon with you.  So be prepared... its very motherly of me...and unless you are FB fan you may not understand until I tell you! ... stay tuned! 

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