Whirlpool of Imagination

CAS Sympathy

Here's a quick CAS card that uses a layout I like to work with (and so do many others - it's a common sketch for CAS challenges).

And that's it for today. Told you it was a quick one today!

Have a great one!

Quick One For Today

We have had a full day here celebrating Conor's First Communion and his birthday with family all day. It was a wonderful day but it left little time for stamping so today I have a very quick repeat of a design, just in another color.

I originally made this card in purple but felt other colors would work well too. So far, the only other color I've gotten to is blue.

These stamps are from Our Daily Bread and this one was stamped in pacific point ink from Stampin Up.

I'm gearing up for another busy day tomorrow so I'm off to get some sleep. Have a great night!

Bless You Leaves

Sunday night ~ another weekend has flown by....

*froze at Meg's sports practice

* froze taking the dog for a walk

* froze out in the back yard now that the dog has smartened up and rings his "go out" bell whenever he wants to go play outside, rather than "just go"

Sense a trend? Enough grumpies though, let's get on to the card.

I pulled out these leaves thinking it would be good for my Artfire guild challenge this month. We are making monochromatic green cards.

After I had stamped the leaves in the two corners, I decided I wanted a long set of words. This stamp from Our Daily Bread was the exact size I was looking for.

The leaves I think are from Stampin' Up but that's just a guess.

And that's it for the card. Have a great night!

Celebrating First Communion

This year, the rite of First Communion is on my mind as Conor is making his First Communion.

I ordered this fabulous set from Our Daily Bread and jumped right in with it. I started with purple as that is an important color during times of the church year but I'd like to re-create this card in several other colors too.

I think I used Memento grape jelly ink which came out exactly as the shade I wanted it to be.

Other than that, the card is very clean and simple, just like I like them!

Another cold day here but each day brings us closer to spring (or at least a girl can hope). Have a great day!

1 Corinthians

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I don't a card for the holiday to show today but I do have a green card. It's the best I could do ~ this has been a busy week.

This is a new stamp from Our Daily Bread that I decided needed some ink.

After stamping and cutting out the shape, I tried the sponge technique where you leave the paper i the die and sponge so you have the white outline.

I'm definitely not a good sponger but for a first attempt, I think it came out pretty good.

Once that was done, I decided to go for the shaped card and keep this one ultra simple.

Added a few rhinestones from Taylored Expressions and that was it.

And that's about it. I'm having problems with my knee and can't sit for too long. Have a great night!

Retirement Lighthouse

Happy Saturday! After what felt like a very long week, I'm able to sit down and get caught up on my blogging.

Recently, I was asked to make a retirement card. In trying to decide what to pair with the sentiment, I went with this lighthouse from Our Daily Bread.

The senitment is from Papertrey Ink. I was amazed and really pleased with how well everything fit on the top layer.

I added a repeat of the image on the inside just to jazz things up a bit.

I've been stuck on more little cupcakes this week. I think I need to do one big post so you don't get bored with cupcakes!

Have a great day.