You Answer Me

 Hello, I'm just stopping in quick to share a card I made today for some good friends. Their son died in a tragic accident yesterday morning and it's my prayer that they find this card a small comfort during this heartbreaking time.

 

 

The paper pack is Teresa Collins: Fabrications. I used The Sweet Stop #231 for the layout. The verse is from one of my favorite stamp sets, from Our Daily Bread Designs. Some CTMH ribbon and misc pearls finish it off.

 



 

Thanks for looking, give your loved ones a tight squeeze tonight!

Sweet Angel Sarah

Hello! I am so loving the long weekend, I have made 4 cards! I made this one today for our dear friends from church. They lost their little Sarah to SIDS before we knew them. Thursday would have been her 5th birthday and I wanted to let them know Patrick and I were thinking about them. Even though we had lost Gabe and they had lost Sarah before we knew each other, we really have bonded over the memory of our children. I know the birthdays are so hard and you start to wonder if anyone other than you even remembers your baby so I hope this card brings them comfort.

Image: Magnolia, Scripture: ODBD, DP: CTMH, Stickles (on her wings, you can't really see it in the pics) CTMH button, misc pearls, gem swirls, ribbon and flower

This card is my submission for Just Magnolia's Special Monthly challenge: anything goes with option of circles and ODBD #75: Dots or Stripes. I also used September's SFYTT and did the panels the right size this time!

Mojo Butterfly

Hello! I hope everyone reading had a great weekend. I worked last night so mine was short, but good. Last night a woman I work with gave me a cute little hat she made for Bailey. She had made one when Bailey was first born, but it was too small for her head. This one fits though, and is SO CUTE! I had some momma time tonight and used Mojo Monday Sketch 158 to make her a thank you card. I am really loving making round cards with their sketches. This is also my submission for Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge 31 "Wing It." I used VersaMark Dazzle to emboss the butterfly and then inked over it to create a denim look on the textured cardstock. Thank you for looking!

Paper: CTMH Magic Moments

Outside Image: Verve Stamps, sentiment is Gina K Designs

Inside Image: CTMH butterfly, sentiment is Verve Stamps

misc ribbons, rhinestones

Distressed Birthday

Hello! Today I have another card I was able to make last weekend. My Grandma's birthday was Sunday and I made this card for my parents to give her. My cousin and her fiance came back from Florida and my sister and her boyfriend came from Chicago to celebrate. It was fabulous to have everyone together, it's been since Christmas since thats happened! I used Taylored Expressions Sketch #126. I loved how Taylor used her Scor-Buddy to emboss the border around her card and thought I'd give it a try. I used black embossing powder on the sentiment to add a little more interest to the card. With the embossing and distressing, this card is also my submission for Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge #27: Texture it!

Paper: CTMH Emporium

Stamps: Bugaboo, Mom: Verve, Happy Birthday unknown

Copics: R39, 85, RV19, G94,99, B93, 97, N0, 0

CTMH buttons, misc embroidery thread

A Godly Father

This is the card my mom gave my dad for Father's Day. This verse is now one of my favorites and means a lot to my family. After my grandpa died in November I found out that it was his favorite verse. A couple days after his funeral I stumbled onto this stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs and had to have it. I made picture frames for my mom and myself with my grandpa's photo and this verse. It has been such a comfort to me. To me it describes my grandpa's life and personality perfectly. My mom lucked out, my dad also is a top notch guy and this verse is very fitting for him as well : ) I used Mojo Monday 143 for the sketch. I also used Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge 18, which was a great one. From the FLOWER recipe I have an ODBD stamp, oval, circle embellishments, ribbon, and stitching (I stitched on the ribbon although you can't really see it in the picture).

Paper: CTMH Free Spirit
Stamp: ODBD
misc star and circle buttons, ribbon

Caiti's Graduation

Here's my 2nd graduation card that I made today. It isn't nearly as bright as it looks in the picture thankfully! I used Amy R's Friday Sketch 9. I love her sketches, now if only my cards and pics were as good as hers : ) I added Glimmer Mist to the embossed circle in the background which doesn't show in the pic. The Congratulations is wavy on the card. I got the idea from this card by Jen del Muro, another great blog to follow! This is my second submission for the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge 12.

Scripture: ODBD

Sentiment is a digital stamp from Sweet n Sassy stamps I think!

Prima flowers, CTMH button, misc ribbon, twine

Marshall's Graduation

Last year I started taking orders for graduation cards, it went over really well and many people have asked me to do the same this year.

The local scrapbook store has custom paper with the different schools and I have this paper left over from my cards from last year. I have 2 graduation cards to show you. This one is for a kid I used to babysit! I'm not old enough for him to be graduating, right? : ) His mom was my mentor for confirmation and is one of the sweetest women I know. She keeps the Christmas cards I send her to put in the family scrapbook each year so I'm sure she'll love this card more than him! This is one of my submissions for Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge 12 to make graduation cards.

Image: Scripture is ODBD, diploma is a digital stamp- I could have sworn it was Sweet n Sassy stamps, but now I can't find it on their site....

Paper: custom

Copics: N0, Y08, Y15

Misc ribbon, CTMH brads

God's Love

I made this card to give to a wonderful friend from church. She gave Bailey a cute hat and a book for her baptism and was even kind enough to think of Caleb. He loves dinosaurs and she gave him a book on dinosaurs. I made her this card as a thank you. I used the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge 9 sketch. I love it, it will definately be one I use again! I had to ink up two of my new Ippity stamps. You can't tell in the picture, but I embossed the cross behind the sentiment. I love the precut stamps, so easy! I also used the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge #33 to make a card with Love on it, although I didn't get it posted in time to enter... oops! : )

Image: Ippity stamps

Paper: CTMH Lets Get Together

Copics: R27, Y15, G82

CTMH button, misc ribbon

Twinkle, Twinkle

Even though Bailey is only 2 months old, I couldn't stop thinking about her while I was coloring this image. This card is inspired by the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge #26 from 1 John 4:10, to make a card letting someone know how much God loves them. It is my prayer that my children never doubt how much they are loved, not only by Patrick and myself, but by God as well. The inside of the card is stamped with "You're such a blessing." My camera battery died before I had taken the inside shot! I used the Friday Sketchers sketch #89, I really love how it turned out. Now that I've learned how to do the feather blending technique with my Copics, I apparently can't stop! The Copic Creations challenge #22 is to use Copics to color embellishments. I colored the rhinestones with YR12, although it doesn't show up well in the picture. I had also colored a button for the middle of the flowers, but it didn't turn out too well, way too pink for my taste, so a brad did the trick : ) The card is red for Crazy 4 Challenges and has bling also for the Our Daily Bread Designs challenge.

Image: Sugar Nellie, Sentiment: Verve, Inside Sentiment: Stampendous

Paper: CTMH Key to my Heart

Copics: 0, C1, E000, E00, E11, R20, E25, E29, E31, E33, R24, BG11, BG72, BG75, YR12, YR20

Prima Flowers, CTMH brad, rhinestones, and ribbon, Cuttlebug embossing folder