Cards for a Mother and Son

Hi my crafty friends, I have been making cards for Hope and Faith Cards and this two is for a mother and son who are going through a difficult time.  The little boy is in the Ronald McDonald house and mom is having health issues herself.  Prayers would be welcome for this mother and son. 

The first card is for mom.  I didn't use any Cricut cuts on it, but did use the Cuttlebug die and embossing folder from the butterfly collection.  I also used Paper Trey Ink Mat Stack stamps and Healing Sentiments, Martha Steward punch and some black gingham ribbon.

This next card is for the son.  I decided to go with a Valentines card for him since it is so close to Valentines day.  I used some paper from K&Co, the bottom is the same paper as the top, just the other side, Robots Cricut cart, Martha Steward punch, Studio G stamps as well as Healing Sentiment stamps from Paper Trey Ink.

Thanks for taking a look, love to read your comments!

A Christmas Scene

Hi Crafty friends!  Brenda here from Friends Craftin with Friends.  I am thrilled to be guest designer today at Sweet Sassy Diva!  Thank you for having me Bobbi Jo!

For our challlenge we were asked to make a scene.  My scene is from Christmas watching our DG open her presents from us.  I used my Gypsy to lay out my overall design and yes, I do falter a little from it. lol 

I also used my Gyspy along with my Imagine to print and cut out all my images.  Here is my Imagine printing and cutting.

I then inked all my images before assembling them.

 Here they are ready to go onto my lo now.

The carts that I used are: Country Life, Joys of the Season, Jolly Holidays, Imagine More, Imagine More Cards, Mr. Frosty and Kate's Kitchen.

Here's my finished layout:

It was so much fun making this scene and I really love how it turned out.  I hope you enjoy it too!

Valentine Cards

Hi all you crafty friends!  Brenda here from Friends Craftin with Friends.  I want to thank Bobbi Jo of Sweet Sassy Diva for having me today!  For our challenge we were given a sketch to use.

We could make anything we wanted, a layout, a card-whatever we wanted.  So I decided to do a card-well 4 cards!

First I started out by deciding what size I wanted my cards to be and I thought that a 4x9 card would work great with the sketch. So I got my bases together.  Then I gathered some papers from my stash.  I believe all the pattern paper came from K&Co paper stacks I had in my stash. I also decided that Cricut cart I wanted to use for my die cuts. As you can see I chose Creat-A-Critter.

I started layering my first two layers on my card base. Colored card stock and pattern paper.

Then I started building my layers from the sketch.

Next I sized my critters and the base for my critters in my Gypsy.  I used Lacy Labels for the base that my critters are sitting on.  I stretched it to suit my needs on my card.  Cut them all out and then cut out my critters and layers.

I assembled all my layers and popped my critters up on pop dots.  I did my stamping that I wanted to do and added some stickles next.  And there you have it, 4 Valentine cards ready to go to the grandchildren. The sketch made these cards so easy to do.  I kept my die cuts simple as well so that made for quick cards as well. I hope that you will give sketches a try, they sure can take all the guess work out and make for quick cards and layouts!

Hope and Faith Cards

Hi my crafty friends!  I signed up to send cards to children who are chronically ill and in need of a card to brighten their day.  You can sign up here if you wish to send these kids a card.  The first mission is a card for a family who lost their child.  I can't even imagine losing a child!  So sad.  I used Damask Decor to make my card.  I printed and cut using my Imagine. The patterned paper came from Imagine More cart. and Paper Trey Ink Healing Touch Senitments for the inside sentiment and My Pink Stamper stamps for the outside senitment and for the butterfly on the inside.  This card is an A6 card.

The inside:

My second card is for a little boy who is in the hospital and needs some cards to brighten his day.  I made a Z fold A2 card base, Paper Try Ink Mat Stack 4, Paper Trey Ink Tiny Treats Birthday stamps and Paper Trey Ink Healing Touch Sentiments.  DCWV All About Boys stack, and some glitter letters from my stash.

The inside:

Rose Letter

Just trying to catch up on my post, the new year has started off pretty busy around here.  We have many birthdays in the beginning of January. Any hoo, this is a letter I put rolled roses all over for my friend Vickie.  She is  on our challenge thread on the mb and I was her secret santa.  I made this for her to put into her crafting room. I got a letter at Hobby Lobby, covered it on the sides and front in matching paper then glued my rolled roses on and used my MS branch punch to fill in a little.  I think it turned out pretty cute!

Baby Card

This is the card that is going to go with my tricycle diaper cake for our newest grand-daugher.  I used my Imagine for this A2 size card.  The cart I used is Nursery Tails.  I broke the layers apart and printed them then popped up the bird and the little lamb.  Then popped the whole scallop on the card.  I also used the pattern paper from Nursery Tails as well.  The yellow was in my stash as was the ribbon and the button.  The ribbon was a scrap piece and it was the perfect size for this flat bow.  I also used my MS doily punch along the bottom.  Isn't it so sweet?!!!

Another Tricycle Diaper Cake

We just had another grandbaby arrive on DH's birthday which was the 3rd of January!!  It is a girl so I made a tricycle diaper cake to take over.  We haven't been over yet, will go tomorrow night to see this newest little bundle of joy and get some pics of her.

I think these diaper cakes are the cutest thing ever! lol