Crafting keeps me Sane in a world of insanity.
I make all kinds of things from party stuff (decorations, invitations, diaper cakes, etc) as well as cards. I also do a bit of scrapbooking. Here you will find videos of the projects I have made.
Hello all and welcome back. It is so good getting back to crafting and making videos. I have really missed it this summer. The kids are back in school which is nice and my house is cleaner then it has been in a long while. I am also getting back to filming more now that I seem to have more time. So lets jump right on in with today's card. I always seem to have a hard time finding (or even making) a card for my husband. He's not really a handy man (but he does do something like that around the house) so tool cards do really fit him and I can't always make a game controller card every year. So I try to think about all the things he is into and he is a big superhero fan and he has a rash guard that he likes to wear while doing Jiu Jitsu and its pink with the Superman Logo on it. I thought that would be a fitting card to make since his gift was going to be tickets to the UFC that's coming to Portland. I made two different sizes because I could not make up my mind which size I liked better. I use the Superman cricut cartridge and found the matching colors in my cardstock stash.
This is a simple card to make I just took the back piece and made two copies of it. I then flipped one of them and welded it to the other piece to make my card base which I cut out in black. I then took the one remaining copy and made it a bit smaller so it would fit inside that card so there was a place to write.
I used the Happy Birthday Stamp from Lawn Fawns So Much to Say stamp set and it fit nicely inside the bigger card.
I really just love how simple this card is and easy to put together. Sometimes with my days simple is just want I need. Thank you all for joining me and look out for my next project.
How was everyone's summer? Mine seem to just blow by. once again July was the crazy month for me and i would really like it if it did not become a tradition next year lol.
Anyways I just want to give you guys an update as to where I was and what is to come not that school is starting. I am looking forward to it but sad that summer is over.
Sorry this has taken me so long to post. I thought I had until I looked and saw that no I didn't. I have left everything in here so you can see how crazy I can some times be.
I finally found the footage for today's post and wanted to add it to this but I never even posted this blog post. Wow I guess taking some time off was not helpful lol. I am finally getting things back in order and uploaded on here and YouTube. I hopefully will be able to continue once school is out which for us is right around the corner (not sure I am looking forward to it either lol).
I want to share everything from the baby shower but the post for all this will just go on for days. So I will be share the baby shower decorations in a different post on a separate day. I had such a great time and my friend did an amazing job putting this all together.
I want to share this fun card I made for the soon to be mother, well this is her third child. I thought it would be so much fun to combine three different stamps sets from Lawn Fawn as well as using some two different dies. I have been wanting to use the Loads of Fun stamp set since Lawn Fawn first introduced them. With a baby shower to go to I wanted to stick to the theme of the shower and that is how I came up with this card. The theme of the baby shower was April Showers bring May baby. So she picked umbrellas and rain. So lets get right into it there's a lot to cover.
From Lawn Fawn's Plus One stamp set I stamped out the stork and umbrella using memento black in and colored them with my copic markers.I colored everything with the same colors we used for the shower. I used C00 and C02 for the body of the stork and for the beak I used YR04 and YR14. I used BG000 and BG01 for the sack since she had a baby boy. The umbrella I colored with G02. I then took C00 and C02 and gave the clouds just a little bit of color. Once everything was colored I die cut them out and I took my x-acto knife to cut a slit just above the beak so it will look like the stork is hold both.
I used the largest Stitched Rectangle and die cut some light blue cardstock for the back ground. I then die cut out a bunch of clouds from the Spring Showers die. I laid everything out on the card to see if i need more clouds and where I wanted to put the sentiment. Once I was happy with the placement I took some memento black ink and stamped out the sentiment from Little Bundle stamp set. I then used ranger multi mat to glue down the clouds and stork. I cut off the clouds that hung over the sides and glued the back ground on to the top folding A2 size card base.
For the inside I colored (with the same colors) the laundry basket from the Loads of Fun and glued it in place. I stamped the sentiment from Little Bundle I just covered the parentheses with some tape so I would not stamp them. I thought it was just a funny way to not only welcome the new baby but to joke about the extra laundry she was going to have.
I really had fun not only coming up with this card idea but putting it together. I love the idea of combining so many different stamp set and dies. Keep a look out for the post sharing the baby shower decorations. Thank you guys for going me and I hope you all have a great weekend.
