thank you cards

TGIF!  Been meaning to post the photos from my card making class at Ben Franklin from the other night.   

The theme was thank you cards, one can never have enough right?  And the fall colors in our little town are so beautiful.   

And this was the card I made for the class (I CASEd myself).  I used up goodies from August Artful Delight card kit, a SRM sticker sentiment and some May Arts natural burlap string.  And here are some photos of the class.  Loved how we took one idea and created a whole set of cards.  

My thank you card idea got turned into a baby card and a hello friend card, love it!  And really, since a card post without a challenege just doesn't work for my little blog, I'm excited to play along with the new and improved A Passion for Papertrey crew who are celebrating friends.  (I've used the PTI double sided banner die on these cards).    Want to come make Christmas cards with me next month?  And if you missed the Ribbon Lady's shout out to the birthday girl yesterday, post a comment here or here for your chance to win a free spool of May Arts ribbon.

More WCMD Cards

Have a seat, I went a little overboard with World Card Making Day, I've got a few projects to share.

I was inspired by the fabulous ladies over at Ellen Hutson's Classroom, so I've played along with all 5 of their WCMD challenges.  This one uses Chari' pinterest inspired photo, click here for the challenge.  Basic Gray also has a WCMD day challenge to use their goodies and add it to their Flickr album, as is SRM Stickers and Paper Issues is having a FB promo (I can barely keep up!).

This one is for the Paper Smooches one layer challenge and the Ellen Hutson Classroom "Trend Watch".

This card uses this week's Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge, the Paper Smooches OWH sketch challenge and some Coredinations paper for their WCMD challenge.  It also works for the Ellen Hutson Classroom "Make a Scene" challenge.

This one uses the Ellen Hutson sketch and more Basic Grey goodies.

And lastly-- deck the halls, the Ellen Hutson Classroom challenge to make a holiday greeting, you know me friends-- a holiday label will certainly come in handy for some holiday party!  And I'm proud to say that I finally mastered the Bowdabra bow kit that the fabulous folks at May Arts hooked me up with, my bow tying skills just increased by 10 fold.  Wow... that was a lot for one post.

Coffee Crate and a giveaway

I have a special project to share with you today.  I'm a guest on the SRM Stickers blog with these fun coffee goodies.  I put together this coffee crate for a giveaway for Carolines Coffee Roasters, a local coffee roasters, they're celebrating their 30th birthday and giving away coffee all month long.  I've made 3 little tags, a bookmark and a greeting card.  And the fun thing, you can win this entire crate.  Carolines Coffee Roasters is giving away the chance to win, check out their Facebook page and look for the photo of this giveaway and post a comment (or click here).  Crate, crafty goodies, coffee and postage included.  Winner will be drawn on Wednesday, April 18th.

Materials: Tags: SRM Stickers, PTI Warm Happiness and Warm Happiness Too stamp and die, Verve Better with You flourish and coffee rings, PTI Tag It Sale die, PTI Double sided banner die, vellum, Hero Arts Earth Designer patterened paper, PTI kraft card stock, Versafine black ink, Tattered Angels black mist


Card: SRM Stickers, PTI Warm Happiness Too stamp and die, Lifestyle Letterpress flourish, Hero Arts Earth Designer patterened paper, PTI kraft card stock, back card stock, water color paper. Versafine black ink, Lifestyle Letterpress black ink


Bookmark: SRM stickers, PTI Warm Happiness Too stamp and die, Lifestyle Lettess flourish, PTI bookmark die, Hero Arts Earth Designer patterened paper, water color paper, vellum, May Arts natural string, Versafine black ink

hello sunshine!

My day starts with coffee, so I thought this SRM sticker sentiment worked well with Hero Arts April sketch and theme "Sunshine and Showers."  Happy Monday!  Today's 365 Cards challenge is about everyday, and since I'm an everyday coffee kinda gir. And for those of you click happy bloggy pals, I'm hosting a contest on my work blog and there's still a few more days to vote-- if you any of you would like to play along click here and pick one of the 8 businesses on the post, someone is going to win a free professional photo shoot and web design!

And a special shout out to my friend Georgette who recently took some new headshots for me, click here to see more of the photos.
Materials: Hero Arts Have a Donut, Hero Arts Leaf background cling, Hero Arts Earth Designer patterned paper, SRM stickers, recycled coffee holder, Spellbinders Nestabilities dies, Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, Tim Holtz distress ink vintage photo, Tim Holtz distress stain antique linen, PTI cream card stock

thanks

Welcome to another 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday.  In the spirit of World Card Making Day yesterday I threw in a few extra challenges to the sketch.  Lawn Fawn has a challenge to say thanks and mail the card, which I think is great.  Lawnscaping is also having a weekend challenge to use a Lawn Fawn stamp.  SRM stickers has a challenge to use one of their stickers.  And the sketch for Eat Sleep Stamp is fairly similar, so I'm going to add this to their challenge as well.  I'd love to see what World Card Making Day inspired you to create....  

Materials: Lawn Fawn Just My Type, SRM Sticker, Prima Marketing Nursery Rhymes patterned paper, Basic Grey Basic White Patterned paper, Spellbinders Labels Two, Versafine black ink, white gel pen

I Stand for Hope

I survived moving!  And these cards are the first cards I made in my new craft room, grin.  I made the bottom card first and after several different attempts to "fix" it I decided to chop it up and try again.  So the top card is take two on the same idea, not sure if either really work, but I'm off to work and can't chop it apart again!

This card uses a bit of faux stitching so it works for Yvonne's Do More With Less Challenge.

I've combined a few challenges, first with the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge, the Cas-ual Fridays theme of buttons and twine, Wee Memories' "Get Sticky" challenge. 

Materials: Top Card: Waltzingmouse Big Blooms, SRM Courage sticker,  Hero Arts Cling borders, Hero Arts Classic Fabric, Core'dinations Sugar and Spice cardstock, vellum, Cuttlebug Just My Type stitching border, Twinery twine, Crafty Solutions button, Versafine black ink, Studio G pink ink, water color pencils, cream card stock, water color paper


Bottom Card: Waltzingmouse Big Blooms, SRM Courage sticker,  Hero Arts Cling borders, Twinery twine, Crafty Solutions button, Versafine black ink, Studio G pink ink, water color pencils, PTI kraft card stock, water color paper

You are an inspiration, plus winners!

I love that I've made all sorts of cards this week, but hadn't actually made one for my mom for Mother's Day, oops.  I found this sheet of SRM stickers at Ben Franklin and thought that I should make some cards for my girlfriend's Avon Breast Cancer Walk, but I haven't actually made them yet...  so when looking for the right sentiment for my mom I thought this one was perfect.  I've also used this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge and the Play Date Cafe colors.  I've used some faux stitching to try to cover the clear vellum double sided tape for Yvonne's "Do More with Less" challenge.  Tiffany Doodles and ABC Design Blog are celebrating flowers this month, and I think the WMS Big Blooms set is great, especially colored in with water colors.

Right, now more importantly... blog candy winners!!!  Thank you for all the comments over the last week, such fun to see such fabulous blog love.  Because I've been lucky to win a number of things in the past, I wanted to have as many winners as possible.  So, with the help of Random.org here we go.

$10 gift certificate to Two Peas in a Bucket:
~Tammy~ said...I need to get commissioned! Paid to craft! How can I get signed up for this??? Love what you have done here! These are great! Congrats to your friend! :-)

PTI Button Dies: Lisa Petrella said...Both of these cards are FANTASTIC, Erin, but I especially LOVE that first one! The book plate and that GIANT flower---ahhhh---sooooo pretty! I'm definitely going to check out your author friend's book! I LOVE to read and I'm always on the lookout for good books!

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Bananas For You set: yyam said...These are lovely Erin! Love the layers and all the text! :):

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Buttons: Pam W. said...WOW! Great cards, Erin! I must give the PTI MIM technique a try. I love what you did with it. Happy Mother's Day!!

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Tickets: Emily Keaton said... SO clean, bold, and beautiful!! What a lovely card. Happy Anniversary, Erin!!

Hero Arts Sparkle Clear cling Sew Original: lynn said...your garden wedding sounds beautiful, erin:) hope your anniversary was a great one! cute card!

And the Maya Road Canvas album, Cosmo Cricket stickers and Flirt Album: Karen B. said...This certainly is a technique I hope you try more of in the future, your cards turned out fantastic. Love the colors on both of them. How cool is that to have a friend that has a book published. Cool indeed.

Winners please email me at paperobsessed at gmail dot com your snail mail addresses and I'll send them off. Thanks for helping me celebrate one year of blog addiction  love.

Materials: Waltzingmouse Big Blooms stamps, SRM Stickers Courage sentiment, vellum, water color pencils, Fiskars corner rounder, Unity background stamp, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Work Lipstick, Studio G orange ink, Tim Holtz Ornamental die, Twinery Mandarin twine, Cuttlebug Just My Type faux stitching embossing folder

life is good

Today I had a bonus morning off from work and while blog surfing I stumbled across this lovely post from Cosmo Cricket.  I decided to take to heart the idea of making a list and checking it off (next step is to follow her advice and have the kids do it too!), so I managed to get a number of projects done this morning and as a reward I went to Ben Franklin by myself and bought a mini deck of Circa 1934.  For $6 in bribery I managed to clean the house, put away 4 loads of laundry, do some yard clean up, put dinner in the slow cooker, write a work blog post and pay some bills.

Now back to the card.  I stamped the Mat Stack 4 Collection frame on a PTI coaster yesterday and left it sitting on my desk for the right occasion (good luck finding it below).  Keryn's doing a giveaway on her Facebook page to challenge people to finish a project, so I figured that was a good motivator.  And while I'm showing my messy desk, let's join in the fun over at Julia's Stamping Ground "What's On Your Workdesk." The card uses this week's sketch from Skipping Stones.  And I've used a SRM sticker for their "Big Boy" challenge.

Materials: PTI Mat Stack 4 Collection Frame, PTI All Booked Up boy with tree stamp, PTI Mat Stack 4 die, EK Success 1 3/4th inch circle punch, Fiskars tag punch, Twinery cappuccino twine, SRM Life is good sticker, PTI Kraft card stock, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 patterned paper, VersaMagic Jumbo Java ink, black sharpie, K  Co brown buttons, Paper Phine paper twine, PTI coaster

hello

I've used this week's Color Throwdown colors and the SRM Stickers sketch for this CAS hello card. I put the card together last night and didn't like it. This afternoon I've taken it apart and tried again. I'm not sure I love the card, but the second round is better then the first. Which makes me regret the fact that I didn't take a photo of the first one for the 365 cards re-do challenge. The flower and green button are compliments of Unscripted Sketches, thanks to a win for a comment during their Christmas in July fun.

Materials: PTI sentiment, Flower and button from Unscripted Sketches, Making Memories eyelets, Stampin Up chocolate chip designer paper, PTI kraft, American crafts ribbon, Fiskars rotary scallop cutter, Stampin Up black ink