Girly Birthday Card with Ice Cream

Hello Everyone,
I am continuing my Girly Birthday cards today with some "sweet" cards.  The cards feature a cute little girl with an ice cream cone.  What could be sweeter.  Hmmm...Ice cream....that sounds really good.  Oh, was distracted for a minute there. Back to the cards.  LOL

Stamp is from My Favorite Things.
I stamped two on heavy white card stock and one  ( the last card below) on watercolor paper with Archival ink and watercolored the image on all the cards.  I used several oh so pretty decorative papers on each card.

I used a die to cut out the images and added a pretty ribbon tied at the bottom under each stamped image.

Really had the girly mojo going with these cards.  Perfect for any age.  I have sent these to a friend to send out.  I kept one for myself.  I know plenty of girly girls who love one of the cards for their birthday.

So glad you stopped by today.  I hope you are having a lovely day blogging, crafting, cooking, binge watching your favorite show, or whatever you enjoy most.  See you again soon for more crafty goodness.
Karen

Birthday for Girls

Hello Everyone,
Today, I am sharing two girlie birthday cards.  The main image is from My Favorite Things.  The images were colored with Copic markers.

The first card is embellished with some purchased felt flowers I had in my stash.  The sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly.

Second Version: Embellished with rick rack on a background of two different
decorative papers.

Sweet cards!  Perfect for a girlie girl of any age.  So glad you stopped by.

See you next time for the final week of the Technique Junkie Event  "What We Do Best". I have made an encouragement card.  See you then!!
Have a lovely day.

Karen

"Fifties Girl" in Red Gingham Birthday Card

Hi Dreamers!
 I am back today continuing the girlie cards here in Dreamland.  And, this is the second project I made with the new stamp from Lost Coast Designs --50's Girl.  (See the first project here.)  This time I used a red and brown color scheme and added lots of fun red gingham ribbon--very Fifties!!

Materials:

Stamps: 50's Girl, Rulers Background, and Party Words Set  all from Lost Coast Designs

Inks: Red Pepper Adirondack, Coffee Archival

Distress Inks: Aged Mahogany and Pumice Stone

CS: Backed Brown Sugar and Cream from Stampin' Up; Textured Wine; Black

Red Gingham ribbon

Brown Satin Ribbon

Needle and Thread

Instructions:

• Make a card from the Textured wine CS and layer with Baked Brown Sugar CS
• On Baked Brown Sugar (Kraft) CS, stamp the Rulers Background with Red Pepper ink and distress with the distress inks.
• Stamp 50's Girl on Cream CS with Coffee ink
• Add a little bit of Aged Mahogany Distress ink to the dress.
• Add a strip of Black CS and the brown ribbon to make a "shelf" for the girl to sit on

• Stamp the sentiment and layer with wine CS--add to card
• Tie a bow with the red gingham ribbon leaving very long tails.  
• Gather the tails by running stitches along the top edge of each tail --pull the thread to gather.
• Add a piece of the brown ribbon tied around the gingham bow

• Make a ruffle for the bottom of the card by stitching along the top edge of a strip of ribbon.
• Pull the stitches to gather the ribbon and glue to card --Looks like she is sitting on a ruffled sofa-Doesn't it??!!

The red gingham really reminds me of the fifties.  And, I think it matches the 50's Girl's dress.  LOL.   This makes a great birthday card too.  Wouldn't it be cute to wrap a small gift in gingham fabric??!!  And tie with the ribbon.  Yes, that would be cute.  

********Challenges for my Gingham 50's Girl:
Artistic Inspiration: celebrations
Craftin Desert Diva: birthday
Creative Creations: anything goes
Eureka Stamps: anything goes
Allsorts: Kraft

I do have a few more girlie cards to share with you.  So, I will be back soon with something all pretty and in soft colors.......  Hope you are having a great day!!  Love ya.

Karen

Fifties Sassy Gal in Pink and Turquoise

Hi Dreamers!
Today, we will take a trip back in time to the 1950's with with fun new stamp from Lost Coast Design called 50's Girl!  I had fun with this new stamp and made two projects.  I will share the Pink and Turquoise version today and tomorrow the Red gingham version.  As we all know, turquoise was "the" color in the fifties....so of course I had to incorporate that color into my design.

Materials:

Stamps: 50's Girl , Circle Frame (used for the background), and Party Words, all from Lost Coast Designs

CS: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, and Pixie Pink from Stampin' Up; Glossy Black; Solar White Neenah

Inks: Tempting Turquoise (SU);Versafine Black Onyx

Pink Pirouette Marker (SU)

Gingham Ribbon

Pink rick rack

Pearls

Bright Pink Sharpie Marker

Instructions:

• Make a folded card from Tempting Turquoise CS
• Stamp Circle Frame with Tempting Turquoise ink on Whisper White CS and layer with Pixie Pink CS
• Add to card front

• Stamp the 50's Girl with Onyx Black ink on Solar White Neenah CS
• Color the dress with Pink Pirouette Marker
• Add to card with dimensional adhesive
• Stamp the Sentiment with Tempting Turquoise ink on Pixie Pink CS
• Color white pearls with a Bright Pink Sharpie Marker and add to card

• Glue two pieces of pink rick rack to the stamped background
• Wrap black gingham ribbon around card and tie in a bow

Isn't this a fun card!!  Who wouldn't love to get this on their birthday??!!  You could wrap the gift or use a gift bag in coordinating colors.

******Fun Challenges for my Turquoise and Pink Fifties Girl:
Crafts Too Challenge You: pick your Decade---I picked the 1950's ---and add lots of layers
Sister Act: anything goes
365 Cards : just a touch (of coloring on image)

So, see you next time with the second version of my 50's Girl!!  Have a super day!  Love ya.
Karen

Cards for Operation Write Home-Pretty Dress Form

Hi Dreamers!
Today, I thought you might like to see a couple more of the Children's cards I made that went to Operation Write Home.  The cards are made with a digi from Stamping Dragon.

I layered the card base with several different Decorative papers (7 Gypsies) and,  tied a sheer omber ribbon around the card.  

Detail

Here is the group photo of all the cards.

The second card was made with pretty papers, a paper doily, and a satin ribbon.

Detail

The cards are on their way to Service men and women stationed around the world.  They will use the cards to write home to loved ones.  See all the details on the OWH site.



A Few super fun challenges for my Operation Write Home Girly Dress Form Cards.
Stars and Stamps OWH blog: green.  My first card has a multi colored background that is primarily green.
Stampin for the Weekend: something girly
Aud Sentiments: bingo---Happy, die cut, flowers on card #1
Moving Along with the Times: birthday
Simply Create: linky party--link up a project and go meet new people.
Play Date Cafe: color --plum, mustard, and rose and photo inspiration (see below)



Two posts in one day!  Boy, I am really rockin it this weekend.  So, what would you like to see tomorrow??  More of the Operation Write Home cards, or a cutesy Valentine??  See you tomorrow.  Love ya.
Karen

Cute Card with Pretty Dress

Hi Dreamers,
Well, here we go...Today is the first post of all the charity cards I made (70 cards total).  I made three cute little dress cards using a digi from Michelle Perkett.  The cards went out to Operation Write Home.  There are some guidelines to follow for OWH cards: no glitter, A2 size, minimal bumpiness, and blank on the inside.  Here is a photo of all the cards for OWH.

This image is a digi that I printed out on white CS and colored with Markers.  I made three different versions. 

Version 1

Detail

Version 2

Detail

Version 3

Detail

I added some all occasion sentiments to each card.  The cards are sent overseas to service men and women.  They use the cards to write home to loved ones.  I think this is a great cause and I have been making cards for OWH for years.  Check out the OWH site for more info.



And how about a few fun challenges!!
Can you digi it: getting girly
Inky Chicks: anything goes
Shopping Our Stash: 3 things with T--Teal CS, Tags, Three die Cut circles --version 2
Craft door magazine: Anything goes

Let's see, what do I have for tomorrow??  How about a trip down the yellow brick road!??  See you tomorrow!!  Have a great day!  Love ya.
Karen

Girly Birthday Card with Dress Form

Hi Dreamers!
A non Christmas post today!  I have been feeling like I have been neglecting my gorgeous decorative papers.    This girly Birthday card is primarily DP with just a tiny amount of stamping.  I made this card for the Flourishes blog hop Challenge.  The challenge was to hop around to all the blogs and collect the eight elements for the challenge project.  You can see all eight elements in my card.

The dress form and aqua DP is from Webster's pages; the floral and red from MME.  I stamped on the DP with small background stamps from the Flourishes stamp set called Alleluia Angel.

I stamped the same small  images on the tag and distressed it with Tumbled Glass Distress ink.   The sentiment is from Blue Ridge Impressions.

I added a sheer blue ribbon and pink paper flowers.

I repeated the papers and stamping on the inside and added a nice sentiment from Blue Ridge Impressions.

I will put this in my card box and send  it for someone's birthday.    Tomorrow, I am hoping to get started on my Christmas shopping.  But, I will be back here on Saturday with a Christmas Holly card.  See you then!!  Love ya.
Karen