A Great "Pear"

I made this card for a 1-on-1 card swap where we had to use a play on words. This swap was harder than I thought it was going to be. I'm happy with how it turned out though. I used a Lasting Impressions template for the dry embossed pears, and all the paper is Lasting Impressions too. I printed the sentiment on my computer. Hope you're having a great week! I have a short work week and am looking forward to some major crafting time later in the week.

Lil' Birdie

Hi, Hope you're having a great weekend! It's been awhile since I posted. I've been traveling every weekend and just been busy with stuff at work and at home. My plan is to post a couple times a week so we'll see how I do.
I visited my brother & his fiance over Labor Day weekend. They LOVED the wedding invitation. I am so relieved. Now to just keep embossing those daisies!
This is a card I made for the monthly challenge on the Yahoo Embossing Group I belong to. One person sends out embossed pieces and we have to make a card using those pieces. You can add other things to the pieces if you like. It is so neat to see how differently all the cards turn out! This month I received the bird, branch and the Lil' Birdie saying. The embossed pieces are from a new Lasting Impressions template. Thanks for stopping by!

Wedding Invite - Final Draft

I finished up the final draft of my brother's wedding invitation. I made several samples for them to choose from a couple months ago. They chose this one, and I've been working on a final draft to show them when I go home to Ohio this weekend. When I made the first one, I wasn't thinking of the RSVP envelope for the card, and my RSVP card didn't fit in any regular sized envelope. Once I revised it to fit in a small envelope, all my other dimensions were off for the other pull-outs. It was hard figuring out these dimensions and getting all the pull-out tabs to line up correctly and look nice. I think I have 7 hours invested in just this one card! It should be easier moving forward now that I know the dimensions and have the design completed. I am so excited to show this invite to them!

The cardstock is chocolate chip by Stampin Up. The pink patterned paper behind the Vellum is American Crafts Miss Muffett from the Baby line of papers. It's now retired and not being made anymore. I've been to 9 Michael's stores in my area buying up what they had on their shelves. If you see it in your area, I would gladly pay you for it and the shipping cost for you to send it to me! I am a little worried about not having enough of this paper to finish all 125-150 invites! Hope you have a nice Labor Day weekend!

As promised....

Sorry for the delay. I have my circus card tutorial available. This is the tutorial for how to make just the circus tent. I shared how to make the clown in my previous post. If you would like a copy of the tutorial, please email me at HDawson1@cox.net and I'll email it to you. Sorry, It was too large to upload in a post and I couldn't figure out how to upload a Word or PDF file here.

Circus Card

It's been awhile since I posted a punch card. Natasha is having a card contest for the people who took her Punch Happy class. The winner receives her next Holiday Punch Happy online card class for free. I made this card for her contest, and I am really happy with how it turned out!! I love cards with bright colors although I don't think I use them a lot in my own card making. I found the idea for the circus card from two posts on Splitcoast Stampers here and here. I'm working on instructions for how I made the tent card, and I'll share them later this week. My clown is a combination of other punch clowns I've seen, and I included a picture of my punch instructions for making the clown below. The elephant is not my creation, I got the instructions for how to make him from Heather's online simply punches class. Hope you like this card, it was so fun to make!

Cupcakes!

I'm still swapping with the Iron Chef group. Each month a secret ingredient is chosen and each person has to choose a food category. This month was my month to choose the secret ingredient. I did something a little bit different, I chose Cupcakes as the secret ingredient and each participant chose a color. I chose red and used this chocolate cherry cupcake recipe for my cards. While I had all the papers out on my craft table, I made a card to match the recipes. I used Lasting Impressions paper and the cupcake was made using a Lasting Impressions template. The recipe and Happy Birthday sentiment on the card were both printed from my computer. Hope you have a great weekend!

Vacation

I'm back from vacation! We had a wonderful time. We went hiking at Bushkill Falls in the Poconos. It was really hot that day, but well worth the pain & suffering of hiking in the heat to see this gorgeous waterfall. We also rented a sailboat for a day and went sailing. There wasn't much wind so we spent most of the time floating around the lake instead of actually sailing! Rusty did well on the boat, she spent most of the time in the cabin of the boat trying to find a shady spot to curl up and take a nap. I'll be back tomorrow with some new creations!