Thanks on the Dark Side

Good Morning,

Another cold night here in Ohio and expecting snow today or tomorrow.  It is kinda aggravating when you see all the plants trying to come up and enjoy some nice weather and show off what they have to offer.

Speaking of offer, I am going to be giving some Blog Candy away.  I will be telling you more about in on Friday.  I have several things that I no longer wish to keep around or have never used and find it is time to let it go.  So make sure on Friday (sometime) that you stop by my blog to see how you can win the blog candy, and what I have to give away.  That is Friday April 1, and no this isn't an April Fools joke.....:)

Todays card is another card I made with dark paper.  Like I said yesterday and before that, I let the paper inspire me, so I guess I was feeling a little dark when I made this card.  I used an old Mojo Monday sketch to make this card, so it wasn't all my doing.  But I did like it.  The colors of the paper are nice together.
I love making the vintage looking cards, they have a great feel, but sometimes it is nice to get away from that and make something with a different feel. 
                               
                             Outside:

                               Inside:

Card Recipe:

Paper: Base/Stampin Up

DSP: Basic Gray

Ribbon: Walmart

Punches: Stampin Up, Punch Bunch

Stamps: Stampin Up

Ink: Stazon

Thanks for stopping by today, and remember to stop by on April 1 to see the blog candy give away and what you must do to win.

See ya later

~Jodi~

Thanks

Good Morning to my blogging friends,

I made it back today with a new card, but my stash is getting low now and I need to get back in the craft room today and make a few more cards.  I do have an order for some all occasion cards so I should be getting on that, and last week I got an order for wedding invitations for a wedding in July, so I need to be thinking about what I plan to do for that, but for today this is my card. 

Outside

Inside

Card Recipe:

Paper: Crumb Cake/Base, DSP/Latte Matstack DCWV, Green/Stampin Up, Brown/Stampin Up

Embossing Folders: Petals-a-Plenty/Stampin Up

Stamp: Say it Simply/Stampin Up

Punches: Bird Punch/Stampin Up, Oval Scallops/ Marvy, Borders/Martha Stewart

Pearls/Stampin Up

(pearl on the front is misplaced on the right side in the photo)

Thank You Card

HEY HEY, I'm back again....lol
Good Morning,
Since yesterday was such a great day for making cards I did make a few so that I could post for at least 3 or 4 days, so I am hoping you all will come back and look for new cards the rest of this week.

I would like to make it back in the scrapbook room again today and make a few more.  I have some ideas running around in my head that needs to be made into something.   Hope you all have a great day!!!

Now the card:

Base Card:  Cream Gina K. Heavy Base Paper
Ribbon:  Walmart-Ivory, Bow Easy
DSP:  K & Company
Butterflies:  Martha Stewart
Roses:  Prima
Sentiment stamp:  Stampin Up
Ovals Punches:  Stampin Up
Inside:  I used a Nestibilites Die Label 14
All the supplies here created this card, how wonderful is that!

Thanks

Good Morning~
I am here with another card, boy I am on a roll.  I would love to set here today and make more but I have laundry calling my name and a clean up from the weekend, with everyone being home, it can get a little out of hand.  So I am doomed to be cleaning today!  But tomorrow will be a better day for cardmaking, I hope unless we get the ice storm and lose electric, and then I will still be here but in the dark.  :)

Today's card is a "Thanks" card.  I had this come to me this morning as I was waking up.  You all probably think I don't have anything to think about but cards...well...I do have stresses and I think I avoid them by thinking of things that make me happy.  I also thought of two others but now they are gone.......ugh :)

OK, the card.  Rich Razzleberry from SU is the base of this card along with the DP, it was not what I seen this morning when I thought it up, but I started out with what I thought I wanted then realized this paper was better...that happens to cardmakers from time to time......more often then not for me.  I used the 5 flower punch from SU for the front flowers and the buttons are also SU the green flowers behind them are from the backside of the doublesided paper so I thought I would use it.  The lattice behind the flowers is sizzix die also from SU the stamp sentiment is from SU along with the punches I used to mount it on.  Ribbon and pearls are also SU, the butterfly is the punch from Martha Stewart.  Inside I used nestibilities die for the DP oval and the off white oval is a Marvy punch.  All the green leaves are the little leaves die from SU.   I hope you understood all this.  I will be back tomorrow with a new card, I already had a thought and I have wrote it down...

 I left the inside blank so that a more personal sentiment can be added.  Sometimes you send Thank You cards and would love to let them know your personal feelings instead of a verse already added to a card.

Have a Good Monday!

Thank You

I want to "Thank You" all who have been leaving such great comments I do appreciate it.  And I want to say that I enjoy blog hopping in the evening and stopping by your place.  I try to leave you all comments and I enjoy seeing all your creativity.

Good Morning all!  Well, it happened again,  we received more snow this morning.  It was just about a 1/2 inch but at this point it is too much.  We have had snow since early December and it doesn't look like it is going to stop anytime soon.  Some weather predictors are saying we will have this system hanging around us maybe into early March......ugh  But we can be thankful that we are no longer in a drought.  Our summer here was pretty dry and dangerous.  So we should be good on that now.  I know the moisture should please the farmers, I know on who is pretty tickled. :)

I have a card this morning to post.  It is a Thank You card.  I am going to try and work on the Card Sets I haver orders for this weekend.  I need to get those finished.  When I do I will share them with you.

 ON this card: I used Gina K pure luxury cardstock for the base of this card which I embossed with a SU embossing folder called Elegant Bouquet. The DP is from a 6x6 pad from Basic Gray called Cappella, it has some really luxury looking paper in it.  I love using these paper pads for DP.  They are just the right amount and hardly any leftovers.  The loopy border is from Martha Stewart double loop punch and I used the corner punch for the bottom corners of this card.  The flowers are from my flower punches from EK success and Marvy.  The fern like leaf is a punch from Punch Bunch punches, I really like this punch.  The antique brads are from SU along with the pearls.  The inside I used the embossing folder I used for the top outside of the card to dress up the topnote for sentiments.  I didn't add sentiments only because I think in Thank  You cards you want to express you own sentiment for that.    I added small pearls to the inside also. I didn't ink the edges of this card, I am trying not to do that, but I hate to say, I miss it and I think I will just keep doing it.  Also I know I put flowers on everything, but I just love making flowers for my cards.  I did order some flowers so I am hoping to use them soon. 

Thanks for coming today and visiting!! 

Pam's card for the party

This is the card my cousin "Pam" made for the card party.  They will enjoy this one.  The flower on this card is so much fun to make.  It is made with Stampin Ups Extra Large Scalloped Punch (I don't believe this punch is available right now unless Stampin UP has received a shipment lately) and it is also done with the Scalloped Cirlce Punch 1 3/4.  She also used the large flower from the Boho Blossoms punch for the center.
Tags and senitments are also from Stampin Up.  & K & Company DSP.


This is the Outside of Pam's Card.

This is the inside of Pam's Card using the topnote and more scalloped flowers.

Thank You Flower

Today is beginning to be a good day.  I have been getting a few cards done.  Most cardmakers realize that making a card takes time unless you have an idea in your head and it is all put together there, but I put things together as I go, sometimes glueing something down and then taking it up and doing something different, or turning over a piece of cardstock you already stamped on, and stamp something else.  So cardmaking is a lot of trial and error......for me mostly errors being fixed.
The flower on this card was cut out with the new punch from Stampin Up that is in the new Occasions Mini catalog.  I used some spellbinders dies and Martha Stewart punches.

Thank you Card

Mornings here in Ohio are very chilly, 8 degrees is what the reading is on my INDOOR therometer I wouldn't dare go outside to see if it was true, but judging by the temp in my craft room I am going to say it is probably pretty spot on.

I haven't been here in a while.  It just seems with all the Holiday buzz it is hard to get in the craft room and do something I think I can share.  Sometimes I have those cards that start out as a good idea but soon it finds it's way in the black can beside my chair looking up at me and saying "what a waste of time and materials I was" but anyway, I do try to revive the thought and make it look a little better, 90% of my throw aways become a card later on.

My sister-in-laws mother passed away this week and she asked me if I would have time to make her 25 thank you cards. A tall order with Christmas Cards still unfinished and all the things going on right now, but I invited my stamping buddy Pam over and my two daughters and we mass produced this card into 25 thank you cards.  This is primitive looking for me, if you follow my blog you know I like the "busy" look and this isn't busy enough for me but I realized the more I did to the card the more time it took and we needed to get this done quickly.
I just used Gina K paper, embossed with the cuttlebug and cuttlebug folder, I used flower punches, pearls, and stampin up ink, stamps and  punches for the sentiment on the front.  It did go together quickly and it really didn't turn out bad.  This card however we found on the floor after it had been ran over by our chair rollers a few times but at least you can see how the card turned out.

Thank You Card

I made this card for a "Thank You" card which I will add a gift card.  I had seen someplace on the internet where someone had used the topnote as a purse, thought it was a great idea so I tried it.  I don't know the person who came up with it or I would give them the credit.  I used the cuttlebug to emboss the background on the card and the "thank you" on the front is also embossed with the cuttlebug folders.