Masculine sympathy card

 Another sympathy card I made a couple of weeks ago - this time, a masculine one. I made about 7 or 8 of these, so I will have some on hand if/when needed. 

Sadly, both the sentiment stamp from Avery Elle and the leafy silhouette stamps from Stampin' Up are discontinued, but the dandelion stamp is still available from Hero Arts. This card is a CASE of one I saw on Instagram by Jennie Lundin.

 Thanks for visiting :)

CASE study challenge

This is my 4th post for today (phew!! Sorry for overwhelming you!)  If you're looking for my post for A Blog Named Hero, please click HERE.

I've missed a few CASE study challenges lately, so I'm making up for lost time. The inspiration card  by Keisha Campbell (that I've copied below) has chevrons, a die-cut background, a sentiment on a banner, and leaves and flowers behind the sentiment. My card doesn't look a heap like the inspiration photo, but it incorporates all those elements (but has holly berries instead of flowers.)

Thanks for visiting - have a great day! :)

Ready made flower and some gold

I actually started this card months ago!! Today, a stamp set went missing, so I did a tidy-up of "The Pile" ("The Pile" (yes, it deserves capitals) is bits of cardstock and patterned paper and sometimes stamp sets and die cuts and stuff that accumulates on my desk as I'm cardmaking - stuff that I've used, stuff that was left over but I haven't organised yet, and stuff that I pulled out but didn't use).  Anyway, I've found the stamp set, but I also found the beginnings of this card.  I had die cut the white card and stuck the gold behind it, and stamped the "birthday" sentiment - but that's as far as I got.  So, today, I pulled out a ready-made flower and some leaves and completed the card - I don't know why I didn't think of doing this in the first place! LOL!

 I'll be submitting this card to two challenges at Moxie Fab World - the "All that Glitters is Gold" challenge, and the "Ready Made Embellishments" challenge. 

I hope you're having a great day!

His and hers sympathy cards

Today's homework from the Online Card Class, His and Hers, was to make a sympathy card.  I decided to use the same layout and technique, but use different colours (distress inks) and different stamps (both of the sentiments, as well as the butterflies, are from Hero Arts. The leaves are VERY old stamps from PSX and Hampton Arts). 

By the way, is anyone else out there in blogland having difficulties getting Blogger to upload photos?  These 4 photos took me almost 30 mins to upload!! So frustrating!!