Another Card for the "I Feel the Love" Project

I thought I would make another card for the I Feel the Love Project before I send them off.  So tonight I raided my stash to find some cute DCWV birthday paper and the paper that matches for this week's Mojo Monday sketch.  I added some adorable American Crafts ribbon and then used the other shape that came with the Lettering Delights hat I downloaded from Silhouette Design Studio last night:  balloons!  Aren't they fantastic?  I had some fun scoring the pink paper with the cross hatch design.  Well, now I'm off to bed to see I can head off this headache from getting any worse.

Quick card

I cannot believe how fast July has flown.  I didn't even finish my card for the I Feel the Love Project yet.  So today, before and after a great barbecue with the hubby's family, I worked on a quick card.  I took my cues from two separate challenges.  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches but used Lesley's theme challenge going on at The Paper Players where I picked the middle vertical column (birthday, dry embossing and ribbon).  The green birthday paper is from DCWV and the embossing folding is from Sizzix. The cute little hat I found the Silhouette Design Studio is from Lettering Delights and I topped it off with some stickles.  Quick simple and now I can go to bed because it's going to be a loooonnnnggg week.

Happy Birthday Sis!

Today is my sister's birthday and I'm so excited for her. We have a little shopping trip planned later this week and I'm really looking forward to it. I know she's going to find some great stuff. Speaking of great stuff, I'm so excited because my box from Oh My Crafts should be here any day now. Not that I really need anything new, but I just couldn't pass up the deal they had last week on the Making Memories trimmer. It will be my third. The first died after five years when I tried to cut something too thick for it. My second one is going on it's second year and still works beautifully, although I had a little moment of panic over the weekend when it didn't make the nice clean cuts I was used to. Instead I got the cuts I used to get with my old trimmers where a little ragged that used to cue me in that I needed a new blade (boy did I go through a lot of blades back then - trust me the extra cost for this trimmer is well worth not having to buy lots of blades). Since this trimmer never needs a new blade, I wasn't quite sure what was wrong. I pulled it apart and found some stray pieces of paper stuck in the cutter. I cleaned out the tracks and used a little wax paper to wax down the bar. Once it was all put back together, it cut like a dream again. Nice crisp clean cuts. Love, love, love this cutter. So now I'll have a new one in pink, plus a number of other new goodies too...

In the meantime, I want to share the card I made for last month's I Feel the Love Project. I was really late to finish it, which is why I did this month's card so early.

I had fun with this one though. The kite is a download from the Silhouette Design Store. I just love that place. At the end of the year last year, they ran a special on the monthly subscription. I bought the smallest one and I still cannot believe how much I can buy each month. Every time I have an idea for a project, I just browse through the library to see what fits my idea. I buy what I need, or what I think I might use. Even with all that, at the end of the month, I usually still have some credit left over and I get to do a little downloading of just things that caught my eye with no project in mind. It really was a great deal.

Anyhow, the kite comes with four clouds, but I opted to use just the three smallest ones. I ran them through the Xyron and flocked them to give them that soft look. After I took the picture, I added a few Stickles just because it still looked like it needed "something."
Yet another card from my scraps bin, which, strangely enough, never looks like I've even put a dent in it no matter how many project I make with paper from it.

I Feel the Love - April

It's time for another I Feel the Love Project card. I've missed a couple months and did last month's at the last minute, so I thought I would get this month's done right away. Emily is a girl after my own heart with her love of cats so I decided to use my Chewie stamp. I had a completed, colored one pinned on my inspiration board in my craft room for months and decided this was the perfect project for it. Since Emily's favorite colors are pink and purple, I stuck with those colors. I found this pink leopard ribbon in my drawer and decided it was perfect. I used sketch # 55 from Sketch and Stash for a template. The ribbon slide and paw print inside it are both out of the Silhouette Design Studio store. I needed something for the background though. It's been a while since I used an embossing folder so I drug out my stash. I narrowed it down to two: the cheetah print and a swirly one that I like a lot. I actually did both backgrounds so I could see if cheetah ribbon on cheetah background would be too much. Seeing it in person convinced it was fine. After that, the card went together in a snap.

So break out your supplies and join us in sending cards to put a smile on Emily's face.

Sympathy Card

It's time for another card for the "I feel the love" project. Unfortunately, this time it's a sympathy card and because of that, fewer people are participating. So please, take a moment and make a card to let this family know that people care. You can read more about it on Madison's blog here.

I found inspiration on an old sketch from Freshly Made Sketches found here. I have absolutely no idea who makes the paper since I pulled it out of a stack of miscellaneous paper from my scraps drawer and the butterflies are from the Silhouette Design Studio store. The sentiment stamp is from the Garden Flowers set from Inkadinkado and I used a flower stamp from that set to emboss around the sentiment as well.

Just a little project tonight - I Feel the Love

By the time we got home from camping and finished unpacking, I didn't feel like doing much but I also needed to finish up my card for the I Feel the Love Project for August. I had an idea that I was working on but I couldn't quite bring it together, so I went a completely different direction. Madison had mentioned that Kate liked pink and rainbows, so I pulled out my Simply Charmed cartridge and glitter paper (what little girl doesn't love glitter?) along with some scraps and a piece of my new Cotton Candy Pop Tone paper I got in Paper Zone's great sale this past week. Add a couple of clear embossed butterflies using the Thinking of You set from Inkadinkado plus some Stickles and this is what I get:

Get Well Marley

So one of the blogs that I follow is Madison's at Funky Cards. Madison has a lot of very interesting projects, but my favorite on-going project of hers has to be the "I Feel the Love" project. In this project, crafters make and send cards to a person who is facing a challenge. This month, it's Marley, an absolutely adorable three-year-old with a brain tumor. Since my brother-in-law ultimately lost his battle with a brain tumor, I felt especially moved by this small girl's fight. So I decided to send a card I made recently. The card was pretty straightforward:

But I added a little collage picture inside of Zoey and each of the "furballs" (as I tend to refer to all those who came after her):My experience has been that little kids tend to really like animals and I was hoping that there may be some power in prayer and fur for this little girl. I know it's always been powerful for me. Speaking of that, I think I need to go find a furball for hug...