Ding Dong! or is that Dingbat?

 This is the culmination of a card idea I have had in my head for literally years.  It all goes back to when I was in the school play "The Wizard of Oz" in 5th grade, and then years later saw a doormat at a Warner Bros store with the legs sticking out and "Ding Dong" on the mat.  I kicked myself later for not buying that doormat.  So this is my way of making sense of it all and creating a card to celebrate such a great movie/play.

I stamped the legs and shaded them with copics and colored in the ruby red slippers with my sakura glitter gel pen.  I cut them out to place on the background which is a brick pattern stamped on yellow cardstock  The wording I cut using my cricut, design studio and  Plantin SchoolBook font.

Recipe -

Card size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections, The Paper Source

Stamps - Viva Lasvegastamps, Cornish Heritage Farms (I think they closed earlier this year and haven't heard if anyone is offering their designs elsewhere).

Color- Sakura, Copic

Cricut Expression - Plantin SchoolBook

Txt me L8r - HB2U

 Another Stampendous set that I used for my youngest's birthday card.  I think what really made the card was the glossy accents over the phone after I colored it with copics.  The "holey" border I made whilst playing with a Martha Steward punch.  Another "look" I won't be replicating as it took forever to line up the holes for each edge, but I like the effect.  The background I took inspiration from some fabric I saw at Hancock's Fabrics.  I still might buy some to make a pelmet for his room!

Recipe
Card size - 5.5 x 8.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections, The Paper Source
Stamps - Stampendous
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics
Accessories - Martha Stewart punch

Well, we are always telling him he is from Zog...

I used this Stampendous stamp set for my youngest's birthday card this year.  We are always telling him he is some sort of alien that landed here and we actually celebrate his landing date LOL!  I think everything on the card is pretty straightforward and this is a good card for a teen with the grungy look.  Good thing was that I got to use my Cuttlebug numbers folder and distressed stripes which I picked up to use someday and had never used!  YIKES!

Recipe
Card size - 5.5 x 8.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections, The Paper Source
Stamps - Stampendous
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics
Accessories - Cuttlebug embossing folders, google eyes.

End of the Road for this Birthday Caper!

Admit it, you expected a Christmas theme.  I just couldn't take it that far!

Inside -

When all is said and done the Usual Suspects

sing like a canary to wish you a happy birthday!

Hope you liked the travel through the ups and downs of my penance for not making my dear husband number one on my card making schedule!

Recipe -

Card size - 5.5 x 4.25 in

Cardstock - DCWV, Neenah, The Paper Source

Ink - Memento

Stamps - Inkadinkado

Color - Copics

How many leaves does it take?

This card looks simple right?  Well I nearly lost it all over this card.  I knew how I wanted it to look and it took me forever (repeat forever) to get the coloring on the leaf right.  I like how it turned out in the end but a lot of leaves were raked directly into the trash in the making of this card!

Recipe
Card size 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - Neenah, DCWV
Ink - Memento
Stamps - Inkadinkado

Bewitching Birthday card!

 Yeah, if I had done this right this would have appeared at least a couple of weeks ago and been timely with the holiday, but I'm ok with that and I'm ok with using a witch stamp for a card that isn't a Halloween card too!

This was the tenth card in the set and I hope rather obviously represents October greetings.

On the inside I printed this greeting  -

A happy birthday witch for you!

I think it works, do you?

Recipe

Card size - 5.5 x 4.25 in

Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections, The Paper Source

Ink - Memento

Stamp - Studio G

Color - Copics

Accessories - Cuttlebug Swiss dots (or multi-wart in this case!), Spellbinders circle Nestabilities

A bookish greeting

I always associated Books with the beginning of the school year and August/September depending on where we lived.  So although this was the 9th card in the series for my dear husband it is also a good all around design for a thank you for anyone that loves books or teaches.

Recipe
Card size - 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - DCWV, Neenah, The Paper Source
Stamps - Stampendous
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics

Hap BEE birthday! Bet you won't BEE-lieve this card!

 This is the 8th card in my dear husband's birthday series AND the "big card" as his birthday is August.  Don't they look so Hap-BEE to bee there?

AND to top off everything this is a set I picked up for half price!  Un-BEE-lievable I know!  I just thought they were a cheerful bunch.  I went monochromatic with the rest of the card to keep the cartoon feel and give the color just that extra zing! (I've read on Splitcoast that "pop" is overused LOL)  BTW I refrained from stickling the wings because I wanted to keep it manly and I ran out of time.

Recipe

Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source

Stamps - Stampendous

Ink - Memento

Color - Copics

Accessories - Cuttlebug swiss dots folder

A Star Spangled Birthday!

There is a pretty funny 4th of July story involving my dear BRITISH husband, well actually there are several so I knew it was ok to poke at little fun at his fun with the holiday.

As with the previous cards in this set I kept it all one set of stamps - this time Stampendous.  I think the rest is rather self explanatory so I won't re-invent the wheel.

Recipe
Size - 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source
Ink - Memento
Stamps - Stampendous
Color - Copics, Sakura

King for a Day? or just King me?

Another missed holiday- My dear husband really is the king of my heart and yet suffered through a Father's Day cardless.  I hope this went some way for making up for such things.

I have this set from Technique Tuesday that I bought specifically for him because he loves chess and most of the other games represented on the set.  I cut out the squares and created a border similar to a chess board for the background even drawing in a little gold border on the edge.

Recipe
Size 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - The Paper Source, Neenah
Stamps - Technique Tuesday
Ink - Memento
Color- Copics, Sakura

Anniversary or Birthday?

So you remember what I said about being forgetful and unorganized.  Yup! I didn't make him an anniversary card this year either.  SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!  Hopefully I made up for it with this little gem.

Inside I printed "Getting older with you is the best thing “I do”

And BTW don't replicate the punching effect it really took too much time for that little bit of cardstock.  Yeah, I like the way it turned out but it about drove me crazy to do it.  So if you do decide to go for it remember I warned you! LOL!

Recipe
Size - 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Wassau, The Paper Source
Ink - Memento, Brilliance
Stamp - See Dee's
Color - Copics, Stickles
Accessories - Cuttlebug embossing folder

“Welly” hope your birthday “rains” supreme!

 And so of course we are with our wet wishes for April.  Or just the general weather forecast for my friends in Britain.  I have to admit because the rain normally came with winds I never really bothered with an umbrella.  Add to that not being able to hold one whilst pushing a stroller/pushchair and although I love some of the beautiful brollies I have seen I have invested in a very long time.

I wanted to use a rainbow of colors to remind him that after rain there can be a rainbow.

Here's the card in full with a bit better lighting.  Love the little wellies from this set even if they are a bit girly.  I have a Welly stamp from Clear Dollar Stamp but I will readily admit to being lazy and not searching it out to use it.  Still I think this turned out kinda unisex and the sender is a girl I'm reliably told!

Recipe

Size - 5.5 x 4.25 in

Cardstock - Neenah, Wassau, The Paper Source

Stamps - Stampendous

Ink - Memento

Color- Copics

Accessories - Spellbinder's Nestabilities, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Irish you a happy birthday!

OK the pun is awful but you have to admit it is a clever use of a theme stamp as a birthday stamp!

Recipe
Size - 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source, Recollection
Ink - Memento
Stamp - High Hopes
Color - Copics
Accessories - corner rounder.