Thanks! - H2H Challenges

Today I have a thank you card that I made for a gentleman in my families life who recently was honoured for 15 years of volunteer service in our community and province and he came into our life through his volunteer work and has had a significant role in our lives and the lives of our wee ones. He drives our wee ones to various appointments that we are not able to attend with them. And that is why there are cars on this thank you card. Our volunteer driver has a red mini van but I do not have a mini van stamp but I do have this one and it just felt perfect for him. He is a wonderful caring man who takes wonderful care of not just our girls but many children.

Now onto the card! Our drivers van is red so of course I had to make it red to pop off the card. The challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart challenges the challenge is stamped backgrounds. I used a retired stamp of the month called Long Ride Home.

Below is a close up of the background stamping with the bits of colour pops I added in.

Products Used:

Paper:

- Ruby, Sapphire, and White Daisy card stock

Ink:

- Saffron, Sapphire, and Black

Embellishments:

- Black and White Dots

- Whisper Extra thick twine

Thanks for stopping by and visiting. I welcome any and all comments, I love feedback!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Happy Birthday - AHSC #52

I thought it only fitting to do a birthday card this week to celebrate the one year birthday (or anniversary) of the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! I am on my second term as part of their design team and let me tell you I am loving every minute of it. First off they have some amazing sketches (wait until you see what is coming soon, it will really challenge you!) and it has kept me somewhat honest in forcing myself to find the time to be creative. I love the challenge of creating something each week and while I started out trying to do all layouts due to a busy schedule I have had to resort to cards, which is A-OK with me because I need to replenish my stock! 

So without further ado....here is this weeks sketch and my card to go with it!

I decided to give a try at some random stamping and I got out an old set called Dreams do come true and went to town. I used the colours Lagoon and Sweet Leaf because one of the challenges over at the Heart 2 Heart challenges was a colour challenge using those and I thought they looked really bold and vibrant with this flower set. I did some inking of the edges of the flowers and such to really give it some depth and visual interest. I used a strip of Sweet Leaf card stock and our new teal shimmer trim to finish it off. The birthday sentiment is from a stamp set called Party Pennants. 

I hope you enjoy this weeks entry for the Atlantic Hearts sketch challenge. I would love to see what you have in you for this sketch, feel free to join us!

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi

Feeling Lucky?

Oh my, I am a bit behind in posting actual artwork and for that I am sorry! This winter has been a rough one at our house. We have had snow on the ground (like much of Canada) since November, we usually get a storm it melts away and a while later another storm comes. Not this year, it never melted away and just kept coming and coming. Add to that the fun term of 2014 the Polar Vortex and well it has been a very cold, very snowy year for us and all of that fun has led to a house of very sick people! I for one never get more than a slight cold but not this year, I was sick, in bed not moving sick in December right over Christmas for 2-3 weeks, it took a long time to rebound from that one. Then all was good, the hubby and the kids had a few little sniffles along the way but I thought we would be good and make it out of the winter with nothing else but NOOOOO I was so wrong. I went to bed one night about 3 weeks ago and I had the feeling, you know the cold from the inside out and just could not get warm….I knew it was not going to be good and it wasn't. I slept for 49 hours straight with the odd washroom break or drink of water but really I did not leave the bed for 49 hours and with 3 toddlers that is a feat! Thank god for the help of my hubby and his mother, I do not know what I would have done. And even after the 49 hours in bed, it has taken me about 3 weeks to rebound fully. Unfortunately, as I began to feel better the hubby went down with pneumonia (for the like 6th time in 2 years) and has been home sick and out of work for almost 2 weeks now, we think we caught it in time and are hopefully he can return to work soon, the last time he was off work for 8 weeks!

So am I feeling lucky? Hard to say honestly but I am very hopefully that we will be lucky and not get any more snow and that the weather will slowly start to warm up and I do have a very small spot of grass showing through the snow drifts in my back yard, so that makes me feel that lady luck is slowly waking up from her long winter slumber and about to visit us. 

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges the theme is Feeling Lucky? What does that mean to you. When you think of lucky where does your mind go? For me it is all about St. Patricks day and four leaf clovers, it is March after all. Our Design team has come up with some awesome projects for what makes them feel lucky. Why not click the link above and take a gander, you won't be sorry!

I used Topiary ink for the 4 leaf clovers and I double stamped or I think it is also called second generation stamping where you ink up your stamp and stamp once on a scrap then again on your actual project to give it a muted affect. I did not second generation stamp on the outline of the clovers. I also used our Colour Seam binding (retired) and Foundry Frames (also retired) on this page. The green card stock is not CTMH, I am not sure what it is from as it was a scrap. The stamp set is the March Word Puzzle (retired) and all of the images in the random stamp are from that same set. 

I hope you like it, it is a bit simple but with just starting to feel alive, simple was the best I could do for now!

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi

Crop Bags - A Work in progress

This week has been well a week. The first couple of days I spent recuperating after hosting Easter dinner and now I am back into my routine and with a crop coming up at the end of the month, there is no time like the present to get everything ready for that (I am a major procrastinator and tend to do things at the last minute, trying not to do that this time!). I am planning on making some table toppers for each of the croppers in attendance to introduce myself and get my business out there to new people. I wanted to do something cute and fun and this is what I have come up with...it is a work in progress but I think I might have a winner here.

Crop Bags:

I started with this blank sheet of Colonial White card stock.

I then random stamped the flower images from the stamp set Card Word Puzzle.

I then used my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out this adorable shopping bag.

Here is another shot:

Products used:

Paper: Colonial White Cardstock

Inks: Indian Corn Blue, Outdoor Denim, Pacifica, Honey, Bamboo

Stamp set: Card Word Puzzle

I still have a couple of things I want to do to spruce them up a bit. I plan on putting on some flowers and ribbon on it, but for now, I am just thrilled to be started on them. If you have any suggestions, I would welcome them, this is one of my first attempts at random stamping!

Happy Scrapping!

Brandi