A Thank You card and a chunky King

I made a quick thank you card this afternoon for a dear friend. We gave each other birdhouses for our birthdays, which are this week, so I thought it would be fun to use a birdhouse for this card.

I used a Stampin' Up set for the bird, branch and sentiment; colored the digital birdhouse with Copic markers; added some white rope to hang the birdhouse; made a dimensional butterfly with a Martha Stewart punch; made the flower border with a Martha Stewart punch; finished up by adding some Prima flowers.

I also played with some new digital stamps from The Digi Shack. They have some new releases called Chunkies - so cute! I want to use a few of them for some Father's Day cards. Go check them out.

June cards - almost done...

It's a hot day here in New Jersey, so I spent a little time in my craft room where it's nice and cool and finished up the cards I started the other day for the June anniversary and birthdays. Now I just need a few cards for Father's Day and I'm done! These four cards were all made with digital images and Copic markers, and boy were they fun to work with. I was worried that the ink from the printer would run or smear , but they were absolutely fine. The first card will be for my brother and the next for my son-in-law. I got both images here. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the first card and distressed it with some sandpaper to highlight the birthday sentiments.

On this next card, I used a Tim Holtz On The Edge Alterations dies for the blue layer and my good old Stampin' Up punches along with birthday stamps from The {Stamps} of Life. Everything fit just right.

This cute little bear with a big cake will be an anniversary card for my brother and sister-in-law who will celebrate their 20th anniversary next week. I got this digital stamp here and layered it on a Sizzix top-note die. It just needs a sentiment and it's all done.

This last sweet little frog will be for a sweet little boy who's not so little any more. Sigh....

Time to get dinner going. Enjoy the rest of your day.....

Digital stamps and copics

I've just discovered how much fun digital stamps can be! I stop by Free Digital Stamps each day to see what Alison has found and there's always something wonderful. As I try to keep ahead of my need for multiple cards this month, I thought I'd give a few of these great digital images a try. Plus it gave me a chance to practice coloring with some Copic markers. Four images colored for four more cards to make tomorrow.
When I get the cards finished, I'll post a link to the source of each of these cute little digital images.

Birthday Cards

"Well, June is here, let the parties begin!" That's what my family and I say every year when June rolls around. Birthdays, anniversaries, Father's Day, graduations, June is a very busy month around here. No complaints at all, it's not like we don't know they're coming. And we love our ice cream cakes, so we'll be having at least one or two every week. But that also means I need lots of cards, and yesterday I got to work on three of them.

I used two of my new stamp sets from The {Stamps} of Life by Stephanie Barnard on this card. One card done...

For this card I pulled out one of my HUGE Stampin' Up stamps. I stamped it once in black and once in red, then cut out the middle section of the medalion of the red one and used some pop-dots to add it to the middle of the black stamp. Black/red/white is such a nice color combo, isn't it? Two done....

For this card I pulled out my scrap drawer to look for something blue. I grabbed my Stampin' Up square scallop punch for 5 quick punches and a cut from one of my Cricut carts, and headed for my Tim Holtz stamps and viola! Three clean and simple birthday cards done... I'm all set for this week. Enjoy the rest of your day.....