It Started with a Hug

This super cute image is Squeezey Hugs from Some Odd Girl, which I’ve used on a card for an engagement.

I’m not so good with layouts for cards so I followed the sketch on the Some Odd Girl blog May challenge but mixed it up a bit by making this into a twisted easel card and using some wide rosette ribbon for the rectangular element.  I made this for a colleague at work who, at the end of the week, still has it sitting under her monitor at work and who told me that all the image needed was a beard and it would be the spitting image of her fiancé!

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin Kody E000, E000, E00, E02, (E95 lips); Mae E11, E50, E51, E53, (E93 cheeks, E95 lips)

Eyes G05, G07, G09, BG70, C00

Hair Kody E43, E44, E47, E49; Mae Y00, Y11, Y13, E55

Shirt Kody B21, B37, B93, B95, B97; Mae RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles Large

Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags One

Embellishments

Basic Grey Little Black Dress sticker

Creative Memories Heritage title sticker

Doily from stash

Flourish with a Bling Jasmine Laser Flourish Burgundy

Gems from stash

Rose ribbon from stash

Paper rose buds from stash

Webster’s Pages Gems

Paper

CTMH For Always collection

Stamps

Some Odd Girl Squeezey Hugs

Challenges

Some Odd Girl May sketch challenge

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Simply Sweet

This is a fairly simple birthday card I made for a colleague, no embellishments and fuss as this one is for a guy.  I followed a sketch from The Sweet Stop for their SSS207-Sketch with a Spin challenge.  The spin was to make a birthday card.

I decided to leave the front with just the cupcake and stamped my sentiment on the inside instead.

Ingredients:

Paper

American Crafts black cardstock

DCWV Bewitched matstack

Purple cardstock from stash

Stamps

CTMH Art Philosophy

Challenges

The Sweet Stop SSS207-Sketch with a Spin

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Birthday Madness

March really is the month for birthdays, so I have yet another birthday card, this one featuring a SOG image, Mad Hatter Kody.

This card is for a guy so I kept the patterns quite plain and didn’t go for any embellishments other than the die cuts.  Aren’t those teacups cute?  The recipient is a teetotaller, literally, he drinks tea (not coffee) at work all day.

I followed the sketch at this month’s challenge on the SOG blog although I moved my sentiment to fit my theme and flipped the sketch on its side.  I always thought it was the Mad Hatter who was having an unbirthday tea party but turns out it was Humpty Dumpty who got the unbirthday present so instead I used the raven riddle for my sentiment.  It follows through to the inside, where I printed my sentiment on some cardstock before cutting my frame.

Ingredients

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E02, E11

Eyes and teapot B00, B02, B05

Hair E02, Y13, Y15, Y17

Hat and jacket G02, G03, G05, G07

Sock, waistcoat and gloves R24, R27, R29, V12, V15, V17

Cravat Y13, Y15, Y17

Shoes C-5, C-7, 100

Buttons, hatpins and chain Spica Gold

Papers

Starbust Matstack from DCWV

Stamps

Mad Hatter Toby from Some Odd Girl

Dies

My Favorite Things Die-namics Die Always Time For Tea 

Spellbinder’s Labels Four 

Quotes 

Alice in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll 

Challenge 

SOG March Sketch Challenge 

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