Dodge Charger Masculine Birthday - FMS#678

This sketch at Freshly Made Sketches is open to interpretation as you can see from the Design Team's samples.  

The moment I looked at this sketch I visualized using the splatters for a masculine birthday card and having the splatter mark as a backdrop for a vehicle. 

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Here's My Card: 

Our nephew Tom's birthday falls on April 1st so it was time to get busy and make him a special card. Like me he's always been a big fan of hot American cars like the Dodge Charger series so I decided to use this sketch and Stampin' Ups! "Geared Up Garage" for the focal for his card.  

My dream car back in the 70's was a yellow Dodge Charger Hellcat like this one in the photo. 

 

Later models had more black on the roof and hood details but for my card I chose to keep the colouring fairly simple.  

Supplies:

Stamp & Die Set:

• Geared Up Garage (R) #148590 stamp set "car and sentiments"
• Garage Gear Dies (R) #148521
• Perennial Birthday (R)  "Happy Birthday" inside sentiment 

Cardstock:

• Card base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Whisper White scored at 4 1/4", matte 3 3/4" x 5", inside matte 3 7/8" x 5" 
• Pebbled Path matte 5 1/4" x 4"
• Crushed Curry matte 5 1/8" x 3 7/8", inside matte 4" x 5 1/4" 

Ink:

• Momento Black ink for car and sentiment
• Mango Melody light and dark for car
• Crushed Curry for splotches 
• Pebbled Path for splotches and car details 
• Color Lifter 

Accessories:

• Crushed Curry and Pebbled Path Flat Gems 
• Cut and Emboss Machine 
• Dimensionals 

Thanks for dropping by for a visit and checking out this card and I hope you liked my interpretation of the sketch.  Come again! 

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Seaside Adventures with AHSC #621

This week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was designed by Michelle. This sketch is a throwback to when this challenge blog first started. Over the coming months they will be doing a look back at those old sketches on the third Monday of each month and will post a new challenge based on one from that time period.  Here is the latest challenge: 

Here's My Card: 

The circles on this sketch had me thinking of bubbles and fish so I dug through my stash until I found some cute fish stamps and went to work on a summery seaside card. I hope you like my interpretation of the sketch.  

Supplies:

Stamp Set and Dies:

• Seaside Shore #141625 (R)
• Shore Thing (R)
• Friendly Seagulls #164961

Cardstock and DSP:

• Card Base in Whisper White 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" and 
• 5" x 3 3/4" for front matte, scraps of white for fish and seaweed.
• Petunia Pop Matte 5 3/8" x 4 1/8"
• Summer Splash 5 1/4" x 4" 

Ink:

• Summer Splash for sentiment
• Pool Party for water and bubbles
• Crumb Cake for Sand
• Petunia Pop, Orchid Oasis, Peach Pie for large fish
• Blends for seaweed, small fish and star fish:  Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Just Jade, Mango Melody

Accessories:

• Scissors for fussy cutting fish
• Stickles for Sparkle on fish
• Adhesive and Dimensionals
• Iridescent Faceted Gems 

If you've ever snorkeled in an area with tropical fish, you've probably been amazed at all the activity below the surface. There are big fish, teeny tiny fish and they all seem to be going in different directions.  I used that concept for creating the scene for this card.  I only had a few stamp sets with seaside images to use for my design. 

The larger fish, bubbles and seaweed were from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Seaside Shore. The cute little crab was from another retired set called Shore Thing. When it came to the small green fish I used a stamp from a very old set that had a school of fish in a square. I wanted them to be individual and look like they were swimming amongst the bigger fish, so I coloured them and then fussy cut each of the images out.  Yikes that was time consuming! I also used Stickles to add some sparkle to these little fishies, the seaweed and two of the larger fish.

Well that's it for this week's post, which was somewhat out of my comfort zone, however was fun to make.  I hope you enjoyed it and will leave me a comment about your snorkeling experiences and the most colourful fish you spotted. Cheers and have a good week.   

Update:  

Don't be like me......"late" by a few minutes and once the link is closed, it's closed.   Because I'm such a procrastinator and a bit obsessive about how I do my tasks each day, I put off posting my pictures for this challenge until after breakfast this morning.  The result is I missed out on this challenge, and it was my fault.   Oh well, I won't obsess on that, because at least I did the challenge and I'm quite happy with the end results.  Next time, I'll start earlier in the week! 

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Textured Notes Top 3 Badge for AHSC #620

 Top 3 Badge Winner for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #620:

AHSC #620

I was thrilled to find out that my Textured Notes card in last week's challenge was  one of the top three for sketch challenge #620.  Thank you to the Atlantic Heart Challenge Designers for not only a great sketch challenge, but for choosing my card as one of the three top  badge winners.  Appreciate it! 

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I had a good feeling about this sketch right from the start.  A shout out to the other two winners - PJs Projects and Jolanda Johnston.  Make sure you check out their gorgeous cards too.    

Stay tuned for some additional Textured Notes over the coming weeks.  The natural textures in the DSP make it such a wonderful  set to create and play with.  I'm also a big fan of the coordinating stamps which are perfect for layering on the texture and for creating wonderful focal points.  

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Plaid Shirts Masculine Cards

Have you seen the Timeless Plaid 6x 6  designer series paper that's featured on page 25 of the January to April 2025 Mini Catalogue.  It's sold separately or as part of the Storybook Moments Suite.  

These plaid papers are perfect for masculine, seasonal, and all-occasion cards, gift tags, scrapbook pages, and more and there are 48 sheets of patterned paper (4 each of 12 double-sided designs).  The product colours are Basic Beige, Boho Blue, Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Lost Lagoon, Misty Moonlight, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Pebbled Path, Pecan Pie, Wild Wheat.

During the month of March I have several guy birthday occasions, and as soon as I saw this plaid paper I wanted to make some shirt birthday cards.  I found a great template on Tonya Denton's So Inking blog that was exactly what I was looking for.  Here are some of the cards I made:

These shirt cards are so easy to make. Here are the supplies I used:

Supplies:

Card Stock:

• Card base 8 1.2x 11 scored at 4 1/4"  I used very old retired cardstock that matched the plaids for example:
• Blue card is Close to Cocoa, and Matte is Misty Moonlight, Buttons Close to Cocoa
• Orange and Wild Wheat Plaid with  Cajun Craze Matt and Groovy Guava base, Buttons Groovy Guava
• Flirty Flamingo and Crumb Cake Plaid with Early Espresso Matte and Flirty Flamingo base, Buttons Close to Cocoa
• Lost Lagoon and Old Olive Plaid, Matte is Lost Lagoon, Base and buttons are Old Olive 
• Basic White scraps for pocket inserts
• Basic White 4" x 5 1/4" for inside matte layer

Stamps: 

• Special Moments #158081 (best wishes sentiment)
Inside sentiment "wishing you the best birthday ever" retired Stampin Up!

Accessories: 

• Retired Button Die by Stampin Up
• Rectangle Stitched Framelit Dies (R) - largest one for Shirt  
• Stitched Nested Label Dies (R) for pocket and pocket insert 

I made this blue and green plaid shirt with the buttons and collar facing the 

opposite way from the other shirts, just for some variety.  It worked okay. 

Well, that's it for my Plaid Masculine Birthday cards.  I hope you liked them.  If you're interested in casing these cards the instructions are in  Tonya's post.  Hope you enjoyed these.  

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Friendly Seagulls FMS#677

I've been playing with the Friendly Seagulls stamp set I got for free during Sale-a-bration last month, and decided to use it for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge.   Click here to see my first effort with this set, which was a top three winner in the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.  What fun!  Here's the sketch:

Click here for Freshly Made Sketches #677

Here's My Card:

I love the new Textured Notes dies that came in my last order so I used them to cut the blue and the white mattes. I added some texture to the Balmy Blue matte by embossing it with the So Swirly embossing folder.

Although the texture is great I don't like large embossing folders like this. They are a pain, taking up too much room in my storage area. I guess the only advantage for me would be getting two mattes with one swipe of the machine.

I always try and finish the insides of my cards even if it's just to add a little stamping.  How about you, do you add sentiments, stamping or other designs to the inside of your card? 

I see some folks just leave the inside blank for writing their message, but I like to add a matte or two.  How about you, do you leave it blank or add mattes? 

Supplies:

Stamps and Dies:

• Friendly Seagulls #164961 (r)

Cardstock:

• Basic White card base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Scored at 4 1/4"
• Basic White - three pieces 3" x 1 1/2" for mattes
• Basic White inside matte 3 3/4" x 5"
• Boho Blue 4 x 5 1/4" for outside and inside mattes

Ink:

• Memento Black 
• Boho Blue
• Crumb Cake 
• Blends - Mango Melody, L/D Gray Granite, Poppy Red, SU700

Accessories:

• Dimensionals
• So Swirly Embossing Folder for Waves on Boho Blue Matt
• Textured Notes Dies for mattes
• Scissors for fussy cutting 
• Shiny sequins

So that's my card for this week's FMS challenge. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. The three rectangles were easy to work with in creating focal points and I know I'm going to enjoy making more cards using this sketch as well as the Friendly Seagull stamp set. Both are great ideas. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts.  Do you like the seagulls?  Would you send a card like this to a friend or family member?  Can you think of any cute sayings that would go with these images besides the ones I used?  I'm working on that one for my next card with this set.  Have a great week and......

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Textured Notes Thank You Card and AHSC#620

Stampin' Up introduced a new suite to the Online Exclusives this month called Botanical Textured Suite Collection. This beautiful suite definitely checked off a lot of boxes for me.  I fell in love at first glance with the Textured Notes 12 x 12 designer paper, then the Textured Notes dies made my heart race, so instead of buying the whole suite, I chose to purchase portions of it.  I got the Textured Notes Bundle, the DSP and Corrugated embossing folder. 

My order arrived this week, and I managed to get a few minutes together to play with the new bundle.  Believe me I wasn't disappointed.  The images are really crisp and clear and the neutral color palette in the papers really struck a chord.  The eight rectangular dies are going to enhance some of my upcoming projects, and I can't wait to use more of them.  For my card I was happy to use the long thin one to showcase the sentiment. 

I based my card design on this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #620, which is open for participation until Sunday March 16th, 2025.  Have you given any thought to participating in a card or scrapbook challenge.  This is such a great sketch, why not play along and have some fun! 

Here's My Card: 

Supplies  Used:

Stamps and Dies:

• Textured Notes Stamp Set #165548
• Textured Notes Die for sentiment #165555

Card Stock and Designer Series Paper:

• Woven Textures 165560 Strip 1 1/4" x  4 1/2"
• Early Espresso for card base 8 1/2 x 5 1/4" scored at 4 1/4"
• Early Espresso Mat 1 1/2" x 4 3/4"
• Pecan Pie Mat 4" x 5 1/4"
• Basic Beige Mat 5 x 3 3/4" and a scrap strip for sentiment 

Ink:

• Early Espresso
• Pecan Pie

Accessories:

• Basic D Textured Embossing Folder for Basic Beige mat
• Dimensionals
• Gold Faceted Gems
• Scissors for fussy cutting leaves 

This card came together quite easily.  The natural design paper is absolutely stunning, and the designs are very realistic.  Although there wasn't a die for the leaves, they were easy to fussy cut.  

The Textured Notes stamp set has some awesome sentiments written in a wonderful script.  I love all of them, however need to do some critical trimming of the red rubber surrounding the writing as they are large and prone to picking up additional ink and causing halos.  After a few failed attempts while using a block, I switched over and stamped with my Mini Misti and the sentiment images were perfect.  At some point I'll have to trim back the rubber edges but for now I'll make them work.   

Hope you enjoyed my card.  I'd love to hear from you.  See you next time......

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Seagull Anniversary Card - AHSC #619

 Here is this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge:

Click here to visit the AHSC #619

Here's My Card: 

This sketch gave me a chance to use my Friendly Seagulls Stamp set that I got for free during Sale-A-Bration.  

What a fun stamp set.  This little beachy scene came together so quickly to create this fun anniversary card.  I love the sentiments and all the images! 

Stamps and Dies: 

• Friendly Seagulls #164961 SU
• Love Birds AIC S27 

Cardstock and DSP:

• Boho Blue 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" card base scored at 4 1/4
• Basic White Strip 2 3/8" x 5 1/2" and 5 1/4" x 4" for inside 
• Pecan Pie two strips 5 1/2" x 1/2" 

Ink:

• Momento Black 
• Pecan Pie for sentiments and shells
• Crumb Cake sand 
• Balmy Blue for sky
• Poppy Parade, Mango Melody, Gray Granite Light/Dark Stampin' Blends

Accessories: 

• Tom Bow Glue
• Dimensionals 

Thanks for visiting my blog and checking out my card design for this challenge.  I hope you were inspired and if so please leave me a note, I'd love to hear from you. 

March 13th Update:

Just a wee update on last week's card sketch for Atlantic Hearts sketch challenge.  I was thrilled when I found out this morning that the Design Team at Atlantic  Hearts Sketch Challenge site, chosen my card along with ones from Christy Stanford and Deborah Wheeler for the Top 3 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #619.  A pleasure to join these ladies and to participate.  Awesome!  

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