Thanks So Much

Greetings!  This card was inspired by the button on this card.  I picked the button out of my stash and picked the colored cardstock and stamps accordingly. 

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

CASE–English Birthday

Greetings!  I was looking through my old card database for something to CASE.  I found an old Spanish Birthday card that I created back in 2011, so figured I would CASE it and create an English version. Please refer to the labels listed below for supplies used to create these cards.
 






Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Dreams–613 Avenue Create Sketch Challenge

Greetings!  Here’s a vintage-y type card.  (What is it with me & soft colors here lately?!  lol.  I found a new sketch challenge blog.  It’s 613 Avenue Create.  
The stamp set used is SU! Happy Harmony.






Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Peacock Thanks–Sunny Challenges and Creations Challenge

Greetings!
This challenge is based off of Sunny Challenges and Creations’ sketch challenge. 


Here is the sketch:

Have a blessed day!

For You–Dynamic Duos Challenge

Good evening!  Today’s card is a real cutie.  I made it with all punched objects.

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Grateful Fab Friday Butterfly

Greetings!  I know Friday has been almost a week ago, but I haven’t been feeling all that well and am trying to play catch up now with my favorite challenges.  This particular challenge is with Fab Friday. 
Here is the sketch:

And here is my version of the sketch:


This card was created using the following materials / supplies:

• Small Script stamp set
• Bigz Beautiful Butterflies Die
• Perfect Dots embossing folder
• Ribbon
• Charm from my stash

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Welcome Baby - Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Challnge

Greetings!
Here is a sketch challenge I completed from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday. 

Slowly but surely I’m increasing my stock of Baby cards.  I’ve been doing my best to keep the colors at light yellow & greens.  To change things up on this card, I used Pretty in Pink as matt’s.
This card was created using the following supplies:

• Everyday Celebrations
• Itty Bitty Bits
• Short and Sweet
• Perfect Dots embossing folder
• Faux Button brads
• Itty Bitty Shapes punch
• Modern Label punch
• Word Window punch

New Baby–Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Challenge

Good morning!  It is such a beautiful day!  I’m definitely feeling motivated.  After looking through my cards, I’ve determined that I don’t have as many baby cards as I should have.  This card is from the sketch challenge on the Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Challenge site.
This card was created using the following supplies:

• Bundled in Love stamp set
• Short and Sweet stamp set
• Baby stamp set from TPC Studio
• Perfect Dots embossing folder
• Faux Button brads
• Dimensionals

Below is the sketch


Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Welcome Baby - Going Green SUO (Stampin’ Up Only) Challenge

Good morning!  I am entering this card on SUO’s Going Green Challenge.  I am using Certainly Celery and Barely Banana for this project.
The following supplies were used to create this card:

• Zoofari stamp set
• Bundled in Love stamp set
• Perfect Dots embossing folder
• Square Designer Frame embossing folder
• Scallop border punch
• Brads
• Ribbon
• Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings & Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Easter Rabbit–Mojo Monday Challenge

Good evening!  Wow has today been busy non stop.  It first started, my husband and my daughter both had Dr. appointments, at least they were the same time.  While at the pharmacy I got a call from my oldest daughter in a panic.  She had stepped away from my one year old grand daughter, who was in her crib to go to the restroom.  Well, my daughter came out & saw Kaydance kind of sitting up/ leaning against the side of the crib almost laying down with her back turned to my daughter.  Well, she was just allert a few minutes prior to my daughter leaving the room, she turned Kaydance over and she wasn’t moving, her lips were blue – purple and she wasn’t breathing. 

Well, my daughter picked her up and all of a sudden Kaydance gasped for breath & started screaming!!!!!!!!!  My daughter called me in a panic… my heart just about jumped out of my chest!  My husband and youngest daughter dropped what we were doing in town and rushed home to take Kaydance to the E.R. for an evaluation just to make sure she was okay.  I haven’t been that frightened in a long time!

So, that’s how my day went.  We are now home and my grand daughter is here with us.  We are taking shifts tonight and not allowing her out of our sight while she’s sleeping.  The E.R. said they think it was a small seizure.  They didn’t know why it happened, but wants her to follow up with her pediatrician to follow up with a neurologist. 

So, here is a challenge card my 4 year old grand son & I worked on this evening for the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.  The stamp set used is Well Scripted for the sentiment and Perfect Dots embossing folder.  My grandson placed the rabbit, Easter egg, & chick-a-dee.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Ribbon of Hope

If you are wandering why I'm using this set so often here lately, it's because my adopted Brother ordered 2 bundles of cards to use for a fund raising even to fight Cancer.  (of course I gave him a discount to help further his cause).  Anyway, this particular stamp set, Strength & Hope was a special stamp set that Stampin' Up! made available for a very short time.  The proceeds from purchasing the stamp set were donated for Breast Cancer research.If you'll notice words in the background are:  Courage, Hope, Believe, Unity, Survivor, Caring, Together, Love, Kindness, Support, Strength, Blessed, and Thank You.

Be on the look-out for cards of different varieties.  ")

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

CASE'd Blessing

I like the soft antiquey feel of it (thanks to Chelsey tweaking the settings in my cellphone for a soft relaxing image).

This card was inspired by Wanda from Cards By Wanda (below)

If you have a moment, please feel free to stop by her blog and check out what she's been up to lately!  Tell her that Shawnie sent you.  ;)

My card was created using the following supplies:

• Stamp/s:
• Blessings from Heaven (sentiment)
• Delicate Doilies
• Hello, Doily
• Punch/s:
• Scallop Corner Punch
• Big Shot:
• Perfect Dots Embossing Folder
• Sizzix Corner Flower #2 Die
• Misc:
• Paper Flowers
• Ribbon
• Brads
• Dimensionals
• Stampin' Write Markers

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Winds of Grace

Here is another card that my husbands cousin ordered.

She had some really good suggestions on what she was wanting.  I liked the fact that she was honest with me in letting me know what she did & didn't like.  It increased my confidence just that much more that reassured me if she said she was happy with what I made for her, she really was happy. 

 

This card was created using the following materials:

• Stamp Set/s:
• Winds of Grace
• Big Shot:
• Perfect Dots embossing folder
• Misc:
• Dimensionals
• Brayer
• Black Embossing Powder
• Brads
• Colors Used:
• Pacific Point
• Soft Suede

 Thank you so much for stoping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B

Thinking of You

I'm thinking I like this card layout.  I'm also seeing another trend.  I've been doing a lot of "Thinking of You" cards here lately. 






I embossed the Whisper White base with Perfect Dot embossing folder, cut 3 strips of Night & Day Specialty Designer Paper and with my sponge dauber I rubbed a light layer of ink on the cardstock & then wiped away to reveal the embossed images originally on the specialty paper. Punched a butterfly shape, added ribbon and a sentiment.










I'm thinking this sketch is from one of the Challenges I've seen lately, however, I can't find it again... sigh...

Stamps:  Wonderful Watercolors
Punches:  Butterfly and Square punches
Big Shot:  Perfect Dots Embossing Folder and Adorning Accents Edgelits
Misc:  Ribbon, sponge daubers, and dimensionals
Colors Used:  Whisper White cardstock and Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Pear Pizazz, Riding Hood Red and Basic Gray inks.

Thank you so much for stopping by, it's very appreciated!

Wishing Blessing or you & yours;

~Shawnie B.

Fusion Thanks - Replay

Good morning everyone!

I was having a hard time finding my Mojo this morning.  I wanted to create something but just couldn't lean towards any particular thing, so I looked through my archives to see if anything I made previously had jumped out at me.

I generally never create the same card twice unless it is by Customer request.  There are some that are popular and are asked for frequently.  I try to make all my cards differently in one way or another, that way the buyer / receiver of the card knows they are receiving a truly unique card.  Well, I CASE'd my own card just because!  I started out with some different ideas, and just started building, and by the time I was finished, this card looks pretty much like the one I made before a while back during a Sketch Challenge at Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge (entry #79)


Something I forgot to add on my previous post:  Here is information how I got the flowers to look more 3D than just laying flat and lifeless.  Place each flower on a thick piece of foam (I used the inserts that came with my Clear Block Storage Cady.  Using the stylus that came with my Simply Scored scoring tool I pressed the center of each flower into the foam.  This made each of the petals form and reach out.

The inside foam inserts from the Clear Block Storage Cady are also good to use for other things, like using them as your stamping surface.  This will help ensure an even sharper image when you stamp on your favorite cardstock.  So if/when you purchase your Clear Block Storage Cady, make sure to not throw away the foam inserts that your clear stamping blocks rest in because they can be good to use for so many other things.  I also use them for storing special brads, like my Antique brads.  This keeps them from rattling around in the storage container.  I also use them when inserting a brad through cardstock.  After piercing a hold with your paper piercer (or push pin) I lay the cardstock on the piece of foam and pierce the brad through.  Then you can take the whole thing and turn it over so you can press the prongs down without the brad falling out of the cardstock.  Cool idea, huh?!

Here are the ingredients for today's card: 

• Stamps
• Kindness Matters
• Punches
• Circle Punches
• Big Shot
• Bigz Lattice Die
• Floral Fusion Sizzlits Die
• Framelits Labels Die
• Perfect Dots Embossing Folder
• Misc
• Brads
• Pleated Ribbon
• Halfback Pearls 
• Sponge Daubers for distressing around edges. 
• Colors Used
• Blushing Bride
• Soft Suede
• Very Vanilla

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Shawnie B.

Coral Sympathy - Sketch Challenge

Goodness it feels so good to be back home and in my scrap room again!  My mom on the West Coast is in failed health and has been asking for me.  I think she was wanting to see me, my kids, and her great grand kids before her time here on earth is ended.  I couldn't deny her that so my two daughters and two grand babies took off to go see her.  While we were there, my 6 month old grand daughter quit breathing!  We rushed her into the E.R. and they kept her for observation for 3 days.  They determined that part of her right lung had collapsed.  Once she was stable enough to travel they released her.  It was a heck of a trip, I"ll tell you that much!

It feels soooo good to be home!

Good evening Stampers!  The weather has been so beautiful lately.  I hope it's nice where you are, too!  This is a basic card with layers and embellishments.

Here is the sketch for this weeks Sketch Challenge at Sunny Challenges and Creations

This card was created with the following Stampin' Up! Supplies:

• Stamp Set/s:
• Brighter Tomorrow
• Fresh Vintage
• Punches:
• Postage Stamp Punch
• Scallop Corner Punch
• Circle Punch
• Big Shot:
• Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder
• Stripes Embossing Folder
• Labels Collection Framelits Die
• Beautiful Wings Embosslits
• Misc:
• Halfback Pearls
• Dimensionals
• Ribbon
• Staple
• Wild Wasabi Embossing Powder
• Embossing Buddy
• Heat Gun
• Colors Used:
• Concord Crush
• Wisteria Wonder
• Peach Parfait
• Crumb Cake
• Very Vanilla

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Blushing Thanks - Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Hey there!  I'm a day late, but this was the soonest I could post my card for Mojo Monday's Sketch Challenge.

Here are the ingredients for today's card: 

• Stamps
• Kindness Matters
• Punches
• Circle Punches
• Big Shot
• Bigz Lattice Die
• Floral Fussion Sizzlits Die
• Framelits Labels Die
• Perfect Dots Embossing Folder
• Misc
• Brads
• Pleated Ribbon
• Halfback Pearls
• Colors
• Blushing Bride
• Soft Suede
• Very Vanilla

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Shawnie B.

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #235 - Hello, Friend

Good Afternoon Stampers and fellow bloggers!

 I thought I would work a bit outside the box on this challenge today. I have to admit, I finally made a card I'm pleased with.  Don't you just love it when that happens?!  I have been in such a cheerful good mood today, I think it's attributed to the bright sunshine outside.  It just feels like a good day!

This card was created with the following items:

• Stamps -
• Little Friends
• Tiny Tags
• Big Shot -
• Bigz Top Note Die
• Blossom Party Die (3 flower pieces)
• Perfect Dots Embossing Folder
• Punches -
• Word Window Punch
• Tiny Tags Punch
• Square Punch
• Misc -
• Paper Piercer
• Dauber
• Filigree Designer Brad
• Ribbon
• Stampin' Up! Designer paper
• Vintage Trinkets (Safety Pin)
• Colors Used -
• Pool Party
• Soft Suede
• Marina Mist
• Sahara Sand

Please enjoy the rest of your day!

Blessings & Inky Hugs!

~Shawnie B.