Not so Seriously- Best Friend Birthday

I wanted to make a lighthearted Birthday card for my best friend, Tab. On the front of the card it reads:  "I got something fabulous for your Birthday!!!"

Open the card and it says: "And I'm thoroughly enjoying it!"

I'm sure she'll appreciate the humor in that. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Blessings and inky hugs;

-  §hawnie 

Balloon Boquet

This Thank You card has many different aspects to it: embossed lines as the base panel,  half back pearls on the sentiment and base panels, a ribbon tied in a bow to adorn the balloon ties, and buttons to complete the balloons.  I think that's it. 

Until later; 

Blessings and Inky Hugs

~§hawnie 

A Christmas Filled with Love

Greetings!

I love the colors of this card.  Once again, not quite traditionally bright green & red.  Stamp set's from this card vary from Joann's to Close to My Heart.  Yes I said it, Close to My Heart.  I picked up a bunch of stamp set's that were priced right at a yard sale this past summer.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Shawnie

Musical Thank You Card

Greetings!  Thought I would put together a musical Birthday card.  I used washi tape on the corners and pierced the outside border of the sentiment.

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

Floral Get Well Soon–Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Greetings!  My daughter gave me a book mark from our local library.  I thought beautiful bird and flowers would look wonderful on a get well soon card!
I incorporated this card with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.



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

Hand Penned Thanksgiving

Good afternoon!

I hope everyone is enjoying their turkey day!  Unfortunately I am not feeling well, so I will be staying home alone while Bill & the kids go to Aunt Diana's for Thanksgiving feast.  I'm hoping  they will remember to bring a "doggy bag" for me.  ")

Anyway, this card actually started out to be something else and this is what it has evolved into.  It's larger than the traditional 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 so it won't be able to be placed into an envelope.  Wouldn't want to put it in an envelope, anyway because the sentiment is raised in some area's.  I did it like this to create more 3rd dimensional. 

Items used to create this card:

• French Foliage
• Hand-Penned Holidays
• Button
• Cutter Kit
• Distressing Essentials
• Hemp Twine
• Perfect Pearls
• Dotted Scallop Punch
• Velum
• Daubers

 I love the way the Perfect Pearls medium from Ranger dances in the light.  The color is vibrant to look at first hand. 

 Blessings & inky hugs!

~Shawnie Bartron

Happy Friday!

Goodness!  What a week.  I've got some really cool cards to show you that I've been working on.

The first one I want to talk about took a bit of time to make, but I really think it was worth it.  It's a double embossed project, I think that's what the call the technique.  I took a sheet of purple cardstock, inked the whole thing with versa-mark ink and then covered it with Gold Embossing powder, then took the heat gun to it and set it.

Once it cooled off, I ran it through my Big Shot using the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder.  I then took my sanding block and commensed to sanding off the raised images, which revealed the purple cardstock beneath the embossing powder. 

I really hope you can see the results in the photos I took!

Please enjoy the rest of your day!

~Blessings and Inky Hugs!
Shawnie B

Happy Birthday in Stitches

I just finished this card and figured I would take the picture and get it loaded on the website before I started another card (I have a habit of putting it off and then I'm left holding a stack full of cards that I have to load and document). 

The carnation used on this card is home made.  Click here for my tutorial for making these flowers.  They are simple to do and look quite real when they are finished.

The background is some patchwork quilting I did, at least I think that's what it is.  Anyway, I had a bunch of scraps of Stampin' Up!'s designer paper and because it's so beautiful AND I hate to waste even the tiniest bit of paper I figured this would be a perfect time to use it.  Once the whole sheet of cardstock was full with the pieces fitting together, I ran it through the Big Shot with the Bigz Top Note die.  Once I had the patchwork shape of the top note, I ran it through the Big Shot again in the Square Lattice Embossing Folder this time.  There, that definitely gave it a unique look & texture.

I had some misc clear stamps I used for the Postal H in the upper right hand corner and the Cross Stitched Happy Birthday sentiment in the lower right hand corner.  Once I stamped the sentiment I took about four different colors:  Concord Crush, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, & Wild Wasabi and their matching sponge daubers and did some pouncing, which gave it a cool effect. 

Another step, not sure why I did it, but I guess it doesn't look too bad is a button with silver DMC floss strung through holding an apple shaped charm. 

So, with the name of this post, were you expecting a funny card?  Not quite, but it is fitting considering the sentiment is to look like it was cross stitched & embroidered, hence the "stitch" in the title.  I don't usually use stamp set's from other manufacturers but with the quilt theme, I wanted the sentiment to blend smoothly with everything else - yeah?

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God Bless you and thanks for stopping by!!

Inky Hugs

~Shawnie Bartron

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My Heart Belongs to You

I haven't used that little sentiment for a long time and I haven't used bright colors on a card. I like red, I just don't use it that often, so I figured the sentiment matched red, you know, hearts, love, flowers (awash with flowers stamp set), etc...

This card was created with the following- Stampin' Up! Supplies unless otherwise noted
Stamp Set: Awash with Flowers & misc sentiment (manufacturer unknown)
Paper: Real Red, Orchid Opulence
Ink: Real Red, Orchid Opulence, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black
Goodies: Eyelets and Buttons
Tools: Stamp-a-ma-jig (for perfect placement of the flower stamps) & EK Success punch

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings;

~§

This card was Cased by Jean from Jean Stamps. I really liked the color combination that was used: Close to Cocoa, Barely Banana, & Sage Shadow. I used Stampin' Write markers to color the flower stamp and included the sentiment that came with the Watercolor Trio stamp set. Embossed the Barely Banana matt with the Elegant Flowers embossing folder and finished it off with a ribbon and a few large eyelets.

It's the Thought card was created with the It's the Thought stamp set that can be selected as a Free Hostess set. I added some butterfly buttons from the Itty Bitty Bit's stamp set, buttons, & shaped punch.

Thanks for stopping by!

~§hawnie®

Smooched Fathers Day Card

The title should actually be OVER smooched Fathers Day card. A little bit definitely goes a long way! I have been using the vanilla smooch spritz, but it's really light & iredescent compared to the Log Cabin Smooch Spritz. Other than the over smooch, I don't think it would be a bad masculine Fathers Day card.

Stamp Set: Wildlife Refuge & Well Scripted

CASE -able

Here is a card that was inspired by another card I saw online. I'm not sure where I found it now. The card has no sentiments on it, so i'll be able to use it spur of the moment if there is an out of the ordinary need to give someone a card. *shrug*.

A Stamp-a-ma-jig was used for perfectly stampin the flower and Linen Thread was used to tie the button to the half circle cardstock.

Thanks for looking! Happy Stampin'!

Live with Passion

This is one of the more simple cards I have done. I'm glad to see it turned out decent. :)