Lego Movie Inspired Birthday!

 Hello, my Nephew Jack just turned 11 and we got him some new lego from the Lego Movie so I decided to make him a card and treat box to go along with the theme!

 I couldn't find anything that really went with the movie, so I came up with this Bad Cop on my own! I used black and daffodil delight. I hand drew most of it, and my new white uni-ball pen worked beautifully (I'm still shocked...I had no luck with my last one, maybe it was a dud!) . The glass lenses were made with silver paper and the wing of the 2-step bird punch, I just rounded it out with scissors.

 and this is the other side, with the scribbled on face, this side was easy! lol

This is the card I made, I loved this card by Joanne James, so I pretty much cased it! Jack seemed to really like the card and the treats!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

Happy Retirement!

I made this for my friend Sue. She retired from her day job in December, and she is my Stampin Up dealer...so I thought this would make a great retirement card. While it's sad to see Stampin up products retire, actually retiring and having more time to stamp is awesome!

I cased this card by Jackie Topa  I had all the punches I need, and I used scraps of paper for the pieces in the box.

I love doing punch art, it's amazing what you can make!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

FMS111, Rudolph Caroling!

Hello, I made this for the Freshly Made Sketch FMS111 and for the Kards 4 Kids group. This is for challenge #7, you can see it here.

I don't have any caroling stamps, so I was a little stumped at first as to what I was going to make! I had one of these reindeer made already on my desk, I'm making ornaments for my kids (I'll show you them later) and I thought this just might fit!

The card base is riding hood red, with a layer of white embossed with a music embossing folder. The dp is from Recollections Christmas pkg.

The Reindeer was made with various punches.

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

Riley Sneak Peek, Funnybones & More!

 You won't believe what Riley and Company has in store for you this month! If you're a fan of the Funnybones sentiments there's lots more this month and to go along with it, 13 of these fabulous vintage people!

The card above features one of the images and one of the sentiments. I left the image plain except for adding some lipstick! and I sponged the edges with Tim Holtz Antique linen.

 I decided to try my hand at making a tube of lipstick. Sorry the pictures aren't that great, but I'm so happy with the end result.

I sponged the edges with matching ink, melon mambo & sage shadow used here.

Here it is put together, then I also added some mini pearls. I bought them on ebay, and they were being sold as nail decorations.

I also used the Sweet Sunday Sketch SSSC175 for this card.

The Design Team will be showing sneak peeks from Saturday January 19, til the Release and Blog Hop on Thursday January 24th, 10pm est. 

Recipe
Stamps: New Vintage People, Funnybones
Paper: melon mambo white, vanilla, sage shadow, My Minds Eye Blush
Ink: memento tuxedo black, Tim Holtz antique linen, sage shadow, melon mambo
Accessories: oval nesties, circle punches, word window punch, MS edge punch, die-namics fishtale flags layers, mini pearls, dimensionals, distressing tool

Have a Great Day,
Laurie

Happy Halloween!

 Hello, these are Halloween cards I made for Kards For Kids, a group I belong to that sends cards to kids at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Kids.

Here's link to the challenges, so you can see our inspiration! The little witch card is for challenge #1, and the pumpkin owl is for Challenge #2.

You can see my card for challenge #3 here.

 This cute witch is for challenge #4.

and finally this is for challenge #5.

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

FMS54, Halloween!

Hello, I made this using this weeks Freshly Made Sketch FMS54, and for the Kards for Kids Halloween drive!

The sketch made this pretty easy, and I finally got to play with some punches! The bat is made with the Owl punch, and for his wings I used the medium oval punch and a circle punch to curve the end. I sponged the edges with with craft ink. His mouth was drawn with a white Sharpie poster-paint pen. The branches were made from the 2-step bird punch.

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

TSMONDAY, Make It Masculine!

Hello, it's time for the Totally Stampalicious Challenge, and this week we're challenging you to make a masculine card or project!

I used the new Gus Fishing, perfect for a guy card. I hope that sentiment is true, Gus sure has his hands full! lol I saw this shark on SCS by Card Shark and thought this would be the perfect catch for Gus!

Gus was coloured with copics. I also stamped the image onto ballet blue and cut it out at the water.

I added a brad as the bobber, and made a hook from jewelry wire.

I used the Freshly made sketch FMS18 for this card.

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

Punch Art, Kards For Kids!

Hello, well I recently was came across this wonderful cause, run by Bela, and because it it very close to home I couldn't resist joining in! Bela is currently running a card drive to collect holiday/Christmas cards for the kids at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital. So if you have some extra cards this might be a great destination!

My Hubby was a patient at TO Sick Kids Hospital when he was young, so it is a pleasure for me to send some Christmas Cheer!

The card above was inspired by the great hobby horses made with the punch stocking tag, but I changed it slightly to be a reindeer!

This is pretty simple, The body and ear are crumb cake, the antlers were made with the sizzix snowflakes #2 die, in early espresso. The eyes and nose were made with circles from the owl & cupcake punches. I love the SU glimmer paper so I used that for the nose & cuff. The twine is also from SU.

The card base is real red, with white embossed with the snow dots EF and the bottom is frostwood lodge dp. Then I finished it off with some taffeta ribbon, one of my favorite things!
Now this cutie is a total case from Artchick, when I saw him, I knew I had to make some, he's so adorable! I did everything the same, except...

I added arms with one of the hearts from the heart punch,

his hands were made with the large circle from the owl punch and I cut a notch for the finger. These ideas were taken from Lynn Pratt's people here!

The heart was punched from glimmer paper with a little EK punch
He's so cute, he's sure to bring a smile! The card is real red, with a layer of wild wasabi and then white embossed with the nothern flurry EF. The elf was made with blush blossom, wild wasabi, and wild wasabi dp.

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

RCMP Trainee!

Hello, my Daughter's Friend is leaving tomorrow to train with the RCMP! The family had a party for her, and I made this card for Rachel to give to her.

I couldn't find a RCMP/Mountie digi, which I needed last minute, so I decided to make one from punches. She ended up being quite tall, so the card is 6.5" X 5". She is made almost entirely of punches, and some pieces had to be trimmed a little.

She really liked it!

Have a Great Day,
Laurie

MMTPT160, Blue Bird!

Hello, this is my card for this weeks Teapot Tuesday challenge MMTPT160! We were to bring birds, hearts & ribbon...I didn't realize til after it was done that it was blue ribbon...oh well, at least the bird is blue! lol

The Destination Station this week is to Barbara a friend of a fellow Teapotter's Mother who is facing another round of ovarian cancer.

I decided I wanted to use my 2-step bird punch and make a Blue Jay so I did a search in the Gallery at SCS and found this awesome post by AnnetteMac! So I did my best to case her blue jay!

The card base is blushing bride, with a layer of white embossed with the love language EF. The bird was punched out of white and coloured with copics. The beak & eye are black cs.

The branches are wild wasabi also made with the 2-step bird punch, and the flowers were made with the 3 flower punch. I first put liquid pearl in the center of the flowers, bu I can never get the peeks to go down, so I sprinkled on some dazzling diamonds glitter.

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

The Enterprise!

Hello, I've have been busy getting ready for lots of great upcoming stuff, so I thought I'd take a break and share this card I made for my BIL's Birthday!

He's a Star Trek fan, and when I saw this card by crazkim in the SCS gallery I knew I wanted to make it for him!

I hope he likes it! The card base is black with a layer of white and then a layer of dp from the DCWV rock queen stack.

The Enterprise was made with circle nesties, small oval and medium oval punches and some strips. I really just tried to get it as close as possible to crazykims!

What's coming up:
July 16th 7:00am Bugaboo Blog Hop, the Totally Stampalicious Team is also participating!

Totally Stampalicious Release Thursday July 28th, 9pm est. Also look for sneak peeks a couple days before!

Riley and Company Release Thursday July 28th, 10pm est. Sneak Peeks start Saturday July 23!

Mark your calendars, July is going to end with a Bang, wait til you see all the cool new stamps!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Hope you all have a great Day!

This is the card I made for my Mom, who is the Greatest! My Mom is always there for us, through thick & thin, and while I have tons of great memories, there is one that I am often reminded of and always warms my heart!

Back in 94/95 I had some surgery due to Crohns Disease that didn't go so well, many complications. I was in a hospital out of town, my Daughter was only 1 1/2 yrs old and I had been there for weeks-2 months total!

I usually only had visitors on the weekend, but I was looking forward to the following day because my Mom was coming to visit. She called to let me know she couldn't make it because her ride fell through, I think my X (who was not my X at the time) was supposed to bring her, I'm kinda fuzzy on the details.

So the next day I was kinda feeling down, when who poked her head around the corner, but my Mom! I was Sooo happy to see her, and to this day I can still see her smiling face peeking around the door opening! She had taken the out of town bus just to see me, it was a great day!

So cheers to all Mom's, I hope you have a lovely day with the people you love!

I made this card using this Tutorial by Valita!

Laurie

MMTPT143, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Hello, Tuesday is one of my favorite days, because it means it's Teapot Tuesday challenge time! For this weeks Challenge MMTPT143, we were to be inspired by the Teapot or the story & pretty much bring anything!

The bird was made using the 2-step bird punch in bashful blue. Then I sponged him in bashful blue and marina mist, with so saffron on his belly.

I used a circle nestie to make a hole in the center. Then I stamped the leaves with a stamp from 'Pretty Amazing' in old olive. Next it was embossed with a wood grain EF and I sponged it lightly wih Tim Holtz antique linen. The little flowers were made with one of the itty bitty punches in regal rose, edges sponged and pearls in the centers.

For the top I used creamy caramel embossed with the forest branches EF. Then I rounded the corners and sponged on more mustard, and creamy caramel. I used fiskars scissors to get the jagged edge.

The bottom is also creamy caramel. It's embossed with the seeing spots EF and then I sponged on creamy caramel, close to cocoa, chocolate chip & white craft.

The Destination Station this week will be to a fellow Teapotter, and it will be a surprise who, until they upload they're card after mine! Follow the link to read more about it!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie

MMTPT142, Tulip Time!

Hello again, this is my card for today's Teapot Tuesday Challenge MMTPT142. This week we were to bring Tulips!

The Destination Station this week is to Kay, the almost 92 year old Grandmother of Charlene aka crystaldolphins! Kay has had some health problems lately and has been in the hospital since February! Now that's enough to bring anyone's spirits down, so we are sending her some happy mail. She is looking forward to returning home soon, just in time to enjoy the nice weather, and get back to her computer!

I've has the new owl punch from SU for a while now, still in it's wrapper so I decided to brake it in instead of using a stamp. I followed Valita's wonderful tutorial, she always comes up with the coolest ideas even the leaves are genius!

The tulip is daffodil delight, edges sponged with ruby red. The stem & leaves are old olive, edges sponged. I used a glue pen and added dazzling diamonds glitter to the tulip.

The fancy mat in the background is a Marianne's Designs creatables die, which our local stamp store is now carrying.

The card base is ruby red, with a layer of crumb cake embossed with the SU square lattice EF. Then I used the ticket punch on the corner and added some yellow pearls!

I finished it off with a sentiment from Mark's Finest Papers set 'In the Forest', and a little bow!

Have a Great Day!
Laurie