The Monday Family Affair

Everyday is a family affair, and today especially, because I have 2 cards for my parents. This card for Mojo Monday and Cute Card Thursday is actually for my dear sweet mother. I miss her most of all, she is more of a friend than a mother, even though she can be a tyrant when she wants, but a surprisingly wise tyrant. So people I miss my friend most of all.

It's Sunday, sunny sunday, relaxed and bright. I feel like going out and buying loads of flowers for my garden, which is mostly weeds right now. I have a long way to go before I reach the flowers stage, so good luck to me. Still a long way to go.

Card Thursday

Don't you love Basic Grey. No, don't answer that, there are few crazies like me. Their 'ambrosia' collection is dusky, dark and mysterious enough for this card i wanted to make for my father.


The colors are masculine enough, and i used beige and chocolate card stock to set off the citrus effect. I also used a paislee painted dark chocolate, American crafts ribbons and another wide organza chocolate colored ribbon. For my piercing, a little heart in beige.
This card meets two challenges, Cute Card Thursday #53 (family affair) and Twisted Thursday #4 (sketch & piercing), .............. wicked! :)

I'm missing my parents more and more, nowadays, even though me and my father, hardly used to talk, i still miss being around him. So coming up is another card, this one for my mother.

2 Sketches 4 U, Laura's Sketch 22

'2 sketches 4 you' keep coming up with wonderful sketches to play with. Here's my take.I used a light turquoise patterned paper, treated it's edges with ink to give it an antiqued look, then made a frame from the reverse side of the same paper, that's the darkest of grey.

I used the beautiful paislee design paper by Heidi Grace. I cut out some paislee out of card box and painted them with acrylic paint.

I doodled on a piece of card stock with the message and decorated it ribbons.

Sketch Saturday

Ingredients:

Patterned paper - 2 Scoop Basic Grey papers,

Light Grey Card stock,

Navy Blue Card stock,

Navy Blue buttons,

Green paperclips,

Swirls cut out of card box,

White and Navy checkered Ribbon,

Blue Lagoon Versa mark stamp pad,

Dark Green & Turquoise pointer pens.

The Sketch Saturday challenge, has a lot of layers and that's the tricky part to make all the layers look good and work them all together. The blue and green combination worked well together, with the cute little, fat owl in the front. 

The owl is painted with acrylic paints.

Ingredients:

Pink Card stock

Patterned paper, black scribbled, pink Ivy

Pink Buttons

Black thread

Tree cut out of cardboard

Pink Felt in Background (for texture)

This Pink Elephant challenge really challenged me, because I am low on my favorite paper nowadays, so went through my stack and managed to come up with a real cute combination. Baby Pink and darkest of brown. 

I cut out the tree trunk from card box and painted with acrylic paints and decorated with fruit cut-out of felt and paper.

Further decorated it thread and buttons. I love this card, perfect for anyone you care about. 

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge # 1

This exciting little challenge  prompted me to make a ribbon dispenser box decorated with my favorite colors.  

I created my own template, with my own dimensions and all, (i'm sooo excited about it :) ) and i decided not to make it a simple box, but to give it a slant at the bottom.

I used thicker card stock to make the box, then decorated it with patterned paper, ribbon, a button and swirls cut out of card box, and then painted it with acrylic paint.                                                                                                                                                                         

I decided on the dimensions i wanted for my box, thats 4" x 6" and 4" deep. And then I drew on the cardstock.

I created tabs all around to bring the box together with my clear adhesive. Then I covered the box with patterned paper in desirable colors, by cutting out strips of paper in different widths and sticking on the card stock in an abstract manner.   

I marked tabs on the longer sides of the box, folded them in and pressed them down with some clear scotch tape. Now I have slots on the longer sides to pass my ribbon outside of the box.

I gave the same treatment to the lid of the box created with the card stock. I then cut embellishments out of cardboard (discarded cereal boxes), and painted them with chocolate brown acrylic paint. I used clear adhesive to stick them to the box and tied the ribbon with the pink button.   

I can pull out any ribbon of my choice with ease and cut off the length I need without bringing out the ribbon. The ribbon are all on display for me to select for a project. And the box has plenty of space to store loads of big ribbon spools.

Cup Cake Challenge

Recipe

American Craft Cardstock

Paper Passion, Scarp bag

Blue Polks dots Paper

Marbig Paperclip - Blue

American Craft Button - Blue

Celebrate, Ribbon by the Spool - Blue Organza

Basic Grey Alphas - Milk Chocolate Chip

Mymemories, Chipboard Cut outs

Very simple, i guess both cards today on the simple side, but i was thinking of something big 'dream big' , 'fly high'.

I made a little tag with cardboard and covered it brown lovely scrap piece, attached it button and tied the card over with a ribbon. The Basic Grey stuff is a dream, think of the title of the alphas, 'milk chocolate chip' (looks like chocolate too). Ladies, DREAM BIG!