Thank You card set

A friend asked me to make her a set of Thank You cards. She wanted them fairly plain, no embellishments, with the Asian symbols for thank you and in black and white.  This is what I came up with. I added the third color, because it was just a little too plain! Although my friend said that I could just stamp it onto white paper and then glue that to a black piece of paper. The writing was embossed with black embossing powder and then I just layered black, red and white papers that I got from Hobby Lobby. All in all, a very simple set of cards to make, especially since I was doing a set of ten of them. My friend liked them very much! Thanks for visiting tonight!

Another Thank You

I am trying to finish up my thank you cards for Christmas. This year I am doing something a little different. Instead of making one style card or something still Christmasy looking, I am trying to make each card more of a reflection of the gift that was given. Like my parents gave us the coffee maker so they got this card. Kip's aunt gave us a really nice electric wok, complete with steamer basket and everything. Since I use a wok for mainly Asian cooking, I decided to go with an Asian inspired card for her. This is a stamp from Simon Says Stamp and it was colored with Copic markers. This is one of my favorite Asian stamp sets too, the images are cute and it has a boy in it instead of just girl images. The paper is from the DCWV set Far East.  The gold brads are from Jo-Ann's I believe. I found these a couple of weeks ago as I was going through my storage drawers and they were buried in the very bottom because I rarely use gold on anything, I almost always prefer silver. But since I found these they have been on at least three different cards.

It is COLD here, I think when I left the house it was 13 degrees. There was a little bit of snow flurries when I left for work but they didn't last. I love snow, or at least once a year I do! We have only had flurries a couple of times this year, but I think they are predicting a little closer to the weekend. Stay warm!!

Thanks a Latte

I have everyone had a great Christmas! Ours was very busy, but we had a great time. We spent a lot of time visiting with different family members, hanging out and we even managed to see a movie. My wonderful hubby gave me an air compressor so that I can airbrush with my Copics. It's funny, when I first started using Copics, I thought I would never want to airbrush with them. As soon as my ABS kit comes in, I will be playing with it!

ETA: I love seeing everyone's face when they asked me what Kip got me for Christmas and my answer was "An air compressor". The looks ranged from pity to horror! My man knows me though and he knew that it would make me happy, and that anything that can be used in the crafting studio tops jewelry any day. The first gift he ever gave me was an avocado slicer. What a man!!

I have been working on some thank you cards for the Christmas presents that I received this year. This card is going to go to my parents as a thank you for the Keurig coffee machine that they gave us. I used a set called Thanks a Latte from Clear Dollar Stamps. I used some brown and white Liquid Appliques for the inside of the coffee mug. Papers are from DCWV. 

Make sure you come back and visit tomorrow, I have an exciting announcement to share!

Zoo Thank You

I had a guest designer help me with the card design and layout. Since Samantha is going to the zoo for her birthday party, we stuck with the zoo theme for her thank you cards. She was standing over my shoulder approving every step of this card. We started with the Changito stamp from Stampendous and colored that with Copic markers, using a Sakura glitter pen to cover the "U". The bananas were stamped by my able assistant to make the white and yellow panels. We used the banana from the Lip Gloss set from Clear Dollar Stamps. She had to have some brads, so we used these orange brads from the Paper Studio. Samantha approves of the card because it uses her two favorite colors: yellow and orange. I have colored some of them and she is coloring them too. I do let her use my Copic and Prisma markers when I am there to supervise and I guess I have given her the "be careful" speech too much. As soon as she reached for the marker, she repeated it word for word to me! She and her sister have been using most all of my supplies for some time now and they know that the privilege will go away if they are not respectful. They also have their own supplies, some they have bought with their money so they know the value of what they are using.  Samantha especially likes to paint and she knows that real watercolors from the art section of the store cost more than the ones in the children's section, but that the colors are more vibrant and if we take care of what we have then we can have a wider variety. Works for me! 

You are so thoughtful

Wow, I have been gone for a few days! We have had some internet/computer issues so I haven't been online in a few days. Plus Kip and I had a rare Saturday off and we spent the entire day together. Those days are pretty few and far between. We went to a scrap store and he was patient while I looked around and talked (for a long time!), although he did have to take trip to the coffee shop next door. The we ate lunch at a wing restaurant and walked next door to the movie theater to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We have both been wanting to see it, but this was our first opportunity to see it since it was released. All in all, it was a great day.

I finally got all of Jenna's invitations and thank you note cards finished so I have had time to play around in the craft room for a bit this afternoon. This card uses stamps from two different sets from The Angel Company. I didn't take a picture of the inside but it says thank you. The image was stamped with Memento ink and colored with Prisma and Copic markers and the sentiments were stamped with CTMH Chocolate ink. I have no idea who makes the paper, it was from my box of precut scraps.

I did break from my self challenge at the LSS. Not too bad though! When I was at Archivers last month, I bought one of those small $1.99 Basic Gray stamp sets that has a little girl on it but they were out of the little boy. I got that stamp set and a paper drill that was on clearance. It will supposedly drill through 250 sheets of paper. I thought it would come in handy making Christmas gifts. It had been $34.00, but was sale for $15.00. I really went in there to get a larger block for my Just Rite stamps and because I saw in their newsletter that they were now carrying Copics. I only have the smallest one circle and would like to get the larger circle and one of the ovals. With the smallest one, if I use a border, I can't spell my last name and Samantha is a little jealous that I can do Jenna's name and not hers. The store is just starting with the Copics though and only had about six or eight colors and they were all primary colors, nothing to blend with or anything. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Thank You

Last night, the girls, their mom and I were standing around talking about my upcoming trip to Papertrix in Indiana. Well, Judy is not a paper crafter at all, so I was trying convince her that this store was worth the five hour drive and telling her about the great selection of stamps that they have and how the stamps are not the stuff that you can find in the big box stores. She mentioned she needed some Thank You notes and wondered if I might be able to find Thank You in Asian characters when I go. I told her that I could find one in my craft room because I knew I had this stamp from Stampendous! Oh the joys of having just the right stamp when you need it. These are business related thanks you cards, so I kept them fairly simple. I stamped with Versa-mark and embossed the image with black embossing powder. I decided to do a little something different with the brads so I made these two trios. Thanks again to my mom, I have a couple of little pots of gold powder that I have no idea what the original purpose was, but I have found that I run the edge of my paper over the Versa-mark pad that it adds a nice touch on the edge of layers. All in all, a pretty simple card, and it fit the Ways to Use It challenge-- to use black. I ended up making a couple of different versions, but they are all pretty much the same, just a couple of slight changes from card to card. Thanks for stopping by today!

Thanks a Latte

I hope everyone had a great weekend. We certainly did. I was off from both jobs on Friday and Kip was off on Saturday and only had to work a couple of hours on Sunday. It was so nice. Our schedules haven't been lining up too well over the past couple of months so this weekend was a very welcome surprise. On Saturday we slept in, very late (until the phone rang!!) and then met my in-laws for an early lunch. I wish everyone that I know had in-laws as great as mine are. My mother-in-law was on a trip recently and brought me back a pretty bracelet that she gave me at lunch. After lunch, we went to Hobby Lobby and looked around for a bit and then rejoined the in-laws and our niece and nephew for a movie. Against my will, we went and saw Race to Witch Mountain, which was a remake of a movie that I remember seeing and enjoying as a child. I was really shocked that I enjoyed this movie as much as I did, it was pretty good. The only reason I didn't want to see it was that it was a remake. But since I think it was the only PG movie, I agreed to give it a try. The theatre is in front of Jo-Anns, and I got Kip to agree that I could go shopping if the movie was bad! We got to spend a lot of much needed time together so I ignored the computer most of the weekend. I did manage to get in some crafting time, but the computer stayed off for the most part. 

My card tonight used the MFT set Hot Stuff. I picked this background paper from DCWV and decided to use the colors of the dots for my accent colors rather than trying to match the pink. I think I like the way it turned out. The image was stamped with the black Memento ink and then the sentiment and the coffee beans were stamped with the Memento brown ink. I colored the woman with Copics and Prisma markers. My ribbon is from Hobby Lobby.

Mom update: She is home for the hospital and there is someone coming to the house to help with her physical therapy. She is still in a lot of pain but when I talked with her today she said the thought she was going to live. I asked if Dad was taking good care of her and she said he was waiting on her and then she said that she thought it make take a very long time to recover! Thanks for your well wishes.

Thank You Card

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Fortunately for me I am having a pretty low-key, doing very little kind of weekend. My favorite kind! My card today is a thank you card that I made using the CTMH Solo T stamp set and Making Memories paper. I used the Threading Water punch along edge of the paper. I am still playing with both the new camera and the different photo editing software and still having trouble getting all of my pictures to turn out exactly right. That large T was stamped with Chocolate ink and then I went over it with a Sakura clear glitter pen. In person it is a nice shimmery brown, but it looks a little wonky here. Have a great rest of the weekend.

Thanks Card

Good evening! I appreciate you stopping by to see what I have been up to. I have been seeing lots of Christmas cards on other blogs that use combinations of blue and white. I wasn't in the mood tonight to make Christmas cards so I decided to make a thank you card instead. In the spirit of Thanksgiving I try and send out thank you notes to people that I appreciate, especially for things that are easy to overlook. I also try to do this at my birthday. Anyway, I am trying to build my stock of thank you cards. I am getting much better at making cards before I need them, so I have not had to go out and buy a card in months. This image is from SU, from the Gently Falling set. I stamped the image with CTMH Lilac Mist ink, cut it out and then mounted it with pop dots onto white card stock. Paper is from DCWV and ribbon is American Crafts. We are off tomorrow to the Stamp Scrap Art Tour!

Samantha's Thank You Cards

I needed to make some quick thank you cards for Samantha to send from her recent birthday party. She really loves bright orange and yellows. Most little girls love pinks and purples, but not her! Since I had the bright orange paper out making the Cafe Hanna, we decided to use that. She was very happy to have her own cards with that big orange S on it! The paper and ribbon are from the same project as yesterday. The S is from CTMH Solo S set and was stamped using CTMH Orange ink. I want to say thanks to everyone that has been leaving me comments, I love reading them!

Thanks for Being You

I see challenges all the time on SCS and on other people's blogs. Sometimes I play along at home, on my own craft desk, but I have never posted anything. I have been looking at the challenges on Stamp Something for the past couple of weeks. The challenge this week is "Thank You Somethings" and it could be anything related to thanks. I decided to make this one using my new See D's thank you stamp set for the sentiment. It was stamped using CTMH Heavenly Blue. The flowers are from the CTMH Solo R and was colored using Prisma markers. The cardstocks are all from DCWV, ribbon is from American crafts. The color of the flower and the robin's egg match dots in the ribbon. To finish off this card I attached some decorative accents that I got at Michael's. We are headed to Indiana tomorrow. I think I have some cards that are scheduled to automatically post but I haven't ever done that before so I am not sure I did it right! I'll be back on Sunday. Thanks for stopping by today!

Another Thank You

I needed another quick thank you card and came up with this one. The stamp is from the CTMH set, Celebrating Life. I stamped it three times and colored in the flowers with my Prisma markers. For the center of the flowers I used Doodlebug glitter. The blue of the glitter matches the blue of the paper almost perfectly. IRL the paper is a little more blue, here is looks more green. This paper, I believe is from My Mind's Eye and the cardstock behind the flowers is DCWV. Lately I have really enjoyed working with polka dots and bright pink paper. I have always kind of preferred softer, more muted colors but I have made several cards over the past couple of weeks using brighter colors. Thanks for stopping by tonight!

Thank You

I made this card in response to a RAK on Splitcoast Stampers asking for cards to be sent to a soldier on deployment. I thought a "thank you" card would be an appropriate choice. The paper is from the DCWV Summer Stack. The Checklist stamp is from CTMH. The set is a blank checklist and has several more words to choose from. I chose these words because to me they represent what a soldier is, and all those words to me sum up the last word: hero. The words Thank You are from the Clear Dollar Stamps Basic Script set. The words actually are on the same line but I wanted something to so in a smaller area so I stamped the words separately. I cut out the checklist and used SU Dimensionals to make it stand out more. The star brands are of unknown origin. I have had them for a very long time and never used them until last week, now I have used them twice!

A couple of friends have asked me about some abbreviations. Look to the bottom left and I am starting a list of commonly used abbreviations. Thanks for stopping by tonight.