Happy Birthday Fisherman

 

Today's card is for a coworker of my husband's birthday.  My husband works at a fishmonger/restaurant and the cowrker in question is a HUGE fisherman out on the lagoon.  I wanted to do a Mahi Mahi card (since they are very colorful and plentiful around these waters) but he catches mostly redfish n the lagoon so I went with that. I made a couple of medallions for the sentiment one of which I covered in embossing ink then silver embossing powder to get the look of takle.  I used metallic thread to look like the line and hook.  Lastly, I dry embossed the background with D'vine swirls folder from cuttlebug.

Lone Ornament

I saw a few cards like this but with a single, round, glitter ornament.  I changed it up a little but and used a layered ornament and glittered the top layer.  Again, I used my faux branch punch for the tree branch. The card is embossed with the cuttlebug D'vine swirls folder.

Season's Greetings warm cabin

 

For this card, I used the free template from here :JJ Bolton Handmade Cards, played around with it a little in my Silhouette so I could make it a 3 layer 3 dimensional card.  The background is just some blue cardstock embossed in D'Vine Swirls.

Baby Boy

 

I have seen a hundred versions of this card online, but I'm not sure who to credit.  I believe the original was from Stampin' Up, but I really don't know.  i didn't have any instructions, so I just eyeballed it and used what I had on hand

Ice Cream time!

  

My friend just had a tonsillectomy and this was the Get Well card I chose to make.  I found a line drawing of an ice cream cone on google and used it for a pattern.  I am horrible at tracing/cutting, but I gave it a shot.  I really, really like how the sugar cone turned out.  I just used my score pad and scored lines every 1/8".  I embossed the ice cream with the D'Vine swirls folder.  The chevron paper was from Colorbok Hopscotch double-sided premium paper and I just cut out a square and scored a small frame.

I have mentioned (at least on my old blog ) that my handwriting is horrible and I don't have many sentiment stamps, so I used my Hallmark greeting card program to print the sentiments on plain paper.  I taped the front sentiment to a scrap pice of cardstock and ran it through the cuttlebug with a small circle nestabilities die.

Father's Day

 

I got my inspiration for this card again from pinterest : Shirt Card 

Next time, I will use plain paper for the shirt instead of cardstock, but the pattern I wanted was on the thicker paper (Old World Matte cardstock),  I just used the D'Vine Swirls embossing folder and some scrap stock to make a little beachy scene and some Stickers for the sentiment,