I'm a kid, at heart.

Hi Everybody,

I am busy finishing off my card package to send to Lynnette for Stollery Hospital but I want to do a quick post to show you the card I am adding to the SAS4K challenge(anything goes).  You should check this out.  There are prizes to be won :-).

I always try to add masculine cards for the boys, even though they are somewhat hard for me to make.  These cards are a lot of fun, though.

The images are from Stampin Up.  The slider tag was cut with my CB and the ep is Black Opal from Judikins.

And now, the fun part.
 I remember the spin art kit my kids played with when they were young.  Well, when I was watching my granddaughter (before she started school), we would spend some time playing on the computer.  One of her favorite places was nickjr. and we found a spot where you could generate spin art.  We made sheets and sheets of spin art and printed a lot of them.  I have since made a few of these on my own and found that it is better to email them to myself and then print from the image I save from the email.  I can get two spin arts on a page and resize if I like.  If you check this site out, you have to move the bottle around quite a bit to get it to put down color.  It is a lot of fun, even if you are a tad older than a Nickjr.

Here is another site I found to generate spin art.  This one is cool too, but you are limited to the colors you can use.

So, that is it for today.  I hope you all have a great weekend.

Theresa in Kitimat

CST challenge

Hi Everybody,

Well, I fianally got busy and did some crafting.  I needed a Birthday card this month for a good online friend so I decided to enter it into the CST challenge (make a birthday card).

This card is a little larger than the regular size, maybe about 5 X 6 1/2, not sure anymore.  I used a SU canvas backgound stamp and close to cocoa ink.  Sponged the edges.  I used a nestability for the scallop circle and my fiskars circle cutter for the inner circle and a nestabilities die for the leaves.

The sentiment is a Fiskars clear stamp set designed by Cloud 9.

I made the flower from pink paper and the how tos are from a video that is in the link further down the page.

I use a Fiskars clear stamp designed by Heidi Grace to stamp the flowers.

The little stamens are made with a Punch Bunch punch.

Here is the inside of the card.

This is a 7 flower pop up and here is the link on how to make it.  The video in the link shows how to fold the paper to make the flowers.

This card is a little time consuming, but the end results are really worth the effort.

I hope you liked my card today and try to make one yourself.  If you do, and have any questions, please email me and I will try to answer them.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a great week.

Theresa in Kitimat

SAS4K cards

HI Everybody,

Here are a few of the cards I sent to Lynnette this month for SAS4K Canada.   The cards are pretty straight forward, so I won't give long descriptions on how I made them.  I really tried hard to include cards for boys.  This is a stretch for me because I am much more comfortable with flowers, butterflies, fairies, etc.  I did add bling, not so much for the boy cards.

The rest of the cards I sent were made using card fronts from swaps and some sent to me by Sue.  Once again, thank you Sue.

The sentiment on this first card was made using one of the first stamp sets I bought, many, many years ago.  It is a foam mounted set of words that can be put together for different occasions.  I can't remember who made it.

 I made the next card a long time ago when I was doing a lot of paper weaving.  The bear stamp is from a foam mounted set made by PSX

 This card was made with nesties.  It folds up at the top.  I stamped the sentiment and embossed with gold and then used a white jel pen to accent it.

 This card is made with an image I got in a swap and I am not sure who makes it.  The inside says "Happy Birthday"  It is colored with prisma colors and the wings are glittered and the ladybug has glossy accents on it.

 This card was made in 2003, when I joined Stampin Up.  I used one of the sets I got in my start up package.

 Here is one of the boy cards I made.  The zebra and background stamp are made by Stampendous.   The zebra is stamped on acetate which is mounted under the circle cut in the front of the card.

 This one is nearly the same as the last one, using a SU image.

 Here is a girly card using lots of bling.

Another prisma color card.  Finished with glitter and glossy accents the same as the other one.

 
 Another birthday card for a boy.  I think the image is from Penny Black.

 And finally, I used a card front I made over 10 years ago.  The image is PSX.  I actually embossed the outline on the colored fish from behind using a template I cut out from chip board.  I was cuttlebugging long before Cuttlebugs were invented :-).

I will be entering one of the Valentines in the SAS4K (US site) Valentines challenge.

That is about it for this post.  I have a couple more challenges I am entering today and so will post about them later.

Hope you are having a great weekend.

Theresa in Kitimat

Latest card

I want to share a picture of a card I just finished for a friend's hubby who is celebrating his 70th birthday.  This is a 3-D card that I made with a sheet I had saved, made by Worm Goddess.  I have been looking for her email addy to get permisson to post the pic and link to her site but can not find it.

So I will post anyway and if anyone knows her, can you please email me with her addy.  Thanks.
Here is a link to her photo bucket site, if any of you make 3-D cards.  They are a lot of fun to make and usually turn out to be something special.  I love making them.

Hope you are all having a great weekend.
Take care.
Theresa in Kitimat

OWH Sat. Googlie Challenge

This is a card I made for the OWH Saturday googlie eyes challenge.  Well, actually, I made it for my nephew who's birthday was on September 1 and it fit the challenge.  The sentiment is computer generated and the inside of the card says "I did, and I am sorry".  The owl is a clear stamp and I am sorry I don't know who made it. I used my cuttle bug for the details on the left hand side.

If you are like me, you always need these belated kind of cards.  For all the cards I have in my stash, it seems like there is never the perfect one for the person I want to give a card to.  So it is a mad scramble at the last minute to make a card.  Is it a stamper thing?

That's it for now.  I hope everyone's weekend is going well.
Thanks for stopping by.
Happy day.
Theresa in Kitimat

This is a card I made for my grandson and submitted to the LNS challenge. The earth is a retired Stampin Up image and the lady alien is from Old Island Stamp Company. Her planet is some background paper I made using spray web and glitter.

Well, I think I picked a bad time to start my blog. I have been crazy, busy with last minute details for my son's wedding next week. Right now I am working on over 100 place cards. Should be done today. I will post a pic when they are done.

I do want to post some pics of the cards I submitted to the Late Night Stampers yahoo group for Challenge 81-circles.

These are cards I made some time ago. No time right now to make new ones.

This card uses all Stampin up product, except for the ribbon.