Enjoy The Ride Card

I have been farting around and thinking about what card I wanted to make for my stepdad for being such an amazing help for my wedding.

He recently had neck surgery and STILL was the first one out and last one in when we were all working on the property to get grass cut and everything 'prettied up' before my wedding.

I can say, he is amazing and did so much work, kept everyone motivated (a little beer goes a LONG way in this family!) and basically was the brawn of the bunch when it came to making sure the place looked perfect for my big day.


I didn't get to spend much time with him or my mom on my wedding day, because I was so busy talking to family and friends, and being in my own wedding.

I've known that I needed to and wanted to make him a cool card, and I get my gypsy and create a critter this afternoon, but I wanted to make sure I could give it to him before we all leave for Maui.

Basically, all of the siblings are going and my mom and step dad since it is my step brothers wedding. I'm not sure what I can put in the card to give him a little gift, since he is another one of those men with everything. If he doesn't have it yet, it is because he doesn't want it... and if he wants it he just buys it!

I was looking to make a more masculine card, and not as whimsical as I normally would. I also knew I wanted to make an Easle Card. You can see a tutorial for an Easle Card over here on Canadian Nickle Scrap'n.

Anywhoo- I love how this turned out, and I'm thinking that we will just have to take him and my mom out on our own while we're in Maui for a special dinner or something to say a big thank you for helping with the wedding. They were so much more amazing and helpful that I could have dreamed of! LOVE YOU MOMMA & NICK!

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #8

Challenge #8 is 'Love My Color!' I thought there would be A LOT of pink entries, well being that its a PINK stamper challenge an all. I like pink, but I LOVE teal!
For this whole card, I used only one sheet of Core'dinations Core Essentials Collection. The color is Deep Lagoon. The card base is 6X12 to create a 6X6 card, I then sanded the front. Using the other half of the page, I cut a bunch of various sized flowers with the Cricut. I believe it was with the Graphically Speaking Cart, because it was already in there! The Thank You is embossed with my sidekick, and a random sizzix embossing folder that I had laying around. Then sanded, of course! I used stickles on the flower, about every other layer and made it dry quick with my embossing gun. You can see I also did some stitching on the card edge with a blue about the same color, and a one a little lighter. I don't do much stitching, I tend to poke myself too often for it to be worth it, the only injury today was very minor, and lucky didn't leave any real marks.

My Pink Stamper Challenge #7

Hey Dad! Is the theme to this one! With Father's Day coming up, I needed to get on it and make a macho card instead of the girly one's I would normally do!

Reality is GOOD

My little brother gave me some vinyl scraps from the paintball store our dad owns, Doodlebug Sportz that he normally uses for stickers and whatnot. Lucky for me, their machine can't use scraps under 12" wide! I have to trim them if they are bigger than that, so it works out well, and I end up with free heavy duty vinyl.

The frame is a basic, $1 frame from Michael's and I covered it with white vinyl, and then used my heat embossing gun to kind of 'shrink' the edges around. I used white vinyl that I colored with a sharpie in hot pink to make the circles, and cut the outlines of circles with black vinyl.

I cut the 'Reality is good' phrase with my Graphically Speaking Cartridge.

I thought about putting a family photo in the frame, and then opted for Zoe, making a goofy face instead.

Reality IS good in my house!