Sunset Wish

I made this card for a the SC130 challenge on www.splitcoaststampers.com. I am slowly getting around to making all the challenges. Today is my sisters birthday and she loves sunsets. This is her birthday card. I decided to use the photo that I took while visiting San Diego. I really wanted to do the Brayer Sky technique but it wasnt working for me. I need more practice at it. I printed the picture onto photo paper and attached it to black c/s. I sponged lightly around the photo with black ink. I used tacky tape to secure the photo to More Mustard c/s. I stamped the sentiment from the Small Script and added 3 buttons to finish. I also sponged around the whole card with black ink. I sure do miss those wonderful sunsets. I used my Nikon D50 for this photo.
Have a great night!
Bonnie

It's Spongebob!

My son has another b-day party to attend this weekend and the 6yr old girl loves Spongebob. This is what I came up with. It has no stamping in it but is very time consuming.

I started out using barely banana card stock as the base card. I took another piece of the same paper, trimmed to fit the card, and used my CB Bubbles folder. I wanted the bubbles the opposite way, so I flipped the folder over to get the spongy look. I used tacky tape to secure it to the base of the card. Then the creating part comes. I got all my Creative Memories Oval cutting system out and my CM circle punches. I hand drew the nose and trimmed to fit the black also. The tongue is used by my Cuttlebug Heart die cuts and trimmed. The cheeks gave me a bit of a problem though. Finally, I just used 2 circle punches, sharpies, and ran it through the CB bubble folder as well. I'm not very good at using decorative scissors because I can never get the cut of shape just right, but I think I did pretty good on his shirt. I showed this to my son and his eyes got SO BIG and said WOW!

Have a nice weekend!
Bonnie

Happy Birthday Mom

It's has been very busy here lately that I forgot to make my mom a birthday card. She understands but receiving it late is ok. I've been trying to play catch up on the challenges located at www.splitcoaststampers.com for challenge SC148. I stamped random flowers from the Delight in Life set onto Positively Pink c/s. I used MME DP for the bottom half of the card. The stamp is made by Imaginations that I found at a garage sale a few years ago. I always wanted to use it, so today I thought it would work perfect for the challenge. It is colored with Primascolor Pencils and Mineral Spirits. I also used my CB die cut flowers with the Happy Birthday stamp from Little Hellos. I know my mom will like this, as she likes handmade cards.

Have a nice day!
Bonnie

Graduation Day

So, I had to make a really quick graduation card for my nephew back in San Diego. He graduates from a technical school on Friday. I am learning to do challenge cards so I thought this layout would be perfect. The name of the challenge is SC60 on www.splitcoaststampers.com. I made the hat with a square punch, foam black sticky squares that I found in my husbands tool box, a brad, and some embroidery floss. The DP is from CTMH. Hopefully he'll receive this by Friday. I wish I could be there. I'm sorry that the picture isn't bigger to view it better!

Thanks for looking!
Bonnie

Happy Easter

Today was a beautiful day for an Easter Egg hunt. I took my boys to our church program and then the egg hunt. It was really fun to see the look of their faces with all those eggs just waiting to be found. WOW! I never seen so much CANDY.

It has been a year Easter at the church we attend. We love it there. I just love our Pastor. I'd would hate the thought of moving away because I would really miss him. This is a card that I have made for Brother Joe our Pastor. Our church name is Crosspointe Church...A Church with a Heart. I'm still learning techniques and getting the ideas down on paper. I really like the end results on this card. I just love using my Primascolor pencils with the mineral spirits. I find alot of my inspirations from stampers at www.splitcoaststampers.com.
Happy Easter!
God Bless!
Bonnie

Spring Break

I am slowly getting my blog set up, so bare with me. I also wanted to say that I have been busy with my kids this week. They are on Spring Break. Today it's such a nice day that we are going to play at the park and do some tennis, frisbee, or even some baseball. I packed us some lunch and we'll have a picnic there too.
Have a nice day!
Bonnie

Birthday Bike

This is a birthday card I made for my son who turned 11 this week. He asked for a bicycle for his birthday and I thought this would be a great idea. You should of seen the look in his eyes when he opened this card. He was really surprised. He looked at me with the biggest eyes that you've ever seen. We got him a Mongoose 21 speed with 26 inche tires. He mentioned to us that he was getting to big for his trick bike. He loved his card too.
Thanks for looking!
Bonnie

San Diego Harbor Sunset

This is one of my favorite pictures that I took while on vacation with my family visiting my hometown of San Diego in August '06. We had just finished taking all the Harbor cruises that day and I knew I wanted a picture of a sunset. Perfect timing I thought. You would of thought I had taken some pictures a long time ago since this is my hometown. I lived in San Diego all my life just about until I met my husband. Of course, I met him there. We were there due to my 20th high school reunion that weekend, but was stationed in Missouri at the time.
Thanks for dropping by!
Bonnie