This card is a little special to me because I made it for a friend’s child who was bullied at school.  The short story is that some girls wrote ugly things in his  yearbook and my guess is kept others from writing in it at all.  Of course, he was devastated and came home crying.  It is shocking to know this still happens. And these are young kids, not high school age.  I felt terribly upset about it from the moment I heard about it.  I just wonder when this will end. But I have to say his Mother took things in hand by asking friends to send messages by mail so she can put them in his yearbook.  She reached out to everyone on Facebook and I have to really applaud her actions.  People started posting lots of positive messages for Noah and with all the Facebook attention, he cheered up and happily posed with a “Thank You” sign for everyone!

So, of course I had to make a card for my message for Noah.  I chose Marquee Messages because the sentiment is perfect and just what I wanted to say.  I added more bling than I normally would, but it seemed to match the feeling on this card and the age of the young man. I am just happy to have seen so many people rally around this really great little guy and hopefully make him forget what happened. On Saturday, I saw that his Mother posted a wonderful image of Noah and his brother playing in the sand at Hallendale Beach.  It was good to see him smiling!

I believe in the power of sending a handmade card to someone.  I just wish I would do it more!

This is my entry for this weeks Global Design Project.  The theme is Get Well Soon.  Mine is not exactly a “get Well Card” I had a specific design in mind for trying out this new copper embossing powder and the sentiment shown is a “Get Well” wish of sorts!  There are lots of great ideas for actual “Get Well Cards” over at Global Design Project. Click on the image below to see what everyone else has submitted this week. There are some really impressive entries.

I have been dying to try out this copper embossing powder since I saw it at On Stage.  It has been sitting on my desk since April and this is when I finally got around to trying it out.  All I can say is love, love, love this!  I have been missing this color since the Brushed Copper paper was retired.  Copper has such a rich look to it.  And while I love silver and gold, copper is so unexpected and yet so on trend right now. The image does not show it well, but the embossed badge looks as if it is made it of metal. And, I am keeping my fingers crossed that we see Copper Foil paper soon! As you can see, we did get the copper thread.  I generally just make a big “bird’s nest” with the metallic threads.  I think you need lots of it for it to show against a DSP background.  And I don’t care if I am messy with it.  I love the shine!

Recipe

Papers: Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Affectionately Yours DSP
Stamps: Badges & Banners, Sheltering Tree(sentiment)
Inks: Versamark, Night of Navy
Tools: Bunch of Banners Framelets, Big Shot, Best Badge Punch
Embellishments: Copper Metallic Thread, Copper Embossing Powder

Isn’t this frog just the cutest guy?  I wish I could find a tiny crown stamp for him and make him a frog prince! This cute little card uses one of the delightful character stamps from the Love You Lots Host Set.  I usually don’t like character or cartoon stamps.  They just don’t seem to be my thing.  But this set has really well designed character art.  And while I used the frog, it was the hedgehogs that drew me to the set.  I will use them a little but later, but since I am all gaga for Emerald Envy, this little guy had to come first!  And best of all,  this cute stamp set is one you can get with your host rewards!

Initially I was just going to make the card all green.  And it probably would have looked fine that way.  But I felt like it needed a few flowers and the Peekaboo Peach seemed like addition to grab your attention. The sentiment banner was layered by punching the Very Vanilla layer twice.  I engineered that by lining up where I wanted the bottom to hit and then adhered it to a scrap of copy paper and lined up the top.  You might have to clean up the flags a little, but this technique worked great to layer using the banner punch!

Thanks for looking at my card today.  You can’t imagine how much it means to have such nice comments on the blog, Facebook and via e-mail! I appreciate you taking the time to check in and see what I have been up to!

Recipe

Papers: Emerald Envy, Very Vanilla, Playful Pallette DSP Stack
Stamps: Love you Lots, Grateful Bunch
Inks: Emerald Envy, Momento Black
Embellishments: Emerald Envy Ruched Ribbon
Tools: Duet Banner Punch, Blossom Bunch Punch