New 40:31 Creations Stamps!! --- late post

****Update: Unfortunately the 40:31 Creations design team had to come to an end. Lauren is a busy lady and was unable to continue on with her stamp adventure. Let's hope that she will be able to pick it up again later, she's got some great talent! Good Luck Lauren!

Hi Everyone,

As this is posting we are currently closing on our first house and started to paint and move. Not to mention yesterday we got a new puppy! (English Mastiff)  I know, we're crazy!!!

But I'm excited to share a card with you that I made using 2 of the new 40:31 Creations stamps! Here is a picture of the 2 new stamp sets:

Now, onto my card. I have to admit this was a pretty fast card. All of my scrapping stuff was just about packed when I found out we were getting new stamps to play with!  I also appologize for the pictures, my camera cord was packed so I had to take pictures on my phone!

I made this card with the JT Imagine cartridge that I just got for my birthday. My parents are HUGE motorcycle fans, so this image is perfect for them. I know I will be busy for a while, so I decided to make it into a Fathers Day card and use the "#1 Dad" and "its your day" stamps.  I was also tempted to just have it say "Enjoy the Moment".... sooo many good stamps on these sets!!!  The image was cut at 3.5" true size, which turned out to be a bit big, but I decided to just go with it! Needless to say, it is really long so the card base measures 4"x8.5"!!!!!  It's pretty big, yet I really like it!

The background paper is a piece of Bazzill Dotted Swiss paper.

I hope this helps get you in the mood for Father's Day projects!  

Now head on over to 40:31 Creations to see how to order your stamps!

~Sara Kate~

Mother's Day Cards

Hello Everyone!

Today I have 2 Mother's Day cards to share with you. It's ok that I'm posting early, we celebrated Mothers day early with our moms :)

The first card I decided to attempt my first paper rosette. Super simple, love it! If you're not familiar with them, there are TONS of helpful videos on YouTube! The paper was from a stack I have, I appologize I'm not sure which one and I recently packed up my scrapbook room to move to our first house so I can't look :(  The stamp is from My Pink Stampers "Happiest Moments" stamp set.

The next card is my favorite card that I have made in a LONG time. And I made it after having worked 12 hours and only sleeping for about 3 hours afterwards!! Maybe I work better tired!

The little chickie is cut from Create a Critter at 3.5" I added a little gem to the flower in her hair just for some flair. The paper is just something I've had in my scrap bin. For the ribbon I used my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher to get the ruffled look, love it!!  I used the same stamp from MPS "Happiest Moments" stamp set.

Hope this gives you a little inspiration if you still have Mother's Day gifts to work on!

Have a great day!!

~sara~

Beer Mug Card

Hi Everyone!!

Today I wanted to share a card that I made for my Brother-in-law's birthday. His birthday is St. Patricks Day, so I thought something to do with beer would be perfect. I made this beer mug shaped card on my Gypsy. I welded 2 4" beer mugs from Smiley Cards together ( I HIGHLY recommend making this larger, it looked much bigger on the gypsy than cut out).

I used my Cuttlebug and ran the "foam" through the D'vine swirls embossing folder to give it some texture. I the ran the mug part through the distressed stripes embossing folder. I inked the entire thing with tea dye distress ink to help the embossing stand out.

Hope you enjoyed this!

~Sara Kate~

Belated Easter Card

I'm so sorry that I have not blogged in FOREVER!!!  I've been creating, just not posting :( 

We have been busy searching for our first house, and we found it!!  Closing is May 20, so we are preparing for that as well.  Haven't quite started packing up my scrapping stuff, but it will be soon :( 

I've also been having TONS of trouble with my Imagine... I went through 3 machine before I got one that worked, and sadly I think it JUST quit on me again!!!!  :*(  I'm going through the Restore right now and crossing my fingers!!! 

Anyway, I wanted to share with you a quick Easter card that I made, even though it's a day late!!  I used Simply charmed for the chick and it was cut at 3" and the colors were printed from the Imagine, just basic colors, not cartridge specific.  The stamp is from My Pink Stamper "Happiest Moments" stamp set.

Hope you all had a great Easter and enjoyed the card!!

I have many more projects I just loaded onto my hard drive, so I will be posting more soon, I Promise!!

~Sara Kate~



40:31 Creations Design Team Day!

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Today is a 40:31 Creations Design Team day!  I made a cute little card using the Love stamp set!

The card is a standard A2 size.

The cute little fox was cut at 3.5" from Create A Critter cricut cartridge.

Hope you enjoyed my project.

Have a great weekend!

~Sara~



Wedding Card

Hi Everyone!!!

Sorry I haven't been posting much, I've been fighting with Provo Craft about my 2nd broken Cricut Imagine! :(  

But today I wanted to share with you a card I made using some 40:31 Creations stamps. I'm not sure if I like how it turned out... I like the idea, but my wet embossing got a little messed up, and I should have inked the edges of the sentiment first!!!

The layer the sentiment is stamped on was cut at 3.5" from Just Because Cards cartridge.

You can see the random spots where excess embossing powder got stuck :(

Have a great day!!

Sara



40:31 Creations Design Team Day

***Sooo sorry, I JUST realized that this never posted last week!!!***

Hi Everyone!

Sorry I have been MIA lately, I've been sick and recently started a night shift position, so trying to adjust but having to flop back and forth....yuck!!  Anyway, here is my card for this weeks 40:31 Creations Design Team post. It's been in the 60s for a few days (Wooohooo!!!) so I wanted to make something warm and summery.

This is just an A2 card, super simple. All the cuts were from scraps, love those days!

The watermelon was cut at 2.5" from Simply Charmed, I decided not to cut the face out on this one.

The stamp is from Lauren's Love stamp set.

Added some stickles to the watermelon for a little sparkle!

Hope you enjoyed this super simple card!

~Sara Kate~