As many of you have probably figured out, I’m an animal lover. I believe they can teach us so much with their generosity of happiness and unconditional love. I strive to be the person our dog Tucker (you can meet him here) seems to think that I am.

With that said I love that Kriss combined these two images. I think she did a wonderful job with the bright colors and adding the little felt flower accents just makes it even more special.

As always, here are her instructions…

1. Adhere 1.75” x 4.25” strip of pattern paper to 4.25” x 5.5” top-folded blue card.
2. Stamp Unselfishness with black ink on white cardstock. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Trim to size and ink edges with black ink. Mount to yellow cardstock panel, and mount to front of card.
3. Stamp Dog Believes saying to lower right corner of card with black ink.
4. Embellish card by layering felt flowers and inserting brads into flowers and card.

Finished card: 4.25” x 5.5”
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1137-M Unselfishness
8080-E Dog Believes

Other supplies:
Archival™ Ink Stamp Pad – Jet Black, Ranger Industries
Watercolor Pencils, Faber-Castell
Blender Pen, Marvy-Uchida
Felt Flowers, Prima Marketing
Brads, Making Memories
White, Bright Yellow & Blue Cardstock
Pattern Paper

Who wouldn’t want to keep track of their chores with this darling little chore chart Pam’s created. She laid out the days of the week along the top and the “Chores to do” down the left. There’s room in the boxes for a gold star – yeah! And if you click on the picture you’ll get a detail of the orange framed part of the picture.

I’m seriously contemplating…would I be more likely to do my grown up chores if I had a chore chart and a box of gold star stickers? Hmmm…

eat cake graphics stamps used:
1139-M Responsibility

Other supplies:
Project dimensions – 8 1/2 X 11 (letter paper sized)
Materials: CS – (Bazzill); Paper –Accademia (Fabriano); Ink – Black StazOn (Tsukineko); Tombow markers, water brush, foam tape, computer generated chore chart (in Excel).

I love this stamp because it celebrates the happiness puppies bring. Judy did a great job with layering – which is a really nice to way to showcase a single stamp. And of course the brads add just that little something extra.

eat cake graphics stamps used:
1063-I Felicia and Sparky

Crafty Math Chick got creative with ribbon for this card.

She attached the woven ribbons to the background and then layered the blue scalloped circle, the brown paw print circle and then a Riley cut out on the very top.

Personally I didn’t know there were so many doggy related ones out there! Great job!

eat cake graphics stamps used:
3021-C Little Riley

Isn’t this the cutest invitation. Georgia has such an eye for putting colors together – the aqua waves with big polka dots and the bright sunny polka dot orange. I love too that she used thicker pop dots behind the Family Holiday label, Yardley kitty and the waves – it really adds such dimension.

She also sent in a picture of the actual invitation with Scooter down at the bottom – notice he’s sporting the same colors she used on the front. To finish it all of two different ribbons were tied at the top. Kinda makes me wish I was part of the family and getting one of these in the mail. :)

eat cake graphics stamps used:
2011-F Yippy for Yardley kitty
3034-G Scooter’s day at the pool

Christy wrote…

This card was an attempt to use coloring to demonstrate the movement of Stuart and his puppy. The first image was ever so lightly colored with Prisma Colored Pencils, the middle image was colored a little darker with Prisma Colored Pencils and Gamsol. The final image, giving the impression that Stuart and his puppy are right in front of you was colored with Copics. May this card encourage you to used various mediums to give images the idea of movement.

Once the images were colored they were cut out and placed in order. Going around the outer edges of the cut images with a black fine point pen made them just pop right off the paper. Appropriate shadowing and a few black dots gave a nice grounding effect. The ribbon used was a nice carry though of color movement. A few pieces of the same ribbon were cut and tied onto a large circle brad. The frayed tiny pieces were just the right touch. It was fun to brainstorm a new embellishment using what I already had.

What a great idea to go from faded image to vibrant one. I think the black outline really pulls things together and ties in nicely with the Dymo tape words. And of course it’s always nice to be able to use something you already have in a new way! Wahooooo!

eat cake graphics stamps used:
1074-G Stuart and puppy Scooter fly

What a great project Kriss has sent in! Using the kids from Maple Lane she’s created a wonderful book. I just love the distressed stamp in the corner, her use of cork (something I’m certainly going to have to try) and all of the details – the flags, the brads – oh just everything!

You can click on the picture to get a closer look. Below are her very detailed instructions – thanks so very much Kriss!

1. Paint two 5 ½” x 8 ½” chipboard with red acrylic paint. Two to three layers may be needed to completely cover chipboard. Once dry, gently brush on snow paint with Ranger’s Acrylic Paint Dabber to soften red.
2. Using Watermark Resist ink, stamp flourish in upper right corner of front cover. Emboss with white embossing powder.
3. Cut cork with Keyholes Mover and Shape die (a label shape). Attach to lower right of front cover.
4. Stamp For the Brave with black ink on white cardstock. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Trim to 3” x 5 ¼”.
5. Cut light blue cardstock to 1 ½” x 5 ¼” and punch bottom with Effervescence border punch. Attach to bottom of stamped image, and mount both to 4” x 5 ½” black cardstock. Attach to front cover.
6. Stamp saying of For the Brave with Watermark Resist on navy cardstock and emboss with white embossing powder. Cut strip close to top and bottom of saying, and attach to front cover with white brads.
7. Mask For the Brave to allow cat only to be inked. Ink image with Jet Black ink, remove masks, and stamp on white cardstock. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Cut into circle shape. Layer on top of navy circle and red scallop circle. Attach to cork label with Pop Dots.
8. Stamp For the Brave with black ink on white cardstock again, this time for both the flags. Crease your cardstock back onto itself along the “stick” of the flag, and then cut out three sides of the flag; keeping the folded-section intact. Do this for both flags. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Attach each flag to a decorative stick pin, by gluing the stick pin inside the folded flag. Insert flags into Pop Dots on back of scallop circle/cat.
9. Attach silver sticky-back dots to cork label.
10. Cut either white cardstock or notebook paper to 5 ½” x 8 ½” for the pages of your book. Place pages between covers and punch holes at the top with Bind-It-All. Bind book together with white owires.

eat cake graphics stamps used:
1160-S For the Brave

Other supplies:
2- 5 ½” x 8 ½” Chipboard
Acrylic Paint, Lipstick Red, FolkArt
Acrylic Paint Dabber, Snow White, Ranger Industries
Archival™ Ink Stamp Pad – Jet Black, Ranger Industries
Watercolor Pencils, Prismacolor
Blender Pen, Marvy-Uchida
Watermark Resist, Ranger Industries
Embossing Powder, Seafoam White, Ranger Industries
Border Punch, Effervescence, Fiskars
White Brads, Making Memories
Cork, Unknown
Keyholes Mover and Shapers, Tim Holtz, Sizzix
Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilties, Spellbinders
Pop Dots, Ranger Industries
Stick Pins, Making Memories
Silver Sticky-Back Dots, Unknown
Corner Flourish Stamp, Close to My Heart
White, Red, Light Blue, Navy & Black Cardstock
White Cardstock or Notebook Paper
1” White O Wires, Zutter
Bind-It-All, Zutter

Crafty Math Chick created this cute Happy Birthday card using yummy cupcake treats. It looks like Poindexter is trying to get a paw full of that pink icing. Better watch out!

eat cake graphics stamps used:
3009-D Poindexter
8140-D Diet? There’s Cupcakes!
8153-C Happy Birthday (bold text)

Supplies:
Paper: Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Kraft (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Other: Cupcake punch (Martha Stewart), CB EF, circle punch, rhinestones, corner rounder

Crafty Math Chick writes…

When I first saw Lewis & Trudy’s Wild Ride I instantly paired it with Are We There Yet? and envisioned the little car driving on a road made of saddle stitched ribbon – thinking it looked like a road. When I looked I thought the Maple Lane House would work nicely with these two images as a “We’ve Moved!” card. For something a little different I scored only part of the card base and cut around the top of the roof and treetop with a craft knife so it would stand out from the top of the card. For the grass I simply took two strips of wild wasabi and cut into it with a scissors (grass is a great way to use up green scraps!) and pulled out a few blades with my hands for dimension.

This card is just too cute! I love the way she used ribbon for the road – I never would have thought of that. Great coloring – the little red car just pops off the road. It’s nice too that she carried just a little accent of red on the house as well. Great job!

eat cake graphics stamps used:
6018-P Maple Lane House
8016-E Lewis & Trudy’s Wild Ride
8110-E Are We There Yet?

Supplies:
Paper: Gina K. Luxury Cardstock, Wild Wasabi (Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other supplies: ribbon, Copic markers, pop its, scissors, craft knife & mat

Georgia says sometimes she thinks she’s paddling upstream… and if she keeps going, she’ll get there…wherever there may be.

This card is so vibrant with the orange background against the teal blue water. I love how she picked those up when coloring as well. Looks like she tore the paper for the water and layered the stamp in between. Very clever and oh so cute!

eat cake graphics stamps used:
1158-J Paddling in the canoe