Summer Flowers through my Camera Lens

Tumblin' over Tumblers

   I stayed up all night finishing these before leaving for our vacation. I personalized 10 tumblers and 8 beer mugs. But they turned out just as I had hoped. And the girls got to use their tumblers at the lake.  The photos are not my best, but was taken just before handing them out!  H & H vinyl cut like a dream. I mixed some Lettering Delights floral SVGs along with a floral font, Saru's Flower Ding  and SCAL2 basic shape flower.  There were too many floral patterns to choose from!

cups with printed dots from Gordmans
These didn't need much more that flower w initial but I liked the spiral added

Cups from Gordmans
The white daisy design really popped on the dark blue tumblers!

Walmart Tumbler

Zebra print started with Denise's from Paper Pastime then made a few changes. The reverse has the flip flops for my Sis in law who spends the summer in her flip flops ( she must own 20+) including zebra!

Favorite Fonts Screen Shot

Someone said they had a difficult seeing my fonts previously displayed so here is a screen shot "Snip". Hope this works better. I am still learning this HTML jazz !  

 

Favorite Fonts for Papercrafting

I put together a list of my favorite fonts to use for die cutting ( using SCAL2), or just to print and cut for sentiments. I hope I can post it in the font depicted. I am giving a letter sampling as well. A size 16 is not consistently the same size as you can see. Font names are underlined. You can google for these, they were all free !  I have probably close to 1000 fonts but these are my favs.  Add your in comments please.

Favorite Fonts  bold   size 16   A B C D F G H J L M P R S T & 

                                 

aka Dora       A B C  D F  G H J L M  P R 

Amperzand      A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  

ArtScript               A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  

Algerian      A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  

Balzac     A  B  C  D F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  

Baskerville       A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  

Beautiful                 A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  

Belshaw     A B C D F G H J L M P R S 

Blach Chancery     A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R

Balkeno      A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S     

    

Ballpark      A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S 

Boingo        A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T 

Cac Champagne    A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T  

Caslon Becker 540 Swash A  B C D F G H  J L M  P R  S

  

Curlz  MT   A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T

Caslon Initials ABCDFGHR     

CoffeeMilkCrazy     A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T 

Chocolate Box A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T  


Crazy Harold   A B C D F G H J L MP R S T 

Creampuff     A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S 

Duvall A B C D F G H J L M P R S T 

Edwardian Medium LET              A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T 

Fatso      A B C D F G H J L M  P R S T

FontLeroy Brown    A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T  

 Geselle                        A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T  

Good Vibrations  A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S 

Harrington   A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T 

Japan   A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T 

LD Filigree  A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T 

       

Nuptial              A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T  

Peach Sundress  A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T

  

Penguin Attack   A  B  C  D  F  G  H  J L M  P R  S  T 

Puritan Swash  ABC DFG HJ LMP R S T 

Lucinda Handwriting  A B C D F G H J L M P R S 

Regal A B D FG H J L M P R S T 

Rage ABCD FG H JLM PRS T

Shardee    A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T

Water  Street  A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T

  

Storybook    A B C D  F G  H J L M P R S T  

This is Embarassing

I multi task. But I don't stay focused on just one project at a time. I see a birthday card, graduation card, and gift for my mother-in-law all "under construction".  This photo is for Creations with Cristine. Yep, it's embarrassing.

Quick Birthday Girl Card

Quick and Easy Peasy card for a birthday girl of any age  

  I only had half an hour to devote to a couple of birthday cards. One for now one for later.   I grabbed my old time favorite Storybook cartridge and used the birthday girl phrase. I  placed this  on top of  the Accent Blackout cut. I used Design Studio to get proper sizing. I then grabbed my Marvy floral punch and EK Success leaf punch, my We R Memory Keepers Big Bite hole punch and ta da done.  DCWV Summer and Citrus cardstock made this June Birthday card pop. The bit of green use on the leaf helped to "ground" it a bit.  I couldn't decide if I liked the flowers centered or diagonal, so I made one of each. I use 5 flowers and curl or bend them for dimension. 

Tip - It only takes a couple on minutes longer to make 2 cards while you have all the supplies out. When coming up with a new card layout one may be your practice card but plenty good enough to give !

"Red Bra Chic" 50th Birthday

     Welcome to the RBC ! Red Bra Chics . This ain't no Red Hat Ladies Club! This is for the 50 year old gal with spunk. Started by yours truly prior to turning 50, but just not ready for the Red Hatters. I had to come up with something for myself and friends because 50 seems to be the new 40 for us. Red Bra Chics it is. Wear it, flaunt it, hide it, you are old enough to decide. So we present the new 50 year old with a red bra usually at a party.
So here is the card I made for the newest RBC, my friend Linda.  This is a multi- opening card, with a front opening bra, the cleavage revealing the letters RBC.  The girls Loved It !

Gate Fold 4 x 6
Font   Riesling 

 

Opens to Retro Bats One font lady

Fold up to discover Red Bra from Princess font embossed with Spellbinder Flowers
This is a Gate Fold cut away to hint at "cleavage" 

RBC from Riesling font creates cleavage when shadowed 

Shows the folds and cuts of a 12 x12
verticals scores at 3 & 9
horizontal scores at 4 & 8

I started with a 12 X12 Gray cardstock, scored at intervals shown above. The red bra was cut in half, placed on the gate-fold and then cardstock trimmed to allow "cleavage to show. RBC letters placed just so the R & B tops peak through.( I removed the black s later to spell chic since it made the c look like an o.)
  Cardstock  used was Michaels Recollections and Jeweled Metallics collections.
 Fonts - Caslon Becker 540 Swash and  Riesling. Dingbat Fonts- Retro Bats One and Princess.
 Bling on ladies hat and earrings from Making Memories collection.
ATG and Xyron adhesives, Martha Steward Score-Board. SCAL2
Envelope  miscellanous patterned paper made at 5x7 size to accomodate thickness of folded card.
            Time Consuming : yes   Worth it : Definitely !!!