CCEE2024 - Father's Day

Vicky continues her month as hostess for the CCEE Stampers by telling us that Father's Day falls on June 11th this year and asking us to make a Father's Day card.  If, like her, your father has gone to his heavenly reward, make a masculine card of any type for any man in your life.

Like Vicky, my father is no longer with us; so I made a card for my son -- who is a father to an 11-year old.  He has just gotten back into scuba diving after many years, so I pulled out my Scuba Changito stamp and the Karen Burniston Spinner Square Pop-Up die and made a card for him.

As you can see, Changito may have bit off more than he can handle with that shark swimming around.

To get an idea of the movement in this card, I've got a little video.

Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more guy cards!

Designer Challenge for May -- TREASURE

It's time again for the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge -- and this month the design team was able to play with some new dies.  The theme of this month's challenge is TREASURE, and there are two sets which are perfect for this theme -- Treasure Chest and Treasure Charms.  I used both of these sets for my card, along with the Circle Tag Book Pop-Up.  As you can see, the Treasure Chest set includes a lock to ensure that your treasure will be safe.  I cut the lock from both silver paper and stiff acetate.  The acetate was to keep the piece from tearing when locking and unlocking the treasure chest.

When you open the chest, you can see all the treasure inside -- gold coins, gemstones, a string of pearls, and even a ruby-encrusted gold crown.

On the inside of the card are many of the treasure charms included in that set -- a tiara, a trophy, an emerald ring, and a ruby pendant.

I couldn't have a treasure chest without a pirate, now could I?   If you look closely at both sides, you might be able to see Changito the Pirate wielding his sword and holding his parrot.  I haven't used those Stampendous images in a long time, and it was time to bring them out again.

This was such a fun project for the challenge.  Thanks for stopping by to look.

CCEE1938 - Talk Like a Pirate Day

Frances told us that today (Sept. 19th) is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  She told the CCEE Stampers to grab those pirate stamps/dies to create our cards this week.  If we didn't have any pirate stamps, we could think beach, ocean, or treasure.

Quite a few years ago I bought a cute little Changito the Pirate set and haven't used it for a long time.  Today was the day to ink it up again!

This accordion frame die is one of the first Karen Burniston dies I ever purchased.  It is still one of my favorites.  And here are my pirates!

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more pirate fun.  Yo Ho!

CCEE1738 Pirates

Tuesday was "Talk like a Pirate Day," and Kelly asked the CCEE Stampers to create a card using anything pirate related.  We could earn some extra treasure/booty if we included a map on our card.   I pulled out an old set that I always thought was cute -- Changito the Pirate.  And I even found some map paper!

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more pirate fun!