To My Wonderful Friend

Hi there! One of my goals this year is to "play" more with my most favorite challenges...and that's what this card is all about!

I love making these 'quilted' look cards and this one is no exception. I used three different embossing folders to create my textures and added a strip of lace cut from a Spellbinders die. Then some polka dotted white ribbon and a hint of pink with this sheer ribbon. The flower image and sentiment are from Flourishes new Butterflies & Blossoms set. Pearls are the finishing touch on this one!

Challenges:
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #99 - Flowers
Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger - Photo Inspiration
City Crafter Challenge #38 - Winter White
Creative Cottage #30 - Something New (Stamp Set)
Simon Says Stamp - New Beginnings (friend's new beginning)
Prairie Fairy Fridays #43 - New Beginnings
Dutch Dare #94 - New Beginnings
Really Reasonable Ribbon #15 - Something New (stamp set) + Ribbon

Happy Holidays!

Here's another blue card from me! I made this for the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club on SCS using the sketch for this week. I got this image from my crafty friend Denise when we were stamping a few weeks ago. I just love MFT's little PI girl...it's called Merry Kissmas and she's just too sweet hugging this little snowman! I colored them with Copics and added some Stardust Stickles on their hats. There's lots of texture here by way of the MFT Doily die, the Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder, and the embossed glitter and shimmer on the BoBunny papers. All this needed was a few pearls and a little peek-a-boo button!

My Favorite Things - Wednesday Stamp Club - Sketch
City Crafter Challenge #34 - Let It Snow!
Sundays with Crissy #12 - Winter is Here!
Cute Card Thursday #141 - The Blues!

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Warm Hugs and Cocoa Wishes

Hi there - I can't believe how time flies. It's already time for another Creative Inspirations Blog Challenge. This time, our theme is Christmas Gift and we have two wonderful sponsors...Papercupcake Stamps and Fantastic Ribbons!

My stampy friend Janice let me stamp some of her images from her collection last week and this is one of them. It's called Hug in a Mug by Elisabeth Bell for Sugar Nellie. I don't think it's available any longer, but it sure is cute! She is colored with Copics and I added a touch of Diamond Stickles to her cuffs and bottom of her coat. I hadn't even realized that I colored her coat like Santa's until I had uploaded the picture to put my watermark on it...by then, it was too late and my lovely daughter told me to leave it because she thought it was cute! And so, I left it 'cause she said so!

I made this little gift bag/box by cutting two pieces of the largest size from the Spellbinders Eyelet Squares die set in brown cardstock and adding a three sided piece of folded cardstock in the center as a pouch to hold a little somethin' somethin'. Then I popped up a few layers and another eyelet square shape which is my image. The corners are dotted with Queen & co. red pearls and a pair of Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses mittens are tied on with some of Deb's Simple Treasures vintage seam binding. A couple of gems for the centers, a sweet sentiment from Sweet n Sassy Stamps and a packet of gourmet hot cocoa finishes it perfectly!

Be sure to stop on over at the Creative Inspirations Challenge blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created using this great theme! Don't forget to join in the fun and enter your Christmas Gift too! You have two weeks to submit your project for our challenges!

Challenges:
Elisabeth Bell's World - November Project - Anything Christmas (but NOT a Card)
A Spoon Full of Sugar #131 - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations #95 - Christmas is Coming
Really Reasonable Ribbon #12 - Christmas
City Crafter Challenge #32 - My Cuppa
Just Us Girls #61 - 3-D Embellishment
Embellish Magazine Holidays Color Challenge - red, green, pink, brown
Simon Says Stamp - Let It Snow
Top Tip #11 - Layers

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Happy Harvest...

Hi there and TGIF! It's Friday and that means a new Stamp Something Challenge! This week we have a super sketch for you to use and our sponsor is DRS Designs.


I really like this sketch...it has a lot of potential and you can embellish it any way you want. The image I used is the Cornucopia from Sweet & Sassy Stamps which is available in both digi and clear stamps. I colored it with Copics and cut it out with a Spellbinders circle die. I made my own designer paper by stamping this text stamp on Bazzill french vanilla paper using Memento Rich Cocoa ink. (I'm not sure what language it is though.) It looks great with these rich, burgandy swirl and gingham papers from The Paper Studio and this cute polka dotted shimmery paper. I used my Eggshell Copic to color the background of my image paper since it was stamped on bright white and that would just not do for this card.

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped with ColorBox Dark Brown ink. The dark red Queen & Co. pearls give it a little shimmer and the inked edges add that bit of rustic to this project. I added a copper, sheer organdy bow and topped it off with an antique bronze brad.

Be sure to visit the rest of the Design Team at the Stamp Something challenge! Now go get your sketch on and join us this week at Stamp Something!



Challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations #83 - yummy Fall cupcake photo
City Crafters Challenge #29 - use a digi stamp

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The butterfly...

One more quick post...here is my MIL's birthday card! I used the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge sketch and Sweet n Sassy stamp set called Everyday Miracles!

Challenges:
Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #77 - sketch
City Crafters #25 - Take Flight (butterfly)
Flutter By Wednesday #126 - butterfly
Cute Card Thursday #134 - What's Buggin' You (butterfly)

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget about my Follow Me blog candy...you can find it HERE...until October 17th!

who's there?

Hi there and Happy Friday! Are you ready for another Stamp Something Challenge?! Wait until you see what the fabulous Design Team has to share with you today! Our new challenge theme is Halloween and our sponsor is Bunny Zoe.

For my card, I used the CC Design Sweet November Baby Trick or Treat Witch. I colored her with copics and then chomped the corners of the paper with a hole punch. I used Mercy's sketch this week and layered up all these cute Halloween papers and cardstock. I punch the edge of the black paper with a Martha Stewart edge punch and filled in the smaller holes with purple Queen & Co. pearls! I added a sweet sparkly ruffly edged bow and a Making Memories tag that appropriately says, 'who's there?" I thought she looked like she might be saying that! A pumpkin sticker finishes it off! Even the pumpkin is looking up to see "who's there!"

Head on over to the Stamp Something Challenge blog and check out all the great samples from the Design Team..and while you are there, add your Halloween creation!

Challenges:
Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #95
Colour Q #54 - Black, Orange, Green, Purple, White
The Pink Elephant #85 - Childhood
City Crafter #26 - Take Flight (owl)
The Creative Cottage #25 - Halloween
Simon Says Challenge - 3 Emb. types, 2 dps, 1 image
Fussy & Fancy Friday #21 - Halloween
Really Reasonable Ribbon #10 - Halloween
Stampin Royalty #41 - Halloween
Copic Oz #3 - spooky

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You're the friend...

Hi there! This is what you get when you have a blogging paper crafter home all by herself on a rainy day...lots of posts!

This one is for a few challenges...I love it when it just works out that way! I am a little burned out on Fall and Halloween cards, so I took a break and used one of my favorite combos...turquoise and black!

This technique is background stamping on acetate. I stamped my wild roses with white onto acetate and then backed it with a dark color to show it off and protect the ink. Then I stamped my sentiment (PTI) on the front of the acetate. You can see it better in the inset picture. I just went to town after that...lace, ribbon, bling, flower, leaves, more bling, a button with bling, a blingy butterfly and some pearls! Basically, me on a card!

Guess I should go figure out what to make for dinner since both kids' games were cancelled due to rain...I wasn't planning on being home for dinner. No problem though...I'll whip something up! Have a great night!

Challenges:
Just Us Girls #54 - acetate
Sweet Stampin' #47 - diamonds are a girls best friend
Cute Card Thursday #134 - what's buggin' you (butterfly)
Flutter By Wednesday #126 - butterfly
City Crafter Challenge #26 - take flight (butterfly)
Stamptacular Sunday #80 - BFF - buttons , flowers, friends

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget about my Follow Me blog candy...you can find it HERE...until October 17th!

BeWitching!

Remember my Witch Boot Shaped Card from yesterday?! Well, here is the matching Witch Hat Shaped Card from The Cutting Cafe'. I also used the Halloween This and That set too! Isn't this the perfect sentiment!?!

I used all the same papers and embellishment to make it the perfect pair! This witch hat card will actually be used for a little contest at my daughter's Halloween Costume Party! And stay tuned for little project I have planned for another Cutting Cafe' shaped card too!

Here is a picture of the set...


You can find so many great things for your Halloween party or any occasion at The Cutting Cafe'!

Challenges:
City Crafter Challenge Blog #25 - Holidays
The Creative Cottage #24 - Bling
Fussy and Fancy Friday #21 - Halloween
Simon Says Challenge - Halloween
There She Goes #75 - Orange, Purple, Green
Meljen's #28 - Halloweeny!

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Have a Joyful Holiday!

Hi there! It's Friday, I'm off work and that means it time for another Stamp Something Challenge. This week's theme is Something Punchy and wait until you see what the very talented ladies on the design team have in store for you. Our sponsore this week is Kut 4 U. I've got another cutie patootie digi image to share with you today. He's from Pink Gem and he is called Robin with Mistletoe, but I made him a bluebird to match my paper! I'm not sure how I got him, but I know it was a freebie!

I colored him with my copics and added a bit of Frosted Lace Stickles to his hat edge, pompom and scarf! I also added some Diamond Stickles to the falling snowdrops around him. It seems I am also having a bit of an obsession lately with my Martha Stewart snowflake punch these days. I think this is the third project in the last week that I have used it on. This time I punched the snowflakes in the dp and red and layered them up then dabbed them with some more Diamond Stickles. A few pearls and the snowflakes are done! Just a little more Stickles in Xmas Red on the mistletoe and on either side of my sentiment which is from Darcie's.

I also used a punch on the edge of the red cardstock under the yummy green grosgrain ribbon...it's sort of like snowflakes...I guess I know which punch I need to get next. Maybe I'll get a gift card to one my favorite crafty stores for my birthday! All the edges are inked in ColorBox Lipstick Red or Martha's light blue.

Please stop by the blogs of the other Stamp Something Design Team members and see what gorgeous Punchy projects they have waiting for you!

Other Challenges:
City Crafter Challenge Blog #25 - Holidays
The Creative Cottage #24 - Bling
Crafty Creations #88 - sketch
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #43 - digi stamp
Moxie Fab World - Jolly Holiday Greetings

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget about my Follow Me blog candy...you can find it HERE...until October 17th! If I get to 100 followers by then, I'll add another bonus candy!

Witch Way to the PARTY!

My daughter decided she would like to have a Halloween Costume Party this year and I am in full swing of making decorations and planning a party for a group of 13 year olds! It's going to be so much fun! She decided she wants a "cute" theme, so I'm going with it...along with a few scary things mixed in. But not this project - it's C-U-T-E and it's called the Witch Boot Shaped Card from The Cutting Cafe'. You get the witch boot shaped card base, a shaped template for the top of the card and all the accessories need to complete the project, including 4 sentiments and a matching envelope!

I blinged mine up a bit, but that's the fun in using templates...you get to choose what theme by choosing your own papers and fun embellishments! I cut my base using a lime green cardstock and then the top shape with this adorable polka dotted paper. Then the strap and buckle are both cut from cardstock to match. I used an EK success tiny flower punch and dotted them with the sparkly "buttons" courtesy of some Stickles.

I cut out the star boot tip with a Fiskars punch for the background star and the inside star is from the cutting file. I couldn't resist using some more Stickles...this time in purple and lime green. More of the plaid Halloween ribbon I just love these days and a scalloped punch of paper behind my sentiment which has been distressed with green ink. Oh, and all the edges of every piece of paper here is distressed with black ink too (even those tiny little purple circles)!

Challenges:
Meljen's #28 - Halloweeny!
Simon Says Challenge - Halloween
City Crafter #25 - Holiday
There She Goes #75 - Orange, Purple, Green

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Thinking of you...again

I'll be visiting a college with my son this weekend, so I wanted to share a card before I go. I love this new paper pad I got by My Minds Eye...it's all kraft cardstock with various patterns and graphics on them! I think this one I chose matched the Color Throwdown almost perfectly!

I wanted the beautiful rose to show on this card without being covered up, so I decided to use vellum and I think it works! This lovely lady is stamped onto the vellum with ColorBox Chestnut Roan chalk ink as well as the sentiment that is stamped directly onto the dp. I love the sketch Karen gave us this week too!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Challenges:
Color Throwdown #106 - soft sky, chocolate chip, kraft, celery
City Crafter Challege #18 - Isn't She Lovely - lady
Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #81 - great sketch!

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamps: Inkadinkado image, Stampendous sentiment
Ink: ColorBox Chestnut Roan
Paper: MME Kraft Cardstock paper pad, Bazzill french vanilla
Other: Deb's Simple Treasures Paradise Aqua Mist seam binding, vellum, Recollections mini roses and pearls

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Cherish...

One more...

Okay, so I love the JustRite Friday Challenge and this week is a photo inspiration. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had this piece of paper hanging around in my stash and I knew I had to dig it out! (a photographic memory is both a blessing and a curse!) So, I added a little bit of somethin' somethin' with my JustRite Plant a Little Love set and stamped it right on the print paper with Memento Rose Bud and hightlighted the flower centers with a little Stickles Fruit Punch and watercolored the leaves and stems in green. I let the printed paper show through on the stamped image as the flower pattern.

After I gathered up my flowers, I colored them the correct color I needed with my copic marker in RV34. I love that I can do that...same for the pearls on the sentiment too which is from JustRite Big Occasions borders and centers set. I made the largest rose with the Fancy Pants papers using Zoe Pearn's paper flower tutorial...you can find it here!

Here is the awesome sketch at Waltzing Mouse. I started adding all these yummy roses and flowers and I am so happy with how it turned out. I added a blinged heart for the City Crafter Challenge and I also blinged up a few flowers and added a Maya Road leaf trinket pin for a little pop!








Challenges:
JustRite Friday Challenge 030 - Photo inspiration
City Crafter Challenge #17 - heart
Waltzing Mouse Sketch #9

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamps: JustRite Plant a Little Love and Big Occasions borders and centers
Inks: Memento Rose Bud, ColorBox rouge and blue lagoon
Paper: Fancy Pants - Fancy Free - Mulberry Road
Copics: RV34, R35, G82
Other: Recollections roses and bling, Prima flowers, Maya Rd. leaf trinket pin, Fruit Punch Stickles, McGill flower punch, Making Memories stamens,

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Happy...Happy!

Edite - this card was chosen as a winner at The Pink Elephant Challenge #78!


Good Morning...This is my first of several posts today! I'm going to the beach for a mini vacation and I wanted to share a few things with you!

This first card could be birthday, could be wedding...I left it a generic Happy Happy card because I haven't decided it's intended recipient yet! That's one of the nices things about card making...I can change it to be whatever I want!

I started by using my Flourishes Let Them Eat Cake stamp set. I had my eye on this stamp for a while with this glittery embossing in mind way before I bought it and when I finally got it I couldn't wait to try it out! I stamped the cake plate with StazOn jet black. I need this to be very sharp and pick up on all the detail! Then I embossed the three layers of the cake with Ranger pink embossing glitter...I just love how it turned out! I glued and glittered the little flowers myself with ultra fine glitter and the tiny black ones are colored flowers that I dabbed with my black copic marker!

I dolled it up with some ruffly ribbon, pearls, bling on the black flowers, that oh so pretty lace doilie and ta da...a card dripping with girliness! The sentiment is from a new line at M's called Craft Affair made by Hampton Art.

Challenges:
Fussy n Fancy Friday Challenge #16 - pink and black
Sweet Stampin Challenge #37 - sketch
City Crafters Challenge #16 - YUM!
The Pink Elephant # 78 - Something Yummy!
Crafty Creations #79 - wedding or anniversary

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamps: Craft Affair sentiment, Flourishes Let Them Eat Cake
Inks: StazOn jet black
Paper: Bazzill black and piglet, American Crafts dp
Other: Spellbinder Std. Circles Lg., lace doilie, Prima flowers, black copic marker, ultra fine glitter, Recollections pearls and bling, Spare Parts ruffly black satin ribbon

I really hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!