Bunches of Love

Just a quick post to share this sweet little card with you. Using the Color Throwdown colors, I used a sentiment from the Flourishes Berry Sweet stamp set. As you can see, I distressed all the edges with a Heidi Swapp edge distresser and inked them up with ColorBox Chestnut Roan ink. Ranger Barn Door was used to ink up the Heidi Swapp heart and I added some berry 'bunches' and a tiny bit of lace around one of my favorite ribbons tied into a bow. I love this Graphic 45 paper too...it's very reminiscent of Fall's cozy colors.

Challenges:
Color Throwdown #114 - poppy, chocolate, pear, saffron
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #88 - Distressed and Inked Edges
Little Red Wagon #50 - Something Old (lace), Something New (berry bunches)
Crazy 4 Challenges #59 - Fall/Autumn

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It's Your Birthday...Happy Birthday!

Hi there - it's my day off, but I've been so busy...making treats for a cheerleading bake sale, making locker decorations for the high school soccer team and making this card to share with you!

This card gave me a chance to play along at some of the challenges I have missed in the last few weeks. I'm lovin' this little freebie image called Bo from Tiddly Inks. Their challenge this week is to use one of their animal stamps. I colored him with my copics and then I paired it up with some great papers from my stash and paper-pieced the balloons to match! These little sentiment stamps are a couple of my faves from The Cat's Pajamas You Say It's Your Birthday set.

I used the Mojo Monday sketch, which is a miracle I got that one done in time, and I incorporated the Moxie Fab World Offset Scalloped Challenge in this one...it's not too much since it's a Boy or Man's Birthday card! My color inspiration was from Picture Perfect Creations and the plaid, stitching and stars satisfy some of the other challenges!

The Challenges:
Tiddly Inks #21 - Our Pets
Mojo Monday - Sketch #156
Picture Perfect Creations #30 - Blue, Green, Brown
The Creative Cottage #23 - Boy Birthday
Moxie Fab World - Offset Scallop Gallop
TCP Tuesday #126 - Mad for Plaid
Copic Oz #2 - Card for a Man
Stampin Royalty #37 - Stitching Madness
Little Red Wagon #46 - stars

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Back to School...for you!

Hello - I hope you had a great weekend! Since back to school day is tomorrow, I thought I would share this cute little card today!

My image is the adorable PI girl from MFT, but in digi form from Heather Ellis' Digi Stamp Characters Etsy Shop who is also the sponsor this week for Sweet Sketch Wednesday! I love this image with her sweet face and cute dress. I paper-pieced her dress and decided that she is wearing tights so I colored them to match her sleeves.

I flipped the sketch on it's side to accomodate my image, but it's a great sketch no matter how you look at it! A little lace, a flower and some brown pearls finish is off!

Challenges:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday #64 - great sketch!
Fussy & Fancy Friday #18 - Back to School
Little Red Wagon #43 - Back to School
Fairy Fun Friday #34 - pearls and lace
Stamp Something - Back to School

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamp: Digi PI Girl from Digi Stamp Characters, MM sentiment
Ink: ColorBox Lipstick Red, Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper: MME Dreamy 2 Delightful collection
Copics: C1, E000, E00, E11, E13, E37, R20, R22, R24, RV10, Y32, YG32
Other: Fancy Pants lace ribbon, Recollections pearls, Prima flower

my friend...

Edit: This card was featured at Little Red Wagon's Summer Theme Challenge!


Are you ready for more?! This is one of my faves! Isn't this little sweetie precious? It's another Phindy's Place digi. I took several of my images to the beach with me and my tub of copics and in between waiting for everyone to shower and get ready (3 teenage girls on the trip) I had a lot of me time to do what I wanted...so I colored!

I am loving this color combination too. I think I'll have to use it again soon! Do you see that yummy lavender suede paper! I found it in my stash and couldn't believe I hadn't used it yet! Score! I have to say, I thought long and hard about what color to make her hat, but in the end, this works for me!

I'll be back again later after I help my daughter with her project of the day (whatever she got herself into while she is bored all day) - I can't wait for cheerleading and school to start...wait, did I just say that? Oh, I must have been crazy for a minute thinking I can't wait for more driving and eating concession stand food...yuck!

Challenges:
Cute Card Thursday #124 - whateva!
Card Patterns #76 - sketch
Simon Says Stamp Challenge- Summertime "blues"
Fairy Fun Friday #31 - frame it in a circle
Little Red Wagon #41 - summer

My Crafty Recipe:
Stamp: Phindy's Place digi - Birdie, Hampton Art my friend sentiment
Ink: ColorBox blue lagoon
Paper: Fancy Pants - Fancy Free collection, lavender suede paper
Copics: BG0000, BG0000BG000, BG02, C1, E000, E00, E11, E13, E37, G24, V12, V15
Spellinders: Classic Scalloped Circles Lg.
Other: Prima flower, Bo Bunny brad, EK Success diamond lace edge punch, Recollections pearls,

Thanks for stopping by again!

hello cupcake!

Good Morning! I have a new card to share with you. It's for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #58, the Color Throwdown #95 challenge, the Stamp Simply #142...Sweet Stuff! and the Little Red Wagon #31 altered embellishment challenge too! Once again, as soon as I saw the colors in the challenge, I knew the perfect papers to use for it...Bo Bunny Alissa!

These are my favorite colors and I was so excited to work with them. I think I have a little more confidence when I am working with color I really like. So, I started with Bo Bunny Double Dot papers in black, pink and green. I embossed the pink paper with Sizzix texture impressions embossing folder from the birthday set. I layered them all with black mats and inked all the edges with ColorBox blue lagoon chalk ink. Then on to the cupcake embellishment. I stamped my cupcake image twice with Memento tuxedo black ink on black double dot paper and white cardstock and cut them out separately. Then I used Stampendous glitter embossing powder and another layer of glitter to get the glittery frosting effect. The sprinkles are Queen & Co. bling. My sentiment is a Hampton Art stamped in Memento as well. The diecut flower and tag are also from the Bo Bunny Alissa collection. Prima flowers finished it off! (the colors are a bit brighter in real life, and I decided to lean the card to try to get the bling to show better, but I am struggling with my camera these days...please bear with me!)

I hope you like it, and if you do, please leave a comment!

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