KittyBee Easel Card

Well here we are the 1st of August already, time is flying by.

Since it is the 1st of the month that means it is time for a new

 Crafty Awesomeness Challenge over at the Crafting Circle.

This month our sponsor is KittyBee Designs, they are so adorable

be sure and check them out.

I created this card following a sketch from a sketch challenge

I like to do.  The sketch reminded me of an easel card so that is what I

went with.

I imported the cute Love Bug Flower image, that I colored with my Copics, into Cricut Design Space and printed it onto a circle and had the Explore cut it out.  Then using Design Space again I designed the easel card file just using some

basic shapes.  Doing it on the Explore makes it so easy.

The "Hap-BEE birthday" is a stamp.

So go ahead and color up any image and join in the

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge, you have until the end of the month to enter.

Mousy High STakes Poker

Hi, well it is July so you know what that means,

it is time for the start of a new challenge at the 

CraftingCircle.

The Crafty Awesomeness Challenge will run for the 

entire month of July and the cool part is you can enter the

challenge with anything that you have created, card, layout, picture

quilt, etc etc you get the idea.  

This month our sponsor is 

Cute-as-a-Button

I was lucky enough to get this cute image to work with.

The reason I was excited to have this image to work on is because

once a week (most of the time) we get together and play

nickel poker.  Mostly on Friday nights we go out to dinner and then come back to our house and play poker.  There are 6 on us and it is all brothers/sisters  

and their other halves. 

It is always a fun night and sometimes I think we laugh more

than we play.  

So here is the card I created using the High Stakes image.

I struggled to try to figure what I wanted to color him with and finally decided

on my Copic markers.  

The papers are digital papers from Tactile-Studio formerly Sassy Designs.  I love their digital papers and they always seem to have

the correct designs for the theme I want to go with.    It's funny cause I have

a room full of papers and then here I go printing paper, oh well you 

gotta do what ya gotta do. LOL 

I used my Gina Marie stitched circle dies to cut the circle.  I love 

Gina Marie dies and they are so reasonably priced.  

If you love cutting dies you really should go check out her stuff.  

The black pointy circles I cut using my Cricut Explore.  The

small oval with the sentiment was also cut and written using my Cricut Explore. 

Well, that's my card and I am sure one of our poker clan will be 

getting this card for their birthday.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure and head over the

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge and enter your creation.

Entered the following challenges:

Stamp, Art Papel - Anything goes

Craft Stamper - Anything goes using a stamp
Animals Friends - animals and die or punch

Picture & Scrap - Anything goes

An Apple for the Teacher

Yeah it is June 1st and that means this will be a fun month

over at the CraftingCircle blog there will be 

a month long Crafty Awesomeness Challenge.  

One of the Spotlight artists is Rick St. Dennis.  That is a 

link to his Zibbet store and he also has an Etsy shop

that leans more towards the "darker" side if that is your style.

Etsy Rick St Dennis

I was lucky enough to get to color up one of his images from his

Zibbet store and

showcase it here on my blog.

SO here is my schoolboy card.

Isn't he cute!  Gotta love those teeth.

I colored him using my Copic markers.  I used my deckle edge 

Spellbinder to cut around him, then I  stamped a saying using one of my Rubbernecker stamps.  I thought this would be the perfect card to 

give a teach at the end of a school year.

I didn't have any "school" type papers so I went to my go to on-line 

digital paper place.  Tac-tile Studio formerly Sassy Design.   

She had the perfect school themed pack.  

This is the set I used.  Educated Pack.

I had set up this cut file a while back in Cricut Design Space so

I just used the pattern fill feature to fill the pieces with the pattern

paper then print and cut them.  Easy peasy!

I used My Little Paper World corner dies for the black

star corner.

So let me know what you think of my card and be sure and stop

by Rick St Denis Zibbet and Etsy stores and all the

other links I have posted.

Also, make sure you check out the 

Crafty Awesomeness Challenge over at the

CraftingCircle

Entered in the following challenges

Inspiration Destination - Anything goes

Crafting with Attitude - Anything goes

Digital Delights - stamped/digital image 

DL Art - Men/boys

Pretty butterfly card

Hi, today I have a card to share with you that I made following

the sketch this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  Although

I have not done them for quite some time I do love following

a sketch to create a card.

I love the soft colors and how this turned out.

I made the background paper after watching a video

on You Tube from Deanna Paper Crafts.

The butterfly is a Stampin Up stamp that I stamped on watercolor paper and then colored using my Distress Ink pads.

I cut the lacy circle using my Explore and the Sophie cartridge.

This is also one of the sketches for the current challenge going on

at the CraftingCircle message board.  Got till the end

of the month so come on over and play along