A Purple Giraffe?

Hello, well here it is the 1st of February so it is time for

a new Crafty Awesomeness Challenge over at Crafting Circle.

This month our sponsor is 

Cute As A Button digital images.

I have a great-granddaughter's 6th birthday coming up so

I chose to use this cute giraffe

image.

I colored "her" using my Copic markers.  Fro some reason I never color

a giraffe a normal giraffe color lol.  My G-granddaughter loves purple

so purple it was.   

I cut him out using one of my new Gina Marie dies, I LOVE this 

Loopy Edge rectangle.  I embossed the pearl yellow background and added

a glitter panel down the center, after all, a little girl can't

have too much sparkle.

I cut a wavy ribbon banner out using my Cricut Explore

and then stamped it with a Unity Stamp from the 

So Glad you were Born set.

You have a whole month to create something for the 

Crafty Awesomeness challenge,

so come on over and join the fun.

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

Cute as a Button Elephant

Hello all!

I have a card to share with you today that I made using an image

from Cute as a Button, this cute little elephant is called 

Raggedy Elphie Buttons.  

I though he would look cute under the banner which is also from

Cute as a Button.   I colored everything using my Copic markers twice.  

One I hand cut out so I could place it on top of the "hill" I cut using my 

Sweet Pea Design die.

I then layered using papers from Simple Stories paper pack that has chevron, stripes and polka dots in it.  Perfect combination for me.

I will be adding happy 1st birthday to it later as I will use it for my Great-granddaughter first birthday which will be a circus theme.

Well thanks for stopping by.

Watermelon Patch

I have a super cute card to share with you today.

I created this card for the sketch challenge over at 

Sugar Pea Designs, unfortunately I don't have any of their

stamps yet (they are on there way!) so I used this

darling image from Cute as a Button.  In fact this is the

freebie for the month of March. 

I am learning so much from the Kit and Clowder classes especially using

my Prisma Pencils. So this image is colored with my Prisma Pencils and then cut out using one of my Wonky rectangle dies.  The papers are all from my single

sheet stash.  I added the sentiment which was written and cut using my Cricut Explore.

I will enter this into the challenge over at:

Sugar Pea Designs - sketch