A Sunflower Birthday

Hi, it's been a few days so I thought I would post another card I made.

This has a Fall look to it, I know I know we haven't even gotten

to Summer yet lol.

This is a Stampin Up stamp from quite a few years ago.

I colored it using my Prisma and Inktense pencils.  I just recently

got my Inktense pencils and wanted to try them out.  I really like

them, the colors are very vibrant.

The metal sunflower I had bought a long time ago and finally

got to use it.

Well thanks for stopping by, back in a few days with another post.

Have a great night. 

Hubby's Birthday Card

Hi, I wanted to share with the card I made for

my hubbys birthday which is early this month.

I actually had to go picking through the garbage to

get one I needed to make this card.

He loves his Lite beer so I got one of the cans out of the garbage and cut the label out using my Big Shot and an oval die.

The mug and foam are a Repeat Impressions stamp that I stamped and colored with my Copics.  I added some puffy embossing powder to the foam so it

is dimensional.  I glues the piece of can onto the front of the

mug.  I embossed the background using a Darcie border embossing folder and 

just embossed it several times across the front.

That's it pretty simple but perfect for him.

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.

It's an Order...

Hi, hope everyone had a wonderful Easter yesterday.

Our was quiet but very nice.

Today I have a card to share that I made following the sketch over at the

sketch challenge What If Wednesday   from The House that Stamps Built.

  The image is from KennyK that I colored suing my Copic markers.

I printed up some digital paper from Sassy Designs.  So glad I had that camo print.  The banner was written and cut using my Cricut Explore.

I added some corners that are dies from My Little Paper World.  I love these corner dies.

The inside I also wrote using my Explore.

This card will be entered into the following challenges.

What if Wednesday - Sketch

Everybody Art - Anything goes 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Bugaboo Birdie

Hi, I have a card to share using this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

I used a Bugaboo image and colored it using my Copic markers.

Isn't he cute?  I added some Crystal Lacquer to the balloons

and a few glitter highlights here and there but you can't see them in the photo. 

I cut him out using one of my Gina Marie dies and then created a shadow

layer to it using Design Space and cut it out with my Explore.   I was happy that

I found the exact shape with the correct aide dimensions.  

The papers I used are from an older DCWV stack called 

Flower Shower Spring stack.  Love this combination of colors.

I used one of my new Sugar Pea stamps.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today as always I 

love to read your comments.

I'll be adding this to the following challenges.

Cardz4Galz - Cute & Cuddly

Mojo Monday - sketch 

Craft Sentiments - any shape

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes

Hello Butterfly

Hi, wow posting 2 days in a row.

This is a very simple quick card that I saw on Pinterest and just

had to create one myself.  It was originally posted by 

Mary's Craft Room.

I used my Stampin Up Butterfly Framelits.  I love this set of 

dies  as you can tell cause I have been using them a lot and they

have such a delicate look.

So that I could paint my swashes right where I wanted them

I had to mark the butterfly image somehow on my paper, so here it what I did.

I place my die upside down on top of the watercolor paper and ran it through my Big Shot.

That left just enough of an impression of where I wanted my butterfly to be cut out so I could add my paint.  Then I painted with watercolor color paints

across the butterfly impression then cut out the butterfly. 

In order for me to mat the the panel I had to cut out another butterfly

in the exact same spot on a piece pink of paper.

To finish it off I stamped the "hello" in black ink.  The hello reminds me of 

a doodling kind of writing.

This card is so easy to create, go ahead and give it a try.

I will enter it in the following challenges.

Addicted to CAS - delicate

Simply Less is More - What's outside your window

Casolody - Doodle

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Punches/Dies

Teal & Green Birthday

Hello, I back to post a birthday card, yes another birthday

card.  It seems like I make a lot of birthday cards, well I do because that is

what I use the most of.  

I love this color combination especially with the splash of purple

in there.  The paper is from K&Company Floral Dreams.

One of my favorite paper stacks, oh who am I kidding they are

all my favorites, I am a paper hoarder. 

 This is a half fold card, which I love making sometimes

to get more impact.

The happy birthday is a CTMH stamp and I added some lace

to give it a more elegant look.

Well that's it, would love to hear what you think of my card.

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

Enjoy the Ride

Hello hope everyone is doing well.  

Today I have a card to share with you that has a couple things going on 

with it.  First off it is following one of the sketches

over at the Crafting Circle message board Monthly

Sketch Challenge.  There is usually an extra credit thing

to to further challenge us and this month the extra credit

is to do a "new fold" card.

I colored this Mo Manning image using my Copic markers.  I mounted her

on a panel and then used one of my corner punches to add some fancy

corners.  I think this image is so cute.  I stamped the sentiment with

a CTMH stamp that I thought was perfect for the image.

This card opens a bit like a joy fold card but then has an interesting

twist when you open the inside.  Not a very good picture of

it but here it is opened.

Here is another angle.

It was so easy to create because our hostess Sandy for this months challenge

even provided us with a cut file for the Cricut Explore.

I'll add something to the inside when I decide how

I will use it.

Thanks for stopping by.

I will entering this in the following challenges:

Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes

The Pencil Case - Any colored Image

The House that Stamps Built - more than one fold

Wood Plank Card

Hi, hope everyone is having a great day!

I saw this technique a few weeks back on 

The House that Stamps Built blog. Every Thursday

they feature a Project of the week and this technique was

one of those projects  Plank Background .

It looked easy enough to do and produced a great result.

So here is my card I made using this technique to make my 

background plank paper.

I added a panel which I embossed with a wood-grain pattern. 

I actually created this card following one of the sketches for the

Monthly Sketch Challenge over at the Crafting Circle.

The challenge runs the whole month of March so you still

jave plenty of time to hop on over and join in.

The sentiment I made up (I know kind of corny) and wrote using my Cricut Explore.

Here is what the inside looks like also written with the Explore.

So that's it, that my card for today.

Have a great weekend!