Time to Celebrate...

My card this time works for four different challenges!  Not sure how I managed that one, but I did!  Anyway the challenges are:  EtsyInspired, Waltzingmouse, Sentimental Sundays and a brand spankin' new challenge called Birthday Sundaes.  Birthday Sundaes is a challenge devoted solely to helping us get those birthday cards done!  I found Birthday Sundaes through my bloggy friend, Michelle, who is also on the design team.  Make sure you check them out!

The EtsyInspired shop this week is Dollbirdies, a place you can find all kinds of wonderful handmade fabric items like wristlets, camera bags and passport holders.   My card is based on a beautiful wristlet done in grey and white.   The layout is based on the current Waltzingmouse sketch.  I have wanted to try making a card using a banner and this week's layout gave me that chance.   The challenge at Sentimental Sundays was to make your sentiment the main focus of your card.  Hopefully that was accomplished on this card!  And the Birthday Sundaes challenge is "anything goes" just make sure you have a birthday related sentiment on your card.   So... whew!  That's alot for one little card!  Stamps are from Waltzingmouse and Hero Arts.  I used a little image from the WMS set Victorian Frippery to make the banner and an image from Very Vintage Labels 4.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; PP:  SU! Night & Day; Stamps:  WMS Very Vintage Labels 4 & Victorian Frippery, Hero Arts Find Joy; Ink:  Ancient Page Stone Grey & Memento Tuxedo Black; Spellbinders Label 4 dies; Martha Stewart Butterfly punch; Zva Creative pearls; Ranger Old Paper distress ink

A Sentiment Sunday with ColourQ

I haven't had the chance to do a ColourQ challenge in a long time!  I really, really liked the color combo this week... it just really makes me think of spring and daffodils!   I made a version of this card earlier in the week for a Splitcoaststampers challenge and while I liked how that card turned out (and so did the 32 people who put it in their favorites!!) I wanted to make another card using the layout, but change it just a bit.    I love how both cards turned out, but I do like this one a bit better.   The other thing I love about this card??  The clean and simple look.  It just makes me happy!  

When I finished the card I realized that it was a perfect fit for the current Sentimental Sundays challenge to use green (the color or "green"/recycled items... I went with the green color).   The SU! SAB (sale-a-bration) set Bliss is one of my favorites and I used it for the card.  The sentiment is from another SU! set Because I Care.

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Old Olive; Stamps:  SU!; Ink: SU! Early Espresso, Kiwi Kiss; Ribbon:  SU! Daffodil Delight; Pearls:  Hero Arts; Punch:  EK Success bracket punch

Ready For Spring!

Like alot of us I am so ready for spring!  We haven't had the really bad weather like alot of the country has, but there still has been plenty to grumble about here in Washington state! 

My card today is pretty spring like with the bright pink and green combo.  I used this same combo for a card I posted earlier this week.  I just love the Making Memories Dilly Dally papers and had to use them again.  The card is for the following challenges:  Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes; City Crafters - Spring Fling  and the Moxie Fab paper piecing challenge.  The stamps used are from Penny Black and Savvy Stamps.   The flowers were paper pieced (obviously!!) and the leaves were colored with Copic markers (sorry... don't remember what colors I used.).   Some bakers twine from the Twinery and Impress and some pink rhinestones finished everything off.  

Thanks for taking a peek... hope spring is coming soon to you!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Blushing Bride; PTI white; Patterned Paper:  Making Memories Dilly Dally; Stamps:  Penny Black & Savvy Stamps; Ink:  Memento Bamboo Leaves; Copic Markers; Kaiser Craft Rhinestones; Bakers Twine

It's Time to Celebrate...

Happy Valentine's Day!   My card isn't a valentine, but I did use valentine colors of red, pink & white for the card.  After making a few one layer cards that were, quite frankly, less than stellar tonight I have made one that I'm very, very happy with. 

Recently I found a new clean & simple challenge blog called "Less is More" and the challenge there this week is to make a one layer card.   That dovetailed nicely with the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge this week to make.... yep a one layer card!   And the color story came from this week's Sentimental Sundays challenge.  

After messing about all afternoon making a fairly complicated project that I be posting once I get a good photo of it I wanted to make something fairly easy.  I also wanted to make a card using a new Stampin Up! set that I acquired recently called Fast & Fabulous.  I stamped the outline image using SU!'s Cherry Cobbler ink and then the "filler" image in SU!'s Riding Hood Red.  Some SU! Pink Pirouette ribbon was tied at the top and the sentiment from Hero Arts was stamped in Cherry Cobbler.  A few pink rhinestones finished off the card.

Thanks for taking a peek.... yes, I changed the look of my blog, again!  But I think I will keep it this way for awhile...
Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI White; Stamps:  SU! Fast & Fabulous; Inks:  SU! Riding Hood Red & Cherry Cobbler; SU! Pink Pirouette ribbon; Pink Rhinestones

Valentine {Button} Love

A card today for three challenges:

Sentimental Sundays:  Happy Valentine's Day

CR84FN:  Color challenge - light pink, bright pink & brown

Flourishes:  FTTC104  - use buttons

I used the really cute Stampin Up! set Valentine Defined, again, for this card... I'm planning on sending it to my sister for Valentine's Day.  I don't often send out Valentines to people, but this darn set is just so cute that I had to have it and I was determined to make some cards with it!   This card makes number 3! 

Thanks for taking a peek.....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream, SU! Pink Pirouette & Choc. Chip; Stamps:  Valentine Defined; Ink:  SU! Pretty in Pink & Choc. Chip; Buttons:  PTI; Fiskars Corner rounder

One Card... Several Challenges!

One card today that covers four different challenges.   The challenges are as follows:

Stampin' Sisters in Christ:  Use blues and greens

ODBD Shining the Light:  Use blues

Waltzingmouse:  Sketch

Sentimental Sundays:  Celebrate Asia

My WMS set Asian Garden was obviously the perfect set for the Sentimental Sundays challenge and using the tree image worked really well for the WMS sketch, as well.   I kept everything very CAS, as well.  The tree was stamped using SU!'s Certain Celery and River Rock.  The Soft Sky card base was stamped with the large border image from Asian Garden using Soft Sky ink.  I deliberately stamped the border image so that parts would not necessarily transfer completely to the cardstock.   I really like how it turned out. 

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Soft Sky; Stamps:  WMS Asian Garden; Ink:  SU! Soft Sky, River Rock & Certain Celery; Ranger Old Paper distress ink;  Copic Marker; KaiserCraft rhinestones

ODBD + Sentimental Sundays

Posting a card for two challenges:  ODBD Shining the Light (a sketch) and Sentimental Sundays (a color challenge).   The colors we were asked to use are:  Summer Sun, Handsome Hunter, Poppy Parade & Old Olive.  For me, not a group of colors that I found easy to combine.  I thought using the sketch would make it easier, but to be honest it actually made it harder for me.  Oh well... another case of live and learn.  However, in the end I do think that the card turned out rather nice.

I used one of the daffodil images from the Heartfelt Creations set Daffy Daffodils.  The verse is from the ODBD set I am the Way.  I stamped the daffodil on the white cardstock using PTI's Summer Sunrise ink and then stamped the verse over that using SU!'s Old Olive.  In order to make things not look quite so color-blocked I embossed the white cardstock with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and stamped the Poppy Parade strip with CHF backgrounder Climbing Leaves using Versamark ink.    The ribbon is Summer Sunrise, as well.

Thanks for taking a peek....  Finally... I just have to say that I'm still pinching myself over winning the Moxie Fab Grey is the New Black challenge and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the lovely comments people have been leaving me!  It definitely made my day!

Supplies:  cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Handsome Hunter, Poppy Parade & Old Olive; Ink:  SU! Old Olive, PTI Summer Sunrise, VersaMark; Cuttlebug; Birds & Vines ef; Spellbinders plain oval dies; scalloped square dies; PTI Summer Sunrise grosgrain ribbon; Stamps:  ODBD, Heartfelt Creations & Cornish Hertiage Farms

Its A DeNami Kinda Day...

Two card today that I made using stamps from DeNami Design.  The first card is for the current Sentimental Sundays challenge "winter" or more specifically what winter is like in your part of the world.  Well in my part of the world, the Pacific Northwest, winter means rain!   Occasionally we have snow in the lowlands, but not very often.   So, for my card I got out my super cute DeNami stamp Mimi in the Rain.  I stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black and then colored her with some Copic Markers (RV00, RV02, Y21, G21, E21 & E37).    My intention had been to use Mimi for the current DeNami sketch challenge, but unfortunately that didn't work out.   The sentiment was computered generated.

So.... darn!  I had to make a second card!  This one for the sketch.  I used one of my favorite DeNami stamps "Leafy Vine Wreath".  I stamped it in Memento Pear Tart and added a bit of color with YG00.  I combined the image with PTI's Simply Chartruse patterned paper and ribbon and kraft cardstock.  A bit of bling was added, as well.   Overall I like how the card turned out.

Both cards are a little breath of spring, I think!   Something we could all use right now!

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Mimi card:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Pink Pirouette & So Saffron; X-press It Blending paper;  SU! patterned paper; Copic Markers; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Buttons

Leafy Vine Wreath card:  Cardstock:  PTI White & Kraft; PTI Simply Chartruse Bitty Dot Basic; Simply Chartruse double stitched ribbon; KaiserCraft bling; Fiskars corner rounders

Winged Things...

The challenges at both Stampin' Sisters in Christ and Sentimental Sundays involve using things with wings:  butterflies, birds, etc.  Well I recently got the new Graphic 45 8x8 pad called Once Upon a Springtime and it is full of winged things like butterflies, birds and fairies!!  I decided to use the fairies for my card.  This card also fits the current ODBDSLC challenge to use something old and something new.  My old is the lace and the ODBD stamp set and my new is the Graphic 45 paper and the seam binding.

Thanks for taking a peek today!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Fine Linen & Vintage Cream, PP:  Graphic45; Stamps:  ODBD Grow in Grace; Lace:  Hero Arts; Seam Binding:  Stampin Up!; Spellbinders plain & scalloped small ovals dies

Friends are....

the most wonderful thing!  I'm so glad that I have made some lovely "friends I haven't met, yet" here in the papercrafting world!  Hopefully I will be able to meet some of you in real life one day!  When I made this card today I wasn't necessarily thinking that this would be entered into any challenges, but the more I looked at it the more I realized it fit several out there.  First, it works for the current Sentimental Sundays challenge:  Friendship.  Second it fits the current Flourishes challenge:  flowers.  And third, I used the current Mojo Monday sketch for the card. 

I started out by coloring the image from JustRite Stampers (My Garden set) with the following Copic makers:  RV93, RV32, RV34, Y21 & Y17.  I then diecut the image using a plain large Spellbinders circle die.  I stamped the border and diecut it using another plain large Spellbinders circle die and layered the two.  The color story was dictated by the Copic markers.   After looking at the colored image for a bit I pulled out some PTI Lavendar Moon cardstock and saw it was a perfect match.  I followed the sketch pretty closely.

Thanks for taking a peek...  thanks for your friendship!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Lavendar Moon; SU! black; Xpress Blend-It white; PP:  PTI Bitty Dot Basics Lavendar Moon; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Stamps:  JustRite Stampers My Garden Centers & Borders; Ribbon:  PTI Lavendar Moon; Button:  DeNami Design; Twine:  PTI; Spellbinders Plain Large Circle dies; Cuttlebug; Copic Markers

Playing with Glitter

I have a stinkin', rottin' cold and so what do I decide to do???  Play with GLITTER!  Though my head is fuzzy from this head cold, I remembered that I had some chipboard snowflakes knocking around somewhere and lots of beautiful Art Glitter that I hardly ever use.  The push over the edge put the two together was the current Sentimental Sundays challenge:  Let It Snow!   The current City Crafters challenge is Let it Snow, as well so I will be putting this card into their challenge, as well. 

After digging around I found the snowflakes and got out the glitter.  I covered the snowflake with this lovely shade of glitter called "Wisteria" and matched it up with some lovely Websters Pages patterned paper (WonderFall/Hollywood Vogue combo pack).  The ribbon is PTI's Lavendar Moon.  The card layout is based on the current Clean & Simple layout.

ETA: Decided to drop this into the current Moxie Fab Glitter is Glam challenge.
Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI White; PP:  Websters Pages; Stamps:  PTI  Winter Swirls; Ink:  PTI True Black; Art Glitter; chipboard snowflake (unknown); Ribbon:  PTI Lavendar Moon.

Tryin' Some Shabby Craftin...

and well.... I think I need more practice!  Anyway, I gave it a go and the more I try the better I should get (I hope!), right???   And this one little card is for four (yes four!!) different challenges.  I have always kinda balked at the idea of making a card for more than one challenge and marveled at all those gals who would make one card for like 10 challenges!  But now I'm starting to see the wisdom of their ways....  So my card is for the following challenges:  Etsy Inspired, Stampin' Sisters in Christ, Sentimental Sundays & Waltzingmouse. 

The inspiration came from Etsy Inspired and the layout from Waltzingmouse.   The Etsy store this week is Heartsong and I chose this fun little item from her store for my inspiration:  

My Hero Arts cling set Two Birds was perfect for the card.  I did some paper piecing using Websters Pages Petite Pages collection Hollywood Vogue/WonderFALL. 

The challenge this week at Sentimental Sundays is to use 3 designer papers, 3 buttons and some ribbon.  I managed to accomplish all that, but it was tricky.  For Stampin' Sisters I need to use a sentiment that conveyed encouragment or congratulations... Best Wishes fits the congratulations bill (but barely!).    

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Rustic White; PP:  Websters Pages; Ink:  Ranger Forest Moss Distress ink; Memento Rich Cocoa; Stamps:  Hero Arts & Stampin Up!; Pearl:  Zva Creative; Buttons unknown; Silk Ribbon Creative Impressions

Give Thanks....

A card today for two challenges:  Sentimental Sundays & Stampin Sisters in Christ.  Both challenges asked us to make cards that express giving thanks.  I used the current SCS color challenge colors (kraft, cherry cobler & chocolate chip) for the card.  The stamps are from Stampin Up! (Medallion) and Verve (a Plain Jane - 1 Chronicle 16:34). 

I stamped the Medallion with VersaMark Dazzle Champagne on the Cherry Cobler cardstock.  The sentiment was stamped with Cherry Cobler ink.  Some Zva Creative bling and a big fat bow.

Thanks for taking a peek... have a great day.   Its cold, cold, cold here so I'm staying inside!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream & Kraft; Stampin Up! Cherry Cobler & Choc. Chip; Stamps:  Stampin Up! Medallion; Verve Plain Jane; Ink:  VersaMark Dazzle; Stampin Up! Cherry Cobler; Ribbon:  Stampin Up! Choc. Chip striped ribbon; Zva Creative rhinestone flourish

Heartfelt Wednesday + a Sentimental Sunday

Its Wednesday and time for a project made using Heartfelt Creations stamps.  I also made this card for the current Sentimental Sundays challenge:  Childhood.   I don't have many stamps of children, but I do happen to have two from Heartfelt Creations.  The one I'm using today is called "Chickadee Surprise".  I did some paper piecing, as well as a bit of coloring on this sweet little girl.   The card layout is based on the sketch provided for the current Corrosive challenge. 

Thanks for taking a peek... hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!  Oh... and one more thing... thanks to the sweet gals at Sentimental Sundays for picking my card last week for the Top Three!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Bazzill (red & light sage green); Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Wassill; Ink:  Stampin Up! Early Espresso; Stamp:  Heartfelt Creations:  Chickadee Surprise (714E); Punch:  Stampin Up! Lace; Spellbinders plain & scalloped circle dies; Prisma pencils and blender pencil

Sentimental Sundays + ODBDSLC

I just recently discovered the challenge blog Sentimental Sundays.  This week's challenge is a sketch and so I thought I would give it a go.  I combined the Sentimental Sundays challenge (#28) with the current challenge from ODBD's Shining the Light (#36) to use silver or gold cording, twine/string or hemp.  I went with twine for my card.  I used the Hero Arts cling, Classic Holly and a sentiment from the ODBD Holly Tag set.    The patterned papers are from Webster's Pages holiday 2009 collection.   Lots of distressing and "fussy" cutting for this project.  I love how the card turned out.

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Gina K. Wine; PTI Fine Linen; Stamps:  Hero Arts Classic Holly; ODBD Holly Tag set; Ink:  Palette Burnt Umber; Red Prisma pencil; PP:  Webster's Pages