Flutter By Wednesdays #162 - Inspiration Photo

Happy Wednesday!

We have a fun challenge for you at Flutter By Wednesdays this week.  Danni has selected this lovely inspiration picture for us to use.

Don't forget to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creations!  Click HERE to enter your project.

I loved the picture from the moment I saw it and I knew I wanted to use my TAC Sunflowers stamp set that I bought from Danni a few months ago.  My first idea was to create a card but I couldn't find the stamp set....then I was going to scrap a page from a visit to a sunflower maze a few years ago...I wasn't in the mood to scrap so I decided to make a bookmark since I have been reading a lot lately.  Guess what I found? The stamp set! Yay!

I pulled out some Papertrey Ink cardstock scraps in Simply Chartreuse and Kraft and stamped the sunflowers and butterfly from the TAC set and quotes/sentiments from the Papertrey Ink All Booked Up set.

It was interesting to color on the green cardstock, the yellow didn't look yellow until it dried. I was a little afraid I'd have to toss it out! Thankfully both bookmarks turned out the way I had hoped and now I just have to decide which one to use first.  I just started The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice yesterday, what does everyone else have on their summer reading list?

I am also entering the following challenges:
Charisma Cards #27 - All About Flowers
Digi Doodle Shop #66 - Butterflies
Stampin' for the Weekend #12 - Wings and Things
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #13 - Anything But a Card

Thanks for fluttering by today!

PTT #5

Today's PTT challenge is "Anything Goes Birthday", don't forget the birthday greeting/sentiment!

I created a card for my boss' birthday that is this coming weekend - it's not easy to keep coming up with these masculine cards...I need to make another one in a few weeks LOL


I used one of Mercy's fab sketches for the layout, MTSC78.


I also found these challenges to enter:
Charisma Cardz #25 - for the boys
Paper Sundaes #24 - birthday
Stamp with Fun #65 - birthday

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Alphabet Soup ~ Stampin' Up
Paper: Quite Contrary ~ My Mind's Eye
Ink: Memento (and yay, I inked all the edges and didn't end up wearing any of it LOL!!)
Other: EK Success border punch

To play along, please check out the details on the Party Time Tuesdays blog and for more inspiration, you can check out the design teams' cards - links on my left sidebar!

TFL!

Happy April!

Happy April!

I totally forgot to do my end of the month roundup for March...let's just say it didn't stack up to the first two months of the year. Hopefully I'll do much better this month!

Here is a card that I created on Thursday night for quite a few challenges :)


I love, love, love this card and hated to mail it away this morning lol. The spotlight technique is one of my favorite to use. The layout is from a sketch posted on the House Mouse challenge blog a few weeks ago.

Challenges completed:

Pile it On #12 - Animal-riffic!
Corrosive Challenge - Easter or Spring
Everybody Art Challenge #84 - Spring
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Fab 'N Funky Challenges #17 - Spring is in the Air
Little Red Wagon #22 Rolling into Spring
Charisma Cards #13 Animal Magic
Treehouse Thursday #43 Spotlight Technique

Card Supplies
Stamps: Bed of Flowers ~ House Mouse
Paper: Basic Grey Euphoria
Ink: Memento
Copics: E31, E33, E35, R81, RV17, V06
Other: CM circle punch, Studio 18 rhinestones, prima flowers

Off to enjoy the nice weather for a bit, will be back later with a card I finished this morning!

Ribbons & Cake!

For the last few weeks, I've been looking through old Creating Keepsakes magazines at lunch time, I have found lots of inspiration to finally start using.

I saw a card like this in one of the issues and just knew I had to replicate it! Their card was all ribbon but I knew for a birthday card, I had to add cake since no birthday is complete without cake LOL!


This yummalicious cake is from Jane's Bakery set at Squigglefly, illustrated by artist Jane Beljo. I am entering my card into the following challenges: Charisma Cardz #8 (birthday card and it must include a candle -check!), C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #39 (Ribbon & Sparkle - check & check (candle & plate are sparkly), and last but not least Cute Card Thursday #101 (Ribbon-tastic! - I think I've got that one covered lol!!)

Did you check out Squigglefly's new releases yesterday? If not, get over there, new images for Easter and Spring are out. Next weekend there will be a mini release of paper and images.

Card Supplies
Stamp: Jane's Bakery ~ Squigglefly
Copics: Y35, BG01, E27
Other: American Crafts ribbon, glossy accents, spica glitter pens

I'll be back throughout the day with more cards to share!

Happy Valentine's Day x 12!!

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you are enjoying your day :) My sweetie is making me dinner tonight and we having a nice day together here at home.

This is the card I made for him -


When I saw the Tech Talk set by Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs, I just knew I had to get it so I can make my techy guy cards with it. I stamped the laptop on paper from the Basic Grey Ambrosia paper pad and I stamped the 'happy vday' using letters from the Multi Retro My Sentiments Exactly set and the happy face is from the Tech Talk set. I found the cool ribbon at Michaels on clearance last night...yes, I waited til late last night to make my card, typical me!!

The layout is this week's sketch at Our Creative Corner -


This card is also for the following challenges:

Ooh-La-La Creations #47 - Love
Stamp with Fun #45 - Hearts
Stampin Royalty #6 - Love/Valentines
Charisma Cardz #6 - Think Male
Cute Card Thursday #99 - In the Name of Love
Dutch Dare Challenge #71 Valentine's Day Card
Lili of the Valley #46 - Valentines
Treehouse Thursday #36 - Say it with Love
Daring Cardmakers - Have a Heart
Everybody Art #77 - Valentines
The Pink Elephant #53 - Mushy Gushy Valentine

Thanks for looking! I'll be back soon with my cards for The Weekend Crew challenge :)

Hearts Galore

February is off to such a slow start for me! It's the 7th and I've only made 4 cards and 3 of those were today.

This weekend our 'theme' weekend was to use scraps, I hardly made a dent in mine! Here is the first card using the Mojo124 sketch. I love all the layers :)

The dp is all scraps of DCWV paper from one of my many stacks and the stamp is from the CTMH set Love You. You can't tell in the picture but I popped the stamped heart on micro pop dots to give it just a little dimension.

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:
The Pink Elephant #52 - All About Pink
Creative Card Crew #44 - Valentines
Charisma Cardz #5 - I Love You
Stamp Somethings - Love Somethings
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges #36 - Love/Valentines

Here is the sketch:

Check out what the rest of the Weekend Crew has been making with their scraps. Links are on my right sidebar!

TFL!

Squigglefly Sneak Peek!

I'm finally back! But hey there is still a little over an hour left to the day LOL!

Here is one of the new stamps coming out at Squigglefly this Saturday!

It's called Puppy Love and was drawn by Nina Brackett. I just love his heart shaped nose!! And better yet, this sentiment and one other come with the image!

The layout is from Our Creative Corner -

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz #2 - Anything New! - hey, I've got a new image!
PaperPlay 10 - Week 2 - Furry Friends

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Puppy Love ~ Squigglefly
Paper: DCWV, Paper Co.
Copics: E25, RV11
Accessories: misc. brad, ribbon ~ Joanns, Fiskars Threading Water Punch


Thanks for looking! I'll have another peek for you tomorrow night!