Open Challenge this week @ FBW!

It's Wednesday...and this is the only card I've made this week.  {sigh - think my mojo flew off to cooler weather}

We have an open challenge this week for Flutter By Wednesdays - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. I sat down with no plan last night but I think I pulled it together okay. I was going to add more colors to the card but I really liked the cream, green & black combo once I started gluing things down. Please click HERE to enter your creation at FBW!

Other challenges I incorporated
Deep Ocean Challenge #4 - Ribbons
Everybody Art #151 - Dots
Stamps R Us - Through the Garden Gate
Once Stitch at a Time #71 - Flowers
PaperPlay Challenges #28 - Things with Wings

Card Recipe
Stamps - Poppy Collage by Memory Box
Paper - Hometown Summer by Pink Paislee, misc. cardstock
Ink - Bamboo Leaves by Memento
Other - Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Recollections pearls, Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot

Thank you for fluttering by today!! Hopefully I'll be able to get more done to share soon!

Flutter By Wednesday #161

It's the middle of the week already, yay! 

Time for another Flutter By Wednesdays Challenge! It's an open challenge, just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. This week we are being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique and were provided with some images to play with. Please click HERE to check out the FBW blog to enter your creation and see what you can win!

Here is my card using Audrey at the Well~

I used last week's Sweet Sunday Sketch for the layout and made it into a square to accommodate the size of the image.

I am also entering these challenges:

Clear It Out Tuesday - Wing It Out

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

TFL!

Supply List~
Stamps: Audrey at the Well by The Stamping Boutique
Paper: Copic Xpress Blend It cardstock, Memory Box Minuet
Other: copics, nestabilities, bling from stash, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Make A Wish

{Please click here for my PaperCutz Star Spangled Blop Hop post}

I'm back with another card for a few challenges!

I have grown to love silhouette images, they make such a striking impact on a card. My favorites are from Paper Makeup Stamps, this image and sentiment are from the Dandy Wishes set which I won in their summer blog hop last month. I heat embossed both the image and sentiment with Colorbox ink, love the result! I tried it in white...not so good lol. I need to buy Colorbox ink in white. While I was cleaning this week I found my old chalks and chalked the image with Pebbles Ink pearlescent chalk.  

I used the current sketch challenge at Taylored Expressions

and will enter my card in the following challenges:

Simply Create #47 - Silhouettes

Sentimental Sundays #62 - Anything Goes with a sentiment

TFL!

Supply List~

Stamps: Dandy Wishes ~ Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Memory Box Minuet, PTI Stampers Select White

Ink: Colorbox Black

Other: heat gun, Nestabilities Large Deckled Rectangles, PTI ribbon, Martha Stewart punches, pearls from stash, Pebbles Ink Pearlescent chalk

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #8

This week we have a recipe challenge for you at Birthday Sundaes! We'd like you to create a birthday card using 3 different embellishments & 2 patterned papers.

I started off using THIS SKETCH from Sweet Sunday Sketch but I took a wrong turn somewhere and had to make some changes lol. Lesson for today is to measure all the pieces first instead of gluing down each piece as you go!

If you'd like to play along, please click HERE!

Products Used:
Bird stamp from Memory Box
Sentiment from Verve
Basic Grey Marjolaine papers, ribbon doilie & button
PTI Kraft paper
Misc. bling from my stash
SU Corner Rounder

TFL!

Challenge Projects - Day 1

It's only Day 1 and I am loving the Layout a Day challenge and May with May class!

The LOAD prompt for today was to use the basics - photos, cardstock, patterned paper, journaling and a title. I was able to do this page in about 30 minutes and didn't use a sketch! I am so impressed with myself LOL! It was nice not fussing around trying to find the 'perfect' paper or embellishments. 

May's prompt for the May with May class was to complete a crafty project is 30 minutes or less. Now I could have taken the easy way out and used my LOAD page but nope, I'm all about getting crafty this month so I challenged myself to make a card!  I pulled out a stamp that's never seen ink (yay me!) and I used the paper & embellishments already on my desk from yesterday.

LOAD supplies - Bazzill cardstock, DCWV patterned paper (from the OLD stash!), Thickers, zig writer pen

Card supplies - Spring Birds stamp from Memory Box, MME Stella & Rose Hazel papers, Queen & Co pearls, copics (R32, R35, YG03, YG67, G20, BG13, BG23)

TFL!

FBW #148 - Buttons & Bows

Happy Wednesday!

I am so excited to bring you a new Flutter By Wednesday challenge - did you know that we had over 200 entries last week - woohoo!! Can we top that this week? I bet you'd like to know the challenge before answering that question right? lol

We'd like to see Buttons AND Bows on your card/project this week (must have both!) along with a butterfly, fairy or angel.  I had so much fun putting my card together! I started by picking out my stamps first - some newer ones from Memory Box ~ Leaf Print Butterfly and Vintage Record Sheet. Then I was going to use some Memory Box paper but I couldn't find it and decided to break open my Pink Paislee Queen Bee 6x6 pad that has been collecting dust for quite some time. In my blog hopping over the past few weeks I have seen a lot of layered embellishments and incorporated a button & bow in one for my card.  I really like how it turned out!  The sentiment is from the Verve Kind Words set. 

To play along with Flutter By Wednesday, please click HERE and check out more samples from the awesome DT using the links on the left sidebar!

TFL!

Flutter By Wednesday #142 – Rainbows or a Rainbow of Colors!

Happy Wednesday!

Today we have a super fun (in my opinion lol) challenge for you at Flutter By Wednesday! We would like to see rainbows or a rainbow of colors along with your butterfly, fairy or angel!

My original plan was to use rainbows & butterflies to create an outdoor scene but then yesterday I had a great idea to break out my Leigh Fairy from PMS (who hadn’t seen ink yet!) and create a card for a special friend of mine. I used the PMS Raindrops & Rainbows set as well for the rainbow and word art that I put inside the card. Yes I decorate the inside of another card, nothing fancy but it’s not plain yay me! It’s a little hard to see but I used crystal stickles on the wings and clouds and diamond glaze on the puddle & raindrops.

To play along, please enter your card HERE and for more inspiration, please visit the rest of the DT. Links on my left sidebar!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Leigh Fairy, Raindrops & Rainbows set – both from Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Memory Box Brioche, Georgia Pacific cardstock
Ink: Memento
Copics: R00, R20, E00, E33, E35, E37, Y32, Y35, Y38, B000, B02, B04, R29
Other: crystal stickles, diamond glaze, labels 8 nestabilities, EK Success scalloped border punch

TFL!

Tri-Shutter Friendship Card

On another yahoo group I belong to, Scrap Friendly, we were challenged to create a tri-shutter card. Seeing as I never made one, I decided to finally try it out. I used this SCS tutorial, I had a bit of a tough time getting the card base right...probably since I started it really late last night lol! I incorporated a friendship quote to enter The Paper Variety's friendship challenge.

The paper is Memory Box Brioche, I picked it up at a stamp store a few weekends ago and yes, shocker I cut into it already! The quote is from The Purpose of Friendship set by Paper Makeup Stamps. I accented the card using a Martha Stewart punch, bling from my stash, felt flowers cut out with Nestabilities and an EK Success border punch.

This is the full card~

Another shot with a better view of the quote~

TFL!