A Penguin Birthday

Here's another card I made today!  Last weekend I colored 8 images to match a kit I got last year or the year before from Taylored Expressions. Having all the images pre-colored really speeds up my card making!

My niece is turning 4 this week so I will give this card to her. I know it's not pink LOL!  But it's a card done ahead of time for a change!  The end of the week will be busy for me and I know I won't have time to make a card then. 

I used the Techno Stamper Lunchtime Sketch~

TFL!

Supplies~
Stamps: The Cat's Pajamas
Paper: Bazzill cardstock, MME So Sophie Clever 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics
Other: MFT Chevron Stripes Die-namics, MFT Fishtail Stax, yellow stickles

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #19

Good morning!! Are you all enjoying your weekend?  I got my new glasses yesterday, yay I can clearly again!

Last week we had an amazing number of entries at Birthday Sundaes! Wow!! I'm still looking through all the fabulous entries that were entered. This week we have another fun challenge for you! You can enter your card HERE and check out all the DT samples while you are there too!

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This week's challenge is to create a birthday card using the following Inspiration Photo - I can't wait to see how you all will interpret it.  I think it's a fun one for summer! Don't forget your birthday wording on your card front!

Here is my take on it~

I combined two The Cat's Pajamas sets on my card.  The beach image is from By the Sea and the birthday sentiment is from You Say It's Your Birthday. I love how the sentiment looks like waves! How perfect is the paper, it's from the Basic Grey Granola paper pad.

I used this week's SCS card sketch ~

My card also follows these fun challenges~

Clear It Out - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge #23 - Happy Birthday

Did you hear about Birthday Sundaes blog hop on July 31st??

You can check out the announcement HERE!

Have a great day! I'm hoping to get a little crafty after getting some house chores done and I think my hubby & I may go out to dinner, we are celebrating 2 years of home ownership today!

PaperCutz Challenge #99!

TGIF!

I'm excited to share my PaperCutz Challenge card with you all.  I used the Cricut again!  I really am trying to be better about using the tools that I have and the Cricut is at the top of the list.

This week's challenge is to create a card, layout or project using a Cricut cut, hand stamped or digital stamped image of an ice cream cone, popsicle, ice cream sundae or milk shake using any colors/themes you'd like.  Normally I would turn to my stamps but....I remembered that Doodlecharms has popsicles on it and that is a cartridge I very rarely use. Once I settled on paper to use, the card came together quickly!

All the papers are from the Fancy Pants Beach Babe 6x6 pad and I added a few rhinestones and stamped a sentiment from a summer Cat's Pajamas stamp set.  I inked the edges of the card with Colorbox Chestnut Roan chalk ink.

We'd love to have you join us this week! Click HERE to enter your creation and check out all the fun summery DT samples!

January SFYTT

First ~ thank you to everyone that commented on my 'white on white' card! I so appreciate all of them!

With just a few days to spare, I am getting my January SFYTT card posted. I started it last Saturday at a friend's house and then I decided to add glitter to the frosting one night. Then the next night I was going to post it and then decided to add glitter to the candles lol. One can never have too much glitter!

This adorable bunny is from The Cat's Pajamas and is called Forget About the Cake. He was so happy to get out of the package and get inked up! The happy paper is from SEI called Happy Day. A tip regarding the sentiment, it was one long sentiment and I folded it over a clear block so I could stamp it on two lines.

Here is the sketch~
TFL!

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Challenge #1

I just {heart} Sparkle’s blog and was so excited when she announced the opening of her new stamp company.  I had to get a few of her cuties to play with.

This is Swimming Lucy and I created this card for Challenge #1 at Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps.

I went to a crop yesterday and challenged myself to try different folds on cards, this one is a joy fold card. I was very surprised at how easy it went to together!  I made 10 cards total which will be posted sporadically as the recipients receive them (and a few are for upcoming PTT challenges!) You can find the joy fold card tutorial on SCS here.

Here is the inside of the card ~

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Swimming Lucy ~ Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, Fun in the Sun ~ The Cat’s Pajamas
Paper: Bo Bunny, Bazzill
Ink: Memento
Other: copics, sundance smooch, spica pens, pop dots<\br>

TFL!

Magnolia Stamps Weekend

This weekend Danni chose Magnolia Stamps to play with, I had hoped to get a lot done but sadly, that hasn't happened.

I did finish this card last night for one of my card group's sketch challenge.



This is Chef Tilda and her rolling pin from the Yummy from the Tummy collection. I got the fall kit from Magnolia Stamps and these were part of it...its winter and I finally inked them up LOL!

Check out the blogs of Danni, Nancy & Kimberly to see what Magnolia creations they have been posting!

Card Supplies:
Stamps: Chef Tilda & rolling pin ~ Magnolia Stamps, sentiment ~ MFT, cupcake ~ The Cat's Pajamas
Paper: Basic Grey Nook & Pantry
Copics: E00, E02, R21, R24, R27, E41, E33, E35, E37
Other: ribbon ~ Michaels, CM circle punch

Three Card Monday...

...but I can only share two with you today. Need to wait for one of them to be received before I can share it.

I created this card using today's Mojo Monday sketch:
Here is Card #2
and here is the sketch that I used - yesterday's Card Positioning Systems sketch. I flipped it to accommodate my image. I looooooove how this card turned out!!!

Supplies Used:
Card 1
Stamp: The Cat's Pajamas (one of the birthday sets), Make a Wish was cut from Fluffles Cupcake
Paper: Basic Grey Cupcake
Ink: Memento
Copics: R46, Y21, E27, T1
Accessories: Marvy scallop punches, Fiskars threading water punch, glossy accents, American Crafts ribbon

Card 2
Stamp: Dogwalkabella ~ Stamping Bella, Thinking of You ~ Hero Arts
Paper: Basic Grey June Bug, PTI True Black
Ink: Memento
Copics: R29, T1, T3, N7, B95, B97, E27, E37, Y35, R01, E35
Accessories: Fiskars threading water punch, Marvy scallop punch, SU corner rounder, glossy accents

I'll be back tomorrow to share some more Fall/Thanksgiving cards that I forgot to share earlier in the month!

Stamptacular Sunday #13 - Party Animal

As soon as I saw this challenge on Sunday, I immediately knew that I wanted to use the penguin stamp from the TCP Smells Like Cake set. Don't they look like party animals lighting up that yummy cupcake?

I decided to make my first gatefold card...I have to say it didn't turn out quite like I expected. I think I finally figured out the problem, the sentiment is too big to cover just a tiny bit of the main image (which is why I moved it to the bottom!). I'll have to try it again soon and see if I can get it to close!

I also decorated the inside a bit since it peeks out from the front.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Smells Like Cake ~ The Cat's Pajamas
Paper: DCWV Sweet Stack, GP, brown (stash)
Ink: Tuxedo Black, Angel Pink ~ Memento, Copics ~ Y32, E57,R43,R81,YR16
Accessories: Labels One Nestabilities, stardust stickles

Thanks for visiting!

Do I Smell Cake?

This is the card that I gave to my nephew over the weekend for his 15th birthday. I had a hard time deciding what to use since I don't have much in the stash that works for teen boys. I finally decided on this dog from The Cat Pajama's Smells Like Cake set. I just love this stamp set, such fun images for birthday cards!

I used Tracy's Eat Sleep Stamp Sketch #42 for the layout. Its simple and effective, I like having a lot of the background showing. I will definitely be using this again as it will look good flipped or rotated.

The Recipe:
Stamps: Smells Like Cake ~ The Cat's Pajamas
Paper: DCWV, Paper Company, GP
Ink: Tuxedo Black ~ Memento, Copics ~ Y21, E27, SU Gable Green
Accessories: Xmas Red Stickles

Thanks for looking!

SFYTT with TCP!

I've missed doing Jen's SFYTT sketches! A new one comes out tomorrow and here I am just using this past Saturday's.

This adorable (IMO!) card is for my niece Grace. Tomorrow she is celebrating her 1st birthday! I am so excited. Her present (a Cabbage Patch newborn) is all wrapped and ready to go, and the card will be ready as soon as its dry. We are celebrating her older brother's birthday too since its in a few weeks, I still need to get his card made. Stamps and paper are picked out, just need to find a sketch to work with!

This is my very first card using The Cat's Pajamas stamps. I've drooled over them from afar for quite some time and couldn't find any local stores that carried them until recently. I bought one set back in March and the other just last weekend and used both on this card - You Say Its Your Birthday (penguin + 1) and Smells Like Cake (happy birthday). I did the cool thing that I've seen recently, making the sentiment look like a banner. I didn't pop it up though since I popped the main image up. Oh and I used more old paper! Yay me!

Thanks for stopping by!

The Recipe:
Stamps: Smells Like Cake & You Say Its Your Birthday ~ The Cat's Pajamas
Paper: GP, Making Memories (pink polka dots), DCWV
Ink: Tuxedo Black, SU Barely Banana, Copics ~ B14, YR16,V17,RV14
Accessories: star dust stickles, mini pop dots