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

Wedding Wishes

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Happy Tuesday....back to work today after over a week off. 

Quick post for today sharing a card I made for my co-worker's wedding which was the last Sunday of June.

The wedding colors included purple and green so I wanted my card to reflect that.  I used Papertrey Ink Plum Pudding cardstock for the base and ran it through the D'Vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder and sprayed the heck out of it with Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I am loving the pretty mists now!  The banner underneath the sentiment is from the scrap bin and the Wedding Wishes and border were stamped on Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock.  The stamps are from the Verve Love Story set.  Pearls are from my stash.

I used Sweet Sunday Sketch 122 for the card layout. 

TFL! 

Make A Wish

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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

Catherine with Butterfly

Good morning and Happy 4th!  

I decided that I would take part of today to play for fun and for my first creation, I made a card for Challenge #13 at SCACD Friends with Heart Challenge - Clean & Simple.I searched through my SCACD stamps and decided to use Catherine with Butterfly from Anki's Sweethearts for SCACD. I used an older sketch for the layout - Cards & Things #76.

Here is a shot showing the sparkle :) 

Other Challenges Entered:

Allsorts Challenge #110 - Free & Easy July

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

TFL!

Supplies Used~

Stamps: Catherine with Butterfly - Anki's Sweethearts for SCACD

Paper: PTI Stampers Select White, PTI Ripe Avocado, Echo Park Springtime

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Colorbox Chalk Olive Pastel

Copics: Skin - E21, E00, E000, R20; Hair - E18, E17, E15; Hat - E53, E50, RV34, RV32; Dress - Y35, Y32, Y21, RV34, RV32; Butterfly - V99, V95; Grass - YG97, YG95, G20

Other:  Nestabilities Labels Seventeen, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, decorative trim from Hobby Lobby, Smooch Illuminate, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, pearl from stash

Birthday Sundaes #16

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I can't believe it's Sunday already! The past week has just flown by for me as I've been on vacation trying to finally get some unpacking done after almost 2 years.  I have made some progress, it's been a lot of reorganizing/purging of stuff I haven't seen in a long time.  I still have quite a bit more to go to make room for more stuff that still has to be moved from my mom's. I had high hopes of spending a lot time in the craft room too but unfortunately that didn't happen.

On to my card share for today!

We have a new sponsor over at Birthday Sundaes and it's none other than the fabulous

The lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the new Glitterbabe shop!

The challenge is the popular Anything Goes Birthday Card - just remember to include birthday wording somewhere on your card front.  I whipped up this card in 10 minutes.  A little dry embossing, some ribbon, a scrap piece of designer paper and a flower and you have a lovely card, if I do say so myself lol!

Please check out the Birthday Sundaes Challenge blog to enter your card and to see all the fabulous samples from the Design Team.  Stef supplied the Design Team with images to use, you will see a card from me using a Glitterbabe image this week!

Supplies Used~

Stamps: Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps

Paper: Basic Grey Green at Heart, PTI Simply Chartreuse cardstock

Other: PTI ribbon, glue dots, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, Prima flower

Paper Cutz's Star Spangled Blog Hop!

Good Morning and Happy July 1st!

Welcome to my stop on PaperCutz's Star Spangled Blop Hop! If you arrived here from Shelley's blog then you are on the right track, if not please start at the PaperCutz Blog.  Your next stop on the hop will be Patti's blog!

The challenge is to make a banner suitable for hanging, for the 4th of July, with LOTS of bling!  PaperCutz is giving away some fabulous blog candy to celebrate - a Cricut Summer Collection Luau Cartridge!

Here is my first ever hanging banner - I am so proud of myself for making it lol!

I used the Gypsy to design the banner.  The banner layers were cut with the Country Life cartridge and the stars were cut with the Gypsy Wanderings that came with the Gypsy.

Here are some closer views:

I didn't go overly blingy since I didn't have much in the way of red/blue bling - that's a good excuse to go shopping right? LOL  I embossed the white banners with a star cuttlebug folder and the blue stars were embossed with the swiss dot folder and the red star was embossed with the distressed stripes folder. I used some American Crafts sparkly ribbon to string the banner together.

The entire banner took slightly less than 2 hours to design, cut, and assemble. I am thrilled that the design in my head came out exactly as I planned it.  Now go check out and see what Patti created to share with you!

I am also entering my banner into the following challenges:
My Craft Spot #14 - Seeing Stars
Die Cut Dreams #92 Red, White & Blue
Fantabulous Cricut #66 Happy 4th (use red, white & blue)
PaperPlay Challenges #26 - Anything but a Card
Celebrate the Occasion #20 - 4th of July (red, white & blue)
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Anything but a Card
Tuesday Throwdown #55 - Red, White & Blue
Cooking it Up with Katie#68 - Colors of Your Flag or Something from Your Country and DT Call!

Have a super weekend!! I will hopefully have some time to finally post layouts I made last weekend!