US Bears

Hi! welcome back to my crafty blog! Yesterday I was able to catch up on crafting a little after a very long week. First I made this card for some Tuesday challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches
CASology
CAS-ual Fridays (actually a Friday challenge)
Shopping Our Stash

I had this idea in mind, but with a different stamp set. I couldn't find it anywhere, and it has me thinking I may have sold it at a garage sale! Don't you hate it when that happens? Anyway, I used what I had and it turned out ok, but what I had intended to look like a fire cracker actually turned out to look like a banner. It's still cute though.

I was supposed to use Red, White, and Blue for Shopping our Stash, and I found some Fourth of July themed stamps on my Happy Holidays stamp set along with this cute bear! The bear is for CASology. The sketch is from Tuesday Morning, and the Fireworks is the theme for CAS-ual Fridays.

I hope you enjoy my cute card! It's not my best, but I think someone will really like it!



Materials used:
Cardstock: Pacifica, White Daisy
Stamps: Happy Holidays, Home of the Brave, Kudos
Ink: Cranberry, Pacifica

Old Fashioned Monsters

Here's a card I made for a challenge that had me stumped for a while. I like to combine the sketch and inspiration challenges at Fusion. I didn't have many stamps that went along with the book theme, but I think this old-fashioned typewriter works. I added in some monsters from the Hooligans paper pack. The colors were perfect!

I wanted two of the pointing hands, so I stamped it once, then again onto my rubber roller then rolled it onto the paper, so it made a mirror image. I popped up the hands with pop dots and trimmed the sides.

What do you think? What will you come up for the Fusion Card Challenge?



Materials used:
Cardstock: Pacifica, Pear, White Daisy
B&Ts: Hooligans
Stamps: Typed Note
Ink: Black
Other: Olive Mini Medleys

Unwinding with Flowers

Hi and happy hump day! I have been so busy this week with VBS and swim meets, but I've still managed to carve out some time to make a card. I made this using the colors from Color My Heart and the Sketch from Atlantic Hearts. The theme is relax and unwind from Heart 2 Heart, and flowers have always been relaxing for me, plus these colors are very soothing. I'm also entering this into the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says.

I used the Happy Times paper pack and stamp set. We were allowed to use gold or silver on our projects, and the paper had the prettiest gold and pink paper that made this card turn out gorgeous! I do not have Blossom yet, and I don't know, but I assume that the pink in this paper pack is the same as Blossom. Correct me if I'm wrong! I used Blush ink to stamp the flowers.

I also do not have Linen yet, so I used Colonial White paper and ribbon. I'm not sure, but on the computer Linen looks a little grey, but I think it replaced Colonial White?

I hope you can come join me this week at my favorite Close To My Heart challenges!



Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White, New England Ivy
B&Ts: Happy Times
Stamps: Happy Times, Pretty Petals
Ink: Blush, New England Ivy
Other: Treasured Puffies, Colonial White crochet lace ribbon

Rustic Christmas Card

Hello! Today I have made a Christmas card for 52CCT and Merry Monday using a sketch from The Paper Players. I am very sad that this is the last challenge at Merry Monday. I used to love to play along with them every week, and was now just getting back into it. I really loved that challenge blog. I will have to find another Christmas challenge. I really like 52CCT, but I need at least one more. Do you all know of one?

I made a rustic card using the camping paper pack Timberline with a woodgrain background. This paper is not meant for Christmas, but I think it really works, especially when I add the red dots.

I stamped the candle from Yuletide Greetings, cut it out, and colored it in with ink pads. The sentiment is also from Yuletide Greetings.

I hope you will be able to play along one last time with Merry Monday! Also come join me at The Paper Players and 52CCT!

 

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White
B&Ts: Timberline
Stamps: Yuletide Greetings
Ink: Ponderosa Pine, Goldrush, Twilight, Cranberry
Other: Red Enamel Dots

Owls and Pineapples

Hey there! It's Monday, and we've got a busy week ahead of us. This week is VBS, so I won't have tons of time for crafting, but I'm going to try to get a few cards in. I started this card yesterday for Your Next Stamp and Just Us Girls. I finished it up today. I came home to pleasant air conditioning in my craft room. It's been sweltering for about 3 weeks since the air went out upstairs. They finally finished it today, and I think I'll be able to be a little more creative when I make cards now, not so enslaved to the sweat-inducing Alabama heat and humidity!

So here's my card. I used the colors and sketch from Your Next Stamp.

I was thinking about wings for the owl, and I had some pineapple paper in front of me, so I just cut out the pineapples for the wings and attached some googly eyes. It's supposed to be a light-hearted birthday card. Did I accomplish that mission? Here is the inside:

Come on and play along with me this week!
 

Materials used:
Cardstock: White daisy
B&Ts: Ivy Lane, Babycakes, Calypso, Zoe, Sugar Rush
Stamps: Whooo's Your Valentine, Birthday Funnies
Ink: Sunflower, Olive

Girl Power

I've been pretty busy lately and I've kind of lost my mojo. I had about 10 challenges that I wanted to participate in, but couldn't come up with something good. I find that when I go peruse what other people have done, it usually helps me come up with something.

So I got some inspiration and made this card last night. It didn't take long to make, but it took quite a while to come up with the idea. I needed to use something from my "bits box" for the challenge at Less is More. I had a lot of things in there, so it was hard to narrow it down. I needed to do a girl power theme for Addicted to CAS, and the technique at Crazy for Challenges was Ombre. So I found a distressed background stamp and stamped it in various shades of orange for the ombre look. The stripe and sentiment for the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch were pulled out of my bits box. The blue strip was already stamped, which is why I chose shades of orange for the background.

I made sure to stamp the girl to one side of the card to leave lots of open space. She is stamped with archival black ink to give a good silhouette.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you all can come play along with me at these fun challenges!



Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy
Stamps: Distressed Backgrounds, Fashionista, Summer Picnic
Ink: Archival Black, Creme Brulee, Sunset, Sorbet, Smoothie
Other: cricut cut (can't remember which cartridge)

Floral Pottery

Hello, and welcome to my blog. Today I'm going to show you a card that I made. I like to make encouraging cards with Bible verses on Wednesdays because Word Art Wednesday always has a great verse for us to use. I like the King James, but it's not always received well, so sometimes I wish they would provide it in a more modern version. But God's word is His word no matter the language, and it will not return void.

The sketch I used is from Freshly Made, and the colors are from Color Throwdown. I chose Taffy, Baby Pink, Watermelon, and Topiary. I'm also entering this into the Bright and Cheerful challenge at Simon Says.

I saw this technique used recently and I wanted to try it. I stamped the flowers in White Daisy pigment ink, then sprinkled on white embossing powder and heat embossed the flowers. Then I used the ink pads and a paintbrush with water to color in the flowers. I really like how it turned out.

I'm so glad I got my printer hooked up. I haven't used it in over two years! I'm going to be able to make these cards every week now, Lord willing!



Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy
B&Ts: Free to Be Me
Stamps: Springtime Wishes
Ink: White Daisy, Watermelon, Topiary, Taffy, Baby Pink
Other: white embossing powder (not CTMH)