3rd post today

As I said in my last post I have quite a few cards to share with you so you might get a little tired of seeing me in your google reader.

This is a new image by Lori Boyd called "Ella with Umbrella" and she can be found here. I thought she would be perfect for Mandy's newest challenge over at LimeLight Paper Crafts which was not only a sketch this week but the challenge was to use green. Since I adore green I thought it would be easy.

I am also entering this into the challenge over at Ribbon Girl Challenges as the challenge this week was to use green and yellow on your card.

My next card is for Karen Girons newest Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. This was a fun sketch and I pulled out my BasicGrey "hello luscious" paper and chipboards once again along with some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Enjoy!

be my valentine

I took some time today to get all my valentine cards ready for mailing. I still need to pick up a little something extra to go with a couple of the cards but will do that this coming week.

In the meantime I created two more cards today. The first card is for the sketch challenge over at Limelight Paper Crafts not only is it a sketch challenge but we are also to use red embellishments on it.

I don't know about you but I am loving my embossing folders lately and used my cuttlebug hearts on my cards. I created the felt flower using my PTI die, sentiment and the die cut shape are also by PTI. Cardstock is Neenah Solar white linen and French Papers pop-tone wild cherry.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

This next card is one of those "just because" cards that I wanted to create. It will go to a special friend that I haven't seen in awhile and I am meeting up with her this weekend to just catch up. Don't you just love that doily in the background? That was a surprise gift from my friend Michelle.

I used Neenah Solar white linen cardstock, BasicGrey button, The Twinery "blossom" twine, PTI blooming flower die, felt from my stash and "tiny type" stickers by Cosmo Cricket.

Enjoy!

celebrate

I keep telling myself I am done with making christmas/holiday cards and every sketch I see reminds me of Christmas.

This card was inspired by the sketch over at Limelight Papercrafts this week. Okay now hopefully this is the last holiday card you see from me.

Enjoy!



Happy WCMD!

I am so excited it is world card making day and have several cards to share with you this morning.

My first card is for Skipping Stones Design I loved the clean and simple look of this sketch and could not wait to create my card as I knew that I was going to use October Afternoon papers and banners.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Next up I have a card for this weeks challenge over at Techno Stamper and for this card I pulled out my BasicGrey "jovial" papers and woolies, along with my QuicKutz Snowflake embossing die.

Once again here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Next up is my card for Clean and Simple Stamping and it is such a fun sketch with so many possibilities. I used papers from the BasicGrey "jovial" collection as well as a button from PTI.

And here is this weeks sketch #110.

My last card for now is for the sketch over at Limelight Paper Crafting and we are to use Leaves on our card.

For this card I used Autumn Abundance from PTI paper collection and a leaf embossing folder from QuicKutz. The leaves were cut out after I embossed the paper. Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

I hope you take a few minutes today to play in your craftroom and create something for world cardmaking day.

Okay that is it for now I need to go and get ready as Cassie Jo will be here in a couple of hours and we plan on spending the day working on Halloween Treats for her class and then watching the new Tinkerbell movie.

Well it seems everyone is handing out blog candy so I will do some as well. How about some of my handmade wrinkled ribbon and a surprise. Just leave a comment and I will pick a winner Monday morning.

Enjoy!

hi chick and more

It is Monday and I have a few things to share with you this morning. I spent a few hours in my craftroom yesterday, making cards, scrapbooking and watching a movie.

This first card is for the newest challenge over at CPS and I used some of the Cosmo Cricket "garden variety" papers and chipboard.

Okay, I have to admit I love how this one turned out. That is probably because of the chickens. For those of you that don't know me I collect chickens and roosters, not the normal ones ~ mine are more along the folk art/whimsical kind.

This next card is for the LimeLight PaperCrafts Challenge and this week it is a sketch along with a challenge to use background stamping. I stamped the PTI leaves with Ranger perfect medium.

Love this sketch so clean and simple I used my Martha Stewart Butterfly punch and the paper is BasicGrey "basic manila" paper pad.

Last for you today I have a layout that I did of Micah (my favorite little guy) and the inspiration was an old sketch over at Sketchy Thursday. All the papers and embellishments are October Afternoon "ducks in a row". Sometimes when you can't find the inspiration you are looking for ~ go back and use one of your old sketches.

Thanks for stopping by my blog ~ please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Enjoy!

hi ~ on the farm

It was the perfect summer day here in Minnesota today. I had a few errands to run and just spent some time enjoying the day.

I stopped in at Archivers to get the new BasicGrey 6x6 pads Olivia and Oliver and all I can say is they are too cute as is the Woolies for Olivia.

You know I had to try out my new stuff and I thought it went perfect with this weeks sketch challenge over at LimeLight Papercrafts. Besides the sketch the challenge was to use string or twine on your card instead of ribbon. I hope black floss counts as string or twine.

I also took a little time to watch a movie and do a scrapbook layout for the Design Team call over at Twisted Sketches.

And this is the sketch that inspired my layout.

For this layout I used Bazzill  and Neenah cardstock, Yellow Bicycle patterned papers, Jolee's embellishments, American Crafts "thickers", and handmade rosebuds.

Enjoy!

just because ~ you are awesome!

It is Saturday and I am working at Anchor Paper on University today and then I am off to spend the night with Micah and Cassie while their Mom takes Dad out for his 30th birthday celebration.

I have a couple cards to share with you before I leave. This first one is for the challenge at Clean and Simple Stamping.

This is the sketch that inspired it.

This card was inspired by this weeks challenge over at LimeLight Paper Crafts and the request that we include butterflies on our card.

Do you have any special plans for this weekend?

Enjoy!

details:

paper ~ neenah (solar white linen) cosmo cricket (delovely) pop-tone (raspberry and olive)

stamps ~ studio g (leaf i-cling) a muse (just because)

ink ~ colorbox (olive pastel) ranger (jet black)

accessories ~ marvy (giga punches) martha stewart (butterflies) hero arts (gem stones) cosmo cricket (tiny type stickers) fiskars (border punch) cuttlebug (swiss dots embossing folder) sizzix (tim holtz embossing folder)

more DeLovely

If I haven't said it before I love this new paper line by Cosmo Cricket. The colors are bright yet still have that vintage feel to them.

The inspiration for this card also comes from this weeks sketch challenge over at LimeLight PaperCrafts. Mandy does a fantastic job with her sketches and she even sells product too.

If you read my blog on a regular basis you know how much I love making flowers. Flowers of all shapes and sizes. Here are some of the ones I made this past week.

It looks as if the rain has finally left us as the sun is shining ever so bright this morning.

Enjoy!

details:

paper: Neenah (solar white linen) Cosmo Cricket (delovely)

accessories: May Arts (ribbon) PTI (lemon tart button) Karen Foster (scrappers floss) Stampin' Up (border punch)