turning six

It is finally Friday and that means time for a new release and a challenge over at the A Day for Daisies Blog.

The challenge this week is to use Twine on your card. 

I used the image called "turning six" on my card along with some papers from My Minds Eye and twine from "the twinery".

I used this weeks sketch over at CPS for the inspiration behind my card.

Here are all of this weeks new releases.

I hope you will join us this week in the challenge and remember to be entered you need to use one of the A Day for Daisies images along with some twine from your stash.

Thanks for stopping by to look. Your comments are appreciated.

Enjoy!

laugh

Don't you just love the sound of a child laughing? I spent yesterday at a neighborhood park with my two little grandkids and we had so much fun.

I created a card today for this weeks sketch over at Sweet Sunday and it reminds me of the fun I had today which is just what I needed as I have been feeling a little down lately.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

And here are a couple of pictures from today.

Thanks for stopping by to look and as usual I love to read your comments.

Enjoy!

wordless wednesday

white space

I have a couple new cards to share with you today.

First up is the card I made for this weeks challenge over at the Less is More Challenge. This week we were to make a one layer card which for me is usually the hardest since I usually put patterned paper on everything.

I used distress inks and this tree image and although I think the image is a little darker than I originally had planned for I think I am okay with it.

Next up CAS-ual Fridays and Clean and Simple stamping have joined forces this week and have come up with a sketch challenge for us.

I opted to go for lots of white space on this one two and just add a small strip of pattern paper to the image.

Thanks for stopping by to look. I appreciate your comments.

Enjoy!

indie bloom

Have you seen the new collection Indie Bloom by BasicGrey yet? I absolutely love the patterns, colors and felt flowers in this collection.

I like it so much I used it for both of today's cards.

First up is the card that I created for this weeks challenge over at Card Patterns.

I think this orange and green is my favorite two pieces in the collection. Here is the sketch I used for my inspiration.

Next I used the pink and teal from the collection and created a card for the challenge over at Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by and I really appreciate your comments.

Enjoy!

bugs and bears

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile but I was out of town visiting my sister who was sick and needed someone to bring her hot soup.

I bought a new paper collection at Anchor Paper a few weeks back called "hunt and gather" by KaiserCraft and have totally fallen in love with it. Along with the 6x6 pad I bought the journal tag sheet. I grabbed some buttons and twine along with my favorite border punch and I started making cards using all of the journal tags.

I now have 12 masculine birthday cards when I need them. I am sharing two of them with you today and am entering them in this weeks Wee Memories Challenge #64 "Masculine Challenge".

I absolutely love the papers and colors in this collection.

Thanks for stopping by to look and you know I appreciate your comments. Stop back tomorrow for a couple of cards created with the new BasicGrey "Indie Bloom".

Enjoy!

happy birthday

Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday dear friend AMY

Happy birthday to YOU!

Today is my blog buddy Amy's birthday and we are doing a little surprise for her here in blog land.

Here is the card I made for her and quickly put in the mail so it would arrive on time and wouldn't you know it I forgot to take a photo so I had to ask Amy to send me a copy of the card for my files. (insert evil grin here)

If you know Amy stop over and tell her happy birthday and that I sent you and if you don't know her, stop over and have a look at all the wonderful cards and layouts she creates on a daily basis.

Enjoy!

swim?

I picked up a couple of the new images over at By Lori Designs and noticed that they were having a inspiration challenge too.

So it was the perfect opportunity to color one of the images up and play along.

Here is the picture we were to use for inspiration.

I used papers by Echo Park from the "dots and stripes" collections.

Sorry the coloring is off on my photo these really are a bright pink and lime green color.

Thanks for stopping by to look and I appreciate your comments.

Enjoy!

play on

It is Friday and time for a new release and a new challenge over at A Day for Daisies.

This week the challenge is all about Folds anyway and anyhow!

For my card i used Tammy's new image called "little piano" and I went pretty clean and simple on my card (surprise)! Just the image a quick outline with a couple of copic markers and a piece of my hand dyed wrinkle ribbon and we were ready to make the card.

I cut two squares for the main front and back 5" square and then a I took a strip of cardstock 4x12 and scored and folded it at 3" intervals. Then I placed one of the 5" square pieces down on the table and adhered adhesive to the back of the 4"x12" piece and then I repeated this on the top by adding more adhesive and then finally placing the other 5" square on top.

I hope that makes sense it is a lot harder to describe than I thought it would be.  If you have questions please feel free to leave me a comment or email me and I will get back to you.

Here are all of this weeks new releases.

Thanks for stopping by to look I hope you will play along with us this week.

Enjoy!

pool boy

I fell in love with all the summer images that Lori Boyd came out with and could not resist playing with "summertime Todd" one of her new puddle jumpers.

This little guy reminds me of Micah on our weekly trips to the local pool where he likes to splash me.

I used the sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday for my inspiration along with some dots and dash papers by Echo Park.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

Enjoy!

ruff day?

I fell in love with this paper over at Anchor Paper last week and knew that I just had to have a piece of it even if I don't own a dog.

This is from We R Memory Keepers and it is a cat and dog collection that is just adorable. I love the muted colors and fun animals on it.

I used this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch for my inspiration along with some October Afternoon Mini Market Stickers.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

Enjoy!

cards, cards and more cards

Since it has been raining the last couple days I have been up in my craft room working on a couple mini albums as well as some cards and today I am going to share some of those cards with you.

I bought some new papers by Echo Park called "victoria garden" and immediately fell in love with them.

The first card I created is for this weeks challenge over at The Sweet Stop.

The next card is for this weeks challenge over at CPS and I used more of those lovely papers by EP along with my new PTI stamp set and some hand rolled roses.

Lastly is a card I created using the sketch over at Create with Connie and Mary. I absolutely love their sketches.

Thanks for stopping by and looking. I appreciate your comments.

Enjoy!

mini me

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days I wish I could say I was off on some fun vacation but I wasn't. I have been in my craftroom making mini albums out of envelopes, chipboard, cardstock and patterned papers.

I learned how to make these mini albums and am now hooked on them. I also learned how to make them out of paper bags and chipboard and will share that one as soon as I do the binding on it.

Here are a few photos of the mini's. One is just the pages and no actual photos yet and the other is almost done.

I think my favorite part of making the mini albums is the spine. When you are done it looks like an actual bound book and this just amazes me.

I have made a couple cards too and will be back tomorrow to show those to you. 

Thanks for stopping by to look and I would love to hear your comments.

Enjoy!