Hugs - LUFP

I made this little card for Link Up For Pink!

I would also like to enter it into a couple of challenges.

The first challenge is Retro Sketches for this weeks sketch:

The second challenge is 52 Card Pick Up at The Old Back Porch where you can use any, all, or none of her inspiration. I chose to use the inspiration from 75 Creative Card Challenges - stamp on felt.

Supplies used: card stock - white, pink; red felt - Michaels; washi tape - Pick Your Plumb; button - Recollections; twine - Liz's Paper Loft Boutique; stickers - Flair; stamps - Hearts - We R Memory Keepers and sentiment - Sentiment Sampler by Paper Smooches; Pop Dots

Whimsical Wednesday Winter Wonderland Challenge

Wow, we've had some fabulous entries for our first two challenges over at Whimsical Wednesday!

You do still have one more week to enter the "All About Love" challenge.

For this week the challenge is "Winter Wonderland" include sparkle and one or more snowflake.

For my card I made a trifold snow globe with some Silhouette Studio cut files. My little tag uses a sentiment from Stephanie's Snow Much Fun stamp set which you can purchase here.

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To make my trifold snowglobe I used 4 different cut files - a long rectangle on the bottom, a label in the middle, a snowglobe and a snowman. You can see them on my mat here:

After placing all the cuts on the mat where I wanted them I the welded them together before cutting my card base out, as you can see here:

Then I went about cutting out the pieces of the snow globe and the snowman and decorated my card.

Supplies used: card stock - white, blue, red, orange, brown; patterned paper - Gracen Stripe by Making Memories; transparency - Staples; punch - EK Success; cut files - Silhouette Studio; black plastic eyes - Michaels; stickers - JoLee's and Stickeroni; twine - my stash; eyelet - Making Memories; sentiment stamp - Snow Much Fun by Whimsical Designs; ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento.

Now I hope you'll stop by Whimsical Designs and check out all the fabulous Winter Wonderland projects the talented design team has created!!!!!!

Bottled Flowers Happy Birthday

I have a little challenge I wanted to make sure I caught, so this is my second post for today.

If your looking for CTO's challenge, please scroll down.

My card is for this weeks sketch challenge at Seize The Birthday!

For my card I used a new stamp I received from Stamp of the Week by Unity called Hello Pretty.

Supplies used: card stock - white, blue; patterned papers from Hello Sunshine by American Crafts; stamps - Hello Pretty by Unity and sentiment by Inkadinkdo; ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento; Copic markers; border punch - Martha Stewart; Labels Eight Nestatbilities by Spellbinders;  flower punch - EK Success; rhinestones - TPC Studios; Pop Dots. 

Your UnFROGgetable! / CTO #97

Another Tuesday, another challenge at Celebrate The Occasion!

This week we have a color challenge for you - use green, white and one other color of your choice.

For my card I used a digital image from our sponsor SK Digis called Happy Frog which you can purchase here.

Sonja has some fabulous, fun images in her store, I hope you'll stop by and check them out!!!

I also hope you'll link up with us, we'd love to see your creation and you'll have a chance to win a gift certificate to Sonja's store!!!!

Supplies used: card stock - white; patterned papers -  Stripe, Valentine Words, Frame and Heart Flower all from Bee Mine by Three Bugs in a Rug; font - CK Footnote; digital image - Sk Digis; Silhouette Studio cut file; twine - my stash.

Also - I hope you'll join us Friday for a blog hop celebrating CTO's second birthday!!!! There will be blog candy and lots of fun projects, so come back Friday for some birthday fun!!!!!

I Don't Repeat Gossip

What a fun weekend!!! My Grandson's 5th birthday party on Saturday was a great time with family & friends and Sunday was relax time in my craft room!! Hope you had a nice weekend.

I'm sharing a card today which I created for 3 challenges I wanted to participate in.

The first is Freshly Made Sketches!

The second is Papercraft Star and the challenge is buttons.

The third challenge is The Play Date Cafe where It's 'Splash' Week and your challenge is to use

Black and White with a 'Splash' of Emerald Green.

For my card I used a stamp from Days Like This by Pink By Design.

Supplies used: card stock = white, black; patterned paper is a scrap from my stash; border punch - Martha Stewart; Labels One Nestabilities by Spellbinders; stamp - Days Like These by Pink By Design; ink - Tuxedo Black by memento; twine - Liz's Paper Loft Boutique; button - JoAnn's; corner rounder - Fiskars; Pop Dots.

I Will Drink You Under The Table

Happy Sunday to all!!!

A little card to share today that I made for this weeks challenge over at Casology!

For my card I used stamps from Cyber Cafe by Paper Smooches.

Love this stamp set!!

Supplies used: card stock - white; patterned papers are scraps from my stash; stamps from Cyber Cafe by Paper Smooches; ink - Rich Cocoa by Memento; font - Expose

Mario Inspired Invitation

Wow, can't believe it's finally Friday!

I'm looking forward to this weekend, tomorrow is my Grandsons 5th birthday and sure to be a fun time at his "Mario" birthday party.

In honor of his birthday tomorrow I thought I would share the invitations I made for him. My daughter found this great tutorial on how to create a double slider card, you can watch it here.
I used this technique to create my "1 Up" invitations.

I found the graphic for the mushroom on-line.

If you've played Mario you know that when he bumps the question mark boxes with his head a mushroom pops out, and that is what I was going for with this invitation.

When you pull down on the invitation you get the wording on the bottom and the mushroom pokes out the top.

I did have address and phone info, but removed them for this pic.

Supplies used: card stock - white, grey, 2 shades of yellow; Mario mushroom image taken off the internet; font - your choice; plastic bag.

You Turn Me On - The Paper Players

Hello all, this is my second post today, if you are looking for Challenge #9 at Link Up For Pink please scroll down.

This simple little card I made is for the clean and simple sketch for this weeks challenge at The Paper Players!

For my card I used a Silhouette Studio cut file and a sentiment stamp by Paper Smooches.

Supplies used: card stock - white, red, shiny grey; Silhouette Studio cut file; stamp from Boob Tubes by Paper Smooches; ink Tuxedo Black by Memento; 1" circle punch - EK Success.

Congrats - LUFP Challenge #9

It's the 4th Thursday of the month and time for a new challenge at Link Up For Pink!!

For this month we have a photo inspiration challenge.

Use the color combo or anything in the photo collage, BUT you must include a Dash of Pink.

The prize for this months challenge will be a 4" x 6" stamp set from The Stamps of Life.

For my card I used pinwheels2stamp from The Stamps of Life to make my little flowers in my bouquet. The little pinwheels reminded me of the little flowers in the inspiration photo. You can purchase this stamp set here.

I used both a Silhouette Studio cut file and a Nestabilities die to create my green bouquet wrapper.

Supplies used: card stock - white; green mulberry paper; stamps - Pinwheels2stamp by The Stamps of Life; ink - Pink Passion, Positively Pink and Yoyo Yellow by Stampin' Up; Lacey Circles Nestabilities by Spellbinder; pearls - Kaiser Craft; ribbon - Bumblebee Boutique Trims by Doodlebug; rub on - American Crafts

I hope you will stop by the blog and check out the beautiful creations the other design team members have created. You won't be disappointed!!!!

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge!!!!

Remember ladies - Take Care of Your Girls!!!

Get Your Mammograms!!!

Smiten

This is my second post today, if your looking for the Whimsical Wednesday challenge please scroll down.

I have a card I wanted to share that I am entering in this weeks challenge over at Cas-ual Fridays.

CFC86: Create a CAS card that has one long side and one short side.

3 x 6, 4 x 8, etc. No standard A2's for this week.

Supplies used: card stock - white, red; punch - $ bin at Safeway; stamp - $ bin at Michaels; ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento; rhinestone - Martha Stewart; doodling template - Sweetwater; Pop Dots

Whimsical Wednesday "All My Love" Challenge

Wednesday has come again and time for a new challenge over at Whimsical Wednesday!

We've had some fabulous entries in our first challenge - "Anything Goes" and you still have time to enter as our challenges run for 2 weeks!!!!

This week we are getting ready for Valentines Day and our challenge is "All My Love", please include love in someway on your project (hearts, sentiment, etc).

For my project I made a gift bag for my hubby for Valentines Day. I used a Silhouette Studio cut file. My little tag uses a sentiment from Stephanie's "With Love" sentiment stamps which you can purchase here.   Or, even better, Stephanie has teamed with Pumpkin Spice to bring you a fantastic kit which, along with Stephanies stamps, includes 2 6X6 paper pads, decorative brads, chipboard sheet, card stock, etc. which you can purchase here.

Supplies used: card stock - red, antique white; patterned paper - Love Birds by Flair; stamp from With Love by Whimsical Designs; ink - Tuxedo Black by memento; jewel heart - Martha Stewart; corner punch - Martha Stewart; twine - Liz's Paper Loft Boutique; Silhouette Studio cut file.

I hope you'll stop by Whimsical Designs and take a look at all the fabulous creations the design team has for you and we look forward to seeing your creation linked up with us!!!!!!

With Love - 52 Card Pick Up

This is my second post for today, if you are looking for the challenge for Celebrate The Occasion please scroll down.

I wanted to play over at the Old Back Porch in the 52 Card Pick-UP this week. For her challenges you can use any, all, or none of her inspiration as the basis of your card.
I decided to use her inspiration from the magazine 75 Creative Card Challenges, which was to create your own homemade flower.

For my flowers I made some fabric yoyo's with some scraps of fabric I had. I added a punched border, some twine and some pearls, along with a cute sticker sentiment to finish it off.

Supplies used: card stock - white; patterned paper from XOXO 6X6 pad by American Crafts; twine, fabric - my stash; pearls - Kaiser Craft; sentiment sticker - Sticko by EK Success; border punch - Martha Stewart.

A New Little Someone / CTO #96

Since Tuesday has come again it is time for a new challenge at Celebrate The Occasion.

Our challenge this week is Baby Card. We have a fabulous sponsor this month - SK Digis!
Sonja has some darling images in her shop, so pop on over and check them out!!!!

You can have a chance to win some digi's from SK Digis if you link up your baby card with us this week.

The design team has some darling cards for your inspiration using one of her digi's - teady bear in moon, which you can purchase here. 

Supplies used: card stock - white, blue; patterned papers - Mixing baby stars and moons by Paper Pizazz and Yellow dots from Easy Peasy by American Crafts; digital image - SK Digis; stamps - congratulations from sentiment sampler by Paper Smooches and sentiment from Baby Button Bits by Papertrey Inc.; ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento; twine - Liz's Paper Loft Boutique; button - my stash.

You Make Me Steamy - Dynamic Duos

Ok.... I admit it, I spent a lot of time in my craft room this weekend :)

My third post for today is a little Valentine's card for the challenge over at The Dynamic Duos.

I wanted to ink up this cute stamp set from Unity's stamp of the week called You Make Me Steamy. For some reason it made me think of the song Hot, Hot, Hot, so I decided to make that my background. I created the background in my Print Shop program. I stamped my image on some papers by Pebbles and did a little fussy cutting.

Supplies used: card stock - white; red; patterned papers from With Love by Pebbles; stamps - You Make Me Steamy by Unity; ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento; fornt - Casque Open Face Wacky; border punch - EK Success; rhinestones - My Minds Eye; corner rounder - Fiskars.

Orange You Sweet - Case This Sketch

This is my second post for today.

I have another challenge I wanted to play along with over at Case This Sketch.

Supplies used: card stock - white, orange; stamps - Little Fruit by Stampendous; ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento; Copic markers; embossing folder - Spots and Dots by Cuttlebug; Pop Dots.

Let's Make-Up - Freshly Made Sketches

Well it's the start of a new week, I hope it is a wonderful one for all of you!!!

I'm sharing a card today that I made for this weeks challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.

For my card I used some papers from Upcycle by Cosmo Cricket and some chipboard stickers by Crate Paper along with a sentiment from a stamp set by Unity.

Supplies Used: card stock - blue, pink; patterned papers - Re:Design, Re:Peat and Borders from UpCycle by Cosmo Cricket; chipboard stickers in Emma's Shop Collection by Crate Paper; stamp - Let's Make-Up by Unity, ink - Tuxedo Black by Memento.