Joy to you!

Hey there!  Happy Sunday to you!  What a busy weekend but must keep plugging on.  I am excited to share my card today because it's my first card I really got to use lots of techniques on and also I really love it!

It's for Sentimental Sunday's theme which is something found in a garden.  Flowers are certainly found there and this paper from The Girl's Paperie is still a fave of mine.  Sniff sniff that they are no longer in production.  I need to scoop up all I can find before they disappear from the shelves. 

Removed for Publishing

How I made it: I sprayed my card with Maya Mist and then started layering.  A fave thing of mine!  I fussy cut the flower pattern out and added to the corner.  Next I added a Jenni Bowlin journaling spot cut in half.  I distressed both pieces with ink.
Then I made a little tag from cream card stock and added a brass eyelet and some twine.  I pulled out a KI stamp set that must be three years old and I never used.  The shame.  I stamped joy and the snowflakes (yes, I used a snowflake stamp on a summer inspired card) with a hot pink ink.   Love that color against the blue mist.  Then my last favorite technique is embellishing.

I added a ticket from Creative Imaginations with a rub-on from Jo-Ann's and two metal pink roses.  A lime green ribbon with a button and more floss and two stick pins.  Finally a few rhinestones to finish it all off. Viola!

I will be back tomorrow with a new card and some exciting news! 

Challenges I would like to enter this card into:
City Crafter Challenge: #67 Vintage Garden using this color inspiration from below:

Clear it Out: Anything goes and used older stamp set
Creative Craft Challenges: 3D it-lots of BIG layers
Papercraft Star: #55 Anything goes
Polkadoodle: #30 Anything you would find in an English Garden
Truly Scrumptious: #62 Buttons and Bows
Use It Tuesdays: #12 2fer! 2 hoarded items (paper and metal roses)

Christmas in July

Yep it's Christmas in July for me.  I am ready for it with the hot weather.  Only because my a/c units run non stop and my grass is crispy yellow.  It's almost like walking on a board of spikes.   I can't ever remember the water rotation for my area to water it.  It's nice to have hot weather sometimes but when it starts affecting my pocketbook (electricity & water) not so happy.  That's crafty supplies being sucked up for the cool air running on every level at my house and green dandelions.  Yeah, I admit it.  Not the green thumb here with the grass.  Simon could careless about it as well, so now it's two strikes against the poor vegetation.  I don't want to put the chemicals down on it to grow because it really needs to be completely re sodded which would be huge $$$$.  I would rather go to Europe for 16 days!  ;-)  LOL! 

I digress, my card for today feature's lots of Webster's Pages.  I took advantage of their warehouse sale a while back and was thrilled with my box!  I love the quality of their papers.  Does anyone else rub their fingers between a piece of paper?  Uh-oh.  I think I just admitted another quirky trait I have.  TMI?

This week at Crafty Creations we have a Christmas in July theme so break out all those holiday papers and take break from the heat if you live in the US. 
Challenges I would like to enter this card in:
Crafts and Me: #45 Ribbon
Craft Your Passion: #67 Christmas
Creative Belli: #122 Christmas in July plus old forgotten embellishments:rub-on and yellow stickles
Creative Inspirations: #65 Christmas in July
Papercraft Star: #55 Anything Goes
Paper Shelter: #24 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!  The give away will start next week.  Be sure to come back for it :-)

Summer time cards

Hey there!  Hope you are having a great Monday!  I am so excited to finally be back at home but I am ever so tired.  Jet lag?   A day of rest should conquer that.  :-)  I am getting together a fabulous give away so be on the look out for details.  Coming soon---I promise!

I have two cards to share with you today from Paper Playtime's Digi Monday challenge.  The first is using a Bugaboo image.  I think this flamingo is so cute chilling on the beach with his bucket and shovel.  I kept this card really flat cause I want to mail it.  Lesson learned after mailing so many bumpy cards.   Anyhow...

I used a scrap of Creative Imaginations paper (orange and purple ledger) and a tiny strip of Paper Trey Ink (polka dot) for this CAS card.  That;s a Studio G clear stamp which I used SU's Pumpkin Pie ink to stamp and then highlighted with two Queen & Co. rhinestones. 

Challenges for this card:
Creative Card Crew: Animals Anitcs
Dutch Dare: #122 Color Challenge
Paper Sundaes: #79 Beach or Summer


The second card uses a BonieBleaux image and sentiment which you can find at Dude Time Doodles. I love this guy's attitude.  Well, I guess you could say I kinda gave him one with the sentiment.  Hee hee.  Summer days sure make me unmotivated to do anything. 

I printed him on craft card stock because I am really terrible with backgrounds.  Opps!  Did I really just admit that to all of you?  I guess so.   I feel like it does not look so naked and like the guy is floating in space.  Like my flamingo is.  Since it's a masculine image, I kept this card as guy like as I could with the grid paper, red mat as a highlight and some brown twine.  I did use light colored brads for the edges.  I seem to be getting into brads again.  I have enough so it's good to destash.  :-)

Challenges for this card:
2 Sisters: #49 Anything Goes
CES Challenges: #46 Humor/Funny
Cute Card Thursday: #174  For his eyes only
Craft Your Days Away: #25 Summer
Totally Papercrafts: One of the boys
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Enjoy Your Day!

Hope you are enjoying your day!   I am back today to share with you my card from Aud Sentiments.  Our sponsor is Just Some Lines this week.  Super cute images!  I chose to work with an Emo Paula.

I actually avoided using pattern papers which is amazing for me.  I just thought she was too cute to be smothered with fancy/distracting papers.  She is colored in with Copics and adhered to a Mauve Mist card stock panel.  I added Martha Stewart seam binding with a yellow flower and a rhinestone to accent.  The sentiment is from Stampendous.  I used a little tag of yellow card stock and attached with my tiny attacher.  That's it. 

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Challenges I would to enter my card in:

Clear It Out: Anything Goes (flowers and ribbon are part of dehoarding)

Craft Us Crazy: #13 Anything Goes

KB Cute Monday: #22 Use a digi

Lollipop Crafts: Special Summer Anything Goes challenge

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Getting Cute

Stamps & Fun= Creativity: #56 Use a digi

Seeing Double

We are seeing double at Crafty Creations this week.  I used a Hope Jacare  Doodle's image which I printed out micro small to print and then cut out to make this fun card to say Yippee! 

I used Sassafras Lass papers for the front panel and then added a strip of light blue card stock to highlight the images.  The rub-on is from American Crafts mini marks.  The tiny ric rac is Wright's.  I popped the images up with foam dots and added a touch of red stickles to the tiny stars inside. 

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A Wise Man

A wise man.  Are you thinking of the 3 wise men?  Not even close to the card I want to share with you today.  Hee hee.  Did I trick you and make you think you were going to be viewing a Christmas card?  I am in Europe still so my mind is in vacation mode.  No Christmas thoughts.  Just beautiful Marseilles, France.  :-)

We have a masculine challenge for this week's Sentimental Sundays so I really focused on using darker colors with a minimal amount of embellies.  Let's see how you think I did.

I mixed a variety of papers for this.  I started with some Making Memories on the lower half.  The top is K & Co. including the banner.  I printed the sentiment(this was a freebie set which she offers each week on the blog)  from Raindrop Echo onto craft card stock, cut out and then clipped the edges to resemble a ticket.  I was thinking banners are seen at men's events like Nascar right?  You need a ticket to get in so a man would be seen with that right?  I seriously was fixating on a race because the brads reminded me of the wheels you see on the cars.  I know.  My mind works mysteriously.  Anyhow, the twine is my favorite and I can;t tell you where it comes from because someone sent it to me.  I inked it with Vintage Touch inks for a tad bit of distressing.

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Boyz to Men for Crafty Creations

Hey there!  Still in Europe but updating my blog with my design team challenges as I can.  I hope you are having a fabulous day. 

My card for Crafty Creations this week features a Lily of The Valley image.  I was ever so fortunate to receive this in the mail from a friend.  It's the sweetest little image entitled "Mr. Fix-It".  I did not get a chance to use before father's day, but I think this card would be a perfect little something to remind that Dad how much he means to you.  I know my father was the "Mr. Fix-It" man and would repair anything that needed it in my household.  I still take things to him to fix when I am clueless of how to fix.  I try but it's often in vain.  Love my Dad!
I used Fancy Pants papers that were in my scrap box leftovers.  I thought the polka dots were cute but not too cutesy.  I kept it simple to focus on the image and used four copper brads to attach to front.  That's it.  All done. I need to hit the that was easy button.  Don't have one but mentally envisioning. 

Challenges I would like to enter my card in:

Bearly Mine:#14 Anything Goes
HLSC:#30 Critters
The Paper Variety:Photo Inspiration
Shopping Our Stash:out with the old in with the new- used old brads and a new image
Use It Tuesday:Animals and hoarded brads







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