Back to You Wise Guy

Sharing a couple of animal cards today to give your Monday a good kick in the *ss.

He, he, had to use that line as my Monday's always need a good kick in the butt.  Love this donkey from There She Goes and this card is for the Hope You Can Cling To Challenge from Edna15 to use 5 words on your creation.

Card details:

Stamps: BaDonkey Donk from There She Goes Clear Stamps

Cardstock: Brown Leather Satchel from Clear & Simple Stamps; Patterned Paper: Paris & Co. Collection from My Mind's EyeInks: Memento Rich Cocoa, copics E40, E43, E44Embellishments: Dimensionals and Basic Pearls from Stampin' Up!, Die-Namics Open Scallop Edge from My Favorite Things

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For my second card I pulled out this cute set My Peeps from Paper Smooches.  I combined a sentiment from that set from one of the Taglines: Critters set from Clear & Simple Stamps, thought they worked so well together.

This card is for the Hope you can cling to challenge hosted by Giovanna to use 3 punches/dies and a sentiment.  I used 2 of the Fancy label dies from Sizzix for Stephanie Barnard along with a circle punch.

Card details:

Stamps: My Peeps from Paper Smooches, Taglines: Critters from Clear & Simple Stamps; Cardstock: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Kraft Like a Rockstar, A Blanc Check and Brown Leather Satchel from Clear & Simple Stamps

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Copics E31, E35, E40Embellishments: Fancy Labels Die from Sizzix for Stephanie Barnard, Circle Punch from Stampin'Up!, Kraft Like a Rockstar Brown Twill Ribbon from Clear & Simple Stamps, Crystal Effects and Dimensionals from Stampin' Up!

Flower Happy

If you are a follower of my blog you know how much I love floral images, so when I saw some fabulous images from Our Daily Bread Designs when I was at the York, PA show last weekend I had to pick some up.

This post is going to be quick as the kids and hubby are all gone and I've got to get some laundry done and in between hoping to get my stamp on.

My first card uses the CAS(E) this sketch and is for Bev's challenge to use lots of sparkle at Hope You Can Cling to Challenge at SCS.  I used my 2way glue pen and applied lots of glitter to my Poppies.

Card details:

Stamps: Crocheted Poppy from Our Daily Bread Designs, Sweet Pea from There She Goes Clear Stamps

Cardstock: Gina K. Luxury White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic

Embellishments: Art Glitter-crystal

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My Happy Birthday card uses the die cut that coordinates with the image above.  Can't wait to use them together but since the other one was CAS, I didn't want to add another layer.

I tried my hand at the 10 minute craft dash challenge again, but this time I failed by completing this in 13:29 or somewhere close to that...all I know was I was over the 10 minute mark.  Darn embellishments!

This is for Cindy's challenge for Birthday Celebrations in Pink for Hope You Can Cling to Challenges at SCS.

Thanks to my friend Chera for pointing out these gorgeous ornate flowers that I was able to print out on my Silhouette cameo.

Card details:

Stamps: Treasured Words by Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Confetti White,  Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Paint the Town Pink, Authentique-Gathering

Inks: Tempting Turquoise, Paint the Town Pink

Embellishments: Ornate flowers on Silhouette Cameo, Zva Crystal Flourish-Chocolate/Champagne, Crocheted Circle Die from Our Daily Bread Designs, Paint the Town Pink Ribbon

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For my last card I created a pretty simple card using the Violet image from Our Daily Bread Designs as my focal point.  After finishing the card, I'm wishing I would have used a different background color as this is so light it was hard to capture the true color (a very pale purple).

Card details:

Stamps: Violet  from Our Daily Bread Designs, Good Times from Mama Elephant

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, VIP Purple, Gina K. Luxury White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic

Embellishments: Zva Creative Self-Adhesive Embellishment-Pearl White, Viva Pearl Pen-cream, dimensionals

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Hope you have a great Saturday-off to change out the laundry!

Click Collection

Last night I got on a roll creating some cards using my new sets from Mama Elephant and For the Record 2 papers from Echo Park.  Bear with me as this will be a heavy post full of cards.  Come back tomorrow as I'll share with you how I packaged up this set.

The first one uses a new sketch challenge- CAS(E) this sketch!  The sketch was very clean and simple-loved how quick this card came together although for the life of me I can't find my 1" circle die and my punch is kaput.

Don't you love that little washi tape stamp under the sentiment??

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For this card I stamped two of the balloons on patterned paper and fussy cut them and the polka dot one is a stamp from the Good Times set.  Loving this new Lawn Fawn trimmings twine I got, nice and thick and ties easily as well.

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Getting in right in the knick of time with the current Retro Sketches challenge.  My cameras ended up being a little off kilter on this one, not so much centered...but I'm ok with that (this time anyway).  This was a fun sketch to do.

My card uses a different set this time from Mama Elephant called We Click. I think I was sold on this set from the sentiment alone.

Ardyth's challenge over at Hope You can Cling to today is to be inspired by one (or more) of the vital signs (heart beat/pulse, temperature, blood pressure or breathing).  My card uses blue for cold (temperature) and hearts in the cameras (for heart beat/pulse)

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The sentiment in this set really cracks me up!  I wanted to keep with the same theme as my other cards so I cut the scallop part  out of the paper itself and think it turned out perfectly.  The Hope You Can Cling to Challenge for yesterday was from Lynn to use a decorative edge on your card.

The sketch is from Skipping Stones Designs and I put to use some of this gorgeous May Arts Crochet White ribbon.

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This was probably the most difficult sketch for me to work with.  It's the current Fall-to-Layout and the while the design was so cool, I had the hardest time figuring out how to make it work.  I think I accomplished it.  I cut two strips of my yellow and cut them at the same angle, then flipped one so they were the opposite of one another on the card.  The little patterned strip was a left over piece of patterned paper. Another sentiment that just cracks me up.  This is the perfect set for teenagers.

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Hope you enjoyed my card parade today, was fun to create some cards using the same papers, size, and stamps.

Card details:

Stamps: We Click and Good Times from Mama Elephant

Cardstock: Georgia Pacific White, textured blue (unknown), So Saffron, Enchanted Evening

Inks: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue

Embellishments: May Arts White Crochet Ribbon, Crown Circles and Circles spellbinders dies, Lawn Fawn trimmings twine, dimensionals

Heart Full of Love

When I saw this Hampton Arts stamp, I snatched it up real quick.  I love that it's a small square with text writing all over it and works as a perfect background to a small image.

This card would be perfect for an anniversary, thinking of you, congratulations, miss you, many different occasions would work for it.

This week's challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays is to Put your {heart} into it.

Misstreez aka Teresa over at SCS Hope You Can Cling to Challenge asked us to create a card featuring text on it for her challenge.  I used an older Freshly Made Sketch for my {heart} card.

Card details:

Stamps: Novel Background from Hampton Art and Text Objects from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Rose Red, Basic Black and Whisper White from Stampin'Up!

Inks: Rose Red and Basic Black from Stampin'Up!, Versamarker from Tsukineko

Embellishments: French Script Embossing Folder from Cuttlebug, Clear Embossing powder and Basic Pearls from Stampin'Up!, Pennant Trim Die from Verve Stamps

Enjoy Every Minute

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations we are breaking out the leaves and celebrating fall.  Show us your creations using leaves.

I picked up a new set when I was at the stamp show this weekend called Leaflets from Clear & Simple Stamps.  I love the rustic look of these leaves.  

These colors use the current The Paper Players challenge of night of navy, bravo burgundy, cajun craze and very vanilla.  I didn't have cajun craze so I used really rust instead.

I'm trying to keep up with the challenges at Hope You Can Cling To at SCS but have some catching up to do.  This is for Dina's challenge to use a song for inspiration so I used Tom Wait's "Last Leaf" as mine.

Hope you will join us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations and show us some leaves.

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Card details:

Stamps: Leaflets and Limited Edition Celebrate from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Really Rust, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla, Bravo Burgundy

Inks: same as cardstock

Embellishments: Zva Self Adhesive Crystals

Gray Thanks

I was thrilled with how this card turned out, except for the ripping on the side...I was trying to distress and paper was a little frail :-)

Had a blast this weekend with some friends at the Heirloom Show in York, PA.  Saturday was exhausting, but enjoyed meeting so many stampers and seeing the excitement of all those shopping.

Today I'm off and hoping to get a card or two made...but also wanting to nap.  Oh the choices!  First I better get through my google reader.

This is for the Rays of Hope Challenge at SCS Hope You Can Cling to from Beate to use gray with a splash of color.

Card details:

Stamps: Labels4Cutting and Thanks2you from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Gina K. Luxury White, My Mind's Eye Dilly Dally

Inks: Such a Gray-cious Host

Embellishments: Distresser, Fancy Labels #4 for Stephanie Barnard from Sizzix, rhinestones

No "Butts" About It...

I had so much fun creating this card!  I love this set and knew as soon as I saw this challenge what I would use.

For my card I used the SCS Sketch #406 and the Hope You Can Cling To Challenge from Patricia to use humor with stitching.  I turned the layout and I also moved where the circle was to be.

I stamped my image first on white and the decided on this patterned paper, so it's a little stark in comparison but am thrilled with the outcome.  His/Her little butt is mounted on some dimensionals which is hard to tell on this.

Hope you are having a great weekend, I'm writing this up ahead of time, but hopefully as you are reading this I'm enjoying a stamp show and spending some time with some friends.

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Card details:

Stamps: Ba Donkey Donk from There She Goes

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Gina K. Luxury White, Authentique Carefree

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: Janome Sewing, Amuse pearls, Botanical Beauty Die-namics from My Favorite Things

Just a Note...

Just a quick note here...he he!

Seriously, going to make this pretty short & sweet as I'm headed off to work the Heirloom Show but wanted to get some of my cards posted that I've been creating over the last few weekends.

This card is for the challenge Tenia Nelson gave over the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges at SCS to use pink and music inspired stamps/paper/etc.

Now, she's probably going to slap my hand as now that I'm looking at this I think my washi tape might be upside down??  YIKES!!!

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Card details:

Stamps: What's Up Buttercup? from There She Goes

Cardstock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Coral Necklace

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Tim Holtz Tissue Tape-Symphony, Viva Pearl Pen-Cream

Never Give Up

I am going to double up on a few posts as I don't want my cards to get lost in the mix before I mail them off.

Last year I enjoyed participating in the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges over at SCS and am hoping to keep up with it again this year.

My card above was for the challenge issued by cakath with the theme HOPE AND COURAGE.  I thought this sentiment was perfect and I wanted to just use a simple image so colored these flowers.  

I used the current Sweet Sunday Sketch for this card as well and some of my all time favorite papers from My Mind's Eye.

Card details:

Stamps: Budding Blossoms and Borderline from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Dark Chocolate, Coral Necklace, Very Vanilla and My Mind's Eye Lost & Found-Blush

Inks: Chocolate Chip, copics

Embellishments: pewter brads

My second card is holiday themed using one of my favorite sketch challenge sites, Retro Sketches.  I've been slacking in participating in these lately but was inspired this weekend when stamping.

I'm not a very good mixer of patterned paper but thought this looked good.  I think I would have layered it if I had more room on my card, but wanted to make a traditional Arielle card- square.  I love her style!

This card was also created for the Moxie Fab Challenge to make a Holiday card.

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Card details:

Stamps: Sea-Sons Greetings from Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Rustic , Cherry Cobbler, Kraft Like a Rockstar Ivory, Handmade Holiday by Simple Stories

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Chocolate Chip, copics

Embellishments: Kaiser Craft pearls, twine, Rustic Wooden Vintage Buttons

Hope you can Cling To Challenges

 

 Card details:

Stamps: Taste of Christmas from Clear & Simple Stamps (retired)

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, Confetti Cream, Dish All the Dirt Brown

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copics

Embellishments: Paint the Town Pink Ribbon, circle Spellbinders Nestabilities, Doodlebug Designs jewels

Going to post a few cards I've done over the last few weeks for the Hope You Can Cling to Challenges over at SCS.  If you haven't done any, it's a great opportunity to send some cards to a great cause and at a chance to win some great prizes.

This first one was for the HYCCT1128 hosted by Jami to make a Holiday card with pink.  I combined it with the CAS-ual Friday challenge which was a sketch.

Card details:

Stamps: Butterfly Dreams and Handwritten Notes from PTI

Cardstock: Neenah White

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Bubble Gum, Perfect Little Black Dress

Embellishments: Butterfly die from PTI

I made a set of these cards for my friend who just got done crewing the Susan G Komen 3 Day walk and will also be walking in another 2 weeks in San Diego.  She has been awesome, walking my dog when I travel and I knew she could use some thank you cards for those who have donated.  This was an extra one I kept to send for challenge which was Butterfly Thanks hosted by wendybell using the FTL163 sketch.

 

Card details:

Stamps: Just Chicken in on you and Bold Birds from Stampotique, Borders4me from The {Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar

Inks: Dish all the Dirt Brown, copics

I love this little chicken, it always cracks me up with the sentiment.  This card was for the Pickled Tink challenge sponsored by lisalara to make a Humorous CAS card with a splash of pink and I used the SCS353 sketch for this card.

These cards are a little hard for me as they were one layer cards which are a little out of my comfort zone, but I wanted to participate in as many of the challenges as I could.  There are still a few more days to upload, so I may squeeze in a few more and I have a lot more to share.

Trust in the Lord

Oh it has been a challenging weekend here with the kiddos!  The attitudes have been in full swing and what I hoped would be a nice day of shopping (to get clothes for picky kids) turned out to be a partial bust.  I got them to cooperate with getting most of the clothes picked out before temper tantrums began and we exited the store, got kids situated in car before I ran back in to buy the clothes.

I've been trying to participate in the Hope You can Cling to Challenges over on SCS and originally I was going to use this one for the pink collage but decided to use it for the Brave Heart challenge hosted by va. sunshine aka Teresa-HYCCT1112 Brave Heart- Use a Heart on a Creation.  I combined it with the Card Patterns Sketch #136.

I adore this new paper from My Mind's Eye, it is truly my favorites right now and I have a hard time NOT wanting to use it all up.

Hoping today will be a better day for us, we'll be outside all day at a baseball tournament, the weather is supposed to be decent and the kids will have friends to play with.  Hope your Sunday will be a pleasant one as well.

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Card details:

Stamps: Princess4Life and Praises4Him from The{Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: My Mind's Eye Lost & Found- Blush, Kraft Like a Rockstar, Perfect Little Black Dress

Inks: Stephanie Barnard Color Box- Licorice

Embellishments: Pink Sorbet from The Twinery

Have a Swinging Good Day!

This is set from Clear & Simple Stamps is one of my favorite ones for a masculine card, so I was kind of disappointed that it is being retired :-(  Almost all the golf sets I have are on the retired list so I'm going to anxiously await what new wonderful masculine sets they will be coming out with.

The challenge over at SCS  for the HYCCT1103  is Real Men Wear Pink hosted by Dini.  I chose to also use the SC153 Sketch Challenge on this card, it was nice and simple and worked well with this larger image.

Short and sweet today, trying to get some blog posts pre-posted while they are fresh in my mind :-)

Card details:

Stamps: Golf Gent from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, A Blanc Check, Paint the Town Pink

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic markers

Embellishments: A Blanc Check Twine

Adore

This has got to be one of my most favorite cards, and that doesn't come easy some days, but since I'm mailing these off to the MD Anderson Cancer Center, I will need to re-create one for my stash.  Now I think I'm going to need to buy this stamp as it's one I stamped a few images of while I was over at Libby's a few weekends ago playing.  

The challenge was HYCCT1107- Colors of Hope (Green, Brown and Yellow)

hosted by LMcAree.  At first I was a little apprehensive as I wasn't certain about these colors together, but it came together beautifully!

Hope you will join in over at the challenges at SCS for this great cause.

Card details:

Stamps: Adore Peony Collage from Memory Box

Cardstock: Say Yellow to all Your Fans, Dish All the Dirt Brown, A Blanc Check

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, Dish All the Dirt Brown, copics

Embellishments: dimensionals, Kasier Craft December 25th Self-Adhesive Pearls, sponge, distresser

It's Your Day!

Are you playing in the challenges over at SCS for the Hope You Can Cling To event?  If not, I encourage you to go over and play with the fun challenges at your chance to win some fabulous prizes and it is for a great cause.  

I have not been able to play EVERY day, but I'm keeping up with the calendar so when I do get a chance to stamp I try to incorporate the challenges into whatever I'm creating.

This challenge was the HYCCT1104- (H)aving (O)nly (P)aper (E)lements

hosted by sewsplendidstamper to only use paper elements.  I didn't do any stamping on this card at all, I used all the elements from the Simple Stories 6 x 6 pack I got and added some cardstock.

Love how easy these paper packs are to use and they all coordinate.  

Card details:

Stamps: none

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Marigold Morning, Simple Stories Happy Day

Inks: Marigold Morning

Embellishments: dimensionals, oval punch, scalloped circle punch, Die-Namics Rolled Flower

Blogger's Challenge: Cardboard

edited to add:  Guess it would help if when I'm pre-posting my stuff that I would actually attach the pictures of my projects and WRITE up my blog post?

See, I've been trying to get "ahead" of the game this past week, so when I finished a card, I typed all the info up on the card and was supposed to go back and add in my project.  Whoops!

So today is Friday which is Blogger's Challenge and Lisa has given us the challenge of working with cardboard.  My idea is not super original or anything, but I think it turned out just how I envisioned it.

Last weekend while playing in the challenges over at SCS, I created this for the Hope you Can Cling to Challenge HYCCT1106: Looking in on You! hosted by texasgrammy aka Bev Gerard.  The image are some "hand me downs" from my friend Libby, she had about 4 of these flowers embossed on vellum so I colored on the back of them with my copic markers.

The cardboard I peeled off a layer of it so it was a little "feathery" and then ran it through my cuttlebug with the beaded square die.  I layered a white piece of cardstock behind the vellum and attached it behind the cutout to give it the window effect.

Hope you will join us over at blogger's challenge today, link up your project here or below to show us your cardboard creation. 

Card details:

Stamps: Striped Flower CG255 from Hero Arts

Cardstock: Sweet Blush, A Blanc Check, Cardboard

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, embossing, copics

Embellishments: Kaiser Crafts Hot Pink Pearls, Glossy Accents, Spellbinders Nestabilities Square and Beaded Square Dies

A Cheerful Friend...

Today is a very clean and simple card, I went with the original sketch that Jimmi had and just used my sentiment as a focal image.

This set I don't think will ever get old, I love the Text Objects by Verve Stamps, the sayings are just perfect!

I also played along with the CAS-ual Friday challenge to use the quote below as inspiration.

HYCCT1105 Circle Sketch Challenge hosted by jpmayo aka Jimmi

CAS-ual Friday CFC23

Card details:

Stamps: Text Objects by Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Whisper White, Eva by Basic Grey

Inks: Regal Rose, Rose Red

Embellishments: Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle Dies, dimensionals

Hi, Sweet Cheeks!

Here is the 2nd in my installment of the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges over on SCS.  This one uses the

MFTWSC40 sketch and is challenge HYCCT1101B :Bling your cling (use bling) hosted by Stamp_momma aka Lori.

I love these 2 little kids, reminds me of my oldest right now and how he is becoming interested in girls.  Kind of a scary thought, but none the less, exciting for him.

I paper pieced Emma's dress with a scrap of papers I had laying around from my last card, thought it worked well, I also paper pieced her tights with the flipside of that paper.  I added some bling to the flower in her hair as well as the center of her belt.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you had a fantastic weekend!  We did here, win for football game and win for the championship game at baseball yesterday, with a little trip to the local fair in between.  The kids had a BLAST, but today it's back to the daily grind.

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Card details:

Stamps: Meet Emma and Wyatt from My Favorite Things

Cardstock: Pure Poppy, Neenah White, Spring Rain, patterned paper unknown

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishments: Zva Crystals, Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle Dies

Birthday Buddy

 This weekend I hunkered down in my stamp room and I created a few cards, most of them for the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges over at Splitcoast Stampers. I was loving that I finally had a productive night stamping but got so tired early and gave up.

This is for the first challenge HYCCT1101A  hosted by Lydia (Understandblue) to make a pink critter.  I also used the Skipping Stones Sketch #96 

I had made another card last weekend when I was stamping with Libby but didn't love it, so started all over again and really like how this turned out, simple but cute.

Card details:

Stamps: Birthday Buddies, Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Whisper White, Mauved by the Paparazzi, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found- Blush

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishments: Designer Mix buttons from Clear & Simple Stamps, Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Pinking Circle dies, Pink Sorbet twine from The Twinery