Happy Happy Birthday!!!

So recently I've been spending a LOT of time playing with my new stamps from both DeNami Design and Lawn Fawn (and sometimes together since the FABULOUS blog hop they held last weekend!!!)  The DeNami projects will have to wait for now (some of them are for ANOTHER blog hop this weekend, and others are just not quite ready to be shown off!) but here's something that I made with Lawn Fawn's little "Year One" set that I really, really like:

I recently purchased the "Fly a Kite" 6x6 paper pad from My Mind's Eye's Lime Twist line.  Isn't that PP just to DIE for?  I really like that whole paper pad... so bright and cheery!  It was just screaming for some Lawn Fawny goodness to make it awesome!  I also added some fun colored pearls that match colors in the starred PP, and some white grosgrain ribbon... I really wanted to make the white pop on this card!  I finished it off with some faux stitching (thank you new Tim Holtz ruler for helping me measure!) and there it is!  It's fun and cute and totally mailable!!!  I have a few important birthdays coming up, too!  =) 

This card was inspired by two fabulous challenge blogs:

1. Wee Memories Challenge #63 - Dare to Color

2. Tuesday Throwdown #61 - Birthday Cards

I hope everyone is still having a great summer!  I'm slowly coming to the realization that I'm going back to school SUPER soon, and so I've been trying to get ready for that.  I'm really going to miss all of the fabulous crafty time! 

So, I have one more thing to share with you tonight!  I've been doing a LOT of cooking lately, and I love LOVE cooking.  One food that I absolutely love is dill pickles.  And being the kind of person that always wants to make things themselves, I've always wanted to try making pickles but often felt they would be something that was difficult to get right!  Well, THIS RECIPE over at One Perfect Bite is SO easy and makes pickles that are SO delicious that I'm not sure why EVERYONE wouldn't start making their own pickles all the time!  Here's a picture of my (delicious) homemade pickles:

Yum yum yum!  Ok well that's enough for me tonight... thanks for reading!!!  =)  Have a lovely Thursday and weekend and as always thanks for stopping by!  =D

If Friends Were Flowers...

I'd pick all of you!!!  Seriously, those of you who read my blog are so very VERY sweet!  =)  Thanks for stopping by yet again to check out another fun card creation! 

Ok so first of all... I FINALLY got ahold of Lawn Fawn's Blissful Botanicals set!  I've been wanting it for awhile, and I FINALLY got the chance to purchase it, along with some Jenni Bowlin inks and LF's Year One set also!  =) 

Next, I was hopping around blogland, and I saw a new challenge post from Wee Memories that was RIGHT up my alley:

This challenge asks us players to use no less than FOUR colors on your card!  Well, you ALL know by now that I LOVE color, and bright colors too, and so I couldn't wait to play along with this one!

I was really in the mood for fussy cutting the other night, and so here's what I came up with:

Aren't those flowers just the BEST?  And I love the long leafy border.. it's so much fun!  The leafy border is also stamped with Jenni Bowlin's "Seed Packet" ink which I LOVE.  It might be hard to see, but all of the flowers are cut out, colored with copics (as are the leaves), and then they are popped up on foam adhesive.  Here's a different angle that shows off the dimension a little better:

On the inside, I covered one side with some PP from Basic Grey's "Out of Print" collection which I bought this week, and the other side simply says "Thank you for being my friend" from LF's "Hello Friend" set! 

So there you have it!  I've been having so much fun with this stamp set and many more this week.. I can't wait to show you all the fun things I've created!  Stay tuned, and as always thanks for stopping by today! 

Wee Memories Challenge and some other crafty goodness!

Hello crafty friends!  Happy Friday!  I'm really enjoying being able to share projects with you again, now that life has calmed down a bit!  First of all, I wanted to share with you all that I was the lucky LUCKY winner of Kim Wilson's Relay for Life prize pack over on her blog -- which included 8 or 9 stamp sets, adhesives, distress ink, pens, and even more goodies!  I got the package in the mail not too long ago, and so I wanted to get inky right away!

One of the reasons I was doubly pumped about this prize pack (as if there weren't enough reasons above), is that all of the stamp sets I won were from stamp companies whose stamps I don't own!  I'm always looking for new stamp companies, but it's hard to invest in too many!  I was most pumped to finally get my hands on some Wilson Design stamps - namely the Everything's OwlRight set!  I used it lots in today's card:

I am super proud of this card!  I really enjoyed blending my Wilson Designs and Lawn Fawn stamp sets!  Although the design is CAS, I did a lot of work on this card to make it fab!  The background is hand-stamped, the polaroid was masked off and the party hat was paper-pieced, AND that little yellow flower was also made by ME!  =)  It's a homemade resin flower!!!  Anyhow, I'm really happy with how the whole thing turned out!

I kept this card CAS because I was inspired by the current Wee Memories Challenge:

 

I have one more crafty project to share with you today!  I was over on Pinterest (if you haven't gone there yet, do it NOW!) and I saw this awesome yarn wreath with handmade felt dahlia's on it.  I followed the picture to THIS AMAZING BLOG!  I modified some things for my own wreath, mainly using three dahlias, not including the argyle pattern and wrapping the wreath with ribbon instead of yarn.  Here's how it turned out: 

I ended up really liking the result!  It looks just great on our front door!  =)  It was time-consuming, but totally worth it for the final result!  =)

Well, that's all I have to share for now, but I do have more fun things to share with you SOON!  Stay tuned, and have a fantastic weekend!  =)

Happy Birthday Plane

Hello everyone, and happy Monday!  I have a fun little card for you today using two of my favorite stamp companies, Papertrey Ink and Lawn Fawn!  I have a bunch of male birthdays coming up in the next few weeks, and so I made this for one of my brother in law's! 

I just love love LOVE the Fly Away stamp set!  I stamped one of the planes and added the Happy Birthday banner!  Then I colored the whole thing in, and added glossy accents over the whole plane (I just love the way that plane looks with glossy accents on it!)  Then, I added the clouds from Lawn Fawn's Partly Cloudy stamp set to make a fun sky scene!  Finally, I added some baker's twine and pearls for a final touch! 

This card was inspired by lots and LOTS of fantastic challenges:
1. Wee Memories #60 - Party Time

2. Tuesday Throwdown #54 - Create a Masculine Card
3. Off the Wall Craftiness #56 - Red, White and any Blue color

=)  It's been so SO great to get some seriously crafty time in lately!  How is everyone else enjoying summer, and can you believe it's almost July already?!?!?!?!  Madness!  Anyhow, have a lovely Monday!

Happy Birthday Owls!!!

Good afternoon blogland!  I have a super fun card to share with you today!  Lately, there have been some fabulous challenges out there, and I've really been wanting to get back to playing along with more of my favorites!  Today I'm sharing a few of those favorite challenges in one card:

I used a bunch of my favorite products for this card!  First of all, I busted out my DeNami stamps and made the background with the Owl Petit Fours set!  I just love love LOVE those owls!  I really wanted to make a birthday card, but I only have two DeNami birthday stamps, and neither was a perfect fit.  Do you recognize this sentiment?  It's from the "Hoppy Birthday" Birthday Froggies stamp, but I altered it to say Happy Birthday!  =)  It ended up working out well for this project, but I definitely need to invest in more DeNami sentiments! =) 

I also used some of my favorite grosgrain ribbon, Adirondack Espresso Ink, AND some of my homemade embellishments from my MoldMuse molds and some purple Sculpey clay!

I had LOTS of inspiration for this card!  I'm submitting this card for three fabulous challenges:
1. DeNami Design's Color Challenge #8
2. Card Patterns #120
3. Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge #60: Party Time

   

Have you entered into these challenges yet???  All three of them are fabulous challenges that I love to participate in!  =)  Check them out while you are getting ready for your weekend!  =D

Hi!

Well hi there blogland!  WOW I have been MIA lately!  It all started with a serious slump in my mojo.... after all kinds of mass-production of cards plus a busy schedule really left me feeling non-creative!  But now, school is OUT for the summer (YAY!) and so I've got lots and LOTS of crafting time on my hands!  =D  Finally, I came up with this CAS card yesterday:

This card is very simple, but I love how it turned out!  I cut the flower and leaves out of some fabulous paper from American Crafts A La Carte line!  I popped up the flower with some foam adhesive, and added some stickles and glossy accents to the center.  Then, I added some of my favorite Thickers (American Crafts again!) and some black Rhinestones for a little bling!  =)

It's been a long time since I made a card without any stamps, but it was super fun!  I was inspired by several different challenges for this card:
* The Play Date Cafe #84
* Wee Memories #59 - Anything Goes
* Tuesday Throwdown #51 - Make Your Own Embellishments (mine is that fabulous flower from the patterned paper!) 

     

Well, that's all for me today!  I'll be back soon with more fun and exciting creations!  Keep making beautiful things, I've really enjoyed looking at your creations in the last few weeks, though I haven't had much time to leave comments!  =)  Happy Monday everyone!

Let's Party!

Good evening blogland!  Well, we've had quite a busy couple of days!  We have had a TON of rain, and it's caused a lot of muddy water to infiltrate our basement.  Thus, many of my evenings have been consumed with damage control on that!  Luckily, it seems that the water has stopped for now, and hopefully we can take on that project on Saturday if the weather holds out!

Anyhow, tonight I FINALLY got some more crafty time in, and I really like the card that I came up with!  Here's how it turned out:

I just love LOVE that American Crafts patterned paper!  It's so much fun!  I also love the Lawn Fawn-y goodness on this card, and the sticky chipboard letters that I inked up with Memento Sea Breeze chalk ink!  Speaking of sticky, I also used lots of scor-tape, glue dots, and a 2-way glue pen on this card! =)   This card was inspired by three challenges:
1. CardPatterns #115
2. Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge #56 - Get Sticky!
3. Kathy's Color Throwdown over at LilyPad

  

 
I hope everyone is having a lovely spring!  These colors remind me of the colors of spring since everything is finally starting to grow!  We're starting our garden this week!  Do any of you have a garden?  What do you grow?  =) 


Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fantastic day and weekend!  =D

Fun cards and news!

Hello everyone!  Well it has been some time since I blogged!  I've been working on lots of crafty goodness, but much of it is not ready to share with you yet!  I've been *gasp* actually scrapbooking instead of making cards a lot this week!  =)  Pics will come soon when the scrapbook is ready!  =D

Next, I was so so SO excited to get chosen for the Froggin Fantastic Four over at Lily Pad Cards!  Have you checked out their website yet?  They have lots of fun challenges and tips and tricks for card makers everywhere!  It's such a fun, new site and I'm honored that they chose me!

Ok, and now onto today's cards:

I'm really happy with the way this card turned out!  I started with this incredible paper from Paper Source and then used PTI's Tag-it's #1 and #2 to make the great Mother's Day tag!  The pearly rose was handmade with my new molds from mold muse on Etsy!  If you haven't checked them out yet either, definitely do that too!  =)  Here's a close-up of the card:

Also, I'd like to give credit to Britta Swiderski for the great twine-wrapping idea!  She used it a few weeks ago for her card on her Video Tutorial Monday, and I felt that this card needed a little something more!  Then I remembered her twine idea, and voila!  =)  This card was inspired by:
1. CR84FN #24: 

 

2. Etsy Inspired #135 - The Creating is Fun Shop.  I was inspired by this picture with the beautiful pearly buttons:

UPDATE: I'm also entering this card for consideration over at the Practical Scrappers blog for their Challenge me Tuesday challenges!  This week's challenge is twine so it was perfect!  I'd never been to their blog before, but it's fabulous!  Check it out here! 

And now, onto the next card:

 

Wee Memories is having an "All Things Adorable" challenge this week!  In my world, there is little that is more adorable than my little dog, Lucky!  I recently saw this stamp set on clearance at my local Michael's and I couldn't resist all of the cute cute pupples!  I especially liked this one because he reminds me of our little guy when he's on alert:

Hehe!  I also love this Max and Whiskers paper pack from Basic Grey and thought that this all went just perfect together!  =)  Again, this card was inspired by the current Wee Memories Challenge:

Ok everyone!  Well, I hope that you are all having a wonderful week, and that those of you celebrating Easter have a lovely Easter weekend!  =)  Enjoy! 

Easter Blessings!

Good evening blogland!  So I've had a really REALLY long week doing lots and lots of crafty stuff, I just haven't had time to post anything!  =)  Most recently, I made an easter card.  Now, I normally don't make many holiday-related cards outside of christmas and valentines day, but with this new set from PTI I couldn't resist:

I love that egg stamp and the "Easter Blessings" greeting!  I also added a little Lawn Fawn critter, because they are just the cutest!  The doily was distressed and then sprayed with vanilla smooch spritz!  Overall I love love LOVE this card!  You may have noticed that lately I've been using a lot more pinks and yellows in with my blues and greens!  Well, lately this spring-y combination has been my absolute favorite!  I definitely think that my favorite color profiles change with the seasons, and so right now these colors are what I'm super into!  AND since this week Wee Memories is all about Color Inspiration, I'm entering this card into their challenge:

Oooook!  I hope you enjoyed my easter card!  I've got many more projects to show you, I just need to find more time to BLOG!  Speaking of, it is late and I should get to bed!!  =)  Until tomorrow readers! 


Paper: 
* PTI Stampers Select White
* Mint Green Cardstock (stash)
* Doily
Stamps and Ink: 
* PTI - Tag It's #1 Collection
* Lawn Fawn  - Critters in the Burbs
* Ranger Distress Ink  - Worn Lipstick, Broken China, and Tumbled Glass
* Memento Ink - Dandelion and Tuxedo Black 
Other: 
* Pearls
* Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz
* Bakers Twine

Crafting Madness!!!

Hi everyone!  I hope you have all had a great week!  I've been having a busy week with lots of school, crafting, and home projects!  my hubby and I tore out the carpeting in our dining room to expose the beautiful (and TOTALLY FINISHED) hardwood floors!  I'll post some pics of that this week!  =)

Also, I've been crafting up a storm lately, but haven't been posting much!  Today, I wanted to share a card that was inspired by SO many things!  First, I've been following Britta Swiderski's "No Stress Distress Inks" series on her blog, and I have to say that I was so inspired to start distressing backgrounds and layering ink a LOT more!  Then this week's PTI "Make It Monday" Challenge came along, and I knew that I had to do some ink blending!!  Thus, I got out my PTI Sweet Blush ink and my Ranger "Worn Lipstick" distress ink, and a DOILY, and here's what happened:

I first applied the sweet blush ink to the entire card base, and lightly to the diecut circle.  Then, I used a doily as a mask and applied worn lipstick distress ink over the doily and blended the worn lipstick right into the sweet blush.  Then I stamped the couple silhouette on the diecut circle, attached the vellum sentiment, and added some pretty pearls!  I love the faded look of the masked doily!  =)  I like this card so much I'm also going to enter it into the Wee Memories Challenge #49: Anything Goes! 

I hope everyone has been doing well lately!  I've been super busy getting some card sets made for a small crafting show that I'm going to this weekend!  I'm so excited to have people looking at my cards and tags!  Woo Hoo!  I'm also working on some bridal invites too that I'll be sharing at some point and time so stay tuned!  =D 



Paper: 
PTI - Stamper's Select White and Vintage Cream Cardstock
Stamps and Ink: 
PTI - Sweet Blush Ink
Ranger Distress Ink - Worn Lipstick
Wedding Silhouette - Inkadinkado
Other: 
Doily
Pearls
Vellum/Ribbon Sentiment

Thursday's Creations!!!

Hi there blogland!  Well I had a very crafty day!  It all started with this video from the Lawn Fawn blog!  Kelly's idea of a background sentiment got my mojo going, and it gave me a perfect idea for the current Lawnscapings challenge: 

 

Here's my card:

I love how much this blue just pops out!!!  And the birdy from "Fly Free" just looks so great as a bluebird!  This also took a TON of Lawn Fawn stamp sets, which was totally FUN!  =) 

After that, I wanted to make a few more gift boxes for some cute little candy or other trinkets!  I made two boxes, each slightly different than the other:

In each situation, I stamped the cardstock with Lawn Fawn's teeny tiny backdrops, one with versamagic ink and one with versamark dazzle ink.  On one I embossed a sentiment right on the bottom, and on the other I added a removable tag with a sentiment!  These boxes were inspired by a few challenges:
1. Wee Memories #48 - Cute and Cuddly.  I think these are super cute to add to a baby gift!  

 

2. City Crafter Challenge Blog #49 - Babies, Buttons and Bows
3. Tuesday Throwdown #41 - Anything but a Card

Ok guys!  Is everyone ready for the weekend?  I know I sure am!  =)  I hope everyone has a lovely night!  =D


Thank You Card: 
Paper:
* PTI Cardstock
Stamps and Ink: 
* Lawn Fawn - Fly Free, Hello Friend, Harold's ABC's, Bows and Holly, Sophie's Sentiments, My Silly Valentine, and various Thank You stamps.  
* Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other: 
* Flower Embellishment - Recollections

Candy Boxes: 
Paper: 
* Recollections Cardstock
Stamps and Ink: 
* Lawn Fawn - Teeny Tiny Backdrops, Spohie's Sentiments
* Versamagic - Sea Breeze Ink
* Versamark Dazzle - Frost Ink
* Silver Embossing Powder
Other: 
* Blue/White Baker's Twine
* Buttons
* Clear Cellophane
* Silver Satin Ribbon