MPS Challenge 1

My Pink Stamper is having National Scrapbook Day challenges on her blog.  The 1st Challenge is to make something using a cupcake.  So I made a quick card using the Sweet Treat cart.  I cut the cupcake at 3.5".  I made the card where the top flap is tucked under the cherry.  Just bend it back slightly and the flap will pop out and you can open the card.  Here is the link for the challenge.  The Pink Stamper   She is giving away prizes.  Come join the fun!

Just a card

I made a anything goes card.  These always come in handy when you just need to stamp some kind of sentiment inside.  I had gotten a package of die cuts on clearance at Michael's.  I can't remember the brand name sorry.  I made it a A2 size card.  I inked the edge of the card with peeled paint distress ink and then went over it again with vintage photo distress ink.  I embossed the pink paper with a cuttlebug embossing folder, Birds and Swirls.  Inked the edges of that also.  I found some ribbon at Wal-Mart for a dollar a spool......what a great deal!  I added a chipboard bird cage......also from M's clearance stuff.  The tiny white bow with the flower in the middle I got at Wal-Mart for $1.27.  They were called Stylish Accents and were where the ribbon was.  A lot easier then trying to make a tiny bow like that myself.  I inked the die cut and chipboard in vintage photo.  Added some bling on the bottom and I got a card ready to go.  I have been so out of it with the rain.  It is such a downer.  I need to get busy and make some more cards...like the one I made here.  I have depleted my stash.  Time to get busy!  Hope you all have a crafty week.  

Mother's Day Card

I made a card for my mother and sister for Mother's day.  I got my inspiration from http://joy-purttypaperz.blogspot.com/  Her blog has some wonderful cards on it.  If you get a chance check her blog out it will be worth it.  I used Country Life cart to make the pitcher of flowers.  Hope you like it.

Repeat from yesterday

I made another April Showers card.  I cut the girl the same size and used the same size card as yesterday.  I had to make one for my mom.  My mom lives close to me but I have a sister and a friend who live a couple hours away.  I send a lot of the cards I make to them.  My friend is also a card maker and sends me a card from time to time also.  It is nice to get that hand made card in the mail.  I always put them on my cupboard and display it.  Thanks for looking.

April Showers Bring May Flowers!

I was inspired to do this card due to the down pour of rain we were getting.  I keep telling myself that we need this rain for the May flowers.  I know I am ready for some sunshine.  It has been raining on and off for so long now I quit keeping track.  I made the girl from Kate's ABCs cart.  I cut her at 4 inches and used a A4 size card.  I had some cute umbrella patterned paper and had to find a way to include it in the card.  Hope you like it!

Family Layout

Well layouts are not my strong point so I spent about a week putting this layout together.  The ribbon flower in the upper right hand corner is ribbon I sewed and pulled together to gather and added some pearls in the middle.  That ribbon matched that paper perfect.  Some of the flowers down in the lower left hand corner I made and some were bought.  My son said it was flower over kill but he just doesn't get it.  When you get a chance to use some of those flower you made you go for it.....LOL.  Thanks for looking!

Fairy card using Once Upon a Springtime Graphic 45 paper.

Wow I just love this paper.  I only bought the 8x8 paper pad for now.  I am sure I will be picking up the 12x12 paper soon.  I used glitter glue on the wings of the fairy, and glitter mist on the flowers.  Hard to tell in the photo.  Put lots of pearls around.  Here is wishing you all a nice spring day!

Blue Fairy

It has been awhile since I last posted.  This spring weather brought along a nasty virus with it.  My entire family got it.  I was the last to get it.  It was not a virus that made you throw up and get sick in the stomach.  It attacked your sinuses and your lungs.  I have not cough so much in years.  I thought my head or chest would explode and just forget about getting any sleep because you would just cough and cough.  Even taking a antibiotic didn't take the cough away.  Just something you have to work through.  I had my first good night sleep last night.  I am still coughing but not like I was. 

Well I had pulled out some of my old stamps awhile back and I picked out this fairy.  I decided to use blue glitter mist on the paper and then stamp the fairy on it.  I put some perfect pearls on her wings.  Had to give them some extra sparkle.  Hope you like her.

Sunflowers

I just love sunflowers.  I bought this Precious Moments stamp back in the late 90's from Stampendous.  I used Staedtler watercolour pencils to color her in.  Hope she brightens your day.

Purple & yellow duo

I made 2 cards with the same backgrounds.  I pulled a 12x12 piece of coredinations color core paper out of my pack so I decided why not make 2 cards with the purple.  I embossed them both in the cuttlebug using the stylized flowers folder.  Then the fun part I sanded them to bring out the embossing.  On the first card shown I used Kate's ABCs cart, page 68 in the hand book to make the flowers.  I used spellbinders nestabilities classic scalloped circle dies for both cards.  I used clear yellow glass beads to dress up the first card a bit.  On the second card I used Sweet Novenber Stamps by Amy Young, Spring Elves.  I actually won these stamps about a year ago on All that scraps blog.....http://atsblog.typepad.com/.  First and only time I have ever won anything from a blog.  I stitched around the card, added a flower brad and some glitter glue. 

Thanks for looking!

Card for my Mom

I made this card for my mom.  Last Saturday we went to the craft stores to do some shopping and because I had a 10 dollar certificate for AC Moore.  It expired at the end of this month so I felt the need to spend it now...LOL.  Well AC Moore had some cricut carts on sale for $29.99.  With the 10 dollar coupon a cart would only cost me $19.99.  I couldn't decide which one to get.  A child's year or Winter frolic.  Mom was telling me she really liked A child's year.  I wanted a child's year to work on layouts of my kids.  So I went with a child's year.  I decided to make a card for her using this cart.  My mom loves loves loves flowers & plants.  She only has a very small patch of grass in her back yard because she has planted flowers and bushes in most of it.  I thought the little girl watering the flowers was a good one for her.  I am going to send it off in the mail today.  She lives only about a mile from me but I think it is nice to get a little something in the mail other then bills.

Believe card!

I was looking through the Kate's ABCs book and found these butterflies.  I decided to make a card using them.  The believe stamp is another Michael's dollar stamps.  I am a big fan of their dollar bin.  You just can't beat a stamp for a buck.  The curly brown glittler adhesive I found at Michael's too.  I thought they were pretty cool.  Already glittered, colored, and ready to stick.  They help dress up a card in no time.  Hope you like the card.  Have a great day all!

1st Easter card made this year.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to snag the last Kate's ABCs cart from J's.  They didn't even have a tag hanging up I just took a chance and asked it they had it and they had one left under the counter.  I am so glad I got this cart.  I really love all the cute images on it.  Since I have a boy & a girl I need to put Nate's ABCs on my wish list.

Onto my card.  I have to say I scraplifted this card from Youtube.  Here is the link for the video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zUsbUNjg4

I know I will be making some more cards with this cart.  I will also be making cards with some of the older carts too with PC raising their prices.  With gas going up it is not in my budget to spend a lot of money for a cart.  Especially if I have Make the Cut.

My Pink Stamper Challenge

MPS is having a challenge to make a card with a feathered friend.  So here is my card.  I used the Serenade cart.  I used a 5X7 card base.  I cut the bird house at 3½" and the bird was done at 2½".  Just a Note.

Congrats card!

My niece got a apartment on her own for the first time.  She usually would share with another girl.  I wanted to send her a little congrats for getting out on her own.  I made the house on the card with Create a Critter cart, and the congrats I made with Stamping solution cart.  I use both those carts a lot.  There are so many good cuts on them.  I love using Stamping solution for little sayings like the congrats.  I was in a flower mood so I put a bunch of little prima flowers around.  Some of the flowers are still wet from the glue.  I added a couple cute butterflies I had left over from a card I posted on her a while back.  I like to keep extra die cuts that I have left over from making a card.  You never know when you could use them.  I also used pearl glimmer mist on the flowers.  I love that one because it leaves a nice amount of sparkle.

Your tweet! card

Made a couple cards today.  I have decided to try and make a extra card when I can so I have a few around when I need one.  So here I made 2 but made a slight change in color on one just to keep it interesting.  I got a 6 piece die set of Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Circles awhile back and decided to give them a try.  I do like them for making a quick circle but I still rely on using my cricut for most cuts.  I bought a pack of Ebony & Ivory Core'dination colorcore cardstock last weekend and wanted to try this paper out also.  So I embossed the paper with birds & swirls cuttlebug folder and then sanded it with a fine sand paper to bring out the white underneath.  I am really liking this paper.  I used some Jilliebean soup twine to wrap around the paper with a yellow button.  The bird stamp is a wooden block stamp from Michael's dollar bins.  The your tweet saying is from a studio G stamp another dollar stamp.  Not sure where I picked it up at.  Believe it or not I used some plain ole bic markers to color the bird.  I liked how bright these markers were.  I do have some copic markers but only 11 of them and not the colors I wanted to use.  Some day I will have more.  I just add to my little stash of copics one at a time.  Here and there.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!

Mini Pocket Page

Last week I seen this tutorial on youtube on making a mini pocket page.  Kathy from http://www.paperphenomenon.blogspot.com/ is the one who did the tutorial.  Here is the link to the tutorial on youtube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7PxDIIgzs  She does a lot of wonderful projects.  This pocket page is so cute to give as a gift or to put pictures of loved ones in it to carry in your purse.  Also makes a great add on to a mini album.  Best thing about it is it can be done in a hour or so depending on how much you decide to embellish it.  Quick, fun, & easy!

Fresh Fruit Friends card

I edged this card in blue embossing powder.  I made the little blueberry girl from the fresh fruit friends cut file on http://www.myscrapchick.com/  I cut it using Make the Cut. 

Making flowers again

Yep I was at it again.  I had yesterday off so I started tinkering around and ended up making some flowers.  I cut pieces of my home town newspaper up and glued it to reg white card stock.  Then using the Tim Holtz sizzix tattered florals die.  I ran the paper through the cuttlebug.  I don't know what I was thinking.  I just wanted some newpaper printed paper like.  I embossed the ends of the flowers in my black & gold embossing powder I had for years and forgot all about till  yesterday.  Back from my rubber stamping/card making days.  I curled some of the flowers petals.  It was more of a play time for me then anything.  I figure if I  practice enough some day I will make some really great flowers.  I did watch a live ustream last night on making flowers.  I learned some new things.  Here is a link to the site.  http://paperphenomenon.blogspot.com/  It is under the title FFFF for Feb First Fabulous Flowers
I am keeping hope alive that I will make some really beautiful flowers here in the future.  I know it is easy to just buy them but what fun is that?