Rainbow Bubbles It's Your Day Card

I haven't had time be creative lately, BUT, I was so inspired by some of the Beautiful stamps in the Fun Stampers Journey Spring into Summer Catalog, that I just had to play. 

The background was stamped with Clear Pigment Ink and then a Blue Pan Pastel wiped over it. 

The Fish is Water Colored with Silks on Water Color Paper. Then a Glaze over it with Sparkle cuts added to the scale portion.

Here is a close up of the glazed fish with Sparkle cuts on the scales. 

I'm entering this card is the following Challenges.

TIME OUT Challenges - Sketch

Cute Card Thursday - Ribbon and Bow

Hanna & Friends - Birthday 

Southern Girls - Tic, Tac, Toe - Glitter, Dies & Ribbon

Watercolor Wednesday - Birthday

Crafty Sentiments - Sea, Sun or Sand

Cuttlebug Mania - Sea You

Priceless Friendship

Here it is, just two days before the New Year. I've been so lax with my blog posts over the past few months. So, with New Years Day so close, ONE of my resolutions is to post more often on this blog. Yes, I know......resolutions are usually broken, but I really need to get my life back on track. 

So, here is a fun and easy card I made. My first time at using "silk" for the splatters. What fun!!!

Challenges:
Through the Craft Room Door- Anything Goes
Robyn's Fetish - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Cottage - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Christmas Candles

I finally am getting a head start on my Christmas cards. Christmas is my favorite time for card making. So, I dug through my stash of Christmas stamps and this is one of the cards I came up with.

Dies are from Spellbinders. Stamps are from Fun Stampers Journey and Papers are from Close to my Heart. Stamps and papers are retired. 

Image colored in with Copic markers.

Card Challenges:
Sparkle Creations - Christmas
Merry Monday  - Christmas Card Challenge
Challenge Up Your Life - Christmas
Crafty Calendar - Punches or Dies
Hiding in my Craft Room - Christmas
My Time to Craft - Christmas
One Crazy Stamper - Christmas
Just for Fun - Christmas

Blue Pansies Mother's Day Card

I was playing around again with some Fred She Said digi images. This one is Blue Pansies in a Tea Cup. I also used the butterflies from "Butterflies Doodle Dallions"

I used some of my retired CTMH cardstock, Sky and Star Spangled Blue.

My friend Crystal got me hooked on We R Memory Keepers Next Level Embossing Folders. The one I used, I think, Is the Basket Weave. 

Christmas Rose and Candles

Tis the season for Christmas Card making! 

My card today is using a fantastic pre-colored digi from Fred She Said called Christmas Rose.
I used a set of Spellbinder dies to cut image and mat.
The rose was fussy cut twice. Once with leaves and one just the rose. These were layered with foam tape to add some dimension. 

Red glitter was added to all the tiny red berried and then to the holly berries in the upper corners. Orange and yellow glitter was used on the candle flames. Clear Wink of Stella was used on the rose for a little extra shimmer.

The sentiment and papers are from some of my retired stash from Close to my Heart. Sentiment was heat embossed for a raised affect.

Challenges for this card:
Glitter 'n' Sparkle - Use some Red
Scrapbook Blessings  - Use Red, Green and White
Great Impressions - Bling on the Holidays
The Glory of Christmas - Glitter and/or Shine
Lacy Sunshine - Tic Tac Toe - I actually used all options but one
Digi's Designs - Bow, Die Cuts, Flowers

Santa with Lantern

I can't believe it's November 1st already. I'm still working on Fall cards for my classes. 
However, I just purchased some Christmas Images from Craftsuprint.com and had to use one today. It's officially the start of my Christmas Card Extravaganza. This first one will probably go to one of my small Grandsons. I love the way it turned out.

I usually turn to sketch challenges for my starting inspiration. When I saw the sketch on Taylored Expressions Share the Joy Challenge, I knew it was the right one for this image. 

I cut a piece of CTMH Ruby Cardstock and then dry embossed it with the new CTMH Confetti Embossing Folder. I then sanded it so it looked like snow.

I used some scraps of red and white striped paper and border punched one of them.

I used a Spellbinders die to mat the image. and tied it all up with a dark green satin bow.

The Merry Christmas is from the stamp set included in with the CTMH exclusive Cricut Artfully Sent Cartridge bundle.

Other Challenges for this card:
Southern Girls Challenge - Rocking the Stripes
ABC Christmas Challenge - "V" is for Very Cute
Addicted to Stamps - Holiday
Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas
Scrapy Land - Embossing and a Die
Allsorts - Christmas

Little Darlings Baby Girl Card

My daughter needed two baby cards yesterday. Why is it that daughters wait until the day before an event to ask me for a card. 
So, I really needed a really fast card to put together. 

I purchased a few stamp sets from Waltzing Mouse Stamps last year and this one, called Little Darlings Images, is a sweet set of vintage images. 

I pulled out my CTMH  Hollyhock and Pixie cardstock and a Spellbinders Die. I stamped a word background on the hollyhock. Then I stamped the image in Hollyhock ink, sponged around the edges with Pixie and stuck it all togehter. Wala!!! A quick an easy yet elegant card. Tied it all up with a pink gingham bow.

I'm entering this card into the Waltzing Mouse Pajama Party Challenge #3, Old Pajamas. I'm not quite sure how old this set is, but I love it anyway.

Other Challenges for this card:
Glitter and Sparkle - Include a Die Cut
Stamping Sensations - Dies/Punches
Challenge Up Your Life - Monochromatic
Just Us Girls - Stacked Die Cuts

Another Old Truck Father's Day Card

I simply LOVE this Old Truck Image from Fred She Said. And since it comes as a digi and also in four pre-colored images, I thought I'd use the Blue Truck today.

The starting inspirations for this card started with a sketch from Sketchy Colors. 

Once I had the sketch and the image I thought I was set for an easy peasy card. WRONG! So many indecisions followed. For some reason, I just did not like just the plain blue dot "Wanderful" background paper. So after about an hour of walking back and forth and looking at the design, I dug out an old retired CTMH stamp set with pine trees. Wala!!! Just what it needed. 

But then I didn't like the horizontal strip of designer paper I chose for right behind the truck, which was the flip side of the blue dot paper.  So, I switched from the dark print to green cardstock and dry embossed with a wood grain embossing folder

The Happy Father's Day is from the CTMH Holiday Tags Stamp Set.

It's amazing how what started out as being a 10 minute card turned out to take several hours. I sure wish I wasn't such a perfectionist. 

Here is the sketch I used.

Other Challenges for this card.
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything
Wags 'n Whiskers - Seeing Spots
Southern Girls - Spots and Dots
Double Click - Father's Day
Mod Squad - Masculine
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Whimsy Stamps - Anything but a square card.
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - Add Texture
Scrap Creations - Celebrations
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything

The Old Truck - Father's Day Card

It's been a while since I last posted a card. But, it's time to make Father's Day Cards. So, let's get started.

My card today is made using The Old Truck pre-colored image from Fred She Said. This image makes a great masculine card to use for any occasion. This image comes as a Digi to color yourself and four different pre-colored trucks. 
The beginning inspiration came from a sketch Challenge from Inspired By Stamping.

Other Challenges for this card.

Cards in Envy - Masculine

Incy Wincy - Lots of Layers

Mema's Crafts - Anything

AAA Cards - For the Guys

Claire's - Outdoors

Purple Pansies Mother's Day Card

When ever I want to make a fast, yet beautiful card, I turn to my Fred She Said pre-colored images. As much as I love coloring with my Copic Alcohol Markers, These pre-colored images are just spectacular and save so much time.

This  card uses the Purple Pansies set
I marched them up with some great Spellbinder dies and wala, a great card.

Daffodils And Hummingbirds Birthday Card

After the snow storm two days ago, it's finally starting to look a little like Spring. It feels so good to be making Spring cards again. 

I started with the Pre colored images of the Spring Flowers and Hummingbirds from Fred She Said.

Challenges for this card:
Polka Doodles - Birthdays
QKR Stampede - Think Spring
That's Crafty - Wings and Things
Aud Sentiments - Use a two word Sentiment
Cute Card Thursday - Spring Fever
Scrap and Craft Inspirations - Flowers

Hearty Easter Greetings

The weather has finally started to warm up and Easter is right around the corner. 

I have this really cute digi image I was dying to use and found a perfect sketch over at Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Blog that worked perfectly. The challenge was to use any of there previous sketches. I used sketch 254.

I just love the Pink, Yellow, and Green together. The perfect Spring Colors.

Other Challenges for this card:

Allsorts - Spring is in the Air

A Gem of a Challenge - Clean and Simple

Crazy For Challenges - Put a bow on it

Brown Sugar - Spring

Wags 'n Whiskers - Ready for Spring

Love Themed Card

My card today started out to be a Valentine but then as I put it together, it looked perfect for a Wedding card also. Or, An Anniversary card. For this reason, I decided not to put a sentiment on the front. The Digi Paper is from Bearly Mine. I positioned the paper so that the word LOVE was not covered up.

The banner stips & Scalloped Heart are Cardstock from Close to my Heart, as is the Heart Embossing Folder I used on them.

The Heart image with the Doves and the rose in the bottom corner are from The Grafic Fairy.

The actuall inspiration for this card started with a sketch from Freshly Made.

Other Challenges for this Card:

Cards in Envy - 2 or more Hearts

Craft-Dee Bowz - Use a hand made bow

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Crafty Boots - Hearts and Valentines

Dream Valley- Valentine

Make My Monday - Hearts and Flowers

Melon Headz Friends - Hearts/Love

Ooh La La - Love

Scrapbook Stamp Society - Valentine

The Crazy Challenge - Love

Whoopsi Daisy - Pretty in Pink

I Love You This Much!

Here is another "Love" card. Yes, I made this as a Valentine. But the more I looked at it, I thought this would be a wonderful card any time of the year for the Love of your Life.Or, an Anniversary card. Especially if made in a different color. 
I actually printed the image twice. Then I fussy the hair and the dress and layered it with foam tape for lots of added dimension. 

The image is "I Love You This Much" from Fred She Said. This is the pre-colored image and it comes in 6 different colors and the sentiment. 

I used some New Spellbinder Dies I just received. I just love these new intricate frilly dies. I also used an old MS Corner punch. 

The beginning inspiration started with a sketch from Sketch Saturday.

Other Challenges for this card:

Bunny Zoe - Hearts

The Cheerful Stamp Pad - Valentine

Craft-Dee Bowz - Use a hand made bow

Eureka Stamps - Red

My Creative Moments - New Somethings (Papers and Dies)

The Pink Elephant - Love

IDIC - Vintage Look

Stamping Sensation - Dies and Punches

That Craft Place - Love/Valentines

Crafting Musketeers - Valentine

Whimsie Doodles - Love is in the Air

Sunday Stamps - Red, White and Kraft colors

Hearts and Roses Valentine

My card today is a Valentine Card that I made using a fabulous pre-colored images from Fred She Said called Hearts and Roses. This set comes as a Digi for you to color yourself or a set with 7 different colors and includes a few sentiments for the heart.

The papers are from the CTMH Heartstrings Paper pack. The Amour is from the CTMH Amour Stamp Set.

Card Designed Inspired by the Crazy 4 Challenges Sketch.

Challenges for this card:
My time to Craft - Love is All Around
Craft for the Craic - Favorite Word - Love (Amour)
Docerela Creations - Pink, red with embellishments
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Hearts & Ribbon
Crafty Ribbons - Let's Get Sentimental
DL.Art - Anything with Red
In The Pink - Use Pink
Moving Along with the Times - Dies and Punches
Throw Back Thursday - Valentine
DRS Designs - Color Challenge
Inspired By Stamping - Inspitational Picture (hearts)