Confetti Birthday

Happy Autumn crafty friends! Today I made another card for the Reverse Confetti sketch challenge. I just had to use some of the new release products I bought. I just love the new Wonky Stripe Panel die and Every Little Bit pad. The different geometric patterns are so fun to play with:-)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Pals Paper Arts Challenge Card

Hello crafty friends. Today I have made a card for the Pals Paper Arts challenge. I used one of my newer Reverse Confetti stamp and die sets, Boxes 'n Balloons. The background is done using Numbers Collage  embossing folder from Cuttlebug.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Brewin' Up Birthday Wishes

Hello my crafty friends! Today I would like to share with you the challenge card I made for Seize The Birthday blog.  I tried the toppings option,  Clean and Simple.  I used the stamp and dies from Be A Barista and Caffeinated Cups sets by Reverse Confetti. The patterned cardstock is from Fancy Pants Designs Summer's End stack.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Happy Lunar New Year

Happy Lunar New Year! I wanted to do something different for the Sketch Saturday challenge. These darling stamps I used come from Iron Gate Stamps' Fortune Cookie set. The patterned card stock I used is by Graphic 45.

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Sugar Plum Birthday

I've been trying to get all of my grad cards and birthday cards done before I tackle fixing my studio wall. You may have seen my catastrophe on my FB page recently. I'll post a separate before and after pic later. Right now I want to share with you this cute birthday card I made for my dad's step-granddaughter who is turning one.

Okay, yes, I'm using Teddy Bear Parade quite a bit recently, but this cart has so many darned cute bears!!! I am a softy for bears. I collected them as a kid (still have all of them - hope I can bring them to Sydney with me).  I also pulled out the DCWV Nana's Kids stack. I love all of the bright colors in this stack:-) The ribbon is from PTI and the cute sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Critter Crazy stamp set.

Challenges

Crafty Calendar - Things with wings

Bunny Zoe's - Wings

The Paper Nest Dolls - Animals

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything

Ruby's Rainbow - Things with wings

Cute Card Thursday - Fly like a bird

In The Pink - Pink with wings

Polka Doodles - Animals

A Gem of a challenge - Teddies

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

A July Birthday Card

So happy you stopped by today:-) I have a "patriotic" colored birthday card to share with you. I have quite a few birthdays coming up. Most importantly my son who will be turning three on the fourth:-) This card, however, is for my oldest nephew.

I used one of my favorite October Afternoon stacks, Rocket Age, along with some of my favorite stamps from Iron Gate Stamps, Birthday Wishes. I added a tad of dimension using a punched out star from a set of grunge board shapes by Tim Holtz.

Challenges

Seize The Birthday - sketch

Pause Dream Enjoy - Anything

Paper Playtime - Red, White, and Blue

2 Sisters - stripes

Card Crafters Circle - Birthdays

Loves Rubber Stamps - Red, White, & Blue

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Make A Wish

A quick card for a last minute entry to Seize The Birthday sketch challenge before heading out the door.

I used stamps from IGS Birthday Wishes set along with Bazzil chipboard star and a cut star from the George Cricut cart. The blue was embossed with the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder. Yes, a little Stickles, too:-)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Seize the Birthday #11 masculine

One of my favorite blog challenges is Seize the Birthday. Who couldn't use more birthday cards in their stash?:-) Even better, adding to the male birthday card stash. Here is my card for this weeks STB masculine sketch challenge.

I used some brown DCWV stash for my A2 base and then added coordinating patterned cardstock from DCWV The Guy Stack. The sentiment is from Iron Gate Stamps Tree House set. Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Make a Wish

I found this fun challenge blog through Feline Playful the other day, Cuttlebug Mania. Their challenge this week is a sketch challenge so I thought I'd play along.

I used an A2 sized card base using Stampin' Up Wisteria Wonder cardstock and embossed the bottom third using the Seeing Spots Cuttlebug folder. I layered patterned paper from Basic Grey's Hey, Girl stack and some scrap Stampin' Up pink cardstock. I watercolored the candle stamp from Iron Gate Stamps Birthday Wishes set on a piece of Stampin' Up Very Vanilla. After it was dry, I dry embossed the vanilla piece with Sizzix's Perfect Polka Dots folder. I added some Stickles and inked the edges before I adhered it down with foam adhesive. Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Birthday Girl

I cleaned up my studio this week and found a stack of challenges that came and went. There are so many good ones going on now, it's so hard for me to only do a few. I get so "gung ho" and try to do multiple cards at the same time. Life happens, time gets away, and there ya go... several unfinished cards. So I put them aside and make a resolution to do one at a time. I put my supplies in stacks with my "ideas" on the top, but refuse to start until I get the previous card done. This way I'm not "wasting" valuable crafting supplies;-)

Here is one of the cards I finished today. It is for a brand new (well, almost new - I missed the first 8) challenge blog, Seize The Birthday. Love this idea. One (1) sketch for two weeks - 1st week-  boy card, 2nd week- girl card. How brilliant is that! I'm always needing birthday cards. In fact, I finished up the boy card from the last sketch to give to my Bestie's son this Sunday.

I used my favorite set from Iron Gate Stamps, Birthday Wishes. I masked the sparkler and stamped the cake over it. Hard to tell from the picture but it makes it look like one stamped image. Pretty cool:-) The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Hey, Girl stack. Super cute! I found some coordinating DCWV solid and used the ric-rac die from PTI. Of course, I couldn't leave out the Stickles, sugary pink frosting and sparkly sparkler:-) Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #132

Today we are celebrating Columbus Day at FCCB. We want you to incorporate a ship in your project this week. Since I am down on my birthday card stash, I decided to make a fun card for boy. I used the Imagine cartridge, Buccaneer.

I used my 5 1/4" square card template that I've saved in CCR. It is simply two rounded squares from the Boys Will Be Boys cart welded together. I then printed one of the papers from the Buccaneer cart at 5" and adhered it to the green card base. The ship image I printed/cut once along with the birthday sentiment. On a separate layer in CCR, I separated the images and printed/cut the flags, masts, and the word Birthday only. This allowed me to "pop" them up on the ship for added dimension. I had an idea to use some of my misc. buttons to embellish the card but couldn't find any that resembled coins. I ended up finding some trim at Hobby Lobby with "coins" on them. I took two and distressed them with  Pinata alcohol inks after I "roughed" them up a little. And even though it is for a boy, I had to add a little Stickles, Gold for the dot on the "I" and Black Diamond for the port holes.

Make sure you click over to the Fantabulous Cricut Blog to see all of the other fabulous DT inspirations as well as the complete instructions for this weeks challenge.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Patriotic Birthday

Happy 4th to you my crafty friends and a BIG happy birthday to my precious baby boy! I can't believe he is 2 today:-) So, in honor of my little firecracker, I made this patriotic Elmo birthday card. I admit, I made this very quickly yesterday! I've been so busy getting ready for his party today, I plumb forgot to make his card.

I used three Cuttlebug embossing folders- Candy Cane, D'vine Swirl, and Stars. Elmo is from the Elmo and Friends Holiday Cricut cartridge. I added a little Stickles (of course) to his hat and tied a silver star button with Air Mail twine. I stamped the sentiment on a small piece of white card stock and used my Stampin' Up ticket corner punch.

There are a lot of patriotic challenges this week. Make sure you check them out - Paper Playtime, Fantabulous Cricut Challenge, My Craft Spot, Celebrate The Occasion, Die Cuttin' Divas, and Paper Crafting World.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful holiday:-)

Patriotic Birthday

Happy Friday crafting friends. It's especially happy for me because my DH comes back from Scotland today. I have to say, I do get more crafting done when he's gone because I can stay up 'til the wee hours. Although, it's probably not the best idea since I need to be in top form in the a.m. for my toddler;-)
For my card today, I used My Creative Time's Build A Banner stamp and die set. I love that Emma designed these herself. It makes my cards look more artistic. I embossed the white background with the Polka Dots Cuttlebug folder and added some airmail twine for the banners to "hang" on. The ink and card stock is from Stampin' Up. I am also using this card for the Celebrate the Occasion challenge.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Birthday Banners

I have finally started working on actual 12 x 12 scrapbook pages. I keep telling myself I'm only getting farther behind, especially since my oldest is 15! My busy mom strategy now is to utilize all of these fabulous layout sketches that are so readily available on the internet. I especially love that I can "pin" it to a specific "board" on Pinterest and access it wherever I'm at. I don't have to use up any extra memory on my laptop either.


I used a sketch from Sketch Savvy to get a quick jump on this birthday layout for when my son turned six. I arranged the layout in Cricut Craft Room and used the Blast Off Imagine cartridge. I just love all of it's fun colors and patterns. For more texture and interest I added some small pieces of ribbon along with bakers twine, hand dyed seam binding ribbon and a button. I'm also using this layout for The Crop Stop, and Die Cuttin' Divas.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Polka Dotted Birthday

I just have to say - for some reason, I love the look of polka dots. They make me feel happy:-) Why is that? I must Google it sometime. So, as you can guess, I loved making this challenge card. I thought I'd use it for three challenges - My Craft Spot,  CAS-UAL Fridays and The Paper Shelter. I used my Imagine and the Blast Off cart to print the patterned CS and number. I used the Seeing Spots Cuttlebug folder to emboss the solid orange. The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's Simply Sweet Occasions set, the ribbon is from PTI, and the baker's twine came from The Twinery.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Surprise!

Hey {snicker, snicker}, just wanted to get your attention:-) I know I have been AWOL:-(  I had all of the best intentions of posting at least once a week between all of my kids' activities. Obviously, that didn't happen. I was able to get a card done for a challenge this week. I've been experimenting with using Cricut Craftroom and my Imagine. It's a little temperamental and takes more time than I'd like but, Provocraft has assured me they are continually working out the "kinks". I did suggest they work on an app for the iPad, so I can design from my car while waiting for whoever during whatever event; send it magically to my Imagine at home where it automatically takes the card stock, adheres it to the mat, and prints and cuts; so whenever I get home I can run gleefully to my craft room and put together my awaiting cuts:-) I would SO get the "Super Multi-tasking Mom Award" if I could do that:-)

Enough with the silliness, here is my birthday card I made for Erica's card sketch challenge at My Cricut Craft Room.  I used the Imagine More cartridge for the images and the Accent Essentials cart for the card shape. I popped up a second image of the bird for a little dimension as well as the patterned square. The brads are from Stampin' Up as well as the corner punch. The sentiment came from My Pink Stamper's Tweetie Hoo Puns set.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

BFF Birthday Card

Good Morning creative friends! I have been sooo busy Spring cleaning the last few weeks. I can't believe how long it's been since my last post. I've been finding soooo many UFO's (unfinished objects - although I think their called something else nowadays). I kind of got off of the paper crafting path and have been working on a lot of partially started or bought-and-not-started cross-stitch, sewing, and quilting projects. These don't go as quickly as cards or scrapbooks so I haven't had anything to post:-( No instant gratification either;-)

I did manage to get a card made for my BFF, Janet. I saw a wall art piece somewhere and sketched it on my iPad (used a fabulous app called Penultimate). I made it into this card for her. I also made a table runner. She just loves  sewing and craft projects but is the type of person that does not want to take time to learn or make them. She super appreciates all of the time and hard work that goes into these crafting projects, so I have no problem making things for her that take time.

I used the patterned card stock from Echo Park's Victoria Gardens card stock pad, a 1 1/4" circle punch,  border and tag  punches from Stampin' Up, baker's twine, Papertrey Ink sentiment, K & Co embellishments. I liked how the original artist layered the circles like "fish scales". I thought this was a great way to collage some scrap pieces.

This is the table runner she has been pestering me to make for her. Piecing fabric takes waaaayyy more time than paper;-)

Thanks for stopping by! Off to do some more Spring Cleaning! Have a creative day:-)

Happy Birthday, Tina!

Today is my blogging friend Tina's birthday over at Crafty and Green! I made her this cheerful card using a sketch from the Cardmakers Sketch Book. I used some scrap DCWV patterned paper a long with various Stampin' Up and Papertrey Ink card stock. I cut the candle pattern three times using the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge.

Please stop by Tina's Blog and wish her a big happy crafty birthday:-) Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day.

Happy Birthday, Shawnee!

Today is Shawnee's birthday from Blessed on the Brightside! For her card I used cardstock from Basic Grey's "It's a Party". The sentiment is from Stampin' Ups "Eat Cake" set and the cupcake is a cut from "Sweet Treats" Cricut cartridge.

Please hop on over to Shawnee's blog and wish her a big crafty birthday!

Happy Belated Birthday, Charity!

I'm not sure if this qualifies for a Monday Musings, but I am begging all of my card swap buddies that had birthdays in November and December HUGE forgiveness on late cards! I know this sounds cliché, but I had some family issues right after Thanksgiving that set me back both emotionally and organizationally. If you follow my blog you know what I'm talking about. You also know that it's a new year with new resolutions:-) So, I'm catching up with my swaps this month and will hopefully stay caught up.

This card I made for one of my first blog followers, Charity from the bookin' room. Her birthday was on Nov. 28th and I just wasn't prepared. I emailed her and BEGGED for forgiveness:-) I told her I'm just extending her birthday celebration a little.

My inspiration sketch came from Page Maps. The patterned cardstock is from echo park's "Be Mine" paper pad. I punched three 1 1/4" circles and popped them up on the bottom. I wrapped some "Strawberry Cupcake" baker's twine from Trendy Twine around a one inch strip of CS. I embossed the 3-3/4" square vanilla CS with "Swiss Dots" Cuttlebug embossing folder and I stamped the sentiment from PTI's "Birthday Basics" set with S/U "Sahara Sand". I used "Pumice Stone" Distress Inks around the edges of the CS.

Now, if you'd help me out, please go over to Charity's Blog and wish her a belated birthday:-) Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)