Get Whale Soon

I have a card today that I’m sending to a special little girl who is battling cancer.  She loves cute cards and I thought the saying “Get Whale Soon”was cute even if it is a bit puny.  :)

I used Neenah Supersmooth Frost Blue for the sky.  I ran it through my big shot using Stampin Up’s Cloudy Day.  I used  Tim Holtz’s Broken China Distress Ink to ink up the little cloud dots.

For the background and ocean I used Teal from the Grandee Felt Package.  I LOVE the texture on this paper!

I stamped the Whale in SU Bermuda Bay and used the coordinating die for the whale,water spray,fishies and starfish.  The orange is from the Paper Temptress too and found here.

Thank you for coming by today!  I hope you have a crafty day!

Becky Fleck sketch challenge at CropStop for April

UPDATED TO ADD DETAILS ABOUT MY PROJECT - SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THEM BELOW!

We are having a terrific sketch challenge at CropStop to win Becky Fleck's new Spellbinder's die set: Pot Pourri.  Here is my sample of the sketch.

I wanted to get this posted so you can have as much time as possible to play along but since I've been dealing with headaches for the past few days I'm going to get some rest and then come back to share more photos and more information on what I used and how it came together.  I also found an awesome frame that I'm going to use with this "card" - which isn't really a card since it's 8"x10".  This challenge will run through the month of April and will end on April 30th 11:59am.  (I'll check on that and see if it was supposed to be PM instead).  You are welcome to enter up to 3 times!  So head on over to the CropStop blog and get started!


UPDATE:
Yay!  I finally have time to add the fun details about my project.  I really wanted to rock the sketch by Becky Fleck.  In case you don't know who Becky Fleck is, she is AMAZING!!!!   Becky is the owner of Page Maps and is now designing dies for Spellbinders.  For the next few months Becky is offering a monthly sketch to CropStop and the prize to one person (chosen at random) will receive one of Becky Fleck's die sets.  The set up for grabs is shown on CropStop's blog.


So back to the deets on my project... which is more than just a card because it's 8x10.


Here is Tilda ready for Easter with her bonnet, basket of flowers and even a bunny!  I paper pieced her dress and colored her with copics.  I added shading to the paper pieced dress using my copics as well.  I used my Matha Stewart score board and a Stampin' Up border punch to make the large rosette and then used

I made these sparkly butterflies using Martha Stewart punches and added Diamond Stickles to them.  I added some clear rhinestones to the center of the large butterfly.  I made the flowers using Memory Box Pinwheel Posies both the regular size and small.  I used a quilling tool to roll the dies after they were cut.  After I rolled up a flower, I took out the quilling tool and glued it together on the bottom.  I then added Diamond Stickles to some of the edges of each flower to add the shiny element, placed pink pearls in the centers and when they were dry, I adhered each of the flowers to the card.  

I found some awesome stamps called Recycled Rubber Art Stamps by ECOGREEN CRAFTS at Michaels.  The set I bought is Butterfly Post.  I LOVE this set!  I stamped the rectangular stamp found in the setwith Stampin' Up's Pink Pirouette ink.  I then used Spellbinders Becky Fleck Office Supplies to cut out the stamp and I adhered another little shiny butterfly to it. It's popped up on pop dots.  

Below is a close-up of the large butterfly.  I thought it would be fun to create a swirl out of Diamond Stickles to simulate a flight pattern for the butterfly.  I must not have made big enough dots because you can't see it very well.  So there's proof below that it's there.  lol

I made these cute flags using pins with heart shaped tops on them.  I first put a bead onto the pin then folded the flag around the pin using strong glue to hold it there. I then added another bead and then a "crimping bead" which I then crimped into place with a crimping tool.  The tool basically crushes the crimping bead against the pin so it holds everything above it in place. 

Here's photo to show you all the great dimensions used in this project.  You can click on this photo to see a larger size.  

Don't forget our CAS (Clean and Simple) for CropStop's weekly challenge.  You can see my card here.   


Other challenges:
CityCrafter - Hats off!  (Tilda is wearing a beautiful Spring hat)
Simon Says Stamp - use your favorite tool (I have so many favorites!) - I chose my Martha Stewart score board & SU's border punch to make the rosette.
AllSorts Challenge:

I used pink, yellow and blue (the dp behind Tilda is yellow with touches of pink and blue).  ALSO, I used pearls as the flower centers, the striped paper across the page and pink. Lots of pink!


CutiePie Challenge: your favorite cutie - Tilda is such a cutie!

7Kidschallenge: Shades of Spring
Just Magnolia - Anything goes!
Flutter By Wednesday's - use a butterfly - I used 4!  :)
Sweet Stampin' challenge: Dies & Doodles - I used quite a few dies on my projects and the doodles part would be the shiny swirl underneath the large butterfly.
Magnolia-licious challenge: inspirations photo:

I wasn't able to get eggs onto the project but it has a lot of the colors and Easter theme to it.  :)


(whew!  I finally had a chance to link up all the challenges I made this card for.)

Thank you for stopping by.  I appreciate each and every visit.  Don't forget to leave a comment - they make my day!  And besides, everyone loves comments, right?


Have a wonderful Easter weekend!

Jessica made a card for her Grandma Taylor

First, I want to apologize for my loooooooong absence. My family got hit HARD with the flu and we are barely getting back to "normal".... at least OUR "normal" (which isn't very normal at all!) LOL We've had this flu in our house for about 2 months. Jess got extremely sick and almost didn't make it.... but she did! *whew*! Now... on to bigger and better things:

Jessica was so happy to make a card for her grandma Taylor for Mother's Day. I helped her stamp the image and cut the special shapes, but she did the coloring and wrote her own note to Grandma on the inside of the card.



My mom had surgery a few months ago and Jessica is so happy that Grandma is feeling better.


Here is our messy work space in my craft room. We enjoy watching movies while we do our crafty projects. I'm so lucky that Karl made this craft room for me! :-)

I hope you enjoyed Jessica's card. My mom absolutely LOVED it! Everyone was saying how precious the card was - especially because Jessica made it. It is one of those things that Grandma will cherish forever. I just feel bad that I didn't have my camera with me so I didn't get a picture of Jessica giving the card to her grandma. But here is a recent photo of the two of them together:

Spring Inspired Card:

This card is Spring inspired. Little Sophia is out hunting Easter Eggs. I made this card for the "Spring Fever Challenge" at Pink Persimmon. The sketch I used was from Our Creative Corner Sketch 28. I used my new stamp Paper Prettie's Hippity Hop Sophia. The DP is DCWV and the great shinny white (stripes) and shinny yellow is from The Paper Temptress. Isn't it awesome? I colored Sophia using my Copics.



Inside of the card. I did some paper piercing but I'm not sure if you can see it very well.



Side view hoping that you can see the shinny papers. LOVE this stuff.


Thanks for stopping by!

Butterfly Card

Here is a card that I made for Kwernerdesign's Color Inspiration #44, Mojo Monday's sketch challenge # 76 and Flourishes Timeless Tuesday (March 2) which was to use Spellbinders die cuts. I used my JustRite Harmony Classic Circle Stamper III to stamp the main image. I love how the sentiment has a butterfly with it and one of the papers that I used also has butterflies.




I used some really fun paper for this card. The paper with butterflies and the pink strip is from DCWV's "The Garden Party Stack". It has glitter and so many fun prints! The shiny white paper is from the Paper Temptress. It has really cool swirls to it. It's called the Vintage Silver Lustre (at least I'm pretty sure that's what it's called... it's from an awesome pack that I recently won as Blog Candy!) It's soooooo purdy! I hope you can see some of the shiny swirls and the glitter on the butterflies in the picture below. The card is Stampin Up's Chocolate Chip.



Here is the inside of the card. Of course the pretty white paper is too pretty to cover up so I used my spellbinders label die cut to remove the middle of the paper that is on the front of the card (and was going to be covered up by the butterfly paper) and adhered it to the center of the inside of the card.



The tiny heart border was punched out using my new EK Sucess punch that I bought at Michaels. So many punches... so little time. (and money! lol)

Hope you enjoyed the card and thanks for stopping by!

Another Christmas Card

I used one of the other Christmas trees that I had stamped and embossed to make a quick card for another Kitchen Sink Stamps challenge.

I made this one for Maria's challenge. She asked us to use something that we had perhaps had put away and had never used (or had rarely used). I purchased the iridescent poweder from SU at least two years ago and never used it! So my card qualifies for this challenge since I used the iridescent powder for the first time! :D I liked this challenge since it got me to use something that I was a little nervous to use. It did get kinda messy - just don't tell my hubby. He HATES gitter. LOL!

Here's my card:



Gosh, it's hard to find an angle so you can see the embossed part shine! It really does shine in person when you move it around in the light.


See? It really is a different card. :) I think I like them both. Do you have a preference?


Thanks for stopping by!

A Christmas Card!

I can't believe it's already time to be thinking about making Christmas cards! Yesterday was "World Card Making Day". I didn't get a chance to actually make a card until late at night... but I decided to make one for a challenge. Why not? They are fun! The Kitchen Sink is having a lot of challenges and prizes. I'm doing Tracy's challenge: to make a Christmas card.

So here's my card:
The paper is from Creative Memories new Jewel Christmas Kit. (I had a green backdrop to make the card stand out and also to coordinate with the card.) The stamps I used are Stampin' Up's new Snow Swirled set.


I'm lovin the bling! I used Jessica's GeMagic (knock-off of the Beadazler) to put on the little gems on the card. I used my new SU punch and a stamp from SU's "Cute & Curly" set for the little tag. I had some soft, shiny ribbon which I think really made it look nice.


I used white pigment ink and SU's and Iridescent embossing powder. Boy is that stuff messy! I even wiped everything down with an embossing buddy but that stuff still stuck to everything! At least I sparkle now, right? LOL

I wanted to show you an ooops! I had the heating tool on one area too long and it turned kind of yellow. I ended up using the green paper on my card underneath the red. I stamped and embossed four pieces of paper just in case I made a mistake (which I did) or so I could make more cards with them. So just be careful not to keep your heating tool on one spot too long. I'm sure all of your pro stampers out there are giggling at my mistake because you already knew that - but that's OK, I gotta start somewhere.


Here's a picture that shows how the iridescent powder really sparkles in the light.


If you have any advice as to how to keep the Iridescent powder from getting all over my house, please let me know! Or if you have any other advice for a beginning stamper, I'm always looking for ways to improve.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed your visit!

Cammie at MY BLOG is hosting the biggest, hugest, most grand blog candy EVAH! This blog candy is part of a project to bring awareness of Alzheimer's and to thank a caregiver of someone who has that disease. Cammie's grandmother recently passed away from the disease so this project is in her memory. Part of the project is to create a card to thank an Alzheimer's caregiver. I know just who to give my card to. There is a lady from church who is caring for her husband who has this terrible disease. I think it will just make her day!

So here is my card:

I really had fun with this card. The leaf stamps are "Autumn Leaves" found at Gina K Designs. First I stamped the image onto cardstock with SU's "Close to Cocoa" and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I used SU's Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Purely Pomegranate ink... I used a blending brush to do a watercolor effect. "Thank you" is stamped in Old Olive and punched out in a small circle and the green background was punched with SU's designer label punch. The beautiful autumn paper is from Creative Memories. I used "Cutter Bee" scissors to cut out the intricate leaf details. The white dots were done with uni-ball Signo... it's an excellent pen and I highly recommend it.

I really enjoyed making this card and can't wait to make more! My dear, sweet husband is in the process of building me a craft room - it's ALMOST DONE!!!! Oh my goodness, I can hardly stand it!! LOL! In the meantime my house is a huge mess and I made it even messier by doing this project. But oh well.... I'm still smiling because it was so much fun to get out my fun tools and be creative. I hope you enjoyed the card. :)

Below is a card that I made last week for my friend Fawlyn. We went scrapbooking on Friday night (Sep 19) to celebrate our birthdays. My birthday was on Sep 20 and hers was yesterday. We get a free crop during the month of our birthdays at a local scrapbooking store. Fawlyn recently moved to a small town about an hour away so it was a real treat to get to see her again and spend some time with her.

The lighting wasn't great when I took this picture but I was in a hurry to get it done! Some of the paper is stuff I have laying around and the rest is Creative Memories. The brads are from Target $1 isle (the top fall off - I later found out! Bummer!) The stamp set is from Gina K Designs and I used Stampin' Up's chalks to color. The owls had more color in real life... I plan to make another one so when I do, I'll have to take another picture of it.

Here is the inside of the card:

Jessica also wanted to make a card for Samantha. She discovered some of my punches and CM's new pen adhesive. Great thing about that adhesive is that it's hard to get too much - but of course Jessica found a way! haha!

Here is the inside of Jessica's card. Isn't is precious?!

So I took Brandon to his orthodontist appointment and afterwards we went out to eat. Brandon was telling that he really wanted an athletic wristband. I had wanted to go to Target anyway so that's where we went. Well, after much walking around and asking a couple of Target employees, we found ONE set of wristbands and Brandon didn't like them. They were red and white (not his colors) and had a weird symbol on them. So we found a headband (that was black and white with the same symbol) and I altered it to fit his wrist. Yeah, I dah Mom! So here is Brandon showing off his wristband.

Here he is goofing off thinking that I didn't catch him. haha! He's such a funny guy!

Just for fun, here's our cat, Charlie, in his favorite hiding place. He likes the birdhouse that I painted but I think he enjoys the basket more! These are on top of a very large cabinet that Karl made - very close to the ceiling. (I hate popcorn ceilings!)

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty !!!