May Flowers

Here is a card I made for Power Poppy's Power and Spark challenge for May; Cut it Out.  This is another of the great daffodil images in Power Poppy's Daffodils set.  I sure enjoy coloring these beautiful flowers.  I don't have a Silhouette so I fussy cut OUT the flowers so don't look to close.  I am also entering this card into Just us Girls Word Week challenge to use twine.

Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda
Copics: B00, B02, BV0000, BV01, BV04, C1, C3, G21, Y000, Y11, Y13, Y17, Y23, YG61, YG63, YG67

Made for Each Other

Hello  I hope your week is going good.  The weekend is almost here, Yippee!!!  This week over at The Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge we are challenging you to make a Happy Anniversary card with a recipe: use pearls, rings or ribbon on your card.

I use Made for Each Other from Dr. Digi.  Aren't they a fun couple??  I computer generated the sentiment.  I hope you can play along with us this week.  Our sponsor is Dr. Digi so you have a chance at winning some images.   I also am entering this into the sketch challenge at Just Us Girls.  Now make sure you check out the rest of the design team's fabulous creations and get all the details on the challenge HERE.

Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda
Copics:B21. B23, BV02, BV04, C0, E31, E33, E35, E50, E51, N1, N3, N5, R22, R24, R27, TG03, YR21, YR24

Welcome Spring

Hello I hope you are enjoying the first weekend of Spring. We are lucky here as it is a beautiful
Spring day. In honor of the official start of Spring I have a spring card to share today.

 I used Tulip Umbrella with included bonus sentiment from Whimsy Stamps.  This sweet image is from the March release. I am entering this card into the following challenges.

• Just Us Girls~Photo Inspriation
• Creative Inspirations~Spring Colors
• Oozak~Anything Goes with Spring
• Simon Says Challenge~Easter/Spring
• Through The Craftroom Door~Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

 Copics:BV0000, BV01, R21, Y13, Y26, YG06, YG17

Merry Christmas

Hello I hope you had a great weekend.  I was able to get most of my Christmas shopping done.  Now I have to get started on wrapping them and finish up some Christmas cards. I have a Christmas tag to share today.

 I started out with a piece of ivory card stock that I stamped with background stamp.  Next I clear embossed the snowflakes.  After that I sponged the whole piece with rich cocoa memento ink.  I free hand cut the triangle for the tree and the snow banks.  I sponged them lightly with desert sand memento ink and added a fine line of stickles to the edges.  To finish I used as nestabilities die to get the top edge and then I added the ribbon, twine and bells.  I will be entering this tag into the following challenges.

StampTV Mix it up Monday; Warm Colors and Warm Wishes (this one is now closed, sorry)
Ribbon Carousal Challenge: The Holidays (must use ribbon or twine)
Simon Says Stamps Challenge: Snowflakes
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Anything but a card
Just Us Girls: Use embossing dry or wet

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful and festive week.

Brenda

Pocket Card

Hello I hope you are having a wonderful week and are getting all of your shopping, wrapping and baking done. As for me I have the shopping and wrapping done, and I hope to get a big jump on my baking this afternoon. Now you didn't come by here to hear about my Christmas progress. I have a pocket card I made to show you today.

I used Celebrate The Season from Gina K Designs and illustrated by Theresa Momber. I will be using this as a gift card holder. I was able to work in several challenges into this card. The first one being Case the DT member on StampTV, this time is it Giovana that we were to case, I choose this card. I keep pretty close to Giovana's original card, I changed the image, designer paper and I matted the insert. I am also entering this into the challenge listed below.
Can you believe that Christmas is in only three more days?  Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges

• Outlawz: Celebration
• Just Us Girls: Red/Olive/White/Kraft
• Really Reasonable Ribbons Ramblings: Anything Goes plus Ribbon
• iCopic: Last Minute Holiday Projects

Technique Card

Some title huh?? I know it is kind of lame.  I have the hardest time coming up with new titles.  Anyway I used a couple of techniques in this card.  I started by embossing the image with clear embossing powder on white paper.  Then I did the baby wipe technique over it.  I came out pretty cool.  This is another multi challenge card, they are listed below.

Challenges

• StampTV: red hot, sweet corn, sweet mango
• Mark's Finest Papers: emboss resist
• Just Us Girls: baby wipe technique
• Wee Memories: Tangled up

Thank you for stopping by,

Happy Birthday

I am here with a super quick post (yes I am squeezing this one in just under the deadline.  I made  it for the sketch challenge from Just Us Girls.  I really liked this sketch and I already had the floral wreath colored so it was pretty fast to put together.  I will be back late Friday with another CSS blog hop, now to make that card.....   Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a happy Friday.

Card Details

Stamps: Floral Wreath-Gina K Designs

Paper: Basic Grey Curio, pure luxury

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, new sprout

Other: cuttlebug, nestabilites, ribbon

Happy Birthday

Here is a card I made for today's sketch challenge on Spiltcoast Stampers.  In addition to the sketch I also used the color challenge for Just Us Girls, aqua, melon and kraft.  I didn't have a true melon so I used what I had that was closest.  Also I am entering it into the challenge for A Spoon Full of Sugar to make a card with a theme of birthday wishes.  Finally I am entering this card into the challenge for Really Reasonable Ribbon Ramblings to use a spring theme with ribbon, lace or trim.  As you can see there is very little stamping on this card, in fact only the sentiment is stamped.  That made this a quite card to put together as well as I was able to use some of my many prima flowers.  My lovely DH is waiting on me so I need to get going.  Thank you for stopping by.

One card many challenges

I am squeezing in this card just under the wire.  The challenge ends in less than an hour.  I made it first for the sketch challenge on Just Us Girls.  I do love playing along with their challenges.   As the title says this is for many challenges so here are the rest....Marks Finest Papers self made flowers,  Joan's Garden recipe challenge, and finally Let's Ink It Up to make a romance/Valentines card.  The gorgeous dp is from Echo Park.  I wish that I could have gotten a better photo of this card as it looks so much better in person.  Thank you for stopping by.

The Cuttlebug Spot - Inspired by a Song

This week at The Cuttlebug Spot we are inspired by songs.  I love all types of music and the other day when I was heading into town to so dome craft supply shopping I was listening to the radio and one of my favorite songs came on and I knew right then what I would do for my card.  The song is by Plain White T's and is called The Rhythm of Love.  Here is the card I created.

On that trip into shop I picked up some gorgeous paper from Echo Park, Be Mine. While at my LSS one of the wonderful ladies, Amy, had done some totally gorgeous cards with this same paper and she had used some black tulle. Well I loved it and had to work some into my card.  So now head over to The Cuttlebug Spot and check out the beautiful creations form the rest of the team.  I hope you have time to play along.

For those of you who are regular readers of my blog know by now that I love to do challenges and sadly this last week I didn't have the time to do any.  So I worked in a few into this card.  First Just Us Girls challenge this week is to make a matching envelope and line it.  Here is a photo of my card with the envelope.

The next challenge is for Simon Says, New Beginnings my card is for new love.  Next is Mark's Finest Papers, Speedy the Cat's challenge  to use embossing.  Then there is Stampin' B's challenge, something old (embossing folder) and something new (paper).  And now for the last challenge Moxie Fab World's challenge, Gray is the new Black.  I really liked this challenge as I love the color combo of pink, black and gray.  Overall I love this card and I rarely say that. 

Finally before I go I would like to say I am sorry that I didn't get anything posted all week. I decided to reorganize my craft room and oh what a mess I had.  Happily things are coming together and I can create again.   Thank you for sticking around to the end of this very long post.

Stardust Thank You

Hello today I have one last card for the countdown challenges on StampTV.  This is another one for adding glitter with stardust pens.  I am also entering it into the sketch challenge for Just Us Girls.  I love the challenges on Just Us Girls, but with the holidays I haven't had the time to play like I would like.  I hope to remedy that.


Some more about my card, I used Purr-fectly Delightful from Gina K Designs and illustrated by Theresa Momber.  This is one of my favortie stamps that Theresa has done.  I had colored this image up last week and then tossed it aside and it was headed for the trash and then when Theresa was here I showed her how I thought I had messed it up and was going to toss it.  She thought it wasn't bad, so that made me rethink it and give it another try and I am glad I did as I am happy with the results, thanks Theresa.

For the last couple of months I have been working on resetting my focus on the direction I want to go with this wonderful hobby so you may notice some slight changes in how I do things. I have had some wonderful successes over the last few years, but feel I have became a little stagnant lately and I am looking to change that. :-)  Thank you for stopping by.

Shine

Super fast post tonight as I am very tried, I had to work 3 1/2 hours over today.  Any way I made this for the anniversary challenge for Just Us Girls.  I love there challenges and wish I had more time to play along, but there are so many challenges and so little time.  I am trying very hard to do more of a verity of challenges though.  I used a stamp set from Unity called Embellished Season.  I won this set a few weeks ago and this was my first chance to get inky with it.  I am going to enjoy it so much.  It is hard to  tell in my photo, but I added stickles the the little dots and it looks so cool in person.  I so have some cards to share and I hope to get them up very soon.  Thank you for stopping by.

Aged to Perfection

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful summer.  I made this card for my mom's birthday and for the sketch challenge (JUGS40) on Just Us Girls. For my card I used my newest set from JustRite called Birthday Wishes.  I am also entering this in Speedy the Cat's challenge 10 to use die cuts.   Thank you for stopping by.

Card Details

Stamps: Birthday Wishes- JustRite

Paper: Pure luxury soft sand, vibrant violet and basic Grey Green At Heart

Ink: memento tuxedo black, copics V17, Y23

Other: ribbon, cork, buttons, nestabilities

Just Be-Claws

I am back with another card for is for a few challenges.  I am so happy to have my mojo back, it had been on a long vacation.  Nearly every card I made over the last copy of months took me for ever to finish.  Then last week I started being able to create with a little speed again and I have been really enjoying it.  I will list all of them below.  Card Patterns is having their weekly sketch challenge and this week Gina K Designs is sponsoring it.  You can win two fabulous sets.  There is still some time so head over and make a card for your chance to win.    Thank you for stopping by.

Challenges

1. Card Patterns: Sketch 64
2. Just Us Girls: Color Red, White and Blue
3. StampTV: color Red, White and Blue
4. Creative Inspirations: Create a card for a child

Card Details:

Stamps: Quite a Catch, Just Be-Claws, Whimsical Autumn- Gina K

Paper: In the Navy, Rocket Red-Gina K

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, summer sky, bahama blue, new sprout, paris dusk, desert sand

Copics: BG01, R08, R22, R27, YG03, YG63

Other: ribbon, EK Success boarder punch