Vroom Vroom

Hi, just a quick post I'd love to share with you today.  I've created a card for my brother-in-laws birthday.  He loves black and trucks so I think that this will fit the bill.  I chose the sketch from the challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.

I chose the image from Paula Posts and coloured it black with my prismas.  Then I added just a bit of chrystal glaze to the windows and headlights.  This I popped up over a couple circles, the patterned one being from Make it Special (scrapbook supplies).  The ribbon is from Charmin and the screw brads are from Forever In Time.  The inking was done with my Stampology black ink pad.  It was a quick fun card that I hope he'll enjoy.  

I'm also entering this into the Cutie Pie challenge - Circles.

Sweet Shell

Today I have a card I've made using the fabulous "Shell" from Stretch N' Bubbles Stamps.  I used the sketch from Seems a Little Sketchy challenge and added ribbon and lace since it's for the challenge over at Cutie Pie.  I thought that these two challenges complimented each other and they inspired my card!  All of the elements in my card I used from my stash and were fun to put together.  I coloured Shell's flowers green (strange I know) since they reminded me of those fabulous green button mums you often find at flower stores.  The sentiment is from TLC.
Thank you for dropping by to see my card! If you have time, these challenges are still open so you can join in to!

Sweet Birthday Girl

And....Another birthday! This one is for my not so little girl (she's turning 9 in a few days).  I saw this image by Sliekje and thought of her.  She loves all things pink and girlie so I hope she'll like this.
I cut little hearts in the image cardstock with my Fiscars punch and then inked the edge with some pink ink.  I layered it to some Stampin' Up cardstock and cut a wave pattern out with some decorative scissors.   I popped this up on some papers from Memories Forever and Forever in Time.  The bow is from some Offray ribbon I found and I bunched it with some fun buttons from my collection.  I added the sentiment form DDH and put a heart over the I.  
I'll be entering this card in Stampin' Sisters in Christ's challenge  - Make a birthday card/project
and The Cutie Pie Challenge  - Use a sentiment.

This is the Day!

Here's another card that I've made, this time for the Pixie Dust Paperie Inspiration Challenge

Isn't this a wonderful picture, I would love to have a collection as beautiful in my kitchen, but my kitchen isn't big enough for it. (My kitchen colours are blue and white) My kitchen is indeed small, but yummy things come out of there! Anyhow, this is what has inspired me to create this card.

For this card I used some light blue cardstock from Stampin'Up and then embossed some white cardstock to  add some texture.  I handcut a scalloped edge for around the verse and then added a slice of flowered lace and a blue ribbon bow.  I made the bow, secured it with some florist wire then attatched it to the card with a glue dot.  I never thought that glue dots would be so handy!  To touch it off, I added some homey blue buttons.  There is lots of time to play in the challenge to if you get inspired as I did.  Here

Each day is a gift from the Lord Jesus, I hope yours is wonderful.

Sweet Baby Boy

Here is my boy version of this delightful teddy bear.

I always love to do a boy and a girl version of baby cards since one never truly knows (even with modern technology) what the gender will be until birth!  I have used the teddy bear digi from Jen's Digi Designs again and made him a bit softer.  I just added some soft torn feathered paper, a simple tied ribbon and a few buttons and some rhinestones for his eyes.  I think babies eyes twinkle so when they're little - so full of fascination!
I'm entering this card in Stamps R Us challenge- Bling it on; Scrapbook Sisters Challenge - Baby, Baby; The Cutie Pie Challenge- Bears! and Designed 2 Delight Challenge - Baby!

Time is a Ticking

This is my second post today, so please scroll down to see my Bandaid fun.

This time I have a card that I created for Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Use a charm.  This is the first time I've added a charm to a card and I found this sweet little CooCoo Clock.  I love birdhouses and this clock is a bird house so I used this wonderful image by DDH to compliment it.  Our winter birds are looking for the winter bird feeders and the birdhouses are collecting lots of snow!  I love to watch the birds all puffed up to keep warm waddling around in groups talking to each other.  I'm so glad they love our yard despite the fact that my kids are boisterous.  It's like they enjoy watching us as much as we enjoy them.
For this card I added lots of distressing along with some distress ink sponged on the sentiment and around the image.  I layered the felt flowers (using a bronze marker to highlight the edges of the petals on the middle flower) then used a bead with the metal "stick" to hold them together.  Then I wrapped some ribbon around the card, and tied the charm on with some gold cord.  After that I tucked some gold beads under the sentiment, popping it up along with the image.  I love how it turned out!
Supplies:
Stamps:  DDH seasonal birdhouse; computer generated sentiment
Papers:  ATD; Stampin' Up
Ink: Tim Holtz distress ink- old paper; Bronze marker
Accessories:  Charm- Blue Moon Beads; ribbon- Multcraft Imports; misc felt flowers; gold beads on a stick

Friends in the Garden

Hello Everyone!  Sorry I haven't posted anything for a bit.  A young man crashed his motorbike outside our home on Monday afternoon. We did all that we could do as we awaited paramedics.  He died yesterday in hospital.  Our family has been deeply touched by all of this.

 Today I have a card that I've made for the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog .  I have chosen their bingo lines- Glitter/2Patterned Papers/ Flowers and Glitter/Lilac/ Ribbon or Lace.  I was feeling very girly when I created this card.  I think it shows.  I coloured the label, cut it out and layered it on some patterned paper. Then I added some glitter to the center of the flower.   I popped it up on a few layers with pop-up glue dots with the ribbon running behind it.  I added four little flowers I cut from some flower ribbon and added a pearl to each of their centers and a couple larger pearls to the label.  I hope you enjoy it, and do hop over to their blog to see all the other wonderful cards in the challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Flower Label- Platypus Creek Digitals
Papers:  ATD purple flower paper; misc glittery scratched looking patterned paper(I don't know if that counts?)
Accessories:  Pearls- Chrystal Stickers/Mark Richards; Deco Art Twinkles Writer-silver; Fiscars pop-up glue dots; Ribbon by Multicraft Imports and the little flowers are from a Modern@Home flower ribbon

Cutie Pie Harley

Today I have a card that I have made for the challenge over at Cutie Pie Challenge Blog.  It is a sketch challenge designed by Woo.  I had a lot of fun playing around with things until I got just what I wanted.  I just received a wonderful image from stretchnbubbles from their comment to win challenge. (So yes it pays to comment!) This precious little girl's name is Harley.  I thought she'd look just darling in blue today.

Supplies:
Stamps:   Stretchnbubbles -Harley, and MelJens's free Thinking of You sentiment
Paper:     Stampin'Up cardstock and Patterned Papers.  Light blue solid paper is from K&Company
Ink:         Prismacolor pencil crayons
Tools:      Creative Memories Oval cutter, Flower punch from EK Success
Accessories:  Three blue brads, white ribbon, and flowered ribbon, three blue rhinestones.