Through Christ

Great to see you! Today I have a card that I've made to share over at Word Art Wednesdays.  Through all the struggles of life it is a blessing to know that Christ is my strength and keeps me going.
For my card this time, I've used an image by Sliekje and coloured it with my prismas. I have combined this sweet scene with some lovely papers from ATD Momenta and a pink satin ribbon.  The verse I printed out on my computer and inked the edges lightly with blue ink from Colour Box.  Just a simple card but I hope you enjoy it! Have a wonderful day!

For You!

I love to make cards for those I love! This is a card that I've made also for the challenges at Dutch Dare- Red,White and Pink Valentines/Love and Shelly's Images- Red, Pink and White for your sweetie!
I have used an image from Sliekje.  This little hampster is just adorable and I love the flowers it's holding! Yes, even men love flowers! I worked in a flower store for awhile and I was amazed at how many men came in just because they wanted to have some fresh flowers in the house!  I have coloured it with markers and pencil crayons.  This I matted to some Stampin' Up cardstock that was left over from creating the base for the card.  I used some beautiful paper from Stampin' Up and added a border that I made using a pair of decorative scissors and a heart punch.  I layered some beautiful pink ribbon over this and a small pink bow to highlight the sentiment (that I found at Paper Smooches).  To finish it off I added some red rhinestones to the upper corner.  Thank you for letting me share this with you.  Do scroll down to to the next post because I've posted two today and I'd love to share that one with you to!

Feel My Hug!

I think that the best things to have when I'm not feeling well are hugs! My inspiration this card is "get well/feel better" from the For Fun challenge- which I missed, but wanted to acknowledge them for their part! Then the Sentimental Sundays's challenge Die Cuts.  Since I didn't have any dies, I went out and found this lovely oval scalloped one.  So excited - my first die set!!!
I used the die to cut out my sweet image by Sliekje- get well girl and the sentiment from TLC.  I layered the image on some blue cardstock that I had leftover from making my base, and then I inked the edges of the sentiment.  I placed this on some embossed paper and framed it with a lovely blue ric rac!(the sentiment is popped up) Then the corners looked empty so I added some bright pink buttons to compliment her bouquet with some yellow embroidery thread tied on.  For a final touch I used a crystal laquer to bring out the vase.  Unfortunately it didn't bring it out in the picture.  I hope this will bring a hug and a smile to whomever get it!
Thanks so much for dropping by!

Homemade!

I just love homemade things from baking to cards to warm quilts.

I saw this adorable little guy on Sliekje's Digi Stamps and that's what came to mind.  I found this wonderful sentiment over at Create with TLC and thought it was the perfect combo.  I have designed this card for the For Fun Challenge - Can you smell what's cooking recipe challenge?( RECIPE: 1 food, 2 decorated papers, 3 brads, buttons or eyelets.).
So for this card I used the cupcakes for the food, two decorative papers from ATD ; one as the background and one that I used to shape the center image; then I used three brads to finish it up.  After I coloured the image with my prismacolours, I inked the edges with my blue colour box and matted it to some blue cardstock from Stampin' Up. I combined all the layers, added the brads and then popped up the sentiment with a couple glue dots from Fiskars.
I hope it will go well with a batch of cupcakes for a friend.
I'm also entering this card in One Crazy Stamper's challenge- food/drink