Another Year, Another Birthday Card

Fun challenge to do a birthday card at Stampin' B's Design Challenge Blog. I chose some rubber stamps by The {Stamps} Of Life. The clear stamp set is called "late4Bday." I would say this is a fast and easy card but adhering all those punched daisies stopped it from being "fast." :) I had not used that punch in so long! I liked the way the white daisies looked on the yellow cardstock though. :) The small black brads are by The Paper Studio and the cardstock is Stampin'Up! Thanks for stopping by. After a long busy day, I am headed to bed to start a new book. I am starting "The Passage" by Justin Cronin. It's been a while since I've read a "scary" book but this one has been getting good reviews. I'll let you know tomorrow if I had to sleep with the lights on. Wink. :)

Life Is Sweet Cupcake Card

Sharing a card I did for the {Cupcake Inspirations} challenge. Here is this week's photo inspiration:

That is one yummy looking cupcake....almost too pretty to eat. :)

I used the Sizzix Bigz XL Die/Card and Pocket Cupcake on my card. The rubber stamps are by Hampton Art. I put the bottom of the cupcake in the Fiskars paper crimper to make it look like a "real" cupcake. :) The dotted Swiss cardstock is by Bazzzill. The square buttons are some ancient ones by Making Memories that I have had in my stash a long time. Since this cupcake has yellow flowers, I have to share another yellow flower with you.

My oldest daughter bought a package of dwarf sunflower seeds which she planted in the house. Misted them every day until they came up and then transplanted them outside in a large flower pot. We have have such fun watching "our" sunflower come up. It has got two blooms and this is the first one to show us it's beautiful face.
This photo is the second day's bloom. I had never thought about growing sunflowers on the patio. Next year, I want to have several pots of them. :) Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have enjoyed my "flower show." :)

Thank You Teacher Card

It seems like the summer is flying by. I took my youngest daughter "back to school" shopping last week. She'll be starting back in a couple of weeks. It only seemed fitting that I do the challenge over at Paper Sundaes which is a "back to school" one. :) The apple image is a rubber stamp by Hampton Art. The checkerboard border is a punch by Martha Stewart. The checkerboard ribbon is some by Mary Englebreit that I found at Michael's. The ric rac is by Wright's and the sentiment is a Dymo label. Simple card but I was happy with the results. :)

I got the new magazine called Card Style a few days ago. I've always had a hard time deciding what style I leaned towards since I seem to do them all. But since looking at this magazine and studying my last few cards, I "think" I might be a "fun and cute" cardmaker with a little"clean and graphic" thrown in. Course the next card I make might be a "shabby chic and vintage" (you know how I love to take a vintage image and make it funny). There needs to be a "fun and vintage" category just for ME. :) What is your style? Thanks for stopping by and stay cool (which means staying inside at my house!) :)

Life Is For Giving Card

I was intrigued by the sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You this week and wanted to give it a try. :) The patterned paper and stickers are by Little Yellow Bicycle (Clothesline Collection). The butterfly stamp is by Hampton Art. The ribbon is by American Crafts and the pearls are by Hero Arts. I am a very tired but happy mom tonight. I took my youngest daughter "back to school" shopping and we found everything she needed with this one trip. It meant a long day (in awful heat of getting in and out of the car a lot) but we did it! If I wasn't so tired, I would be doing the "happy dance." :) Not only did we get it done, we found great sales and managed to save lots of money. I was even able to "sneak" in Hobby Lobby for a few minutes. I wanted to get a copy of the new "Card Style" magazine. Found it and got to use a 40% off coupon too. When we got home, I checked my email and got more good news. My eClips by Sizzix will be delivered tomorrow by FedEx (You'll be hearing more about that later)! I've been waiting on this "baby" for months! All in all ...... a very good day! :) Thanks for stopping by.

The {Stamps} Of Life Polka Dot Challenge

This week's challenge is to use polka dots somewhere on your card.

Please feel free to play along with us!

If you are playing along with The {Stamps} of Life stamps or digital images
please upload to the gallery on the site HERE with the keyword TSOLD14. Please link to one of our blogs so we can see your stuff! Our challenge this week is "Polka Dots!" (TSOLD14) - Use polka dots somewhere on your card. The players this week besides me are:
Joana Studer
Deb Felts
Vicki Garrett
Jeanne Streiff
Emily Niehaus

Here is my polka dot creation. It uses the following clear stamp sets: late4Bday, Quick2Border and Back2Basics.


Can you believe how fast July is going? My youngest daughter informed me yesterday that it is time to go "back to school" shopping! She has band camp coming up for a couple of weeks and then school will be starting back soon after. Should be a great time for sales but I'm afraid of melting out in this heat. :) Thanks for stopping by and stay cool (not easy where I live at the moment). :)

The Photo-Synthesis Blog

There is a new challenge blog coming. It is called The Photo-Synthesis Challenge and the first challenge will begin August 2nd. It sounds like a fun new challenge blog (and you know how I love those.) :) There is a design team call out too so you might want to check that out. The cards I'm sharing today are for that call. There are some pretty photos posted and you are supposed to use those for your inspiration. I ended up doing a card for two of the photos. So without further ado, here are my entries for the the Photo-Synthesis design team call. :) Cross your fingers, toes and eyes (ouch) for me! :) Here are my cards based on this photo:


This card features some pretty new stamps by Hampton Art that I recently got. The ribbon is some I found at Michael's. The brackets are a punch by The Paper Studio.
The red bow is from a package I found at Hobby Lobby and was my last one. I need to buy some of those...so handy. :)

I used the same set of stamps by Hampton Art on this one. It also has some pretty red flowers by Prima Marketing plus a border punch by EK Success.

Again the same stamp set by Hampton Art plus I used the flower border punch by EK Success. (Love this punch!) :) Not sure where I found this smaller striped ribbon. So what do you think....do my cards remind you of the photo? :)
Now for the second photo that I made another entry for.


This card has patterned papers by Cosmo Cricket (DeLovely Collection). The flowers are by Prima Marketing and the flower button brads are by Karen Foster Design. That's it for today. I hope you are staying cool. It's not that easy where I live these days. We had a little rain this afternoon while the sun was shining. I went outside and felt like I had been "hit" with the humidity and heat. We had takeout from Subway tonight. I just couldn't bring myself to turn on the stove/oven. Any excuse is a good one for not cooking in my book. Wink, wink. Thanks for stopping by and visit again soon.

Butterfly Thank You Card

I joined the EtsyInspired Challenge this week and made this card. It was inspired by the photo below. The current shop at Etsy to "inspire" for this challenge was Otavia Brown's. I could go broke there for sure as I love vintage things (especially Depression Glass). :) The papers are by Diecuts With A View and all the stamps are by Hampton Art. The scalloped border is a punch by EK Success. The pearls are by KaiserCraft.

One last thing to share before I get busy for the day (lots and lots of fun things like laundry....wink). :) There is a Christmas In July blog hop going on for Creative Cuts and More at Diecut Divas. There is an awesome prize package so I'm sure you'll want to check it out. Guess I better get busy.....I don't think the housework "fairy" came last night. :)