Happy Graduation Card

Play Date Cafe is using charcoal, ash and butter this week. I did a graduation card for this challenge. I used October Afternoon's Farmhouse collection which had some papers in these colors (sticker also from this collection). The embossing folder is by Sizzix. The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts. The flowers are by Prima Marketing and the decorative brad is by Pink Paislee (Vintage Vogue Collection). Woke up to a beautiful sun shining on this Saturday morning. Looking forward to a day of crafty fun in my newly cleaned and organized craft studio. I spent a couple of days purging and re-organizing. I couldn't stand all the clutter and boxes on the floor any longer. I packed up several boxes of punches of the ones I don't ever use anymore. As much as I hated to box them up, I needed their drawers for other things (since I wanted to see my floor again). :) Hope your Saturday has some crafty goodness in it.

Fluttering By Birthday Card

Sharing a quick card I did for two different challenge sites. First, the
Cupcake Crafts Challenge is to create using red and yellow as your main colors. Then the new Casual Fridays challenge is called "for sentimental reasons" (sentiment is to be focal point). I used a new stamp and matching die set by Sizzix for this one. The embossing folder is by Sizzix too. I love the way this card turned out. It's bright and cheerful which is a good thing for a birthday card. :) I colored the butterfly images with alcohol ink markers and then dotted them. I have also posted this one at 52 Card Pickup. :) All right I can head to bed now...I'm pooped from cleaning my craft room plus visiting my mom and then grocery shopping. Thanks for stopping by and TGIF! :)

Sent From Heaven Card

PaperPlay has a "Something Old, Something New" challenge this week. On my Sent From Heaven card, the 3-D stickers are new (by Royal Brush) and the embossing powder is old (white fine detail by Stampendous). There is a "Seeing Double" challenge at City Crafter Challenge blog. You're supposed to use the positive and negative of a die or punch. I used my Sizzix Oval Framelits for this task. Tuesday Throwdown
has a new challenge called "new life" (babies, baby animals, spring, etc. themes). The stamp is by Hampton Art (from one of the new Little Darlings Graphic 45 cling sets). The bright vibrant (and super smooth) cardstock is by Diecuts With A View (Creamy Stack). I also used a polka dot embossing folder by Sizzix.
It's starting to feel like spring today. I'm headed out to do yard work. I can't wait for warmer weather so I can spend time outside on my front porch reading and enjoying nature. :) I do dread the pine pollen though...you know that awful yellow stuff that will be everywhere in a few weeks. Will be glad when it's gone and everything is washed off. I guess we take the good with the bad though....wink. :) Have a fun Tuesday...(and you know what Tuesday night means, don't you? Yep, Justified.) :) Love that show and it's been renewed for a fourth season....that made my day! :)

Hey Baby....How About a "Baby" Card?

Casual Friday's challenge #42 is called "hey baby." I had a baby stamp by Unity Stamp Company that had never seen "ink." (Gasp!) :) After looking at it's image, I remembered tiny star brads I had recently purchased. Then I knew I had to "play"!!! :) The embossing folder is by Sizzix (love this one....use it a lot!) :) Fast and easy (just like the women on the new show "GCB"! :) We watched the premier episode tonight.....made me smile. :) I needed the smile too after watching "The Walking Dead"....which killed off one of my favorite characters tonight...grrrrr. :) I seriously need to talk to the writers of that show! (he-he)

Filled With Luck Card

Feeling a little Irish today with my card. :) I was able to fit four different challenges with this one. Charisma Cardz's challenge wanted "masking." It's been a looonnnng time since I've done that stamping technique. :) I decided I would "mask" the mason jar image. The jar and sentiment images are stamps by Unity Stamp Company. Stamptacular Sunday's challenge is "text me" which is to put more than four words on your creation. Paper Sundae's challenge is to use green or good luck on your card. I based the design on the current CPS sketch. The papers and ribbon are by The Paper Studio (which is a Hobby Lobby brand). The flowers are by Bazzill and the brads are by Making Memories. I used my Dymo label maker to cover up "joy" on the stamped sentiment....wanted it to fit more of a St. Patrick's Day theme. Hope you like my lucky card and stop by again soon. :)

The {Stamps} of Life March 2012 Release

March has roared in (and I do mean roared...with all the bad weather the last two days). The sun is shining this morning though so I thought it would be a great time to introduce The {Stamps} of Life new March set. This one is called "mums2stamp." Flowers are always fun and useful stamps and this set is certainly no exception. I've tried to show in my samples how versatile and also the different looks you can achieve with this set. :) The first card simply uses five colors of ink (with matching cardstock and some two-step stamping. How fast and easy is that? :)

On the second card, I tried using a different color combo from what you would ordinarily think of using with it. Again, a fast and easy card with
black and garnet inks plus a punch (from Michael's Recollection punches).

I don't know if mums are fall flowers but that's when I think of them blooming. (All the gardeners will have to enlighten me on this subject.) :) So I chose some fall colored patterned cardstocks (by Diecuts With A View) and matched the ink to those. I used a large polka dot decorative brad by My Mind's Eye to give it a little something extra. So yet another easy peasy by yours truly. Thanks for stopping by and have a fun weekend. I need to get outside and clean up all the limbs, etc. from the last two days of storms. I tell ya there is always something FUN to do at my house. Wink. :)

Sucker For You Card

Quick post this morning as I'm off to visit my mom. Creative Card Crew has a humor challenge this week as does Casual Friday. There is also an "anything goes" theme at Party Time Tuesdays. The stamps are by Chicken Girl Designs The papers are by My Mind's Eye and the heart diecut is by Sizzix (Heart Framelits). The braid is by American Crafts. So there is another fast and simple card.....I hope I don't run into that big a mosquito though. :)