{Easter Bunny Wishes}

Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a nice Monday. We are having  a quiet day after having a busy weekend. Today I created an Easter card using an adorable digital image from Pink Cat Studios. I colored the image with promarkers. Thanks to Cyndi from The Scrappy Chick Boutique I had some new paper to play with today, the "Salt Air" collection from Cosmo Cricket. I machine stitched around my layers added SU ribbon, and finished off the card with the sentiment from A Muse Studios "Essential Sentiments", and roses from Recollections. I paper pieced my balloons to add some dimension to the card. I'm happy with the way my card turned out! Today I am playing along with a handful of challenges:

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #113

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #78 - Furry Friends

Daring Cardmakers - Spring Fling

OTWC Challenge #51 - Easter / Inspiration Picture

Stampin for the Weekend Challenge # 7 - Easter

{Easter Chicks}

Good Afternoon and welcome to my blog! I hope everyone had a nice weekend, as always ours went by much too quickly. Today I was able to play for a bit in my card room thanks to a couple of sleepy boys and I created this fun shabby-chic Easter card. The chicks are a digital image from Pink Cat Studios. I colored them with Pro-Markers and cut them out with my Cutterbee paper snips. The beautiful patterned paper is the new "Kitch" collection by Girls Paperie. I bought the 6x6 sampler pack from Claudia and Company. I really love the sampler packs. I never make it thru an entire paper pad, so the samplers are perfect for me. Anyways, I cut the paper into 4  squares and matted them with GP white card stock. I then used my Janome to add the zig-zag stitching around all 4 pieces. I then attached them to a Kraft card base. The nice Nestabilities-like shape was cut out using my Cricut and SCAL software. I attached the chicks with foam dots and added the vintage lace and bow. I thought pearls would be a fun way to accent the border of the large shape, and then I added the pretty mini rosettes from Michael's Recollections collection. I added a pearl accent below the roses also. The Easter sentiment is from  A Muse Studios.


Today I am playing along with several challenges:

Etsy Inspired Challenge # 134 - Think Fast Designs - Here is the picture I chose as inspiration:

Raise the Bar Challenge #61 - Hey Chick

The Crazy Challenge # 62 - Easter

Digi Design House Challenge - Stitches

The Pink Elephant Challenge #97 - Easter

Woodware USA Challenge #22 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Challenge #57 - Easter

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #75 - Fluffy

Paper Play Challenge Week 14 - Critters Galore

I Love ProMarkers Challenge #60 - Easter

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - It's Time For Spring/Easter

Anything Goes Challenge # 38 - Pearls

{So Lucky to Have You}

Welcome to Pink Cat Studio's St.Patty's Day release! I was chosen to be a Guest Designer to help celebrate this weeks release. These adorable images are sure to bring a smile to anyone that is "lucky" enough to receive a card with one of these cuties on it! If you buy the set, today only (March 10th) you will receive the "Pixie on Clover" image Free! Here is the card I created using the Bitty Betty digi stamp:

Isn't she a cutie? I colored her with Pro-Markers and a Target dollar spot gold glitter pen. The patterned paper is from DCWV (bottom clover pattern), and Martha Stewart (top polkadot pattern). I machine stitched around the card, and added twill ribbon from Cosmo Cricket, and Twine from "The Twinery". The sentiment was created by yours truly, (me). The embossed, and distressed golden card stock layer was embossed using the new Cuttlebug "Preserves" embossing folder collection. Finally I finished off the card with a cute button flower from Making Memories. Today I am playing along with a few challenges:

Card Patterns Sketch #105

Claudia and Company Recipe Challenge # 77 - Stitching (real or faux) ,2 patterned papers, buttons, a sentiment, circles, scallops

Little Red Wagon - St Patty's Day Green

The Paper Shelter Challenge #4 - Lucky Charms

Papertake Weekly - Lemon Zingy

Shabby Tea Room Week #52 - Luck O' the Irish

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Leaping Leprachauns

Penny's  Paper Craft Challenge Blog #48 - Going for the green

Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Good Luck

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Anything goes

{Super Exciting Day!}

 

Today I am excited for two different reasons, I have been added to the Paper Crafts Magazine Designer Blog Roll!!!  How fun is that? I really can't believe my name is listed with so many amazing paper craft celebrities! Neato! Ok, secondly I am trying for a spot as a guest designer at Pink Cat Studios for the St.  Patties Day release. I love PCS images and would be thrilled to be a part of the team, even if its just for one day! So naturally my card above features a PCS image called "Hopping Bunnies". Those cuties make me smile every time I look at them! I colored the bunnies with pro-markers. The kraft patterned paper with colorful polka-dots is from the new collection "Chilled Strawberry" by Jillibean Soup. The yellow, and pink dsp is from the Stampin' Up! "Brights" collection. What can I say, I love polka-dots! I made the cute foam flowers with foam I bought yesterday from Dollar Tree, and I used Cuttlebug flower dies to cut them out. I love, love making foam flowers!

Here are two of my favorite Pink Cat Studio cards that I have made!

Today I am playing along with a few challenges:

Sweet Sunday Sketch #106

Wee Memories Challenge #45 - Operation Write Home

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

{Halloween Sweetie}

I have never been a fan of scary Halloween like ghouls, goblins, and skeletons, but I LOVE cute Halloween! This image by Pink Cat Studios is so darn cute and I had to have it. For this card I used DSP from SU. The image was colored with Pro-Markers, with a few SU markers also. The ribbon is from a roll I picked up at a flea market, I have never used it on a card and thought it would be perfect for this card! I sanded the black dsp with a sanding block, and sponged the edges of the layers with red, and black ink. The sentiment is from a House Mouse Halloween set.  Finally I accented the card with a flower I made using the SU Scallop circle punch with a Making Memories fabric brad in the center. I know this card doesn't have the classic orange, black, purple or green Halloween colors, but I think it is a fun, light hearted alternative to the darker images of Halloween. I am playing along with 2 challenges today:

The Paper Players Challenge - Create a card using one DSP, something punched, and a sentiment.

PaperPlay Challenges - Make a Halloween card.

      Play along with these challenges if you get a chance! Thank you for visiting my blog today, and thank you in advance if you leave a comment! 

{A Spooktacular Halloween}

First let me say I think this is one of the cutest Halloween images I have ever seen! Secondly, this card is an especially special card because it is the FIRST digital stamp I have ever purchased, and used! This adorable image is by "Pink Cat Studios".  The DSP is "June Bug" by BasicGrey. I printed the image on Very Vanilla card stock with my laser printer, and colored using Prismacolor pencils, and OMS. (oderless mineral spirits) The sentiment is from the SU set "Greetings Galore, and the ribbon is a roll I picked up at the Offray Ribbon Outlet.  I machine stitched around the layers, and the card base is SU Crumb Cake. I am playing along with a few challenges today first Cupcake Inspirations. Here is this weeks inspiration picture:

 The second challenge is the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge, where we were supposed to create a card using these colors:

And the last challenge I am playing along with is the Dutch Dare Card Challenge. This weeks challenge is to create a Halloween card.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and I hope you are having a great Monday!