{Perfect Fall Day}

Staying inside on a cool Rainy Day is perfect for card-making! Today is one of those days so I thought I would play along with this weeks Etsy Inspired Challenge. The Etsy shop being featured this week is "Capturing Creativity". This is the card I chose from the shop as my inspiration:

Since I still had it on my desk from my last card I used the SU set "Season of Friendship" to stamp the leaves and tree. I stamped the leaves in two colors, Wild Wasabi, and Kiwi Kiss and added threaded button "apples" to the tree. The fence was made cutting strips of Choco Chip cardstock that I ran through my Cuttlebug, and then I trimmed the corners using the ticket corner punch. The sentiment is from the PTI "Everyday Button Bits" set.  I loved playing along with this challenge, and I hope you get a chance to play along to! Thank you for visiting my blog today!

A Few Cards!

For this card I used the clear set by Stampendous called "Flutterfly Friends". This set is adorable! I used my Bics to color the butterfly, and the DP is from an old DCWV stack I have had for a few years. For the flower, and the flower center I used my Cricut! I love being able to incorporate both stamping, and die-cuts on my cards. The sentiments are from the SU set "On a Pedestal". This was a fun card to make!

This card features the SU set " On a Pedestal". This is one of my favorite sets out of the new catalog! Again I used DCWV paper (my favorite DP in case you haven't noticed) There layers were made using my SU Top Note Die, and my Cricut. I paper pieced the cake, yeah, it was a lot of cutting but I love how it turned out!

This card was made using the SU set "Manhattan Flower", and the matching Texture Plate. I stamped the main flower in Staz-On and used my Aqua Painters to color it in. I love the soft look of water-coloring. The paper is the new SU In-Color "Bermuda Bay", and SU Kraft. I accented the card with SU Linen Thread, and little rhinestones.

I hope all of you are having a great weekend! Today we drove out to our favorite Apple orchard and Bakery and I had a fresh apple turnover. Yum!!

Busy Bee Bloggers Weekly Challenge #1

Hello Everyone and welcome to the first EVER Busy Bee Bloggers Weekly Challenge! I will be hosting the first weekly challenge. I will type out a list with the weekly challenge that everyone in the Busy Bee Blogging group will be responsible for hosting and post it on my blog this week. You get to decide what the challenge will be!

For this weeks challenge I made it pretty simple. All you have to do is create a card with a 3-D object of some kind. On my card I added pop dots to the balloons to make them "pop" out! For this card I used DP from the Target Dollar Spot, and an adorable set I bought at Michaels this weekend called "Hap Bee Day" by Stampendous. It is a clear set and was only 4.99 and it wasn't even on sale! This card is for my Nephew Ethan who will be turning five on Sep. 1st! I hope all of you have a wonderful week! Please don't forget to comment on each others blogs Busy Bee Bloggers! It is so nice to see that your work is appreciated. =) I can't wait to see what everyone creates!