Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger - Creativity Takes Courage

 It has been awhile since I played along with the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger, and the picture Cath picked out was calling my name so I had to play along! Here is the trigger:

                                                                              Val de Victorian

I drew inspiration for my card from the color, and shapes of the trigger. And you can't get much more Victorian then a beautiful old quilt.

   I finally got to play with my new quilt dies from Wplus9. They are SO much fun to use, and a lot easier then I was expecting. (hooray!) The patterned paper came from an old DCWV pad that I have been holding onto for a few years. The sentiment, which I love, came from a brand new stamp set from Unity Stamp Co called "Empowered Words". Well, I hope you like my card, and I am glad you stopped by my blog today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

                                                                                    

{The Bee's Knees}

 Good Afternoon! Today I am happy to be showing you a card I created for one of my very favorite challenges, CAS-ual Friday!

To create my card I used two stamp sets, the pair of bee's is from the Unity Stamp Ippity stamp set "Bee Better Together". The patterned hexagons are from The Craft's Meow set "Thanks Bee To Thee". I so love that adorable set.  I stamped my honey comb in several different shades of yellow, and the bees I colored with copic markers. I added red stickles to the hearts.  The sentiment was double stamped using Onyx Black Versafine ink, and Summer Sun by Stampin Up. I hope you like my lil' card, and thank YOU for visiting my blog today!

                                                                                                          

{The Direction of Your Heart}

Hello friends, back after a weekend that went by much too quickly! I was busy working on the latest call for Paper Crafts Magazine but as of a few minutes ago I finished uploading and submitting and now the butterflies begin. Even with all of that I was still able to get a little bit of "fun" paper crafting in and I created this CAS card using the sweet stamp set by Unity Stamp Company called " Direction of Your Heart". This is my first time to ink up this adorable stamp set and I just love it! I stamped the compass in Shell ink by A Muse Studio. I used the Upper Crest border punch from Fiskars and super cute heart shaped ribbon from Making Memories. I finished off the card with a bit of machine stitching and a button from Basic Grey. I love making sweet lil' cards like this. Today I am playing along with a few challenges:

Ribbon Carousel Challenge RCC34 - Anything Goes With Unity Stamps

The Paper Players Challenge #77 - All You Need Is Love

BasicGrey Challenge #60 - Something New

                       Thank you for visiting my blog today!

                                                                                  

{A New Year and Lots To Be Thankful For}

  Happy New Year! Like everyone else the past few days I have been thinking back on the year and the ups and downs that 2011 brought my family. Thankfully we ended the year on an up. I hope 2012 brings you love, joy, and peace, things we all could use more of I'm sure.  Today I created a special Thank You card for a dear friend that owns a quilting shop in my town, and I just knew the stamp set "Home-made 6 Bean Soup for Jillibean Soup" by Unity would be PERFECT! I stamped the stitching stamps in A Muse Studio ink. The patterned paper I used is the matching paper collection by Jillibean Soup. I added an EK Success punched border, and a button tied with twine. I love how well my wooden button matches the rest of my card. My card base is Crumb Cake by Stampin' Up.  Today I am playing along with the Ippity Challenge Blog which was to create a thank you card.  I hope you have a great week and a wonderful New Year! Happy 2012!



                                                                             

{Little Star}

Hello friends! Well, we survived Christmas and as much as I love creating Christmas cards I have to admit I am ready to take a from making them.  So, to start off the new year (almost) I a here with a baby card I created for a sweet friend. I have so many friends expecting babies in the spring and summer I know I am going to need to build up my stash of baby cards! I recently ordered some adorable stamps from Unity. I knew I had to have the Itty Bitty set "Twinkle Twinkle" .Oh my gosh total cuteness overload. I used the Cornish Heritage Farms backgrounder "Ticking" that I stamped in A Muse Studio Shell pigment ink. Next I stamped the sentiment in SU Early Espresso ink. I stamped the hanging stars on a scrap piece of yellow bazzil textured card stock and cut out the stars. I stamped the stars again on my ticking background and added the yellow stars. I added a machine stitched border and finished off the card with a button tied with thread. I love this cute card and I hope you do to! Thank you for visiting my blog today!

Today I am playing along with the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge # 70 - Something new

City Crafter Challenge # 89 - Make the cut

Sweet Stamps Challenge # 47 - Celebrate

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

{Moxie Fab World Part 1}

  I just have to start out by saying I LOVE THIS CARD! I usually try not to gush (out in the open) about my cards too much, but this card turned out better than I could have hoped. Today I am posting a card that I created for the Moxie Fab World "Get Inspired Week" Pot Pourri Challenge. I used an "Itty Bitty" stamp set from Unity Stamp Company called "Brave Girl Boots". Here is the inspiration picture:

   Now how you ask did this picture inspire me to create my boot kickin',  lacey, velvet ribbon inspired card? Well, the chairs in the picture are so pretty, but to me the stamped boots capture the same lines, and designs as the chairs. I used vanilla satin ribbon from Offray, and beautiful patterned paper from Sassafras Las.  The font of my sentiment also matches the monogram "R" in the picture! I used PTI's Mat Stack #4 that I stamped the CHF Lace backgrounder stamp on using A Muse Studio Latte pigment ink. So subtle, yet so pretty. The punched border was created with the EK Success "Swirl" edger punch. (A punch I received in my PC magazine World Card Making Day prize package!) I hope you like my card as much as I do, and always, thank you for visiting my blog today!