{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!

{Spring is Just Around the Corner}

It is a beautiful sunny morning here in Southeast Oklahoma. I hope the sun is shining in your part of the world today! Spring arrives early in this part of the USA, there are fruit trees, and daffodils blooming here and there. So, in honor of my second favorite time of year (fall takes the #1 spot) I decided to create a "spring theme" card today! I am happy to say that this card came together quickly. My card features a pretty dogwood branch from the Stampin' Up! set "Soft Summer".

 I colored the image with SU classic ink, and blender pens. The patterned paper is from the "Lace and Linen" DCWV stack. I machine stitched around the card, and accented the corners with  a  blossom I picked up at Michael's this weekend. I added a button tied with bakers twine. Speaking of twine I have been using it like crazy, like many others right now. I am thinking about offering a blog candy that could possibly involve a pretty selection of bakers twine in several colors. Stay tuned this week so ya don't miss out! Today I am playing along with several challenges.

One Stop Craft Challenge #120 - Spring Flowers

Sketchy Colors #60 - Pink and Beige

Ooh La La Creations Challenge #74 - Pink Pink Pink

Lexi's Creation Challenge #34 - Flowers

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #83 - Spring is in the air

Die Cut Dreams Challenge #84 - Spring Garden Scene

The Crazy Challenge #56 - Here comes spring

Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge #9 - Spring Flowers Everywhere

{Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #100}

Good Morning and welcome to an exciting week at Cupcake Inspirations! This week we are celebrating our 100th challenge, and to make it extra exciting we are giving away 4 awesome prizes!

1) $10 store credit to Octopode Factory
2) $15 store credit to Anita Be Stampin
3)  Robyn's Fetish surprise digi image / paper pack
4) Cosmo Cricket  Garden Variety Scrap Kit

 Great prizes right?! Here is this weeks Cupcake Inspirations picture:

                 

My card for today's challenge features a super cute digital image from Pink Petticoat. I colored her with Pro-Markers and Diamond Stickles. The DSP is the newest Echo Park collection "Springtime". I love the papers in this collection, so fun, and perfect for cute stamps and flowers! I added a satin flower with a corduroy brad, and a felt leaf. The ruffled ribbon is from Hobby Lobby, and I finished off the card with machine stitching, and bakers twine. I hope that you will play along with the challenge at Cupcake Inspirations this week and as always thank you for visiting my blog today!

{Claudia and Company's first ever Customer Blog Hop!}

Hello and Welcome to Claudia and Company's first ever Customer Blog Hop! We’re so excited to have you join us! Today Claudia and Company is celebrating all of US; their dear friends and customers and that includes YOU!

If you’ve just joined the fun, be sure to pop over to the Claudia and Company Blog  to start the hop and get all the deets!

My card features an adorable Claudia and Company digi stamp "Dino". He is now available without spots which is perfect for paper piecing! I used some of my old DCWV paper for the alpha background, and DCWV  "Baby Girl", for the dino. The buttons were strung on a piece of bakers twine, and I added the scalloped border using my SU Scallop Punch. I stitched around the card with my Janome Sew Mini and I finished off the card with a sentiment from Pink Petticoat and SU striped Bashful Blue ribbon.

Be sure and leave a comment on each of today’s fabulous posts, to be eligible for the prizes that are up for grabs! You'll have until Monday, February 28, 12pm EST to comment. Winners will be announced on March 1, during their Release Day Showcase.

Here is the complete list of stops on the Hop! Thanks for joining us and happy hopping!

LORi
Tracy
Sheri
Sandra
Krista
Kadie
Piali
Joni
Gwen
Sheng
Margie
Kelly
Jeanette
Cara
Kimmarie
Arielle
Hannah
Beverly
Sharette
Joy
Susan
Carol
Nicole
Paola
Mary J
April
Barb
Lorie
Sarabeth
Catherine
Veronica    (You are here)
Jessica
Judy
Taylor
Lysa
Jen
Jess
Pam
Heather
Mary
Claudia

I created this card with a few challenges in mind!

Paper Pal Arts - Elements of Style - Scallops
Digi Doodle Shops Best - Spots n Dots
The Crazy Challenge - Baby Love
Card Cupids Blog - Buttons and Ribbons
Totally Papercrafts Challenge - Paper Piecing

Thank you for visiting my blog today and for playing along with the First Ever Claudia and Company Blog Hop!!

{The Sweetest Day}

I knew I HAD to have this berry sweet patterned paper from Jillibean Soup the moment I saw it! As you have noticed from alot, ok well, most of my cards lately, I LOVE kraft card stock so of course I had to add it to my paper collection. The cute stamp is from the Unity Stamp "Itty Bitty"collection that was created to go along with the newest Jillibean Soup lines. The embossed kraft card stock is from the Cuttlebug collection "Preserves".  I used my Janome for the stitching. The cute flowers were cut using my Cricut and SCAL software. I accented the card with ruffled chocolate ribbon from Hobby Lobby, and bakers twine from "The Twinery". It is dark and dreary today, but I love the fun springiness of my card!
Today I am playing along with a handful of challenges and you should play along if you get a chance! 

Papertake Weekly Sketch #53



Crafty Creations Challenge #107 - At the bottom of my garden...

The Paper Variety Challenge #22 - Sew Much  Fun

Wee Memories Challenge #44 - Source of Inspiration

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

 

{Sweet Sunday}

 Wow, two posts in one day can you believe it? Well, I just had to play along with a couple of challenges so while Cam and Connor napped today I was able to finish a card! My card features a berry sweet image of cakes from the Stampin' Up! set "Birthday Bakery". The sentiment is from Impression Obsession. I used velvet ribbon by Cosmo Cricket, and my new favorite embellishment bakers twine from The Twinery.   I used dsp from KI Memories that matched my inspiration picture perfectly! Well, this weeks challenge at "Raise the Bar" is to  create a card inspired by your favorite cartoon character , and of course I had to pick Strawberry Shortcake! Most of you don't know this but I once had an entire room dedicated to vintage Strawberry Shortcake and her friends. Fun huh? Anyways I think my card reflects the sweetness of SSC and I really enjoyed creating it! The second challenge is the Paper Pal Arts weekly challenge which happens to be a sketch this week. This was the perfect sketch to go along with my SSC inspired card.  I am also playing along with the weekly challenge from "Wee Memories - Source of Inspiration" . Thank you for visiting my blog today and have a great day!

{Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #99}

 Good Sunday morning and welcome to  the Cupcake Inspirations Weekly Challenge! Our challenge this week is being sponsored by Prairie Fairy . If you have not been to visit their website you really should, they have some of the cutest images.  Here is the inspiration picture for this weeks challenge, isn't it a beauty?

My card looks more purpley then blue, but the colors are more blue in real life.  I colored the image with blender pen and SU classic ink. I also machine stitched around the first layer. To achieve the "glittery" look I used Glimmer paint in Champagne Mist. I LOVE the way it turned out! I used a Spellbinders die for the pretty diecut shape.  If you get a chance you should play along this week.  We would love to see what you create! I am also playing along with these challenges:

Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Spring Fever

Supplies:
Stamps- Prairie Fairy Digital image "Bugs", Fifth Avenue Floral, SU
Ink - Buckaroo Blue, Lovely Lilac, SU
Paper - K&C Company, SU
Embellishments - Ribbon from Michael's, rhinestones, SU
Tools - Spellbinders Pendants , Lattice

{Dino-riffic Birthday}

Howdy and welcome to my paper-crafting world! Today has been a great day, I ran errands with the boys and they were great! I also had time to play in my craft room. Today I made a card featuring an adorable dino digital stamp from "Claudia and Company". I colored him with Promarkers and chalks.  I am in no way affiliated with C & C but in addition to this digi dino I have some new Jillibean Soup and Unity Itty Bitty stamps on the way. Claudia has been SO sweet!  Anywho, today I am playing along with a few challenges:

Card Patterns Sketch #102

Claudia and Company Challenge #75 - About a Boy

DeNami Design Product Challenge #6 - Twine

Supplies

Ink:  Early Espresso "SU"

Stamps - Claudia and Co Digi Dino, Small Sayings "SU"

Paper - Animal Crackers "DCWV" , Wild Wasabi, Very Vanilla "SU"

Embellishments - Embroidery Floss, Bakers Twine "The Twinery", Button, "Making Memories"

Tools - Border Punch "EK Success", Mat Stack, "SU"

{True Friends}

Happy Valentine's Day friends and visitors! I hope this has been a sweet day for you. Today I created a card using the Stampin' Up! set "True Friend". I used the SU colors Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake and Whisper White. These colors happen to be the color challenge for this week at "The Paper Players Challenge #34. Don't they look fantastic together!?  I am also playing along with the sketch challenge at "Skipping Stones Design Challenge #63".  This was a great sketch to work with. I finished off the card with a BasicGrey button, and Offray ribbon tied with  yummy twine I just received from the Twinery! Speaking of twine there is a great Product Challenge #6 at DeNami Designs featuring twine! If you have twine you should definitely play along!

Thank you for visiting my blog today and have a wonderful day!

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge#98

What a wonderful Sunday! Today is my first time to play along with the Cupcake Inspiration Weekly Challenge as a Design Team Member! This is the inspiration picture for this weeks challenge:

This weeks challenge is being sponsered by Flourish With a Bling. I love the cupcake colors this week, so springy! For my card I used K and Company DSP, and a cute stamp from the set by Autumn Leaves called Mindy's Zoo.  I ran the light green DSP thru my paper crimper, and added the ruffled ribbon accented by a SU border punch. The main image was colored using ProMarkers. Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog, and we would love for you to play along with this weeks Cupcake Inspirations challenge!