Little Sis

This Stamping Bella image always reminds me of my little sister.  Unfortunately, she's no longer a teenager.  She's getting married this year!  The image was in my pile, precoloured and I was thinking of her so this is what I came up to send her way just so she knows I've been thinking of her.

Challenges this Card Meets:
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Shopping Our Stash - 3, 2, 1 - 3 heart rhinestones, 2 patterned papers, 1 image
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Hearts
Challenges for Everybody - Anything Goes
Glitter N Sparkle - Anything Goes

Flowers... Just Because

I was inspired by a challenge a couple of weeks ago and didn't get this made in time but I'm glad that I kept going with the idea.  It's a pocket card using Melon Mambo as a base.  The paper was a gift so I don't know about it.  I used Very Vanilla for the card and stamped it with Gina K's Fanciful Tags (retired).  The flowers were being thrown away by a local shop that had used them in a display window.  Waste not, want not.

Challenges this Card Meets:

Glitter and Sparkle - Anything Goes

Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes

V's Sweet Ideas - Anything Goes

Arthur Says, "Hello!"

I found this strip of paper on my table and fell in love with the little turtle.  I don't even remember seeing the turtle when buying the paper.  I had bought it for the umbrellas.  Anyways, I really wanted to draw attention to him, hence my little sentiment by his brollie.  The background paper is Marina Mist which I enhanced with my cracked stamp from MFP's Background Fun set.  The card needed a bit more detail, it looked too stark without it.

I'm very excited to have this card be my first as a new designer for Mark's Finest Paper's Simple Salutations Challenge.  I love clean and simple cards so this is going to be so much fun.  I can't wait to show you what I have designed for next week!

The Little Mermaid

I was playing around with my new text stamp from Waltzing Mouse.  The background looks so much better in real life.  The green text is more visible and seems to tone down the yellow  so that it matches the sun.  The mermaid image was coloured with a mixture of copics and prismacolour pencils.  I don't have a large collection of either especially a year ago so I was playing.  I do love how it created a more realistic blend on her hair and softened the background.  The colouring is not the best since I've improved a lot in that time. It's neat to see how I've gotten better with more practice.

Challenges this Card Meets:
Speedy TV's Simple Salutations - Mermaid

Laughter in the Rain

I had so much fun with this card.  The background was made by sponging ink on a piece of large plastic ribbon.  I'd had it for ages and just came up with this idea.  I thought it went so well with the dragon's spots.  They kind of remind me of dragon scales.  What do you think?  I also love  his bright yellow skin.  I've always coloured my dragons green so I really enjoyed the change.  This is going to open up some possibilities.  The flowers were coloured with copics.  I just love this technique!  I'll never buy anything but white from now on.  The dragonflies were given to me by my friend.  They are from a Creative Memories punch.  I tend to be careful of using dragonflies on my cards since they have been adopted by the palliative care society here in BC.  I sometimes worry about sending an unintended message.  My mother would be so offended by having a dragonfly on her card - as if I was wishing ill.
What I really like about this card is that without a sentiment and with such bright colours it can be used for so many purposes:  birthday, encouragement or just because.

Challenges this Card Meets:
Fab'N'Funky - No Patterned Paper - Hope this counts since I made my own.
Sentimental Sunday - Anything Goes
Stamping with the Dragon - Animals
That Craft Place - Make your own background 
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Hey, Foxy Lady

This is embarrassing.  I've had this set for about three years now and I think this is the first time I've used these three images.  It's an old set from My Favourite Things that I just had to have because it had a female hiker in the set.  One thing about BC, we love our hiking and going out into nature.  I was really shocked when we had relatives come from England and they were terrified to go out into the woods.  I forget that not everyone grows up having basic First Aid, survival requirements, orienteering and bear awareness drilled into them.  It sounds like I live in the woods.  I don't.  It's a bit of a drive but with boys, hiking and trails provide endless free entertainment.

Actually, I dug out this set for a Speedy TV challenge to use a fox.  I figured I'd be the only entrant.  Boo hoo, I actually have to compete.  I can't believe how many fox images there are out there.  I love the sentiment.  What woman doesn't want to be thought of as a fox?  Such a fun sentiment to give a girlfriend.

Challenges this Card Meets:
Speedy TV's Sentiment Challenge - Use a Fox
Fab'N'Funky - No Patterned Paper
Sentimental Sunday - Anything Goes
Stamping with the Dragon - Animals
That Craft Place - Make your own background (The embossed background is hard to see.)
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Country Cottage

I'm back.  I first have to apologize for being away so long.  I actually have been busy crafting but not making cards.  I signed up for a scrapbooking challenge to complete 100 pages in 100 days.  I have 47 pages completed, which finished off one album for me.  YEAH!  I'm still behind since I should be at around 80 by now but  I have the next 14 pages spread out on my table.  I just need to journal and add the embellishment.  The hard thinking and planning part is done.  I won't be posting them however since my pages tend to be more like photo journals than traditional scrapbooking.  

I was burning out though and needed a break.  I just saw a friend who'd pulled out her Thomas Kincaid images and I was inspired.  The image was stamped on vellum with brown Momento.  I then turned the image over and coloured on the wrong side.  The image was then mounted right side up on card stock.  The brown matting for the image was done by tracing and hand cutting around my Nestie.  I really wish they would come up with smaller frames so I wouldn't have to do that.

The sentiment is from Gina K's fanciful tags set.  I stamped it on Very Vanilla and then hand cut it to fit  an old epoxy sticker.  The epoxy had pulled away from the "metal" base so I pulled it right off and cleaned up the residue.  It was too nice to throw away so I thought it was the perfect embellishment for this card.

Challenges this Card Meets:

Tutorial Time Challenges on Speedy TV - Stamping and Colouring on Vellum

Totally Papercrafts - Frame It