A week late

But I still wanted to share this adorable Easter card that I made for my mother. I only finished it up the night before and quickly snapped some pics. It was just the other day that I finally edited the photos for my post…so here they are.

I used this adorable bunny from Anna Wights set called Spring has Sprung from Whipper Snapper Designs. He’s colored with Copics and cut out and matted using rectangle Spellbinders Nestabilities. I inked the image with the die in place and added some flock to his hair and tail. The patterned papers are from a K&Company pad that I’ve had for a while. I used my new Spellbinders Egg dies to cut out the large egg and the opening in it and the card front. The ribbon I ruffled by pulling on the single stitching down the center and gathering it. I then used adhesive to outline the egg…I wanted it to resemble a Panoramic Egg…remember those? I used a few vintage Prima flowers and some floral wire that I curled with a ribbon and lace scrap for accents. I stamped Happy Easter and added a tiny flower also from the set which I cut out and popped up.

Just a quick peek inside. I hope everyone had a lovely Easter!

Wednesdays Color Throwdown Challenge

Welcome to challenge #85 at the Color Throwdown. Our hostess this week is Cathy and sadly this will be her final week with us as she is taking a break for an undetermined time. But she picked some really lovely colors for us this week! Check these out!

I used this King of the Wild Things from Stamping Bella and colored it with Prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits. I cut it out with an oval Nestabilitie that I kept in place to sponge a bit of Antique Linen Distress Ink. Then I used a Big Scallop Oval Nestie for the mat. I layered it all on this great patterned paper from K & Company. The sketch is this weeks challenge for Bellarific Friday. I didn’t have a sentiment from Stamping Bella to go with this image so I will leave it blank until I use it…most likely for a little boys birthday.

Please come over to the Color Throwdown and join in this weeks challenge. Make sure you check out the samples from all of our design team members and send your best wishes to Cathy! We are going to miss her :(

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March Guest Designer Pam

Have a great day!

Sean's invention

This adorable image called Eli from Mo's Digital Pencil reminds me of my 4 year old son so much! His mop of a head of hair and how he loves to play in boxes...I couldn't resist it! You should have seen him and my 6 year old playing with the television box...opened it up flat and rode it down the stairs like a sled, over and over and over again! I was sure I was going to take someone to the ER-but luckily their fun was just that-boys and boxes, fun, fun, fun!

It's printed on Neenah Solar Crest White Ultra Smooth card stock and colored with Copics. It's layered on this fun paper from K&Company called Actopus to Zelephant. The ribbon and button are from PTI. It's hard to see the button and ribbon treatment since the brown kind of blends right into the paper. I have this tiny paw punch that I used on green paper then I punched a circle around then layered on black paper so the paw would stand out.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day!

Monday morning blues...

Well I tried to get this post up yesterday but either Blogger/Google was down or it was my pc. I was able to access my email and Yahoo though, weird. Anyway this is a card I made for a baby shower that I attended yesterday.

The mom to be is Chinese and this is apparently the year of the cow so I on purpose (coincidentally) made a baby card with a cow on it! She might think it was on purpose so we'll go with that! This image and sentiment are from the Whipper Snapper set Bundle of Joy designed by Anna Wight. I was going to go with the sweet pea image but when I saw this adorable paper from a K & Company pad I bought recently I knew I had to use it! I love the colors, very non-traditional baby, but sweet and boyish...it's a boy by the way :) I LOVE K&Company papers!

The cows blanket originally had flowers on it along with the polka dots but after I inked up the rubber I used a baby wipe and removed the ink from the flowers and stamped it on the yellow pattern paper which is the flip side of the cow paper. I also stamped the moon and star (also from the set) on to the same yellow pattern and popped them up on the image. After I colored my cow with Copics I inked softly around the panels with Distress Ink in Brushed Cordouroy and then stitched them down. I used Stickles in various colors to accents the dots, lace, moon, and star. The brown cardstock and ribbon are Dark Chocolate from PTI and I used two SU! oval punches for the sentiment.

I really love how this came out-to toot my own horn so to speak! Well it was a glorious weekend here and Monday stinks so far-so typical these days! I hope everyone else enjoyed their weekends too. Have a great day!

Hey, nice rack!

Now that I have your attention! I think they mean gun rack...or antlers, but I don't have any stamps for those images.


This is a birthday card for my husbands best friend who's birthday is this month. I got this great Unity set called Buck Fever. My husbands best friend and he are both avid hunters. Jim has several deer under his belt, so to speak. My hubby, none. He says (air quotes) he's taken down a few, but I don't really believe him. And I'm not the least bit upset. I completely understand hunting, the need for population control and all that, but I couldn't shoot one of those big liquid brown eyed beauties any day. I don't like venison either, so if he never gets "another" one I don't mind. As long as he has a good time with his brother and buddies that's fine by me.

I stamped the gun stock on Basic Grey (not sure which one, but it's a solid distressed brown) with Versa Fine in black. It's popped up on PTI cream cs that's been distressed with ADK distress ink in Walnut Stain. The dp is from K&Company and the solid is Bazzill. I did some light distressing all over-simple. I think he'll like it.

PS-Don't tell Jim's wife, but he thinks I am the best cook ever! He gets so excited if I make something and send it over. He asks for decorating advice and my paint color suggestions, (it was time for him to get rid of the 80's anyway...remember that? It was bad...) says he loves the way I did our house. I love him. In that big brother kinda way...don't get any ideas!

Happy hump day!

It's all about the presents....a fitting sentiment!

Can you believe this is my third post in a row? I have one more too for tomorrow!! I know, crazy, right?!

On to the card. I made this for a friend's son who just celebrated his first birthday!! I just adore the stamps from CC Designs! They are so much fun to color and you can do so much with them. How funny is that sentiment? Ok, so the image is stamped with Palette Noir and colored with my Copics. I don't usually have such a hard time with them, but I am not really happy with the shading on the presents. I also had a tough time with Lucky's spot! It was too dark so I tried to lighten with my colorless blender...then I accidentally got dark brown in it while I was coloring his body...again with colorless blender trying to salvage the image. Yikes! Luckily I use Papertrey Ink white cardstock and it's heavy enough to handle that kind of abuse....super paper!! The design paper is from K&Co. It's a Brenda Walton designer pad called Small Wonder. I love their paper pads. I pulled all of my colors from the background panel. I went over the ribbons and bows on the presents and his hat with a stardust pen for a little sparkle. I also used my nestabilities for the sentiment which is popped up on foam dots. Finished with a ribbon! I still think he's adorable and I see myself using the stamps from this set, and especially this sentiment, a lot! Have a great day!

p.s. thanks for all the nice comments on my Lilac card...I have to say that it's one of my current fav's.

For a Big Birthday

My husband has a cousin who is celebrating a big birthday this weekend, much to her surprise, so I wanted to make her a special card. I though for this one it should be elegant instead of whimsical...see I can do both! Anyway, rather than my usual color it and see what paper I have to coordinate, I picked all of my patterned paper first. The layout of this card I picked up from Pam (4hounds) at Indigo Studio. She creates the most beautiful layered and 3D flower images. I stamped the large flowers, all images from SU! Delight in Life, in Versa Magic Aegean Blue and all the small flowers in VM Jumbo Java. The two flowers are stamped on the same KandCo. paper...the red polka dot is the reverse. I cut them out and added brads, the large ones from Making Memories. The sentiment is stamped in Memories Artprint Brown, on cream cardstock and layered on more polka dot pp using my Nestabilities. It is matted on additional KandCo. paper and the flowers were popped up all around it. The edges of the flowers and panels are sponged with the Artprint brown too. The ribbon is through a slide from the SU! Hodgepodge hardware collection. It turned out to be a really large card, six by six square and the their is quite a bit of dimension...I guess I have to put it in a box! How does everyone else package these large cards? If you have any clever ideas please let me know, thanks!!