Paper Pretties Monday

Good Morning!  I hope your weekend went well.  Mine wasn't as productive as I'd hoped it would be.  Saturday morning I ended up sleeping in so late and I never do this.  It renders me absolutely useless.  I can't get the energy to do anything else.  Then I had picked up an iced coffee later and it proceded to make me sick to my stomach - so not a good day.

Anyway, some of my readers usually see two posts on a Monday for me.  I stepped down from the Love to Create design team.  Although I love Jackie very much and am so happy that her challenge blog is wildly successful it's just too much for me.

So here's my one post for Monday.... Paper Pretties.  This week we're making shaped cards.

So here's my flower card with the new cute image Buttercup by ARTish.  I created this with SCAL and my Cricut.  Yes, it still works for me.  I'll never update the hardware on the Cricut so that SCAL will still work with it.  That is until I can get rid of it and get a Black Cat or whatever it's called.

Come play with us!

Supplies:
Image: Buttercup
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Creamy Caramel, Barely Banana
Copics: E29, E33, E34, E37, R02, R11, Y06, Y11, Y15, Y17, YG03, YR04, YR07
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots embossing folder
Embellishments:  green polka dot ribbon

MTME Pretty Pattern #58

** Please scroll down for the Delightful Challenges post **

Hi - thanks for coming back.  There is another fantastic Pretty Pattern (#58) posted.  My card features the beautiful images from my favorite set  -  Bee Loved....

This card also features my favorite digi papers from My Time Made Easy, Spring Abound.  I love these colors, too, and they just happen to be MTME Pretty Palette challenge colors this week.  I lucked into that one!  LOL

I hope to see you play along with us!


Supplies:
Image: Bee Loved
Paper: Spring Abound digi paper pack
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Going Gray
Copics: Y11, Y15, YG00, YG03, YG63, YG67
Tools: Cuttlebug, Floral Fantasy embossing folder
Embellishments: gray satin ribbon, button (Buttons Galore & More)
Ink: Going Gray

Delightful Challenges

Good Morning!  How are all of you doing?  Good!  I'm well, too.

Thanks for coming by to visit me for the Delightful Challenges and this week we're paper piecing.  I know there are some oops'es on my cards, but overall I'm pretty pleased with how it came out.  I kept fairly CAS and found the sketch on Mojo Monday to be perfect.

I started with the Circular Tree Background stamp and the printed it a few more times on different digi papers from the Spring Has Sprung and Pampered Pups digi paper packs.  Cut them out and then pieced accordingly.  Then I added a sentiment that I punched out with tag punches.  OK, so my bow is a bit too big, but I like it.  heehee

Supplies:
Image: Circular Tree Background, Sentiment from Missing You sentiments set
Paper: Spring has Sprung digi paper
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, White, Kraft, Always Artichoke
Tools: Scor-Pal, sm/large tag punches (SU!)
Embellishments: Natural Hemp & Linen Thread (SU!)

Just playing around....

Good Morning!  I hope everyone is doing well.  It's mid-week already, so that's a plus.  I think I know why blogger has been acting funny lately - their new look in creating blog posts is now launched.... I don't like it.  I don't mind change, but I didn't find this new way very friendly.

Anyway, I am soooo excited!!  This month's rental stamps arrived from Raisin Boat and I got some play time in last night!  I even got to play with a couple of challenges, too.  First, here's my card using the whimisical Live, Love, Laugh stamp set....

I love how the card turned out.  And yes, it's another yellow card.  This time I'm playing along with The Pink Elephant's color challenge - Yellow and the sketch is from There She Goes.

Well, this was just a quick post to share a happy card with you.  I hope you enjoy it and I hope it inspires you to check out a new favorite for me - Raisin Boat.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Live, Love, Laugh (Raisin Boat)
Ink:  Rich Cocoa (Memento), Always Artichoke, So Saffron (SU!)
Copics:  E33, E34, E37, Y11, Y15
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Barely Banana, Always Artichoke (SU!)
Paper:  Spring Flowers (SU!)
Embellishments:  ivory satin ribbon (Offray)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #143

Hello!!  Welcome to my favorite day of the week.  It's Tuesday and we have a great sketch by Kathy and Sassy Studio Designs is our sponsor so you know we're having a lot of fun!

So here's my card featuring Happy Teen from SSD....

Isn't this adorable?!  I think she's just too cute and I love love love this color combo.  When I was a kid, yellow was my favorite color and it still makes me happy!  And because the color makes me feel so happy I was thrilled to get to play along with CMC color challenge this week - Yellow!

Supplies:
Image: Happy Teen (Sassy Studio Designs)
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Barely Banana, Always Artichoke
Paper: Designer Series Certainly Celery
Copics: BG01, C5, C7, E000, E00, E30, E33, E34, R11, RV02, Y06, Y11, Y15, YG63
Tools: Cuttlebug, Blossom Tags & Accents dies
Stamps/Ink: Words from Bloom stamp set (Raisin Boat), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Embellishments: olive green grosgrain ribbon, button (Buttons Galore & More)

Paper Pretties Monday

Hi there!  Thanks for coming back.  This week at Paper Pretties Monday we've got a color challenge.  We're playing with Pink & Green.

I also combined this with Sunday Sketch & Stamp who is celebrating their birthday, so you get to pick a sketch to play with.  I also added my monthly card traders group challenge, too.  This is a crayon technique that I probably will never do again.  Do you see the flower?  Well, that's shavings from 3 different crayons in between two sheets of wax paper and then ironed.  My opinion... what a mess!  Anyway, then I used some dies to create the flower.

Supplies:
Image: Parched Piggie
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery
Copics: BG15, C5, C7, E33, RV000, RV02, RV10, RV29, W-0, W-2, Y06, Y11, YG00, YG03, YG06, YG09
Tools: Cuttlebug, flowers die, Swiss Dots embossing folder
Embellishments: brads, pink grosgrain ribbon

Love to Create #12

Good Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend - I sure did.  It was a much needed break from work.  I didn't even have to cook the whole weekend.  How cool is that?!

So let's jump into the 1st post of the day.  Love to Create Challenge #12 is an Anything Goes challenge that is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish.  You know that I am not a big fan of Anything Goes because its not much of a challenge unless you challenge yourself.  I did just that.  This time I created a card holder and matching cards....

So I found this Card Pouch tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers - very cute!  I love how this turned out.  The strawberry image is perfect to pair up with black and kraft.

Open it and inside there are 4 matching cards.  I used a sketch from The Sweet Stop (SSS#97) to create the cards.  I am also playing along with Crazy 4 Challenges to use black to make it pop.  There She Goes is sponsoring that challenge so I used sentments from TSG's Sweet Pea set.

I hope you play along with us this week - I'm sure many will!

Supplies:
Image: Strawberry Delight (Robyn's Fetish)
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Black, Kraft
Paper: B/W Gingham digi paper (ACOT)
Copics: C-5, C-7, E30, R27, R29, Y11, YG63, YG67
Tools: circle cutters (CM), Scallop circle Nesties, white gel pen, word window punch
Ink: Tuxedo Black, London Fog (Memento)
Stamps: Sentiments from Sweet Pea set (TSG)