Pink and Brown Always

I am finally getting the chance to post the anniversary card that I made for my hubby! I made this card a few months ago, as our anniversay was in August!

Anyway, here it is!!! I just love the Always set!! It is one of my favorites!! And with this color combo!!! Just love it! He loved it too! I used pretty in pink, chocolate chip, whisper white, and kraft card stock, I used the chocolate chip classic ink and the pretty in pink marker. The ribbon is 5/8 chocolate chip grossgrain. I also used the glue pad and dazzling diamonds with the heart image!! If you click on the photo to inlarge it, you can see the glitter better. I also used dimensionals to pop the heart and then the layer of pretty in pink card stock. I also used the ticket corner punch!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

Black and White Birthday

I made this birthday card for my sister in so many ways, Gaylyn! She loves anything french and anything black and white!!! The layout is from Splitcoaststampers challenge SC182. The colors are from for the color challenge CC05 from Splitcoast too! I just love this combo!! First I punched out all the scalloped squares using 2 sizes from the Cuttlebug Scallop Squares dies. I used SU's retired Carte Postal set. I stamped basic black ink on to the whisper white card stock. I also used basic black card stock and marker. I used the saying from the retired It's Your Birthday set. I also used my ticket corner punch for the saying. I then arranged all of the squares, glued them on, and then used dimensionals for the center square. And that was that! I am very pleased with the outcome!!! I hope she likes it too!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

P.S. She loved it!!! :O)

Fall Color Challenge

Here is my card for Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge #23. Loved the colors! Unfortunately I had problems with my dishwasher and did not get it uploaded in time before the challenge was over!! Oh well! I guess that is life! I still love the color combo!! Great choices!!!

I used the new Pocket Silhouettes stamp set. The colors I used were bravo burgundy, chocolate chip, so saffron, old olive, and pumpkin pie card stock. I used pumpkin pie classic ink. I also used chocolate chip and so saffron markers. The button was from the earth elements set and I tried it with linen thread and adhered it with a glue dot. I used my corner rounder, scallop edge and curly label punches. I also used the chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon!


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Precious New Baby

I made this card using Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #57 (WSC57). She has great sketch challenges every Friday!!

I used the Fun and Fast Notes stamp set from Stampin' Up! For card stock I used Close to Cocoa, Whisper White, and the retired in color Soft Sky. The dp is also retired. It is from the set called Spring Fling. ( I love this set of papers! Great colors!) I used chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon and ink. I colored the carriage with soft sky ink and a blender pen along with a certainly celery marker. I also used the dazzling diamonds and 2-way glue pen. I used the scallop edge punch and the word window punch. I used the chocolate chip marker to create the dots on the top. I also use dimensionals to pop the main image up!!


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KWERNER Color Challenge #22

Here is my card for Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge #22. This was another hard combo for me!! What do you think of my card?

I chose the set, A Beautiful Thing. I used bravo burgundy, rose red, regal rose, soft sky and whisper white card stock. I also used vellum. For ink I used soft sky and whisper white craft ink. I used the regal rose grosgrain ribbon. For a little bit of fun, I used my 2-way glue pen on the head of a silver brad and then dipped it into dazzling diamonds!!! I cut out the flowers and mounted them with dimensionals!


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Cute and Curly Thank You

This is my card for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge WSC56. Ok, so I know it is not the weekend anymore, but I started working on this card last Friday and was not able to get back to it until today!! We had one busy weekend!! I love this layout!! Thanks for a great layout Beate!

For this layout I used Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Kraft, and a tiny little bit of Kiwi Kiss card stock! I used Baja Breeze and Pink Pirouette classic ink. I used the Cute and Curly stamp set with the curly label punch! I thought this layout was perfect for it! I also used the scallop edge punch and the Boho Blossoms punch. I used the Tres Chic background in the pink pirouette too!! And for a fun touch, I added a rhinestone brad in the center of the flower!! Oh yeah...and I forgot to mention that I used dimensionals to pop up the cute and curly label!!

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Oh my!!! I Made TOP 10!!!

Oh my goodness!!!! Do I have something to tell you!!! My card from Wednesday, the one I made for Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge....made her TOP 10!!!!!! I just can not believe it!!! I am so thrilled!!! When I found out I got up from the computer and started to jump around and I had a grin from ear to ear!! My husband and my sister thought that I was crazy cause they had no idea what was going on!! :O) There were so many fantastic cards this time!!

But wait there's more.....And to make this special surprise even better...my sister-in-law (Gaylyn @ The Daily Ink) made the TOP 10 too!!! How about that!!! Here is her card!Check it out!! She did a fantastic job!!!

Thank you so much Kristina!!! You made my day, make that my weekend.....wait maybe even more than that!!! :O) If you have not gone to her site yet, what are you waiting for!!! Head on over there!! Click here to go!

Thank you to everyone who has visited my blog and to those who have left a wonderful comment too!! They all mean so much to me! It makes my day! Very encouraging!! Thank you so much!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

Birthday Hearts

I decided to try another one of the fantastic Color Inspiration challenges from Kristina Werner.

WOW! This one was hard for me!!! Definately a challenge!!! It took me a long time to come up with something that I was happy with! What do you think???

The colors for this challenge were Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red, Regal Rose, and Whisper White. I only have the two in colors for inks, so this challenge was hard. I got around that fact by using Versamark on the each different color of card stock. I stamped the hearts from Priceless and then cut then out. I layered them with dimensionals too! I stamped the saying from the retired It's Your Birthday set in kiwi kiss using my stamp-a-ma-jig to get it in the right place. I also used the scallop edge punch and the 1/16" hole punch to create a fun edge. I then tied whisper white taffeta ribbon around the top.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

Cruisin' Birthday

This is a card that I made for my nephew who turned 10!!! I thought the truck would make a fun card for him!

I used the Loads of Love stamp set along with the Punch Pals set to add the presents in the back of the truck. The saying was from the retired It's Your Birthday set. I started with chocolate chip, baja breeze, whisper white and a bit of kiwi kiss card stock. I ran the baja breeze piece through the Cuttlebug's Swiss dots embossing folder. I also used Spellbinders Nestabilites to create the ovals for the main image. I embossed the edges of the ovals too! I stamped the truck and the saying in chocolate chip. I colored the truck in with baja breeze ink, the ground with kiwi kiss ink, and a blender pen. I used a gel pen (Thanks again Beverly!!!) for the bumper and dazzling diamonds for the wheels!!! I stamped the presents and cut them out for the back of the truck. I wrapped chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon around the center and added my brads to the corners. I had already cut out a slot for the round tab. For the tab part I just stamped the saying and added the tab punched from the round tab punch! Oh yeah and I added the brads again!!!



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Butterflies and Dreams

I finally got the chance to try out one of Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenges!!! I love this color combo so I had to take a shot at it!!! Thanks Kristina!!! Here is what I came up with!!!

I used the stamp set Dreams du Jour. The color of card stock was chocolate chip, regal rose, pink pirouette, certainly celery, and very vanilla. For ink, I used chocolate chip and pink pirouette. I used certainly celery, and cameo coral markers. Ok, so I do not have a pen or ink pad in regal rose...so this was the closest color I had. I guess I am going to have to make another order to SU soon!! Since there is no pink pirouette marker, I used my the ink pad of that color and a blender pen to color in the dreams image. I wish SU made markers for the in colors!!! I used regal rose and chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon!! Love that stuff! If you look closely at the flowers, I add dazzling diamonds with the 2-way glue pen! I also used my scallop edge punch and the scallop circle punch!!

So what do you thinK!!! Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

Sweet Bella Challenges

For my card today, I used a couple different challenges!!! The layout is from Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge WSC54. The other challenge that I took on was the Splitcoast Stampers Try an New Technique Challenge for today. The challenge was Faux Dry Embossing TLC183. I have never tried this one before! It was really easy. All you need was card stock, white or vanilla ink, and classic ink that is the color of your card stock! Oh and it also helps to have a Stamp-a-ma-jig too!

For this card, I used lots of my favorite tools and papers! I started out with whisper white, pink pirouette, kiwi kiss, and riding hood red card stock. I use Bella Rose dsp. The two stamp sets I used were Always and Dreams du Jour. First stamped the bird in white ink and then in riding hood red a little off center and to the right to give it the faux embossed look. I created the scallops around the circle with my scallop circle and 1 1/4 circle punches. I added 2 silver brads and paper pierced the edge with my tool and the mat pack. I stamped the saying in riding hood red, then paper pierced it, and layered it with dimensionals to the other cs. I also used kiwi kiss ink on the kiwi kiss cs in the background, but the circle covers that up!


I had fun learning a new technique today! Hope you learned something new today too! Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

I Love Your Blog Award!

I received this award from a friend and fellow blogger, Beverly at Beestamper. Thank you so much Beverly! If you have not been to her site, you need to go!!! She is very talented!!!




I now need to send this to other bloggers!!! I always have such a hard time picking who to send these things to! There are so many wonderful blogs out there!!! Here they are...

• Gaylyn ~ The Daily Ink
• Richelle ~ Ladybug Spots
• Angie ~ Angie's Crafting Palace

If you have already received this, just know that you are loved again!!! :O)

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

Baby Shower Card and Onesies

I love the new baja breeze ribbon from Stampin' Up! And I love this combo... Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, and Close to Cocoa. I made this card for a friend's baby shower!

The stamp sets I used were Fun & Fast Notes and Riveted (which is retired). For inks I used Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, and Chocolate Chip. And for card stock I used Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Close to Cocoa, and Whisper White. This was my first chance to use some of the new designer paper from the catalog. It's called Bella Rose. For the main image, I used the blender pen with the Baja Breeze and Kiwi Kiss and then the white gel pen. I used the ticket corner punch and then used dimensionals to layer it onto the other layers. I created the saying by using the 1 1/4 and the 1 3/8 circle punches! I also cut out the circle for the diaper pin and attached it with another dimensional. For the rest of the card I used the 1 3/8 square punch and punched out squares from the Bella Rose dp and Baja Breeze (embossed with Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots folder). I attached those to the close to cocoa cs. I also added the new Baja Breeze striped ribbon!

Sorry about the bad picture, but I also wanted to show you the onesies that I stamped for part of the gift!!! I took this right before I ran out the door for the shower because I forgot to take a picture earlier. Anyway, I used the Bugs and Kisses set and Best Friends Alphabet Lower (retired). I used burnt umber and water lily green Palette Hybrid ink (not from SU). Before I started stamping on them, I washed them and then put them in the dryer with no fabric softner. From what I read this part is important. On the first one I stamped the little one's name along with some bugs. I also stamped some ants on the sleeves on both of them. You can't really see the other one, (sorry!!) but I stamped three of the bugs and the then the saying "bugs and kisses" underneath them. On the back of both of the onesies, I stamped the saying "Cute as a Bug" from the same set!!! I also heat set them in the dryer for 15 minutes to set the ink. I tied them up with the baja breeze striped ribbon.

Love that baja breeze striped ribbon!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

Western Night

This is my first attempt at a Brayered sky with my new brayer. What do you think? I tried to follow the tutorials from Michelle Zindorf at Freedom in Creating. If you have not checked her out, you should! She is amazing!!! She has a tutorial for each card she creates!

I also use Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge SC189 for the layout!

This was really fun and I look forward to trying this technique again! I used the Bronc Buster stamp set. I used blue bayou, whisper white, and basic black card stock. For inks, I used basic black, soft sky, and blue bayou.

I first stamped the cowboy and horse stamp and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then punched out a circle from scrap paper with my 1 3/8 circle punch and attached it with my 2-way glue pen to create the moon. I waited until the glue was clear so that I would be able to take off the scrap when I was done and it would leave a white circle. Anyway...then I used the brayer starting off with soft sky and then adding the blue bayou to the top. I also ripped some scraps to create the ground and then used the brayer with basic black. I sponged the edges all round the picture. I think I got a little carried away with sponging around the dust area. :O) Then I layered it onto the other card stock! I ran the edges of the card in the basic black for another element!

So what do you think? This was really fun!!! I am going to have to try it again!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!!

A Few Cards by My Mother-In-Law!!

These are a few cards that my mother-in-law made while she was at my house the other day that I wanted to share with you all!!! Didn't she do a fantastic job!!!

The first one she made was "CASEd" (Copy And Share with Everyone) from my uplines upline, Debbie!!! She changed the colors and the saying! She used the Bloomin' Beautiful set along with the retired It's Your Birthday set and the linen background stamp. The colors she used for card stock were wild wasabi, chocolate chip, and whisper white. She used chocolate chip and wild wasabi ink. She colored the flower in using the blender pen and the watercolor pencils. She added a bit of dazzling diamonds on the flower. She used the ticket corner punch and the cutter kit to rough up the edges too! She finished it of with the wild wasabi striped ribbon!

The second card she made was for my husband and me!! It was for our anniversary which was last week!!! We have been married for 8 years!! She used Wanted, Polka Dots and Paisleys, and the Fast and Fun Notes stamp sets. She used Pixie Pink, Pretty in Pink, and Whisper White card stock. For ink, she used cameo coral, chocolate chip, and pixie pink. She also used the new scallop edge punch, the scallop circle punch and the word window punch. The ribbon is pretty in pink 1/4" grosgrain ribbon. I love how she created the one scallop circle with the rock-n-roll technique and the rhinestone in the middle! She also used the Cuttlebug embossing folder called D'vine Swirl.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very creative day!!! Oh and any comments are appreciated and I will pass them along to my mother-in-law!!! :O)