Good Times!!

Another throw back to cards from the beginning. The card and all the flowers were designed on my favorite tool, my handy dandy cricut!! Very fun.

Have a great day and keep crafting!!

Krafty Dads

365 Challenge: #59 - Feeling Krafty

Simple challenge this time, to use kraft paper, which I am already a huge fan of. Here is my result!!

For: Fathers Day card for my Uncle.

Materials: Paper by Jillian soup, Stickers by kraft kuts, blank card by Recollections.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Strawberries- All Natural

365 Challenge: #51 - Card Recipe

This challenge was so much fun to do. I really love doing a challenge like this. Here are the ingrediants for the card.

4x4 card Twine 3 Buttons Stamped image (rubber or digi) 1 piece of patterned paper Sentiment

And here is my result!

For: A birthday card for my grandmother (Kind of a theme today.)

Materials: Paper- chilled strawberry soup.by jillibean soup, Ribbon by martha stewert, Stickers by Kraft kuts, Stamp byinkadinkado, Buttons by k&co

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

365 Challenge - Sketches!

365 Challenge: #55 Super Sketchy Sunday Here is the sketch I based this card on! And here is the result!! For: This was a Father's Day card for my Grandfather. It went over rather well. :)

Materials: Paper is green stripe by recollections, green sticker and one blank card by Recollections.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!!

Fancy Folds

365 Challenge: #45 - Fancy Triangle Tri-Fold Card

This Challenge was to fold the paper in a Tri-Fold, something I have never done before. Here is the example they gave.

It was fun to try, but probably not a technique I will continue to use. IT takes a lot of time.

For: My grandfather's ("Papa") birthday!

Materials: Paper is green argyle by recollections , Green and white cardstock, Black sticker letters

And here is my final result!!!

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Yummy Cupcakes

365 Challenge: #53, Ad Inspired

Here is the picture used to inspire this card.

For: My Cousins birthday!! It went with a fun present of things to help her out in her new dorm room.

Materials: Paper by Recollections -"Light Pink Dots"; Stickers -"Sweet" by DCVW

Have a great day, and keep crafting!!

Birthday Coffee!!

This card is one I made for my aunt for her birthday back in May. It is inspired by the 365 Challenge #58 - Subliminal Messaging

Materials: The paper is by jillibean called "pinch salt garlic" and the stickers are by Lifes Little Occasions. I also used a blank card by Reflections as a base.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!!!

Butterfly Friends

Good morning all! I hope you guys are having a happy Wednesday! This card is 365 Cards Challenge number 96.

This challenge starts with an ad from which you take your inspiration. This was the ad. Now I want a coke too. :-) I loved the butterflies. Here is my result!

(This picture was taken at Lithia Park while on vacation in Ashland, Oregon this summer. It makes for amazing shots!!)

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Baby Elephants

Still fixing up the craft area, it's getting close to finished, but since we're working on the rest of the house too, it's slow moving. School is coming to an end, and summer is quickly approaching, which for me means lots of free time, and lots of crafts with the little one. I can't wait to start posting those too!! Today's 365 challenge was to make a card that is asymmetrical. Inspired by a ADORABLE baby I saw at Virginia's gymnastics practice. With babies on the brain, I came up with this. The paper is by Renae's House, the sticker by DCWV and the blank card it's all on is by Recollections. I had a blast, as always, these challenges are so much fun. I haven't had many kitty pictures lately. We got a cat door for the balcony, and they have been spending most of their time laying in the sun watching the birds. hopefully I'll have more pictures soon! Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Super Sketch Week!! Yay!

Today on the challenge they announced a Seven Sketches Week!! I'm so excited. Sketches are my favorite kind of challenge. Here was todays sketch.

I actually took the sketch and flipped it around. It worked better for this paper. Here it is!

The paper is by BoBunny. The Love is spelt out in scrabble tiles that I picked up at a second hand store. The ribbon was a gift from another etsy artist. The newsprint flower is by Recollections and the strips are cut out from the same dictionary that I used in the last card. Had a lot of fun doing this one.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Girls can do anything!

Todays 365 challenge was to take inspiration from Rosie, the spokeswoman and motivation for the Womens Liberation Movement.

I thought I would usse a more modern take on our beloved Rosie though. Todays women express our independence and strenth in many different ways, whether it's through tattoos (which are still thought of as a guy thing) piercings, or taking the traditional "girlie" pink, and adding skulls and black to it.

I was super excited to find this vellum quote (by DCVW), that went perfectly with my idea. :) The paper is by and the stamp is actually a halloween stamp by Indadinkado.

Today, the day before mothers day, I'd like to salute all women out there, who do any little thing to celebrate their own indapendence, and strength.

Have a great day ladies, and keep crafting.

Unicorns

I've been getting a little swamped trying to catch up with all the cards I missed. I decided instead to take the route I did when I started this challenge, and post each days challenge as they come, and do the catch-up cards when I have extra time. So, on that note: here is todays challenge! Ok, well its actually yesterdays challenge, but todays wasn't posted yet when I sat to this. This challenge was to somehow use a mythical creature. I bought a dictionary recently that had been published in the 40's. I finally got to use it! I found several pages that had creatures that I thought would be cool, but when I found the unicorn one I got really excited. The picture was too perfect! The printed ribbon on the side is made by Jim Holtz and the believe quote is a sticker made by dcwv. I was very happy with this card!

(Foot note- 5/9/11) This was also Mothers Day card for my mom, who loved unicorns while we were growing up, and who fueled my belief in faieries, trollls, goblins, Santa Claus, unicorns, princesses, and happily ever after. Thanks Mom!

Fierce Kitty

Day 7's challenge is a crack up. It is inspired by the word "fierce". I had a great time making the card, and then I ended up with the perfect picture.

Such a blast!! Felix curled up, and posed so perfectly!!!

Have a great day and keep crafting!!

Gears and Flowers

Skipping around a bit for this one, I thought I would show off two more cards with my newsprint flowers and tissue tape. These also fufill two challenges, though not consecutive ones. But, I thought, who cares!! :-) So here we go!!!

The first challenge is for Day 6, which was a sketch. Here is the sketch.

I used more of the tissue tape by Jim Holtz. The gears are also by Jim Holtz. This style started as an attempt at steampunk, and though it turned out to not quite be steampunk, I loved the result.

It was a lot of fun to make. This next one is for Day 10. The challenge was to mimic a trend that you are seeing online or in magazines. I made a second attempt at Steampunk, and this time it came out much better. I loved it!

I used alll the same materials as the last one, but this time I added some distressing by Jim Holtz. I really liked the result.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Day 2- Pick 5

Day 2 challenge was to have one of each of these 5 elements: 1. Favorite color (Purple) 2. Favorite design technique (Stamp) 3. Favorite embellie (Bee) 4. Least favorite color (Orange) 5. Favorite card size (dimensions) (5.5x6) I love using bees, because they are my moms favorite. This was a practice for her birthday.

The card, as always is by Reflections, the bee a download(or digital stamp) from Heartsong, the Thank You stamp is by Stampendous. I'm afraid I lost track of who created the orange paper, I will post that as soon as I find it. :)

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

ABCDEFGHI..MNO?

The challenge is MNO today. I swear I didn't skip a challenge. It was Pam at 365 I swear! I really liked this challenge though. Here is the link! http://bit.ly/e9RUA5 M - Markers N- Numbers O- Orange Yesterdays shopping trip was very fruitful. I hit both Joanns and Michaels and speant... well, more than I should of. But I got a lot of paper and stickers and cards for future projects, including stuff for the projects that I missed. I made a couple last night, but I'm saving the posts for the weekend, hoping I'll have more time to type then. I also started on my card for today last night. Turns out they post it at midnight, and since I was up, I got a head start. I finished the rest this afternoon though. Here it is! More Butterflies as promised. :) The green paper is scraps that I had in stock. The sticker border is by and the stamp is by Inkadinkado. (That name cracks me up.) I colored in the stamp in the middle, with my markers. It took much longer than I expected, and it's so rewarding when it comes out this nice. The letters I cut out with my cricut which, thankfully, is working again! Yay!!!

Cat Corner "Must...Get...Mouse..." -Felix

Have a great day, and keep crafting!

Happy 23!!!!

This is card 23 of the 365 card challenge! Here is the link!

http://bit.ly/gmxipX

The challenge was g, h, and i of the alphabet:

G- grossgrain

H-heart

I-ink

Here is what I came up with!

I think I went a little crazy with the ink.. but other than that, I like this card. The paper is from a 4.5x6.5 pad called Latte Matstack by DCWV. There are some really neat patterns in there. I'll be using it a lot. The stamps are called All You Need is Love by Inkadinkado. The stickers (yet another part of my V-day gift from Tony) are by Me and My Big Ideas. I'm heading out to the craft stores now. Have a great day all, and keep crafting!

Day 22 - D-E-F of Cards!

Todays challenge was another alphabet one using the letters d,e, and f.

D- distressed

E- envelope

F- fringe

Here is the link:

http://bit.ly/hCiaZV

I hadn't done anything distressed yet, so this was a whole new technique. It turned out to be really easy, and it looks so cool! I'm sure you will be seing more of this in the future!

This is also the begining of several butterfly cards. A friend of mine loves butterflies, and her birthday is coming up, so I will be experimenting with them to get ready!

Cat Corner

Day 21-Laugh

Today's Card challenge was an abc challenge. The instructions were to use the three elements starting with the first three letters of the alphabet: A-Alphabet stickers or stamps B-Blue C-Circles Here is the link http://365cards.blogspot.com/2011/03/day-21-abcs-of-crafting-abc.html I had never seen a challenge like this. It was so goofy. I managed to get all three elements into the card. I may try to make a live and a love card as well. They would be a great combo set! Have a great day and keep crafting!

Day 20 - Joy of Travel

Sundays are sketch days! I have now officially completed one week of cards! This is the sketch that was the challenge.

http://http//365cards.blogspot.com/2011/03/day-20-super-sketchy-sunday.html

I had a some great travel paper packed away that I decided to use. The joy sticker is by K&Company.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!