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!!

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!

Flowers and Buttons

I am getting back to my challenges!! Very excited, though I know I may have a few gaps here coming up. My husband and I are both on the job search, plus getting ready for a family vacation, so life is busy!!

The challenge for today is Number 119 - Feeling Punchy. The challenge was to use a die cute and decorate it using jewels, buttons etc. I chose this cute flower I made on my Cricut.

Then I set about finding the right button for the center.

I finally decided on this yellow button.

I put it with some paper I found by sei from a series called ally's wonderland called morning glory. I finished it off with a stamp by stampendous and heres what I got!

Cat Corner

A typical morning at our house!

Spring in Bloom

Last one for today. Day 8's challenge is to create an arch card. This was something I had never done before, and it took me several cards to get the shape right, but the result was perfect. The blank card (precut) was by Recollections. The paper and stickers are all by Colorbok. I love this paper, and can't wait to more with it. I'm also really feeling the purple and orange combo after I put it together for the Pick 5 challenge. Since then I also used it on the Fierce card. Fun! Have a great day, and keep crafting!

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!!

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 19- Crush Crush Crush

This weekend was jam packed! And really nice. Unfortunetly though, I fell behind on my card challenges. So I'll be posting the weekends challenges today. I'm still splitting them into seperate posts, just because it's easier to post to the 365 site that way. Here is the link for the challenge:

http://365cards.blogspot.com/2011/03/day-19-imagine-this-crush.html

The idea was to create something that wasn't a love card, but a card about a crush. I went for a spring-feeling card that simply said you and me, instead of suggesting love. I was really happy with the result. I have had this paper by sei cut out for a while, and was unsure what to do with it. The sticker by me and my big ideas (another gift from hubby) was the perfect finishing touch.

Have a great day, and keep crafting!