Sunny birthday card

Oh happy sunny afternoon!

The thermometer in my car was reading at 105 today!

Wow!!! It's Hot!!!

God sure knew when he made the earth just how far away from that big Sun we needed to be!

Sometimes I think maybe I'm just on the wrong part of the earth though!

Ha ha ha

So I was commissioned to make this fab card!

A fun birthday card with some fabulous new Heidi Grace papers.

All of them from a 6 x 6 pad!

Don't you just love those little bundles of fabulousness?

I colored up this fun image from Dilly Beans, (that I've had forever!)

and then I added the glitter embossing to the bow

and matted her on a scrap, and one of those new pieces of paper.

Here's her close up

The sentiments are epoxy stickers from Heidi Grace as well.

It's such a happy and fun card!

I hope it brightens the day for my friend's friend all the way in Wisconsin!



Docerela: sun

Dilly beans: celebrations

Alphabet challenge: glitter or gems

Sketch Saturday: challenge 258

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Little papers

Clear it out: 2 or more patterned papers

Dilly beans for mom

I've been on a run lately...

and most likely you'll be sick of looking at my Mother's Day cards

but I have yet another to share with you.

This one is actually for my own mom

She just loves fuschia, and I know she'll love all the flowers on this girl!

The image is from Dilly Beans, and I've colored her up with my copic markers

Here's her close up

       

Can you see that I added some perfect pearls to her eyes??  I haven't pulled those out in a while!

Linking up with:

Tuesday morning sketch: challenge 197

Dilly beans: For Mom

Pile it on: For mother

Shopping our stash: Mothers day or Pink (mine's both!)

Dilly beans ATC

Sooo I said I was busy in the craft room yesterday, and I wasn't joshin ya!

This little offering is an ATC I made for the Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge

which is mythical creatures...

The image is of course from the super talented Megan at  Dilly Beans who was

gracious enough to work with me when I totally screwed up my order there this week

(thanks again Megan if you're reading!)

Ok, so on to the ATC, I started with a 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" piece of white cardstock

I then used my new distress stains to ink it up mostly blue with a little bit of green!

(The challenge at Fussy and Fancy is feeling blue!)

I painted on some seaweed, and stamped the "keep swimming" on the bottom

This saying is totally me right now!  I feel like I just have to keep on keepin on!

Or like the duck that looks all calm but is really paddling like all get out under the water!

Oy, anyways, so the challenge of mythical creatures sorta stumped me

well it stumped me cause other than the elf with his tush stickin out I didn't really have anything mythical

So I got in on the 40% special at Dilly Beans (it's now 30% off through the etsy store use code BLACKFRIDAY30 and it's good til Monday)

So I colored up the mermaid, and then I used my glitter glue on her tail to make it look

more like fishy scales. 

Don't you just love her??  My new moto!

Entering this into:

Dilly Beans: Anything Goes

Wicked Wednesdays ATC challenge: Mythical Creature

Fussy and Fancy Fridays: Feeling Blue

A yellow thank you

Just a quick yellow post this afternoon as I am 

Headed back not the studio for more creating!

Yellow, oh sweet yellow... My favorite color!

I know it's a little odd, but it's always happy, 

Never pretentious, and looks fabulous on its own too!

Today I whipped up this little ATC, using my yellows (and maybe some orange!)

The little flower digi stamp is from dilly beans,

The yellow inspiration from (pin)spirational challenges, 

And of course the ATC is for wicked Wednesdays challenge!

I love grouping them all together! 

I can guarantee some more thank you's in the near future! 

Entering this into: 

Wicked Wednesday: Be thankful

(Pin)spirational challenges: Challenge 33

Dilly beans challenge: Thanks challenge

Simon says stamp challenge: Thanksgiving/ thank you

Thinking of you!

Hello lovely blogger friends!

I apologize for the brief hiatus!

Mom and dad flew into Phoenix on Saturday, and we've been going going ever since!

Today mom and I were able to spend some time in the craft room!

I always love miss Megan's creations at Dilly Beans

Her drawings are just fabulous!

This is a close up of one of her girls... All colored up and on this

Fun card I made for my sister in Pennsylvania

Here is the whole card... I just love that polka dot card!

Which by the way I've had in my stash for about three years!

I may covet them a little!!

I'm also playing along with the challenge over at 365 cards

Which is thrifty! Use something you've had in your stash for over a year... The cards, and also something you got on sale... This is silly for me! As I buy only on sale!!

I added the thinking of you sentiment

And the burlap die cut heart!

Here is another close up!

So I hope you've had a great week! Tonight mom and I are off to meet with

My art group for a make and take!

Also entering this into the thinking of you challenge at Simon says stamp stamp challenge

31 Days of Halloween: Day 20

Wow, only 11 days till Halloween.

This month is just flying by! 

I have been getting back into my running the last few days, and so I haven't had as much time for crafting.

Don't despair, I have a fun offering for today! 

I appologize ahead of time for the  pictures,

this product is hard to photograph!  But it's one of my most favorite products and techniques to use!

That's right, you've all seen it before (and you'll see it again!)

It's the aluminum tape at work again!

This time I dry embossed it using Tim Holtz gears embossing folder.

I then put the tape on the tag.  Then I used my alcohol inks in plum and green

(sorry I forget which one I have)

to add some color to the tag... then I ran the tag lightly across my staz-on black ink pad

this just picks up parts of the gears and highlights them!

Ok, enough talk... here's the tag!

I used a pretty image from Dilly Beans, and I'm gonna play along with their Cute and Creepy challenge

I colored her up using my copics and prismacolor markers.

I then added some glossy accents to the hearts

Here's her close up...

Isn't she lovely?  The hearts were die cut using a Sizzix die cut that I rescently got.

I added a little doily behing for some interest, and I distressed that using my peeled paint distress ink pad.

I am also playing along with Cut it Up Challenges: Eek, boo, ahh  Halloween.

The BOO is grungeboard letters that I painted first, and then covered in the glitter! 

I LOVE glitter! Kitty even had some glitter on his face today from playing in the craft room with me!

I'm also playing along with Alphabet Challenge Blog: Anything Spooky (or not?)

And Anything Goes Challenges: Make your own embellishments (I think I've done quite a bit of that!)

Bearly Mine Challenges: #57 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenges: Halloween

Desert Island Crafts: Challenge 40 (Purple, punches, CASE (come back for my next post and

you'll see where!)

Diva's by Design: #57 Something Spooky

Simon Says Stamps challenge: Eerie inspiration

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Use your favorite (Can I say Aluminum tape any more???)

Tammy's scrapping cornerAnything Goes

Cute card Thursday: Got glitter?

Alright, I think maybe that's enough challenges to enter!  After all, I wanna be able to play along with some other challenges this week!  It's my long weekend (4 days) so I'm hoping to finish off some DT commitments, and get some fun posts up for you all! 

Have a great rest of the weekend! 

31 Days of Halloween: Day 13

Maybe cause its the 13th this should be a scary post??

Well the challenge over at Dilly beans is a spooky girl!
But I don't really do scary or spooky very well, so for my day 13 offering I've created
A not so spooky, maybe kinda cute ATC

To answer your question, no it's not my anniversary (still got 3 more weeks for that)

It is however the one year anniversary over at Wicked Wednesday ATC

And they have some fabulous prizes in store!

So if you've never made an ATC, or it's been a while, come join in!

I tried something a little different with this image.

I paper pieced the background. Yep, I paper pieced the background!

This image was perfect for this technique, probably because of the framing.

Here's her close up....

I added a little glitter on her wings and eyes, just because I love glitter! 

So, is she spooky?? Maybe not so much? I think she could be though...

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a new challenge at Anything But A Card 

It's gonna be a funnnnnnn project!

Entering this into:

Dilly beans: Spooky girl challenge

Wicked Wednesday ATC's: Birthday / anniversary

All sorts challenges: Too Cute to Spook

Spark your creativity now: Anything goes

31 days of Halloween: day 10

As you may know I adore the images at dilly beans! 

And while I've been preoccupied with my 31 days of Halloween, 

I still wanted to play along with the challenge this week! 

I think this fun card could be a fabulous Halloween birthday card?? 

Ok, so the challenge was to use black, pink and purple...

I had to add the green to make it a little halloweeny (is that a word?)

Anyways, I wanted to use a couple of new stamps that I picked up at Michaels this week

(On sale!!)

I also wanted to play along with cut it up challenges by using pink (and die cuts)

All those perfect circles are most certainly NOT cut by hand!!

I stamped them with one of the stamps to make them more festive

Finally here's her close up....

I added glitter for a bit more festive!!

Tomorrow is the last day of the challenge at dilly beans, so whip something up 

Real quick and come join in the fun! 

Entering into: 

Dilly beans: Black, pink, purple

Cut it up: Think pink

Fall is in the air???

I am so excited to share today's creation with you

First because I got to use a brand new die cut, and second because

It just turned out fabulous!

Soooooo, first of all I have been playing along with Designed to Color 

To celebrate their 1000th Facebook fan

Their challenge is a scavenger hunt to find a recipe for a creation..

I Love scavenger hunts... I even had one for my 17th birthday!

So I found all the items I needed to use: a colored image, at least 2 patterned papers,

Bling, twine, and some doodling.

Here's what I came up with!

Yep, it's a picture frame!

 Yesterday was half price day at the Goodwill, so I got this frame for 75 cents!

Can you see all my elements?

Why fall you say, since its105 degrees out STILL? 

Well cause that's the challenge over at Dilly beans! One of my favorite

challenges! I just love the images Megan puts out!

Here's a close up.... And my doodling element is in the stripes in the background

So we've got the colored image, the doodling, and the patterned papers (with the leaves!)

Now we need some bling and twine!

I covered these grunge paper letters with gold glitter (hubby's suggestion) and then sealed them in
with some glossy accents.... And did you notice that I sewed the center of all the leaves??
I LOVE this tattered leaves die that I picked up on clearance at Michaels!
And all of this was inspired by the challenge at Cut it Up Challenges which is
to create something from their fall inspired pictured, and of course to use something die cut!

 Just a quick reminder that a project like this would be perfect over at
Anything but a Card where the challenge is to use texture!

So a recap, this pretty frame is being entered into the challenges at:

Cut it Up

Dilly Beans

Designed to Color

Robot Love

Today is a quick post! 

I made this robot card

The robot is from Dilly Beans, and I colored him up using my copics

I colored him in my favorite color!  That's right folks, I LOVE yellow!!!

I hand drew the hearts and outlined them in black sharpie

The sentiment was supposed to be a pun (is it???)

Here's a little close up....

Entering this card into these challenges:

Dilly Beans: Robots challenge

Designed to Color: Celebrate something (in this case love!)

Card Makin Mama's: Be Punny (I tried!!!)
The Stamp man Challenge: Use Hot colors