Celebrating A Springy Birthday With Blog Candy

Popping in this evening with a birthday card using some fresh springtime colors.  This trio of green, honey yellow, and pink are combined with a tag embellishment for the Just-A-Scrappin challenge #4.

Card Base - Art Philosophy

5.75" Tall

Rosette - Ribbons & Rosettes

1.4" Tall (8 segments total)

Tag for Sentiment - Art Philosophy

Beige  - 1.55" Tall

Green - 1.35" Tall

The decorative border at the bottom was cut with a die from the STUNNING new Spellbinders Persian Accents.  I then added some "life" with Viva Pearl Pens.

To be entered into the drawing for the Cricut cartridge, please become a follower of my blog and leave a comment on this post.  I will use random.org to choose a winner on Sunday, April 15th.

Good luck everyone!

Just A Card Makin

Tonight I've created a card for a design team call at the Just A Scrappin' blog.  I've used one of my new fairy images to create an all purpose card to have for my next "emergency" situation.  It never hurts to have a few cards on hand for the birthdays/anniversaries/etc that pop up (seemingly) out of nowhere.  I use an awesome website (http://www.bigdates.com/) to keep track of all important dates.  But sadly there are many times I don't remember an important date until I get the email from them to remind me.  And of course by then it's too late to make a card and get it in the mail in time.

TGIF People!!!!!!!!

Wow---what a week!  I am so thankful that it's Friday today and that I only need to stay at work for five hours in order to get my full 40 for the week.  Hopefully I'll find time to go home and craft or nap instead of doing dishes or laundry.

Today I'm posting a card for the challenge over at TGF Farm Fresh Challenge Blog.  The challenge is to use a scallop somewhere on your card.  I decided to turn the whole thing into a big scallop.  I used my Gypsy to weld two scallop circles together and create the card base.

This little guy was colored with the following Copic markers:

Shirt:  YG63, YG67

Pants:  B21, B23, B26

Hair:  E13, E15, E17, E18

This is by far one of my favorite lines of stamps.  All of the characters are so cute and fun to color up.  This image is Oh Boy! Ian and is perfect for my birthday card to a little boy.

Sitting Here Thinking Of You

SIMPLE----that tends to be my style when it comes to cards.  But recently I've ventured deeper into the world of greeting cards and am loving it.  So many bloggers out there are beyond talented and their creations can really be looked at as art more-so than just a simple greeting card.  The card in my post today was "finished" according to my typical standards, but I decided to add another element to it.  Perhaps if I add one little thing at a time it won't seem so overwhelming.

This pic shows my "finished" card before the flower vine was added.

Now here is the real end product.  I think that one extra piece added quite a lot of pizzaz to this card.

The vine portion was cut with my Cricut from the Bloom Lite cartridge.  I cut two of the leaf portions below and adhered them together.

The flowers were stamped on decorative paper from a Stamps happen image (Buttercup Fairy) then popped out on the vine.

I've used Circus Tilda and placed her on a brick wall that I created myself using my Copic markers.

This card will be used for the following challenges:
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central - Anything summer - Shop HERE
Magnolia Highlites Challenge - Only paper - Shop HERE
Bling It On - A, B, C Challenge (All Paper, Butterflies, Cricut Cuts)
Copic Creations - Challenge No. 55 ~ Landscape Design!

A Pawsitively Cute Birthday Card

I've discovered Tildas!!!!!!

I have fallen head over heels for these cute little Magnolia Tildas and Edwins.  I'll be honest and tell you that I haven't posted on here because I've been so busy coloring!  Who knew at 33 years old I'd fall back in love with one of my childhood pleasures.  Granted there's certainly a difference between Copic markers and crayons, but the tranquility achieved through the action of coloring is absolutely the same.  Now that I have twenty or so images colored I am going to make an effort to actually turn them into cards.  This cute little birthday card uses the Magnolia Tilda With Puppy as well as a Stampendous stamp with little puppies.



I am entering this card in challenge #126 All About Kids on The Corrosive Challenge Blog.