BOO!

Hello Peeps,

I told you earlier how much I love love love Fall! I wasn't kiddin, as you'll witness first hand throughout the next few months! And of course, along with Fall, comes Halloween! YAY! I can't tell you how much I love Halloween too! The ghosts, scarecrows, goblins, bats, and CANDY....I love me some candy! Just ask anyone who knows me :). 

Anywho, today's card is my first try at a Halloween card. My seven year old crafter in training helped Mommy put this card together. 

Isn't it BOOTIFUL?  HEHE! First off we punched out a bunch of little batties with the fiskars bat punch. Then we cut some orange card stock and some of the new Doodle Bug "Halloween Parade" card stock for the background...so adorable! We then die cut the "boo!" sentiment out of the Lawn Cuts "Quinn's abc's" die set. I added some black and white twine and a black felt flower with  few orange and black blingies on the side :). I then added a little washi tape for interest in black and orange with white pokie dots...just for a little sumpin extra :). Me likey....do you? ENJOY!!

 

Pinspired Challenge #16

Howdy Fellow Stampers and Friends :)

I had so much fun creating and winning with my last card for Pinspired Challenge #15......that I decided to give it another go! I love the pin that was used to inspire Challenge #16. It is full of lost of colorful blossoms, green leaves, and gold lettering. The colors just go together so beautifully on the minty green background. What do you think?

This is the card that was inspired by the pin:

The background of this card was created using TIm Holtz Distress inks in Antique Linen, Old Paper, Mowed lawn, and mustard seed. The sentiment was then embossed with gold embossing powder. After that was done I started stamping the flowers and leaves.....which were from the Simon Says Stamp "Life is a Journey" set that came in the September Card Making Kit. There was also one more flower stamp I used for the yellow flowers that came from the Paper Smooches "Bold Blooms" set. The flowers and leaves were all stamped with various memento inks except for the yellow flowers which were stamped with the Hero Arts Mid Shadow Ink in "Butter Bar" I then added some lemonade twine to the card and some clear "Wink of Stella" to the flowers, as well as some detail with my Uniball white gel pen to the center of the flowers.

This was my third attempt at this card...the first attempt was a little lighter (below). I loved how it turned out as well but felt like it needed a little more and a cleaner look. Enjoy :)

I ❤ FALL

Out of all the seasons....Fall has to be my absolute favorite!! I love the colors of the leaves as they change and fall to the ground. I love the smells of apples, cinnamon, pumpkin, etc. I just love to cook in the fall the most. The weather is perfect for making soups, chili, casseroles, and more! And of course,  I just adore the scarecrows, sunflowers, pumpkins, and everything else that has to do with the season! Yep...I absolutely, without question, ❤ fall most of all!!

So if you haven't figured it out yet, this is my first of I hope many fall cards. I started off with a sunflower of course. I adore sunflowers....I always have. Where I grew up there wasn't very many of them around and I'm not sure why...... but I loved them so much that I always wanted to live in a house surrounded  them when I grew up! I know what you're thinking....does she? Sad to say, but nope I don't. But, I do have many decorative sunflowers on the inside of my home instead and that'll have to do for now.

Today's card was made using the " Splendid Sunflower" stamp and die set from My Favorite Tnings. I used hero arts mid tone shadow inks in butter bar and cup o' joe for the flower. For the leaves and stems I used bamboo leaves memento ink and for the sentiment I used versamark ink and Hero Arts white embossing powder. I then covered the center of to sunflower with Wink of Stella's clear glitter pen as well as parts of the leaves. And last but not least, I added some Lawn Fawn lemonade twine and popped the card up with my 3d adhesives. 

Happy Fall Y'All..... Enjoy :)

Mama Elephant Challenge

Hello peeps :).... Today I bring you a card that I made for the August Mama Elephant challenge. This is the picture that was posted as inspiration for this challenge ....

What a great photo just popping with inspiration. There were so many ways I could take this card. I only own one Mama Elephant stamp set unfortunately, so the trick was trying to find a way to incorporate the stamp set I had, which really has nothing to do with this photo. As for the colors in the photo....love them!! I admit.....it took me a few days of extreme thought to finally come up with my card design. I focused mainly on the colors and the patterned pillows. I decided to have my copic-colored/stamped character float down from a rain-covered  sky (accented with my clear "Wink of Stella glitter pen of course) with an umbrella ......falling onto a pile of fluffy pillows! I also die cut three squares on the side and added the same patterned pillows into the squares and then I tied some black and white twine bows next to each one ( this was an afterthought pop of imagination that hit me in my sleep). What do you think? ......Enjoy!!

AEI❤U

Howdy friends and fellow stampers. How's your weekend going? Mine has just been a fun day of cleaning and crafting with my family around...I'm loving life right now with the whole family under one roof!!

Today's card was made for the Avery Elle AEI❤U challenge. With this challenge....you are given a sketch and are free to make of it what you will. This my friends.......is the sketch....

And this is what I made of it :). 

I used the "Petals and Stems" set for the flowers and used the matching dies to cut them out. I stamped the sentiment with the "Oh Happy Day" set. I just love the handwriting on this set....so cute!!! I used Hero Arts mid tone shadow inks in peach, pale tomato, mint, and tide pool. I also used coordinating pool notecards, layering papers, pearls, and ribbon on the card then used some various other cardstock I had laying around as well.

Can I just tell you that I have become a 'Wink of Stella"-aholic? I can't make a card without it now! My cards just seem so plain and as if something is missing until I use it. So, I added it to the center of the flowers on this card as well as the leaves and the sentiment. It just adds that perfect sumpin-sumpin that just makes your card pop! I then still felt like it needed a little more so I added two layers of dash lines with my white gel pen but still......something just didn't look right on the right side, so I added a couple large white pearls to just fill in that empty space.......and voila! I LOVE IT!!  It actually reminds me of my i-Pad  cover that I showed on a previous post (you can find it here) where I talked about shabby-chic and how much I love it! It wasn't even intended at all but doesn't this card look a lot like my cover? HEHE!! 

I so appreciate all your patience as I work on my blog. I'm new to this whole "blogging" thingy (holy cow how things have changed) and am trying to make it work and look better for y'all with the help of my 19 year old who is extremely busy...lol!   But in the meantime know I love ya and appreciate every page view and comment.....  ENJOY :)

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Pinspired Challenge

Just a quick post to show you the card I made for the Pinspired Challenge. The pin that was used to inspire was this one:

The Card I created from this pin looks like this:

Not too shabby...I'm really happy with how it turned out..... Enjoy!