Wild Birthday

Hello crafty friends! Today I'm sharing a quick card that I made for today's scramble challenge on the Hero Art's flickr group. The challenge was to use pink and silver on your card. After a few bloopers on a background that wouldn't dry....and many other ideas jumbling around in my head....this card came out in the last few minutes of the challenge and I LOVE IT!! I luckily receive some awesome silvery glitter embossing powder in the mail yesterday that just worked perfectly for this challenge. I embossed the Hero Arts sentiment on a tag die  from Reverse Confetti....Then die cut some vellum leaves from SSS and the butterflies from Hero Arts. Lastly I added some Basic Grey silver mettalic enamel dots.

After finishing the card...I decided I would enter this one into the latest Hero Arts challenge under their metallic birthday card group again like I did my previous card.

Enjoy your weekend!!

A Blingy Birthday

What girl doesn't like bling for their birthday...am I right? Well, for today's card...we put the bling in the card instead of the gift!

I came up with this design while laying in bed last night. I have a lot of time on my hands to think at night since the nights are long and its hard to sleep wity my hubby so far away.

I made this card for Hero Arts Birthday Challenge. They are looking for some birthday cards with some metallic added in. Well, I think I definitely hit the metallic on the head with this card...what do you think?

I stamped out  by stamping the "tiny flags" background from Hero Arts onto some black card stock with versamark and heat embossed with some Ranger super fine gold embossing powder. I then stamped the first image from Hero Arts CL758 set the same way but added silver and then gold for the "BLING" sentiment. Next I added the Happy Birthday sentiment, embossed in silver again, from Hero Arts "CL754" set after cutting it apart to fit it on one line instead of two.

Next I embellished by wadding up some silver metallic thread and adding it behind the framed sentiment and the last but not least, added some gold and silver metallic candy buttons from Basic Grey for a little more blingy bling!

I couldn't be happier with the results! 

Enjoy!

a close up of the metallic thread behind the frame

Big Hugs

Today was a great day! Any day that starts with going to church and ends with the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl has to be a winner :). Luckily between those two awesome events I was able to get a couple of cards made so I'd love to share them with you quick.

The first card was made using some of the card stock from Simon Says Stamps February card kit. I paired it up with some vellum and this beautiful thank you image I downloaded off of the Silhouette website. I'm loving the soft springy colors! What do you think?

The second card I made was more of a Valentine card. I started off with some traditional Valentine colors and used another beautiful die cut that is heart shaped from my Silhouette...and then I added a cute arrow die from Reverse Confetti, Simon Says Stamp's big "Hugs" die and then a sentiment from one of my all time favorite Avery Elle sets called "Oh Happy Day"....which totally describes today :).

I hope you enjoyed your Sunday as well and was able to create something that made your day even better!!

Sending BIG HUGS your way till next time!

Love Balloon

I love Saturdays! No one is rushing out the door. The family is all home together relaxing, enjoying one another, sleeping in...etc. Its so nice not feeling rushed, and it is especially fun to craft on days like this!

I came up with the design for today's card while laying in bed last night, surfing through some images on the Silhouette site. I thought it would be fun to use the hot air balloon image from Lawn Fawn only change it to a heart shaped balloon for Valentine's Day. I ended up using a die cut from Simon Says Stamp "Valentine Spoons" set for the heart because the size was just perfect for replacing the balloon..but the rest of the images are from Lawn Fawn's "Blue Skies' stamp and die sets.

The adorable card stocks and red pearls that I used are from Doodlebug. I don't think there's a Doodlebug design that I don't just love!

I hope you enjoyed your Saturday as much as I did...and until next time.................

Hugs!

Hello Flourish

Happy Wednesday friends! I just have to say.....I am over the moon excited with today's card!  I gotta say too that the photo just doesn't even give this card justice The colors involved are so beautiful and the camera just didn't pick them up like I had hoped it would...but what can ya do...right?

Anyway...here's my prized posession :)

I've had this Hero Arts Stamp for quite some time but just wasn't sure how to go about making it really....you know...POP! Today, while I was looking around at my stamps and trying to get some inspiration...it HIT.

I decided to stamp it on some Tim Holtz water color paper with versamark and heat emboss it with my white Hero Arts embossing powder. I then colored in the image with Distress Markers. I used several colors in the image which you could see and then blended the colors with an aquash brush.

I then fussy cut the image out and placed it onto a red pierced circle die from My Favorite Things. I then adhered that onto a cute polka dotted piece of card stock from the Doodlebug "Sweethearts" collection and added some ribbon I had on hand and some enamel dots from the same collection. The "Hello" sentiment is one that I used a few days ago from Simon Says Stamp.

I will try to take better pictures tomorrow so you can see how truly amazing the card and the colors look. But, in the mean time...I hope all is well with you and that you may find some inspiration to try something new and fun that brings you joy!

Until tomorrow......Happy Stamping :)

Love You!

Happy Tuesday friends! Just a quick card to share today made with exclusing Simon Says Stamp products and some beautiful glittery heart ribbon that I found at Costco! 

Enjoy!

Last Day of Homework :)

Today's card was inspired by a card that Jennifer McGuire made in an online card class I've been participating in. This card was made by creating my own stencil our of a die by Avery Elle....then using embossing paste by Wendy Vecchi and then covering the paste with four different colors of embossing powders. The sentiment I used is from Avery Elle and is actually from the same stamp set that Jennifer used on her card ...only she made a thank you card. And..... if you've been reading my posts you know I'm in need of Birthday cards right now, so I decided to go with a Birthday sentiment instead :)

I am just ecstatic with the results of this card...and can't wait to try this technique time and time again!

Enjoy!