Lots of Cats Birthday Card

I wanted to make a card for a friend who will be celebrating her birthday Saturday.  She just got a new kitten (and really likes cats in general), so I decided to use this adorable kitty image to make a card for her.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday #123.

I used the Mother Cat freebie from Meljen's Designs for my focal image. I colored all six cats with my prismacolor pencils.  I used a sentiment from the Feminine Birthday set at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps on the front as well.

I used one of the sentiments from the Purrfect Friend set on the inside of my card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
RRR#24 - Anything Goes
Paper Sundae's Challenge #69 (PSC69) - Birthday
Paper Pretties PWC154 - Flowers
CPC-FOF63 - Polka Dots
CPC-FOF57 - Easel Card

Supplies:
Cardstock - Bazzill, Georgia Pacific
Patterned Paper - DCWV
Stamps - Meljen's Designs (Mother Cat), Sweet 'n Sassy (Feminine Birthday, Purrfect Friend)
Embellishments - Prismacolor Pencils, buttons & flowers from my stash, DMC floss, Fiskar's Border punch (apron lace), Spellbinders (petite oval, petite scalloped oval), Offray Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Time Well Spent

When I saw Deedee's  new digi, Time Well Spent, it just "spoke" to me as we say in our family.  I think it's another one of those versatile images that can be used for many different occasions. 

After coloring the image with copics, I cut it out with my nesties and then sponged it before removing the die.  I did the same thing for the sentiment. This sentiment really makes you think.  I frequently need this reminder that God's timetable is far superior to my own and I just need to trust Him.

I used some pearl flourishes and added 3 singles pearls in the bottom left corner.  I used a metallic marker to do a little highlighting on the watch.

Here's a pic of my interior decorating.  I cut a Fancy Tags 3 in half  and placed it behind my petite scalloped oval.

I am entering it into the following challenges:
Mojo Monday 188 - sketch challenge
Paper Sundaes Challenge #66 - use at least two of the following items: yellow, pearls, sparkle, and die cuts.  I used die cuts & pearls
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #108 - Use at least 5 layers

Supplies:
Sketch - Mojo Monday #188
Cardstock - Recollections, Georgia Pacific
Patterned Paper - Cosco Cricket (Ever After), Cream/Black floral - Unknown
Stamp - Deedee's Digis (TimeWell Spent)
Ink - Colorbox Fluid Chalk (Charcoal)
Markers - Copic, AC Metallic Silver
Embellishments/Tools - Pearl Flourish (Recollections), Pearls (BG), Nestabilities (petite ovals, petite scalloped ovals, & labels 4), Fiskars Border Punch (Apron Lace)



Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Home Tweet Home

When I saw this Home Tweet Home digi at Deedee's Digis, I couldn't wait to turn it into a card.  There's just something about the two bird houses that just appealed to me.  I also tried my new gamsol technique with this image.    After I cut out the image, I sponged it with ink to tone down the white of my cardstock. This week's Mojo Monday Sketch #185 was the inspiration for the card design.  I'm also entering this card in the Really Reasonable Ribbon #21 challenge.

I used the Scripture from the set to help with my "interior decorating."

Supplies
Challenges:  Really Reasonable Ribbon #21  Mojo Monday #185,
Card base: Strathmore Bristol
Cardstock:  Georgia Pacific
Patterned Paper:  Bo Bunny (Olivia)
Stamps:  Deedee's Digis (Home Tweet Home)
Ink:  SU (Creamy Caramel)
Embellishments:  Prismacolor Pencils, gamsol, Misc ribbon, Bazzill Just the Edge, Nestabilities deckled rectangle

Time to Bloom with a Deedee's Digis Blog Hop

Spring is such a marvelous time of year! A time of warming weather, of lengthening days, and best of all, a time of vibrant colors and new life -- a time to BLOOM! Join the Deedee's Digis Design Team today as we celebrate the (almost) start of this very special season with a "Time to Bloom" blog hop! 

If this is your first stop on the hop, be sure to visit the Crafting with Deedee's Digis blog, where you will find the directions for participating in the hop, a chance to win the grand prize of a $15 credit to our store, AND a little gift for you!  Also, be sure to read to the end of my post to learn how you can have another chance to win.

For my card, I chose to use this cute little butterfly image.  If you like him, you'll definitely want to stop by the Crafting with Deedee's Digis blog.  *wink*  Since this was a special occasion, I chose to make an easel card. I just think they add such a special touch to a card.

I colored him with my Prismacolor pencils and added stickles to his wings and the flower.  I think you can see this stickles a little better in this close up picture.  I also gave him a little bling on his antenna. I used my swiss dots cuttlebug folder on the pink panel for some added texture.

Easel cards usually have the inside decorated but also to go along with this week's Happy Monday Challenge, It's the Inside that Counts, I did a little more "interior decorating" than I usually do.

I colored in the butterflies around the sentiment with my gelly roll pens.  I also used them to add faux stitches around the sentiment panel and to dot all the "i's".  

I also used several of my nesties on the interior, the same cuttlebug folder, and used a fiskars border punch.


I'm entering this card in the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge # 80.  This week's challenge is to use our treasured supplies on a card.  I LOVE my nesties, stickles & BG paper.  All of those are included on this card and it's been made for a friend.  Friends are also treasures.


Supplies:
Cardstock:  SU, Georgia Pacific
Patterned Paper:  BG
Sketch inspiration:  Mojo 180
Stamp: Joy & Blessings
Pens/Pencils:  Prismacolor pencils, Sakura Gelly Roll (pink star & green star)
Embellishments:  Ribbon - Hobby Lobby, Rhinestone - Recollections, Stickles (star dust)
Tools:  Spellbinders Nestabilities (Standard Circle Large, Lacey Circle, Deckled Rectangle Large), Fiskars border punch (apron lace), Cuttlebug embossing folder (swiss dots)

Your next stop on the hop is Tameko. I know you'll enjoy your visit with her.  She does beautiful work!

Before you leave, please be sure to leave me a comment in order to be entered to win $5 in free digis of your choice from the Deedee's Digis store! You have until 12 noon Eastern Time on Sunday to comment. I will choose a random winner then, and all winners will be announced on Monday at Crafting with Deedee's Digis -- be sure to check back then to see if you've won.  Thanks so much for joining us today, enjoy the rest of the hop, and come back soon!!  

Happy Spring!

Some Thank You Cards

I'm participating in a Thank You card swap.  I thought I would share the two cards I made for my swap.

Card #1 -Mojo Monday Sketch

I really like this line of Bo Bunny paper.  I love the colors and patterns it combines.

I also chose to decorate the interior of the card this time:

Supplies:
Sketch:  Mojo Monday 181

Card Base:  Stathmore Bristol
Cardstock:  Recollections
Patterned Paper:  Bo Bunny (Olivia)

Stamp:  Inkadinkado
Ink:  SU (Creamy Caramel), Memento (Tuxedo Black)

Tools:  Fiskars border punch (Apron Lace),  Nestabilities (Standard Circle, Lacey Circle)
Embellishments:  Ribbon-Michael's, Bazzill Just the Edge Cardstock Strips


Card #2--  Embossing Galore!

For this card I used an embossing folder to add some texture to my background.  I used heat embossing for the sentiment.  After cutting out & embossing the sentiment with my nestabilities petite oval, I sponged it with green ink before removing the die.

Supplies:
Card Base:  Stathmore Bristol
Cardstock:  SU, Georgia Pacific
Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio
Stamp:  Studio G
Ink:  Versamark, Nicole
Tools:  Fiskars border punch (Apron Lace), Cuttlebug embossing folder (Swiss Dots), Nestabilities (Petite Ovals)
Embellishments:  Ribbon-Misc, Pearls-Queen & Co., EP-Stampendous Midnight Black

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Life

Wow, can you believe the first week of the month is over?  I can't, if the rest of the year goes by as fast as last week did, we will be back to Christmas before long...........hold on now, I just got the tree down and the living room back to normal.  I prefer to take 2011 nice and slow and enjoy each and every day.  Although, I would be happy if Spring would hurry up and get here.  It would be fine by me if we just had two seasons...Spring and Summer.  Yep, I am not big on cold, gray dreary days.  Yucky weather makes for some bad mojo!



Lucky for me we have had sunshine for the last couple of days and I sat down and created this little beauty for the Mojo Monday 172 sketch. Can you believe there have been 172 of these awesome sketches so far?  Love them! This card also qualifies for the Crazy 4 Challenges (C4C69) color inspiration for this week.  The beautiful pinks/browns in the photo are amazing.

For my card I used the Verve Text Objects set.  This set has an assortment of cute, whimsical images and beautiful sentiments.  The papers used are from Basic Grey, Memory Box and Worldwin.  The sentiment was stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and the heart was stamped in Pink Colorbox ink.  To create the little heart, I stamped it on the reverse side of the dot paper (so I could see the lines) and cut it out and attached it to a scrap of ivory cardstock.  I  sponged the edges with a bit more of the pink ink to ink to tie it all in together.  I finished off the little heart with a button and some twine.



I hope that whatever you do this weekend, make it a good one!



Hugs,

Round or Square......or Both!

Whew!  I am finally rested after all of the Christmas festivities and had some time today to do a little stamping.  I always love the Round/Square Mojo Monday challenges and rarely have the time to play along.  Today, I made the time for Mojo Monday 171 and ended up with one of each.

For my roundy, I started with some print paper from the Basic Grey Curio collection and built my card around that.  I love this sentiment from the Verve Beautiful You set and felt like it was a good match for the print paper.  I tell you working with all those circles was fun, but it was nice to plop the square right up on top of them all.  I dressed this one up with some olive silk ribbon and a pretty little paper flower.  Pretty foolproof, even for me.  =)

I changed it up a bit for my square card by rounding the bottom corners and changing the circle for a fun buttony bow.  The adorable little bird is from the Gina K. Designs Winter Wings set.  I am loving this little bird so much.  I bet she sings the sweetest songs!  I colored her in with an interesting combo of R and E Copic markers (listed below) and a bit of Gold Spica pen on her wings for a bit of sparkle.    Along with the Mojo Monday challenge, I am entering this card for the Button in a Bow challenge over at StampTV. 

Thanks for the great sketches Julee!  They were a blast to work with!

Round recipe:

Stamps:  Beautiful You-Verve

Paper: PL Ivory, Bazzill Rust, Basic Grey Curio

Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa

Extras:  Silk Ribbon, Paper Flower, Standard and Lacey Circle Nesties

Square recipe:

Stamps:  Winter Wings-GKD

Paper:  PL Ivory, Papertrey Olive, Basic Grey Curio

Ink;  Memento Rich Cocoa

Extras:  Silk Ribbon, Button, Twine, Copics (E09, E11, E33, E55, R01 and R11 for the bird) (YR0000 and W1 for shading), Gold Spica Glitter Pen



Hugs,

Best Day Ever

Hi there!  I found myself with a little extra time and some new Verve stamps, so I thought the best way to break them in was by doing this week's Mojo Monday sketch.  I had made this little paper flower a couple of weeks ago using my friend Giovana's tutorial.  You can check it out here. I wasn't sure what I was going to use it on, but thought it was the perfect accent to this weeks sketch.  I cheated a bit and left off the corner accent that you see in the sketch but the frame stamp was so pretty, I couldn't cover it up.  See those cute little tendrils coming off of the flower?  I took teeny little strips of paper, spritzed them with water and wrapped them around a pencil and set them aside to dry.  When removed from the pencil, you can pull on them to stretch them out a bit if you need to.

On a scale of 1-10 this card has a scrap factor of 8. Almost everything used was scraps leftover from a previous class I taught. 

See you soon,

Friendship

Friendship:

 /ˈfrɛndʃɪp/ [frend-ship]
–noun
1.
the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship.
2.
a friendly relation or intimacy.
3.
friendly feeling or disposition.

Friendship is one of the most wonderful gifts we can ever be given. Friendships come naturally with your family members, some friendships become what they are because we share common interests with people, many people make friends as children and form friendships that last a lifetime. I will be sending this card to one of my childhood friends who is having a tough time right now.

This card was created for the Mojo Monday 76 challenge. The base cardstock is a very light aqua blue shimmer. De-lish! The print paper is from the SEI Brigeport collection. The sentiment stamp is from Stampendous and the butterfly is from Northwoods. The ribbon is from Amuse and the bling is from my stash. If you see something you like/need, you can get it here.

Happy Monday,

Mojo Monday 75

Well here it is! Better late than never. Remember, I said I was going to do them all this year. I actually had this one done the day Julee posted it, but never took the time to photograph it. I really need to get a lightbox set up so that I don't have to wait for sunny days to take pics. For this card I used the Spirograph cs from Kaisercraft. The flower is from Verve's Thankful Blossoms set. I stamped it 3 times on different pieces of the Spirograph paper and then cut and layered to the square panel. The solid cs is from Bazzill. I tied skinny twine though the button, but first I colored the twine with a Copic marker to make it match the cardstock. Finished it off with some light green Dew Drops from my stash.

hugs,

Mojo 74--What Lies Before Us

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I just love the inspiration I get from the Mojo sketches. For this card I used some of the new Bo Bunny Abbey Road print cardstock and two colors of Bazzill Dotted Swiss cs. (brown and blue). The sentiment and butterfly are both from Penny Black (one of my all time fav companies), oh you probably already knew that though. The lace trim was natural color and I needed it to be brown, so out came my Copic marker. Voila! Brown trim. I also colored the butterfly with two colors of blue Copic markers for the wings and Lt Brown for the body. I finished the card off with some Bling and a Pearl (butterflies head) from Kaisercraft. Just a bit of Stardust pen here and there for a final touch.

Oh, it's American Idol time. See you all tomorrow!

hugs to all,

Valentine Greetings--Mojo Monday #73

Wow, I love this sketch! I think it is my favorite so far. As soon as I looked at it I knew exactly what I was going to do. I know I will use it again and again. Thanks Julee!

The stamps used are from Memory Box and the print cardstocks are from the Making Memories Rouge Paperie collection. The enameled brad is from the same collection. The base cardstock is cream Bazzill and the red cardstock is from Worldwin. The wide pink ribbon is from May Arts and is really a favorite of mine to use. I stamped the birds with Espresso Adirondack ink and colored it in with a little pink on the tummys of the birds. I pulled out my Radiant Pearls (ok, I know this dates me) and colored the branch and the berries. When it was done, I decided it needed a little bling and added some tiny fingernail rhinestones to the berries. I can't wait to give this card to someone very special.

hugs,

Mojo 72 --- Showin' ya the backside!

Heck no, not my backside.....blech! However, I did create this weeks Mojo Monday card using the backside (secondary print) from 3 of the SEI Lovebirds collection cardstocks. The fronts are all springy feeling and the backs are more muted using browns and peach tones.

I really like the sketch this week, it went together pretty quickly too (only 1 hour versus all day).

The floral stamp used was from the Kim Hughes Nature Silhouettes collection. The verse stamp is from the Hero Arts Special Messages set. The dark aqua cardstock is Dotted Swiss from Bazzill. You can't see the dots on the front, but they look cool on the inside and back of the card. I used Martha's lace punch and a button and chipboard flower (covered) from my stash.

Well, I off to eat a little Maui Zowie pizza for dinner........YUM-O!

hugs,

Mojo Monday 69--Imaginations

Wow! I loved this sketch and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it as soon as I saw it. I actually started this card earlier in the week, but did not get time to put the final touches on it until last night. All of the papers are from my stash. The stamps used were from the Verve Asian Flair and Fancy Florals sets. I embossed one of the flowers from Fancy Florals with clear EP on hot pink cardstock and then cut it out and turned it into a butterfly. I embossed the bamboo image on the pink panel with clear EP as well.

For the small tiles, I stamped the image with Onyx Black Versafine ink and then attached some of Tim's Fragments to them with Glossy Accents. After they were completly dry, I trimmed the extra paper off and put them on the card with some foam tape.

I have started Mojo 70 and hope to have it uploaded before I leave for CHA on Friday.

Hugs,

Mojo Monday #68--The Eleventh Hour

Nothing like waiting until the very last minute to complete and upload a card. I really should have been named Last Minute Lucy! So this morning I went into the studio and created this card. I was inspired by the colors from Julee's sketch. All of the cardstock used was from the pile on my desk. The stamps used were all from the Verve Grateful Elegance set. I have had this set for awhile and had never used it. I have fallen in love with the little flowers! The gems are from Me and My Big Ideas and Hero Arts. The print paper is from PTI. The ovals were cut with my nesties.

Thanks for stopping by,

Mojo Monday #61

See, I really am getting caught up. Now I am only two weeks behind! Sheesh! I created this card for Julee's Mojo Monday #61 sketch. For this little lovely, I used the adorable Bouquet from Lockhart Stamp Company. I colored the flowers and cone with my Copics and then added some Diamond Stickles to the flowers and some Glossy Accents to the ribbon. The striped paper is from the Gingercake Pack from Memory Box (I think). The rest of the cardstock used was from my vast stash of Bazzill cardstock. I used the Fiskars Treading Water punch for the bottom of the red panel. I just love how it cuts the little dots in the scallops! Well I am off to the studio. See you soon.

Hugs,