Today’s card is for an overly stressed friend who is attempting to do everything for everyone in her life. I decided to pull out my SU stamp set “Giggle Greetings”. I cut apart the sentiments from the main image and my inside sentiment reads…’and sometimes it’s just the pits’. I think this will fit my friend as well as the challenge for The Sisterhood of Crafters Patterned Paper challenge. My cherry paper is from my stash and I believe it was GKD. I always enjoy triple time stamping technique so opted to triple my patterned paper which is layered on black and then offset a bit. The card base is “cherry red”, too! I do believe after enjoying a slice of cherry pie on Saturday that I must be stuck on cherries!!

Tomorrow is faschnaut day in Pennyslvania and Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I’ve been to New Orleans but not during Mardi Gras but I have many memories of my grandmother making the faschnaut donuts. My job was to deliver them to neighbors and collect a little bit of money for her hard work. The challenge at Sunday Stamps is Bright Colors and the color seen below immediately reminded me of Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, gold. Using Distress Inks in wilted violet and pine needles which were sponged onto my white cardstock, then placed my stencil by Buddy Bonnie on top and inked with VersaMark then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The black soot distress ink was applied over the entire image and then buffed off.

Double D’s Challenge is to include the saying “HELLO” so I used the new Hello scripty die from Gina K Designs and cut out from the colored panel and then multiple times and layered and inserted back into the die opening. I added some bright yellow cardstock and stamped Concord & 9th Dahlia Turnabout Friend sentiment on the bright yellow cardstock. Added a few sequins and a purple gem stone in the “h” loop.

Thanks for looking and have a great day! Happy Faschnaut Day and have a doughnut before Lent begins.

Playing along with the As You See It Challenge #219 Sketch Challenge – Hive:

Normally I would follow the sketch to the “T” but am using a little artistic license or just going rogue today. My “hive” is created with the die cut letter HI but I believe the rest of the card fits the sketch. (Card #1 with a bee hive was a fail but I may send it one of the grandkids anyway. Back to business — The letter dies are Momenta, my bee and sentiment are from GKD’s Cute As A Bug stamp set, some markers and colored pencils, Nuvo Glitter Gloss and Ranger Glossy Accents for the wings, GKD patterned paper and cardstock and Cuttlebug Honeycomb embossing folder.

The Dies R Us Challenge is entitled Wild Things and to include animals in our card project. I picked up a Jordan Caderao Sizzix thinlits die which includes a giraffe, lion and elephant so I decided to make a little jungle scene. The jungle foilage is a MyHero Arts kit die as is the bird, the background was created using my clouds stencil by our Buddy Bonnie, and the lion and giraffe were from the Sizzix set. Thankfully the tiny little pieces for the nose, eyes, etc were labeled as to which animal it belongs.

Thanks for another fun challenge from Dies R Us.

My card today feels like it should belong to Alice and the Mad Hatters’ Tea Party. I am a tea drinker but my tea cups and teapot choices are very limited in my stamps so I decided to follow my Buddie Gerry’s advice and google some coloring pages. The cups image was lightly colored and then fussy cut applied with some foam dots to my shaker window. In addition to the hot drinks challenge at ModSquad Challenge we also needed to make it a shaker and add stickers. My shaker was cut out using Waffle Flowers A2 dies and in addition to the transparency acetate layer I also included light green glitter tulle for my variety of sequins and gems to shake. My sentiment is Artful Inkables “warm drinks for a cold day” stamps set on purple and die cut using a spellbinder’s labels 14 die. Cardstock is GKD’s fresh asparagus. It’s really a lot of green going on for this card, isn’t it? Looking at it now I wish I would have thought to run it through an embossing folder to add a little more interest to the card. By the way my stickers were given to me from my son. He wanted to contribute to my stash and gave me a supply of some puffy stickers and letters, etc. He’s so sweet!

Time to clean up Valentine’s Day stash of goodies and pull out Spring goodies!! Have a great day. Thanks for stopping in!

Black, Gold, Cream color challenge is going on over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog. Giving me colors to work with should have helped with the process however after deep 6-ing my first attempt, I believe I’m ok with this card. Not completely sold on it but I love the patterned paper which is DCWV The Mariposa Stack and then I wanted to try out my new find on clearance a Spellbinder’s Wreath Shapeabilities die, too. So I stamped and gold embossed the black panel with SU’s Pretty Petals background stamp and used Sugar Pea for Stamp of Approval sentiment and the die cut word to complete my card.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

I don’t pull out the perfect pearls often but the ModSquad Challenge for this week was to use them on our project. Not sure what was happening on their site but the challenge was posted then missing then posted then missing and now finally posted! Thank goodness I wasn’t imagining this challenge.

Anyway on today’s card I used SU’s From The Garden background stamp which was stamped in versamark then brushed on my perfect pearls. Using the Waffle Flower A2 layering die set I was able to make some frames and added dimension on the middle main image section with foam tape. To me something was missing so I added the butterfly from GKD’s Birthday Blessing stamp set and also used a copper perfect pearls on that piece. The stripes in the background are Denami Designs and were heat embossed in silver. Sentiment is also from the same Gina K Designs stamp set as the butterfly.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

My card for the Just Us Girls Challenge of Stripes features Denami Designs triple stripe stamp which was stamped in versamark and then heat embossed using white embossing powder. I decided to use some extra frames cuts that were on my desk and GKD’s Sunshine & Love StampTV Kit for the flowers and sentiment. A little perfect pearls was added to the larger flowers for some shine. A fun challenge from Just Us Girls….made me think!!

A girlfriend has had foot surgery and is non-weight bearing for 6 weeks. This is my card to cheer her up. She and her husband are cat people over dogs so I thought she may get a chuckle out of this card. The outside gatefold only took three attempts to create. I used a Paper Smooches die to create the curve of the sides, then after my original choice of GKD patterned paper had butterflies flying upside down so this was my second choice and the birds look OK! Stamped and fussy cut the band-aids from Monster Medical and attached to the front panels alternating the sides. Created the inside cat on crutches using Spectrum Noir Aqua pens, the hearts were an after thought to cover a smudge.

Does the outside look like band-aids? My hubby didn’t think so but of course he probably never used a band-aid for a booboo! LOL..what can I say except thanks for looking and this one is going in the mail tomorrow.

Hugs!!