Love Embraced

On to more challenges!  This is so addicting my hubby is sketching ideas down for me to create some fun cards.  I've been wanting to try Runway Inspired Challenge, but have been quite intimidated since I do not have any sense of fashion myself...hehehe.  Here's the inspiration photo:

I am also going to enter this card to CAS-ual Fridays: CFC 88 Love Letters
Here is my interpretation below:

 I loved that hot pink pop of color and adored her strappy sandals! I used the suitcase colors to inspire the card base and front.  Took some hemp twine and braided away to create the "strappy" look and used Lawn Fawn's Claire's ABCs to create the sentiment.

And for a closer look...

Finally a card I'm quite proud of!  Happy Hump Day!!

XOXO

So the next Lawnscaping Challenge is a Valentine one to be inspired by this photo...

Here's my take on it...

I was inspired by the guest designer Lalo ...she did a gorgeous paper pieced card with some fancy sewing and I adored it!  I loved the idea of the heart with the background pattern.  I used my e-clips to cut out the heart and used the backside as a template to stamp the x's and o's (from LFs Sophie's Sentiments) in the shape of a heart.  Then mounted with foam tape.  This was after I stamped the "I heart you" (from Say Cheese) and masked it with a smaller heart.  I love that little frog prince (from Critter's Ever After) and used the thought bubbles from A Birdie Told Me that was heat embossed in white.  To finish it off used some LF Peppermint Twine!

Here's a close-up...

Hope everyone is having a great start to the week!

Water Coloring

I have been meaning to send a thank you card to my Colorado Sister's parent's for sending some amazing homemade chocolates all the way to Hawaii.  My Colorado Mom sends them every year for Christmas and I've been procrastinating.  I didn't know where to begin in designing a thank you card for her so when I came upon The Play Date Cafe through reading other bloggers' posts I thought this was perfect inspiration...

The color combination was beautiful and I thought the only way I could get it close was to watercolor!  I used a bunch of Tim Holtz Distress Markers (a very nice Christmas gift from the hubby) and some water and a brush and went at it.

This is my first post watercoloring (don't judge me too harshly...hehehe) and it was sooo much fun!  I will definitely have to do this more often.  I simply stamped and heat embossed the Hero Arts Hand Drawn Flower and painted away.  I needed bling so placed a few canary-ish rhinestones near the sentiment and on the bow. 

Thank You for stopping by!

(I didn't want the blog to be too long, but if there are any questions on how this was specifically done I would definitely get back to ya!)

LOVES ME!

While everyone was enjoying Super Bowl...or not..hehehe...I was busy crafting!  A Blog Named Hero has this super fun challenge to "Snip and Stick" your stamps.  After making this card I realized I need to do this more often!

Again the idea came from my hubby...he's so brilliant (ssh, don't tell him I said that)!  I used a bunch of patterned paper from Bazzill Basic Papers Avalon Collection and needed to do a bunch of stamping using the fun Hero Arts cling called Hand Drawn Flower.  The idea was to use the many layers in this particular stamp.  Then on the yellow piece masked the center to create the petals being picked.  I'm hoping this comes across like that.  I couldn't waste the other petals so joined them together and placed a rhinestone in the center to add to the sentiment.  Here's a close-up...

And the stars of the card...

 Hope you enjoyed! 

Just Saying...

In my crafting groove and have another post for Case This Sketch Challenge #13

I don't know about you, but in seeing the design team members' cards I was a little intimidated.  I really procrastinated on this one because I wasn't sure if I could come up with anything worthy.  I decided to close my eyes and just post this one...since I'm trying so hard to follow my New Year's Resolution of putting myself out there for the blogging world.

I was trying to go for a shadow effect and stamped the heart in black and stamped again on cardstock in pink, fussy cut and added some rhinestones for bling.  To be honest I think it was better designed in my head than on the card, but I'll leave that up to you guys.  I'm hoping when I come back to the card tomorrow I can be a little more proud about it.  I do like the little tag at the top though, it's a quickutz die from when I initially started die cutting...with the hand held tool...boy has times changed!  Here's crossing my fingers!

A Valentine

This weekend is full of fun times with celebrating my hubby's birthday and of course Super Bowl.  Somewhere in all the festivities I had to get my crafting time in and came up with this card for Freshly Made Sketches #71 following this design...

I had been itching to play with Lawn Fawn's Check This Out and wanted to use the cute little library check out card.  Here it is below...

The stamp set includes the cute numbers for the date!  It's kind of hard to see but the cardstock for the card base is really beautiful with the red flecks.  Added the lip stamp and heat embossed for a glossy effect and used the e-clips to cut out the "U." This will also be entered in Cas-ual Fridays: CFC 88 Love Letters.  To complete the look added some red dyed hemp.

Thanks for "checking this out!"

Just Bee-Cause

I joined  The Stamps of Life several months ago as a little monthly treat to myself.  Stephanie Barnard is having a Flip-It Card contest and one of her surprises to her members is getting an extra treat every few months!  This month she sent a Flip-It Card for her members to jazz up and enter it into the contest.  Click on the link above for more details.  We have til 2/10 to enter.  Also you do not need to be a member to enter, just as long as you have her stamps (and dies) to play with!

I must give credit to my hubby for this design.  I knew I wanted to use the doodle flower stamp and framelit, but needed a little extra.  He came up with adding the grass (cut from my e-clips machine using cartridge Critters) and cute lil' bees holding the flags to spell out "JUST."

The inside is the bigger bee flying around..."Bee-Cause."

I thought it was cute and whimsical...just how I like my cards to bee...hehe!  On to make more cards...somehow I let days pass by (blame my hubby for having a birthday ;o) and have got a few more challenges I want to enter!