Cloud 9

It's Twisted Thursday time on the Outlawz Challenge Group and this week our team is creating an Anything Goes project with a twist to use red.

My card uses stamps from the Our Craft Lounge Crafty Clear Love in the Air set.   

We would love to have you play along, you can check out the details HERE.

Miss Big Bear

Good Morning!  I have a quick post for you today.  It is a busy week as I prepare for CHA.  I am looking forward to meeting some of my online friends while in Anaheim.  I will have my camera ready and hope to share some pictures while I am there.

I created this card using Big Bear from The Cat's Pajama's.  She was paper pieced with some fun spring print cardstock and a little pink for her nose and ears.  The card was finished off with a pretty little field of flowers.  I used the January Sketch for You to Try.  There is still time to play along, you can find all of the details here.

Have a great day!

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi there!  This week on the Our Craft Lounge blog challenge #101 is to create a card/project using the oh so popular chevrons (aka: zig zags)

I was inspired by the little card in the middle left of the graphic below.  I started with a pretty carnation pink base card that measures 4 1/4" square.  Next I cut some charcoal gray, red and white panels.  I stamped the chevron pattern from the OCL Every Heartbeat set in pink ink repeatedly across the white cardstock to create a fun background print.  It is difficult to see in the pic, but I lined each side of the wide stripes with a Stardust pen to give the stripes a little pop and then I rounded a couple of the corners to match the base card.  Next, I wrapped some gray/white striped twine around the card and panels.  I stamped the heart in red ink, cut it out and attached it to charcoal and red scallop circles.  

There is still time to play along with this challenge, head on over the the Our Craft Lounge blog and play along.  You could win a prize and some awesome bragging rights!

My Heart is Yours

Hello!  This week on the Tombow blog we are continuing our journey through some of the past Pantone colors.  Today I am sharing the 2010 color which was Turquoise.  Tombow's Dual Brush Pen #373 (Sea Blue) was a great match so I decided to use it along with some of the Irojiten Colored Pencils for today's card.  

I stamped this adorable Benton Heart Bear from Inky Antics and then colored the heart with Dual Brush Pen #373.  I then added some Tombow Glue pen and sprinkled glitter over it to make the heart really pop.  

I colored Benton with Irojiten Chestnut Brown and Autumn Leaf colored pencils and blended them out with some odorless mineral spirits.  I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere all of the layers together.  The buttons were attached with the the small Tombow Foam Tabs.

Happy Birthday

Hi there, today I have joined up with the rest of the Outlawz Twisted Thursday team to bring you birthday themed cards.   

When I sat down to create this card, I had lots of scraps left over from this card on my desk so I decided to use them up.  The base card is Bubblegum Pink from American Crafts.  To create the main panel I stamped the Big Fabric Background from Hero Arts onto some Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock with Orchid Brilliance ink and then trimmed it down to the size I wanted.  The image panel was layered onto GKD PL Chocolate cardstock.  The sentiment (from GKD) was stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and cut out with Spellbinders Fancy Tags die and layered to a Spellbinders Petite Oval Scallop die cut piece.

For the finish I tied some chocolate/cream striped grosgrain ribbon (May Arts) into a ginormous bow. 

This card came together very quickly and was easy peasy!

Be sure to pop over to the Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and check out what the rest of the team has created.  We would love to have you play along as well.  You could win some nice prizes too!

Pretty Little Ella

 Good Morning!  I have created a card using the BLD Challenge #22. 

Isn't this image the sweetest? Her name is Ella, and I think she is adorable. Some friends of ours have a sweet daughter named Ella and I think about her every time I see this image. 

The colors for the challenge are pink, orange and lime green.  I chose to use papers from the Basic Grey Green at Heart collection as it has all of these pretty colors together in one nice package.  Ella was colored with Prismacolor pencils and a tiny bit of odorless mineral spirits.  I added some Spica Glitter pens to her hair and the dots on the dress.  If you click on the small pic, you can see how pretty the shimmer is. 

I know LORi would love it if you would play along, you have until 10 pm EST tonight to play along.

February Calendar

Hello and happy Monday Y'all!  Did you know that Our Craft Lounge announced it's 100th challenge last Friday?  The theme for this challenge was to use numbers.  I have to admit, I was stumped at first and didn't know what I was going to do.  I e-mailed my OCL partner in crime, Debbie Fisher, and she came up with a boatload of suggestions for me.  All of a sudden, the light came on and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I decided to make a 5 x 7 calendar page for February.  Yeah, I am ahead of the game!  I printed the calendar and then cut it down to the size I wanted.  I stamped the adorable hot air balloon from the OCL Spilling Over Cling Set onto some white cardstock with black ink and then stamped it again onto this adorable light blue paper from Pebbles.  There are the cutest itsy bitzy white stars all over the light blue background.  LOVE!  I paper pieced the balloon, basket and the little heart.  I used a piece of Cranberry Distress Dots cardstock from Memory Box for the little hearts.  The hearts that are spilling out of the basket are pink and sparkly!  I attached the calendar panel to a red layer that was diecut with a Spellbinders die.  The calendar panel is attached to the base with foam tape to give just enough lift to allow the ribbon to slide underneath.

There is still time to play along with this challenge, head on over the the Our Craft Lounge blog and play along.  You could win a prize and some awesome bragging rights!