It’s your day…

It’s your Birthday!

I had fun using a couple of different challenges to make today’s card.  I got my inspiration from The Shabby Tearoom and this photo inspiration.  Along with the photo; the challenge is to use the colors pink and green, add some polka dots and make a birthday themed card or project.  I then decided to use the sketch from Sugar Pea Designs.  It’s like the two were meant for each other!

Papers: Pink Petticoat
Image: Naughty Puppy – Wee Stamps
Dies: Flowers and Buttons – PaperTrey Ink, Notched Flag – Lil’ Inker Designs

I added some glossy accents to the flowers for some added depth and dimension – fun, fun card to make.  I hope you enjoyed your visit and I hope you’ll stop back soon!  Dee

Challenges:
Totally Gorjuss – Pink and Green
Natalie and Amy – Four-Legged Friends
Stampin for the Weekend – Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door – Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday – Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks – Stripes
QKR Stampede – Include a Dog or Cat

Friends and Flowers…

Make life sweeter!

I love being part of a design team but every once in awhile it is fun to do a card just for the fun of it – don’t get me wrong, I have fun making my DT cards but I have so many other stamps that just don’t get the love they deserve.

One of the things I really like about digi papers is you can size them to what you need and layout your card on the screen prior to printing and you have an idea of what the card will look like. I started out mixing and matching different colored/patterns of paper from this digi paper set but it just wasn’t working for me until….I went with a more monochromatic look and Ta Da! Maybe it’s because I LOVE the color blue but I love, love how this card turned out.

Image: Flower Fairies – Wee Stamps
Sentiment: Clearly Delightful Digi Stamps (no longer available)
Paper: Hello Sunshine – Nitwit Collection
Embellishments: Washi Tape, Gems, Glossy Accents, Prism Glitter
Sketch: Papertake Weekly

Thanks so much for the visit – stop again soon! Dee

Challenges:
The Corrosive Challenge – Anything Goes
The Squirrel and The Fox – Let’s Hear it for the Girls
A Creative Romance – Girly Creations
Crafty Catz – Anything Goes
Stampin’ for the Weekend – For the Girls
Sweet Pea – Things with Wings
Cute Card Thursday – Blues and Hues
Add a Little Dazzle – Color
Simon Says – Anything Goes

Home is where…

…the Snow falls! 

I found this colored image cleaning my craftroom and decided she was too cute to not make her into a card.  So this is my last Christmas card for 2013.

Image: Winter Fairy – Wee Stamps

Sentiment: Snowy Days –  Pink Petticoat

Paper: Joyful Hearts –  Nitwit Collections

Die: Celebrations Topper – The Cat’s Pajamas, Decorative Tag – Marianne Designs

Embellishments: Snowflake Charm, Gems, Prism Ultrafine Glitter, Baker’s Twine

Thanks so much for all of your visits in 2013 and I hope you’ll continue to follow me in 2014!  Dee

Challenges:

Cute Card Thursday – Anything Goes

DRS Designs – Frosted Flakes

Inspired by Stamping – Anything Goes

The Rubber Buggy – Snowflakes and Sparkle

Southern Girls – Christmas Wishes

Little Red Wagon – Anything Christmas

Ruby’s Rainbow – Christmas

Inky Chicks – Christmas

Crafty Boots – Snow and Sparkle

Fairies – Christmas

Warm Fuzzy Wishes

I have wanting to color up one of these cuties for awhile now – Wee Stamps has a new stamp set “Naughty Puppies” that includes four adorable little puppies in all kinds of trouble.

Papers: Petal Fresh – Nitwit Collections,  Kraft Cardstock  By now you know how much I LOVE Nitwit’s Digi Papers, can’t get enough of them.  I really like how you can print off just what you need and I don’t wind up with all of those scraps that I don’t know what to do with.  I really like how this set works so well with kraft papers, the compliment each other so well.

Image: Naughty Puppy – Wee Stamps

Sentiment: Cuddly Buddly Digi

Die: Medium Scallop Border – Memory Box, Scallop Circle and Marvelous Squares – Spellbinders

Embellishment: Bone Charm – My Little Ribbon, Baker’s Twine, Foam Squares to add dimension and depth

Sketch: Sketch Saturday – I’m loving playing along with past sketches!

Thanks so much for the visit – stop back again!  Dee

Challenges:

Sweet Stampin – Cute and Cuddly

Crafty Friends – Use a Charm

613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with a Fat Card

Challenges 4 Everybody – Anything Goes

Southern Girls – Use a Punch or a Die Cut

As You Like It – Favorite Papers

Card Mania – Use Kraft paper

Fab ‘n Funky – Animals

Card Makin Mamas – On the Farm, Animals

 

 

Winter Wonder

I was watching the Viking-Bear’s game yesterday and I noticed it was snowing in the Twin Cities.  I was on a conference call today with some folks from the Twin Cities area and I mentioned I saw it was snowing.  To my surprise they mentioned they received over a foot of snow – guess I can’t complain about the couple of inches we got here in ND!

Papers: PaperTrey Ink

Image: Wee Ones

Die: Circle coverplate – PaperTrey Ink, Scalloped border – Magnolia, Square – Spellbinders

Embellishments: Stickles, Ribbon and Bow

Wishes to you for a Happy and Safe Holiday Season!  Dee

Challenges:

Paper Playtime – Christmas Colors

The Cutie Pie – Cute Christmas

Totally Stampalicious – Anything Goes

The Ribbon Girl – Christmas

Cute Card Thursday – Red and Green

Go Fish – Christmas

Sparkles Christmas – Button &/or Bow

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop – It’s Christmas

Mark’s Finest Papers – Red and Green

The Crazy Challenge – Christmas Time

Winter Song

I have so many digital stamps that I often forget about some of my favorites.  I was going through my folders and I ran across this adorable Wee Stamps image – I decided it was time to color her up again!

Papers: Ho Ho Ho – Nitwit Collections Digi Papers, I’ve had a tough time finding a nice collection of digi papers using the traditional colors of red and green and fell in love with this collection immediately – so much infect that I used it as my blog background!

Image: Wee Stamps

Dies: Labels Eighteen – Spellbinders, Christmas Flourish – Cherry Lynn Designs, Scallop Border – Memory Box

Embellishments: Stickles, Prisma Ultrafine Glitter, Pearls, Velvet Ribbon

Sketch: Sketchie Free For All – Papertake Weekly

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Dee

Challenges:

Delightful Sketches – Red and Green

Christmas Stamping All Year Long For – To Die 4

Polka Doodles – Any Die will Do

2 Sisters – Winter Wonderland

Creative Card Crew – Anything Goes

Scrap-Creations – Merry Christmas

Crafts & Me – Ribbon or Trim

Creative Inspirations – Traditional Colors

Simon Says – Anything Goes

Love, Peace and Joy

Have you seen this adorable new stamp from Wee Stamps?  Meet Holly!  When I saw her I knew instantly I needed to purchase it.

Sketch: Papertake Weekly

Papers: Merry Christmas Too – Nitwit digi papers

Image: Holly – Wee Stamps

Sentiment: Pink Petticoat

Die Cut: Square and Pennant – Spellbinders

Embellishments: Ribbon, Puff Paint, Stickles, Pearls.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Dee

Challenges:

Pile it On – Cute as Can Be

Stamptacular Sunday – Patterns Galore

The Crafty Pad – Things with Wings

Bearly Mine – Anything Goes

Clear it Out – Christmas in July (ribbon)

Top Tip Tuesday – Focus on the Ribbon

PaperPlay – Layer it Up

Clearly Inspired – Things with Wings

2 Sisters – Anything Goes

Challenge Up Your Life – Everything Goes

Let it Snow

It is so nice and summery here it is almost hard to get in the mood to make a few holiday cards but I know I will be so happy when December rolls around that I did!

Today we have a new challenge for you at Christmas Card Challenges, we’d love to see “Rolled Paper Flowers” on your project.  I’ve made rolled flowers before but with felt, one of the really nice things about rolled paper flowers is if you use double-sided papers the design elements really add to the beauty of the flower.  If I have but one suggestion for you when making the paper flowers, don’t roll them too tightly, I did mine quite loose and they have just enough dimension but yet will easily slip into an envelope.

Paper: Wintertime – Echo Park

Image: Heidi – Wee Stamps

Dies: Small Rolled Roses – My Favorite Things, Ribbon Tag Trio – Spellbinders, Labels Seventeen – Spellbinders

Embellishments: Flat-Backed Pearls, Ribbon – PTI, Snow Accents – DecoArt, Glossy Accents – Inkssentials sprinkled with Ultrafine Prisma Glitter – Palette Stamp & Stick Glitter, Sentiment – Computer Generated

I hope I’ve inspired you to join us for our “Rolled Paper Flowers” challenge – I can’t wait to see your creations!  Dee

Challenges:

Pile it On – Make Your Embellishments

Quirky Crafts – Handmade Flowerrs and Ribbon

The Squirrel and the Fox – Make it Sparkle

Papetake Weekly – BINGO, Die Cut, Free, Glitter and Ribbon, Free Blooms

52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown – Glitter

ABC Christmas Challenge – “L”yric, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Divas by Design – To Die For

Crimbo Crackers – Anything Goes

Frosted Designs – Make your own Embellishments

Color me Creative – Big Hair

Wee Birdie

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.  The sun is shining and it is a gorgeous summer day.  We’ve lots of rain the past couple of days and everything is so nice and green.  It seems like the lawn needs to be mowed every other day.  I took the plunge and learned how to mow using my hubbies zero-turn radius mower – so much fun!

Wee Stamps has a couple of new images and this adorable image is Peggy.  You’d never know it by looking at this card but I spent hours on it.  I started out with a different layout and it wasn’t working so I scraped it.  Thank goodness I found this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches or might have given up.

Papers: One Heart One Mind

Die Cuts: Hero Arts – Framlets, PaperTrey Ink – Beautiful Blooms II, Spellbinders – Circle

Embellishment: Ribbon – PaperTrey Ink

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Dee

Challenges:

The Paper Shelter – Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio – Bird Theme

Time to Party

It’s time to shake things up a bit – I’ve been making Mother’s Day and Easter cards and thought it would be fun to do something different. I don’t know if you saw it or not but Wee Stamps has two new digi images – they are so adorable!

By now you all know how much I enjoy sketch challenges.  For this card I’m using A Gem of a Challenge’s sketch for this weeks challenge.

Lacking a sentiment that fit the card in size and theme, I decided to make one.  Feel free to use it if you like it, all I ask is that you link back to me (I love to see how creative you are)!  It’s a bit on the simple side but sometimes it nice to have a sentiment ready to go and if you’re like me, you’ll save yourself time not going through all of your font files.

Papers: Prima – Fairy Flora paper pad

Stamp: Wee Stamps colored with copics and balloon highlighted with Martha Stewart glitter glue

Embossing Folder: Sizzix

Die Cuts: PTI’s – Filigree Border, Spellbinder’s Label16 and Spellbinder’s Rectangle. MFT’s – Small Rolled Roses

Embellishments: Ribbon – PaperTrey Ink, Butterfly – Pizzazz Aplenty, Felt – PTI, Rhinestones (did you notice the rhinestones in the center of the roses?)

Thanks so much for stopping by – stop back again when you have time!  Dee

Challenges:

Lollipop – Anything Goes     The Crazy Challenge – Add a Sentiment

Make it Monday – Anything Goes     Party Time Tuesday  – Anything Goes

Divas by Design – Stamp Something     Simon Says – Anything Goes

MilkCoffee Challenge – Anything Goes     Lily Pad – Flowers