DIGI DAY-with Circles added!

Wobbly Walker

So excited to be prepping for trip to Colorado for the 4^th. A couple of days off sounds great. I am actually leaving my craft stuff at home-I would typically pack a bunch up and take it with me on the road. My husband is not sure I will survive without it on hand. I think I will be fine and dandy and if it gets really bad I can head into my mom’s craft room and get me “fix” in.

So before I hit the road for our 12 hour drive I thought I would get my challenge on…

My digi is from Mo Manning. As usual these digital images are so wonderful.  Show me a stamp with kids or critters and I am hooked.  I finished this little guy a while back but he deserves to be showed off.

I apologize in advance for the slightly blurry front shot of the card.

On to the Deets:

Tri fold card with scalloped edge. Papers are from one of my many Mat stacks packs. I loved the circles in the paper, mirroring the front buttons. I think the circles carry through the “wonky” look of our little guy taking his first steps. 

Sentiment is from Stampin UP, used my nestabilities for the back ground. Punched the stripped paper for the for the front of the card and added the big blue bow. 

My little guys is colored with copics and prisma pencils.

Thanks for taking a Peek

Challenges:

Stamp Something-Digi

Pile it on-Circles

Book Fairy...

I was so thrilled to see the 2 Sister’s challenge this week. I have wanted to show off this card for some timeJ.  This is the same artist as the Girl with Rose under Glass (Hannah Lynn). I LOVE these images. All the little details are just fantastic, the pencil in her hair, cat eye glasses, and the little bookworm all add something extra. 

I am a voracious reader. If I am not crafting them I am certainly reading. If you dug through my purse (if I let youJ) you would find at least 2 paperback books that I am working my way through. I often re-read many of my books-to me it is like re-watching a favorite movie or TV show. I just finished Smokin Sixteen (Evanovich), laugh out loud funny! This love of reading is something I have passed along to my kids, my daughters in particular. It is fun when we are reading the same authors and can have our own mini book club! Needless to say any stamp or image with reading referenced will suck me right on in.

On to the Deets:

Standard easel card in purple. Some fun left over paper I had in cream, purple strip and blue. Purple Polka dot bow (Emily’s favorite) with big white button and purple bling for embellishments. I like the pop of yellow with the punch to hold the card up. Discover sentiment, because isn’t that what reading is all about.

My fairy is colored with copics, prisma and gamsol with sipca used to bling it up a bit more-I love adding the glitter pens to the eyelashes-I smudged around the background with blues, gray, black and purple. She cried out for purple highlights; wish I could rock the purple highlight!

Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek!

Something for the boys!

 BACKYARD BOYS

Good morning-Something for the boys challenge today. This is another set of the cards that were part of my backyard picture taking event. Hopefully this weekend will allow for another crafting frenzy and photo shoot.  I am sorry to admit that I am still in mid clean up and out in my craft room-inspired by Creative Spaces Magazine. I still have a bit to accomplish. But it seems that I am experiencing, well, not a loss of momentum so much as…well okay loss of momentum.

I am glad I had this group of cards to work with this week so I could get back into the blogging and challenge “routine”…

On to the Deets:

These are all the same Magnolia stamp on 3X3 cards. The guys are colored with copic markers. Matt stack papers used for the coordinating circle and square on each card. The little sticker words were again some leftovers I had on hand.  I think these could be good little invitations to a boys birthday party, or tag’s for gifts…

I know this is short and sweet-but I hope to have all sorts of things accomplished this weekend-while reading the new Janet Evanovich book! Waaa-hoooo!!!!

Pretty papers-silly kitty...

More Backyard Photo's

I love this week’s Stamp Something challenge. Nothing better than digging through and playing with all the papers I have-and the number is legion-and using as much as I want on my design. The challenge is pretty papers and I have to say that if I have purchased the paper I already think it is pretty! So now I get to share my idea of pretty with others.

I am all about the kitties. To say that we are a cat family is a vast understatement. We are currently owned by four little friends-Fireball, Fred, Fiona and Finley (do you detect a theme? I am married to an engineer). Mr. Fin can be seen at the bottom of my blog asking to go outside. There are a couple of rules in our acquiring of cats-all must be rescue kitties, all have to be spayed or neutered and snugglers. We have been really lucky in that every pal that has come home has loved us unconditionally and put up with other animals, a lot of hugging and petting and on occasions being utilized as a dress-up or nap buddy. I took one look at this Mo Manning image and thought, “YEP, I know that kid AND that cat”. Several of our past and present four legged family members have been that lovely orange sherbet color. You can just tell that these two are the best of buddies…J

On to the Deets:

I have four different papers here- the easel card is made from some Doodle bug design papers, the orange circles are three dimensional, fuzzy. Next I used some old paper I found which had a paint splatter effect (oranges, yellows, peachy) I cut the flower border from one of the hundreds of matstack packs I have on hand. Finally punched the orange strips out of “plain old” orange cardstock.

Little Miss Sassy and her cat are colored with copic markers. I sponged the background and edged with distressed ink.

The stickers are just great random ones I had left over (again from my cleaning spree) and I was so thrilled that they matched the flower paper. Flower and kitty charm added for fun.

The card absolutely hits the mark with the sentiment-laugh!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Backyard-the only thing I have managed to Grow!

So Mother Nature reminded us of her powers last night here in Denton. We had 75-90 mph winds, nickel and larger hail, rain and a truly spectacular light show. Cool? Certainly! Cool at 1:45-3:00 am with the sirens going off –not really. Up late, then making it in to work was an adventure of closed roads, downed trees, fences and miscellaneous debris in the road as well as contributing to bad hair day AND late to work.

On the plus side the girls are home from their vacation with big brother in South Carolina. Both are a bit pink (SUNSCREEN) but had a great time. Poor things had a very rough flight home experience-but American Airlines saved the day and they handled the trauma of it all pretty well. On to the challenge…

The Krafftin Kimmie challenge is to make something for the kid(s) in your life. My kids aren’t really kids anymore (unless gifts are involved) but I have a host of nieces and nephews celebrating birthdays over the next few weeks. I like to keep my “kid” cards generic enough in the age department that if the person is 6 or 16 it will work.  I love these fairies and bought them as the set, so many uses for them!

On to the Deets:

Side step card-using Clarabelle, Isabelle and Lilybelle. The gals are colored with prisma pencils and copic markers.

Card is on a Mosaic table I made a few years ago

Card is made with some old black and white card stock I had on hand, for both the black on white card and white on black backing for the images-I love it with the pop of lime green. Frames for the ladies are made with nestabilites and embossed for contrast. The embellishments were part of my clean out the craft room find. I basically based the entire card off of those two mushrooms! Grass with my Fiskars punch, three dimensional flower and sticker sentiment to round it all out. I think any of the kids in my life would like to get this card! J

One more for the road!

Thanks for taking a peek!!

Oh and here’s hoping the postal strike in Canada is over this week, I am dying for my new set from Kimmie-Annie’s Asian Inspired Girls!!!

Challenge-1/2/3

Well I thought one more for the road today and how appropriate my third post and it is for a 1/2/3 challenge-I was BUSY! The cards I posted today were part of the group I made while my mom was here visiting so we could spend money at the GASC. Since I managed to get all these photos taken Monday-why not share! I am a posting fool today so I will keep this one short and sweet-

The deets:

This last one is for 2 Sisters-1/2/3 challenge. My one image is Mama Roo from Meljen’s Design’s at Whimsy Stamps. So very sweet. Two papers are the polka dot under Mama and the sentiment and the brown check behind the frame. My embellishments are brads, frame and bling/pearls and gems. Mom and baby are colored with Prisma pencils and mineral spirits to blend-I think this gives them a soft focus touch. Some white gel pen to accent and it is ready to go.

So I think that covers it for today-thanks for dropping in and taking a peek.

Totally Gorguss-Flowers

It is certainly is quite around our house. The girls are off visiting their big brother in South Carolina and Christopher is still in Huntsville. Just the hubby and I, well and of course our four-four legged friends. This is what we are heading toward, with our youngest graduating HS and moving on to college it will be a big empty house! Well the quite time has allowed me to participate in more challenges.

This is my entry for Totally Gorgus-Flower Power challenge. This awesome image is Frosted Rose Angel from Hannah Lynn. I love the rose under the glass-reminds me of Beauty and the Beast.

So the deets:

She is colored with copic markers I added glitter accents in her hair and her eyelashes are also glitter’fied

I added the crystal glue accent over the rose so that it does look under glass and has a 3D feel.  The card is clear and I choose the papers to coordinate with her hair. The flowers along the side are cut out of one of my mat stack paper sets, pop dots were added on some to give dimension.  I held the main image on with the bronze gems. I was really happy with the color palette here. (My youngest has been trying to die a small section of her hair blue for a while now so I am on a multi colored hair kick) Used one of my spellbinders for the flourish at the bottom. There is a bit of white cardstock inside for the sentiment-also held down with the bonze gems. Overall I am pleased with the results.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek!