Happy WCMD 2011!!

Hi friends! Happy World Card Making Day! Sigh...cards! I love cards! I'm sure you already knew that. :) There's just something so special in giving someone a handmade card that you spent your time on. Card are an absolute passion of mine! I love stamping, paper piecing, coloring, using punches, tying bows, etc... This craft is my passion and my joy! I'm so glad there's a day to celebrate it!

Today, I'm taking part in a HUGE blog tour organized by Paper Crafts Magazine. Click HERE to see all the amazing designers on today's hop and prepared to have your socks knocked off!

Today, I'm sharing two cards with you! This first one is for the Moxie Fab World Card Play challenge and for the Simon Says Anything Goes challenge. The paper is Fancy Pants and the stamped sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

My second card was just made for fun. What's a hobby if you can't just do what you want for no apparent reason? I used a Lawn Fawn sentiment and some GCD paper for this. The twine is Aqua Divine Twine.

Have a wonderful World Card Making Day, friends! Get crafty!! :D

Back to School Layout

Hi friends! I hope you are doing well! Nothing planned for this week so I'm pretty excited! YAY! I had a great time this weekend and got very creative! YAY!

Here's a layout I made over this weekend. It's of Brady's first day of school. I made this for the GCD Sept KOTM contest. I used some Elementary My Dear by GCD Studios. I used some Brown Sugar Divine Twine for this. I journaled around the edge of the layout and the title is added with some Thickers.

Have a great day, everyone!

PS Sparks Challenge: Onesie

Hi friends! I hope you are having a great day! We are taking it easy today since we have a birthday party to attend this afternoon and we wanna be well rested. ;)

Today, I have a card to share with you that I'm entering in the Paper Smooches SPARKS for Sept-Oct. The challenge is the be inspired by this darling picture. I love the colors on this! So sweet!

Here's my card for the challenge. I was inspired to use pink and green in a soft vintage-y way. The paper is from GCD Studios. My sentiment is from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler. And I used some Black Licorice Divine Twine for this card.

Have a great day!

Love This Life

Hi friends! I hope you are kicking off your week well. I had a great couple days with a couple of SUPER crafty girls and it's been absolutely amazing! I went in for blood tests for today and we'll see what comes of that.

Ok, so over the last couple days I've spent some time with some TALENTED ladies that I met via the GCD Studios Blog who are actually local. It makes me so happy that I have friends to craft with who really understand the kind of crafting I do. It's pretty exciting. :) I figured that I would show a GCD card in the spirit of this. I decided to fussy cut this elephant from the paper and the banner as well. Then I added a SRM sticker and some Stickles.

Have a great day everyone!

Sew Proud

Hi friends! Happy Monday! (Is Monday really ever happy?) The kids are back and they are well. They had a great weekend and so did we. :) The only bad thing about having a completely relaxing weekend is that I didn't really run any errands so I need to grocery shop and things like that this week.

Here's a card I made for the Gallery Idol contest. Keep your fingers crossed for me! I'm gonna need all the luck I can get! Here's a card I made for someone who sews. I used Unity/Melody Ross Domestic Bliss for this. And I used GCD paper designed by Melody Ross called Homespun Chic. I added some seam binding that I dyed myself and spelled out the sentiment with alphabet stickers.

Have a great day everyone!

GCD Feature

Hi friends! I hope you are having a good day! Today, I need to go pick up my new medicine and then start working up to taking the right dose. Boy, this is NOT fun at all! But it's just migraines and it's certainly not the worse ailment I could have so it's a-okay!

Ok, last month I was featured on the GCD Studios blog and I never shared the projects I made for that. You can see my feature HERE. I got to work with the Material Girl paper. Here are the projects I made:

Have a great day everyone!

EtsyInspired #137 ~ Imagine Studio

This week's EtsyInspired shop is Imagine Studio. This shop offers such amazing modern works of art! They have photomontage, digital collages and painted photographs. I love the ethereal feeling to these art pieces! They are just so beautiful! For me, these pieces evoke a lot of emotion. This shop is a bit more artsy than you see on EtsyInspired but I really love showing all the different things you can find. This week, Imagine Studio is offering up a 5x7 print of the winner's choice as a prize.

Please head over to the EtsyInspired Blog to see the rules, challenge details and to link up your projects.



This week's awesome sponsor is EAD Designs. This is a company that I LOVE! They offer amazing vinyl for your home AND for scrapbooking. They also offer Stickerz for card making and let me tell you, it's REALLY easy to make a card with these! Supplies from this shop give a lot of wow for a little work and that's my FAVORITE!

Here's my creation this week inspired by the piece of art above. EAD was kind enough to give me these Circus Time Stickerz to work with. These are just SO adorable! I went with a collage like background and a sweet clown centerpiece.

Please check out the DT:

Angi
Carole (family emergency)

De

Emily B.

Jackie

Joy

Kerry

Kimme (April Guest)

Ruby

Savannah

Sherry

Virginia

Fashion Forward Unity

Hi friends! Hope you are having a great week! We are having a nice week. My anniversary is this weekend, so I'm trying to plan that. :)

Here's a card I made for the Unity Fashion Forward challenge and for the Moxie Fab World gift card holder challenge. I used some darling GCD Studios Material Girl paper. I mean, seriously, look at these super cute purses! How gorgeous, right? I would totally wear those purses! I used Unity's Going Retro for this gift card holder. And sorry about using my CVS Extra Care card for this, I didn't have any gift cards. This card holder is made on with a template I found on the Paper Crafts Connection blog by my pal Kimberly Crawford.

Have a great day everyone!

Circus Birthday

Hi friend! Happy Friday! I hope you're having a great day! We had lunch with friends and I got happy email today so things are going well! Nothing planned for this weekend, so that's nice too!

Here's a card I made for a recent call that didn't get picked up. I used some super fun GCD Studios paper called Fun House. I punched the images out and then I fussy cut the banners. And the sentiment is from Wilson Designs Stamps from the set Everything's Owlright.

Have a great weekend friends!

Circus Life

Hi friends! I hope you had a wonderful Thursday! I've been busy today. We had some friends over for lunch and it was a lovely time! Then I got to read a little and I got to craft a bit during nap time.

So, here's yet another reject card for the Paper Crafts Go To Sketches call. This card is based on sketch #8. I didn't follow the mosaic exactly so maybe that's why this didn't get picked up? Who knows? This is the new GCD Fun House line that I got a sample of at CHA. How cool is that? (I'm gonna be product testing over at the GCD blog soon so stay tuned for that!) The sticker is SRM.

Have a wonderful night everyone! See ya soon!