Happy Easter!!

Hi friends! I hope you have a lovely Easter if you celebrate it! If not, have a lovely Sunday! We have already opened Easter baskets and hunted eggs here at our house and it's only 8:30am. Dustin has to work so we're on our own until later. Then we are going to his parents's house for dinner. YAY!

Today, I'm sharing the cards and gift packages I made for Brady's teachers. I decided to use a spring sentiment just in case they don't celebrate Easter. My sweet friend Kendra Sand was sweet enough send me some of these peeps die cuts. I used them with some Lawn Fawn paper and a sentiment from Easter Greetings from My Thoughts Exactly Stamps. I used my MFT grass die, a Martha Stewart punch, and some Cotton Candy Divine Twine to finish.

Here's a close up of one card.

And here's a super simple package I put together for the teachers. I just put candy inside. I used a White Polka Dot Bitty Bag from Whisker Graphics and some 19mm white lace tape from Love My Tapes.

Have a fabulous day, friends! Hoppy Easter! ;)

Jazzy Paper Designs Inspirations #12

***Second post for today, please scroll down for my EtsyInspired post***

Last time I played along with my friend Tenia's challenge, I was named one of the Jazz Cats of the Week. That means, I get to guest design for this challenge. How cool is that? This photo to the left is our inspiration for this week. Please go to Tenia's blog to check out all the DT and the rules to play along with this challenge.

Alright so I took two different approaches to this week's challenge. I kind of went with the general sketch of this image. I pulled some of the colors too. I get really nervous when my work is going to be featured on someone else's blog. So, bear with me.

Here's my first card. I made this card with MFT Who's the Geek Guy set. Super fun, huh? I love this set for Dustin. The designer paper is DCWV from the Generation Tech stack.

Here's another card I made with an Echo Park craft kit.

CPS174 Feature

Hi everyone! I am so excited today since my card is being featured on the Facebook Fan section of Card Positioning Systems! This is one of my favorite challenges and I'm so flattered that my work will be displayed on their blog!

Here's my card based on sketch 174. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey Kioshi. The bird is die cut with Nesties from sheet music. The rhinestone flourish is from Recollections and is surprisingly early to work with! And the sentiment is My Favorite Things Essential Sentiments set.

I hope you enjoyed my card! There's still some time to play along with the challenge if you haven't already!

EtsyInspired #82 ~ Until It Ends Studios

This week's EtsyInspired shop is Until It Ends Studio. They have all sorts of cool stuff including geekery. That's a term I learned on Etsy. Teehee, I wonder if it's one I can use to describe my hubby. :D There's all sorts of jewelry ie pendants, bracelets, earrings, rings, etc... They also have a couple different sizes of art prints and cell phone charms. Super fun and cute stuff!

This week, I'm just about at the end of my rope so I'll direct you to the EtsyInspired blog for all the details on how to play and our FABBY sponsor My Favorite Things!!!

Here's my card for this week. I used the Thinking of Hoo set from MFT! I don't think it could BE any cuter! I took my inspiration from the necklace above, there's a tree on it and a branch on my card. Work with me! The ribbon and the dew drops are also from MFT! :) The paper is Basic Grey Lemonade and I used pink and green Sparkly Fluff from Our Craft Lounge on the image. This card is based on the sketch over at the Whimsical Wednesday blog.

Check out the DT:

Ashley (you are here)

De
Emily

Heather
Jackie
Joy
Kerry

Lori (April Guest)

Savannah (April Guest)

Shannon

Thank You! You're Tweet!

Morning friends! I hope that you are well! I'm doing ok. My tummy is bugging me a bit so that's why you aren't seeing me on blogs or Twitter as much. But it's nothing I can't handle and it'll pass soon enough.

Today, I've decided to share a happy spring card since it's been kind of dreary in some places. I can't complain too much, we've had some nice weather here. This is a little card I made for the CARDS call that didn't get picked up. I'm ok with that though. :) The bird stamp is Imaginisce, the speech bubble is MFT, and the sentiments are A Muse. The bird paper is American Crafts and the pink dot paper is Bo Bunny. I cut the green paper to make it look like grass and added some rhinestone flowers.

Happy Fat Tuesday everyone!

For Sale!

I will ship any way you'd like, just contact me and we'll work it out. Pictures available upon request. Everything is USED unless specified. Also, feel free to make me an offer. I accept Paypal.

Supplies:

~Nestibilities Long Rectangle Full set (used ONCE, FREE SHIPPING!) $50 (pending)

~Stampin Up Chalks $8

~Stampin Up Stampin Around handle, 4 wheels (Baby Talk, Star, hot to dot, swirl), and black ink cartridge $10

Stampin Up:

$5 sets:

For a Friend

Birthday Whimsy

Delight in Life

So Many Sayings

Hugs and Wishes

Love It

Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Much Appreciated

So Many Scallops

$7 sets:

Loads of Love (sold)

All About Occasions

Very Punny

Greetings Galore

Polka Dots and Paisley

$10 sets:

Simply Said

Heartfelt Thanks (sold)

$15 sets:

Baby Talk

From the Kitchen Of... (sold)

$20 sets:

Punch Pals

Unity Stamps

Singles $4 each or 3 for $10: ALL NEW

Lucky Journal Box (new in package)

Floral Frenzy

Tulip Duo

Cheer Santa

Horn Honker (sold)

Horseshoe Story (sold)

MFT

Here's the Scoop $7 (sold)

GinaK

Comfort & Peace $9 (sold)

Paper Makeup Stamps (on EZ mount)

Buggy Sayings $5 (sold)

Swirlie Tree $3 (sold)

What Lies Behind Us Quote $1 (sold)

The Rest of My WCMD Cards

For some crazy reason, I thought that I should spread these out just in case I didn't have time to craft and I could show them all to you one at a time. Well, I guess I forgot that I have FOUR DT days on my blog. Whoops! Then I like to do FWF on Fridays and I think I'm gonna have something special starting next Sunday, so that leaves me with just Monday as a free day on my blog. Long story short, here's the WCMD challenge cards I made before they become super old news!

This was for the Flourishes challenge. Julie gave us a sketch.

This was for the MFT challenge. The challenge was to use black, pink and white.

This was for the Hanna Stamps challenge to use a sketch.

I have a lot of creating to do to get myself ready for this week! :) Have a happy Sunday!

A Challenge Card and an Oppsie

I'm further venturing out into the world with this My Favorite Things challenge.  It's a "Who's that Girl" challenge.  I love Who's that Girl, she's always doing such fun stuff.  This is the only set I have with her, called Here's the Scoop.  The challenge was to make a card with ONLY 2 layers.  Yikes!  And the base counted as one layer.  Quite the challenge!

I cut out my stamped image with a border around it and colored the border brown to give it the look of a mat.  I was going to stamp the base layer with a background stamp but I wanted to put the sentiment on there so I opted not to.  I added some Primas with brad and some rhinestones.  That's it.  I think I'd be happier with this if it had more layers but I did what I could.

This next card was supposed to be for the Verve sketch number 3 but my apples were a whole lot bigger than I had originally thought so it didn't work with the sketch.  That and I didn't want to cover up the cute DP with too many layers.  Well, AND the twist to this sketch was to add pink.  Basically, this card doesn't fit the challenge at all.  But I still like it.  I think it's cute.  This uses Mix Up of Cuteness from Unity.  

I'm really sick today but I am still going to try very hard to have a post for tomorrow with my Flutter By card.  Hope you all are feeling better than I am!