A Flutter By Card

Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Boy, I am enjoying this weekend! I don't know how anyone could work more than 5 days straight! I am so thankful that my hubby has weekends!

Here's a card I made for this week's Flutter By challenge. I am absolutely in love with the Sketches by Carly! Carly is a sweet little11 year old girl who does sketches for us all to enjoy. She's trying to reach 100 followers by April so please hop on over there and follow her blog, she is a fabulous sketch designer and a sweet kind girl!

My card uses a CC Designs Swiss Pixie, Gretel. My Copic coloring has fallen by the wayside if you guys haven't noticed. I just don't have the time with my two rowdy kids to sit and color like I use to. I miss it but I'm trying to keep in practice a little bit. For some reason, sweet little girl cards always remind me of Basic Grey Lemonade paper. It's one of my favorites! :)

Have a great Sunday everyone! I hope you get to rest and refresh yourself for the upcoming week! More so, I hope you all have tomorrow off too! Woohoo!

PS HUGE SALE at Paper Maniac starts tomorrow! I cannot contain my excitement! ACK!!!!

Card Details:

Card Stock: White

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Lemonade

Stamp: CC Designs Swiss Pixies Gretel

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Misc: Nesties Scalloped Ovals, Making Memories alpha stickers, Copics, Martha Stewart punch,

Thanks Fairy

Hi friends! Today, we are starting our second week of D's new schedule. I'm hoping it's a better week than last. Let me tell you, a schedule change with a 1.5 and a 3.5 year old is NOT pretty!

Today, I have a card I made for the 7 Kids College Fund challenge. The challenge is to make either a Thanksgiving card or a thank you card. I opted to make a thank you card. I haven't colored in SOOOOO long so please don't make fun of my coloring. I added Stickles to her wings and hair baubles, so that's the sheen you see in the picture.

Have a fabulous day everyone!

Card Details:

Card stock: white

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Lemonade

Stamp: Swiss Pixies

Misc: Copics, alpha stickers, crinkle ribbon, flower, Nesties Label 4, border punch

Feel Better (For Alexa) and a Card from Brady

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! We had a fun one! :) D and I went to an 80's themed birthday party on Saturday night. That was really fun! And then on Sunday, we went to a dinner for his sister's birthday which was a good time.

I made this card for my friend Lauren Meader's daughter, Alexa, who is in the hospital with pneumonia. Ok, so Lauren and I aren't super close but the few times I've talked to her over email, she was SUPER nice and she's the first craft blog I started following. I adore that Lauren is constantly writing about her kids and I feel really drawn to Alexa's story. Ok, enough rambling.

I made this card using Taylored Expressions Sketch 129. I decided to try to color the Swiss Pixie to look like Alexa which in my world means she gets brown hair. :) Also, I know I need to stop with the tiny alphabet stickers but I can't. I think I need a 12 step program. And I'm entering this in the Flutter By Challenge, this week you can make a card with any winged thing!

While Parker naps, Brady comes in my office with me and hangs out. He mostly plays computer games on Nick Jr or Playhouse Disney. Sometimes he does puzzles. Then on RARE occasions, he asks to "make something." Last week, we had one of those days. He made a card for Nana and one for Daddy. They look pretty much the same. The image is TGF and the paper is DCWV.

Have a great day everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

Card Details:

Card Stock: Georgia Pacific

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Olivia

Stamp: CC Designs Swiss Pixie

Coloring Medium: Copics

Misc: Spellbinders Nested Circles, Stickles Glitter Glue, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Darice Bling

Challenge Cards Abound!

Hello friends! Hope you had a great Wednesday! I got a little bit of mojo and decided to bust out some challenge cards. I wanted to blog them all since I always forget when challenges end and I don't wanna miss the deadlines.

This first card is for two challenges. One of them is the 7 Kids College Fund challenge and the other is for the Flutter By Challenge. This sweet little girl is Swiss Pixies Gretel. I love her! The paper is Sassafrass. I don't think the colors photographed really well. Also, this was an image I already had that was stamped so I'm not sure what kind of paper it was on but my colors kind of smudged. BUT I spent forever coloring her, so I decided to make a card anyhow. I put some Stickles on her wings and finished with ribbon and bling.

My second card is for 2Sketches4You and Wee Memories (to use a butterfly.) I'm in love with this sketch from Laura, I think it's pretty spectacular and I could use it a lot. The paper is Basic Grey Olivia. This paper is actually really versatile too! It has some super cutesy stuff but I think this card is pretty elegant. I die cut the butterfly with a Provo Craft die and then added Gunmetal Stickles to create the body of the butterfly. The bling is Colorbok and let me tell you, I wish I had bought like 80 of these bling sets, I can't find them anymore and I'm super sad! The sentiment comes from Ippity's Regal Greetings.

My last card is for the Off The Wall Craftiness challenge as well as the current CardPatterns sketch. I made a kid/baby card. I love this little elephant from Unity's Could I Be Any Cuter. :) The papers are Basic Grey Lemonade (I thought they went well with Kim's colors.) The sentiment is an SRM Sticker.

Alright, I hope you all have a great Thursday! :D

Four More Sketch Cards

Alright friends, in a list ditch effort to try to make a bunch of Bella Blvd cards for their Facebook contest, I've made a couple more cards in the last few days. I'm able to do this because it's still technically our weekend. I craft FAR less on the "week days." I hope you all had a wonderful day!

My first card is a no stamping card. It's for this week's GetSketchy sketch. It uses Bella Blvd Plastino paper. The ribbon is May Arts, the stick pin is Dritz, and the sentiment is EAD Designs from their Sweet Birthday Treats Stickerz set.

My second card is for Mercy's sketch #84. This girl is SO talented! I need to do her sketches more! So, I didn't follow the sketch exactly, this card kind of took on a life of it's own. Again, this is Bella Blvd Plastino. The stamp is The Greeting Farm and the alphas are Cosmo Cricket.

This is for a challenge I missed and I am SOOO bummed! It's a new (to me) blog called A Craft Little Place. This was last week's sketch and they were giving $1 for each card made to a gal who had been in an accident. I LOVE that they did that, so that's why I played along but I didn't link fast enough. :( Again Bella Blvd Plastino and The Greeting Farm.

My last card is for Jen Del Muro's current SFYTT. This is a fun sketch. I didn't think I would like it, you know how I feel about lots of layers, but I think I made it work. Again the paper is Bella Blvd Plastino. The CB folder is Argyle, the stamp is CC Designs Swiss Pixie, the ribbon and rhinestones are from Michael's.

Have a great Wednesday everyone! Hugs!

Holy Smokes, is That Some Mojo?

Every now and then, I wander outside my tiny A2 box where each card has about five layers. It's rare but it happens. However, it's even MORE rare that I like the results of what I make. But the stars alined today. :)

I made this card for the KL Stampin N Scrappin Challenge #15. Now, I usually do like this many layers. And to be honest with you, I actually tried to make this into an A2 card but it wouldn't work. It ended up being a 5.5 inch square. I actually did some fancy coloring today. I thought I forgot how while I was at CHA. All the paper is Basic Grey, Bittersweet. The image is CC Designs. :) Hope you like it too!

For Meelah's Birthday

A Sunday Confession: I am feeling like the world's most awful mom today! Last night, I was in bed at the late hour of 9:30pm. I thought Dustin had opened the door to the baby's room since we do it every night but he didn't. I didn't ask him, I just heard him close Brady's door and then I heard another door open and I assumed. Come 4am, I woke with a jolt and thought for SURE the baby had stopped breathing, why else would he have not woken up by now?? I ran to the baby's room to see the door was closed. He was fine, of course. But I'm not sure if he cried at all last night and I didn't hear him. :( His room is next to ours, he's just on the other side of the wall but still. I can't be sure and it makes me so sad!

On to the card. Yesterday, we went to Brady and Parker's friend Meelah's first birthday. She is so sweet and so cute! I wanted to make an extra girlie card for her. I used the sketch/product challenge from Limelight Papercrafts. The product challenge was patterned paper and I USED that as you can see. I also used the Paper Maniac challenge, to use ribbon. Those three purple strips are American Crafts ribbon. The pink paper is SU. The purple paper is PTI. The image is CC Designs.

Happy Sunday everyone!