Crayola Cow

As I said, I decided to make my friend's younger daughter a covered notebook with a different Crayola book animal.  I really liked the cow.  I'm not sure her daughter does, but it is so cute, how can you not?  Here is the cow from the book:

And here is the one I made.  Again, I used SU! punches and DSP.  I used colors from two different color family packs, but all polka dots - I love polka dots.  Her name starts with an "L", so while I was cutting out the flowers and leaves with the Big Shot, I cut out the letter.  I just think this cow is so cute, don't you?

 

Again, thanks for looking and have a great day!

Crayola Duckie

A friend at work told me that she bought a book from the dollar bin at Target and she thought I could recreate the animals from the book using papers.  I didn't understand what she was talking about and asked her to bring in the book.  She did and I knew she was right - since I love designer paper, this was screaming my name!  I took some pictures of the animals, but on Friday night, I was at Target and found some Old Mail cards with the same animals!  I believe Crayola made the book and cards.
My friend told me that her older daughter's favorite from the book is the duck.

 The duck was the first one that caught my eye, so, that's what I made.   I used all SU! punches to create this little duckie and used the Bold Brights DSP so that everything would match.  I decided to make a little covered notebook for her daughter (whose name starts with a "C"). I hope she likes it!

Tomorrow, I'll post the second one I made for her younger daughter.  Thanks for looking!

April Challenge

Happy Spring!  Please join us in this month's challenge.  These color should be great for a Spring card.  I'll be posting our cards on the last Saturday of the month.  Send me an email with your card or leave a comment with a link to your blog - happy stamping!

And Another One!

Debbie W. joined us for the March challenge and used the sketch to make this adorable Easter card.  Isn't this cute?  I love the boldness of the dark ribbon outlining the middle image and the colors are great for Spring too!  Thanks, Debbie, for joining us - love your card!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Here's another one!

Regina made another spotlight card!  Look how simple, yet elegant this card is! I really like the colors on this card - not too much, but the spotlighted area really pops!

I really like this technique.  If you don't like coloring a lot, this is perfect for you!  I just think this technique lends itself to really cute and beautiful cards.  I will definitely be doing more of them in the future.  I learned a lot from seeing Regina's and Michelle's cards!   For more information about this card, please visit Regina's blog here:

Regina, this card is stunning.  I can't decide which one I like best!  Thank you for joining us with two cards!

Thank you for looking and have a great day!

March Challenge Cards

Happy Spring, Everyone!  It was finally a beautiful Spring day today.  I hope you were all out enjoying it :)

Let's get to the cards!  Here was the challenge:

First up is Regina's card.  I love how she did this!  I didn't realize you could achieve the spotlight effect by coloring the "spotlighted" image a shade lighter.  I LOVE this card!  It's perfect for Spring and the area Regina concentrated on for the spotlight is so cute!  Thank you for joining us, Regina.  You always make beautiful cards and inspire me!  Please check out more of Regina's wonderful creations on her blog here.

Next up is Michelle's card.  Again, what a great Spring card!  The colors are so much fun and I love that Michelle chose to spotlight two areas!  Again, I didn't realize you could spotlight an area using a different color other than black.  I learned a lot through this challenge!  The texture, the colors, the flowers and pearls...so much greatness in this card, Michelle!  I love it!

And here is my card.  A neighbor just had a baby, so it was perfect for me to break out my jumbo wheel and create this card.  When I saw the elephant, I knew I wanted to spotlight it!  I love this technique because you don't have to color too much, but I think it makes a really nice card that's totally different from the usual cards.

 

I know I have one more card coming to post and maybe even two!  I promise to post them as soon as I get them.  Thank you for looking and have a great weekend!

March Challenge

 
Happy March!  Please join us this month with the following challenge.