Happy Birthday Regina!

Happy Birthday, Regina.  I wish you a wonderful day filled with all of your favorite things!
Enjoy ~ Hugs, Cindy

Happy Birthday, Regina. Ich wünsche Ihnen einen wunderschönen Tag mit all Ihren Favoriten! Genießen Sie ~ Umarmungen, Cindy

Some cuteness for a Tuesday

Good morning!  I've been wanting to use these cute stamps for a while now.  I decided to pull them out this past weekend and use them.  I also pulled some origami I either bought in Japan or my cousins brought - there were so many beautiful patterns and colors which made it difficult to choose!  But, here are the three cards I ended up making :)  Thanks for looking and have a great day!

This last one is my absolute favorite - the bunnies are so cute, right?

Have a great day!

A quick challenge card

Happy New Year!

I've been true to my resolution to craft one day a weekend this year :)  This makes me very happy :)


This weekend, I was able to make a few cards.  Michelle and I decided to challenge each other with sketches we see that we both want to try.

Michelle chose the Clean and Simple sketch #274:

As soon as I saw this sketch, I thought of Swiss cheese!  So, I punched out some holes, sponged the edges, and stamped my cute little mouse.  I thought the sentiment to "wish big" fit this little guy and card perfectly :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Final Challenge

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas!

It is with sadness and relief that I post our final challenge.  Unfortunately, there wasn't enough interest for me to continue spending all the time to create and post these challenges.  So, instead, I resolve to do other challenges next year!  I'm looking forward to having more time to sit and create for both fun and business :)

Here was the challenge:

 

First is Michelle's card.  Isn't this cute?  It definitely looks like the stockings were hung by the chimney with care :)  I love Michelle's use of the color, textured background, and ribbons!  It is the perfect Christmas card!

When in doubt, I go to my beloved DSP :)   I've really come to love the Gumball Green and I'll be sad when it retires.  Some may look at this card and think it is too much for the eyes to handle, but I love the way this turned out.  I've been meaning to use my framelits for a while and this was the perfect opportunity.  

I wish you all a wonderful end to the year and here's to a fun and creative new year!  As always, thanks for looking!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...

It's December, we all need Christmas cards, so join us as we use the colors and sketch below to make some Christmas cards!

November Challenge Cards

November's challenge certainly was a challenge!  We all love to stamp, so not being able to use a stamp was difficult.  But, I love how these cards turned out!  Here was the challenge:

Michelle made two cards for this challenge.  I love the bold colors of this card.  It just screams happiness!  I love the different elements she used for this card.  She used a lot of dies, pearls, and metal accents.  The different DSP looks so great together. 

 The second card Michelle made has a totally different feel to it.  I find this card very elegant and beautiful.  I think it is all DSP - gorgeous, Michelle!  The blue is just striking and the butterfly really seems to come alive against the blue - love this card too!

Regina also made two cards for this challenge!  On this card, she said she did cheat and stamp, but I wouldn't have known had she not fessed up ;)  I thought it was on the paper already!  This card is a great male teenager card.   So, nice job, Regina!  I'm sure your son loved it too.

 

You can make some pretty awesome DSP yourself :)  To read more about this awesome 16th birthday card, please visit Regina's blog here:

 Regina's second card also has a totally different feel to it.  It's fund and upbeat!  I love that Max's name is the highlight to this card.  I'm sure it made his day brighter and fun filled!  To check out more about this card, please visit Regina's blog here:

Lastly, here is my card.  I'm not sure why there is a pinkish hue to the card because there is no pink on the paper or embellishments!  Anyway, I saw snowflakes when I looked at the design and decided to use my new DSP.  I also wanted to use my snowflake framelits.  After I cut out the snowflakes, I put them in some different snowflake embossing folders and ran them through the Big Shot.  I like the way they now have texture to them.  I love the new fancy metal embellishments SU! came out with in the holiday catalog and decided to add them to each snowflake.  I popped each snowflake up with dimensionals.  The card still looked like it needed something, so I grabbed some matching ribbons (love the new silver ribbon!), doubled them up, and wrapped them around the card.

I thought this was a difficult challenge, but a good one.  Sometimes, you can create some great cards with just paper and a few embellishments.  It would be fun to make some matching gift bags to these cards.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Little Ducky

Happy Tuesday!

I have a couple friends that will be having baby girls :)  I have a shower this week, so made a baby card this weekend.  I CASEd this card from Julie A.  I just thought the duck was so cute!  I didn't have the same designer paper she used, but found some cute baby feet paper.  So, I matched the colors in the designer paper with my SU! cardstock and got to work.  Since I had my polka dotted embossing folder out, I decided to go crazy and gave the duck's background and hearts some texture too! 

 

 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!