Mid Week Post

A little woodland creature for this week's middle.

Lil Fox
Supplies:
Imaginisce Foxy
All Night Media woodgrain stamp
DCWV papers
Ranger Glossy Accents (on eyes)
Prima flowers
pearl stickers
Offray ribbon
hemp string

Mid Week Post

Welcome to the middle of the week! This week we have greetings from a little bird.

Hello
Supplies:
HA Ink N' Stamp Birds and Branches
HA Ink N' Stamp Lily Pad (sentiment) DCWV papers JoAnn's sew essential buttons Embroidery floss
DCWV papers
EK Success dotted scallop border punch

Free Hugs!

For a limited time only you too can have a free hug! Well, maybe not, I'm not really a big hugger unless you're family. Though if you asked really nicely I might make an exception. But I made this card as a "sorry about your recent lay-off." I wasn't 100% certain what would be appropriate in the situation but knew I wanted to let my pal know I was thinking of her. I also knew that a fluffy kitten offering hugs could never be inappropriate!

It has been a few weeks since I first Mojo'd so I decided to use their most recent sketch.

The sketch:

















Free Hugs
Supplies:
Lasting Impressions Lemon Tart paper
DCWV patterned papers
Stampendous Fluffle Hugs
HA Clear Design small variety alpha
Prima screen print stamp
Offray ribbon
Candy Dots raspberry
Prima flowers
pearl stickers

A Mid Week Post

I have a few cards sitting around that were made just for fun that I have yet to share. Since the majority of my posts occur around the weekends I though it would be fun to have some mid week posts with these cards.

Wonderful Cupcakes
Supplies:
SU! Crazy for Cupcakes
SU! Warm Words
DCWV papers
Favorite Findings buttons
Ranger Glossy Accents (on cherries)











Some hand stitching along the right... used a Cutter Bee bug to make the holes then hand stitched with regular white thread. Took forever! Not sure I'll be rushing back to that technique right away.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

I got this kitty stamp at the stamp show - four weeks ago! He's been sitting around, colored, since then just waiting for the perfect card.

Enter TECC #61:














Tulips are my favorite!
Supplies:
SEI Dill Blossom patterned papers
Bazzil Dotted Swiss paper
Magenta stamp
Ranger Glossy Accents (on kitten's nose)
Flowers unknown
Favorite findings button
Hemp cord

A Fun Hybrid

Since I hate putting things away I usually have a ton of paper and scraps out from cards I've just made (or attempted and abandoned). I pulled this one together with the leftovers I had laying around after my Color Inspiration and Window cards. Not for any contest, this one's just for fun:

Supplies:
DCWV papers
Clearly Wordsworth Sweet Pea
Offray Ribbons
JoAnn brand buttons
Stickles - Yellow









Everybody now! "You make me happy when skies are gray! You'll never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away!"

Windows (Not from Microsoft)

This week's Hero Arts challenge is Window Cards. I've been a little slow on the window ideas so this is the only entry I have so far (well, I did re-enter my cheese). Not sure if I'll get to another before the weekend is up, but windows will be on my mind!

A Nice Day...

















...To Play
Supplies:
DCWV papers
HA Clear Design Love my Dog
HA Clear Design Love my Cat
HA Clear Design Elephants (the clouds are the tree minus the trunk from that set)
K & Co. gemstones
Favorite Findings buttons
Offray Ribbon

A Spring Scene

Another new thing I thought I'd try is to make a little scene on one of my cards. It started because I thought it would be cute to have an elephant and duck playing in the water, wasn't sure what else to do around that other than try a springy scene.

Fun & Laughter
Supplies:
Bazzil Bling cream cardstock
DCWV patterned paper
HA Clear Design Elephants
HA Clear Design Playful Animals
HA Ink n Stamp Birds and Branches
Fiskars Celebrate (sentiment)
Stickles
Ranger Glossy accents
Pearl Stickers
K & Co. gemstones
Simply grossgrain ribbon

Cherish is the word I use to describe

I've been really eager to try another color challenge, especially one with more colors than I typically use. I normally choose my colors by picking out coordinating patterned paper. That means I generally only stick to two or three colors with everything I make. I was glad to challenge myself by starting with the colors rather than the paper.

This week's Color Inspiration











Cherish
Supplies:
SU! Warm words
HA Ink N Stamp Birds & Branches
Sandy Lion patterned paper
Offray ribbon
Light blue embroidery floss
JoAnn brand button
Flowers unknown

A Bug I like

Phew! It's been a busy crafty few days. I did find time to pull together this little card for Taylor's cupcake challenge. I got some new paper that I really wanted to use since it is much brighter and more vibrant than anything I had before. Finally some good yellows!

Taylor's Sketch












My take: Bug me!
Supplies:
DCWV papers (the citrus and green stacks!)
Stampin Up! Very Punny
Heidi Grace flowers
EK Success dotted scallop border punch

Shapes - Piggly Wiggly

This is actually the first shape card I played with! It was really fun watching it come together, it all worked so much better (and easier!) than I expected. It is also a tri-fold which I have not done before.

Cutesy Piggy
Supplies:
DCWV papers
Pearl stickers (colored black)
K & Co. gemstones
HA Clear Design Number Zero
HA Clear Design Messages
HA CD Small Variety Alpha
Offray grossgrain ribbon






The nostrils are zeros and the smile is a parenthesis.

Hidden Message!













The inside. You already knew what it was going to say, didn't you? "Hogs & Kisses!"













Corked ribbon tail! Thanks to Traci for teaching me the technique!














Here is detail of the tri-foldedness.















I think this one went to the market.

Shapes - Special Flower

The inside of this one is slightly confusing. I didn't really think it through as I was putting it together. You'll see when we get to the picture. This is another HA shape entry. I might play around with the sentiment to see if I can get it less "special."

Flower
Supplies:
DCWV patterned paper
JoAnn buttons
Embroidery floss
JoAnn swirl paper clips
Pink organdy ribbon
Pearl stickers
K & Co. gemstones
HA Anytime Messages
HA Letter L






Here you see regarding the sentiment placement, isn't exactly right. It would help if the y in the "you are" were capitalized so you could tell it was the begging of another sentiment. The two left side petals go together and the two top right petals go together. Reads: "There's no one like you" and "You are special to me." (I also could have taken the picture with the heart stamped petal pointing straight down so it would have been both left and both right. Oh well!)
















The card spins open. I actually used a spinner apparatus (penny & pop dot sandwich) to allow for easy spinning, but it sits in a single circle instead of sliding through a channel.

Color Inspiration

I wanted to play along in this week's color inspiration at Kristina Werner's site. I've played with black and white before but it was amazing how hard it was to not add a pop of color somewhere!

The inspiration











The Card
Supplies:
Crafts Etc! Cardstocks
DCWV patterned papers
HA Clear Design Elephants
Pearl Stickers
Embroidery floss
Organdy ribbon
EK Success swiss cheese border punch







A side look at the "swiss cheese" complete with pearls.

Thinking of You

I've been a busy crafting bee this week! Here's another creation I made for the Hero Arts little things challenge. I had to force myself to use white cardstock!

Thinking of You
Supplies:
HA Fanciful Flowers
HA Clear Design Messages
Doodlebug Tags
K & Co. Rhinestone












Now includes artful tree branch shadows:

















I went to a stamping convention today with Lysa and bought some excellent new stamps. Expect to be seeing some more from me soon!

Copic Colorings

Thanks to an awesome House/Pup sitting gig I had some spare cash to splurge on a sweet treat for myself: A set of Copic markers! WOO! I didn't mention last post but the duckie on the behbeh shower card was my first real Copic coloring attempt. I'm still learning and playing and loving them the more I go! I felt like sharing a few things I've colored this week that I find especially cheerful.

The tree is SU It's a Stretch and the animals are HA Playful Animals:

Tree

















Animals























I do have a new card to share (that I especially love) but want to get it in the mail before I post it, on the off chance the recipient checks my blog. I also hope to get some more cards made this weekend, I have a few birthdays and one birth day coming!

Cupkizzles #49

Brother's birthday is coming up in less than two weeks. For his card I decided to play along in this week's TECC (#49!) over at Taylored Expressions (see second half of this post).

This is the sketch.









I was expecting this sketch to be a challenge. Normally when I attempt this type of symmetry I end up thinking my design looks too simple. I liked playing with Brother's card so much though that I made a second. (Does that make me a cheater?)

Grillin' and Chillin'
(The inside says "And Chillin' Happy Birthday!")
Supplies:
Studio G grill set from series 14
SEI patterned paper
Bazzil Cardstock
JoAnn's Sew Essential buttons








How Sweet
Supplies:
Stampendous Hey There Cupcake
SEI patterned and solid paper
Heidi Grace printed flowers
White Opal Liquid Pearls








I'm pretty psyched that I was able to line everything up so well! Really, it's layouts like this that make me wish I had a tiny level...

Mini Mischief

Not much of a craft-stravaganza going on for me this weekend. I have some things I would like to work on but I just don't feel like dealing with my cramped craft area. So lazy has prevailed! Though I did toss this mini card together real quick for this week's HA Mini Cards Challenge. I had the mini card sitting around since the paper challenge, and actually the cat and sentiment from the same time too. Was trying for awhile to figure out how I wanted it to come together and this is the result:

Mischief Maker
Supplies:
Making Memories patterned paper
DCWV card stock
HA I Love My Cat






I'm also entering Little Birthday into the challenge.