Mid Week Post

A few weeks back I applied to the 2 Sketches 4 You summer design team. I wasn't selected but you can see the wonderful work of the ladies who were selected over at the 2S4Y site, here. I like the challenge level of their sketches, I definitely plan to participate in more!

These are the application sketches:


































And these are the cards I made:
Supplies:
All Night Media wood grain
Inkadinkado Doodle Flowers
Bazzil Dotted Swiss cardstock
SU! Friendship Blooms
Prima Flowers
Pearl stickers
K & Co. gems









Supplies:
Hero Arts playful animals
Stampendous Bee Day (party hats)
Sandylion birthday
DCWV papers
Lasting Impressions Lemon Tart paper
Stickles - diamond










Even though I wanted to hoard it, I loved the "Let's Party" card too much to not share it, I gave it to sissy-in-law for her birthday at the beginning of the month. I also made a similar card for my boss's birthday, stay tuned for that one next mid-week.

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

Loving Love

I didn't get up to too much crafting this weekend, but I did pull this card together for Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge! I've been wanting to play with my wood grain stamp using colors other than brown. I'll be playing with more of that for sure! More color with my mesh stamp too, most def.

This week's colors:











Loving Love.
Supplies:
Crafts Etc. cardstock
All Night Media wood grain stamp
SU! Short & Sweet
Offray ribbon
Candy dots - Raspberry

Lovely

I didn't think I was going to have time to make something for this week's Color Inspiration over at Kristina's. Gladly, I was able to whip this card up and still catch the last bits of daylight to get a picture! I'm also giving this one to mom for Mother's Day.

This week's colors:










Love You
Supplies:
Crafts Etc. brown cardstock
DCWV "mustard" cardstock and patterned paper
Basic Gray all natural stamps
SU! Short & Sweet
Candy Dots - Sun Yellow
Nestabilites label one

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

Flowery

First and foremost a giant Happy Birthday to my favorite sissy-in-law! Wahoo!

Secondmost, on to the post! This week is flower week at the Hero Arts blog. April showers (which we didn't have here) bring May flowers and all that! I don't have too many HA flower stamps. Well, I do have the tub of fanciful flowers so I should amend that to: I don't have too many that aren't tiny. Or borders come to think of it. Anyway here come the pictures.

This may or may not be given to mom for mother's day (look away now, mom, if you want to be surprised!). I may also take the elements I like and adjust the colors and other parts I'm unsure of for a new card. The colors also happen to be those of a local sports team, which wasn't intentional (meaning mom isn't an avid Suns fan) and may or may not be a deal breaker. I'm picky!

Mom
Supplies:
HA solid abstract heart
HA curly alphabet
HA floral borders
Offray ribbon
Prima flowers
Joann brads
Diamond Stickles
HA flower gems








Another card, this time using the tub o' flowers. I wish there were tulips in this set.

You're Special
Supplies:
HA fanciful flowers
HA Ink n' Stamp birds and branches (sentiment & butterflies)
Making Memories ribbon
Diamond Stickles (on all of the daisies)
Ranger Glossy Accents (on all butterfly spots)

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.

Best Wishes for 50 More

Kristina Werner is celebrating her 50th Color Inspiration Challenge this week! What fun! I only wish I knew about them back in the beginning. This will be my 6th color challenge, not quite 50 but still quite fun.

Kristina's Colors













Best Wishes
Supplies:
Prima screen pattern stamp
SU! Short & Sweet
Penny Black Love in Bloom
DCWV papers
Prima flowers
Pearl stickers
Favorite Findings buttons
red ribbon - source unknown
Nestabilities Label One







In keeping with this week's stricter rules of color conformity, there used to be barely visible tiny bits of green in the patterned paper - I colored them brown!

Sweet Cuppin' Cakes

I decided to get back to cupcakes for this week's TECC. The result has me thinking of cutesy bakeries and wishing for a cupcake. Mmm cupcakes.

Taylor's Sketch

















You're Sweet
Supplies:
SU! Crazy for Cupcakes
Studio G from series 27
DCWV Papers
Stickles - Yellow and Cotton Candy