Rock 'N Roll!!

Hello!

A few days ago Sandy Allnock was on Periscope and announced this AWESOME challenge...



#CRAFTCHELLA2016!
It's inspired by the Coachella music & art festival that is going on right now in California.

The idea behind the challenge is to create a music inspired card... but with a twist- stretch your stamps to use them in a musical way!

It took me a few days to come up with an idea... but I decided to use a few new stamps that I haven't inked up yet! I thought the girl from Avery Elle's Skating By looked like a punk rocker, minus the roller skates (although, she could probably rock with the skates too!)



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The guitar is actually one of the birds from WPlus9's Happy Birds!  Who would have thought the first time I'd use a bird- it'd be as a guitar! LOL!  The sentiment is also pieced together with stamps from Lawn Fawn- 'I like the way you... roll' is from Let's Roll (a sushi set!), 'r-o-c-k' and the letter 'n' are from the letter sets quinn's abcs and Claire's ABCs!

I colored the images with copics and added a layer of sparkle using a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen in clear to anything I could- you're not a rock star without some glitter, right?

50th Anniversary!

Hello there!

I'm finally back after having my husband's family in town last week to celebrate my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary!  (which actually isn't until December, but it was best time for everyone to travel)

Anyway, I helped with the party decor by making some centerpieces for a few of the tables. I painted some small terra cotta pots gold, and planted succulents in them! (Have I mentioned that I love succulents?)


I finished them off with die cut tags (Hero Arts) and number dies (MFT) tied on some black twine.

and of course I had to make them a card too...


Keeping with the gold and black theme, I stamped the large flower from Avery Elle's Petals & Stems in gold and embossed. I used the 'happy' cutaways die from Winnie & Walter along with the anniversary sentiment from the Big, Bold & the Happy, and created a 'shadow' effect my layering the same die cut from black card stock. I tied in the same 50 number dies from the centerpieces in gold glitter card stock.

Hope to get to more crafting this week, but I have been coloring along (when I can) with Kathy Racoosin's newest 30 day coloring challenge and posting onto Instagram- check it out if you're not already joining in! Such an easy to squeeze in a bit of craftiness, even if it's not a complete card!

Until next time...

Krafty Birthday Wishes

When everyone in my house is asleep... mama gets crafty! Last night was no exception... it was late, but I still wanted to play, and I had this idea in my head I had to get down on paper!

When I saw that AEI♥U's newest challenge was Non-White Card Base I had to play along!



For me, when I thought non-white- Kraft cardstock is the first thing that popped into my head!  So my Avery Elle stash is still growing (not fast enough...) but I love using this Petals & Stems set with pigment inks on Kraft!



I stamped the sentiment, flower, leaves & berries with white pigment ink (Hero Arts Unicorn White) on my favorite tag die (Pretty Pink Posh) then using some fantastix dabbed colors using Memento Luxe pigment inks (Pear Tart, Lilac Posies) on top of the white. Finished off with some sequins, a bright doily and called it done!

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy *almost* Friday!

You Party Animal!

I was quite crafty this weekend- What a better way to spend the day when there are *EXTREME* heat warnings... yuck! I'll spend my days staying cool inside with air conditioning! (when the littles are napping of course ;))

I'm joining the AEIHeartU Challenge: Embossing today...



I stamped a few of the Party Animals in a rainbow of colors awhile back, but didn't have anything to put them on... until now! Might just have to make a few more of these with each colored balloon animal for a fun card set.



Since this is an embossing challenge, I embossed everything I could... the balloon animal and sentiments are heat embossed. I forgot how much I like the look of the smooth and shiny embossing- time to emboss all things! I mounted the party animal circle on the embossed card base for a quick CAS design.

Thanks for stopping by- Happy Monday!

Sweet Macarons!

Happy Friday!

Another card for the week, this time playing along with Avery Elle's AEI♥U Challenge



and it's a RAINBOW challenge!!

I had a few ideas in my head for this one, but this one came together first! Using the Bonjour set, I stamped and colored the macarons in the classic rainbow colors- ROY G BIV!



Who could resist a stack of macarons like that?? Certainly not me!

Thanks for stopping by- have a FABULOUS weekend!

Thanks!

A quick card to share a Thank You card my mom asked me to make...

I paired Avery Elle's Petals & Stems with the Thanks diecut from Mama Elephant, finished off with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and came up with this!



I just love these colorful doilies I found at Michaels too, I wanted to keep the card clean and simple and the doily made it easy to throw in a pop of color!

Hope you are having a fabulous week!

Hello Ellie!

It's easy to say that I have found myself completely OBSESSED will all these cute elephants that have been released lately... they newest one from Avery Elle just arriving in my mailbox over the weekend- I couldn't wait to play with her!

So, I'm squeezing in just under the deadline for the Stripes Challenge at AEI♥U challenge!



With some washi tape, I masked off some lines, used distress inks to create a stripe pattern and stamped the little flower from the set in create a random background, added some more patterned washi tapes, and die cut the tag shape at an angle...



Added the sweet elephant and sentiment, also from Avery Elle's We R Family and called it done! (oh, and we can't forget about the sequins too of course!)

Thanks for stopping by!

AEI♥U Masking Challenge

Squeezing in one last card for the weekend and just under the wire for the AEI♥U Challenge!

I had been itching to play along with this challenge all week since I recently got some new (to me) Avery Elle stamps! I thought this Petals & Stems set was perfect for the MASKING challenge!



I just love the look of white stamping on kraft cardstock, and so that's what I did! Along with adding some color using some pigment inks (note to self: buy more inks!)



With the exception of the sentiment banner, the flowers and leaves are all one layer- here's a close up pic...



I love the way this turned out and can't wait to make some more cards like this!

Thanks for stopping by- hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

Hello Love!

Happy February!!! Wow can you believe we're one month down into 2015 already?!?

It's the first of the month so that means time for some new challenges! and to kick off the season of LOVE the new challenges at Anya, Oddies & Others are sure to get you in the lovey dovey mood :)

For those lovers of all things The Greeting Farm, the challenge is to use at least one of the following:

* COLOR RED
* HEART
* STRIPES
* LETTERS

I chose to go with red, heart, & letters! and I just knew I had to use this new sweet Heart Ian! The sentiment is from Avery Elle's Oh Yeah! You have until February 20th to play along- hope to see you there!! Details HERE!

Who wouldn't want to receive a Valentine from this handsome guy?



I'm also joining in the fun over at the Farm Fresh Friday Challenge at The Greeting Farm- It's a Boys Only challenge!

Halloween Macarons!

(ok, this one is even a surprise for me- but there's so much fun stuff going on I can't keep up! THIRD post of the day! Please see my Paper Sweeties post here, and Chi Chi Memories post here!)

If you haven't noticed yet, I've been a little obsessed with tags lately... that's not a bad obsession right?

Especially since I got this one from Pretty Pink Posh! So when I saw that the challenge over on Avery Elle was to use tags- how could I not join in on the taggy fun??



Paired it up with the color coordinates from the Wednesday Challenge on Simon Says Stamp and I was set!


I colored the macarons in orange, purple & green and matched it with some cardstock scraps that I can never seem to find the end of! & added the sentiments from a Hero Arts Halloween greetings set.


Ok, that *SHOULD* be it for me today....



until tomorrow! :D

Bonjour!

Bonjour! Happy Weekend!

When I saw the Avery Elle AEI♥U Challenge this week- I just had to play along!



I finally had a card to put these macarons I had inked up when I first bought some Memento Luxe Inks- & I just spied some new to me colors and Joann's think I *need* them!



Enjoy your weekend.. looking forward to some more crafty time this weekend- it's way too HOT to do anything else!

Washi Macarons!

One more card to squeeze in for the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol contest!

A few weeks ago I had seen this magazine ad for Waverly fabrics and it stuck with me...



and it gave me the perfect idea for my card, and another reason to play with my new (& first!) Avery Elle stamp set- Bonjour! I've been a little obsessed with macarons lately.  My sister, nieces & I made them for the first time a few weeks ago & they were tasty! Definitely going to make them again!

I paper pieced (well sort of- since the washi tape is translucent I stamped the macaron image on card stock, cut it out, placed the washi tape over the image and trimmed the extra- instead of stamping on the washi tape itself.) the macarons and stacked them and added a flag with the a sentiment from the same stamp set.



Hope that give you a SWEET start to a Monday morning! Thanks for stopping by!

Celebrate!

Please see my first post HERE for my TGF FFF Challenge!

Jumping in just under the wire to join in some new (to me) challenges this week!

I was really excited when I saw these challenges because I instantly got the idea to put them together! Using some Avery Elle freebies (found here) for the AEI♥U Challenge #1 Birthdays along with the Retro Sketches Challenge I was able to put this together super quick!



Have a FABULOUS weekend!