Thank you card for World Cardmaking Day Challenge

at Lawn Fawn blog. The challenge is to make a Thank You Card, and send it to someone, so I made this card, and will mail it to my best friend from College. The sentiment stamp is from Lawn Fawn, of course (:-)) and tiny maple leaf is from their new halloween set. I luv this little stamp! It's so small but it became in handy, and I know I'll be using it often! :-) The sentiment is attached with pop up glue dots for a bit of dimention. I distressed the edges of the front panel and inside of the scalloped heart, with the mix of those distress inks I used for maple leaves. Thank you very much for stopping by my blog today! Hope you all had a great World Cardmaking day & weekend! :-)

eek! eek! Missed the deadline!

I loved this sketch when I found it at one stop craft challenge, but I missed the deadline to submit :-( But I'm uploading this here so that my "House Mouse" friends can see my card, using this sketch :-) Since the color of the bird is really blue, I wanted the whole card to be in blue tone. I used cuttlebug embossing folder with birds & branches on Coordination CS & sanded it to get those white color. I used glossy accent to the berry the bird brought for this mouse :-) Inside of the card, it says "the best present". Others are rather self-explanatory. Thanks for visiting my blog today. Have a great weekend! :-)

Penny Black Critters!

I made this card, using my fav. image which I hadn't used for a year. Now it's time for all Critters on Penny Blakc Saturday Challenge! When I started to think of the card design, I saw this nice sketch at Card Pattern challenge, so I combined those 2 :-) Those 2 hedges are colored, trimmed and attached with dimentional glue foams to give a bit of depth, and the sentiment also. I used Glossy accent on ladybugs, cuz their red wings are always shiney :-) I used yellow glitter glue on the bee's wings. Others are pretty much self explanatory. Thanks for visiting my blog today. You'll all have a nice evening!

Strawberry Yummy Tilda

When I saw this Tilda stamp, I had to have it :-) I luv anything, anybody, with Berry image stamps, and I mean, all kind of berries :-) I made this card for Just Magnolia week111 "paper piecing to dress" challenge. I luv Paper piecing! And I found this strawberry paper from my stash. :-) When I thought of the design, I saw this sketch at Magnolia mania #13 "ribbon and sketch" challenge. So I made this card to submit to these 2 challenge. I think everything is pretty much self-explanatory :-) I did put glitters on the lace of her sleeves, which is hard to see on the picture, as well as the shining on strawberries and tilda's boots, to make them look a bit real, using sakura clear glaze pen. Thank you for visiting my blog today! I appreciate your time & comments :-)

"Clean & Simple"!

That's the challenge at Penny Black Sat. Challenge blog this week. Here is my card. I LUV this PB cats' image, esp. for spring card! I luv this sentiment from Lawn Fawn too :-) Since it's "Clean & Simple", I didn't do too much, other than coloring the image, put a bit of glitter on butterflies, corner heart punches, placing tiny white pearls in them, baker's twine, nestie die, and distressing around the sentiment.

"May Flowers"

This week's challenge at House Mouse & Friends Monday challenge is "May Flowers". This is the card I made. I colored the mice with water color pencils, used glossy accent on the mouse's eyes, and a bit glitter on the flower. I inked the inside of nesties with distress inks. I punched out the small butterflies from shimmering purple paper. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I also stamped the flowers from my HM Lavender stamp (partially inked the stamp), and put some glitters here & there. I used pop up glue dots for the main image & the sentiment.

"Friends" card for CIC #110

Over 2 weeks, I didn't make a card. ha! Lots are going on here (mostly not good things :-( ) But I finally found the time to make a card! I got inspired by the photo at Cupcake inspirations challenge #110 ; flowers, bees, butterflies, grass, green, yellow, pink...so here is my card! The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and luving it! I used TH's distress ink in 3 different colors around the sentiment. It's attached with dimentional glue dots. I also colored white CS in those color inks, and stamped flowers, then cut & attached to the stamped images on green with dots background paper. I luv the way those flowers colors came out, instead of using other coloring media. I used border punch to create Grass in two different colors, layered them, attached on the buttom of the flowers. Those bees are old CTMH. I paperpieced their bodies, attached them,and used vellum for the wings, and used stickles to give them a bit of shimmering. I also paperpieced the butterfly which came in a stamp set of flowers from Fiskars. I used sakura clear glaze pen for body & antenae of bees & butterfly, to give more definition. It's very hard to see in the pic. but they are there! :-) I used sakura white opaque gel pen for dots inside of the blue flowers. Those bottons are clear yellow & clear lime green with glitters in them. I used baker's twines in two different colors. A bit of gems & tiny pearls and the card was finished! :-)

HM & friends challenge #82

This image is really big, bigger than my halloween easel card i made, with HM halloween image. I had to make the card with 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" base cs instead of 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". But I luv this HM design! And if you look closer, the middle brown mouse is giving a hand (for some reason, i can't figure out what), to the next grey little mouse, and I thought this would be perfect for this week's challenge; "You gotta have friends"! :-) I distressed the grass cut outs, to look a bit more fall-like (Fiskar's border punch). I placed 3 layers of grass cut outs. I used Glossy accents for rain drops. I used broze color gel pen for leave's veins. I luv my MICE friends :-)

PB Sat. Challenge wk117

... is a color combo of Purple, Cream & Brown! I haven't made a card with this Pansy image for such a long time! Saying stamp is Hero Arts. I didn't think Purple & Brown can go together but i'm glad i could make a card with this challenge :-) I used yellow stickles on the center of the flowers. Sentiment is heat embossed, attached with pop up glue dots, but can't tell on this pic. lol :-) oh, yea, the card stock color of main images are both CREAM :-)

Simon Says Challenge - Paper Piecing!

I luv Paper Piecing! So much Fun! BUT my stamps are very limited to do good paper piecing, esp. the companies Simon Says carries. This is the stamp i chose. It's Penny Black. I'm not sure you can tell all which i did paperpiercing, from this pic. Well, the largest part is the table cloth. I matched with the backgrond paper. Others?? All 5 Gift Bags! oh my! Those were very small to cut out! For christmas tree border, i used a piece of Silky Red Ribbon underneath, to give a bit of soft, but shiny look instead of regular card stock. I used my fav.! Sakura Quick Glue pen to draw the edge of the circle cut out with the sentiment, red-glittered it! I drew the silver earrings & the necklace for a blond girl, and gold earrings & the necklace for brown hair girl, using gel pens. This stamp wasn't meant for Christmas time, which i can tell from the original coloring but when i started to paperpierce them, i found more Christmas design & color papers which fitted well. As usual??, i used 3D glue dots for sentiment & the main image, but used thicker ones for the main image.