Miss You

So, I just found this new group called Tally Scrapper, and this weekend they are having a big crop weekend. It is so fun, we have had games, and challenges.  I made this card for the card challenge.
Here is the card recipe they gave us.

4.25 x 5.5 card

Scallops (anywhere on the card)

3 Buttons

1 Stamped image

A sentiment (done any way you want)

I made the card base, out of a scrap.  The digital stamp was a freebie from MelJens, I colored it with Rose Art pencils.  I cut the digital image and the mat for it, and the scallop with my Fiskars shape cutter.  I used my homemade twine and got 3 buttons from my stash.  I dug out some stickers from my stash, to spell out Miss you.

Fluttering by just to say Hi!

I love how this card turned out.  I belong to a group, minialbumscraps, and one of the swaps I am signed up is a card swap.  I have to make 6 cards, and I will get 6 in return.  I will have some of the autoposted. We leave on vacation next week, and I will try and post while gone, but I have no idea what we will be doing while we are gone.

The image is from MelJensDesigns, and I colored it with colored pencils.  I typed up the sentiment on my computer.  All the paper and card base, were from my scrap file,so I am not sure who makes them.  I cut the sentiment with a fiskars scissors.  I just added 2 buttons.  I love buttons, and I think they are a perfect touch.
Have a great day!

Miss Mouse loves Cupcakes

I love this little mouse!  I think this card turned out really well.  I made the card base standard A2 size, out of lavendar cardstock.  I got the image from Designed2Delight, and colored it with Rose Art colored pencils.  I cut it into a circle using my Fiskars shape cutters.  The other paper was scraps, and I used a fiskars texture plate on the striped paper. Then glittered the polka dot piece, every dot!!  Added a little bling at the top and glittered the mouse ears, and cupcake with Studio G glitter in Pink, white, and purple.  The dashes are a Tombow ABT marker. 

I will be entering this in the Designed2Delight challenge for bling, and image challenge.

Close up of cupcake

Tip of the day :)

Today, I am so busy.  It is my husband's birthday, so I am working on his card, and next week we head out on vacation.  I have to finish a quilt for my friend's baby.  I get to see him for the first time!  I am so excited to see them all.
So the other day, I was at a garage sale.  I LOVE garage sales!!  I found a guillotine cutter for $5, and then I found some fiskars texture plates.  I wanted to try them, because they are so much cheaper than cuttlebug folders, and they cover a larger area.
The texture plates work in the cuttlebug.  This is the recipe  plate A, texture plate, side you want to use up, paper, rubber mat, plate C.

For the rubber mat, I got a plumber's gasket at Lowe's 6x6 and 1/16" thick.  It was $.98. They had them at Home Depot, but they were a 2 pack for almost $5.

I love it!  The texture pads I got include a spider web, waves, straight lines, and paw prints! There were more, each plate is double sided!

I hope this helps someone out.

Hello Hello

This card totally gets the Beatles song stuck in my head. LOL.  This a different kind of card for me.  The striped paper and flower embellishment are digital elements, and I printed them out.  They from puddle jumper at A-manda Creations.  The digital stamp is MelJen's again. :)  The card base is from Studio G, I love the wavy edge.  I cover it in yellow from my scrap bin, and inked the edges in orange.  Colored the hello with watercolor pencils and then glittered them with studio G glitter glue.  I popped the flower up with dimensionals.  Then added a bow from my ribbon stash.

Have a fantastic day!!

Cupcakes!

I had the idea for this card after checking out the Peachy Keen Challenge Blog.  I also knew I wanted to enter the Birthday Sundaes Challenge.  Think it turned out pretty well.  It was for sure a challenge to use the colors they picked.  So I used a Studio G card base, traced a scrap piece for the background. Then to make the top of the paper different, I took  a scalloped circle and traced it multiple times with my gelly roll pen.  The cupcakes are cut from my doodlecharms cricut cartridge, and then I dashed them with my gelly rolls.  Added a little twine and it was done.  Oh, and in the upper part, Happy birthday was hand written in, and it kinda blends, but it is there.

I'm Sorry Bear

  I love this little bear.  I got him at, surprise suprise, MelJen's.  I can't believe how awesome her freebies are.  I colored him with my colored pencils and blended with alcohol.  This is based off a cardmaps sketch.  I forget to look at which month it was.  i will see if I can find it.  I matted the digital stamp on Doodlebug designs, petite prints in bubblegum.  The background is pink cardstock and I border punched the 2 sides of it.  The plaid is doodlebug designs nifty notions.    I put the ribbon across it and added the bow, and 2 orange eyelets.

Here is a closeup of the bear.