CR84FN30 - Fox & Friends

 Wow June 1st already, can you believe it?  In another week or so my two teenagers will be out of school for the summer and since nether of them drive alone yet guess who gets to play taxi driver, lol? 

I'm OK with driving them around and not in any hurry for them to drive on their own, I have enough grey hair to dye right now as it is.

The card that I have for today was created using the CR84FN30 Color Challenge colors and when I first saw the pastel colors I thought baby.  So I pulled out the SU stamp set Fox & Friends and went with it.  I kept my card clean and simple with a crumb cake card base, a panel of so saffron designer paper (3 1/4" x 3 1/4") with a white mat, then stamped the cute animal images in the three colors and punched them out using my square punches.  The one square was stamped with the "hello baby" from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set four times in the three colors then punched out and taped to a scallop square.  Then I applied a punched out star and button.  Along the bottom of the card I stamped my sentiment from the stamp set A Word for You, added a strip of pierced so saffron cardstock and my ribbon.

Enjoy your day!

CQC#87 - Whooo's Birthday

Hello friends!  Today I have a card and 3D project that I've created for the Colour Queen Color Challenge. 

But before I get into my post I'd just like to say something...month's ago I created an owl using the Stampin' Up Pillow Box Sizzix die (you can see my post here), it was original I thought because I had never seen anyone create an owl using the Pillow Box die and I subscribe and follow a large amount of blogs and I'm constantly surfing the web.  Well since then I've seen several people post on their blogs the same owl using the Pillow Box die without so much as a mention of my name, link to my blog or to even drop me an email to asking if I'd mind them using my idea.  Don't get me wrong I do understand that if you put something out on the web some people feel it's up for grabs.  I also know that copying is the best form of flattery and that we all find inspiration in each others work...but it does upset me when someone claims to have created it themselves without giving credit.  I'm a big believer in giving credit where credit is due and I've always tried to stick to that rule here on my blog.  If I've ever gotten inspiration from someone I link to that person, it's common courtesy.  It's also easy to improve on something that someone else has originally created.

 The Owl Happy Birthday card uses the SU stamp set Curly Cute, the Two-Step Owl punch and the Scallop Border punch as well as some Melon Mambo designer paper.

 For the Owl Pillow Box you can see the supplies below that I used in order to create him, starting with the Pillow Box die I cut out using the Soft Sued and then I cut one half of the die out with the Melon Mambo designer paper.  I used the various sized circle punches for the eyes, heart punch for the two feet and beak, large oval for the wings and punched a little more than half of the scallop circle punch out of the yellow and layered them for the belly.  The one thing you must have when putting one of these together is excellent adhesive, I used my Scor-tape to adhere the box, designer paper, scallop belly layers and wings.

Thank you for your visit and have a nice day!

SSSC119 - Patsy Pixie

Happy Memorial Weekend!  It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge (SSSC119).  For my card I used the Stamping Bella stamp Patsy Pixie.  I saw this cute stamp at Archivers the other day and couldn't resist, it's been forever since I've stamped with any of my Bella images and this one was so fun to color.  As you can see I flipped Karen's sketch and since I put my sentiment in with my image I decided to go a cluster of buttons instead of a large circle.  After coloring with Copics I added some Spica clear glitter to some of the flowers to add a bit of sparkle to the image.

Supplies: Patsy Pixie - Stamping Bella, Mega Mixed Messages (Hello) - PTI, Lime Twist - My Mind's Eye DP, Copics, Spica Glitter pen, Ribbon, Twine, Scallop border die - TE.  Colors: Rich Razzleberry.

To play along create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen’s blog The Sweetest Thing and link your card so we can all see your creation! 

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this week’s sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Jen Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

Dana White: Dana's House of Cards

Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop/SSC12 - You Make Me Smile

Happy Wednesday!  We've made it half way through the week! 

The card I have for today is for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop and for the Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #12.  The challenge for this month's PTI Blog Hop was to create a card or project using flowers.  I wanted to create a card that would be bright and cheerful as well as have a flower on it so I used some Cosmo Cricket DeLovely designer paper, pulled out my PTI Signature Greetings stamp set and Beautiful Blooms flower die and had some fun.  Iwona's Sketchbook Saturday sketch actually has the circle for the sentiment to the right side of the card but as I was putting my card together I felt it looked better to the left.  It may be difficult to see from the photo but for the flower I actually die cut four of the same flowers, folded them in half and layered them together, then added smaller die cut flower and button with thread.

I'm so glad you stopped by!