Mix It Up Challenge Blog #39: Boots for Flower Pots

Hello crafty friends :o)  I hope you are enjoying all the inspiration today.

This post is for Mix It Up Challenge Blog: This is month is Choose Your Own Technique.

A Day For Daisies images are always so beautiful and whimsical.  This image is Favorite Flower Pots, in which I got out my Gelatos and water colored.  I gave it a country look by adding a ribbon with denim and jute, little twine on the tag.

 Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Arty Divas: #25 Anything Goes
• Dream Valley: #228 All Occasions 
• We Love 2 Create: #7 Anything Goes Mixed Media 
• The Crafter's Cafe: #246 Anything Goes

stamps: A Day For Daisies: Favorite Flower Pots, SU: Chic Boutique
paper: Recollections, K&Company
die- cuts: MFT: Tag stax
embellishments: Celebrate It: ribbon, the Paper Studio: flowers, pearls, twine

Mix It Up! Challenge Blog #8: Flap Fold Christmas

Hello crafty friends!    I have 3 posts for you today!  Enjoy the inspiration :o)

In this post I'm sharing my card for Mix It Up! Challenge Blog, this month's challenge is all about the "Fancy Fold".

I'm not big on some "Fancy Fold" cards, mainly because I want the card to be able to stand on their own.  There are a lot of folds, that don't allow the cards to stand and I picked one of those to do for this post.  I went through my Pinterest folder of cards saved to see what I liked.  The Flap Fold card stood out and I wanted to give it a go.  There are several tutorials out there on blogland, so just watch a couple and make it your own.  The couple I watched, the punch on top was mainly off to one side, but I wanted mine in the middle.  Instead of using a punch (this is why they were off center), I used a die-cut, so I could center it.

The center punch is big enough where the tab will not hit it when opening and closing.  The snowman image from A Day For Daisies called Mr Snowman, is popped up, so it can be used as a tab to hold the front flap down (my snowman was a tad too tall, but it works).  He was also colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the inside.  Hopefully you will give your cards a new fold or 2.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge: Snow is for "Snow People"
• Crafty Catz: #395 Anything Goes + Lit It Snow
• Kleuren met Potloden: Nov Challenge/Winter
• Naughty or Nice: #46 Season's Greetings
• Sparkles Christmas Challenge: #83 Snowman/men

stamps: A Day For Daisies: Mr. Snowman, Stampin' Up: Four the Holidays & Snow Swirled
paper: the Paper Studio: white, Merry Christmas words, Bo Bunny: Noel Ornaments
die-cuts: MFT: drifts, SU: punch 1 3/8 circle, scallop
embellishment: embossing powder: pewter

Bird's Nest

Hello fellow crafters!  I don't know about you, but I have a pile of images that need to be colored.  I print them off or stamp them and sometimes they sit.  I'm finally coloring some of them.  This post is just about one of those images I printed off last year.

This image is from A Day For Daisies called Bird's Nest.  I fell in love with the image, but wasn't sure how to color it at first, so it sat.  I needed to wait until the right time to color it and I'm glad I did.  If you have been following my journey, you know I have been taking online coloring classes from Kit and Clowder.  The classes have given me the confidence in my coloring skills to finally tackle some of these images.  This image is colored with my color pencils.  Just a few embellishments were needed.

Here's in the inside.

thank for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Crafting By Designs: Add a Flower
• Crafting with An Attitude: #11 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner: #56 Anything Goes
• Crafty Girls Creations: #13 Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday: #410 Ladies Only
• Digital Delights: #6 Anything Goes
• Jo's Scrap Shack: #123 Anything Goes
• Little Miss Muffet: #130 Anything Goes
• Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #115 Anything Goes: twist...add an animal (hopfully birds count)
• The Crafty Addicts: #123 Anything Goes

stamp used: A Day For Daisies-Bird's Nest
paper used: Bazzill, the Paper Studio-black & white, Glitz-vintage love damask
die-cut: Spellbinders Respendent Rectangles
embellishments: Beading, twine, Recollections adhesive faux pearls, the Paper Studio-white micro flowers & tan petite flowers

Another Classy Birthday Card

Here's the other classy birthday card I was talking about.  Just in case you didn't see the inspiration photo, here it is:

Just elegant and gorgeous!

Here's my other card:

The designer paper are very similar, but they are different.  A little different approach on this card.  I guess this is more of a sexy bombshell.  Her mother was a model in her youth.  The blue eyeshadow with really red lips just seemed perfect for this image.

The card with the matching envelope. 

My favorite to do is coloring my image with watercolor pencils and color pencils.  Added the feathers to the side of the image giving it a little sexiness.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Challenge #36 Color Inspiration

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Happy Birthday City Crafter (week 154)

Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge #54 Happy Birthday

stamps used: A Day For Daisies - Bewildered C

paper used: SU black, Brazzill, The Paper Studio

die-cuts used: MFT Fishtail Flag Stax, MFT Designer Label Stax Set 2

embellishment:  feather came from Hobby Lobby

Classy Birthday

My brother's better half needed a card for her mother's 70th birthday.  She was doing a classy surprise party for her mother.  She sent me a picture of the room that inspired her mom's party and I created a card base off the pic.  Actually I created two cards.  I'll post the other card later.
Here's the inspirational picture:

Here's one of the cards.

I found black sequin ribbon that match the sequin tablecloth.  Fushcia (hot pink) and black were the main colors.  

The pink cardstock behind the image was sprayed with SmoochSpritz Vanilla Shimmer.  I added a few rhinestone for some bling.  A box was needed to fit the card in because of the flowers.  So I created a box to match the card and closed it with a ribbon.  Next time I would make a matchbox card holder. 

Close up of the shimmering spritz and a few of the rhinestones.  I colored the image with color pencils.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Challenge #57 Anything Goes Recipe - 1 image, 2 dies, 3 embellishments

Melonheadz Friends - Make it Girly

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Challenge #36 Color Inspiration

stamps used: A Day for Daises - vintage water lily dress digi

paper used: SU black, Brazzill, The Paper Studion Hot Pink Damask

die-cuts: MFT Sentiment Strips, Fiskars Hertitage

embellishments: The Paper Studio pink paper flowers, The Paper Studionblack sequin ribbon, Recollections rhinestones, SmoochSpritz vanilla shimmer

Love to Scrap Challenge - Recipe

It's hard to believe we are starting our third challenge already at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  The challenge is a recipe, 3 layers (base + 2 more, 2 patterened papers, 1 image (I think it's been modified to allow more than 3 layers)).  Our sponsor for this challenge is A Day for Daisies.  They have great images, in fact I bought a couple images from them and made some classy cards, which I will post later (after the birthday girl receives her cards first).  A Day for Daisies will give the winner of this challenge $12 gift certificate to their shop.

I'm using the image Waiting for my projects.  Yes, I said projects.  I couldn't help myself with the possibilities of this image.

Thought this would be great for a baby shower.  Here's the all blue, bag, tag and card.  I didn't stop there......

I had to have a pink bag.

And a neutral bag was needed too.

I'll probably make a tag and card for the pink and neutral bags.  I like to have a complete set.  I know I'm bad.

I hope you will join us for our challenge.

thanks for looking and reading :o)