September 7, 2015 Just Saying Hello

I think I already told you I loved the butterfly die from Wplus9 - for this card I cut the frame out of silver mirror paper - love the shine - embossed the words in silver embossing powder and used another sheet of the beautiful papers from KaiserCraft papers.  Decided to addd a few sequins from AMuse - and love the end result.  This one is already out the door.  I can just see more possibilities with this die.  

September 4, 2015 Flutter By Hop

We are celebrating Danni's birthday today and we are also remembering Danni's Wednesday Challenge that she used to moderate.  I LOVE to work with Butterflies and when I saw this die by Wplus9 I knew it was going in my shopping basket.  So far just this week I have made 5 cards with this beautiful die.  This one I made into a shaker card and stamped a beautiful sentiment in the center of the frame.  The beautiful DP was given to me by a dear friend a couple of weeks ago and it is by Kaiser Craft.  All of the designs are in purples and black, beautiful.  

Now here is the good part - Danni will be giving away not 1 but 2 gift certificates to peeps who leave comments.  You can comment until September 7th and Danni will post the winners on September 8.  So lets get started from my blog head on over to Kristies blog.  If you get lost here is the complete list.

                                  Danni

                                  Peggy

                                  Harriet

                                  Sheri 

                                  Shirley - that's me

                                  Kristie

                                  Nancy

                                  Margie

                                  Jan

                                  Marji  

                                  Denise

                                  Netta

                                  Lynette 

                                  Brenda

                                  Ashley 

  

September 2, 2015 Ocean Grass

I have had these two images stamped up for a while and I needed 2 cards for today as special request for Chemo Angels.  The first card was a "non-religious" card and the second card was religious with the beautiful saying.  The stamp is from Creative Vision love her designs.  the first card was mounted on some specialty cs I had and decided to cut out the word friend in gold.  the second card a dear friend gave me some burlap cs and I thought this worked just great for this scene.  Challenge:
     Word Art Wednesday : anything goes

August 30, 2015 Happy Halloween

I'm not totally in the mood yet for fall - in fact it is upper 80's here today but I had a new set from Lawn Fawn  that has 21 Halloween stamps and then the dies were sold separately "but" since my punch card from the Stamp Pad was full I thought what the hey!!!  My friend Pat got together for a "girls day".  We started out with a pedi - oh pretty pretty toes in a nice rich fall color.  Then back to my house for lunch and a little bit of craft time.  I used AMuse Studio papers, bling, and twine.  This card went together very simply and love the Lawn Fawn dies that are so easy to cut the image,  So I have 1 Halloween card ready.  Challenges:
     Chocolate, Coffee cards - use a sentiment
     Crafting with Friends - anything goes

August 25, 2015 Cupcake Kitty

Another Gerda Steiner digi - I love kitties an d cupcakes plus I had the DP with glitter cupcakes that I thought would go well with the kitty.  Colored with copic markers - sprinkled with some "new" mini sequins from AMuse studio (they come in 10 delicious colors).  By stamping the sentiment Have a sweet day cupcake on the outside I thought I could put a Happy Birthday or a Take Care or Just Because on the inside - whatever the need was.

August 22, 2015 - Hippo Hi

Another one of Gerda Steiners digi images.  Hippos seem to be "popular" now - and a lot of special request for Chemo Angels the favorite animal is hippo and giraffe.  This "big" guy is so cute and fun to color up.  I love gray and yellow together and I found a crouched yellow flower in my stash that was just the extra i was looking for to finish this card.

August 20, 2015 Merry Christmas

Every year I "challenge" myself to make a Christmas card using nontraditional stamps.  I was using this set from AMuse for a swap I was in and I immediately thought Christmas.  Finished making my swap cards and die cut out a few extra images, stamped them, and saw that they needed a bit of sparkle so out with the "glitter".  Some bling for eyes some bakers twine for bows stamped a Merry Christmas and I think it turned out pretty cutesy.  Challenges:
     LiveLoveCards - Holiday card
     613 Avenue - anything goes
     Penny's Paper - anything goes