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Just a quick post to share that I had a card up on the Create blog today!  You can see it here.  🙂

An Easter Card

I am playing along with the Paper Smooches challenge this week (and also submitting this card to the Create blog challenge):

For this challenge, I chose to make an Easter card with Spring Fling and Sentiment Sampler.

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Echo Park; Stamps: Paper Smooches; Twine: Doodlebug; Gems: Kaiser, Basic Grey; Ink: Stazon; Punch: Stampin Up!

To make the sentiment, I cut apart a Happy Birthday stamp from the sentiment set (to get the word happy), and cut apart an easter stamp from Spring Fling (to get the word Easter) and paired them together.  I think I will probably be making a few more like this one-really like how it turned out!

Monday Cards-A Baby Card

I have been playing with stamps a lot more lately, which has been kind of fun!

Here is a baby card I just finished:

Supplies: Paper: Echo Park; Stamps: Lawn Fawn (sentiment, oven), Technique Tuesday (polka dots); Inks: Stazon (black), Versamark (watermark), Tim Holtz Distress (Worn Lipstick), Studio Calico Mr. Hueys (Clay, Piglet, Warm Calico); Other: Pink Cardstock, White Embossing Powder

For this card, I first stamped and embossed the oven and muffin image.  Then, I used Mr. Hueys and a paintbrush to color them in.  I applied extra layers of the Clay color to make the outside of the oven look a little darker than the inside.  I truly love painting in images with Mr. Hueys-it is so easy, and looks cute!

Then, I stamped and embossed a strip of pink cardstock from my scrap bin with polka dots.  The sentiment was stamped on a strip of patterned paper, and then I used pop dots and adhered the strip to another strip with the ends cut into flag shapes.

After the card was assembled, I decided that the top of the card looked a little bare (even with the distress ink brushed on), so I stamped more polka dots in Versamark-just to add a little extra.  Then, I brushed on a little more ink, and that helped.

This is SUCH a cute image and sentiment-I am sure I will be using it a lot in the future!

Have a great day!

Two Challenges And A Birthday

Here is a birthday card (belated) that I made for my dear friend Kelly.  I chose to play along with a couple of challenges as well-the Create blog’s challenge to use hexagons, and The Paper Variety’s sketch challenge.

The sketch looked like this:

Although this sketch was intended to be a layout, I had fun turning it into a card.  There was a dual challenge this week to add numbered journaling, but as I was making a card, I decided to loosely follow that challenge by saying two phrases on my card-Birthday Wishes, and Hello.  I did not add the numbering, so really I am just submitting it for the sketch challenge part.  🙂

Supplies: Paper and Letter Stickers: Lily Bee; Ampersand Sticker: Bo Bunny; Tag: Bananafish Studios; Butterfly: Studio Calico; Tape: K&Company; Silhouette file: Lori Whitlock; Other: Cardstock

I completely LOVE this Lily Bee line-it was my very favorite thing from CHA, so I am happy to finally have it in my hands!  I am also loving my new Bananafish goodies-they are hard to get because they are so popular, so I feel fortunate to have been able to collect a small stash.  🙂

Anyway, that’s my card-have a great day!

Kid’s Craft #43-Rainbows

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we made some rainbows last week.  I got the idea from Make and Takes (see original post here.)

Basically, you watercolor on paper plates, and then cut them in half.  Very cute and fun project!

Painting:

Some of the finished ones:

The Girlio gave some to her friends, and we also attached them to the St. Patrick’s Day cookies we made and delivered to the neighbors last Saturday.