SSS218 Mothers Day

 Hi friends, I'm back with a Mother's Day card for my MIL. I used Sweet Sunday Sketch 218 for this one. The papers are Basic Grey Plumeria. I combined a Hero Arts Happy Mothers Day stamp with the fun flourish stamp from MME. Embellishment supplies include MFT Fishtale dies and MFT Leaves die, Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, and Recollections flat back pearls. Ink is Momento Grape Jelly.

Sweet Sunday Sketch 218 -Sketch
My Sheri Crafts -Use 3 flowers
Suzy Bees Bloomin Challenge-28-flowers
Crazy4Challenges -Bingo  Sentiment,bling,flowers

To all the Mom's have a great day tomorrow! Kim

Mother's Day

Hi, Because of vacation I missed another challenge but this card still fits a few challenges for this week. I used Sweet Sunday Sketch 217 for the layout (last week's) and more of the Basic Grey Fresh Cut paper I have been using a lot of.
I used a retired Flourishes teacup stamp for the image that I hadn't used yet which was colored with Copics. I cut out the white paper with a SB die and used a 1" punch to punch the 3 circles. I then stamped MOM with an OLD, OLD alphabet stamp set, maker unknown. The other sentiment is Hero Arts stamped in Navy Momento ink. After I stitched around the perimeter and added some diecut banners and white sequins it was done.
So one down, one to go, Mother's Day cards that is! :) Thanks for stopping by.

The Pink Elephant Challenge 249-Mother's Day
4CCC -Flowers
Charisma Cardz Challenges -Mother's Day
Crafting by Designs -M is for Mom
Crafters Cafe Challenge -Mother's Day
Simon Says Stamp -Spring Flowers
Cuttin and Stampin Challenges -Traditional Mother's Day

Kim

Curtain Call-May 1 Pink and Pretty

Hey Friends, I'm back from beautiful Naples, Florida. Wow, It was nice, so sunny and warm. But...back to reality. I did miss playing with paper while I was gone. 

Before I left on vacation I started this card. I used Deconstructed Sketch 147 challenge and The Card Concept #8- Umbrella challenge. I was happy that the current Curtain Call would work for this card. 

This MFT Pure Innocence cutie was colored with Copics and cut out with the Out of the box Technique. I decided I need a Ray of Sunshine type of die because I struggled with the triangular part. The sentiment was punched with a Stampin Up label punch, a SU button was added with twine. Machine stitching and some SC gold sequins finish it off. Thanks for visiting! 

Kim :)

Crafty Sentiments Designs Anything goes

Curtain Call Challenge  Pink and Pretty

Happy Easter

Hi Peeps! Happy Easter! I'm sharing a couple cards I made my daughters for Easter. I pulled out my retired There She Goes "Buckets of Love" stamp set for this. I colored the bucket and eggs with Copics. Then I made is into a shaker card by using a retired Flourishes die, some acetate packaging, foam tape and sequins. A SB fancy tag diecut was used for the sentiment which I sponged with chalk ink first. I used a Cuttlebug EF called birds and vines, or something like that! lol.

 I made two, one for each of my girls.

Links
A Creative Romance-Eggcellent-spring
Alphabet Challenge-E is for Easter
Jelly Park Challenge Easter

Have fun! Kim

Mojo Monday 341

 Hi Friends, How's your week going? I was lucky to be off from work today and got to play with paper. :)
I'm playing with the Mojo Monday Sketch 341 and an Inky Antics Bunny stamp that my friend Tammy lent me. Sunday was our local card club meeting where I stamped the bunny (name unknown) and I colored with Copics.
I cut Mr. Bunny out with some square Spellbinder dies and popped him up as the focal point of the card. I put the circle element behind the square because the image was a little too big to do it the other way. I used Echo Park Walk in the Park paper. The sentiment is from There She Goes "buckets of love" stamp set. The paper did all the work on this one, just a twine bow and a few gems finish it off. Oh, the banners were cut with MFT fishtail banner dies. Other links below.

The Pink Elephant -Easter
Cards in Envy -A2 and Easter
Created with Love Challenge-Easter
Craftindesertdivas-Color Inspiration-Linky party 29
Cards and more-No flowers
Papertake weekly-Happy Easter

Kim

The Card Concept

Hi Friends! Today I'm playing in a few challenges. I was lucky enough to get some craft time last weekend. I also cleaned my craft room and it feels great! Let's see how long my commitment to put things away after using them will last! 

I ordered myself some of this gorgeous peacock colored paper from SU. It might be called Island Oasis but not sure. I wanted to use it and thought it would match the teal/turquoise blue in the photo inspiration from the Card Concept #7. I also choose to use orange from the photo. I settled on this MFT butterfly from Winged Beauties and used the matching die to cut it out. I wish you could see the gold sparkle from the sequins, twine and embossing powder. My camera didn't capture it. I used SU's Gorgeous Grunge and Momento inks to stamp the background. This kind of stamp is truly out of my comfort zone but I like it. 

I used Copics to color the butterfly and as you can see, I followed Sweet Sunday Sketch #214. The sentiment is MFT's too. 

Thanks for stopping by today! See links below. 

The Card Concept-Use a butterfly theme Style-Clean and Layered (?)
Sweet Sunday Sketch 214
Crafty Bloggers Network -Embossing
Imagination-crafts challenges Anything goes
Love to Scrap -Anything goes
Sparkle and Sprinkle Challenges April- Glitter, Embossing or Flocking

Bye!

Curtain Call and Deconstructed Sketch

Hi Bloggers, Are you enjoying nice weather? I am. It's a nice spring day today.  I made a card for a few challenges yesterday. I combined the adorable Baby Booties Challenge from the Curtain Call April 1 with this week's Deconstructed Sketch 145.
Why, oh, why have I not inked up this adorable Waltzingmouse Nortic Baby stamp set until now? I had to have it and now I know why. It's great! When I saw the Curtain Call challenge, I thought of these knitted baby shoes. I heat embossed them on kraft with white EP and cut them out. From the same set, I used the sentiment stamps with Tux. Blk. ink and a sponged circle die cut. I used a Cuttlebug EF for the background. Graphic 45 paper, PTI twill ribbon, pearls and a button was also used. The sponging was done with Momento Summer Sky on ivory PTI Card stock.

Wish I had a pair of these booties for my Grandson!

Some other challenges:
Stamping Sensations-Dies and punches -I used circle dies, banner and scalloped border punch.
Alphabet Challenge -D is for Diecut
Just Add Ink -Add layers
Savvy Homemade Cards-Photo Inspiration-Oh Baby-I used the polka dots.
Artistic Stamper-Embossing

See you again this week! Kim