A bit sketchy today...

I love Clare's blog, it was one of the first I started following when I got into blogging, so this is her sketch this week:

And because I am still about 11 cards behind, I opted, you guessed it, to bring a little joy to the picture. Ta Da!

I randomly found these cool square metallic alphas in my embellie bin:

I used lots of bling, from glitter, to silver thread, to tiny rhinestones:

This next sketch comes from i heart 2 stamp:

My first Noel card of the season:

I wish this pic had come out better, but eh, oh well, these are cute teeny little translucent mitten buttons with the teeny tinist little buttons on top:

And of course the noel:

And last though certainly not least from Taylor's blog:

A cute little gingerbrad boy:

Christmas Kick...

Ok, so I have been on a roll today, and of course, still on the Christmas kick... I mean do you have any idea how much family I have, not to mention friends??? So I figure doing the challenges is a fun way to come up with new card ideas and also flare up some inspiration. The first comes from Kristina Werner's unbelieveably awesome blog. I can not tell you how addicted I am. She has an amzing talent and everything she does looks perfect! Here's this week's color inspiration:

And here is what I did with it:

See the fun brads at the top and the faux stitching:

A close up of the merry sentiment. All I did here was take the sticker slap it on some cardstock, (which is more teal than sage shadow, but it just worked here), drew some polka dot edging with a gel pen and wrote in the rest of "merry":

And the coordinating brads at the bottom:

My second source of inspiration comes in the form of a sketch, complimenti I {heart} 2 stamp. This is a blog I recently started stalking, and I really like the projects they create here. Anywho, the sketch:

And what I did:

These brads are the major colors used in the card:

I just had to add some bling:

And here we are again coloring those stamps:

Adios Amigos!

A cute little Rudolph and Kitties in love...

Here are a couple more challenges I have been working on. The first is from Amy over at Prairie Paper and Ink you can see her sketch here:

And here is my cute little Rudolph card:

Like I mentioned in my last post, I am finally getting into rubber stamping and coloring. I borrowed some colored pencils from the kids stash to finish the Rudolph, and I had a lot of fun with shading and blending. I alwasy did love coloring in school!

I also really like the way green, brown, and blue work with each other in this card. What a fun color combo!

And then the second challenge I decided to conquer was from Caardvarks and te only stipulation was to use NO patterned paper. I had this idea for a card some time ago, but I thought this was the best time to use it, my two little kitties in love:

Again, I am off... This post is lovely, happy, and short, and I have cards to make before I sleep...

"A few of my favorite things!"

I apologize for my inactivity, but I have been busy, busy, busy what with the holidays fast approaching. I have been stalking the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge for a whlie now, but never had a really GREAT idea to put into a card. But this week the inspiration is from one of my most favorite movies of all time, "The Sound of Music". I can not put into words how much I adore this movie, my mom used to sing the songs to me ever since I was a little girl. So, it is without further ado, that I reveal a few of my favorite things...

"...brown paper packages tied up with strings..."

This was so quick and easy, but I think it turned out really sharp. I am really starting to use my stamps more effectively too, check out the fancy pants stripes I colored... :)

"...snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes..."

I wasn't sure if it looked silly or simple, but the more I look at it, the more it grows on me, see thw glittery snowflakes, too cute!

and they land ever so lightly on the eyelashes...

I so enjoyed making these cards and they were SO easy!! There is just so much inspiration from that movie to put into some fun Christmas cards... And yes, I am still working on Christmas cards, I am making them for family and friends, and I really do love Christmas... Sigh... back to work!

Busy, Busy, Busy on this Snowy Friday...

So the next challenge I attempt, not only inspired a card, but it also inspired me to get into the kitchen and bake up a batch of chocolate chip cookies to go along with my morning coffee. Don't they look yummy... I am afraid Allie is going to try to eat them all before Zachie gets home from school. Anywho, this is what had inspired the cookies, and well, the card, too... From Stampin' with Leah's Monthly challenge #2: http://stampinwithleah.blogspot.com/2008/11/leahs-monthly-challenge-2.html:

And this is what I cam up with:

I knew I wanted to stick with a Christmas theme and challenge myself to use a non-traditional color scheme. I used some random paper scraps I had lying around and just sort of pieced them together for the shape of the card. Immediately I thought of fuzzy warm mittens. I cut out the shapes out of red cardstock and added the chocolate furry yarn for depth:

Then I rummaged through the buttons I had and tried to represent each color and also add some variety and interst to the card. I think they sort of represent faux photo corners:

Just thought I'd give a little update. I am in the groove again today, especially since it's Friday. I simply love Friday! :)

A Christmas Card or Two Inspired by 2 Sketches 4 You

OK, OK... I promise no more ryhmes for the time being... hehehe... I was just reading Allie a Dr. Suess book, so, my apologies. Anywho, the next to cards were inspired by this weeks sketches on http://2sketches4you.blogspot.com/. I was a little intimidated when I first worked on these last night, but I think perhaps I was just overtired, because this morning, divine inspiration and some cool crafting wire at the bottom of one of my craft bins took over. The first is Laura's sketch #13, seen here:

Looks simple enough, but I had trouble with a good way to add the sentiment... It just didn't click for me until I found the craft wire... And VOILA!

Cute little trees with a silver epoxy star sticker:

And for the pièce de résistance, craft wire stringing the vellum letters stickers backed by blue cardstock. "I'm Lovin' It":

So, I moved onto Kristen's sketch:

I had cut out all the pieces last night minus the ornament, the ribbon, and the craft wire bit. But it looked flat, and kind of boring.

And you know me, it needed some glitz. Ah ha! Change the circle center into an ornament and edge all of the paper in silver ink and again... VOILA!

See... See....Perfecto!

Although the flash on the camera lighted the blue a little... It's more this color:

And so I am delighted with my creations... As I sit here now with a goofy little grin... I am moving onto more challenges... I have the bug today, and I just can't stop... Yowza!!!

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments!!!

Color Inspiration #31

Hello! Happy Tuesday! So I decided to try another challenge and stumbled onto http://www.kwernerdesign.com/blog, where you can find really awesome color inspiration challenges. I really liked the colors this week and decided to try my hand at it. Check out the inspiration: And here's my interpretation:

I started with a dark chocolate mulberry paper as my background. Then I decided that the brown was just a little too dark and accented it with a creamy offwhite waffle weave cardstock and a light tan velour ribbon. Since next week is Thanksgiving I decided to go with a thankful theme.

I chose a pumpkin colored cardstock and stamped many tanks in white, but it needed something so I found that cool orangey patterned paper with some scraps and backed the tag in it and them I outlined the lettering in the stamp with a dark pumpkin marker. I added the orange and white polka dotted ribbon and a creamy iridescent edged ribbon.

I then grabbed a purpley cardstock and some white mulberry white and I used my thank you background stamp and some lavender ink, and I even inked the edges for effect. I offset the papers and added some bronze brads.

And last but never least, I added some fun Prima Flowers to accent the rich colors and of course, to add some glitz. I am totally hooked on glitter lately! I love it!!!