You Win! Day #182 at 365 Cards

Today is Sporty Saturday - use a ball on your card - never done that before so I needed to find a ball - went into clip art and thought I would use a golf ball - came up with this....I just coloured the images with pencils, used some basic grey paper - I think it is lime ricky - and here you have it! Anyone with a golfing DH will get my point! Thanks for looking!

Day 181 ...White Space...YIKES!

The White Space Challenge card Day # 181 over at 365 cards....well most days just to make a card is a challenge let alone a card with almost nothing on it! but once I thought about it, simple can turn out to be a great card! This is a layout that I will likely do again - simple, fast and adaptable to anything! Thanks for having a look!

#179 Checkerboard Background

Checkerboard Background is the challenge today at 365 Cards....here is my card. I went rummaging through my paper (had to make sure I didn't use gingham..)and came up with some brown checkerboard matched with Basic Grey Lemonade Pink Fizz - stamped with a Bella and posted! My second card for 365 Cards - thanks for the great blog, it is inspiring me to be creative!http://365cards.blogspot.com/

Thanks for looking!

WHAT? Challenge @ 365 Cards

This is the first time submitting a card at 365 Cards http://www.365cards.blogspot.com/

It is Day 176 challenge is a sketch to follow.

My stamp is a Cheeky Radish digital stamp called "WHAT" , compliments of Paper Popsicle (please check them out); card stock Bazzil White, Basic Grey Lemonade, Copic markers for colouring, including the white prima flowers, brads are also Basic Grey glazed brads.

365 Cards is a great site, I have been watching the site for a few weeks but I'm just not quick enough to get a card in!

Thanks for stopping by ~ enjoy your day!

Digital Stamp from Paper Popsicles

Well how cute is this stamp? This was my first experience with a digital stamp. I got it free today from Paper Popsicles, it is called "chatting birds" - they have some cool stuff check them out: http://www.paperpopsicles.com/

I used Basic Grey - Lime Rickey, the sentiment stamp is a Bella Stamp and I coloured the chatting birds with Copic Markers

Thanks for having a look!

Another HAPPY BIRTHDAY - guy card.

Just thought I would add another card and envelope I like to make with the HAPPY BIRTHDAY folder - cute, fast, small and simple - I use this quite often for a guy card....don't have to write much on the inside, can use their favorite colors and it isn't girly!

Hope you like this one!

Cuttlebug Spot Challenge #42

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - one of my favorite folders - I tend to use this folder a lot! It is certainly one that I would recommend - don't get me wrong, I love all of my embossing folders and try not to neglect any of them!

Thanks for having a look...

Does This Count???

Ok so I really like Bella Stamps and thought I was keeping to my word to enter a challenge and post before the end of the month - I made a card and sent in in....guess what?...I got my very own personal email telling me "so sorry too late!" of course they do this every week, I just can't get it together!

Here is the site -http://stampingbella.com/blog/ check them out - here is my card...hope you like it!

It's Been So Long.....

Well I think it is time to get back into doing a regular post or participating in a challenge....it has been a very long time since I posted!

I guess I need to challenge myself!

So I'm going to find a challenge and post something before the end of July......

Love Frog

Here is a non traditional card for Valentines (cuttlebug spot challenge #14) ~ background is hard to see in the post but it has been embossed using cuttlebug stripes and embossed at the bottom "with love" Frog is pop dotted from the page and embossed with spots n dots - The cuts are cricut - PDDU & PS - the eyes are from my LSS.

I might still add a cute crown to the frog!

Thanks for looking!

Cuttlebug Spot Challenge #10...use a STAR...

Well this was a challenge for me to use a star - I don't think I've ever used the shape.

I used Bazzil bling for the card stock.

I diecut DCWV metallic card stock with cricut using doodlecharms and then embossed with the spots and dots folder. Stamp is a bella - Merrybella and I don't have a decent set of markers, I just used my staedtler lumocolor, which are really not for card making....

So I did it - my card with a star!

Thanks for dropping by!

Here are the Bella cards.....

My Very First BELLA Stamps!

I have been looking at all the Bella stamps lately and I really love them - they are so cute! I don't own a set of copics or any fancy pencils - just a set of crayolas (...Dear Santa....)so I did my best.

Two ladies that I work with are retireinng at the end of the month - and I wanted a special card for each of them.

I had fun with Cosmobella and Huggybellas ~ hope you like them.

Thanks for stopping by!

Challenge...Emboss Paper Flowers

Well who would ever think to emboss paper flowers! Not me that's for sure! Here is the card I made for the challenge. I think the cut I used is Cricut - beyond birthdays and home accents. My paper is bazzill and I embossed flowers and background using script folder, I also used the border folder for the 'with love' on the bottom. Added a little bit of bling! TFL

Cuttlebug Spot Challenge

Well here is my card for the challenge to actually make a pop up card! The challenge is from Nilda, here is the blog - go have a look: http://www.thecuttlebugspot.blogspot.com/ If I can make the card - anyone can! I followed the instructions from the tutuorial on splitcoaststampers.

I used bazzill card stock, cuttlebug dog & border embosser for the dots, the stamp is from great impressions.

I think I might send this one to my sister who just got a new puppy. Thanks for dropping by!

Cuttlebug Metallic Challenge #5

Happy Hallowe'en ~ this is my first post to a challenge. It is a challenge for Cuttlebug and I've added the link to my blog. I don't get to post my cards nearly often enough but I'll try and do better.

The challenge was to emboss metallic.

My card is on bazzill ~ the metallic is copper from my LSS and sorry I don't know what kind it is.

I used the CB Spiderweb for the background & Creepy for the spideer.

Stamped on the metallic using Stazon ~ and there you have it!

TFL

Envelope Album ~ thank you Kimberly!!

Big thank you to Kimberly for sharing her file.

I made this little envelope album for my daughter to use ~ she is coming back from Mexico in a couple of days.

Here is the link to Kimberly's website. http://i-heart-scrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Thank You cards for BC Crop for Kids

This is a whole bunch of thank you cards I made to donate to BC Crop for Kids - the weekend crop is coming up at the end of September - my first crop ~ looking forward to it!

Dog Stamp

This is my first attempt at posting a picture here.

This card is from a new stamp that I picked up the other day ~ Great Impressions; Stamp of the Month Club.

I Now Have A Blog!

Ok after being on the Cricut message board and learning how people are so willing to share their creations and cut files ~ I've been inspired to create my own blog!

Not sure how often I will get here or if you will see anything of value, but I'll try!

Cheers!
Michele