Some Wild Invitations!

Made some WILD invitations for my daughter's Birthday Party

I used paper and green burlap from Hobby Lobby, Ribbon from May Arts that will be available in my store in their new Lime color, and acrylic stamp set Happy Birthday from American Crafts (older set).

So fast and easy!

I will post party table and goodie bags next week.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Birthday Digi.....made by daughter

My daughter Jasmine (14) drew this adorable robot that I colored with my Copics and turned into a birthday card for my nephew.

I will try to convert this image into a Digi that you can download for free next week so check back.

Would love to have comments to share with her about her adorable creation.

Thank you~

New Baby Cards

Had a neighbor and my daughter's teacher both expecting this month so I found this image at one of my new favorite copic sites: 

Saturated Canary-About to Pop

I purchased the digital version and then colored her as a red head and brunette.  I will add colors to this post later-for now wanted to share two versions-for boy or girl using some fun Echo Park paper scraps from my stash.

I want to make one for my daughter's scrapbook since she just had a baby girl and was the most beautiful pregnant girl I have ever seen-she has deep black hair so I will share that with you as a tutorial soon.

Thanks for checking in!

Hugs

Christmas Card Class

In the Holiday Spirit?

The top 3 are the cards we made at my workshop today.....I must say it was fun to get back into teaching mode.....and I can't wait for my mini album class on:

 December 7th

Time: 10:00 am-Noon

Place: My Home

Limit to 6 ladies

Cost $15.00

(includes chipboard, paper, embellishments & ribbon)

Just bring your paper trimmer & adhesives.....lets get ready to make a 6x6 mini to show off those fun holiday memories.

We will be using the Carta Bella Merry & Bright Collection

Copic Coloring Project: To the Beach

Fall may be in the air, but I couldn't pass up on this one last chance to color in 

a Summer Image.
I used Plantin Schoolbook to create the red cardstock mat.  

I'm not sure where this cute little guy came from, but I thought I would share him below.

(Double click on image until on a new page-then right mouse click to save to your computer)

I used my Fancy Pants 6x6 Paper Pad---Wave Searcher

Some buttons & ribbon from my stash

and the following Copic Colors:

Skin: E01, E000, E00

Hair & Bat: E35, E33

Sand: E37, E35, E33

Shorts: B97, B93

Ball: R29, R30

Hat: B02, B04, B06
Here is the inside of the card:

Hope you are enjoying the coming fall days and have a few fond memories still to scrap of your time in the Sun!

DTT Winners & Halloween Bonus Projects

I have two winners to share today for the last two Design Time Thursday Challenges:

For the Summer Challenge-

 1. Julie C. 

For the Friendship Challenge-

 6. Karon H 

Congratulations Ladies-be sure and use the Contact Me form to send me your snail mail, and grab your DTT badge for your site from the left sidebar.

I also want to share the bonus project video below.  These are projects you may want to make with the scraps from the Chilling Carriage Ride Mini Album Kit.

As you can see there will be a good amount of product for you to get Creative with!

This is also my Google Eye Project for this week's Design Time Thursday Challenge

Thanks for stopping by.....have a great Friday!

Growing Friends!

I'm sorry the postings have been slim this past week.  I have been preparing for some out of town Scrapbook Expo shows. 

 I'm also so excited to share with you soon the 

Chilling Carriage Ride Mini Album and bonus projects.

The videos will post this Monday & Wednesday so I hope you come back and see what I have in store!

Above is a New Card I created with the wonderful products from Momenta

I just love their colorful paper collections!

I used a standard A2 card base

All of the papers are Momenta as well as the Rub On sentiment.

Do you see the puffy sticker flourish-Momenta has flourish sets in just about every color and they are so fun to work with and can add that special touch on just about any project......I have some more to share with you in a Wedding Album coming soon.

Also used in this card are:

Nestabilities tattered rectangles for the frames

Cuttlebug embossing folder 

Martha Stewart border punch

Flowers & Brad from my Stash and

The Creative Cutter Room Bow Maker for the finishing touch. 

Hope  you like my friendship card and take a moment to enter our team's Friends Challenge

~Hugs

Copic Coloring Project #4: Beach Girl

I created this card for my Mother In Law that lives in California.. 

 It is another Copic Coloring Project to help me work on my blending skills.

I also wanted to share how to make a double-bow using my Bow Maker.

The details on how I created the card and how you can make fast and easy ribbon bows is found on this YouTube video.

Leave a comment or a suggestion on what kinds of projects you would like to see next......I have some things I am working on, but I always love to take on a challenge and making something others want to see.

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Hugs~

Summer Fun Challenge: My Card

My Design Team did an amazing job with the Current CCR Challenge that I didn't want to detract from their wonderfully creative projects......but I definitely want to play along so here is my Summer Fun project. 

Some of you may have noticed that I have not posted much this week and that is because my family made a quick ESCAPE to California to visit my husband's family in Ojai.  

We took advantage of a break in our schedule's and made an unplanned visit to some of our favorite places: Santa Barbara Beach & Ventura Beach.  

We did some back to school shopping at the Outlet Malls in Camarillo &

We also took the kids to Six Flags Magic Mountain and had a great time!

 (pictures to follow soon)

Here are the details of my Card:

Supplies

Echo Park 6x6 Paper Pad: Paradise Beach

DCWV cardstock

 Studio G Stamp

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder 

Stickles in Gold

Inkssentials Enamel Accents for White foam on wave

Cricut Cartridges Life's a Beach & Accent Essentials

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

ANYTHING GOES OVER AT DIE CUTTIN' DIVAS

Cool Off over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog

Copic Project No. 3 & Winners List

Today I wanted to share another Copic Coloring Project that I have been working on.  

My little nephew had a birthday recently and I wanted to make him a special card, but with all of the rushing around to go to California last week....I didn't get it attached to his gift!

Luckily he's 7 and I don't think he would mind my sharing it on my blog first.

I was so excited to find this free clip art image on the web...I knew instantly that I wanted to color it to match some fabulous new paper in my SHOP called

EVERYDAY eclectic by Echo Park.

It has been a popular collection and selling out quickly!

I also used a Martha Stewart border punch for the muddy touch at the bottom.

The Sketch Markers I Used are:

skin: E000, E00, E01

hair: E01, E33, E35

shirt: broad nib on G99, YG61, YG63

(same colors for frog & hat)

jeans: B02, B04, B06

shoes: W4, W6

I definitely practiced some fun techniques on this one-

I created clouds by coloring in the entire sky in first with BG000 and then using my colorless blender to puch back the ink in a cloud shape.

I then added Stickles to create the cloud border.  I really like the result.

I also tried some free hand coloring to create the flower.

I mixed RV00 & RV04 for the tops and G99 for the stem & leaves.

Hope you like the results!
I am entering this in a couple of challenges:
Hiding in My Craft Room-Male Birthday Challenge
D.L.Art-Birthday Challenge
Paper Crafting Journey-Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday-Anything Goes

Now for some Challenge Winners!!!!!

The winner of the CAMPING CHALLENGE IS.....

 4. JustYolie 

CONGRATULATIONS Just Yolie!

(Use the Contact Me Form to send me your snail mail)

The winner of the CHICK CHALLENGE IS.....

 13. Sherrie K 

CONGRATULATIONS Sherrie K! ( Use the Contact Me Form to send me your snail mail) The winner of the SUMMER ADVENTURE GIVEAWAY IS..... 

 1. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee 

CONGRATULATIONS Melissa

( Use the Contact Me Form to send me your snail mail)

NOW JUST FOR FUN.....

I am going to give a copy of this cute little boy image to anyone that leaves a comment & their email address on this post.

I had so much fun coloring it.....I hope you will too!!

~HUGS

Turtle Shaped Shaker Card

I have Hawaii on the brain still and I know my husband also finds himself thinking of our trip there from time to time.

So, I decided to make him a Father's Day Card that reminded him of one of our highlights.

Here is a Turtle Shaped Shaker Card made with Life's a Beach Cricut Cartridge.

The Turtle is button #42 at 5.50" welded on my Gypsy

I also used sand from Kaui 

Acetate sheet

Brown Tombow marker 879

Olive Green Tombow marker 098

Signo white gel pen

Sheer ribbon tied with my Bow Maker

Papers from my store: Echo Park-Paradise Collection


Entering this in the following Challenges:
 Fantabulous Cricut Challenge: Father's Day-I think this qualifies as an outdoor theme!
My Creative Time- Throwback Thursday- Color challenge 

Here is a video sharing the details

Thanks for stopping by today!

Graduation Card

This is the card I made for my niece that graduated yesterday.

I included a computer sentiment on the inside that said. Now you can SOAR above the airheads-since her gift was the vase full of airheads-and included a pocket for CASH (always a good Graduation Gift)!

The paper is DCWV

Felt bird & flower are from Michael's

Stamps from G Studios

Twine from the Twinery

Momenta Card

Happy Saturday Everyone!

This card is made using some wonderful Momenta product.

Don't you  just love the puffy Momenta Bug & Leaf Sticker.

I used the Kaleidoscope Paper Collection

#PA2383

Chipboard letter from stash

Hand dyed crinkle ribbon 

Lavender Twine from Twinery

and some stitching on my machine.

I know many of us are out in the garden now that the weather has started to warm up......so this is my way of reminding us that 

Bugs can be CUTE.......in crafting anyways!

~Hugs~

Momenta Cute: Child's Birthday Card

I created this Birthday card for my daughter's friend using the wonderful papers from Momenta

found in the Family Outings Stack 

and with their fabulous line of Puffy Stickers(ST-4745 FAO Circus PFY ICON).

The colors are so rich and bright I just love them!!

I will be linking this card to a challenge:

 The Cuttlebug Spot: Children's Cards

and before I forget I have just received a supply of Totes perfect for the Cuttlebug.

I have Pink, Giraffe Print with Pink trim, Black polka dot, Pink polka dot, and Blue plaid.

Will be getting more colors in shortly but here is a sneak peak.

Thanks for stopping by,