Bird on a Bike

As you've probably noticed, I'm not much of a Halloween crafter.  We don't celebrate it in Croatia and never did celebrate it growing up in the Philippines. I do love the colors associated with it and I notice so many of the craft challenge blogs I follow have very similar challenges the last few weeks. So, I decided to take their halloween inspirations and make a springy card with them. I also want to say that I'm not a big fan of purple so I used the closest hue: blue! Here is the result.

I made a fun & cute card with a country bird on a bike for my daughter who recently celebrated a birthday.The patterned papers, bike are by Fancy Pants. I die cut the chevron paper using PTI clouds. The bird is Penny Black's Perched die that has been watercolored with orange.

The sentiments are by SRM Stickers. Buttons, twine finish the card. The different elements were adhered using SAby3L Foam squares.

Challenges: Time Out (bird), Card Mania (buttons), Color Throwdown, Just Us Girls (photo, basket, country), Seize the Birthday, Die Cut Divas (fall colors on a spring card).

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Cheery Cards

I have two cards for you today that were shared in the Want2Scrap blog yesterday. I did a little bit of "surgery" to make the bling fit my needs. :) My first card uses the Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Endless Waves as the flight trails for the stamped bees. These swirls are just perfect for that.

I stamped and colored with Copics The Craft's Meow Celebrating You stamps. I mounted them with foam dots and added a double bow for more dimension to my card.

My second one is a bright cheery flower card that uses the Want2Scrap Classy Corners Bling. I removed the side swirls to fit on the corner of my card. What do you think? I will use the swirls on a later project. I just love how the bling add elegance to the card.

I die cut the bottom of the red paper with Spellbinders Classic Edges 2 and Classic Decorative Inserts 4. I stitched some pleated twill ribbon and layered the stamped flowers and leaves on top. I added rhinestones on the decorative border and butterfly using Want2Scrap 72-count Silver Rhinestones.The sentiments (from The Craft's Meow's Timeless Tags set) was heat embossed with white on the bottom right side of the aqua panel.

Have a great day!

Want2Scrap Products used:
Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Endless Waves

Want2Scrap Classy Corners Bling

Want2Scrap 72-count Silver Rhinestones 

Cross-Promo Products used:

 Spellbinders Classic Edges 2

Spellbinders Classic Decorative Inserts 4

The Craft's Meow's Timeless Tags stamp set
The Craft's Meow Celebrating You

Bee-utiful Bling Card

Hi, friends! I have a card with bee-utiful bling today that I shared on the Want2Scrap blog a while ago. I stamped the flowers, bees and sentiments. The bees and sentiments are from The Craft's Meow's Thanks Bee to Thee stamp set.

I used Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Endless Waves for the bees' flight path. The bees were mounted with Glue Arts UCut it 4x4 foam blanks.

Want2Scrap Products used:
Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Endless Waves

Cross-Promo Products used:

 The Craft's Meow's Thanks Bee to Thee stamp set

Glue Arts Adhesive Squares™ Brand Adhesives-ExtremeTac Minis
Glue Arts UCut it 4x4 foam blanks

Bright Mother's Day cards

I have been doing some more spring cleaning and de-hoarding my supplies. I have a small craft area in our bedroom and it feels good to get rid of stuff by making something from once loved products. It feels even better when I find stuff that hasn't been used. Almost 100% of my projects here on my blog use at least one thing I designed (stamps, dies, bling). I am, however, also a fan of other similar products, but just never get around to using them. If only there were more hours in a day! :)

Most of them were given to me as gifts (I have very generous friends and family :)). I hope to be able to use these neglected supplies and show my cards in future posts. I started yesterday with the beautiful Spring Bouquet stamp from Flourishes. For my card below, I used Papertrey Ink's Rosie Posie stamps. The sentiments is Waltzing Mouse's Blessed By You set. I love the sentiments in this set. The papers were my favorite papers last year, Crate Paper's Emma's Shoppe, and these are the last remaining sheets from that collection. The pearls are by Want2Scrap. I'm entering this to Flourishes Lovely in Lace Challenge.

Here's CARD #2 that is super simple. It's perfect for the CAS-ual Friday challenge, which is being sponsored by The Craft's Meow. And the flowers are perfect for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge as well. I accented the flower with a border die cut using Spellbinders Edgeabilities dies. The sentiments is from The Craft's Meow's Mother and Father set.

See you all back here on Sunday for the NinaB Designs' Blog Hop with lots of inspiration and prizes! Have a great weekend!

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Friday Flair

Another Friday, another Friends with Flair with Unity! Go to Unity's blog to see the list of participants. Find the Flair and be entered to win some free stamps!

Here are my cards. I made this for my girls' friend who's having a birthday this weekend. The cupcake stamp is from the Aug 09 KOTM and I colored it with Copics. The cardbase is Pink Pirouette and the DPs I've had in my stash forever. The sentiment and ribbon are by PTI.

For the second card, I decided to create a scene using stamps from July09 and Aug09 KOTMs. I used the cloud stamp for a tree, the trunk was hand cut. The cardbase is Bashful Blue, the sun is Summer Sun, tree is Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. I stamped the bike with Ruby Red. The sentiment was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa on GinaK Soft Sand, then sponged it.

If you want to see another "scene" card using Unity stamps, go HERE. AND make sure you stop by on Monday as I celebrate the World Cardmaking Day with card makers from all over the world.
There will be some yummy giveaways that you wouldn't want to miss! Check out Cath's post on Moxie Fab World for more info.

Give God thanks basket

A quick card that I made today after church. This follows the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge to use the colors of fall. Their verse this week is: Ecclesiastes 3:1, "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." (NIV) I love this verse. Be watching for it to show in one of my stamp designs someday ;-). The whole book of Ecclesiastes is a good life lesson for us all. In summary, the book teaches us that in this life where there are many unanswered questions and it sometimes leaves us unsatisfied, we can always trust the sovereign, good, and righteous God. In light of this, I chose the verse on my card, "It is good to give thanks to the Lord."

This also follows the 2 Sketches for You sketch, and A Passion For Papertrey to use your favorite color. I love using Kraft/Sand cardstock right now, and fall is my favorite season.


Stamps: Vintage Picnic (PTI), verse (Clear Dollar Stamps)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copics
Papers: Kraft, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Grey PP
Others: sewing machine, ribbon and button

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Another multi-challenge Card

Another card for Taylored Expressions' Birthday Bash. This one combines 4 of the 13 TE challenges:

#1 photo inspiration
#2 sketch
#7 tole technique
#13 to use stitching

In addition, it also covers this week's Pile It On (to make birthday cards) and ABC Challenge (to use circles).

And here's the close up.


Stamps: cupcakes (July KOTM, Unity), sentiment (Vintage picnic, PTI)
Ink: Memento Tux Blk, Copics
Paper: Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Lime Rickey by Basic Grey
Others: Nesties, Pumpkin Pie ribbon, button

I haven't made one of these in a long time....

...a card using a digital image. This hydrangea was a freebie I offered that you can download HERE. This card follows the sketch from Flourishes Feel of Fall Challenge, just in time for their release next week. The flower is colored with Copics (RV14, RV13, RV10, YG95, YG93, YG93). These colors are my favorite combo to color with markers, perfect for the Copic Creations challenge this week.

Stamps: Hydrange digital image, Damask Designs (PTI)
Ink: Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black
Papers: Hibiscus Burst, BG Eva collection
Others: MS lace punch, Ripe Avocado ribbon (PTI) and button

Same colors, two different styles

I used Dawn's Raspberry Suite colors again. The first one has the elegant style. The stamps are Damask Designs by PTI. The papers I used are More Mustard, Kraft (PTI) and Ivory (GinaK), flower by Prima, ink is Memento Rich Cocoa.


This one has a bit of earthly whimsy. The tree and quote stamps are from Unity and the bird is from Live Simply by Hero Arts. I just love that quote. I followed CPS Sketch this week and turned it sideways. I added a little bit of distressing around the quote (for the A Spoonful of Sugar challenge).

Papers: Chocolate Chip, DCWV spring stack, SEI, PTI Kraft
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copics
Others: button from PTI