Happy Belle!

This card turned out so pretty! Pleased as punch with it! I saw Belles N Whistles were looking for some new design team members, so I'm sending in to be considered. I love Elisabeth Bell images, and they sell some super sweet ones. This one is one their favorite images. Be sure to check out their blog for more info on the design team search. The deadline is Wed.

I combined a few other challenges on this card.

Pink Elephant's Challenge, yellow, buttons, and designer paper.

Cupcake Craft Challenge-Buttons.

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #58

There was one more, and can't remember where I had landed in cyberspace. But it was punches, piercing, and piecing. I'll add a link as soon as I remember where I had wandered too. But I paper pierced the pink sheet, paper pieced her hat and shirt, added new flowers over the hat and colored them since I paper pieced the hat. Won't try that again! Those flowers were small! And punched the sheet under the white lace. Now, if I could find that blog!

Sketch and Stash Challenge Sketch 35. The orange flowers are new, the pearls a new gift from a friend, the white ribbon. The rest is from my stash.

Supplies: K and CO Wild Raspberry, Melon mambo ink, copics, stickles, nesties, SU punch, Belles N Whistle's stamp, TAC sentiment, primas, So saffron cardstock.

Dude!

Those who know me well know that's a perfect title for me! Today's card covers a few challenges.

It's the sketch from Sketch and Stash. Billy is a new set, uncut. The paper is DCWV, from my stash, cardstock is also from my stash.

At CCEE, it was to make a summer card.

At Pile it on, an orange card.

At Flourishes Timeless Treasures, to use shimmerz. My waves are covered in it, as are the doggies glasses, and the blue line on the surf board.

At Spoonfull of Sugar, it was swirls. There's swirls with the waves and I stamped in Night of Navy on the back ground paper, and the edge with Swirlies from TAC.

Other supplies: Copics, nesties, SU's Surfs Up, SU Inks: Only Orange, Night of Navy, dew drops.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Two Times Lily

This is a double challenge Lily card. It's Wed, and I like to try to do a Flutterby card. Than this is also the sketch challenge for the Sketch and Stash blog. Fun layout! And always so nice to use some stuff you have, right? I used my Sabrina paper pack, stash, Lily stamp set, stash, flowers were new/unopened, stash, and matched the Sabrina papers, stash. The brads and ribbon were also from my stash. Grabbed a new punch last week, and the big, what started as white, flower top left, from Michaels. The punch is cool, it punches out baby flowers, seen on top of the pink polka dotted flower. Now, the flowers are just looking like circles, they were kinda embossed, but not showing super well out of the package. I boo booed coloring her hair. Her headpiece was pink, but the black really ran. Thank goodness for stickles, because it fixed it for me!

Other supplies: pretty in pink cardstock, black from PTI, nesties, copics, ribbon, brads.

Copics: Skin-E000, E11. R20, hair-C7, C5, C1, dress-RV21, inside of wings-C5, C1.

Catching Dreams A Day Late.

I started a Flutterby card yesterday, but had no time to finish it. I finished it up today. Danni put out a challenge to use a sentiment or quote on the front of the card. Always a challenge for me! I never seem to leave room for a sentiment! But I think the card turned out lovely. I used TAC's True Beauty and More Abundance, one of my favorite sentiment sets. I used K and Co Wild Raspberry papers, and Kiwi SU cardstock. I used Flower Soft for the first time. Gotta work on that product. Not sure I like it with the image I used. Cool product though. I also The Art Institute Glitter, and added some glitter to the card. It really sparkles. I liked the glue, and the extra fine tip with it. I had to buy the tip, it doesn't come with the glue, but did fine it was perfect for getting into small spots, and the glue dries white.

Than for my birthday, my friend, Tammi, sent me this darling image. Thanks, Tammi! I knew as soon as I saw it that it would be a perfect card for my FIL. Both of my FIL's fish, or like to fish. One of Paul's sets of parents are coming up this weekend, and the other set is coming up the first weekend in June. Both FIL's have birthday's coming up. This one's birthday is late May, so I got the card done, so we can give it to him this weekend. How cute is this image though? I used a sketch based off the Sketch and Stash blog. I flipped the sketch to fit the direction of my image. I didn't get the scallop part on the bottom of the image, so it's not an exact layout challenge. But fun layout on there if you haven't checked it out yet. I may have to try again later with it. This card is also bigger, due to the image size. I added some glaze to the frog, fish, and stars. I used Green paper pack by DCWV. Thought it fit the fishing theme well. My cardstock on this card is PTI Ripe Avacdo.

Both images were colored with copic makers.

Scrapping Love

I did some scrapbook pages the other day. I couldn't get a good photo of Gabi's page, so I was waiting to post until I had natural light on Tuesday. Than I got sick Monday night. Paul blamed my cooking. I was the only one who ate it, because he and Trey snubbed it! Gabi was at a sleep over. She didn't make it thru the night, and came home at 11. Than she woke up at 5:45 sick, so it wasn't my cooking, cuz she didn't eat any of it! We than laid around all day too beat up from the night before to do anything!

However, I finally got the kids first day of school done. Yea, I know, it's April, and they'll be out of school in two months! One thing I loved about a set stickers I found at my local LSS had a spot for personal information. I have the kids fill it out, so it's their handwriting going into their books. I have terrible handwriting, so you don't see too much journaling from me, and if I do journal, it's often done on my computer. I do love the idea of them having it in their books, so I printed it off my computer, and had them fill it out.

For Trey's pages, I had some Basic Grey paper floating around. I think it turned out to be a very cool page for him. I used my Crop Big Bite to put the eyelets in. Gotta love that six inch reach to get to center of 12 inch papers!

Gabi's papers came from the new Spring Glitter Foil stack by DCWV. I'm telling ya, I love those big stacks fo papers! I own far too many of them. Her page turned out to be mono toned, so I stamped a bit on hers to show the difference between the layers. I used TAC swirlies, and SU's Pacific Point ink pad. I also used everythings blooming and added her down to the bottom of the page. I put buttons in the center of the flowers already on the paper. I cased this layout right out of my favorite scrapbook, Cherish by Jeanette Lynton. I used TAC's This girl for the sentiments that are cut out on her page.

Than I played with a new Sugar Nellie stamp. I also did the Sketch and stash challenge on this card. The stamp is new, the pattern papers are new. I also opened up a new roll of Raspberry fizz ribbon, but got it last month. I also didn't plan to have the flower on the top where its located. I discovered my kids had put a Wii game on top of the card, and moved the dew drop down. It dried there. Gasp, wanted to wring kids necks! But I didn't. I pulled it off, but that left a mark, so I added the flower to hide that. I hope it still looks okay.

And look what arrived at my house today? I ordered some from here on Sat, and they arrived today! I sat down and played a little but haven't completed a card yet. Hopefully, will post that tomorrow.