Party Time Tuesday #6

Ready to party?! Who do you know who you need to make a birthday card for this month? Or do you just need to build up your stash of birthday cards?

Today at Party Time Tuesdays we have a challenge for you all. Outside In. Even better reason to play along today! I pulled out my cute CC Design Fairy stamps. I thought they'd go perfectly inside the card for decoration, and used one of the neglected images for the front of the card. I don't normally do the insides of my cards, so I had to put some thought into what I wanted to do. That set of stamps was perfect for me, because of all different posing with the fairies. I even used some of my neglected stash of Basic Grey Sultry papers. The floral page is so pretty, so it went nicely behind the bird house, and since its so dramatic, the outside looked so pretty on it's own.

For the inside, I cut my cute fairies out, and placed them around my sentiment. I paper pieced both their outfits with scraps leftover from different sheets. I love how both of them turned out! I mean look at his jacket?! How adorable is that? I think it's freaking cute!

I topped them off with stickles, and added pretty pearls around my sentiment inside. All images are colored with copics.

Make sure you click on the links to the right, or click on the Party Time Tuesdays link to see what the other design team members did for the challenge. Great way to get some inspiriation for the challenge! Be sure to join in the party, and link your card back up to the Party Time Tuesday Blog so we can pop by and see what you make. As always make sure you add that birthday sentiment to the front of the card to be considered for the top three.

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies: CC Designs, SU It's Your Birthday, PTI cardstock, SU cardstock, nesties, copics, stickles, Martha punch, Basic Grey paper.

Pile It On #26 My Favorites.

This was a fun one for me this week! For starts, Gabi is my very favorite little girl in the world! I can't express how proud, happy, blessed, and in love I am with this little girl. She's my first born. My blue eyed beauty! I wanted a girl so badly when I was pregnant with her, and we didn't know what we were having. God gave me more than I could hope for in her! But not only is this my favorite girl, I get to show her off with my favorite hobby!

Scrapping is a passion of mine. I love being able to show my kids their childhood. I'm adopted, and there aren't photos of me under the age of the 5. So, having their childhood laid out for them in pictures is one of my favorite things to do for them. I love to sit down and play with papers and their photos.

We had a wonderful sponsor this week, Queen Scraps, who sent us a lovely scrapbook kit. I loved my kit, which was the Making Memories Flutter Kit. It came with lovely papers, die cut flowers, a bunch of cut out letters, double sided ribbon, stickers, felt flower and leaves, buttons. And even had layout idea, with complete cutting instructions. I didn't use her sketch, because I had more photos to add to my page. I hope she'll be pleased with how I showed cased her kit. I also made two cards using scraps from the papers I cut for the scrapbook page. You can view those cards HERE and HERE.

Here's my challenges for my page.

ABC X-Xtra Dimension.

Nutshells #19 Summer Time Fun.

Kah-Wink-E-Dink Smoothies.

Crafy Cardmakers #24, Inky Fingers.

Crazy Challenge Make It In A Hour

Ooh-La-La #57-Simply Summer

Scrap It With a Song I can see clearly now...Gabi is my little cup of sunshine who gives me clear skies!

Dutch Dare Card Challenges #81 Flower Inspiration

Drunken Stampers #23 Summer Theme

Secret Crafter Sat. Challenge #90 Water

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you play along. Be sure to link it back to the Pile It On blog. We'd love to stop by and see what you've created. Don't forget to stop by the other team members, listed to the right, to see what they came up with too! I love seeing what challenges they Pile On!

A Warm Magnolia.

How sweet is this little lady?! Another stamp I've acquired and neglected! She's such a sweet little thing. Showing off that lovely paper kit from Queen Scraps again. She's the sponsor for Pile It On this coming Sunday. I had some left over paper from my scrapbook page, and wanted to show off how pretty this kit was. Mine was the Making Memories Flutter Kit. I loved the colors in this paper kit! Isn't it just perfect for girly cards?! You have so many fun color options. I must say, Queen Scraps is a very cool product for scrappers. She's done a lot of the guess work for you, and put it all together along with directions to a sketch.

You can see the pearly part of the flower sheet on this photo. The glitter stripe is showing up nicely too. The ribbon is double sided. I followed the sketch over at Just Magnolia this week. I forgot to run the ribbon thru the image oval nestie.

I added smooch to the blue part of her dress, and to the prima flowers. I topped her hair off with stickles. I colored her with copics. Cut her out and popped her out.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Nesties, copics, QueenScraps kit, SU cardstock, stickles, primas, smooch,

Try It Out Tuesday Flower Power

I saw that Susana's store had some new Elisabeth Bell images out, and snagged a few of them last week. Picked up an older released stamp too. Gabi was excited to see that stamp. It has horses with the little girl. Man, Susana had some quick shipping too! Already able to play with them! I had to play along with their sketch challenge today. New stamps, fun sketch...the world is a good place to be today! I made a mistake punching out the cardstock. But I was hoping it wasn't totally noticable. They also wanted us to use Flower Soft. I have it on her head band and little bundle of flowers.

Have to plug in another company here too, as my papers came from them. We have a sponsor, Queen Scraps, this coming week on Pile It On. She sent us out some lovely scrapbook kits. Mine was the Making Memories Flutter Page Kit. I'll have my scrapbook pages up on Sunday, but wanted to show off the lovely papers in a couple of cards that I made this week. Her kit is pretty cool and comes complete with a layout idea for those who would like help with that. Mine had buttons, a double sided ribbon, very pretty papers, three sheets of cardstock, stickers, and paper flowers. I'll be showing off most of that on Sunday with my scrapbook page. Today's card just shows off the papers a little. One sheet had stripes with pink glitter on the pink strip, a pearly flower sheet which I used inside my card, and a double sided pattern sheet. That polka dotted stripe is a sticker from the pack topped off with one of the cute button stickers she had included.

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies: SU cardstock, Queen Scrap kit, Elisabeth Bell for Susana, Baja Breeze, and Close to cocoa ink, stickles, copics, nesties, Martha Punch, Flower Soft, Primas.

Party Time Tuesday #5

Today is Party Time again! Today we have an open challenge at Party Time Tuesdays, so that means just a birthday card, with birthday sentiment on the front of the card. We do hope you'll play along with us! Great way to build up a stash of birthday cards, instead of waiting to the last second to get them made...or wait, is that just something I do?! Make sure you click on the links to the right, or go to the Party Time Tuesday Blog to see what the other design team members created today.

My card today was a challenge given to me by Gabi, who is ten, who LOVES hot pink! I mean, the kid loves this color and has since she was 2. Cute story about when we discovered she was into this color. She was playing a Crayola computer game, and if you clicked on the color it said it out loud. So, all we would hear when making dinner was "Hot Pink. Hot Pink. Hot Pink." She'd end up with a picture of the sky colored in hot pink. Isn't she a cutie?! I snapped that picture of her on Mother's Day this year.

Back to her challenge...she wanted me to do hot pink hair on the mermaid stamps from CC Designs. I pleased her with the purple hair but it wasn't pink, so now I had to wing hot pink hair for her. So, I took her up on her challenge. (And note for a future card, she also challenged me to rainbow hair!) I found this DCWV stack at AC Moore and loved the bright colors in it. Screams fun! I cut out the seal and popped him up. Oh, that was a demand from Gabi too, use the seal. Than topped off with some pretty primas, and stickles. Super bright card, and I just love that!

I do have to say, what a fun card this turned out to be! I used Amy R's sentiments, and generated the It's your birthday. I wanted it to say Seas the day...It's your birthday. I hope that comes across in the card.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you play along! And don't forget to check out the Party Time Tuesday blog and the other team members for their wonderful creations! Be sure to link your creation back up to the blog as well!

Supplies: Copics, CC designs, DCWV, primas, PTI cardstock, SU cardstock, SU punches, EK punch, stickles, dew drops, nesties.

Party Time Tuesday #4

Today is Tuesday, so that means it's time to party! Today's challenge at Party Time Tuesday is Red, White and Blue! Gotta be honest, that's normally a hard color combo for me. So, I dug out some papers, and used two Basic Grey packs, June Bug, and Boxer. I also had picked up those stars at Michael's on clearance, and thought they'd be perfect for the challenge. I added white lines to my fella's shirt with that fun painter pen that my sweet friend, Kim, sent me. I also colored the bottom of my dew drops. I had wanted them to appear more white than just clear. Cool that the paint pen worked! I added Glossy Accents to make my bottles seem like glass. I popped out the bottle in his hand, and the box of drinks.

Be sure to add your birthday sentiment on the outside of the card to be considered for Top Three. We'd love to see what you make so pop back to the PTT blog and link your lovely creation!

Supplies: Bella stamp, Basic Grey paper, nesties, copics, dew drops, punches,

Mojo Mermaid!

Man, if at first you don't succeed, try again, right? I started this card last night. Picked out the image, the papers, and colored. I'm so not lying when I said I can't do out of the box coloring! I had tried to take the lesson from Gabi, who is ten, and color my mermaid differently. Yea, my first attempt at purple hair....SCARY! I would post a photo of it, but really, it was that bad! I'd hide my blog in shame! LOL! Anyhow, so I came back today to try again on the hair. This time, I gotta say, WOW! How cute did she turned out? I covered her tail in smooch. Bonus for redoing it today because the Mojo Monday sketch is a fun one! Sadly, I'm almost out of that paper pack. It's been discontinued by TAC. Such a pretty paper line! Gotta say, these mermaids from Sweet November are way fun to color! I used a sentiment from Amy R's Underwater set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Copics, nesties, Genevieve paper, SU cardstock, gems, smooch, stickles,