Butterfly

My whole purpose in making this card was just to use my new stamp (from Michaels' dollar bin, and the jewels came with it). The background is a piece of a wallpaper sample with the butterfly image stamped in plum (antique inks). The pink paper is Amanda Blu and the rick rak is just some I had. Simple and I'd like to think sweet.

Challenges:
Flutterby Wednesday- sparkle and shine+butterfly/fairy
MamiDoodles- girl bday with sparkles
Pixie Dust-swirly swirls
PollyCraft Monday- anything goes
Creative Scrapbooking Diva-Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Birthday Card

This is the birthday card I made to go with the altered notebook I made for my sister.


It doesn't match exactly, but the color scheme is the same (pink and brown).

Details: The pink paper is from Amanda Blu, both the brown papers are wallpaper samples. The image (how cute is she?!) is from Linda at Back to Paper. The brads are from Joann Fabrics (whatever their house brand is).

Challenges:
Flutterby Wednesday-anything goes w/ a fairy

New Beginnings

This card was spurred into motion by a variety of inspirations. I wanted to make one for my sister, who is leaving for college tomorrow. I'm hoping the mail system can get this to her within a few days. She will be in a much much larger city than she is used to, and grew up a country gal. I'm sure encouragement will be needed in her new venture. As far as the card itself, the sketch is from Papertake Weekly Challenge (see sketch below) the adorable grumpy owl is provided by Making Our Mark. I also tried a few things that are new, the biggest paper (with the owls) was made by using the digi stamp multiple times and I also used a wicker chair to create some texture. Crafty Creations wanted us to use an owl this week, so I did! And what a cutie he is, despite his grumpy nature :) --sorry about the underlining, it won't undo for anything.
Pixie Dust wanted swirly swirls. It is had to see that both the creme and brown papers have elements of swirls in them. I also added a couple of glitter swirls on the owl paper and outlined the dots on the creme.
Pink Piggy says anything goes this week, so I'm submitting this card for it!
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Stamp Something wanted a Celebration Card. This card is celebrating a new and what will be a somewhat stressful time for my sister.
One Stop Craft Challenge calls for Congrats. This is a congrats card as well, as she is moving on with her life -but if they don't read my spiel above, they won't understand why I posted this card as such :)

Using up Scraps

I read about a great way to use up your scrap pieces of paper in a magazine the other day. You can find instructions on how to do it here. But all in all, it is really easy! Mine looks different from the ones in that picture because I was less uniform in how I tore the papers. I like mine better :) The first picture is the finished product: two paper bowls (the second one technically was made from a cup and was much more difficult than the bowl).
After looking at my scraps, I realized they were mostly purple, pink, yellow and black. So I just used those scraps (I had more, but wanted the colors to go together). This is a picture of them drying (I did end up adding a few more pieces in places that seemed thin or you could see through).
Just the cup-finished product. The tag was one that didn't work out, and was thus thrown in the scrap pile-although you could cut out images to further decorate it. Or add a couple stamps!
The pink and purple-side shot (I like taking multiple shots from multiple angles).
Looking in...
That is it! Not sure what I'm going to use them for yet. I will find a use, I'm sure :)

Not sure this goes with any challenges. Maybe Anything Goes, something round. But I will understand if they don't take it!

Beautiful You

I had so much fun making this card! The sketch I used is from Glitterbabe's Challenge Blog:I did my card landscape, but other than that I think I followed it pretty closely. Take a look.


On to the details: none of the papers I used had the brands printed on them (really wish they would do that so I could give them credit), the lace is from a stash my grandmother gave me (chances are good that it is nearly as old as I am. The petals on the sides (they look like hearts) are extras from the inside (which I will show you in a bit). The big flower is a traced image from the inside (again, you have to wait to see it). The blue pearls were on a sheet, maybe Creating Keepsakes? The digital image (blue) is from Stef of Glitterbabe (a freebie on her site). I just happened to have the stamp (embossed) from Autumn leaves which correlated perfectly with Stef's. I typed and printed off the sentiment. Here is an alternate view:

And one more:
Alright, on to the inside! This is the first card I have ever created that I did the inside before the outside. That is because Dawny of Pink Piggy inspired me by making her own pop up flower card and she inserted the tutorial on her site (please visit this link to see how to do it). The flowers that look to be black are really dark blue. This image is part way open:
This image showcases the sentiment, I believe it is from TLC or was it Sentimental Sundays?
And here it is fully popped up! Notice, Stef, the glitter on the center flower (just for you).

Do I have you wanting to make one of your own? I sure hope so :)

Challenges:
Glitterbabe's Challenge: use a Glitterbabe digi, glitter and sketch
Digi Doodle Shop-embossing (the flower stamp inside the big flower are all embossed)
Digital Tuesday- give thanks
Anything Goes- cute
Flutterby Wed- All winged things
Sentimental Sundays-3D with sentiment

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Blog Award!

Blog Award!

Yeah! A big shout out to Yolie from Just Yolie, Just Create for passing on this blog award to me. I am truly honored. She is very talented and I am inspired by her creations on a regular basis.

The rules for this award are:
1) Thank the person who gave you the award, Check!:
2) Copy award to blog, Check!:
3) Pass award to five blogs you love:

On to the blogs I love (I have so many, but to name a few...)
1. Tammy of Tammy's Creative Tidbits
2. Faith of Delightful Inspirations
3. The entire Design Team over at Stretch N Bubbles
4. Stef of Glitterbabe Greetings
5. Melanie of Courtney Lane Designs

Who likes Candy?!

A couple of places to get candy:

My Inkie Fingers is giving away digital images. What you need to do: become a follower, leave a comment on her blog, post a comment mentioning that you found out about it at Creative Happenings-that's it! And you will be entered in to win free digis!

Also, Creative Scrapbooking Divas has a blog hop going on with massive candy as well.