Hip Hoppin' In The Rain

Good morning friends and happy Friday!  Sorry I haven't been around much, but wedding, wedding, wedding things have taken over my life!  Actually I have found time to make a few cards, but can't show you till later next week so I don't ruin the suprise! :0)  For today though, I have a cute little spring time card showcasing a couple bunnies hopping along in the rain.  Take a look:

Are these little guys carrying the umbrella's not just the cutest?!  Kittie from KittieKraft,  (http://kittiekraft.typepad.com/kittiekraft/)  always has the cutest cards made with a lot of different dies from Impression Obsession (Ellen Hutson), and I just fell in love with these bunnies after seeing her cards!  Of course I HAD to have the umbrella die too, and that's what determined my sky color choice (SU!'s Soft Sky - retired).  The grass is from PTI's "Daydreamer" stamp set and the color is SU!'s Gumball Green.  The umbrella's were cut out using a pink polka dot dp from The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby).  I added a couple small pearls for the bunnies eyes and that finished the card!

 Hard to believe Easter is only 2 weeks away...sure would help if the weather would cooperate!  We have snow coming tonight and another storm next week yet...grrrrrrrrr!  Maybe if I get my act together this weekend and decorate for Easter/Spring, it will actually start feeling like it! :0)  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by....I love it when you do! :0) 

Calla Lillies

Good morning friends.  Just a quick post today to show you a CAS card I made for my daughters bridal shower this past weekend.  I have been so busy with wedding preparations lately that it didn't even hit me till Friday last week that my daughter would expect a hand made card to go with her gift.  And of course when you're in a rush, the mojo just doesn't seem to be there...grrrrrrrrrr!  But once I started thinking about it, I remembered I had an older SU! set ("Long Stemmed") that had 2 Calla Lillies in it that would be perfect as that is what Colleen wants her bridal bouquet to be.  Take a look:

My daughter has a very clean and simple style and has never liked the glitz and frills (like her older sister!!), so in the end I was pleased with the simplicity of this card and she liked it too! :0)  The card stock is a pearlized textured green (from my local scrapbooking store) and the ink is SU!'s Gumball Green.  The embossing folder is from Darice and the sentiment is from SU!'s "Love and Laughter".  A couple diamond rhinestones on either side of the sentiment finished off the card.

That's all for today friends.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a terrific Tuesday! :0)

 

Winter Wishes

Good morning friends.  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend?!  We had a bridal shower for my daughter yesterday, and it was so much fun to watch the excitement on her face through all the festivities.  Hard to believe my little girl is going to be a married lady in just a short time!! 

Today I am sharing a card for the Festive Friday Challenge (FFC03), and this challenge is to incorporate a snowflake into your card.  Not a problem for me as I LOVE snowflakes!  I really liked the picture used as inspiration for this challenge too:

This is the very first photograph of a real snowflake ever taken, and as tired of snow as I am, I can't help but appreciate the beauty and symetry of this icy beauty!  While silver would be the most logical color choice for my card, I ended up using golds and browns because of the "vintage" Santa stamp I used.  Take a look:

Again I apologize for the lighting in this photo, but it is still winter here in Michigan! (if you click on the photo to enlarge it, you'll be able to see a lot more of the detail and the glittery snowflake) And while it may not be time for Santa, I loved using this stamp for this challenge because of the snowflakes in his beard!  I started the card with a base of kraft card stock, and embossed it with SU!'s "Northern Flurry" embossing folder.  I sponged over the snowflakes with SU!'s Soft Seude ink to define them a bit more and add to the vintage feel.  I then added a couple strips of designer paper (The Paper Studio) before adding the main image of Santa (Rubber Stampede - "Santa Collage").  He was stamped on kraft with Soft Seude ink and layered with SU!'s Cherry Cobbler card stock.  The sentiment at the bottom is PTI's "fillable Frames #9, and the snowflake at the top is American Crafts POW glitter paper in antique gold and cut out with a Spellbinders snowflake die.  I added a red button and some twine to the center of the snowflake and called it good! :0)

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you all have a wonderful Monday!  

Aimi with Lantern

Good morning friends.  The card I'd like to share with you today is a LOTV stamp that I HAD to have about 6 months ago (or maybe longer...can't remember!) and finally got around to inking it up!  "Aimi" is an oriental little girl, and I think she's just adorable!  Take a look:

I think the reason it took me so long to ink her up was because of the amount of detail, but once I got started coloring, it was easy to keep going!  I took my color cues from the design paper (Little Yellow Bicycle Inc.) and used my Copics to color her.  I have never colored "black" hair before, so that was a new learning experience for me, and then just when I thought it was looking pretty good, one of my Copics started bleeding on me!  It was towards the top of her bun, and I didn't want to start from scratch again, so I improvised and added some flowers with pearls to her hair...I thought it was a pretty good save! :0)  SU!'s Cherry Cobbler card stock matched up perfectly with the red in the desgner paper, so a simple Spellbinders flower and seam binding ribbon finished off the card perfectly. 

Still been working like crazy on wedding stuff, so feel like I haven't been stamping as much as I'd like to be!  Anyway, bear with me over the next 6 weeks as I probably won't be posting as much.  I'll still be around though, and will try to post at least once (or maybe twice?) a week.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great rest of your week! :0)  

Year of Flowers/Roses

Good morning friends.  Todays card was inspired by PTI's Make it Monday challenge last week, where Dawn McVey made a card using "The Sweet Life" stamp set.  This set has the most beautiful rose images, but unfortunately I do not have this set, but I do have a beautiful rose image from the Gina K "Year of Flowers" stamp set that my good friend Sue gave me for Christmas.  I was going to try and post a card each month using this set, but I'm a little behind!  But anyway, her is my version of Dawn's card using the Gina K rose stamp:

My lighting was not the best when I took this picture, but trust me that in real life, the color is much more vibrant and not so faded. (If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you'll see much more of the detail!) The card is pretty self explanatory, so I'll just fill you in on my colors and stamps.  I used SU!'s Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red, Certainly Celery, and Always Artichoke card stock and ink.  The leaves and sentiment are from PTI's "Embroidered Blooms" and the heart border die is also PTI.  I did fussy cut one of the roses (and pop dotted it) and also the leaves so that they would both stand out against the red on red of the rest of the card. 

That's all for today friends and thanks for stopping by again! :0) 
 

Springs Coming!

Good morning friends.  Hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed the sunshine if you live in my "neck of the woods"!  I didn't get a whole lot of stamping done as I was busy with wedding stuff, but I do have a cute card to share with you that I made a week ago using PTI's new "Polka Dot Parade #1 Die".  Take a look:

I didn't do any actual stamping on the outside of this card, but still had a lot of fun putting this together.  I started with a 4 x 4 Whisper White card base and then added a layer of SU!'s Soft Seude cs to match with the bunny that I die cut from PTI's new die.  The blue swiss dot card stock is from my local scrap booking store.  The green grass layer is SU!'s Certainly Celery, and I used a MS punch on it.  The little flowers are from a 1/8" Fiskars punch and the butterflies are from SU!'s "Embosslits Beautiful Wings".  I added a little glitter to the insides of the flowers, and the tail on the bunny is a scrap of white felt.  Here's what the inside looks like:

I used the PTI "Polka Dot Parade" mini stamp set for the wording and then the die for the bunny again, to match the front of the card. I LOVE these little inexpensive sets that PTI puts out, and had a great time making this cute little card.  Someday when I have grandkids, I know I will get LOTS of use out of this set...I mean you have to plan ahead, right?!! :0)

That's all for today friends.  Have a great Monday and I'll be back again tomorrow with some more inspiration.  Thanks for stopping by...I LOVE it when you do! :0)

Make it Monday #105: Glitter Trim

Good morning friends.  Happy Friday AND happy March 1st!  Hopefully this will be the start of some warmer weather and actual sunshine that lasts for more than an hour or two!  The challenge this week at Papertrey Ink was to incorporate trim that has been glittered, and this is what I came up with:

I had been playing with SU!'s set this week called "Feeling Sentimental", and making cards to replenish my guy card stash, when I thought that this could work for the challenge too.  I used PTI's Heart Border die and glue (don't have a Xyron machine) and sprinkled it up with Martha Stewarts red glitter and I love how it turned out...even sparklier than red glitter paper you buy!  I'm going to save this card for my oldest daughters wedding anniversary in June, because the designer paper was a scrap (The Paper Studio) from her wedding album I made and they also live just miles from Michigan's Adventure Amusement Park.  Add the red glittered hearts and it will be the perfect card for her and her hubby! 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I'm back to filling out more wedding invites!  I think I'll be able to be a professional wedding planner when this is all said and done!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back next week!