Birthday Cards

This is a fall birthday card I made for my Brother-in-law.

Birthday Cards

I made this card for OWH Stars and Stamps Pop up card tutorial. I had a lot of fun creating the card for my niece, Madison. Her party is this Sunday (Halloween). The clown digi is a freebie I found awhile back from Dustin Pike. I love his digi's!

Happy Birthday!

My friend's birthday is tomorrow and I waited until the last minute to make her card. I love how it turned out. All of the paper I used is from a stack I bought at Big Lots on clearance and the sentiment is Hero Arts. The flowers are from Iced Got Flowers.

I also made this card for MelJen's Designs - Anything goes challenge.

and Lexi's Creations - Birthday challenge

I did it Creations - Anything goes Challenge

The following pictures are of the small gifts I also made for my friend's birthday.

S&S Sketch Challenge #38

Here is the sketch provided by OWH.

I decided to make a boy's birthday card.

Fall has arrived!

I found a great free digi online and instantly wanted to use it on my next card.

When I read the list of challenges on Feline Playful and saw that many of them were fall themed. I decided to see how many different challenges this card would qualify for.

So here goes:

Create with Connie and Mary - Sketch Challenge

Charisma Cards - Autumn

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Orange

Dutch Dare - Tag

Paper Romance - Halloween/Fall

Baby Bud Designs - Fall/Halloween
Stampin' for the Weekend - Autumn
The Stamp Man - Autumn
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Autumn/Fall Colors

Totally Papercrafts - Buttons and Bows
Fairy Fun Fridays - Tickets or Tags



Midweek Throwdown

OWH Stars and Stripes Midweek Throwdown

This week my twin sister was the guest designer. So I had to make a fabulous card too.

Our awesome sample cards this week were made by Yvonne, please visit her blog One Creative Momma to see more of her wonderful art work.

Thank you Yvonne for sharing your awesome creativity with us!

That is her card and here is mine:

The image is from Elizabeth O Dulemba.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #70

Here is the challenge:

"Our sponsor this week is Di's Digi Downloads.

Diane make the sweetest images - they all put a big, big smile on my face, they are just so gosh darn CUTE!!! The winner this week will get 5 digi images! So jealous!"

I know everyone is working on Christmas cards but I purchased this stamp yesterday and couldn't wait to use it. This is my SSW #70 card:

365 Cards

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Day 216 - The 3 B's

Just one more set of 3 for you! 3 more B's:

Brown, Banner, Bling!

 

Operation Write Home's October Challenge

Saturday, October 2, 2010

October Surprise CHALLENGE!

Are you ready for another challenge? (And yes, it's a cheesy name. LOL!)

This time it' brought to you by our dear friend and author Kimber McGray! She's a talented crafter, military wife, and OWH supporter who wrote a new book - 175 Fresh Card Ideas - and in it OWH gets a wonderful shout out!! What a great way to get the word out to crafters about our heroes' need for cards! All cards submitted for the book are donated to OWH, too!

Here's a few links you might want to check out to hear more about the book and Kimber herself:

•Kimber's blog post for today - with her link to here

•Interview with Kimber giving a SUPER shoutout to OWH: Memory Makers

•The original call for submissions for the book last year

•A blog hop post by Kimber from a previous hop

•Hero Blog note from Kimber in 2008

•The book on Amazon!

The challenge

Our shippers would LOVE your help in getting Christmas cards in before the Oct 30th deadline; they all have to be stamped, tucked, sorted, and repacked to be in the mail shortly after that, and if cards got to them early, their lives would be a lot easier! (You can help by making your cards shipper-ready...review the Guidelines to see how!)

So to qualify for the drawing, get your cards to a shipper BEFORE OCTOBER 15th!

To get an extra entry, post a card and link to this blog post about our challenge on your blog, and link up below!

REMINDER! No more halloween cards please, we're well past that deadline. Thanksgiving just passed as well. But if you have fall papers and stamps you simply need to use - make a general card (thinking of you, birthday, love, thank you) with them and they are due by Oct 15th as well.

The prize

Kimber's generously giving us two copies of her book to give away! Thank you Kimber!!

Here is the site, now go and get cre8tive!http://www.owhhomefrontblog.org/

Here are a few of the cards I am making for OWH and World Cardmaking Day!!



365 Cards

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Day 210 - Super Sketchy Sunday

Welcome to Sparkle Creations Week!!!!!

Sparkle Creations is a rubber stamp company owned by Sparkle Smith, and the entire DT had the good fortune to receive a stamp to play with. All week long our cards will feature a variety of the stamps that Sparkle offers. You simply must check out her website and blog (she is a very talented card maker)!!

Here is today's sketch:

So I made a fall card. Hope you enjoy it!

365 Cards

Day 215 - The 3 P's
As promised, we've got another set of 3 for you, and they are the 3 P's:


Polka dots, Paper piercing, and Pop Dots (or the use of a similar product)
 
I loved Elizabeth Dulemba's pony so much, that I used it again on this challenge.

365 Cards

Day 214 - The 3 F's

How about another 3? Let's do the 3 F's:

Fabric, Floss, and Fringe

The bandana pattern is my fabric, the button has the floss, and the mane and tail was made with fringe.

Midweek Throwdown

I made this card for OWH's Midweek Throwdown and Sweet Sketch Wednesday #69.

OWH: Our challenge this week is a theme challenge!  We challenge you to make cards “for the girls”.  Cards that our hero’s can send home to their female loved ones!  Big girls, little girls, any occasion, birthday, anniversary, love, miss you – I’m sure you have lots of great ideas!

SSW: http://sweetsketchwednesday.blogspot.com/2010/09/sweet-sketch-wednesday-no-69.html
          

So this is my card. A mixture of the the two challenges.

365 Cards

DAY 213 - The 3 B's Boy, Button and Black.
http://365cards.blogspot.com/2010/09/day-213-3-bs.html

I am enjoying the "three" challenges so much.
Here is my take on today's 3 challenge.

Tuesday Throwdown

Here is a fun challenge:

Welcome to Tuesday Throwdown #19! Today we have another fun challenge for you. This challenge is all about punches. Use any style punch on your artwork. Break out your punches and lets see what you come up with.

Go and try it yourself: http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/

And here is my card:

365 Cards & Anything Goes

Day 212 - The 3 G's
This challenge is all about the letter G - and here are your THREE:
Girl, Green, Glisten (add some sparkle to that card!)

I also made this card for Anything Goes Challenge

Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Week 17 - Cute
It's Tuesday evening and time for another challenge this week the theme is 'CUTE'


On this card I used Elizabeth Dulemba's Mermaid.

365 Cards

This is the daily challenge from 365 cards -

"DAY 211 - The 3 T's
For the rest of the week we'll be bringing you our "The 3 ___" challenges. These are always fun and you all produce such amazing cards as a result. So let's get started, shall we? Gloria is bringing us her card with 3 T's today, specifically teal, travel, and torn (paper, that is). "

So here is my card:

OWH Cards

SRM Stickers loves our heroes - and they're throwing their own online bash this week!


They're hosting a sketch challenge that closes Sept 30th - that's this Thursday! We know you LOVE sketches... so get on it quick to qualify for the prize! Here's a sample card from one of SRM's Design Team....go see the rest, they're gorgeous!

The Sketch!

I've had this sticker for awhile and when I saw this sketch I knew this would be a great time to use it. I love how the flowers turned out. Thanks SRM!

Southern Girls Challenge

I made the following card for the second challenge for Southern Girls Challenge.

I used a pair of earrings that I haven't worn in years. This was such a great challenge. 

What a cre8tive way to use our old jewelry.

 Challenge 2 - Recycled Jewelery

We are really excited to bring you our second challenge here at Southern Girls Challenges, wow what a fantastic number of entries we had for our first challenge.  Fingers crossed this one will be half as popular.  This fornights challenge is "RECYCLED JEWELLERY"  be it something from your junk drawer, a two dollar shop bargain or a peice of family history we want to see it on your creation.  As always we don't mind whether you enter a layout, off the page creation or card we just want to see your take on the challenge.

Now try it yourself: http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2010/09/challenge-2-recycled-jewelery.html

S&S Sketch Challenge #36

The S&S Sketch challenges are great. I always get inspired.

This time it was the circle that caught my eye.

The flowers that I used were a perfect size for the sketch.