little drummer

this morning i am sharing a card i made for the latest sketch at CAS(E) this sketch! super love this challenge site! who doesn't love sketches!? lol! so fun!

i'm also submitting this card for the CAS-ual friday's challenge - masculine! :)

i big, huge, puffy heart love this card! :) it's my favorite color combo, clean and simple, and fun! :) and  without too much struggle, i think i made a fairly masculine christmas card! which, is not easy for me to do!! lol!

i used lawn fawn stamps - (music note from 'and a partridge' and 'stay tuned' and the sentiment and drummer man(n!) is from 'pa-rum-pa-pum-pum') to make this CAS design! :)

the drummer fellow is paper pieced and popped up for dimension and the music notes are heat embossed in white - i really wanted them to pop! :)

so that's it! i hope you're all off to a wonderful week! i am LOVING all of the things people are thankful for on facebook! such a wonderful time of year! 

see later in the week! and i hope we can all get inky again! :)

enjoy!

merry and bright (again)

*2nd post for the day! i'm on a ROLL!* 

ok, i think it's safe to assume two things...i love using 'merry and bright' as my sentiment for nontraditional christmas cards. and i'm a sucker for cityscapes.

so i have another take on a similar card i made recently (here), but this time with hero arts! :)
i made this card for two challenges:

the tuesday trigger over at moxie fab world (just LOOK, it's a city!!!!):

and for the latest challenge over at CAS-ual fridays - using kraft!

so, here it is:

i stamped the silly scape city onto some kraft paper and then used some glitter on a few of the windows. it's supposed to represent people being home there, maybe even a fire or two in the fireplaces - it is a christmas card after all! :) i also made the clockface on the tower glossy and orange, so it would stand out.
the sentiment was created using the fanciful swirl alphabet.

now, to the background...i used gelatos again!! and this time i flicked a little water on it (my favorite technique i think!) so it looked like a soft snow fall - it's hard to capture that in pictures. :(

i blended two purples and a pink to make the background. and i'm not even kidding...as i was writing this post, the sky here LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE the sky here (minus the snow, of course!). so i had to take a picture - talk about life imitating art! lol!! so pretty! (it looked even more like it in person!)

so that's it!
hope you guys have an awesome weekend!!!
enjoy!

shaken not stirred

today i'm so excited to share this card i made for two challenges! 
the latest challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is all about making a project with elements off of the edge! sweet!!

and speaking of sweet! i also made this card for the most current challenge over at the sweet stamp shop! which is to make a project with black, white and one other color!

i used two different sweet shop stamp sets - furry friends forever and gnomies (for the little grass!) but i also used their dies to make the banner! both the banner and the little raccoon are popped up for dimension! of course, the banner (and part of the little guy's tail) are living on the edge! well, off of the edge! :)

but my favorite part of this card is that it's a shaker card!! i die cut some acetate into a circle and then sewed along most of the circle. then i added my little punched out circles and finished sewing the circle! i LOVE when i get to use my sewing machine on paper crafts! it's sort of in need of repair (*cough cough* little mann hands *cough cough* messing with my tension *cough cough*)! :) ha ha!

but it was actually cooperating with me yesterday, so i was happy! just like this card! 
hope it made you smile!
enjoy!

couple friends

let me start off by saying that i made this card, and then took about...50 pictures of it...none of which do it justice in my opinion! lol! sigh.


i made it for the current challenge over at cas-ual fridays! it's a color challenge using lime aqua and navy - perfect! that happens to be the color combo of my bed set!! lol!

here's my card...the photogenically-challenged card... :)


i really like it! i was inspired by these cards (which were inspired by jennifer mcguire!)! i was like, what a brilliant idea!! so i wanted to try my hand at it!

on the clear acetate panel in my card, i clear heat embossed the image from unity's itty bitty stamp set, 'everyday, everywhere", i'm LOVING the unity stamps, and i'm considering doing the stamp of the week...anyone familiar with that? input? 
anyway, the clear image was then cut out and popped up onto the clear acetate. 

then i stamped the custom sentiment with lawn fawn's 'harold's abc's'! of course! i really miss hanging out together with my besties in michigan and their hubbies. we always have fun, and i just miss us being able to be together!  hence the card! :)


i really like how this card turned out! 
i hope it brought a smile to your face too! :)
enjoy!

sending a little lovin

one of my best, longest-known friends, needed some extra loving recently. she's a fellow crafter (Danielle at girlracer scrap), so i knew a handmade card may be able to get the job done! :)

here's the card i made for her:

i'm entering it in two challenges:

CAS-ual friday's - create a card based on the sketch and wee memories challenge - free for all!

there is a lot of dimension going on here: the ears, tail and paws of the puppy (stamp by paper smooches 'chubby chums'- so cute!). the grass was also layered and popped up, as were the clouds...*whistle*

ok, seeing it written like that, i may have popped up too much, but is that even possible?? :) ha ha!

i also, paper pieced the eyes and tongue of the puppy. the hearts were cut out with a punch (a much, much used and loved punch!) and then i added some glossy-coating to them so they would match the sentiment in color and texture.

i heat embossed (in red!) the sentiment, which is also paper smooches (setiment sampler).

so that's it! i hope that little card sent all of my love and hugs to Danielle! that's a lot of responsibility for a little card. :)

enjoy!

a little loopy layout

today i have a layout that i made for my newest little mann! my first layout with him on it (if you don't count the one i made showing his ultrasound (here). anyway, i wanted to make it just perfect, and i hope i came close to that, at least! i was inspired by the latest challenge going on at CAS-ual Fridays - feeling loopy!

i knew i wanted to do a banner-type layout, and when i read the challenge, i was like BAM, that's it, ribbon loops! here it is:

i looped ribbon around the twine to look like a banner! you may think this color combo is a little odd (grey, teal and yellow), but i LOVE it. we did all of his room in this color scheme! so i knew i had to incorporate those colors on his 'welcome' layout! :)

i used two different lawn fawn stamp sets (harold's abc's and plus one) for this layout. LOVE me some lawn fawn! :) the moon and stars that hang next to the ribbons on the banners are actually part of the mobile on the 'plus one' set that i isolated. :) i really liked the look of the mixing the 'harold's abcs' stamp set with thickers for the main title of the page. that's one of my favorite parts!

i also added some buttons to a few of the ribbon's to add some dimension and hidden delights! :)

i then added nolan's 'stats' and some pictures of him from the hospital, and vwa-la! another CAS layout in the bank. :)

well, that's it!

enjoy!

ding dong!

i'm back with another 4x4 card i created for the CAS-ual Fridays 'mini card' challenge and the Less is More 'anything goes' challenges!

i'm having such a great time making these cards! they're so fun! and this one is particularly cheeky! ha ha! it's supposed to be a fun little nod to the wizard of oz, does that come through?

again, i used an array of lawn fawn stamps (harold's abc's, cozy christmas, harvest season and just a smidge of making frosty friends)!

i paper-pieced the pumpkin, and fussy cut out the socks (which i colored in using colored pencils). the hat i made by using the base of the top hat from the 'making frosty friends' and then freehanding the triangle to make it looks like a witch's hat. :) how versitle are lawn fawn stamps? i tell you!

inside i simply stamped the happy halloween sentiment from 'heebie jeebies', because it's such a fab stamp!

anyway, i hope this card made you giggle a bit. i loved making it! anything i can make that makes me smile and laugh is a winner in my book!

enjoy!

a little boo!

i have a super cute (in my opinion!) and super easy (in probably everyone's opinion!) mini-card to share today! i made it for two challenges:

the CAS-ual Fridays 'mini card' challenge and the Less is More 'anything goes' challenge.

the card i made is 4x4 and is also a window card! here it is:

i made the window with a simple circle punch. and then, i used three different lawn fawn stamp sets - which seems crazy to me, since it's such a small and simple card! but that's the great thing about lawn fawns stamps! :)

everything is paper pieced, and i also popped up the pumpkin for dimension. the pumpkin is from the harvest season stamp set, and i just cut it up, and outlined the cuts with a black sharpie to make it look like it was it's own stamp! the cat is from 'critters in the burbs' and the sentiment is from the 'heebie jeebies' stamp set! i think it works perfectly with the cat jumping out of the pumpkin!

now back to your regularly scheduled weekend! :) i hope i get even more crafty this weekend! *fingers crossed*

enjoy!

a CAS saturday

well, i should have been doing while everyone else in the apartment was sleeping, was cleaning...but instead, i decided to make a CAS card for the latest challenge at CAS-ual Fridays!! :) i'll just tell my husband, 'no i didn't get a chance to clean for your mom's visit, but check out this clean and simple card, eh? eh??' ha! oh well! it was worth it!

the latest challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to create a 4x9 card that is, well, clean and simple! check! and it was so much fun!

i have had this idea brewing in my mind for a while and it just had to come out! so here is my card:

i used some old brown paper packaging and folded it up accordion style for the cupcake wrapper. the icing for the cupcake was made by folding and overlaying some ribbon, and of course the 'candles' are my 'frankenstein creation' of some lawn fawn stamps from the 'cozy christmas' stamp set. one of my favorite stamp sets! it's so versatile! the sentiment was stamped with 'harold's abc's' - another go to stamp set, i couldn't live without!

so, i made the candles by stamping the glass of milk image. before i actually stamped it, i used a q-tip to remove the 'milk' waves. and the fire for the candle is the fireplace image - minus the wood of course! then i just used a ruler to make the pink diagonal lines (because in my mind, birthday candles should always have those swirly colors!). i paper pieced the images together and vwa-la! easy peasy! side note - i did add a little bling (just a little!) to each flame of the candle, because what's a fire without something bling-y, right?



well that's it! i hope you are having a productive weekend too! *wink wink*

enjoy!