Valentine's Day card

I fell in love a while back with digital stamps by Kenny K, he has beautiful images, he also has a great weekly challenge which you can find here.  This weeks challenge was to use hearts in honor of his new stamp release,  I decided to try my hand at a sexy card.  I was also inpired my the colors at Cupcake Inspiration, The colors were screaming sexy card, check it out for yourself...

Here is what I did with it...

As far as a sketch here is one I found at Totally Gorjuss.

The papers on this card is from Creative Imaginations, the die cut piece is was a sign that was on the paper so I fussy cut it and used it as a die cut.  The hearts were cut out of an old cardboard box that I had, I painted it with some crakle paint and used my Black Velvet smootch after it was dry.  I backed the cardstock with some of the leftover papers to make them pop when I layered the hearts.  TFL

C.R.A.F.T. challenge# 84

I love the Craft Challenge Blog, and I swear it has nothing to do with the fact that I ended up in the top 3 with last week's card Thank You card.  They just have fabulous inspiration.  So this week there was a gorgeous sketch to follow and as it happened I needed a card for my daughter's friend.  Whipping it up was quick and painless with this simple sketch.

Here is my take on the sketch,

I did not want a square card since my image was so narrow so I decided to make a regular type card.  Of course it is for a 11 year old girl so it needed lots of glitter and some flowers.  To somewhat match the picture I punched out some flowers from some left over pink cardstock that I had used for the base and using my copics I colored them pink and blue, I feathered the colors together until they blended . I didn't think that the colors would come together and blend so beutifully but they did (2 coats each color for a perfect blend) and I am so pleased with the results.  The papers are from The Girls Paperie, Shabby Flower and Newsprint.  I used both sides of the papers which gave me my 4 layers with lots left over for a Layout.

Something with glitter

Here is a card I made for my aunt, she has a nice heated garage and lets the whole family gather there for special occasions.  It is the only place big enough to hold all of us for Christmas and New Year's get togethers, as well as so many other occasions.  She is the best hostess, this year I decided to give her a card to let her know just how much she really is appreciated.

The image is from the stamping boutique it is called The Fairies Frolic I colored the image using my copics The thank you is a freeby that I picked up and I can't for the life of me remember where it is from.  It is gorgeous though with the bow behind the texte.  I colored the bow to match the stamped image. The butterfly and pearl flourish are both from Prima.I am submitting this card to Stamp Something for there Something with Glitter Challenge and C.R.A.F.T. Challenge for there challenge 83 - Thank You.

Here is a close up of the stamped image between the loose glitter the pearls and the gems on the butterfly this card really sparkles IRL.  Well thank you for looking at my card.

Fussy and Fancy Challenge #27 - Celebration gift and matching card

OK so I just got some copic markers for christmas!  Santa brought me the 36A collection, I love them but I definatly feel the need for more so since my b-day is coming up fast I am hoping to add another set to add to my collection.  I was so excited about trying them out that I have made a few cards that I am sharing today.  since they are all inspired by various challenges I am posting them seperatly.  This first one is the first image that I have colored with my copics!  It is a stamp a Kraftin' Kimmie image.  Fussy & Fancy have a weekly challenge, I love there moto, Less is more... but more is better!  That is so me, of course I HAVE to play there whenever I can so this week's challenge was about making a card and matching gift so here it is.

Here is a close up of the top flower cluster.  The daisies and leaves are punched with another chrismas gift and did you notice the pearls on the snowflakes... I got this product from Sweeden it is sort of like liquid pearls only better, it is called Pearl Maker by Waco.  As hard as I try with liquid pearls I always have this little nib that stickes out but with this stuff no nibs.  I also used it for the trim and pom-pom (pardon my french) on the hat.  I absolutley love this stuff.  Take a look for yourself.

Thank you for looking.

Crafty Weekend!

Well I finally had a chance to scrap this weekend and so I have 3 new layouts to share.  Scrapbookstar is having an online crop which always helps to get me motivated add to that the great sketches that I found and I got a sucessful scrappy weekend.  So here is the first sketch that I started with from Creative Scrapper

and here is what I came up with, I love the colors and the gold foiling on the music paper it looks truly magical IRL.  This is a pic I took of my Erica (the one in the middle), her friend Kelly and my neice Ashley.  I love this picture, they all look adorable!  So the challenge that inspired this creation was the Add Some Winter, we where to add some winter themed accents to our page.  I had these sweet little winter words that I had left over from an old Swilrydoo kit and I thought they would work well with the sketch and so a layout is born.

I also did my second layout with another great sketch for Creative Scrapper, here is the sketch

I got for gorgeous papers from a RAK I won from my Swirly Sister Jannike all the way from Sweeden!  These papers in the package she did up for me were amazing, beyond gorgeous!!  I've had these pics for a while and I could never find the right papers for them and low and behold I did.  The mini roses where also part of her RAK!  Talk about being spoiled rotten!!  The alpha's where plain chipboard that I misted with some smootch but I thought that they blended too mouch witht the background so I added some black cardstock to them to make them pop a little more.

The last Layout I did was for anothe Scrapbook Star challenge, we were to scrap a First, this was my daughter's first time on Snowshoes!  This was taken at our camp last winter!  The pine cones where a stamp I got from Jannike I stamped them on Kraft paper with walnut stain distress ink and cut them out.

Here is a close up of the snowflakes they are so pretty and sparkely, they were white chipboad pieces that I covered in glossy accents, dipped in diamond dust and topped with a Gem stones!  I love the way they turned out!!

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #89

OK so I am making more christmas cards I still have a few to go but I am finding inspiration everywhere  I seen these beautiful cupcakes on Cupcake Inspirations.

I love the beautiful blues and the snowflakes from the cupcakes and it reminded me of these papers that where hidden in my stash so I dug them out and here is what I came up with...

I am also entering this card in the Everybody Art Challenge as I used there sketch from the Challenge #120.  I am so pleased with the way it came out. 

Another great spots I found is Unscripted Sketches here is what I came up for there challenge, I finished up my Bo Bunny paper with this one.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my cards!

Holly

Here is a quick card I created for the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge Blog, it is my first time playing on a blog challenge but it was so much fun that I am sure it won't be the last time.  The stamp is Holly, from Kraftin' Kimmy, she is so pretty and elegant.  I colored her in with my distress inks.  The flower was my attempt at a organza lollipop flower.  I really like the way it turned out.  Thanks for looking.