My Log Cabin Card

     I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I know I did!! I made this card for Gina's spotlight sketch challenge and because I needed to practice on doing some male cards. I don't know about you, but these are the hardest ones for me to do. I had seen this log cabin card long ago and wanted to try it and finally got around to doing it. I used Pure Luxury CS in asparagus and chocolate and the DP is from the DCWV matstack (the christmas combo). The punch is a Martha Stewart that I picked up on clearance at michaels and the embossing folder is called distressed stripes. I sponged the sky and stamped the tree 4 times randomly. I cut the image and placed it to look like you are looking out the window of the cabin. I added stickles to the trees to look like snow. I added the birthday sentiment. The stamps are from Gina K Designs Winter Wonderland Stamp TV kit and  Snow Much Fun stamp set. I will post some christmas tags later this week.  Thanks for visiting my blog!!

Happy Winter

Happy Tuesday everyone! I made today's card for Gina k designs spotlight sketch challenge, however, I didnt check my dates and its too late to enter. Oh well I still had fun making it! I used Pure Luxury In the Navy cardstock and my DP is from the DCWV holiday collection winter matstack. I stamped my greeting with vivid ink (inky blue) and stamped the snowflakes randomly around the greeting. I added small navy bling to the center of the snowflakes. I then stamped my mittens and cut them out. I added some ribbon  to them and some dark blue stickles. The stamps I used are from Gina K designs Winter Wonderland Stamp TV kit and Winter mittens stamp set. Thanks for visiting my blog today!!

Happy Holidays

This is the first post I have done in quite a while. Its been a really busy fall, but now Christmas time is here and I am ready to do some christmas cardmaking. I made this card for two challenges, the first one is the color spotlight challenge over at Stamp TV. Gina challenged us to make a card using green apple, lipstick red, and white. These were great xmas colors. The other challenge i did was for Cardpatterns. I used their sketch for this card. It was an awesome sketch. I used Gina k Designs stamps and cardstock. I colored my wreath stamp with memento markers and then stamped the image. I used brilliance moonlight white ink for the sentiment and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I used nestabilities lacey circles. The ribbon and flowers are from my stash. I am having a minor surgery this week and am hoping to spend the 10 day recovery in my card room. So hopefully I will have some more blog posts this week. Hope you have a great weekend and Happy Thanksgiving!!

My first heartfelt creations card

Hello again, its been a while since ive had a chance to post a card but I have one for you today. This is the first card I have made with my new stamp sets that I got from Heartfelt creations. Tammy and I went to the Heirloom stamping festival is PA and had a wonderful time. There were so many great vendors there. Heartfelt creations was the one that caught all of our attention and we came away with some great new stamps and dies to match.
For this card I used SU cardstock and my sentiment is from the SU set Well Scripted. The flower stamps and dies are called Posy Patch from Heartfelt creations. The leaves are called perfect petals. They are also stamps and dies to match. I used my big shot to cut them out. I colored them with my copic markers. I used pop dots to give them some dimension and added bling and stickles to the center of the flowers. The punch is MS and I also used nestabilities labels 1. I made this card for a friend at work. It was her sisters birthday and her favorite color was purple. Well thats all for now, but I have a light weekend planned so hopefully plenty of time for stamping. Have a great weekend!!

Grandad's 85th Birthday

     Yesterday was my grandad's 85th birthday. Wow can you believe it? That is a long time! We had a nice little family birthday party for him and I made him this card. He made me read the inside to him because he can't see very well any more. I had a great time getting together with the family.
     I made this card with a stamp from Gina K Designs. It was from a set called Farm Life. I used a sketch from the Just us Girls Challenge blog. They are giving a great set of prizes this week.  I used navy cardstock and my designer paper is from pinkpaislee. The ribbon and brad are from gina k designs. I colored the image with my copic markers and sponged the grass with memento bamboo leaves ink and sponged the sky with memento summer sky ink. I cut the image and seperated it to fit the sketch. Thanks for visiting my blog today and have a great weekend!!

cardpatterns 83 sketch challenge

Finally Friday is here and I can get can some ME time. That means its time to head to my craft room to get some stamping time in. Tommorrow I have a baby shower to go to so I had to get this card done tonight. I decided to use the cardpatterns 83 sketch challenge for this. Tammy and I went stamp shopping last weekend and I got a new gadget to play with. Its the Cover a card BG stamps by impression obsession. I love it. I made my own DP on this card with one of my new stamps. I used Brilliance pearlescent coral ink. The stamp is from a recollections clear set called "sweet baby girl". I got the cardstock, lace, ribbon and bling from Joann's and the brad came from eyelet outlet. Thanks for visiting my blog and have a great weekend!!

Card Patterns Sketch 82

Today I have done a card for the card patterns 82 sketch challenge. Their sponsor this week is Creative Clear Stamps. I used Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Card Stock in Sweet corn and Chocolate brown. The DP I used is Cosmo Cricket Pixie-Liscious. I embossed my BG pieced with a spellbinders impressabilities (flowers). The chain is a punch from EK success. I used Nestabilities  Fancy tags and the stamps are called Fanciful tags by Nina Brackett. You can buy these  at Gina K Designs. Gina is having a release next week so i'm hoping for some more great stamps from Nina. I can't wait!! Have a great night!