Papertrey Anniversary Contest

Well, in a way I am a day late and a dollar short! I started this card for a contest that was running yesterday but didn't get it finished. Todays contest had us use a choice of a few cute digi stamps from the Papertrey design team - and what do you know! Dawn McVey's cute digi matched the colors I chose for "yesterday's" card perfectly. So, the two have been rolled into one! I was really hoping to get more cards done today, but between work, he gym, an ortho appointment for my son and a pediatrician appointment for my daughter, this is the only one I could get done.....thus the super-simple nature of it!!! Wish me luck :)

Clean & Simple Cardmaking

Here's a card I finally got around to making! I signed up for Online Card Classes' "Clean & Simple Cardmaking" class and this card uses the technique from Day 8 - mirror image stamping. I think it turned out pretty cute! I'll probably give it to the hubs for V-day. I've also been working on my daughter's Valentines for her third grade class. They are turning out cute as well - I'll post a picture when they are all finished.....

Make it Monday #39!

Happy Friday!! Here's a card I did for Papertrey's MIM this week. I watched the video Monday and got to making the card today (Friday). I didn't even realize I used the same stamp Nichole did! LOL! Oh well. It turned out cute....I like this technique a lot. Plus if you make a mistake, you can cover it up with your focal point! Yep....I screwed that up a bit - but the recipient will never know!

On another note, I got Photoshop Elements 10 for my birthday and have been itching to start learning. It is overwhelming! I've been sick all week, just starting to feel better yesterday and today, so it looks like that will be a project for this weekend! Have a good one!

Make it Monday Challenge

Hello there!! Here's another MIM challenge....this one was to use dies in multiple ways. I used the half and half die with flower fusion cut out of it a few times. Then I stamped inside the cuts and adhered the half & half die with pop-dots for depth. It looks really cute!

Papertrey Make-It-Monday challenge #34

Good Morning to you! It's almost Friday....one more day and the weekend will be here! I've had this one done for a few days and I'm just now getting around to posting it. I wish you could see the gingham detail at the bottom, but it kind of faded into the card.... The challenge this week was to create chipboard accents by running thin cardboard/chipboard through your die cut machine and stacking the pieces to create dimension. I used PTI's ice cream cone die to do this. It was super easy-peasy! I'll be doing this one again, for sure!

Papertrey Make-It-Monday challenge #33

This was a cool challenge where we stamped white ink over colored ink and blended to make a "foggy" effect. For fun, I colored in some of the leaves with Memento markers then put Glossy Accents on top. Cute!

On a side note, a little blog name change going on here! I found out that there was another blog with the same name, so I thought I'd change it up. Hopefully this one isn't out there in the blogosphere as well, lol!!!

Just a card...

This one features a watercolor stamped background done with distress stains. The coolest part is the butterflies - they are done using a Tim Holtz technique - rock candy crackle over grungeboard which "crackles" when dry. Then, distress stains are applied and they fill in the cracks for that cool look. The picture doesn't do it justice!