The curiosity of cats

Here's the three cats watching my baby leopard geckos. They must have sat there, unmoving, for about 10 minutes. I was impressed that no one tried to actually get IN the tank with Skitz and Iris.

Sunday Sketch challenge

Do you ever start making a card from a sketch and then start playing around with the pieces until it doesn't look like the sketch anymore? That's what happened with this! So, I like the card but it didn't really go as planned.

Two birds with one stamp...

Here is my submission for the Daring Cardmaker's "miss you" challenge as well as the sketch challenge over at CPS. This is my first card in over a month! We switched my bedroom and the craft room so both have been in shambles!

Memory Lane PA yard sale

On Saturday, Mom and I went to the Memory Lane PA yard sale. MLPA is a really cool scrapbooking store in Quakertown, PA. A few times a year people can sell their stuff and earn store credit. Check out all the cool stuff I bought! Take a look and see if you can guess how much I spent in total... (the amount is at the bottom)

$13.50 (wow :) )

JC&B sketch challenge

Cupcake sketch challenge

Here is my late (oops) submission for the Cupcake sketch challenge. You really have to click to enlarge to see all of the fun embellishing I did to it...my normal choices of liquid glass, liquid applique and stickles. I totally LOVE this card!

Created by Hand -- "spring" challenge

My friend Deb gave me these AWESOME flowers for my birthday. She found them at Michael's. I made these cards to send to the other bridesmaids since we had a blast doing the bridal shower and bachelorette party for Meghan last weekend. I thought it had a nice spring-y feel :)

Stamp Something -- "shapes" challenge

Does it seem like everyone is having babies? Sure feels like it around here! Here are two cards I made that fit the "shapes" challenge. They are fairly simple cards that I added the little circle stickers to once I finished the card. I got 12 puffy stickers in assorted colors for $2 at Walmart today. Woohoo!

Spoon Full of Sugar -- "how old?" challenge

This is a card I made for my friend Marci's little boy. He turns 2 this month!

Paper: Close To My Heart
Embellishments: The turtles and the number were made with the Cricut. The "happy birthday" background is an old Cuddlebug embossing die-cut.

Just Christmas and Birthday sketch

I recently bought the geisha stamps from Hero Arts and totally fell in love. The rest of the stamps on both of these cards are fun ones from Close To My Heart. Neither actually says "happy birthday" but they will inside! :)

Paper: The cardstock is Close To My Heart. I made the background and texture paper myself.
Stamps: Close To My Heart and Hero Arts (geishas)
Ink: Close To My Heart- bubblegum, clover meadow, star-spangled blue and sunny yellow
Embellishments: the geishas are pop-dotted onto the cards.

Miss ChaCha

On Thursday, I had to make the decision to put ChaCha to sleep. Since her last shed, she had gone downhill really quickly. I hated to see her suffer.

Here are some pictures of ChaCha.

Poetic Artistry sketch challenge

Here's my submission for the sketch challenge over at Poetic Artistry. I made this card for a woman at work. Her son likes jelly beans and his birthday is coming up. The jar filled with jellybeans is actually only three stamps-the jar and a few different-shaped jellybean stamps. I used a masking method to make them look like they all fit in the jar.

Paper: The cardstock is just a card pack from AC Moore. The background and texture paper is a mat stack from AC Moore (I really have to start writing down the names).
Stamps: Close to My Heart
Ink: Star-spangled blue and clover meadow from CTMH
Embellishments: random ribbon from AC Moore (LOVE when they go on sale for 25-50 cents!)

Papertake Weekly sketch challenge

Here's my Papertake Weekly challenge submission:



Paper: White Daisy from CTMH and random background and texture paper from AC Moore
Stamps: House Mouse and random acrylic from AC Moore
Ink: Watermelon from CTMH and Staz-on black
Embellishments: white ribbon from AC Moore, stickles on the cupcake and crackle glass for the flames

Stamp Something challenge -- "3-D"

Two fun cards for this one...


This card is made with one of my favorite stamps. What's so 3-D? Take a close look at the whipped cream on the card. It is made with liquid applique. Fun stuff!

Paper: CTMH
Stamps: I think it's from Stampabilities
Ink: Staz-on black
Embellishments: liquid applique and liquid glass (for the cherries)

Here's my first Easter card of the year. And the 3-Dness? The bunny tail of course!

Paper: CTMH hydrangea purple and some random background and texture pad from AC Moore
Stamps: I think it's from Stampabilities
Ink: Staz-on black and hydrangea from CTMH
Embellishments: cute little puffball from JoAnn Fabrics

Cupcake Crafts sketch challenge and Created By Hand challenge -- "stripes"

Here's my submission for the sketch challenge over at Cupcake Crafts as well as the "stripes" challenge posted at Created By Hand. I totally missed the little embellishments at the bottom of the card when I sketched it out to create. Oops! This card is pretty neato because it opens where the big white stripe is. The orange stripes are actually on the inside of the card.

Paper: CTMH
Stamps: House Mouse
Ink: Staz-on (black)
Embellishments: Stickles on the cupcake and crackle glass on the flames

Arty Girlz challenge -- "butterflies"

Here is my submission for the Arty Girlz challenge. We just got these butterflies. Aren't they adorable?

Paper: True Teal from CTMH
Stamps: I found the quote at AC Moore
Ink: True Teal from CTMH
Embellishments: The butterflies are from Pier 1! I used stickles to make the butterfly trails.

CPS sketch challenge

Here's my submission for the CPS sketch challenge this week. I colored the HM stamp in with Close To My Heart markers. The mouse is done with Prismacolor pencils.

CARD RECIPE
Paper: Clover meadow green paper from CTMH and random polka dotted stuff I found on a shelf :)
Stamps: House Mouse, alphabet is from AC Moore, and numbers from CTMH
Ink: CTMH clover meadow and black staz-on
Embellishments: nada