Old CPS sketch

Here's a card I made with an old CPS sketch. I've had the bird stamp since the summer when I found it on clearance.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge -- Glitter Me Silly

Here's my first submission in MONTHS! Cute Card Thursday's challenge this week is "Glitter Me Silly". I never pass up a chance to bust out the Stickles and Liquid Glass!

My First Christmas Cards

I haven't posted in quite some time! Here are my first few Christmas cards. I challenged myself to do three things today:
1. Use my new stamp sets
2. Use paper I would not normally pick out
3. Make Christmas cards that aren't the typical red/green combination

What do you think?

CPS sketch challenge

Here is my submission for the CPS sketch challenge this week. I actually used a Christmas stamp for this (from CTMH) and gave it a Halloween

twist!

Papertake Weekly challenge #3

This week at Papertake Weekly, they are celebrating their 100th challenge. That means you can make a card based on any of the previous 99 challenges. I spent quite awhile looking through their archives and picking out some of my faves. This sketch is from March 23rd.

Papertake Weekly challenge (another one)

This week at Papertake Weekly, they are celebrating their 100th challenge. That means you can make a card based on any of the previous 99 challenges. I spent quite awhile looking through their archives and picking out some of my faves. This sketch is from March 9th.

Papertake Weekly challenge

This week at Papertake Weekly, they are celebrating their 100th challenge. That means you can make a card based on any of the previous 99 challenges. I spent quite awhile looking through their archives and picking out some of my faves. This card was made from the 7/21/08 sketch challenge.

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Cupcake challenge -- "something sweet"

Here is my submission(s) for the "something sweet" challenge. I whipped up two little cards to keep in my stockpile of birthday cards. The cupcakes and cherries are foam. I found them on clearance at JoAnns. All of the paper is bubblegum from Close to my Heart. In addition to the fun challenge, they are having an anniversary blog hop. Go to Cupcake Craft Challenges to join in!

CPS Sketch Challenge

CPS sketch challenge

Wednesday Stamper challenge -- "paisley"

Theme Thursday challenge

Here is my submission for the challenge to use purple from Theme Thursday.

Cute Card Thursday challenge

Here is my submission for the Cute Card Thursday "Tealy good" challenge. The challenge this week is to make a card with teal and red in it. I found this paper in the craft room--Mom and I got it at the Memory Lane yard sale.

Papertake Weekly and Stamp Something challenge

This card works for two challenges: Stamp Something's "paper piecing" challenge as well as Papertake Weekly's "seasons".

Just needed these cards!

I made these cards outside of the challenge cards today.... I was late on just about every single one anyway! I should have double-checked what the current challenges were but I just went with the paper I wrote a few days ago. Oh well!

Just Christmas and Birthday sketch

Daring Cardmaker challenge - lots of sparkle

CPS sketch challenge

Stamp Something Challenge -- too late again!

Here's my submission for the Stamp Something challenge... winged things. I'm too late again. I wrote down the challenges a few days ago and missed the deadlines.

Cupcake Craft Challenge -- but too late!

Here is my submission for the Cupcake Craft challenge this week. The challenge was to use pink, brown and green as well as flowers and animals. I was too late to enter the challenge but here's the card anyway!

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.