Happy Birthday Jake

Another birthday to celebrate this week. It's Jake's 45th birthday and he loves the outdoors and catching bugs , butterflies etc... So, I've whipped up this little birthday card for him, a very simple and clean card. I've doodled around the borders to give it a stitching look.

I have used the sketch from Critter Challenge.

Here's what I've come up with:

Recipe:

Papers: Martha Stewart Cardstock

Stamps: Designed 2 Delight - Lovely Tree, Magnolia - Edwin Chasing Butterflies Collection 2009

Accessories: Blue rafia, copic markers, Creative Memories corner punch

Challenges:

Designed 2 Delight Progressive Challenge #29

Critter Challenge - Sketch

Stamps R Us - Masculine

Fresh Brewed Designs - Anything goes

Scrapbook Sisters #58 - Anything goes

Stamp with Sarah Kay# 155- Anything goes

Bows and Berries #13 - Clean and Simple

Ooh La La Creations - Stitching (Faux or Real)

Paper Playtime - Anything goes

Make it Monday #61 - Anything goes

All that scraps - Anything goes

Happy Halloween - A tag!

Another Halloween but this time , my daughter (4) and myself made this Halloween tag - Our first! The image is Pumpkin and Tags. She wanted to give some treat bags to her friends and thus, I have helped her in the cutting of the image and the rest, she has done it herself. I have used my prismacolor pencils and she taped in some Halloween foam shapes on the tag. I think it's cute for a 4-year old!!! What do  you think??

Challenges:
Designed 2 Delight DT - Halloween

Hope for the Cure of Breast Cancer

For this past week, so many blogs have been talking about fighting Breast Cancer and I do hope that one day, there will be a cure for this disease. One of my aunts was diagnosed with this condition and she had to remove one of her breast unfortunately. She is now well though. I owuld like to dedicate this card to her because she is the living proof that even with only one breast, one can still survive...

I have inspired myself from Card Patterns and most of my colors are PINK for this cause. I have used Hope Butterfly, colored it with copics and used stickles. I have also embossed my paper with the Cricut Lite Bloom embossing folder and used some ribbons from my stash.

Challenges:

The Classroom - Pink Thank you
Card Patterns - Sketch 136
Sassy Cheryl - Show me #46
Whimsie Doodles - Think Pink
Lexi's Creations - Pink
The Stamping Boutique- Pink

Happy 4th birthday!!!

This week is my niece's 4th birthday and she is super excited since she loves bunnies!!! Woohoo! I wish I had one like that. Her parents have bought her all kinds of bunny stuff and have  invited a few of her close friends. Of course, my kids are invited and they are super excited.

I made this special birthday card for her and I do hope that she will like it:-)

Supplies:

Stamps: CTMH Sensational Season, Flower image from Designed 2 Delight, Joyeux Anniversaire sentiment from Create with TLC

Accessories: ribbons from stash, prismacolor pencils, Tsukineko Memento ink, Spellbinders Labels 4, CB Emboss Cindy Loo

Challenges:

D2D DT- Buttons

Little Darlings - Girly

Dutch Dare - For the kids

Beautiful as a peacock!

For this week, I had to use this beautiful peacock from Designed 2 Delight to create a card. Thus, I used Nana Vic's frame to highlight this elegant animal and of course, to make it more into a "summery" card, I added the flowers from Designed 2 Delight (Please note that these were offered a couple of weeks back).

I went for a CAS card to represent the beauty of the peacock. I've coloured the image with my Prismacolor pencils and used pop dots to give the peacock an elevated effect.

Thanks for peeking.

Happy "Chic" birthday

Another birthday this week...This time is for my girfriend who just came back from Europe. I haven't had time to talk to her yet but will catch up this weekend.

I've used MS cardstock paper and used some background paper from my stash. I have cut up the birthday cake twice and the sentiment twice to give it that extra special elevated effect.
The birthday cake image & chick image are from Tiffany Doodles, strawberries is from Designed 2 Delight, dancing couple is from Digi Darla and sentiment is from Create with TLC.

Challenges:

D2D Challenge - European Inspired
Tiffany Doodles - All creatures Great & small
Digi Darla - Lady in Red

It's a beach birthday party at our house!!!

This weekend is supposedly to be gorgeous weather and so we decided to have a beach birthday party for our daughter. She loves the beach!!! So, I thought of whipping up something just to commemorate this...LOL! I really wanted to go simple this time as I have so much to do...Sooooooo excited. Can you tell????

I've used my precious cuttlebug and the D'Vine Swirls to get the embossed look. Papers, sentiment and butterflies were from my stash. The flip flop image is from Designed 2 Delight.

Challenges:
Make it Monday - Anything goes
D2D Designer's Challenge - It's a party
Pile it on - Time to relax
Kaboodle Doodle - Celebrations
Crazy Challenge - On The Beach
Digi Doodles Shop Best - Butterflies
Little Darlings Challenge - Favorite color combo (pink & green)

Pink & Orange

Hello everyone,

Today, I wanted to showcase Pink & Orange together since it was the main colors that were accepted for this card.

I played with this sketch from Sketch Saturday

and here's my take:

The last picture did not come out well. I'm so sorry. I tried playing with the contrast and brightness and taht's the best I could get. The close ups are way better!!!!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Martha Stewart, The Write
Punch: Double Loop Martha Stewart
Acc: Stickles, prismacolor pencils, Fresh Cut from D2D, sentiment from Create with TLC, lacy labels embossing folder.

I'm going to enter them in :
D2D DT - pink + Orange+ Neutrals
Sketch Saturday

Thanks for peeking!

Cute as a buggy

You might be wondering why I have "Cute as a buggy" as my title? That's because I had used my cuttlebug for the first time since hubby gave it to me for my birthday and that was a while back. It's been sitting in a corner and today, I've decided it has to come out!!!

I've made 2 cards today and please bear with me if this post is a tad bit too long. The first card is for my nephew who's turning five this Saturday and he loves BOATS, so I figured this would work out well. I've used the sketch from Sketch Saturday:

Supplies:

MS cardstock paper, K & Company chipboard, Prisma pearls & crystals, boat freebie image from Digi Darla, Joyeux Anniversaire sentiment from Create with TLC, prismacolor pencils, D'Vine Swirls embossing folder, scallop punch

The 2nd card is for my girlfriend who loves bright flowers and is always a cheerful person.

Supplies:
MS cardstock paper, paper from stash, Mary, Mary freebie image from Designed to Delight, flower image from Floppy Latte Designs, Friends sentiment from Meljen's Designs and Wishing you a tweet day sentiment from Doodle Pantry, Floral fantasy embossing folder.


I'm entering them in the following:

1st card:
DYSU #23 - birthday
Digi Darla challenge - something blue
Charisma Cardz- how old
Digi Doodle -  no patterned paper
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Boy, oh boy
Incy, Wincy Designs  98- Fathers Day/ Masculine
Paper Take Weekly - Dads & Lads
Fussy and Fancy Friday - Man card
Wags n Whiskers 56 -  One for the boys
Stamp Challenge - Something Punched
2nd card:
D2D Challenge - Cute as a buggy
Meljen's # 62 - Pink & pearls
Floppy Latte Design - Funky Flower Contest
Doodle Pantry #13
Sweet Stamps - Embossing
Anything goes - Here comes summer

and entering both in:
Making it Monday
Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday - open


Thanks for peeking.



A masculine card

Hello everyone,

I wanted to create a masculine card for father's day and since he's a big coffee fan, I would like to dedicate this to him.

Here it is:

Supplies: The Write Cardstock Paper, Paper from stash, Coffee image from Karber Digital, Youre so sweet stamp.

I'm entering it in the following challenges:
Karber #33 - Use scraps
D2D - Masculine, no flowers

Christmas Card

Hello everybody,

I wanted to start on my Xmas cards early this year but I promise there won't be that many each week:-)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
D2D - “Christmas/Winter + Paper Piecing” – Saturday’s DT Challenge
Card Patterns - Sketch 117 and I had to follow this

Here is my card:

 Here is a close up:

Supplies:
Papers: Winterberry Specialty Collection, The Write Cardstock
Stamps & sentiment: Penny Black Candy Cane Wishes
Accessories: Creative Memories round corner punch, Fiskars template, American Crafts ribbon, prismacolor pencils.

Please leave me some love:-) Thanks!