Sending Sunshine

One last share before I head back up to my craft room-er, I mean to do some laundry and vacuuming (insert *snicker* here!)  Oh, my poor, neglected house.  But, hey-I got in some crafty time during this vacation!

Here's my COLORFUL entry for The Craft's Meow December Sketch Challenge:

Love my little owls!  This one was designed by my friend, Jenny Suchin.  Cuteness, I tell you!

Here is the sketch-I stayed pretty true to it:

Thanks for stopping by today!  Time to get my laundry caught up! ;)

Fun with BasicGrey Challenges!

I am so excited to be Guest Designing for BasicGrey Challenges for the next few weeks!  Today's challenge is to use your favorite color combo to create a project.  I usually choose the colors for my project based on the patterned paper, so I went to my new favorite BG paper collection, What's Up?  The colors in this collection are so pretty-I love purple, so the papers with purple are my favorites. My color combo was lavendar and aqua.  I created both a feminine and a masculine card using these colors and fun papers from the What's Up? collection.

For my "Thank You" card, I used THIS stamp set from Basic Grey/Hero Arts.  The little flowers are stamped on a few different distressed solids from several different BG collections (Plumeria, What's Up?, Porcelain, and Olivia.)

I just love THIS fun stamp set from The Craft's Meow!  Cute mustache images and snazzy sentiments, too! 

I stamped the mustache twice on a figgy brown cardstock .  The first layer is adhered flat on my tag.  The second mustache is folded in half and only adhered along the fold so the edges pop up.  You can see the detail a bit better here:

The DT over at BasicGrey Challenges has some beautiful projects to share using their favorite color combos, too!  Check it out, leave some love, and play along to win!

Birthday Balloons

Just a quick share before I head off to school this morning...some birthday cards that I made from my May Counterfeit Kit.  I wondered how I would use my kraft frames this month-they were perfect for these cards! 

Thanks for popping by today!

Hooray for You!

This is my last share for today-a mini card for this month's sketch challenge at The Craft's Meow.  Here is the sketch:

I really loved the circles down the side and the banner sentiment.  I didn't follow the sketc exactly, but it's pretty close. I added more circles dow the side and stitched down the layers.  Then I stamped the bike from Vintage Rides right over my circles.  My banner and sentiment are also from Vintage Rides.  The finishing touch is a tiny epoxy brad from SEI.  All supplies are from my May Counterfeit Kit.



Thanks for checking out my card!  Enjoy your weekend!

More Counterfeit Cards :)

I found a few minutes this afternoon to play in the scraproom-using some more of my May Counterfeit Kit.  I realized that I still needed a few more cards for this weekend!  Tomorrow, of course, is Mother's Day.  We will also be celebrating my Dad's 81st birthday and my parents' wedding anniversary.  Busy, busy day!  Needless to say, I needed a few more cards. :)

This first card is for my Dad's birthday.  Thee stamp are not from this month's kit, but they are the ones that I had planned on using for my Dad's card.  The truck is from Tim Holtz and was a gift from my sweet friend, Lesa.  I thought it went great with the vintage ad woodgrain paper.  I also used a few scraps that were on my table to create a fun, colorful banner in the corner.



This next card is a TOTAL scraplift from Jessica Fick from The Craft's Meow DT.  HERE is her gorgeous card.  I copied the design, the color scheme, EVERYTHING from her!  This is a non-traditional Mother's Day card for my MIL, who loves horses.  The only part that I substituted on this card is the punched woodgrain borders-Jessica used lace, but I had a few woodgrain strips left in my kit and thought they would look great.  I think my MIL is going to really like this card. :)

I have one more card to share today-just have to edit and link up for a challenge.  Stay tuned! :)



Have a Beauty-Full Birthday

I had a few minutes before heading out to an appointment this morning, and I thought I would play alongwith the April Sketch Challenge on The Craft's Meow blog.  It was a pretty sketch-different from what I usually do, but I knew it would work with my one set of Craft's Meow stamps.  And since I included that set in my April Counterfeit Kit, I had coordinating papers and embellies ready to go.  Love that about my kits!  Here is my card:

I used the Fly Free set from TCM.  Not too shabby for a quick birthday card, huh?  Thank you to my friend Lesa for my new flower frog, too!  I have been wanting one of these to display my cards on-I love it!