Sky High Celebration

Hello blog friends! I hope you are enjoing a day of sunshine and love! It's Memorial Day weekend in the states and we are remembering and honoring those who have sacrificed greatly for their country. It's a no work day for most of us and I've spent the day resting. I apologize for my tardiness in posting for One Stop Crafts. I found myself in the ER Saturday with a case of vertigo. This is the oddest illness I've ever had. I feel fine, until I start to move. Then the whole world goes topsy turvy. I'm grateful to have an extra day at home to rest and fell a bit better, but am still pretty wobbly. I'm brave enough to blog, but I don't know if I'm brave enough to pick up a scissors to really craft! LOL.

This card is so quick and easy, perfect for any theme. I used masculine colors and a masculine image to create a male birthday card. The basic idea could be used for any occassion. Use bright colors and a floral image and tailor it for a female birthday, thank you, or anything. 

Inspiration
OSCChallenge #184 ~ For the Boys
365Cards Day 83 ~ Opposites Attact I used as many opposing patterns I could find for this creation.

Creative Inspirations Challenge #164 ~Anything Goes

Penny’s Paper Craft Challenge #80~ Anything Goes

AudSentiments Challenge #55 ~ Any Sentiment

CharismaCardz Challenge #20 ~ No Flowers Allowed

DigiDoodle Shop Challenge #109 ~ Let’s Go Spotty

CraftyCatz Challenge #134 ~ Card for a Man

365 Cards Day 56 ~ Loud I mixed lots of patterns to evoke a loud feel, and used a jet image. Can you hear the engine roar?

365 Cards Day 52 ~ Imagine This: The Cinema (Top Gun)

My Creation

Inside

Ins and Outs ~ Sky High Celebration
Stamps: SU Need for Speed
Paper: SU (Sahara Sand, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Whisper White, Well Worn DSP)

Ink: SU (Night of Navy, Soft Suede)

Accessories: Button, Punches (Word Window, Jewelry Tag, Circles: 3/8”, 1 3/8”, 1 ¾”; Ovals: 2”x1 3/8”, ¾” x 15/16”

Coffee Chit Chat

This card was so quick once I just sat down to make it. I'd had the image in my colored basked for awhile and wanted a card for one of my BFF's who shares a love for coffee. By using a preprinted card base the colors and layout just fell into place. I added a few embellies and voila - a cute card for one of my favorite chicas!

Sketch Inspiration ~ 365 Cards Day 11 ~ Sunday Sketch

Inspiration

2 Sisters Challenge Blog #91 ~ Make it Girlie
Moving Along with the Times Challenge ~ Keep it Real
365 Cards Day 10 ~ Happy Birthday BFF
365 Cards Day 26 ~ Peace Love and Happiness
For me having coffee with my best friend encompasses all three.
365 Cards Day 70 ~ The Three C’s: Colorful, Coffee, Classy

My Creation

Image Detail

I colored with Copics and cut and matted the image with nesties.

Ins and Outs ~ Coffee Chit Chat
Stamps: Stamping Bella Java Bella
Accessories: SU Ribbon, CM Flower and Heart Punch, EK Success Stickers; Nestabilities
Paper: PTI White CS, DCWV
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (B00, 21; E000, 15; G40; Y11, 32; R35); Clear Star

Diggin’ Birthday for Eli

This card was created for our friends little boy, Eli, on his 3rd birthday. Eli is ALL boy and loves to play rough and get dirty. The last time Mr. Gears went to visit, he and Eli played rodeo and took turns tying each other up with a jump rope. The go to game is to play with anything that has wheels and a motor. Mr. Gears is HAPPY to oblige!

Sketch Inspiration ~ Midnight Madness Sketch #135

Inspiration
Allsorts Challenge #154 ~ Card for Man or Boy
Totally Paper Crafts Challenge #116 ~ No Pesky Girls Allowed
Pile it On Challenge #20 ~ Clean and Simple
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #76 ~ Clean and Simple
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #48 ~ Masculine with Trim
365 Cards Day 40 ~ Let’s Chat (everyday sort of card with a sentiment)
365 Cards Day 59 ~ All Boy….Sort Of (boy bday without blue)
365 Cards Day 61 ~ Layered I layered my dirt pile to give it a ‘dusty’ effect.

My Creation

Image Detail

I added silver brads to give some 3D shiny detail to my earth mover.

Inside

Ins and Outs ~ Diggin' Birthday
Stamps: SU (I Dig You, Occasions Alphabet)
Paper: SU (Whisper White, Old Olive)
Ink: SU (Basic Black, Chocolate Chip)
Accessories: SU (Baker’s Twine, Mini Brads)

FANtastic Birthday Mice

I'm a serious House Mouse & Friends fan. They were one of the first rubber stamps I purchased and my collection has grown and grown and grown. I keep thinking I should purge my collection but they are all so gosh darn cute, I can't decide! It seems the best thing to do is....make cards with them!

There are several 'spicy' mice versions and this one cracked me up. The FANtastic sentiment was a freebie from TLC Creations. It was PERFECT for this image. I used up a few scraps and was able to pull inspiration from several challenge blogs. I'm already way behind at 365 Cards so I had to 'merge' a few of them into one card. :o)

Inspiration
365Cards Day 48 ~ Ad Inspired I liked the 'cut up' feel of the sentiment and translated it to my card.

HouseMouse and Friends Challenge #119 ~ Humor

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #216 ~ Food or Drink

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #154 ~ Celebration

CraftyCatz Challenge #132 ~ Happy Birthday

365 Cards Day 21 ~ You’re Included (sticker, ink, DP)

365 Cards Day 22 ~ DIY create an embellie using a sticker I used a white daisy sitcker as an embellie and added a 3D sticker gem to its center.

365 Cards Day 24 ~ Fabulous Fonts

365 Cards Day 33 ~ Play on Words

365 Cards Day 66 ~ That Tickles Me
 

My Creation

Image Detail

Inside

Ins and Outs ~ FANtastic Birthday Mice
Stamps: Stampabilities House Mouse All Fired Up
Paper: DCWV, SU Whisper White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Laser Printer, Copics (C1; YG06, 63; B24, 41; RV14; V09; Y11, 21, 26; YR00, 68; E00, 11, 31)
Accessories: SRM Stickers, Misc Sticker Dot

Green Monochrome Madness

Wahoo for the weekend! That means a new challenge over at One Stop Crafts. This week Shelly challenged the Design Team to go monochorme with the option of ribbon. Bugaboo is our sponsor and gave the team super cute images to play with. We'd love to have you join in the monochrome madness and have the chance to win Bugaboo images. Here's the inspiration for my creation and my take on the challenge. I was about to go with a blue theme (kind of my go to thought with a rainy day, get well theme) but I pushed myself to use green; a color I seldom choose. I was very pleased with the result; I hope you are inspired!

Sketch Inspiration ~ 365Cards Day 40 ~ Sunday Sketch
  

Color Inspiration ~ OneStop Crafts Challenge #182 ~ Monochrome with Ribon

Inspiration

365 Cards Day 71 ~ The Three G’s: Green, Grass, Glitter The green is obvious, I added a patch of grass for my bear to stand on, and added glitter as accents.

Basic Grey Challenge #68 ~ AnythingGoes

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge ~ UseRibbon

Totally Stampalicious Challenge ~Sparkle Shine Glitter and Glam

MyTime to Craft Challenge #179 ~ Happy Healing I thought it was fun to create a 'green' card for someone feeling a bit green around the gills!

 

My Creation

Each of the layers is popped up so the card is almost 3D in real life!

Image Detail

I wanted to add sheen to the ubmrella and boots, but couldn't find my crystal effects. But, right next to me was a bottle of clear nail polish. It worked great to slick things up. I used stickles and glitter stickers to add some extra shine. I free handed polka dots on the boots.

Inside

 

Ins and Outs ~ Green Monochrome
Stamps: Rain Rain (Bugaboo Digi)
Paper: SU Whisper White, TPS, Basic Grey Lime Rickey
Ink: Laser Printer, Copics (G20, 21, 40, 82, 94, 99; YG0000, 21, 23, 25; FYG1)
Accessories: SU Lucky Limeade Organdy Ribbon, Lime Green Stickles, EK Success Pastel Dots, Nail Polish, SRM Sticker

Spring Flower Girl

Hello crafty friends! I was about to clean off my desk and realized I hadn't made very many Easter cards. I used my SU Easter Blossoms set to craft a card that could be used for general spring themes, or even Mother's Day. I love this little girl with her basket and thought the gems were a fun touch. A card just isn't complete without a little bling!
 

Sketch Inspiration ~ 365Cards Day 67 ~ Super Sunday Sketch
What a fun sketch from the brains at 365 Cards.

Inspiration
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #50 ~Mother’s Day or Girly Lots of girly options ~ lace, flowers, organza and BLING
Little Red Wagon Challenge #131 ~Stitch it Up I added a faux stitching border around the edge of my card.

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge #204~ Flowers

Crafty Catz Challenge #131 ~ AprilShowers Bring May Flowers

Do You Stack Up Challenge #70 ~ Circles

Stampin for the Weekend 3rdAnniversary Challenge ~ 4 or more Layers

Alphabet Challenge ~ G is for Garden

365 Cards Day 19 ~ All the Trimmings use 3 diff types of trim I have 2 types of ribbon and 'trimmed' my image in lots of bling.

365 Cards Day 49 ~ Getting Inky find 2 uses for ink pad; I stamped my image in ink, and created clouds with a scalloped circle mask, a sponge and ink.

My Creation

Image Detail

To create the cloud background, I stamped my image on a sticky note and carefully cut it out (basic outline, not exact) to make a mask over the image. I punced out a scalloped circle and placed it over my mask. I used a sponge and an ink pad to ink around the top of the scalloped circle randomly moving it across the panel until I was happy with the cloud 'concentration'. LOL

Ins and Outs ~ Spring Flower Girl
Stamps: SU Easter Blossoms

Paper: SU CS (Very Vanilla, Wasabi, Soft Suede), SU Springtime Vintage DP

Ink: SU (Soft Suede, Marina Mist); Memento Summer Sky; Silver Spica

Accessories: SU Gems, SU Ribbon, Big Shot Dies