Pinwheels, Clouds and Dreaming...

Happy Sunday everyone... time for a new challenge over at Mission to Create!

This week we have the lovely Zoe Nembert joining with us. She has added the fifth part of this week's challenge...

Deborah - use lyrics from the song,
'The Climb' (Miley Cyrus)
Jocie -use brackets/parenthesis
Nicole - pinwheels
Vanessa - use matted circles
Zoe - blue

Here's what I came up this week using all 5 concepts on my card creation...

Dreaming

supplies: stamps, mystamp BOX; patterned papers, Fancy Pants Design; cardstock, Bazzill; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; embossing powder, Hero Arts; brads, Making Memories, My Mind's Eye; star pin, Maya Road; ink, Stampin' Up, Versamark; tools, Klic N'Kut machine; other, thread.

Here are few close up shots of some of my card details...

I used the super fun "Wishing You Sunshine" stamp set from myStamp BOX on this card. I was perfect for the "dreaming" part of the lyrics from the song I put on my long tag.

Come and join the card team or the layout team and create something using a minimum of 3 of the 5 concepts and you could win a prize package from Pixie Dust Paperie! Woohoo! See you ever at Mission 2 Create!

Come and check out what my fellow card team did with this week's concepts! See it HERE!

Be My Valentine?

I stumbled upon a sketch from Waltzingmouse Stamps yesterday and it completely drew me in! I just loved the patchwork effect and couldn't resist playing along. See the sketch below. Click the sketch to go to directly to the challenge posting.
Since I haven't completely moved all of my scrappy stuff over to the new house yet, my Waltzingmouse stamps are still packed away in the old house so I just grabbed some of the stamps that had at hand to play along this week and this is the card I created with the sketch...

Be My Valentine

supplies: stamps, myStamp BOX; patterned papers, Bo Bunny; cardstock, Bazzill, Gina K. Designs; tag die cut, Spellbinder's; embossing powder, Hero Arts; ink, Versamark, Memento, Stampin' Up!.

I started off my piecing together all the patterned paper. I just live these cute paper by Bo bunny called "Crazy Love". I bought them in a 6x6 pad and they work perfectly for cards! I sanded all of the edges to get the core of the paper to frame each piece.

Then I die cut my tag and doubled stamped the sentiment in both brown and light pink ink. The sentiment is from the "Straightforward" stamp set at myStamp BOX and the butterfly image is from the "Colorful Companions" set.

Hope you're having a great weekend!

Stay tuned later today for my Mission 2 Create card for this week!

Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes!

I'm joining in on the fun over at the Your Next Stamp challenge blog today. This week's challenge is a fun sketch.

This is the card I cam e up with...

Oh Yes!

supplies: stamps, Your Next Stamp; myStamp BOX, Hero Arts; cardstock, Bazzill; patterned papers, stickers, Fancy Pants Design; ink, Memento, Copic; pen, Sakura, Copic; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; edge punch, Fiskars; other, thread.

This is the first time I've used this new stamp and papers so I'm entering it in with the Copic Creations challenge #42 this week of "What's new?!".

I even decorated a bit of the back of my card...

To add some dimension to my little girl, I paper pieced a few parts of her... her hair, her shoes, her shirt collar, the table and scrap bag. I also used my Copic Spica and a glittery Sakura pens to add some touches of sparkle!

I used the "Bold Blocks" stamp set from myStamp BOX to put the sentiment across my card.

Come and join me in some sketchy fun over at Your Next Stamp today!

Flourishes Blog Hop ~ Favourites

Howdy all! Today I've created a fun card to share with you to celebrate the Flourishes' 100th Challenge and they're having a BLOG HOP to celebrate!! To check out the details of the blog hop click HERE.

The theme of the blog hop today is FAVOURITES! We've been asked to create a card using some our favourites,,, you know our favourite techniques, stamps, papers, etc.

So some of my favourites right now when it come to creating cards include:

• embossing
• die cut shapes
• flowers
• vintage style papers
• STAMPING!
• fussy cutting
• 3D cards
• pearls

So I took all of those ideas and incorporated them into one single card...

Happy Valentine's Day

supplies: stamps, Flourishes (I Love Roses, A Wreath for All Seasons, Lace Edges); cardstock, Bazzill, Gina K. Designs; die cut shapes, Spellbinder's; ink, Memento, Copic, Satmpin' Up!; embossing folder, Provocraft; pearls, Hero Arts.

So I started off by creating a platform for my central stamped rose wreath stamped from the "Wreath of All Seasons" set. I created this ornate circle of stamps to surround it. I used two of the lacy stamps from "Lace Edges". I then fussy cut the entire thing out.

Some of the close up details.

I wanted to set the whole layered creation on to some vintage feeling paper so I made my own! I used the large full rose from the "I Love Roses" stamp set to match the theme of the central mini wreath. Here's what the base panel looks like. I didn't bother stamping in the center since I knew that would be covered.

I decided to create a simple inside to my card as well. I like when the insides match the outsides. So I used the same rose stamp and coloured it in the same manner I did the vintage patterned paper I created.

The "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment is also from the "I Love Roses" set.

Here a few close ups of the front panel... I used a lot of different layers of paper and cardstock to create the end result.

I also made a point to emboss the paper I made to add a little more texture.. like it didn't have enough?... LOL!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today! I hope that you enjoyed reading about my card making process today! Make sure you stop on over at the Flourishes Blog HERE and see what other people have made to showcase their favourites today!