You're the Cat's Meow!

Good morning! I took some time last night to make something - just for me and for fun! Not for Christmas, a challenge, or a contest. Sometime I get bogged down by all of those, and last night I just felt like playing for the fun of it! So I made something happy and fun - with lots of spring colors!

All the pattern papers are from Echo Park's Country Drive 6x6 paper pad. The center frame part is a piece of white cardstock cut out from Elegant Edges cartridge (the book feature), that I stamped Market Street Stamps Pretty Perfect Grid Background on in pale green, then inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Antique Linen. The Kitty is cut out on my Circut using Cindy Loo, with a Peachy Keen Face from the Tear Kitty Face parts added. I colored the eyes with a green Copic Marker.   

The sentiment is from Unity Stamp Co - stamped on a tag cut from Sentimentals, and tied on with a bit of Baker's Twine from the Twinery. 

I also inked the edge of the pattern paper a bit - and added some rosy cheeks with some soft pink ink and a make-up applicator.

Thanks for stopping by today! Can you believe that it is only 3 days until Christmas?!?!? I am about to brave town for a few last minute things - I'm afraid it will be crazy - so wish me luck!!!



Patches of Pink - Design Team Post!

Hello! Welcome to my first design team post for Patches of Pink!!! I am so excited to see what the year holds! The challenge this week is to create a Spring project, using pastel springy colors. Click HERE to go join the fun and link up your own creation for the challenge! You can link up anytime from today through Sunday, and then vote for your favorite anytime from Monday until Tuesday at noon EST.

For my project, I pulled out my Cindy Loo cartridge - so many perfect spring images on it! This cute little deer is the main reason I got that cartridge, and yet I had never cut it out! So...what better time, right? So, I cut all the layers out from coordinating patterned paper, inked the edges of everything, and layer it together. The deer is pop-dotted from the background to add a little dimension. The sentiment is from a Unity Stamp Company set. I used an brown pen to do the faux stitching around the edges, added some Baker's Twine, a large pink Prima flower, and a tiny Prima flower to tuck into the deers ear (because, isn't it obvious that she's a girl?!?!?)

Thanks for stopping by! Now head on over to Patches of Pink and link your Spring project up!!! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Mother's Day Gift #2 - Chocolate!

Okay...here we go with post number 2!

This one I am entering in two challenges as well: Creative Cutter Room's Design Time Thursday Challenge, to use all of the required elements from the Design Team Member's blogs, and Flaunt it Friday's - Cindy Loo, anything goes!

For this kit, the letters also were cut from Nursery Rhymes, welded together on my Gypsy. The mushrooms are from Cindy Loo, and the sunshine (with the cute Peachy face) is from Simply Charmed. I inked the edges of all the cuts, except the words. Added some Crinkle ribbon, LOTS of Prima flowers, buttons, stick on pearls, and some faux stitching around the edges.



Happy Day...and Sympathy

I didn't notice until I was posting these, just how OPPOSITE they were! The first one is all happy, and the second one is sympathy! Guess that is how life is though, the happy mixed with the sad.

So the first one I was just playing with some stamps I had in my stash, and coloring with my Prismacolor pencils. Then I put the yellow frame around it (which is the negative cut of the Groovy card I made the other day!), and added a frame. Before I knew it, I was cutting out a happy sunshine (from Simply Charmed) and adding a Peachy Keen face, and some grass from Zooballoo. I added Glossy Accents to the grass and the rays on the sunshine, added LOTS of faux stitching, a little ribbon from my stash, and LOTS of bling with my Jolee's heat set tool. The grass and the sunshine are also pop-dotted from everything else for texture.

The second one isn't my favorite, but I figured I would share it anyway. Feels like it needs something, but I can't put my finger on what it is! Anyway, I used one of the tag shapes from Once Upon a Princess, and the flower came from Cindy Loo. The side border is a Martha Stewart punch. The frame on the inside is actually the shadow to the frame on the front, but I didn't like it there when it was all finished. So I cut a little off the top and bottom to make it fit better, and put it on the inside. Added some ribbon and a sentiment from my stash (not sure who it is by...) and a bit of doodling to finish it off.



Loads of fun!

I made this card for the montly challenge on the Cricut Circle blog. The challenge was to scraplift something from one of the posts on the blog. So...I picked a card made during the month of december, and took the layout, and instead of putting an elf on it, I put a tree, and didn't use Christmas colors. I really LOVE trees...so I like this card!

The tree came from Cindy Loo, and the background shape was cut from Once Upon a Princess using one of the tags cut out several times in just a little larger size each time. Added a sentiment from Pink by Design stamps, a ribbon bow on the side, some faux stitching, and inked everything. Thanks for looking - and I hope your day is "Loads of Fun!!!"