my Easter basket

Happy Easter everyone!!!!

I made this super cute baskets for a class - the cuts are all from the Artiste or Art Philosophy and stamps are close to my heart.

Just finished a large dinner and my tummy is very full!!!

Hope you all get to spend some time with friends and family today :)

the basket is made with all background stamps - no pattern paper

Challenges that inspired me...   I am so upset over the loss of google reader but feedly seems to be working very well for me... i was so worried i wouldn'rt be able to post my inspireaion challenges... but here they are - 

catch the bug challenge - card stock and bling

one stop craft challenge -easter

crafty sentiments - easter

creative belli blog - easter

clear it out challenge - easter - atg

little miss muffet - easter

craft room challenges - in the garden abc

crafty creations - easter 

sweet stamps - easter

scrap creations - easter

cuttin and stampin - easter

cuttlebug mania - easter

inky impressions - easter 

my paper crafting - easter

through the craftroom door - atg

by lori designs - happy easter

4 crafty chicks - easter

stampin with the dragon - easter

stamping for the weekend - abc

Fantabulous cricut - challenge me monday 

dilly beans desings - easter

LMCB - old fashioned photo's

hi-de-ho good neighbours...

Lasting memories has another great challenge for you this week....

Old Fashioned Photos - now I know what you are thinking - arrgghhhh cut old pictures... aghhhhh... no way.

just make a copy of it at your local walmart that is what i did for my grandmother's picture below  

here is my inspiration....

and some close ups of the embellishments - I also need to talk to my uncle to get the approx. year of the pic for the flag 

love this quote

I hope you join us this week for the challenge

I was also inspired by the below challenges..

my sheri caraft - spring has sprung

my time to craft - old book

sweet stampin challenge - girlie

all sorts challenge blog - vintage 

scrapbookers paradise blog - embellish a little 

scrapbook flair - colours 

PIO - Hand made flowers

Good morning my bloggy friends... HAPPY EASTER!!!

We have another great challenge happening at Pile it on and it is super easy 

Hand made flowers... see easy.  We are sponsored by Floppy Latte Digital designs who will be giving out a $6 coupon to the winner or if they use a FLD image they will get $10

Here is some inspiration for you ... plus go and check out what my sister DT member created for inspiration here 

the image is from floppy latte and I wanted my flowers to look soft so I used my water pen and dipped it into  my ink pads for a water colour look.  I also used my old fiskars rubbing embossing pad through my cuttle bug to get the embossed flowers 

I used CTMH sentiment and ink, viva pearl pens, scrap papers and left over ribbon (i am really trying to use up what i have before going out to by more)

and you can't have a card with out bling... just a touch of yellow stickles

and oif course it can't be Pile it on with our noting all the challenges that inspired my card.

digi designs- flower frenzy

digi haven - spring

daring cardmakers - spring into spring

creative corner challenge - atg

clearly istamps - atg

chocolate coffee and cards - bring on spring

my papercrafting - digi

brown sugar challenge blog - flowers

word art wednesday - atg

whimsical designs - pastels

jen's digi stamps - spring

the house that stamps built - spring flowers

inky impressions - spring

polkadoodle - embossing

all that stickles - yellow 

scrapbookers paradixe - embellishments

cydi - pick a season

the paper shelter - atg

sweet n sassy - spring

broken boxstock - spring

freshly made sketches - sketch

the play date cafe - sweet smell of colour

deep ocean - photo inspiration

Simple B Stamp - Digi Challenges

Hey everyone...

Simply Betty Stamps gave me this amazing digi to create with this month... love her

as soon as I saw her I knew that I wanted to pop up her hair and have it like real snakes... 

love her... she is so wicked fun

I used basic pencil crayons and a gold pen to stitch around the image.

here are are couple of different angles

and the inspiration for the card...

Simple challenge - layers 

Simply betty stamp - fan page (fb challenge)

artistic inspirations -fantasy

crafty ribbons challenge - atg with ribbon 

party time tuesday - atg 

hiding in my craft room - free style 

sweet sketch wednesday - sketch

Sketchy Friday #13

Hey everyone..

Sketchy Friday starts today!!!  yeah.. love Sonia's digis and her sketches she is so talented!!!

here is the sketch

and my inspiration 

 oh my goodness isn't it adorable!!!

 i emossed the tag paper and with a white pen slashed the waves

added buttons, ribbon and liquid glass for the eyes and bubbles 

 here you can see the pop 

other challenges that inspired me..

QkR stampede - animal antics

go fish challenges - ribbon

Charisma Cardz - birthday

crafty ribbons - ribbon

Simon Says STamps - atg

The paper shelter - atg

Sentimental sunday - atg

lili little faries - buttons and bows

my paper crafting - digi

LMCB - CAS

Hey everyone... Lasting memories has another great challenge for you - this time it is CAS.  Now normally I am a CAS kinda girl and I don't normally do so much pattern paper but the design on this one is very CAS and I love how it turned out - PLUS there is a DT CALL!!!!

the photos are of my baby girl and my best friends baby girl... now they are 20 and are best friends as well.  The paper pack is Chantilly from CTMH which you can get here

the punch is from Creative memories 

the little sentiment stamp is from the Chantilly workshop on the go - I love those kits... it makes it so easy to tie everything together!!!  Love the banner across the page

Challenges that also inspired me:

craft us crazy - abc

anything goes challenge - double  (two pics, two hearts)

seriously creative challenge blog - atg

divas by design - babies

scrapbookers paradise - banners

stampin for the weekend - child's play

southern girls - the kids are alright

heart 2 Heart - go green (not sure if there is enough green)

colour me scrappy - colours twitch stitching

Extraterrestrial

Hey everyone... made a quick card this afternoon for the CASology - 

sorry about the photo I have using my iPad - since my daughter took my camera to Cuba it has been acting up :( - oh well i guess i will have to splurge to get a new one 

and some close ups of my card

I used washi tape and the little alien guy is from a day for daisies

Challenges that inspired me..

CASology - extraterrestrial 

cute card thursday - atg 

4 crafty chicks - cas 

LMCB - St. Patrick's day

Hello everyone...

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!!!!

Lasting Memories has another challenge set up for you this week 

this time we are asking for you to include Green on your LO

here is my inspiration:

Products used:

SKdigis, CTMH stamps, Amy Tangerine Paper, Heidi Swap colour resist banner,

and Pink Paisley Rub on 

I love the resist banner!! 

Sonia makes the cutest digis that are so easy to use you can find them here

Challenges that inspired my LO are:

little scrap pieces - luck of the irish

creative belli blog - st. patrick day

party time tuesday - luck of the irish

more than favors - st. patrick's day

just add ink - green

scraptastic club - pintrest inspiration (arrows)

by lori designs - green

loves rubber stamps - st. patricks day

counterfeit kit - pics no journaling 

the pink elephant - pinch me 

the crafter's cafe - st. patricks day

whimisical designs - happy st. patrick's day

scrappy moms stamps - luck of the irish

cardz tv - erin go braugh

apron strings - colour

pinspiraional challenge - photo

sketchabilities - sketch

PIO - Circle or Squares

Good Morning everyone!!!

Pile it on is having another great challenge - Circles or squares and we are sponsored by Bugaboo.

I hope you take some time this week to join us...

here is my card-

I made the circle card using the art philosophy cartridge from Close to my Heart 

The little girl is from Bugaboo and the sentiment is from SKdigis

I used CTMH stamps for the little butterflies

the image is coloured using my CTMH water pencils 

and the ribbon was pulled from my stash 

And as you know it is pile it on... so here are the challenges that inspired me:

CCEE stampers - pencils only please

penny paper - ribbons and die cuts

digital tuesday - frame it

clearly i stamp - die cut

there she goes stamps - shades of green

my heart pieces - not to be square

digi galore st. patrick- st. Patrick day

card crafter circle - everyone's Irish this week 

3 girl jam - green with a ribbon

gingerloft challenge - the colour green

forever friends - shape cards

by the cute and girly - fav. things

through the craftroom door - atg

craft your passion - two fav. colours (green and gold)

paper take weekly - 1-2-3 (i image, 2 circles, 3 bows)

tuesday alchemy - atg 

colour Q - colours

Sketchy Friday challenge

Hey everyone.. Guess what.. it is Sketchy Friday!!!

YEAH!!!!

here is the sketch

and some inspiration for you

I turned the sketch on its side - I love Sonia's digis this one is Lucky Hat

I used my cricut cartridge art philosophy to create the banner, some ribbon, bling and CTMH pencil crayons

Oh and I can't forget that i used CTMH stamps for the background paper and sentiment 

I hope you join us this week for another great challenge

Other challenges that inspired me are:

the crafters cafe challenge - green or st. patties

the corrosive challenge - all that glitters

my paper crafting - Irish eyes

die cutting divas - green and gold

exploring cricut - the luck of the irish

red carpet studio - leprechaun

fantabulous cricut - luck o the irish

clear it out challenge - stash

art impressions - atg

twisted tuesday - spring into green

cardz tv - fav. colours - i love green!!

teh crafting cafe - fav colour - yep still green

little tangles - atg

patties creations - green for st. patty's

Thank you fairy much!

I know what your thinking - a green fairy?????  yep playing around with my stamps and thought leprechauns their kinda fairyish and green right???  lol... so it didn't turn out just like i wanted but I like the outlining colours - i guess playing around is the only way to find out what you like...

anyhoo... here is my card and I am open to all suggestions:

and a close up of the stickle wings

the fairy is from Kraftin Kimmie and the swirl stamp is from CTMH and i used washi tape - I am not that fond of washi tape... i find that it unsticks... but I love the ease of it

and of course the challenges that inspired me to try something different:

kraftin kimmie stamps - CAS

the crazy challenge - thank you 

just some lines - fairies

the cutie pie challenge - magical

wags n whiskers - go green