Illustrated Garden Inspiration challenge

   What inspires you in this illustration?  For me it was the yellows, greens, and pinks and the feeling of Springtime...butterflies busy preparing for a new beginning.  This is the current challenge at Shopping Our Stash:  use the picture, colors, subject, etc. as your inspiration.  Create a card, LO, or project and link it to Shopping Our Stash challenge #40.

  I created an invitation card:

  I shopped my stash for items that remind me of Spring.  I chose coral, tropical green, and vanilla card stick, heavy vellum, and K&Co. Sera Sera paper.  My sentiment is by Anna Griffin and my gems are by Imaginisce.  Only the beautiful crinkle ribbon is relatively new.  This was my first ever easy purchase.  Stop by ScrapinKris and tell her that June sent you!

Happy Saturday!

Shop Pumpkin Spice for Echo Park

  Nearly everything on this card came from Shop Pumpkin Spice online store.  Aren't these papers elegant?   They are from Echo Park's "Yours Truly" collection.  My sentiment is by My Pink Stamper "Sweet Goodness" set.  I also used "charcoal" twine from The Twinery, a doily from the Shop Pumpkin Spice January card kit, and glossy accents.

  It's been a while since I made a cupcake card and I wanted to play with my "Love You a Latte" Cricut cartridge; this strawberry cupcake is on that cartridge!   Only the button, black card stock, textured ivory card stock, and "Heart Blocks" embossing folder came from my stash.  The rest was all purchased from Shop Pumpkin Spice.

Happy Thursday!

You're Just My Type, Artful Delight

  I have an affinity to cards with either typewriter messages or scooters.  Both are in this month's Artful Delight card kit!  There is a Paper Smooches stamp set with two scooter stamps and two 6x6 sheets of typewriters; I fussy cut this one out twice and popped one atop the other.  I die cut the oval from the linen sticker paper in the kit; it cuts beautifully!  The ivory twill is also included in the kit as well as all four patterned papers pictured above.

  This kit sold out quickly, but if you would like to purchase it, please email Leeanne.  For more inspiration, please go to the Artful Delight blog.

Happy Wednesday!

My Pink Stamper - February challenge - How many can you use?

  Robyn, aka My Pink Stamper, has inspired me to do more scrapbooking for 2012.  These are a few of the first photos of me; I am slowly peeling them out of the magnetic album they have been stuck in for 45 years :)  My LO is for this month's My Pink Stamper challenge:

How many can you use?

Use as many My Pink Stamper

 stamps from any set(s) 

on ONE project.

  I chose to use three stamps from one of my favorite My Pink Stamper sets "Sweet Baby."  My Cricut cuts are all from "Straight from the Nest" (onesies, grass, and flower.)  Go to My Pink Stamper to see more inspiration from my sweet and talented DT sisters.

Happy Tuesday!

Just a Note: Artful Delight kits are so much fun!

  As usual, I am having a blast with my monthly kit from Artful Delight.  The fun background plaid, the floral print, and the solid pink are Little Yellow Bicycle "Paradise" papers included in the February Artful Delight kit.  The linen sticker paper is easy to work with too (horizontal strip).  The typewriter is fussy cut (twice) from Jillibean Soup "Sweet & Sour Soup" papers included in the February Artful Delight kit.

  I added just a few things from my personal stash:  a Martha Stewart tag (doily), 3 silver brads, and some My Mind's Eye "Life of the Party" Happy Day twine.  I used the MFT sketch from last month, #56.

  For more delightful inspiration, check out the Artful Delight blog.  Enter to win next month's Artful Delight kit by playing along with the monthly sketch challenge (link to right-hand side bar at the Artful Delight blog.)

Happy Wednesday!

Shopping Our Stash #39- Metal Mania challenge

  This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash #39 is Metal Mania.  Here are the details:

Use something metal on your project-

brads, eyelets, snaps, library clips, or 

other hardware.

  I was shopping my stash and realized that I had not used my lattice die nor my embosslits in a long time...

time for them to come out and play :)  My metal embellies are the tiny metal hearts on the two large butterflies by Imaginisce.

Supplies:

card stock:  kraft, black, old olive, and ruby red

metal hearts:  Glam Rocks by Imaginisce

sentiment:  My Pink Stamper "From the Heart"

butterflies and leaves:  Sizzix Embosslits "Beautiful Wings"; Sizzix Sizzlits "Little Leaves"

lattice:  Sizzix Bigz "Lattice Bigz Trellis"

embossing folder:  Sizzix "Square Lattice"

Now it's your turn to shop your stash for something metal to add to your card, LO, or project and link up at Shopping Our Stash #39.

Happy Valentine's Day!

My Pink Stamper February WINNER

Happy Valentine's Day!

  I hope you are able to spend today with people you love.  Today I will enjoy time with my dh and our girls.

  Thank you to all of you who were able to hop along this weekend with the My Pink Stamper design team.  The winner of my "Sweet Baby" stamp set is comment #65 Felicia of A Creative Mess.  Felicia, please email me with your snail mail and I will ship your stamp set to you as soon as possible.

 Felicia said...

Love the layout of your card! I really like the lace doily and the red and white flower paper. Thanks for the chance to win the stamps!

February 11, 2012 4:19 PM