A little birdie told me...(washi tape and stickers card)

  My card was completely inspired by Jackie's sketch in this week's Fusion card challenge #5.  Wanna see?

  My bird and bird cage are from EAD Designs (no longer in business).  If you miss these quality stickers, check out SRM stickers...I find them equally wonderful to work with!

I used 3 washi tapes: the top from MME "All is Bright" and the other two from Target.  I used my quilting ruler to line up the washi tape strips.  My sentiment stamp is by "Make an Impression."

Happy Wednesday!

Daisey'd & Challenged

   Last week I won some SRM sticker goodness and my prize package arrived in my mailbox Saturday afternoon!  Of course they wanted to come out and play.  The daisy stickers reminded me of the daisy paper and yellow polka dot paper from October Afternoon.  I went in search of inspiration and I found it here:

• 365 Cards:  Sticky Situation (use 3 stickers on your card)
• My Creative Time:  Create a set of four 3x3 cards
• October Afternoon:  Sketchy Tuesday by Danni Reid

The sentiment and zig-zag stitching stickers are SRM "We've Got Your Border" and the daisy stickers are "Stickers by the Dozen - Thank You".  The October Afternoon papers are from the "Modern Homemaker" collection.

Happy Tuesday!

Carta Bella NSD challenge/Scraptastic Mother's Day card

  I have pulled out my ever-so-versatile Carta Bella "Traditions" 6x6 pad to enter this year's National Scrapbook Day challenge at Carta Bella.  Carta Bella is a sister company to Echo Park and it is now one year old!  Happy Birthday, Carta Bella!

  My tutorial for this card is here.  I distressed my cranberry card stock with Tim Holtz "Vintage Photo" distress ink and also used that same ink to stamp my sentiment (by SU).  The two card stocks and punches for the sentiment tag are also by SU.  All other papers are Carta Bella "Traditions."  My flowers and leaves were all cut @ 1.5" on the Cricut Lite "Bloom" cartridge.

  I am also entering this in the Mother's Day card contest at Scraptastic Monday card challenge and Cut It Up.

Don't forget for today and tomorrow (May 5th & 6th) you can purchase Echo Park (and other goodies) at a huge savings!  Shop Pumpkin Spice blog has hourly challenges (challenge winners will receive $20 gift cards) and a coupon code:  NSD10 for the Shop Pumpkin Spice store.

I hope you will shop this weekend...prices are 30% off retail and use the NSD10 coupon code for an additional 10% savings!

Great deals on ebay too:

http://stores.ebay.com/ShopPumpkinSpice?_rdc=1

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Echo Pard NSD challenge

  A super quick card!  I used Echo Park's "Paradise Beach" element stickers (sun and sentiment banner) and I used my Fiskars cloud punches on Paradise Beach "Paradise" paper.  I added gems and foam tape for dimension.

  I am entering this in Echo Park's National Scrapbook Day challenge "Summer Card Project Contest."

I used this retired sketch from Cardabilities:

Wish me luck!

Don't forget for today and tomorrow (May 5th & 6th) you can purchase Echo Park (and other goodies) at a huge savings!  Shop Pumpkin Spice blog has hourly challenges (challenge winners will receive $20 gift cards) and a coupon code:  NSD10 for the Shop Pumpkin Spice store.

I hope you will shop this weekend...prices are 30% off retail and use the NSD10 coupon code for an additional 10% savings!

Great deals on ebay too:

http://stores.ebay.com/ShopPumpkinSpice?_rdc=1

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Making the Most of your 6x6 - NSD challenge...coupon code NSD10

  We are celebrating National Scrapbook Day (NSD) at 

Shop Pumpkin Spice blog with hourly challenges
(challenge winners will receive $20 gift cards)

and a coupon code:  NSD10 for the 

Shop Pumpkin Spice store.

I hope you will shop this weekend...prices are 30% off retail and use the NSD10 coupon code for an additional 10% savings!

Great deals on ebay too:
http://stores.ebay.com/ShopPumpkinSpice?_rdc=1

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 I set a challenge for myself, and I hope it inspires you too:  

Make the most of your 6x6 

I love collecting 6x6 pads, and even though many of my pads are well-loved and down to bare bones, I wanted to challenge my self to actually try to use an entire pad.

I purchased this Fancy Pants "Time for Spring" 6x6

at Shop Pumpkin Spice for just $4.20

1.  I separated and grouped like papers together:

This pad has two of every pattern (18 patterns/36 sheets).

• I grouped solids at the top
• nearly solids (tone w/ white) in the middle
• and busy patterns

2.  I chose a busy pattern, sketched a card, and tried to create as many cards as I could from the patterned paper.

  I created two of these hexagon cards.  The popped up hexagons were fussy cut from the scrap strips I cut off.

Then I chose the bold flowers paper and fussy cut these flowers from it, and a few paper strips from other papers in the pad.  I fussy cut 6 flowers total because I also made two of this card:

and from the scraps of the bold flower paper I created four cards like this one:

Hmmm...I did not succeed in using the whole 6x6; 

I still have 25 of the 36 full sheets 

plus scraps to play with, 

but I made 8 cards already from a $4.20 pad.

Niiiiiice!

Challenge (and a chance to win  a $20 gift card to Shop Pumpkin Spice):

Create 2 (or more) cards from any of your 6x6 paper pads

Make the most of your 6x6!

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

Indie Chic Birthday

I've been playing with my scraps of MME Indie Chic and eked out this birthday card.  I paper pierced swirls and hand-sewed near the hearts.  My inspiration came from Danni Reid's stitched cards at Scraptastic Club.  I also used this retired sketch from Cardabilities:

Supplies:

paper:  My Mind's Eye Indie Chic

garland:  My Mind's Eye Indie Chic

sentiment stamp:  My Pink Stamper "Birthday Doodles"

pearl studs:  i-rock tool and gems

ink:  My Pink Stamper "Darkest Night" hybrid ink pad

floss:  DMC

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Rhedd and Rosie challenge blog:  Stitching (Real or Faux)

and

Scraptastic Club blog card challenge:  Stitched with love

Happy Wednesday!

Fusion Challenge #4/ Anything Goes

   The sweet and lovely Amy Tsuruta posted on Facebook that that was still time to play in the current Fusion challenge #4:

  I decided this was the perfect excuse to ignore my laundry and play with paper :)

  Lesley's bold flowers had me searching for a bold pattern paper, which I found in my Echo Park "For the Record" collection.  Then I chose the polka dot paper and red tone-on-tone from the same collection, and punched the yellow flower too to follow Jackie's sketch.  The red and white primas are from my stash.  I used a Spellbinder's die on the polka dot paper and an SU sentiment stamp in Darkest Night hybrid ink.

I am also entering this at:

• Celebrate the Occasion challenge #110 - Anything Goes
• Die Cuttin' Divas challenge #113 - Anything Goes

Happy Wednesday!