Another Guy Card

Another birthday card and again for one of the guys in our family.

The image and sentiment are digital stamps by From the Heart.  Birdbrain is colored with Copics.  The flame is topped with Stickles.  The sketch (which I flipped) can also be found at From the Heart sketch.

The circles are cut with Di-namic Circle Stax and the tag is Spellbinder.

Challenges:
From the Heart sketch with masculine twist
Cre8tive Hands - anything
Send A Smile 4 Kids -  for boys
All Sorts - wings
Stamping Boutique -masculine

Potted Plant

One of the things in my stash that I have never used is the Spellbinders Flower Pots.  Oh, what fun.  Now that I have opened the package and used one, I know I will use them several times more this Spring. There are 5 sizes so I need to try each size.

I wanted lots of layers and lots of dimension so all the flowers and leaves (Fred She Said) are cut out with my Silhouette then glued on to the striped paper before adding the pot.
This card is really busy with all the patterned paper, colors, and layers but I like it!
Here is the sketch I used:

Challenges:
Die Cut Divas - Spring
Crop Stop - anything
Words 2 Craft By - rebirth
Craftin Deserts - colors
Tuesday Throwdown - colors
Time Out - CASE

Coffee Card

Every time the Coffee Lovers have their blog hop, I hop along and enter a few cards.  I wasn't going to enter this time because I have quite a bit going on right now and behind on birthday cards that I need to make.  But I need a thank you card for one of my sons who roasted some coffee for us this past weekend.  Love his fresh roasted beans!

 I used the pre-colored digital stamp (by Doodle Pantry) of the coffee mill, changing the color of the wood pieces and the silver pieces with Copics.  I used the pre-colored because I needed the colored beans - I don't have the right Copics for that.  The words and steam are GKD stamps.  Even after adding the distressing, it seemed to plain so I did some paper piercing in the corners adding a black pearl at the tip.
Here is the sketch that I used:

Challenges:
Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
Stamplorations Sketch
Paper Sweeties - photo inspiration
Simon Monday - food or drink

Spring Colors

Loving all the colors popping out - trees, hyacinths, daffodils, heather, primroses.  It is still really wet so I can't do much in the flower beds and nothing in the garden area, but I can enjoy all the colors.
I hardly ever use the purple family but I am challenging myself this year and one of those areas is to use colors I normally don't use.
Here is a card I made with all rubber stamps.  I know - shock!  - no digital stamps.  And I must admit, it was fun to create this.  It is hard to remember back to pre-digital days!

The stamps are all Stampin' Up.  This beautiful ribbon and paper flower are from a winners package from Little Scrap Pieces.  Love this seam binding ribbon!  I added liquid pearls to the center of the pink flowers and purple Stickles to the purple and teal flowers.
My inspiration for this card was found at Time Out.

Challenges:
Time Out - CASE
Stamping Boutique -countdown to spring
Crop Stop - anything
Craftin Deserts - colors
Tuesday Throwdown - colors
Stamplorations - theme (Stamp and Texture)

Fun Coloring Day

We have had company all weekend.  Love my kids and their kids but wow, are those three grandsons active!  So after they left today, I headed to my craft room.  I know I should have swept and vacuumed, and cleaned, but it felt so good to sit down and color. There is always tomorrow to clean, right?

I am loving the daffodils and narcissus in the yards and fields so that is what I chose to color plus I love the colors for the MFT color challenge this week.

This is a digital stamp by Doodle Pantry.  It comes in both colored and outline.  Because I wanted (needed) to color, I chose the outline and colored with Copics.  The background designer paper comes with the set, Daffodil Sweet Pea.
The image is cut with MFT Circle Stax. 

The sketch is MFT

Challenges:
Cre8tive Hands - anything
Creative Moments - anything
MFT Color challenge 
Die Cut Divas - spring
Simon Says Work It Wednesday - floral
Crop Stop - anything
Stamplorations CAS 

MFT sketch challenge
Doodle Pantry - AIMP challenge 

Son's Birthday

Love this Bugaboo image.  Very fun for my son in his 40's.

Colored with Copics.  BG paper is Diane's Daydream Design digital paper.  The gears are all cut with First Edition Craft dies.   Liquid glaze is added to the glasses.
Here is the inside (also Bugaboo):

Birthday sentiment is stamped.
The sketch is Sketch Saturday: (Edit:  Well, I did it again! I forgot to post this so I couldn't enter it in the Sketch Saturday challenge but I like the sketch anyway!)

Challenges:


Creative Moments- anything
Creative Hands - anything
Send A Smile 4 Kids - boys
Stamplorations theme - texture

St. Patty's Day

Each year I make ONE St. Patrick's Day card.  For some reason my daughter loves that day (even though we are not Irish). So I make her a card and usually use some funny Irish "blessing".  When I saw the inspiration photo at Paper Sweeties, I knew that was the "blessing" for this year.

So here is the card I came up with:

using the sketch at MFT:

This card went together quickly because the strips are perforated strips from a kit.  I just left them  attached to each other and glued on the whole piece. The shamrocks and far right strip are sparkly (like glitter) have a rough texture to them.  Originally I was thinking of a different coffee cup image but love this Bugaboo and thought it went with the quote better.  It is colored with Copics.  The extra shamrock is fussy cut and the foil heart was in my stash.
Here is how I printed up the quote on the inside:

The heart is stamped.




Challenges:
MFT Sketch
MFT colors
Pile It On - green + two colors (yellow and brown)
V's Sweet Ideas - lady luck
Paper Sweeties - photo inspiration
Simon Wednesday - bit of green