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

Spring For Ewe

While I was looking for a stamp in my Bugaboo file, I saw this one so I just had to take a detour to make this card first before the birthday card I was planning on making.

Isn't this just a kick?! Because I just loved this scene, I made it card size and just added the sentiment with a Spellbinder tag die cut and brads.

Challenges:
MFT colors

Pile It On - green + 2 colors
Cuttlebug Mania - Welcome Spring
Stamplorations CAS optional yellow

Crop Stop - anything
Send A Smile 4 Kids - spring colors
Simon Wednesday - bit of green
Time Out Thursday - spring

Time to Plant

Well, almost.  It is warm enough but not dry enough yet.
This is the first time I have used this darling Pure Innocence stamp from MFT.  So cute.

I used the sketch at Stamplorations

The stamp used behind the little girl image is a Unity stamp.  Flowers and girl are colored with Copics.
The image was cut with a Die-namics Stax Rectangle and then the image cut a bit smaller.

Challenges:
Send A Smile 4 Kids - spring colors
Cuttlebug Mania - welcome spring
MFT - colors
Paper Creators - spring colors
Simon Work It Wednesday - floral
Crop Stop - anything
Stamploration - CAS optional-yellow

Stamploration - sketch
Simon Wednesday - bit of green
Time Out Thursday - spring

Mom's Birthday

My mom will be 93 next week.  Still lives alone in her big ole house.  She has had medical problems ever since I can recall - polio, extreme whiplash which resulted in a body case, broken knee cap, broken toes, broken arm, broken hip, several surgeries, macular degeneration casing blindness in one eye.  And yet she keeps on truckin.  Her biggest complaint is "I just don't have any energy!  Do you think it is because I am getting older?"
She likes fancy and since that is not my style, I struggle with cards for her.  Even though this card isn't over the top fancy and glitzy, I think she will like it.

I cased this beautiful card that I saw on Pinterest.  Love the browns and touch of pink but wanted a brighter card and went with yellows and greens.

The embossing is a Cuttlebug Folder.  I didn't have enough pearls so I used some drops that I had made by melting Perler Beads and then used some liquid pearl of the same color.
The vine is Cherry Lynn.  I added touches of Copic to the Prima flower.  Sentiment is GKD.

Scrapyland - anything
Cuttlebug Mania - Spring
Die Cut Divas - Spring
Paper Creators - Spring
Simon Work It Wednesday - floral
Simon Wednesday - texture
Crop Stop - anything
Craftin Deserts - lots of layers
Stamploration - theme: stamps and texture

Anniversary Cards

Last year I started making duplicate cards.  Up to that point, I tried to make each card different for valentines and anniversaries going to my children.  But now with all six children married, I decided it was time that they all get the same design for their anniversary cards.  So here is the card for this year:

I haven't made very many easel cards but I enjoy making them when I take the time to do them.  The layers are dark brown, rose pink, and dark tan with the inside being ivory.
The tan is embossed with a wood grain Darice EF.  The circles are cut with Die-namic Circle Stax dies and the hearts are Cuttlebut dies.

On the inside I stamped Happy Anniversary on a piece of ivory and then attached it to the rose cardstock that I had punched with a Recollections border punch.

The tree is a digital image by Eureka which I printed in brown and then added brown and pink Copics.
So many of the trees in this area are in bloom with beautiful pink blossoms - my inspiration for this card.  Some of the heart blossoms have a touch of clear star ink.  After I decided to use the tree, I found the quote which I printed on ivory and put on the inside of the card.
It is not a super fancy card but I like it and the men might like it better than a frilly, girly card.

Challenges:
Cre8tive Hands Friends - use a digital image
Scrapyland - anything
Dies R Us - shaped card
Cuttlebug Mania - welcome Spring
Paper Creators - Spring colors
Die Cut Divas - Spring
Craftin Deserts - lots of layers
Tuesday Throwdown - frame it
Simon Wednesday - texture
Stamplorations - theme