Just Fluttering By...

Happy Friday Friends! I hope that you had a wonderful week! I can honestly say that I'm glad today is Friday! It has been a long week! I'm really looking forward to a quiet weekend. I'm posting on the later side tonight because we just came in from shopping for a new clothes dryer. We started at one store, then tried another, and finally ended up back at the first store. Such a fun way to spend a Friday night...lol!

My card for today's post combines two of my favorite weekly challenges. I started off with these colors from The Cat's Pajama's Tuesday Challenge.

Then I paired this fun mix of colors with this wonderful sketch from Lisa Somerville for this week's Blogger's Challenge.

This is what I came up with when I put the two challenges together.

This adorable bunny, the sentiment, and all of the swirling butterflies are from the Flutter By set from The Cat's Pajamas. The bunny is colored up with Copic Markers (C0, C1, V05, V06, YG13, and the Colorless Blender.) The papers are from DCWV and My Mind's Eye. The ribbon and the button are from Stampin' Up! I added some sewing machine stitching around the edges and the white circle is embossed with the Seeing Spots embossing folder.

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit with me! Have a wonderful weekend...Toodles! :D

You're in My Prayers

Happy Sunday Friends! We finally had a whole day of sun here in New England! It's been a great weekend. I did some shopping yesterday, and today I spent the afternoon stamping with my friend Linda. We made cards to send to our soldiers for Veteran's Day. There were two other lovely ladies there and it made for a wonderful afternoon.

This morning I did a little stamping at home too. This is the card that I made for a friend at school. Her mother-in-law recently passed away and I will not be able to attend the services for her, but I wanted to be certain to send a card. I used this week's sketch from the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club. You can find all of the details to play along, here. The patterned papers are from the Beautiful Life collection from My Mind's Eye. They are accented with Stampin Up's Bashful Blue and Papertrey Ink's Kraft card stock. The ribbon is from May Arts. (I just happen to find it when I was shopping yesterday!) The sentiment is from the More Essential Sentiments set from My Favorite Things. It is cut out with the Die-namics Layered Label Die Set from MFT. I added some stitching to the layers and called it, "Finished".

Hope that you all had a marvelous weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by...Toodles! :D

Let's Fly Away!

Happy Friday Friends! Hope that you all had a great week! It's been raining for a couple of days here in New England (hence the darker photographs from that last few posts), but we've still been able to accomplish quite a bit around the house.

My card for today is for this week's Blogger's Challenge (theme...travel) and for the TCP Tuesday Challenge (make a rolled rose out of seam binding.) If you would like to play along with these challenges, just click on the colored words for the links. I have been wanting to use this adorable bunny from the Take Off set from The Cat's Pajamas for awhile now and the travel theme was the perfect excuse. I colored him up with Copic Markers (BG000, C1, C2, YG25, YR12, and YR16) and I paper pieced part of his plane. All of the patterned papers are from Jillibean Soup. The clouds were made with the Cloud Border CutUps from TCP and I used some Mango Seam Binding from TCP too. I {heart} the way that the seam binding rose turned out. It was easy to do and I really like how it seems to tie the bow together. Alma has a tutorial to make the blossoms on her blog if you'd like to give it a try. (Just click on the link above.)

That's about all for this evening. Thanks so much for stopping by...Toodles! :D

Hello Pumpkin!

Happy Monday Friends! Hope that you are all well. It was a beautiful day here in New England...sunny, cool...my favorite time of the year!

Autumn is definitely my favorite season. My card for today has some of the wonderful colors of fall and of course, a big ole pumpkin. My inspiration came from Tuesday's Challenge from The Cat's Pajamas. You can find the inspiration photograph here. I knew that I wanted to use the Hello Pumpkin set from TCP, but I wasn't quite sure how the whole thing was going to come together until I came home from school today and saw the sketch from the Mojo Monday Challenge blog. You can find the sketch here. My main image is paper pieced with some My Mind's Eye paper and colored up with Copic Markers (C9, R29, R29, YG95, YR16, and YR18.) I used a wide assortment of papers...Recollections, My Minds Eye, Memory Box, and Papertrey Ink card stock. The ribbon is from May Arts and the button is from PTI.

That's about it for this creation. Thanks so much for visiting with me this evening...Toodles! :D

Who Has the Button?

Happy Friday Friends! I hope that you had a wonderful week. The weather has turned cool here in New England. It looks like it is going to be a beautiful Autumn weekend. My Mom's birthday is this weekend and this is the card that I made for her. I combined this week's Blogger's Challenge (buttons) and the sketch from the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club. If you'd like to play along in these challenges, just click on the colored words and you'll be taken to their blogs.

My image is from the Pure Innocence Sunflower Girl set from My Favorite Things. She is colored up with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E23, E25, E35, E37, E40, G21, G24, R11, V000, V01, V12, Y21, and YR24.) The papers are from the Beautiful Life collection from My Mind's Eye. They are accented with Perfectly Plum card stock from Stampin' Up and Kraft card stock from Papertrey Ink. My other accents include the MFT Die-namics Dainty Dots Border Die, a Perfectly Plum button, and some craft twine.

Thanks so much for stopping by tonight. I hope that your weekend is a wonderful one...Toodles! :D

If At First You Don't Succeed...Try Again!

Happy Tuesday Friends! I have two cards to share with you today. The first card is another version of the card that I made for the sketch from The Cat's Pajamas. (You can find the sketch here.) The other card makers out there really made some beautiful cards with this sketch, but I struggled with my design. So, after I posted, I decided to change things up a little bit. I removed some of the accents from my original design and I added a sentiment. I'm much happier with the results. The image is from the Kick Some Grass set from The Cat's Pajamas. I used Prisma Color Pencils (True Blue, Pink, Limepeel, and Seashell Pink) to color up this adorable bunny. The sentiment is from the Birthday Bunny set from TCP. The patterned papers are from October Afternoon. The Kraft card stock and the buttons are from Papertrey Ink. I also used the Flower Button CutUps from TCP. The blueish green card stock is from Core'dinations and I used the Seeing Spots embossing folder on the circle that I made with Nesties.

My other card is for the sketch from the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club. This sketch was a little easier for me to work with. (You can find it here.) I used one of the newer a la modes from My Favorite Things. This set is called Talk Nerdy to Me. She is so adorable! I colored her up with Copic Markers (BG10, BG11, C1, C3, E000, E00, E01, E08, E19, E23, E25, R11, R81, R83, Y21, Y26, and the Colorless Blender.) The patterned papers are from the Blink of an Eye collection from My Mind's Eye. I also used Kraft card stock and a button from PTI on this card. The seam binding is from Stampin' Up and the ovals were cut with Nesties. I hope that you enjoy your week! Thanks so much for visiting with me...Toodles! :D

God Bless America!

Happy Sunday Friends! Today's card is for this week's Blogger's Challenge...Stars. (Please click here to go to Lisa's Blog for more details and the link to play along.) We could interpret the theme however we wanted. I held off until today to post because today marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks here in the United States. I had hoped to write something eloquent about my feelings on that day, but I still fill up with tears each time I think about it. All of the memories and the emotions of that fateful day fill my heart whenever it is even mentioned. So on that thought, here is my very simple card for the challenge. I used cream and navy card stock, and some red patterned paper from Memory Box. The stars were made with Die-namics from My Favorite Things, and the sentiment was made on my computer. The button is from Papertrey Ink and I finished it off with some Divine Twine from The Cat's Pajamas. My family and I made a few more of these cards today so that we can send them to our soldiers to express our gratitude for all that they do. Thank you for stopping by today. I wish you all a beautiful day...Toodles!

Mixing Things Up!

Happy Monday everyone, and to my friends here in the States...Happy Labor Day! It has been a busy weekend, so it's nice to have a day off from work and do a few things around the house. It also gives me some extra stamping time. I have two cards to share with you today. They combine some of my favorite challenges too. First up is this adorable penguin trio from the Hello Pumpkin set from The Cat's Pajamas. The TCP Tuesday challenge is to use an image with wings, so I went with penguin wings. I used a few Copic Markers (YG13, YG17, YR15, YR16) to color up the small areas of the image. My sketch is from Jen Del Muro's September Sketch For You To Try. The patterned papers are from Memory Box. I added a Papertrey Ink button with some TCP Divine Twine to the sentiment and then I used the Button CutUps from TCP to dress up the bottom corner of my card.

My next card combines the sketch from the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club with the My Favorite Things Guest Designer Contest. This month's contest is to use ripping and rolling in our designs. I took care of the ripping part by using a ruler to rip the straight edges on my Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 patterned paper layers. I also ripped a few of the card stock layers. I used a distressing tool to clean them up a bit. The rolling part was easy. I used the MFT Die-namics Rolled Rose die with some MFT Banana Wool Felt and a pearl for the center of the blossom. My other accents include the MFT Die-namics Simply Scallops Die with a few pearls and the sentiment was stamped onto a die cut made with the MFT Die-namics Textile Rectangle set. The star of this card is this lovely girl from the MFT a la modes - Cheers set. She is colored up with Copic Markers (B0000, C7, C9, E00, E23, E25, E40, R11, Y21, Y32, and the Colorless Blender.) A touch of Star Dust Stickles on the champagne flute complete my creation.

Thanks so much for visiting with me today. Have a wonderful week...Toodles! :D

Got the Blues!

Hello Friends! I hope that your week went well. We started school this past Tuesday, but many families in neighboring towns are still without power. Yesterday, I had to run a few errands after school (car accident paperwork, crafty shopping) and then my family and I had some dinner together and we went to play Mini Golf. It was a great evening! I found the Butterfly Die-namics from My Favorite Things when I went shopping. They jumped right into my basket and came home with me. (I did pay for them first though...LOL!) I have had this card saved on my computer for quite some time and I knew that the MFT Butterflies would give me similar results. Basically, I CASE'd Carrie's card. It's so pretty and I didn't really want to change things up too much.

This week's Blogger's Challenge is to make a creation with monochromatic shades of blue. You can find all of the details to play along on Lisa's Blog. I used my new Butterfly Die-namics with some old patterned paper scraps from Stampin' Up. I followed Carrie's design and then used some Bashful Blue ribbon in one corner and a birthday sentiment from My Favorite Things in the other. To make the butterfly centers sparkle, I added some blue A*Muse Twinkles. This card was quick and simple! Thanks so much for visiting with me today. Have a wonderful weekend...Toodles! :D