Greetings friends and loved ones. It's been a while since I have blogged. My son graduated from High School and we whisked the family away to a cruise to the Western Caribbean!!! What a blast we had. Now I am back and want to share my news. I will be working with the fabulous Speedy the Cat's Blog Team. Today is my first challenge as a Design Team Member.
The challenge this week is from Patty Penn to use a 3 dimensional flower on your card. It can be prima, punched, silk, whatever you choose. Some come and join us at Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge for a chance to win one of Faith's super awesome stamp sets! Just click on the link and it will take you to the challenge.
Let me just tell you that I am in love with these stamps. These stamps sets are so well coordinated with sentiments and images and are very fun to work with. This stamp is called "Here Comes the Graduate" from Mark's Finest Papers. Isn't this owl cute!!! The stamp set had the Congrats, Grad sentiment and the quote as well. Most times my cards are plain with no greetings - so I am loving the sentiments.
Card Recipe:Punches: Martha Stewart Ribbon Loop Punch Around the Page, Branch and Frond Punch.
Cuttlebug: Embossing Folder Script Texture, Vintage Dies
Spellbinders: Labels 10
Misc: Blue rhinestones, ribbon, copic markers, black soot distress ink, denim distress ink.
Flowers: These were hand made by me with a marvy flower punch
Stamp: Here Comes the Grad from Mark's Fines Papers
Challenges Entered
Alphabet Challenge - E is for Easel Cards
Crafty Ann's - Use more than one image
Delicious Doodles Challenges - Texture
Fussy and Fancy - Card for a Man or Boy
Stampin with the Dragon - Easel Card
Aud Sentiments Challenge - A card/sentiment for a male
Charisma Cardz - Something that Flies
Moving Along With The Times - No Designer Paper
Pixie Dust Studio - Homemade Sweet Homemade
Sassy Studio Designs - No Patterned Papers
Some Odd Girl - Manly Challenge
Alphabet Challenge - E is for Easel Cards
Crafty Ann's - Use more than one image
Delicious Doodles Challenges - Texture
Fussy and Fancy - Card for a Man or Boy
Stampin with the Dragon - Easel Card
Aud Sentiments Challenge - A card/sentiment for a male
Charisma Cardz - Something that Flies
Moving Along With The Times - No Designer Paper
Pixie Dust Studio - Homemade Sweet Homemade
Sassy Studio Designs - No Patterned Papers
Some Odd Girl - Manly Challenge
Thanks for stopping by. I'll be back soon. I came back from our family vacation with my batteries recharged and full of inspiration. Have a great Saturday!
Carol, welcome to the team at MFP!!! Your intricate creations will be a wonderful addition to the lovely samples created each week by the Speedy's Friends team. You used this fun Here Comes the Grad set beautifully. And I love your gorgeous handmade roses!! So glad you had a terrific time on your family cruise. :D
ReplyDeleteWow Carol--this is fabulous!!!! I would never have thought to use flowers with the owl graduate, but boy yours lookk fabulous!!!! Great job with the challenge!!!!! TFS
ReplyDeletesuper card!!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being one of Speedy's design team members. Love your easel card - lots of great details. Glad you joined us for the easel challenge at Stamping with the Dragon this week.
ReplyDeleteAnother fabulous Carol creation :) Trusting you have your land legs back again and a huge congrats to your son on his graduation.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely card Carol. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments.
ReplyDeleteSuch a fabulous card. Thanks for joining us at Charisma this week.
ReplyDeletexx Vee
Welcome back! And congrats on the DT spot with MFP!
ReplyDeleteCarol I'm so excited to have you here with us at Speedy's team, what a wonderful addition to the team!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat coloring of the owl and love your easel card!!
Beautiful card. Congrats with the desingteam spot.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Nanda
wow carol what a great graduation card, love the image you have used for it.
ReplyDeleteyou have made a great card.
greetings karin
Great card for Delicious Doodles! Thanks for joining us and good luck!
ReplyDeleteSunny greetings, Saskia :)
Carol, I love the look of easel cards, and yours is fab!! I love all the corners and the loopy nestie. The RED bookmarks are my fav part. LOL!! Hugs, my friend!
ReplyDeleteAn easel card, how fun and some graduate will really have fun receiving this. What a great thing for you to take a nice trip like that.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Such a cute graduation card! Love the owl and your coloring! Great job with the easel card! Thanks for joining us on Some Odd Girl!
ReplyDeleteHuge congrats on your brand new DT status! I look forward to seeing more of your fabulous cards, like this one! I just love the owl standing on that stack of books! You must be so proud of your son for graduating, and I'm glad you all had a lovely cruise to celebrate! I too love MFP stamps & sentiments, and need to add many more to my collection!
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteLove the Owl image... you did a beautiful graduation card.
Thanks for joining us at ALPHABET Challenge Blog.
Good Luck!
Sonia DT
Greetings from Puerto Rico
beautiful thank you for joining us at Stampin with the Dragon
ReplyDeleteHugs Kate xx
Great Card, love all the detail..
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at AC.
Huggies Angel
Congratulations!! Awesome grad card!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is fabulous Carol and congratulations to your son. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Ann's
ReplyDeleteAnn x
Wow, your card is so intricate! ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat easel card, just love the owl & the LO is fab!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing with us at MAWTT this week, good luck!
hugs shell xx
Congratulations, Carol! What a gorgeous graduation card!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Carol, on the new DT position. You'll be awesome with this group!! I love your grad card and all the beautiful elements. Glad you and the family had a blast on your cruise.
ReplyDeleteCarol, a gorgeous and stunning card you have made here. Thank you for taking part in the Aud Sentiments Challenge this fortnight and I wish you the best of luck in the draw. Best wishes, Kym (Aud Sentiments Design Team Member) xxx
ReplyDeleteCarol, I am super excited to be working on the same team as you!! You always make the most magnificent creations, and I can't wait to see what you do with the MFP challenges. I'm glad you had a terrific vacation with your family. You really deserved that!
ReplyDeletesuch a lovely card! i love the flowers and the design
ReplyDeletethanks for playing with us at some odd girl
Loving the owl and the sentiment. Beautiful creative card, full of your trade mark details and touches......so nice.
ReplyDeleteHugs
Sue
What a gorgeous graduation card Carol. Love the look of the owl and how you colored him, great senti too. Everything about this is perfection! Thanks for playing along with us at SSD this week.
ReplyDeleteEspectaular trabajo, el buho me encanto. Todos los detalles estan preciosos.
ReplyDeleteGracias por compartir
Abrazos, Myrna
Carol, wow, welcome back from vacay (hope you had fun!) and congrats on your new design team appointment! With all that talent you definitely deserve it! This is another of your gorgeous creations! What a fabulous easel card! Love the loopy punch and your owl is wonderfully colored! Thanks for playing along @ Sassy Studio Designs for our Dare To Be Sassy Thursday "No Patterned Paper" challenge! :)
ReplyDeleteRegan ~ SSD Design Team
OMGosh I LOVE this set!!! I LOVE your card!! This would have been perfect for my sons Graduation!!! Beautiful job Carol!!!!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Cheryl
An awesome graduation card!! Love all the details with the image!!
ReplyDeleteSuper cute, Love the colors and roses.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Fussy and Fancy.
Hugs, Mindy