MMSC#12 Happy Birthday Bear

Well, look what we have today....a bear!!! I can't go for too long without making a bear card, I was getting jittery because I haven't done one. lol Today's card was for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge at Priscilla's blog. Some great prizes, a chance for a guest designer spot and some cash are up for grabs, so check it out!!!

I made my own paper pieced bear pattern for this card. I did ribbon embroidery on the left edge of my tag just like what is pictured on the sketch. I love how it looks and plan to do it again. Happy Birthday was cut on my cricut. I used Martha Stewart's border punch, frond, and branch punch. The swirl is made with a sizzx die. Love those hot pink rhinestones and I love the foo foo I tied on the tag.

When I look at this card...the colors remind me of something I should have in my lingerie draw...and if I don't have it....I should run out to Victoria's Secret and get it. Are these colors sexy or what??? I love it. lol Below is the sketch that we were given for this challenge. I enjoyed this challenge very much and know you will too!!!

Today's $1.98 Stamp-Hummingbird

Picked this up from the clearance basket at Michael's for $1.98. I just love it. It is an inkadinkado stamp, but there is no name on it. I didn't know how I was going to proceed with coloring this and decided on chalking it. I really love how vibrant the shading turned out. I used a Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Blue Star to highlight the humming bird by tracing it. I outlined the flowers in icicle stickles and sprayed with a fixative. I tied a cream colored bow and used brass fasteners/brads. Thanks for checking in today. I hope to have another entry tomorrow, although it is giving me problems. Have a great evening.

98 cent stamp from Michael's

Today I did this card for the Splitcoast Sketch Challenge for two reasons. #1) I have wanted this stamp for about a year and always get outbid on ebay for it. I just had to have it because it has a bear on it of course!!! I found it last Saturday night at Michael's for 98 cents. You would have thought I won the lottery. #2) This card is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 and may be the only card I ever will send that might just cost me 44 cents to mail instead of the 1.50 to 2.00 I normally spend on most!!! We shall see???

Any way this was a pretty simple card. I just watercolored the image and cut the paper. I used a cuddlebug swirl embossing folder on the brown background and tied the bow. Attached image with some gold brads.

Thanks for stopping by today. I will have more of my 98 cent finds soon. I couldn't believe it. I go to Michael's every week and never saw these stamps there before. My advice is to go check your Michael's soon!!!

4 Challenge Snowman with Lights

Christmas in July is still be celebrated here in Georgia. I think I am on a mission to get as many Christmas cards done in July as I can. This card was created for four challenges as follows:

Three Clovers Thursday Challenge #23 - Use Bling on your card- I have glitter, stickles, a snowflake charm, silver shiny snowflake brads, and rhinestones on the brad snowflake
High Hopes #41- Use Sparkle and Shine- same as above
Card Position System #126- Sketch Challenge...see below
Pile It On- Use watercolor technique and at least one other challenge.

I have been dying to ink this stamp up. It is a Stampendous Stamp called Snow Lights. I had wanted this for a long time and could never afford the price it was going for on Ebay. Well, a few weeks after Christmas last year this came up for bid and I won it for a reasonable price. I was so happy!!! I watercolored this with ink and a waterbrush, used the cuddlebug snowflake and swiss dot embossing folders, round nesties, spellbinders snowflake die cut, silver snowflake brads, rhinestones, Martha Stewart Glitter for the hat, stickles for the snowflakes and snowman. There is a little silver snowflake charm hangng from the bow. This card is so much prettier in person. But anyway, here is the sketch.


Thanks for looking at my card today. Why not join some or all of these challenges. Don't you love this sketch? It was fun so give it a try. See you tomorrow!

Not Anytime Soon Again Flowers

Today's "Try a New Technique" over at Splitcoaststampers was to do quilling. I named my card Not Any Time Soon Flowers because you will not see me doing another one of these "anytime" soon. lol

Attention all card makers......if you are a quiller, I get on my knees and bow to you.....you are the KING or QUEEN!!! I couldn't get my ends to "stick". Maybe I just didn't use the right glue. I made two attempts at this as the first one I did 1/4" strips....man that was way to thick, I would have had to purchase one of those VCR boxes to send the dang card. So then I redid all these flowers again with 1/8" strips and it worked out better.

Let's just say....after this challenge, I am going to confession Saturday night!!!!! This was a challenge for me, but I am thankful for the challenge.

The card itself is the same cardstock as the light pink flower, I used a cuddlebug embossing folder on the white background. The heart is white cardstock and the same hot pink as the other flower. Not much supplies, but boy you have to have the patience of a "Saint" to do this.

Why not hop on over to Splitcoast Stampers and give it a try. Thanks for stopping by today. I appreciate you and welcome your comments.

PaperPieced Bear with Headband

Here is a card I made for Virtual Stamp Night at Splitcoaststampers last Friday night. The name of the challenge was "Swiss Cheese" and you were to use one of the old fashioned silver small hole punch on your project in some creative way. I thought to use it to punch holes in my dp and thread this pretty ribbon through it. This paper pieced bear was sitting on my table as a reject from another project I was working on. So I thought it would look nice as the focal point on the card with the ribbon going around it. I made these flowers with various paper punches and the branch punch from Martha Stewart. I love this little bear even though it was too big for the other project and kept the pattern I created so I can make more. I think I want to do one with a "Santa" hat....now wouldn't that be cute!!! See you tomorrow!!!

Double Challenge Flower Pot Digi

Today, I did a double challenge card. First, this free digi image came from Fred, She Said where there is a challenge going on to create a card/project with this image. You have a chance to win a set of her new releases. Isn't this digi image gorgeous. I love digi images....there is just so much you can do with them. For instance, I cropped that pretty flower out so that I could accessorize my card with them. The other challenge was a sketch from Our Creative Corner.

The flowers and the leaves in this image have been layered pretty extensively. I used a Martha Steward border punch, The white daisys with pink centers are ribbon, I have a little flower in a flowerpot charm, theres yellow rhinestones for the center of the flowers and lots of stickles just on the flowers.

Hope you enjoyed looking at this creation. I sure do appreciate you coming by. See you tomorrow. Have a great evening!