I {heart} You Mom

Good Morning.  So glad you stopped in this morning.  It's dreary here this morning.  It rained all night and is supposed to rain today.  Makes you want to go back to bed and snuggle up with a good book.

The card I have for you this morning uses a Milk Coffee image.

I printed out the image onto Neenah card stock and used my BIC markers to color her in.  After coloring her I used the Nestabilities Ovals and Scalloped Ovals to die cut the image and make a mat.

I made the card base from Coral card stock from HOTP.  I then cut a panel from Aqua card stock from HOTP for a mat.  The DP is from ATD.  I die cut two ovals from the Coral card stock.  I used a strip of DP that is on the back side of the same paper.  I punched it with my Fiskars border punch.  The sentiment is from Studio G and I stamped it with Colorbox Aqua ink.  I punched out the  sentiment with a Fiskars oval scalloped punch.  I added three Prima roses in Coral and Aqua.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I truly appreciate it.  I hope y'all have a wonderful day.  God bless.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday--#253
Make It Monday--#135 with Milk Coffee
Daring Cardmakers--Coral and Aqua
Sweet Stampin Challenge--Scallops
Card Mania Challenge--#18 Punches/Die Cuts
Fashionista Challenge--#14 Mother's Day
Created with Love--#36  Recipe Challenge
Divas by Design Challenge--Flowers

Happy Happy

Howdy y'all.  Welcome back for another peek at my creations.  This card uses a beautiful image from Anne Fenton.  She's so very talented.  I printed out the image on Neenah card stock and colored her with Spectrum Noir Pens.

She's all spiffied up and ready to party.  Nothing says hot like that little red dress.  And I love the fact that this woman isn't skinny and bony.  Not all of us are model thin.  I have some meat on my bones and like to see images that I can relate to.

I started with a black card base (Recollections) and added a layer of black, red and white striped DP from DCWV.  I did follow a sketch from Mojo Monday for this card. All of the DP is from DCWV and the black and red used for matting is from Recollections.  I printed out the sentiment from Annie's Little Footprints and cut it out with a 2" circle punch.  I did use my Nestabilities for the scalloped mats on both circles.

I added lots and lots of pearls after running the large striped circle through the D'vine Swirls EF.  I love pearls.  So classy.

Thanks for looking today.  Have a great night.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
The Pink Elephant--#193  3 DPs and your favorite embellishment
Mojo Monday--#297
Penny's Challenges--#121 Red, Black and White
Crafty Catz--Swirlz and Pearlz
Sweet Stampin'--Go Girly
Outlawz Creative Freebie Challenge
One Crazy Stamper--Black, White plus One

Flower Basket

Welcome back to my blog.  I  have a card for you today that uses an images from Designed2Delight's progressive challenge.

This month there were three different baskets you could choose from, an Easter Egg basket, a Shamrock basket, and this Flower basket.  I decided to use this one.  I began by printing off the image on Neenah card stock (still my favorite) and coloring it with American Crafts Chromatix pens and Glitter Gel pens. I used a sketch from Sketch Saturday to make this one.  I matted the image on a panel of Pink from Recollections.  The card base is Old Olive from SU and measures 5.5"x5.5".  I used paper from ATD.  I ran each paper through one of my embossing folders to give it some texture.  The butterfly paper uses D'vine Swirls and the striped paper uses Swiss Dot.  I added some very thin gold colored Mulberry Paper as the background and ran that one through Darice's Argyle EF.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  I hope you enjoyed your visit.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday--248
Designed2Delight--Monthly Challenge
Sweet Stamping--Embossing