You Make Me Smile

Good Morning and welcome back to Em's Many Thoughts.  I have really been slacking in that department.  I started this blog a couple years ago to post some of the strange thoughts that go racing though my mind at any given time, but over the year it has progressed into  a craft blog.  Not a bad progression, just a somewhat off kilter one.  But, I'm glad that you have chosen to follow me (for all those wonderful friends who do) and those who just stop in periodically to see what I'm up too.  I truly appreciate it and love the wonderful comments that you leave.  I read each and every one.

So, on to the card for today.  This card is for the A Day 4 Daisies challenge for this week and uses one of their images.  I colored the image with BIC markers and then applied Glossy Accents to the balloons.  After it dried, I cut around the balloons so that I could pop them up.  I rounded the corners and matted the image on an Old Olive card base.

I used two different DPs, one from ATD and one from DCWV.  I matted them on a light blue card stock from Colorbok.  The sentiment and swirly lines are from a rub on pack that I bought years ago from Paper Wishes.  I matted the sentiment on the same Old Olive card stock.  Adding some little red gems finished off the card.

Thanks for stopping in today and I pray y'all have a wonderful Friday.

Challenges:
AD4D--#67  Favorite Technique--Fussy Cutting and using Glossy Accents

Dreams

Thanks for stopping in to see what I've been up to.  I got alot done today, so I'm taking a break and blogging a bit.

My card this time uses an image from A Day for Daisies.  You can find some really cute whimsical images on their blog.  I used a cute girl playing the piano for this one.

I started by printing off my image on Neenah card stock.  I colored her in with BIC markers and Copics for her skin.  I trimmed her down and matted the image on a pretty dark blue from Recollections.  I printed out a cute sentiment from Walt Disney..who doesn't just love Disney right?  I also matted the sentiment on the same blue.  I made the card base using the same blue and sized it to 5" square.  I am hung up on square cards for some reason.  I cut a piece of white card stock from Recollections and ran it through the Allegro EF.  I thought that was the perfect fit.  After wrapping a piece of blue ribbon around the center, I added the image and sentiment.  To finish off the card, I added three music notes from Mrs. Grossman.  I don't usually use her stickers because they are kind of childish, but I had these in my stash and thought they worked.

I'm so glad that you decided to take a gander at what I have created.  Thanks so much.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
A Day for Daisies--White Embossed Background

New Mercies

Good Morning friends.  I hope y'all are enjoying your Saturday.  It's 4:15 am in the morning here, so I'm sure most of you aren't up yet.  I haven't gone to bed yet.  The Sandman past right by my house again.

Today's card uses a digi from A Day for Daisies.

Isn't this just a sweet little image.  I am loving my new Neenah card stock.  I used my BIC markers on this image too.  Love, love, love it..  The sentiment is from Doodle Pantry.  They have some wonderful Christian sentiments on their site..HERE.  They also have lots of Freebies for you to try.

The card base is a nice chocolate brown from HOTP.  The DP is from DCWV.  I added some blue gems to finish it off.

Thanks so much for taking a look.  God bless y'all.

Challenges: 

A Day For Daisies--#63  Pink Polka Dots

Snowman Love

We are cruisin' right along this morning.  I have made it to card #4 already.  Not bad.  It's only been 15 minutes.

I did something a little different for this challenge.  Since we are coming up on the Valentine's season, I decided to make this a love card, but used a winter image.

This cute little guy is from A Day for Daisies.  I colored him in with my colored pencils and OMS.  I cut out the image using my Nestabilities.   I did use some Glitter Gel Pen on his hat for some sparkle.  We all love the bling right?  I began with a SU Whisper White card base cut to a 5" square card.  I added a strip of American Crafts DP that has been punched with my Fiskar's border punch.  I matted the image on the same DP then a Lacy Circle Large die cut.

To make the snowflakes match and not be washed out on the white card base, I used some snowflake die cuts that my precious friend Jan sent me.  I took my Memento Lady Bug ink pad and colored four of them.  For the other four, I used a red glitter gel pen to highlight the "branches" of the snowflakes.  Using a pop dot, I put the snowflakes together.  Once I had them on the card, I added some red gems from Queen and Co. to highlight the center of each snowflake.

I hope you like it.  I think it makes a cute Valentine's card.  The inside sentiment says, "I love you this much".  Very fittin' right?

Well, that's it for this post.  Onward James...God bless y'all.

Challenges:
A Day for Daisies--#62  Add some red