Melonheadz Monday Challenge

Good Morning.  Welcome back to my little piece of cyber space.  I'm so glad you chose to join me along my journey.  

Today is my first posting as a Melonheadz Designer.  I'm so excited.  I love Nikki's designs and have been using them for a while.  If you haven't checked out our site yet, please do by clicking HERE.  Every two weeks we have another challenge with a great theme. This challenge's theme is Mother's Day/For a Special Lady.  I used the Mother's Day 2011 bundle to create my card.

I think this is such a sweet image.  I used Spectrum Noir pens to add the color to this image.  I used BGR1 to highlight the image before trimming it and rounding the corners.  I matted it onto Black card stock from Recollections.  The sentiment is from the same bundle and I also rounded the corners and matted it onto the black card stock.

I found these two DPs in my blue stash bin and thought they matched pretty well with the image.  I am going to give this to my MIL for Mother's Day and she isn't a frilly girly girl, so I liked the simpleness of this card.   I used a Fiskars Border Punch to  die cut the Turquoise strip of card stock (Recollections).  The card base is a nice Yellow from Recollections and is 6" square.  I added two little flowers that I had in my stash to finish the card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I truly appreciate it.  God bless y'all and have a great Monday.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday--#256
TTCRD--Anything Goes
Perfect Sentiments--#76 Mother's Day
Broken Box Stock--#25 Mother's Day
Sweet Stampin'--Anything but a Birthday

Hello

I'm so glad you took the time to come see me today.  I truly appreciate it.  

I have another cute birdie card for y'all.  This image is from Broken Box Stock.  I used my BIC Markers to color this image after printing it off on Neenah card stock.

I made my card base from light blue card stock from Colorbok.  It's a typical A2 card this time.   I cut a piece of colorful blue and orange DP from DCWV for the back ground.  I matted my image on a piece of turquoise card stock from Recollections.  The sentiment is from TCP Secret Garden Collage that I got at Tuesday Morning for $.97.  I love that store.  I stamped it with Bahama Blue from Memento.  I trimmed it down and matted it on the same turquoise as the image.  For the flowers, I used two EK Success punches, Mini 5 petal and Small 5 petal.  I used the turquoise card stock and the back ground paper to make them.  I added a yellow gem from Queen and Co to the centers.

Thanks again for stopping by.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Broken Box Stock--Think Spring
Sketch Saturday--#252
Fab N Funky--#165 April Showers

Irish Dancers

Good evening friends.  Welcome back to my blog.  I appreciate you guys stopping in.  I have either seven or eight cards to upload tonight.  You would think I could come up with a better system.  Oh well.  I haven't been feeling very well.  Kierstynne and I both have allergy/sinus/cold things going on and have felt like roadkill for the past few days.  After this post, the posts are going to be fairly short.  

The first card here uses two cute Irish dancers:

These cute little ladies are freebies from the Imagine That progressive monthly challenge.  I used BIC markers and Neenah Super Smooth White card stock to make these images.  The card base is More Mustard from SU and measures 5.5" square.  The Olive card stock also comes from SU.  The DP is DCWV.  I used the medium size LaLa Land Rose Die  and an EK Success 5 petal flower punch to make the roses.  I added a pearl (Joann's) to the center of them for some bling.  The green gems are from Queen and Co.

Thanks for stopping in tonight and I hope y'all will stay tuned for the next few posts to see what else I have created.  The last one I post tonight is a new style for me.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Imagine That--Progressive Challenge
Twisted Tuesday--Green/Spring
Card Makin' Mamas--Green
Broken Box Stock--St. Patrick's Day

Happy Birthday

Good Morning.  I am enlarging my text size for my mother.  She has a hard time seeing, but loves to look at my blog.  She can see the cards, but can't read the words, so I'm trying to help her out.  Thanks for being so understanding.

My card for this post is a birthday card.  It's another square card, which I seem to be kinda hooked on lately.

I have been told that the card stock you use when coloring with alcohol markers makes all the difference, but I wasn't so sure.  Well, let me tell ya..it's so very true.  I just received a pack of Neenah Super Smooth White card stock and I couldn't believe the difference it made.  My colors blended together so much smoother.  I think I may be set now.  Can you buy this card stock by the case??  It wasn't expensive either.  $3.95 for 25 sheets.  Very reasonable.  

I used a Broken Box Stock image for this card.  I colored it in with BIC Markers and Glitter Gel pens.  To make the card, I started with a Dark Blue card base from Gina K.  I added a Yellow panel from Recollections.  The DP is from Heidi Grace's One Sunny Day pack.  I matted the cake image on a piece of medium blue from Recollections and after adding a piece of blue Offray ribbon, I used pop dots to adhere the image to the front of the card.  Some gems from Queen and CO. finished it off.

Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to stop by my blog.  I truly appreciate it.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Broken Box Stock--#20 Birthday