Chloe's Candy (GD Gig #3)

I am thrilled to have been asked by the Inspirational Challenge team to join them for their 

PINK and GREEN challenge this week. :)  

I made this card for my oldest daughter's best little buddy, Chloe. We put in a gift card as the present. I'm discovering that the older they get the more often a gift card is the gift. :)  

I used Bugaboo's Candy Jar as my main image. This has to be one of my favorites. I colored it up with my Prismacolor pencils and matted it with Melon Mambo cardstock. The layers are from my Nestabilities Oval and Scalloped Oval sets. The Green Gable piece is embossed with my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Short and Sweet set stamped in Melon Mambo ink.  

For the inside, I used Sweet Stamp Shop set Elegant Sentiments and Melon Mambo ink. 

Thank you for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Send a Smile 4 Kids - Birthday
Cut It Up #43 - Birthday cards
4 Krafty Girlz #16 - Anything Goes
A Song in Your He(Art) #5 - "Happy" Pharrell Williams
Scribbles #16 - Doodling
Pause Dream Enjoy #8 - Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps - Sweets
Card Und More #104 - No Flowers
Craftin' Desert Divas #29 - Photo Inspiration
Stamping Sensations: April - Use Dies and/or Punches
The Doodle Garden #2 - Spring Color Inspiration
Crafting by Designs: April - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet #84 - Anything Goes
The Sweet Pea Stampers - Birthday
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments #105 - Happy Birthday

Vroom, vroom. (GD Gig #2)

I am super excited to be joining the CMC Challenge design team today as a guest designer. This is a very talented group, and I am honored to be among them for the week. :)

The challenge theme is ANYTHING GOES and I hope that you will go over and play along with us.

I don't mean to toot my own horn (pun totally intended!!) but I'm loving this card. :) I used Bugaboo's Monster Truck digi stamp colored up with my Copics. I used DCWV's All About Boys paper stack and Stampin' Up Night of Navy and Pumpkin Pie cardstock for matting. The card is 5.5 inches square.

For the inside, I mimicked the exterior by using the same layout set differently. Haven't stamped a sentiment yet though I am pretty sure we have a two year old's birthday party coming up in the near future. And if not, I might have to keep it for myself...bummer.

Thank you so much for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Ooh-la-la #153 - For a Child
Crafting by Designs: April - Anything Goes
2 Cute Ink #103 - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy #111 - All About Travel
Unscripted Sketches #251 - sketch
Inky Impressions #154 - Dots and Stripes
TopTip Tuesday - Cute
Eclectic Ellapu: Pink - One for the Boys
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #30- Anything Goes
Fitztown #30 - Spots and Stripes
WordArt Wednesday #127 - Anything Goes

Painting the roses rainbow... (GD Gig #1)

I earned myself a guest design spot this week over at The Crazy Challenge. The theme is Flower Frenzy and this is what I came up with.

I am using paper roses from Crafty City. I sprayed them with Dylusions Inks in Pure Sunshine, Sweetened Orange, Bubblegum Pink, Postbox Red, Crushed Grape, London Blue, and Cut Grass. Can you tell yet that I'm not lyin' when I say that rainbow is my favorite color? :) The sentiments are from the Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit and stamped in Versafine Black Onyx. You can't really tell from the pictures but the flowers are so dimensional!!

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create #64 - Flowers and/or Mother's Day
Inkspirational #52 - Photo Inspiration
A Gem of a Challenge #115 - Mother's Day or For a Female
Fantasy Stampers #6 - Rose Garden
The Friday Mashup #151 - Rainbow and/or Sketch
The Shabby Tea Room #210 - Anything Goes
Ooh-La-La #152 - For a Special Lady
Card Makin' Mamas #82 - Splish Splash

A White Christmas Card

I can't believe we're just two weeks from Christmas! It seems like the rest of the year just drags and the days between Halloween and New Year's pass in a blink.

I was asked to join Crafting by Designs to be a guest designer this week for their White on White challenge. I must say that I really enjoy the white on white look. This recent card HERE has become one of my favorites.

I actually started this card by embossing my tree (Stampin' Up Loads of Love set) in silver on my front panel. I then die cut it out using my Nestabilities dies and sent the negative through the Big Shot in the Snowflake Cuttlebug folder. I created the Real Red border by using two of the circles from the same Nestabilities dies, cutting the larger first, followed by the smaller. I adhered the tree and border directly to my card front and popped the embossed panel up around it. I thought about adding ribbon but I just really like the simplicity of it as is.

This is the best photo I could get and it doesn't show the sparkle of the tree!! The weather has been terrible in Texas the past several days and I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever see the sun again. :)

Thanks for looking! Hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
The ABC Challenge - A is for Almost Christmas
Creative Knockouts #14 - Christmas Splendor
Addicted to CAS #28 - Snowflakes
Your Next Stamp #7
Creative Corner Challenges - Traditional Christmas
Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings #85 - Bingo: white, image, sparkle
Created with Love #70 - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody #35 - Anything Goes