Happy Birthday Wishes

Welcome to Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge for Week 93...February 4 - 10..Use a spray( such as Smooch, Tattered Angels, Glimmer, etc.)  as suggested by Pat. Find that spray and put it to use!
                                           (Here is the website to enter you challenge)
I decided flowers was the way to go....so decided to use MFP a Heinrich Company's stamp set Happy Pansies for my images. I colored those with Copics and Sakura glitter pens and then cut them out and popped them on the front of the card. The base of the cad is GKD Key Lime cs, white cs by GKD for the Smooch spray, snow storm smooth MFP for the images and the dp is Tim Coffey and stash vellum.

I tried to create sun rays on my white cs for the background of the pansies using Smooch sprays...used post it notes to move along and instead of using the usual ink to sponge the rays I did a spray and then added some blue for the sky and the bottom is green for grass. Had to add a little Bling, ribbon and the sentiment is Spellbinders Grommet tags die cut.

The inside also has some pearls, ribbon and sentiment as well.  And I do hope you have a fabulous day! Hope you can find some spray and I'll eagerly wait to see what you create!

Outside where the Smooch spray is used

More birthday wishes!

Happy Birthday to a Little Masculine Fella

The For Fun Challenge this week is to make a masculine birthday card! The sponsor is Digi Garden and this adorable image is perfect for a wee little Masculine Fella who LOVES to fish! :-) Digi Garden's prize this week is 6 choices of Digi Garden Images and there are some great images there!

                                             Here is the website to enter your creation!

The background of the card is with green grass cs by GKD and white cs and the dp is some fishing stash paper I had left. I  colored the image with Copics and accented with Sakura glitter pens. Then it was cut out with Spellbinders Labels 3 and popped on the front of the card where some brads were added and some ribbon. The clouds were punched with a Fiskars punch. Background was sponged with Memento Summer Sky and Dandelion and the water was Versa Magic Sea Breeze. The inside is stickers.

Hope you can join us and have some fun making a masculine birthday card! Always great to have them on hand!

Happy Birthday Little Fella

Happy Birthday inside

Quilt Covered with Love

This is for the second week of the Chalk-Ah-Lot challenge -- direct to paper technique. Remember this challenge will wrap up on Saturday, February 4. Hope you are enjoying these chalk cards as much as the team has enjoyed making them. This chalk is AWESOME to work with!!! You really need to try it!!!!

                                           (here is the spot to go to enter the challenge)

I used a Darice Hearts embossing folder for the background of the quilt and embossed on MFP snow storm cs. The background is GKD Passionate Pink cs with some lace added on top. I was SO pleased with how well this actually went together to look like a quilt! At least I hope you can see it is a quilt?!?!

The white "quilt" was 5 inches x 4 inches so I measured out 1 inch squares to fit across and up and down. Then I made another frame with just 1 inch square cut out for easier job of chalking. I chose 5 different colors of chalk -- candy apple, jewel purple, rose, blush and pearl purple. Using a Fantastix coloring brush I applied the chalk directly to the paper without adding any medium to it. All I had to do was apply the chalk...blow off any "extra" and then wiped the whole thing off when finished. No additives are necessary to prevent smearing!!

Then I stitched it with a zig zag stitch on the machine to have that quilt look. Added a sentiment from Stamp N Plus Scrap N and added a bow and a heart brad. Put some lace behind the quilt to have it look like an edging and the card is now covered with love.

Hope you enjoy looking at it! AND be sure to give this chalk a try!

If Life Gives You Lemons!

This is for the Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge Week 92-- make a 4 layer card suggested by Linda. What fun it was to do! This challenge goes from January 28 - Feb. 3. (Here is the website)

I searched through my dp paper and found the PERFECT Gooseberry paper to use and added some GKD Wild Dandelion for the cs and used MFP Snow Storm Smooth for the stamps. I used MFP a Heinrich Company's stamp set Pucker Up to create this fun card. Stamped with Ladybug Red Memento and Tuxedo Black Memento, used Scrapmark label die cut and added a little bling and cut out the lemon on the front The inside  says it all! :-)

Hope you join us this week for Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge to make that 4 layer card!

Front with Lemons....

Inside chuckle!

Planting Get Well Wishes

I am so excited to be a member of For Fun Challenges Design Team! This seems to be such a fun and creative group. This is my first official blog card although I was honored with being a guest designer awhile ago...but NOW I'm an official member! How EXCITING! This challenge runs from Wed., January 25 - Tues. January 31. (Here is the website)The theme this week is Animal Farm and the Sponsor is Bugaboo.

And what fun this week!!! The digi stamps were from Bugaboo and CUTE as could be!!! I chose Molly Moo Planting and what fun she was! I colored her with Copics and Sakura glitter pens. Used the Spellbinder dies  inverted classic scalloped large squares and curved rectangles, the Fiskars cloud punch to create some more clouds....and of course, EMBELLISHMENTS!!! Had to put on some farm brads, ribbon and buttons and then added a computer generated message on the inside.

And Molly is hoping you have a wonderful day and can smile if you need some Get Well Wishes!

Front

Inside message

I'm So Glad We're Friends

Welcome to Chalk-Ah-Lot's Second Challenge -- Direct to Paper. This challenge runs from Jan. 22 thru Feb.4. *here is the website to enter your challenge    The winner this challenge will get a mini stamp set!!! So be sure to enter your chalk project!!

I used GKD Passionate Pink cs amd Stamp N Plus Scrap N cs. The pink was embossed with Paper Studio Doodle Hearts and then stamped with Versa Mark and then chalk was applied and rubbed on. The bear was a Stamp N Plus Scrap N stamp and that I colored with Copics and Sakura glitter pens. The background is sponged with chalk direct to paper. It was cut out with Labels 9 Spellbinders. The sentiment (also from Stamp N Plus Scrap N) was stamped with Vivid raspberry ink and then sponged with chalk direct to paper and cut out with Scalloped Hearts Spellbinders.

Of course had to add a little ribbon, bling and a heart paperclip and a Valentine card has been created!!

Happy Birthday!

This is Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge Week 91 -- Make a birthday card suggested by Patty. The challenge runs from January 21 thru January 27. (here is the challenge website)

I decided to use Marks' Finest Papers a Heinrich Company stamps sets, Pussy Willows  and All About Love. MFP cs Snowstorm Smooth, Strawberry Freeze and Papertray dp. Also was my first use of the Heartfelt Creations layered elegant swirl diecut -- really adds a little pizzaz to the diecut world..and it was a bit tricky to get it to line up and match! Also used Spellbinders scalloped heart die.

The images were colored with Copics and Sakura glitter pens. Stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento, Vivid Raspberry and the sponged background was either Memento Angel Pink, Versa Sea Breeze or Versa Lime. Added some Recollections brads and covered the inside of the brad with Candi dots, Really Reasonable Ribbon's pink twine cord, some pink bows and some MFP paper flowers.

And the doors were created to open and make a wish for a Happy Birthday!

Front and then open the door....

and Happy Birthday!