Red & White

My favorite sporting time of year has just began - football and hockey season! And coincidentally my two favorite teams (the NC State Wolfpack and the Carolina Hurricanes) have the same colors. In honor of them, I crafted this card in their colors - red and white!

This card is based on a layout from the Hero Art's blog that was pasted a couple of weeks ago. Are you starting to see a pattern here? I never have time to craft my card the week the layout is posted! There is just not enough time in the week for me which I am sure you can see by my sporatic postings. It just takes such a long time to set up my "crafting space" in the middle of the living room. I use "crafting space" as a very loose term since it consists a coffee table, a big plastic bin and two bags. One of these days I will have a real "crafting space" which I can leave all of my stamps out where I can see them and can give all of my tools a place of there own to live... Ahh, to dream.

Now to the card... This card was started and restarted at least 5 times. I started out making all the small butterflies in the oval shape with the rectangle portion being red and with large butterflies Versamarked on it. That didn't work, so I tried to reverse it and use paisley print stamps Versamarked in the rectangle and the paisley printed butterfly in black on the red CS... Well, you get the idea. The only change I would make, if I could, would to change out the top red ribbon with a solid satin one. All of the stamps that I used are from Papertrey's Butterfly Kisses set. Overall, I am happy with the end result of the card.

Well, that is it for the night. Until next time...

I LOVE Ice Cream!

It is one of my favorite desserts, along with cheesecake. I eat it way too much, but I can't help it. It is one of the little indulgences I let myself have every day or so...

I made this card based on Taylor's Cupcake Challenge #29. I am a couple weeks late, but better late than never. When I saw this sketch, I knew I wanted to use my C.C. Design's Sweet Treats stamp set! At first I made the card on just light blue card stock, but after I added all of the circles, I did not care for how it looked. So, I added the yellow around it. I am still not satisfied with the look, but it is definitely better than before. The circle on the bottom right is placed inside rather than the outside and says "Life is sweet."

The monkey from this set is just too cute. He's just hanging from a tree eating ice cream...

In fact, now that I am thinking about it, I want some :)

Hope your Labor day weekend is nice, long and relaxing!

Always,
Jenn

Inspired by i{heart}2stamp

The new theme for stampers is owls. They are everywhere! Each stamping company that I love have them. I own quite a few, but there is one that I am still drooling over and that is the "Wise Owl" by Alli Miles through Papertrey Ink. I have to practice my patience since it is not back in stock yet which is not easy for me to do.

Anyways, when I saw the cute layout that Jen had for her Trick-or-Treat card I knew that my Q.T. Hooty set by Pink Cat Studio was what I wanted to use on it. On the bottom branch of this stamp there is the sentiment "Bird of a feather HOOT together." I knew I wanted to use it, but I didn't want it there, so I ended up covering the sentiment with a piece of tape and then inking my stamp. Minus the ugly handwriting, I really like the card and I am glad that I got to use my owls!

Taylor's Cupcake Challenge 25

I am really starting to get into this challenge stuff! Unfortunately, by the time my inspiration hits for the card, the challenge is often a few weeks too late. Oh well!

This card is from another of Taylor's Cupcake Challenges. It is number 25 for those of you who want to play along. The center stamp is from C.C. Designs "It's my birthday" set and the cupcakes that are running up the center are from one of G-Studio's $1 sets from Michaels (I think).

I tried 2 or 3 different color combinations before deciding on this one which I think turned out nice!

Birthday Bag

Alia's 9th birthday was a couple of weeks ago. Boy did she get a lot of presents. She is one loved 9 year old. As I was looking at all of the wrapping paper and birthday bags get searched, one bag stood out to me. It had a bunch of presents on it with their little arms waving wildly and along the top of the bag was a pink band with "Pick Me! Pick Me! Pick Me!" all around it. Immediately the light bulb goes off in my head and I know that I need to make a card just like that bag. I love how the card turned out. The vibrant colors just make me happy. I can't remember which stamp sets the presents were from because I have all the "presents" on one page in my stamp binder. I guess I should start storing all of them in CD cases so I know who designed what!