Sitting Pretty

Yay it's Friday!! I was running out of time to get my Valentine's in the mail, so I had to spend some time last night in my scrap room working away, sigh... This one will be going to Arizona to my grandma. She isn't much for the Iowa winter so she heads south : ) We sure do miss her though and I'm sure this card will make her smile! I used Friday Sketchers #140 (this week's is great too, I'll have to play again later!) All That Scraps has a great Wednesday Challenge: to make a Valentine with no pink or red. There is a tiny bit of red for the roses- but all the other flowers are more orange than they look in the picture. I also used Cute Card Thursday's challenge 151- Hearts & Flowers and Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #104- Button up! I hope you all have a great weekend, thanks for taking the time to look at my card : )

Image: CC Designs

Paper: CTMH Key to my Heart

Copics: sorry I misplaced the paper they were written on...

CTMH button & brads, Prima flowers, misc ribbon, lace and heart sticker

1 Sketch, 2 Cards

I have 2 cards to share today, both using the same sketch and design, but I loved both of the images and wanted to show both : ) I had started out coloring the cute Tin Man freebie from Bugaboo. I then made a 5.5 square card using The Sweet Stop sketch #94. I thought the Tin Man was a little small for my card, I felt there was too much plain space, so I made an A2 card with the same layout and everything. I loved the layout and didn't want to throw it away, so I colored the monkey image that I had printed out a bit bigger than the Tin Man(even though the cute gears on the paper don't quite go with the image! I worked with what I had already printed!) These cards are also my submission for Crazy 4 Challenges #73: to make a Valentine's card and since I love Bugaboo images these are also for Catch the Bug's February challenge. Thanks for looking!

Images: Bugaboo Stamps

Sentiment: Verve Stamps

Paper: CTMH Tinkering

Copics: (Tin Man) R20, 85 C9,7,5,3,1

(Monkey) YG67 R29, 27, 24, 22 E000, 00, 11 C1,3,5,7,9

Misc ribbon, CTMH rhinestones and swirl, stickles on Tin Man's heart

Ribbon Heart Valentine

Hello, thanks for visiting! I had some time to stamp on Saturday after my husband got home from work. It's tax season and he's an accountant so this time is very hectic in our house. I was waiting for him at the door with the kids... it was an "I'll be in my stamp room" moment : ) I am so happy to say that I actually got 3 cards done that night, which for me is huge lately. I'm still not feeling back to normal and Bailey has the flu... again... so I'm very excited to have made cards that I'm happy with! This is the card I made for my dad to give my mom for Valentine's day... she's going to love it! I've loved the look of lace on cards that I've been seeing and wanted to try it, and LOVE how it turned out! I used February's SFYTT. 2 months into it and I'm still on track for the big prize at the end lol! This is also my submission for Stampin Sisters in Christ #75 to make a card with no writing on the front but still signifies love and for Simon Says Stamp challenge: Love is in the air. Thanks for looking!

Image: Meljen's Designs

Paper: CTMH Rough & Tumble, Magic Moments, Stars & Stripes (How's that for using up scraps!!)

Copics: Y11, 15, 19, 38 E53 B91, 93, 95, 97, 99

Misc ribbon, lace, pearls, twine

Barnyard Birthday

Long time, no post... sorry. I totally lost my mojo for quite awhile- it seems like pretty much my whole family has been sick the entire month of January! And then I just couldn't make a card that I was happy with. Luckily I was able to make this card for my brother's birthday on Monday, and I really really enjoyed my time in my craft room, it was definately therapy : )

I knew I wanted to play with the SFYTT for January and I was running out of time! If you play with all the monthly sketches for the year there is a chance to win a great prize package, so that is definately one of my goals for 2011!

Image & Sentiment: Pink Cat Studio
Paper: CTMH Good Times
Copic markers (the shading really doesn't show and there's Liquid Glass on their hats)
misc ribbon and rhinestones. The little circles actually came from a T-shirt my brother had- he was pulling them off one night and I took them : )

A True Friend

Hello! I was so excited to have this card be chosen as one of the featured cards last week on the Sweet Stop challenge blog- it was like an early Christmas present! I loved this week's sketch 88 and played along again. Thanks for looking!

DP: CTMH Caprice

Sentiment: Verve Stamps

Prima flowers, CTMH button, ribbon, brad, and misc embroidery thread