Lazy Days

I've had this image sitting on my crafting table for awhile. I think it's darling. I remember being little in our backyard in McAlester sitting on an old red metal glider looking at the sky and making shapes in the clouds. The City Crafter challenge requirements this week are red and summer. My red is in the accents: buttons, baker's twine, and scalloped punch border. The background is a hodgepodge of papers from The Girls Paperie.

The banner is from The Cutting Cafe. I printed it out and covered it with October Afternoon's Fly a Kite paper. Hope you've had a great week and have a relaxing, fun weekend!

Cute Birds for Wee Memories

I finished this fun little card today. I'm sending it over to the Wee Memories blog for their challenge this week. The challenge was easy: just a card completed this week! I colored the birds and cupcake with my Copics and popped them up on a card I made with my Spellbinders Nestibilities.
The birds are a digistamp from Pink Cat Studio.

Also, some exciting news: this card was a spotlight card over at City Crafter Challenge Blog! Thank you so much to the girls over there! I am so beyond happy!

Cutting Cafe Happy Birthday and Google Reader

I'm in the middle of Scott Turow's new book Innocent. I love to read and often come home at lunch to read while I eat. I tore myself away to post my new card for The Cutting Cafe.
I love this Birthday frame, love the shape and the way the words are different fonts and run all different directions. I changed the color of the words to pink and then printed Happy Birthday in teal. I really like how it looks on kraft cardstock.
The birthday circle sentiment was cut with my Spellbinder dies and then I just placed it on the card to circle the ribbon. The darling little girl was colored with Copics and then aged a little with Ranger Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The background paper is from My Mind's Eye. You can find the Birthday Frame and the Birthday Fun Set at The Cutting Cafe. Does anyone know what company made this little girl stamp?
I took her out of her packaging some time ago and have totally forgotten where I got her! The original stamp is grey rubber and she's actually holding a set of three balloons.

Edited: I found her! She's called Izzie has balloons and she's from Stampingbella.com!


Several people have emailed about the follower button to the right. If you become a follower, it makes it easier to know when I've updated my blog. Here's what I understand (I'm sure there's way more to know): If you have a blog on blogger, all the blogs you follow will come up on your dashboard so you can easily see who has posted since you checked last. It you don't have a blog, you can log in to www.google.com/reader and your list of blogs will come up for you to check. It saves time because you don't have to go to each blog to see if there's a new post. My friend Mika shared with me that if you have an i-phone you can get this cool app: AppBoxPro. It does all kinds of cool stuff, but on its second page there is a button for google reader. The other reason to become a follower, is just to let me know who you are and that you're out there checking out my creations! If you are more savvy than me with this follower stuff, leave a comment to help us out. Thanks!

City Crafter Challenge - Shades of Green

How's your 4th? We're having a downpour here! Wonder if there will be fireworks?


CHERYLJUNEGIRL left a comment on my blog, which led me to her blog and another challenge blog: City Crafter. The challenge is Shades of Green. It just so happened that I had just cut out this darling little girl who just so happened to be dressed in green. Hmmm...an opportunity to use shades of green! This little girl with her birthday cake is so sweet.
I cut out a doily card using the Wild Card cartridge from Cricut. The background papers are Basic Grey Nook and Pantry. And barely seen is a doily aged with Ranger Ink Peeled Paint, a pretty green shade. The edges of the card and background papers are also highlighted with Peeled Paint.
I was out of green crinkle ribbon, so I made some yesterday. The wish sentiment is from The Cutting Cafe's Birthday Fun set. Are you off tomorrow? I'm looking forward to an extra day.

Happy Fourth of July!

Hope you're having a great holiday weekend! It rained a lot this morning...I was almost afraid of another flood! I think it's going to rain some more - doesn't look like it's over. Here are my new Fourth of July decorations. I've kept them at work. It seems like I get to enjoy them more. I love this bucket!
Picked it up at Michaels and added all the goodies, including those fabulous feet from Tim Holtz.
That great eagle stamp and the stamp on the bow are from Darcie Heater.

The vintage Independence Day postcard is a perfect image for me.

Popped the kids up, added glitter, ribbon, stars and buttons. Pretty!

2S4Y

What is 2S4Y? 2 Sketches for You! I kept seeing these sketches and wondered where they were coming from. I checked out the blog to see what it was all about. Two women post sketches on the blog to be used to create cards. Each week they have a sponsor and one lucky player wins something from the sponsor. Sounds like fun...I decided to play along. Here is the sketch:

Here's my card:

I told you I love vintage shoe images! I found a way to put four on one card! That shoe with the kitty is the sweetest!
I pretty much stuck to the sketch. I changed the divider running underneath the four boxes to a banner on top of the four boxes. Are you tired of that crinkle ribbon yet? I must be addicted...I keep making different colors. I just love it! This card was a lot of fun and a challenge to use someone else's sketch.

The Cutting Cafe Elephant

This darling elephant is from The Cutting Cafe. It's included in All About Babies. The set is great! Lots of cute images. Earlier, I used the duck image to make my duck pull toy. The elephant is part of a digi-stamp. You can see what the circle stamp looks like on the lollipop gift tag.
I changed the color to brown and colored an extra elephant and popped him up on the tag. The papers are a favorite from Cosmo Cricket. Added my pretty crinkle ribbon and a vintage button. To make the card, I enlarged the elephant and printed it toward the bottom of a piece of cardstock.
I then scored the cardstock right at the top of his back, folded the cardstock and cut out the elephant. (Tip: It's much easier to cut out the top layer and then cut around it for the bottom layer!) The banner was made with another awesome set from The Cutting Cafe: Assorted Banner Templates. I added the letters for BABY and printed it on old ledger paper.
Added some tiny scallops and finished it off with stars, buttons and twine. What do you think about my first project for The Cutting Cafe as a design team member? Thanks for stopping by!