recycling and restyling

I made this card that turned out, I think, really pretty for my Mom for Mother's Day from a piece of cardboard from a toy box from one of Jack's toys, a blank inside card from the dollar bin at Target, A heart doily (leftover from Valentine's Day crafts - I cut it in half and sprayed it with glimmer mist), the pearls were also from the Target dollar bin. The butterfly was a rak'd image.

10 minutes

I made a quick 10 minute card today for a birthday party we went to.  I made the card with the color challenge from hello cutie challenges blog.

these are the colors I was supposed to use.

and this is the card I made with them.  You can't really tell but the edge of the white paper is edged in gray ink, and I used my gray glitter pen to add some sparkle to the embossed flowers, I used white core paper for the embossed paper and then sanded the raised areas so you could see the white beneath.

Quick Cards

I had some time last week to make some quick and simple cards.

simple embossed paper, and cuttlebugged the thanks word.

RAK'd image, so cute.

simple card, just inked up the background, used white fun flock on the bunny.

up close of fun flocked bunny.

simple card with lots of rub-ons for my nephews .

Spring Weather makes me wanna craft in bright spring colors

I had a few days off last week so I had some time to craft a little, in between, working out, cleaning the house and taking Jack to do tons of fun stuff.  I kept my card pretty simple.  I had to make a bridal shower card for our friends Roger and Kayti who are getting married soon.  The big pear, the little background pears and the sentiment "The Perfect Pear" were a dollar set in the dollar bin stamps at JoAnns Fabrics.  I heat embossed the sentiment and the big pear.  I made a few more cards for a lady at work celebrating her birthday.  More photos to come.

Hello Cutie

My friend Lizzy started a challenge blog called Hello Cutie Challenges, this is her second challenge and it is a photo challenge. You have to take inspiration from the photo and create a card.  Here is the photo.

and here is my card, I used the brown and white pattern on the vase , the white ridges of the wall and the yellow flowers for inspiration, then I covered it all with glimmer mist.

Animal Challenge

In the Card Makin Mamas challenge blog, the card theme was animals and I had this cute image from papermom.com . I had a birthday party to go to today and the theme was T-rex, so this card came together pretty easily after I had picked the animal.

color challenge

One of my crafting buddies  Lizzie has launched her own challenge blog, it is the hello cutie challenges blog and for the first challenge it is a color challenge, I made this simple little 3x3 card for a boys birthday coming up. I stuck to most of the main colors. the pink is in the striped paper and I didn't have any beige so I used brown and I added some yellow and orange.