Flourishes is having an Easy Breezy challenge to make a card in 10 minutes. They like it when you can use Flourishes stamps on their challenges but I don’t have any that could be done easy breezy.
The DP is S.E.I. I always hit their factory store when I’m in Logan, UT and found some great stuff on the last trip!
That’s it for tonight.
Blessings,
Christine
I haven’t had a great day today. I’ve been hurting quite a bit the last couple of days but I don’t think that’s it. My crafty muse has left me. I’ve painted a few images but just can’t seem to get them into a card. When I’m feeling down, I read my favorite uplifting quote. Since I have nothing crafty to share with you, I’m leaving you with it.
Blessings,
Christine
Do you remember the Dick and Jane books from back in the day?
This little girl reminds me of Sally, the little sister. She’s actually a digi stamp from Squigglefly. Have I said I’m in love with digi stamps!!!
I colored her with prizmas and gamsol. I don’t know who the DP is by; I picked it up from the bins at Joanns. I loved this paper when I picked it up but hadn’t figured out something to make with it yet. When I saw this little girl on the Squigglefly website I knew that she would go great with this paper. It also reminds me of Dick and Jane. The buttons are Basic Grey.
The sketch is from Inspirational Card Sketches and the challenge at Lili of the Valley is summer fun.
That’s about it for tonight. I’ve got to get all my card making fun done tomorrow and maybe Monday because I will be getting prepared for the Wedding Invitation Assembly Party on Saturday. I’ll be using my Cricut to cut out millions (600 but it feels like millions) of little flowers and spraying them with yellow glitter mist. I’d like to get them all assembled in time for the partay on Saturday so we don’t have as much to do then. The cardstock was delivered yesterday, my sister ordered the envelopes today, I need to go by and get some half pearls before Saturday, and most importantly, my niece and her fiancé need to approve of my design. I want to get that done ASAP because I can’t start any of the other stuff till I get the A-Okay!
Well, I’m on my late night rambling thing again so I better just go to bed. Nitey nite!
Blessings,
Christine
Isn’t this just the cutest image. The Crafty Muse is having a Freebie Wedding Car Challenge. They are giving this image away as part of the challenge.
I colored it with prismas and gamsol. The DP is K & Co and the sentiment is a Fiscars clear stamp.
I used the sketch at Sweet ‘n Sassy. The challenge at Stamp Something is wedding and the challenge at Secret Crafter is bling.
That’s it!
Blessings,
Christine
I found a new digital stamp company, Digiments and they are having a challenge contest. Go to their blog and you can pick up this sentiment for free and make it into a card. You can win their entire release next month.
Pretty easy card and not much to say about it. The DP is K & Co and the ribbon and flower are from my stash. I cut the frame out with the Cricut Storybook cartridge.
Blessings,
Christine
Today I would like to share the pink from my garden.
The first pink that appeared in my garden was my beautiful bleeding heart that my Mother gave me the first spring after I bought my home.
And then last weekend the peonies were in full bloom. This is a fairly young plant so I only had about a half of a dozen blooms but the were beautiful.
Now and for the rest of the summer, these roses will climb up the lattice next to my deck. I planted them for privacy even though I new it would take a few years for them to climb all the way up the lattice.
I bought a pink rose, a yellow rose, and a white rose. I ended up with the above pink, a brighter pink and a yellow rose.
I think that next spring I’m going to move the bright pink one to a place all by itself and by another white one (I hope) to put in the middle. I should have taken a picture of the whole lattice but I can’t now because it’s dark outside.
This is the bunch that I picked to bring in the house. I weeded my front flower bed before going in the house and then my legs were so tired and sore I left them on the counter for a bit . . .
. . . and they got wilted but I think Tuxie liked them anyway! Next time I’ll take a pitcher of water out with me.
Beverly at How Sweet the Sound hosts Pink Saturday every week. This is a very fun event. Each of us post a picture of something pink on our blog on Saturday and try to visit as many of the other blogs as possible. Big thanks to Beverly for coordinating all the pinkaliciousness!
Happy Pink Saturday,
Christine
I must be getting bored with my diet because I seem to be making a lot of cards with ice cream and sweets on them lately. The image is from Modern Sugar Boulevard and I colored it with primas and gamsol. The DP is from the DCWV Sweets stack. I cut the hex out with a Spellbinder and chalked the edges. I chalked the edges of the DP as well. It’s hard to see in the photo but there is a small torn piece of pink dotted paper behind the hex.
The sketch is from Everybody Art. The challenge at Charisma Cardz is pink and brown and the challenge at Cute Card Thursday is die cuts.
That’s about it for tonight. Since it’s 3:00 am I guess I should go to bed. Nitey nite all!
Blessings
Christine
Can you believe this card fits two sketches? Well it does!!! Every once a while two challenges have similar sketches.This card follows the sketch at both the Stamps and Smiles challenge and the Digital Tuesday challenge.This card is also for the Dare U 2 Digi Stamp challenge (ribbon) and Cardalicious (at least two flowers with ribbon and the color blue – the blue is hard to see in the photo but there are blue flowers and stems on the DP and the image is matted in blue).
The image is Precious Spa from Modern Sugar Boulevard. I colored her with Prismas and gamsol. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with this card so I will and the sentiment or some bling to the bottom later.
Blessings,
Christine
I found this information on the First Level blog:
Update on Blogger issue with the Operation Abort error message - they have still not rectified the problem, but know now that it is due to the Followers entry in the sidebar. Their recommendations are to move it lower down your sidebar as close to the bottom as you can and if this does not work then remove for the time being. The problem is here that whilst this may work for you getting onto your own blog, every blog you go onto that has a Followers banner you will have the same problem until they amend their own page.
I’ve had a lot of problems getting onto my own blog and I don’t like the Firefox browser. Since I did this to my blog, I have not had an error yet.
Did you know that their is a follower button at the top of each blog in the navigation bar. If you want to follow a blog but can’t find the follow button, click on “follow” on the navigation bar at the top of the screen.
Blessings,
Christine
When I was shopping at Joanns yesterday I found a clear stamp set with a bunch of flourishes on it so I bought it and we’ll pick from those.
I had five suggestions for places to look for flourish stamps. I used random.org and it picked one of my fellow flutterbyers, Stef H (Glitterbabe). I’ll be putting a couple of things together and get something in the mail to you!
Thanks everyone for helping!
Blessings,
Christine
My power went out just as I was finishing this card so I’m typing in the dark. I’m sure glad I’m not a hunt and peck typist but I’m making quite a few mistakes anyway. Thank goodness for Live Writer because I can type the post and then upload it when the power comes back on. Hopefully soon!
Since one of my favorite things is gardening, when I got this stamp in the mail today I had to use it right away. I made this card to send to a friend who also likes gardening and hasn’t been able to so I hope she likes it.
I also decorated the inside with the same papers and the seed packages again. The power went off exactly at the same time as I was reaching for the camera to take pictures of my card.
The stamps are from My Favorite Things and I colored her with Prismas and gamsol. The DP is the DCWV Green stack.
I used the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches. The Lili of the Valley and the Cafe Mojo challenge is summer fun (gardening is definitely one of the fun things I like to do in the summer) and the Double Dutch Dare challenge is to decorate the inside.
Now that I’ve said all that, I’m sitting here in the dark wondering what to do next! I went to Joanns today and bought a pattern and fabric to make a dress for my niece’s wedding. I wanted something in cotton that would be cool and comfortable and they didn’t have much. However, I did find the perfect fabric but it was expensive. It has embroidery on it so it was $12.99 a yard (the dollar sign was really hard to find in the dark hehe). It was on sale for 50% off but I need over 5 yards. Oh well, I really love it.
My puppy doesn’t have any problem seeing in the dark. She’s chasing the cat around scaring me to death ‘cause I can’t see her. We had a big thunderstorm today with a lot of power outages. I guess that’s what is going on but the weather is great now! I don’t know what could have happened. I guess I’ll play a computer game for a while and if it doesn’t come back on, I’ll go to bed. I’m having a hard time seeing the screen since my laptop is running on battery and it’s dark in the house.
I guess I’ve bored you enough with my bored ramblings. It almost feels like I have company here in my dark home when I’m typing this. I’ll try really hard not to edit this too much before I post it so you all can see what I’m like when I’m in the dark and bored. (I just fixed a few typos and I’m publishing my ramblings from last night – hehe.)
Talk to ya later!
Blessings,
Christine
Sweet peas are another of my favorite flowers, along with roses, peonies, pansies, the list goes on and on!
My aunt from Missouri has been visiting in Idaho this past week. She brought a long her son and his family. He’s 38 years old and a Grandpa. My aunt said she doesn’t mind being a Great-Grandma but she doesn’t like that her son is a Grandpa.
Anyway, I had so much fun with them. They spent the day out sightseeing and then came back to my sister’s house for a BBQ. I don’t get to see them very often and it’s so great to have a visit. I forgot to bring my camera so I don’t have any photos. :- ( I just wanted to share because it was such a wonderful evening.
Blessings,
Christine
I’ve talked a little bit about my niece's wedding and that I’m going to design the invitations.
It’s a gate fold card. The closed size is 5x5. I didn’t get it folded perfectly but I plan to get a Scor-Pal before the assembling party!
She didn’t really want ribbon but I think this adds a lot. I wrapped 1/4” ribbon around it three times and tied it then put the flower on top. If she doesn’t like it, we don’t have to put it on.
I made the flowers with the flower1 and flower2 cut on the Cricut George cartridge. I curled them up with the end of a paint brush with the flower sitting on piece of foam. The top flower is sprayed with yellow glimmer mist and it’s topped of with a little pearl. I made a couple of different shades so my niece could pick whichever one she likes.
As you can see the flowers are both on the inside and on the belly band (or belt thingy as my niece said).
The flourish stamp is an S.E.I. stamp that I embossed with iridescent embossing power. She wanted clear embossing but I didn’t have any. I think she’ll like this better anyway. If not, I’ll get some clear.
Here comes the candy part of the challenge. I’m going to be cruising the online stamp stores to find a flourish stamp that would look better. I’m sure I don’t know about all of the online stamp stores so I NEED YOUR HELP, please. If you have the time, go to the online stores you know about to find a flourish stamp. I would like mirror image corner stamps. The width of the outside strips are 2-1/2 inches. If the flourish has a heart or a musical note, all the better. The person to find one that will work will receive a little gifty from me. I just came up with this idea so I have not idea what it will be but I promise, you will love it. I will also include some stamped images for you to play with.
I was so happy this went together as easily as it did. I thought I was going to have to make a couple of different ones.
As luck would have it, this invitation fits a couple of challenges. Allsorts is curly and/or swirly, Stamptacular Sunday is wedding, and Truly Scrumptious is more than one fold. Three challenges and I didn’t even try for one!
Blessings,
Christine
It’s Wednesday so it must be Flutterby Wednesday!!!
If you want to play along, this weeks challenge is open. All you have to do is include a butterfly or fairy on your creation. Go over to each of the DT member’s blogs (links on my sidebar) and to Dani’s blog and see the some beautiful examples for inspiration. Make your creation and go back to Dani’s blog to put a link to your card in Mr.. Linky.
This is definitely one of my favorite stamps. I think she is just beautiful. Each time I color her, I want to do her in pink, maybe some purple. So each time I paint her, I try not to use pink or purple. I went way the other direction this time.
The image is "Lovely Fairy" from Auntie Amy's stamps and I colored her with watercolor paints. The DP is DCWV Pocket Full of Posies. I think I’ve really gotten into buttons lately. They are so much fun and there are so many bright and pretty colors.
I used the sketch from Sketch and Stash and the Cupcake Craft challenge is to use a fairly on your creation (easy peasy).
Blessings,
Christine
I love to make vintage looking cards. They make me feel warm all over!!!
I colored the image with watercolor paints, the DP is K & Co and the ribbon was a rack. I used the Mojo Monday sketch and the 2 Red Bananas challenge is ribbon. I could use almost any card I make for the challenge.
Blessings,
Christine
I made this card for my great-nephews 1st birthday in July.
The buttons have a funny story behind them. Ever since my brother turned 50, we have been throwing big shindigs for everyone else’s landmark birthday. We started with my brother and give him old man clothes, Geritol, adult diapers, etc. The items are handed down to the next landmark birthday party minus a few things that the birthday boy/girl wants to keep.
Anyway, I used the sketch from Dare U 2 Digi Stamp. The One Stop Craft challenge is boys and the Creative Card Crew challenge is child’s play.
Blessings,
Christine
Does this look familiar?
It is really fun to make but I have to eat some ice cream after I make it. I’ll just blame the extra five pounds on her (hehe). I used one of the free images from Digishac when they first came online. The sentiment is from them as well. I used Prisma colors and gamsol to color the image. The DP is from the DCWV Nanna’s Kitchen stack.
I used the sketch from Sunday Sketchers; the Coulor Create challenge is lemon, pink sorbet and chocolate; and the Secret Crafter challenge is pink, turquoise and brown.
I made a bunch of cards today (well yesterday now) so “ALL BE BACH.”
Blessings,
Christine
You may remember a while back I announced that I had been selected to be on the design team for the Chriper Challenge blog. So here is my first submission.
I’m really glad that she said we didn’t have to use cars. Since I don’t have any little boys, I don’t think in that direction. I thought about it over and over and I even dreamt about. Then I though about one of my favorite things -- camping.
I sponged the background on with blue chalk for the sky and green chalk for the ground, although you can’t see it very well in the photo. The trailer is from the Going Places cartridge and the trees are cut with the Cuttlebug. The sentiment is computer generated and the hexes are cut out using Nestabilities with my Cuttlebug. The paper is from the DCWV Green stack. The buttons are from my stash.
Pretty simple but I couldn’t think of much using tires. Hopefully I can get the creative juices flowing a bit better with the next challenge.
See ya in a couple of weeks for the next challenge!
Blessings,
Christine
I used the sketch from Stamp with Fun and the challenge at Spoon Full of Sugar is to use lace. The stamp is I Brake for Stamps “Femme Fleur” and I used watercolor paints on her. The DP is from the DCWV Luxury stack.
I’ll be right back to post my chirper DT card.
Blessings,
Christine
