A Little Bird Told Me...

Today my friend Julie and I made cards and I thought this one turned out nicely. I used craft paper and and older paper I have had hanging around. The stamp and sentiment came from a friend. I used Lacey Nestabilities to frame the bird. Copic markers were used to colour. I added a button and some twine.
If The Shoe Fits - craft paper

Christmas Eve Star

On Christmas Eve, our family attended the evening service at our church. Everyone was asked to bring a star and hang it at the front. I made four using George, embossed using Swirls on the Cuttlebug, and wet embossed using gold. Twine was used to finish them off. They looked so pretty hanging on the tree with the lights making the gold shimmer!

Happy Day

It was time to get back to work  so today I have been trying to make several cards for various occasions. I used  Cricut "Sweethearts" to cut the flower petals, pink and brown embroidery floss to braid the stem, Hampton Art stamp, "pumice stone" distress ink and unknown paper.
LRW - make your own  embellishments
If the Shoe Fits - flowers
Pile it On - cute and charming
Allsorts - plain and simple

Thanks

Challenges:
Pile it On -  Five Shapes
Fantabulous Cricut  - Great Outdoors
Pollycraft -  In Stitches
Ooh la la -  Spots and Dots
Cute Card Thursday  - Leaves
LRW -  Summer
All Sorts Challenge -  Paper Piercing
Delightful Challenges  - Insects and Animals....dots and stripes

Happy Bee-Day!

I am blaming it all on the weather....it has been too nice to be indoors and post!!! lol    I have been on a roll making Thank You cards for a September event and experimented with a Hero Arts stamp and kind of liked it. I thought it fit into a few challenges this week so here goes:

Pile it On - Bugs, Bees and Butterflies
Paper Romance - Happy Birthday
Ooh-la-la - Happy Birthday
Stamp and Create - flowers
Cowgirls Sunday Stampen Challenge - bugs
     I used the Hero Arts "Be Happy" set,  Hampton Art sentiment, coloured with Prismcolors, added stickles to the bee's wings and the flower centres, stitched the flight path, DCWV paper and unknown ribbon

It's Wednesday afternoon, time to make a card....

Since I am so new to cardmaking, I do not own a Christmas stamp....ouch!!  So, time to think outside the box.... I cut a triangle for a tree, decorated it with plastic beading, added some glimmer dust, outlined it and the trunk which is in purple to match the background, in black pen, used my Cuttlebug to emboss the white cardstock, added the sentiment Joy from Kimmie's Stamps and voila...I have a Christmas card.
Challenges: Pile it On - plastic
                      Tuesday Throwdown - Christmas
                       Little Red Wagon - Christmas

"At the Zoo"

 We attended a gorgeous wedding Saturday and had so much fun! The weather has been nothing short of perfect. In fact, I am hoping it will rain! It was an exciting day today as I discovered I was a winner at Tuesday Throwdown! ! Hurray!! My first badge!!! So, I completed one cute birthday card this afternoon  for a dear friend. The inside says: "You're 60!"
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge- animal

You Give Me Wings

Challenge:  Tuesday Throwdown...stitches
                  Lots to Do Challenge....stitches

Sorry I Froggot

The day wasn't as nice as it should have been for water aerobics, so we postponed. With my friend Lorie, went to visit Cathie in hospital and got some cleaning and napping done. I also took time to make this card. My friend Pia is not from this area and has been on a Baltic cruise the past three weeks. I missed her birthday last Wednesday so it was the perfect opportunity to try out the new Cricut Live Simply. Easy to do and I will get it into the mail tomorrow. Enjoy!