Happy Easter - My First Easter Card!

Happy Easter, everyone! As you may have guessed by my lack of posts, I have not been stamping much. Life is getting busier here and it's been hard to find time in my crafting room. I miss getting in there and goofing off for a few hours. You know what else suffers when I don't stamp regularly? My mojo! It took me quite a while to make today's card for Stacey's Curtain Call Challenge! Here are the colors. Lovely...and Kraft....this should be easy!Well, The only things I knew for sure were:
1) I wanted to use some Kraft sent through the crimper.
2) I wanted to use A Good Egg.
Usually with this set I use the chick image. Well, I decided to stretch myself and use the egg image this time. Embellishing my egg became the biggest challenge. I tried everything! Watercolor paper, crackle finish....no matter what I tried it looked BAD! Finally this idea came to me. I inked up the flower stamp with Versamark and topped with clear embossing powder. Then, I masked off sections and sponged on my ink. I can live with this!

To give it a little punch I used TRIPLE zig zag on my machine. I love this stitch, but I've never used it on a card. I like it! I covered up the "not so perfect" corners with my white brads.

I wanted to add the sentiment, "You crack me up!" from the set, but couldn't find a place for it. So, it will have to go inside the card. As my post headline suggested, this is my first Easter card for the year! UGH! Like I said, life's been busy!

So, what about the rest of the Curtain Call Crew? Let's see what they are doing with this color combo!

Amy White @ Devlinwhite Designs
Andrea Roose @ Andrea's Scrap - und Stempel-Blog
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa) @ Random Acts of Creativity
Julie Smith @ Paper and Such
Lea Lawson @ Lea's Cupcakes & Sunshine
Marisa Ritzen @ Rosemary Reflections
Melissa Hubert@ My Paper Obsession
Sue Kohler@ My Inner Reflection

And our leader, of course....Stacey @ Stacey's Stamping Stage

I hope to see what you've created for this challenge using Mr. Linky over at Stacey's site!

Spinner Card

Happy Friday! Hope you've had a good week. I have completely goofed off all week. I stayed home all but Tuesday. I did have to do some hateful jobs, like laundry along the way. However, I still found plenty of time to play!

Last year before Easter I had planned on doing some kind of moving card with the A Good Egg. Every idea I came up with had some sort of obstacle. I never came up with a really good solution, so it didn't get done. I started thinking about it again over the past few days and came up with a spinner card. Now if only the story ended there. Have you ever started a card and then in mid-way through changed your mind? Or right after you finish an element of the card you have a better idea? Or maybe even smudge your ink? That kept happening with me and this card. I started again and again. At some point you just get tired of it and say "That's it. It is DONE!" That's where I am at with this one. You want to know the worst part? It doesn't spin!!! I could not just leave well enough alone. The area under the slider was the striped patterned paper and I didn't like that. So, I put a piece of Certainly Celery underneath. The bottom line? The cardstock adds too much thickness and it's too tight to spin. Big sigh!

So, keep that in mind if you would like to try this out! I will make another......I just need a few days to "recover" from my goof!

Have a great day!

Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch #11

Today I have a sketch challenge card to share with you. Karen Giron over at the sweetest thing does a Sweet Sunday Sketch every week. I decided to give it a whirl because I am totally goofing off today! I got to play and not worry about how much time I was taking for my card. I did try a few different things. In the end I stuck pretty closely to the sketch. I had decided to give my little flowers in the lower corner an out of the ordinary treament. I went with cross-stitching! Haven't done that in a while! I have some beautiful marlet thread (it's shiny.) and it turned out super cute, I think. I used my Stampin' Up Paper Piercing guide to get my holes perfectly spaced. I'd like to try this again sometime, it was fun! Have a great day!

Happy Halloween!

A version of this little gem came to my inbox the other day. It's from Connie Babbert's blog Inkspired Treasures. Her blog is also in my favorite sites, so head on over there and check it out. She does some great work!

Anyway, I did change a few things on mine. One because I miss cut and had to make my background much smaller. The other changes came because I don't have the set, Season of Friendship. I was going to buy it, why didn't I. UGH!

The hat came from the fun Halloween set, Eat, Drink and
Be Scary. For his arms I used the stem from the "poppy" flower in Bloomin' Beautiful. You won't believe how I made the lines on the pumpkin! I used half of the egg on A Good Egg. I tried doing it free hand but the ink in all my markers didn't have the saturation of the ink pad. It took a while to get it right! But I am happy with the end product.