Fly Away With Me - Flourishes Challenge

I was in luck this morning when I read the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge for the week.
Fly Away With Me .  Make a card with a bird related theme.  I may have mentioned a long time ago, I like to go to auctions.  You go to enough of them and after a while you get to know the auctioneers.  The auction company I attend most frequently is a family affair.  Everybody helps out.  Well, I found out yesterday that the daughter of the auctioneer just won the state of Colorado Bid-Calling Championship.  The first woman to do so!  So, I need to send her a card, of course!

This card is very similar to THIS card I made back in early 2010.  It was always a favorite, so whey not try another?

Wonderful Scraps

Another day, another challenge!  Today I decided to try a one I've never participated in before.  The inspiration photo is easy enough, flowers, I can do flowers!  I wasn't too sure about the color combo, though!  It looks tropical to me...I was a little worried!

 

Create with Connie & Mary 

Once again I started in my scrap file.  Guess what?  I only cut ONE of these pieces of cardstock!  I used everything else EXACTLY as it came out of my scrap file.  The exception?  The So Saffron circle I cut and embossed it.  Otherwise I used the pieces as they were! Kinda fun!  Even the image was in my scrap file.  It's a piece I was playing with last night.  I stamped the foliage from Wonderful You in black Stazon.  I went back with my Certainly Celery and Wild Wasabi marker to fill in and shadow my leaves.  My last step was to spray the image with Champaign Mist shimmer paint mixed with rubbing alcohol.  Not only did it give my cardstock shimmer but it blurred my markers some...just enough.  I like it.

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!

Explosion Box

I think this is called an Explosion Box. I saw a version of it recently on Karen's site....the sweetest thing and it reminded me and still needed to try this one. I had an excellent excuse to make one because my good friend Deb had a birthday this week! Happy Birthday Deb!

Anyway, this is what I came up with. Turned out super cute. I used the same paper I used to make her card HERE. Just a couple of posts ago. I used an 8 1/4" x 8 1/4" piece of card stock. To end up with a 2 3/4" cube. I used a lot of different stamps on this project. I will spare you the details! If you have a question, please get in touch with me. I'd be happy to enable you!

Challenge!

I have two challenge cards to share with you today. Laura over at Scrapnextras and Julie at Out to Impress. Both their blogs are celebrating 300,000 hits! Wow! That's a BIG number! Congratulations ladies! To mark the occasion these great ladies are giving away some great blog candy. Julie is giving away the winner's choice of a Flourishes set, plus a $10 gift Certificate to the store! (I already know what set I would choose. Sweet Pea is to die for!) Laura is giving away the Key Ingredients kits from Taylored Expressions. Love those, too!

In order to be included in the drawing we had to CASE a card on each of their blogs or SCS gallery. These are my CASE jobs!

The top is Julie's. Here is her card I CASED. It's an inchie card. That when you use very small stamps about an inch in size. Turned out cute. I used Botanical Blooms. I had to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to fit my sentiment otherwise it's was a quickie!

Laura used one of my favorites sets for her card, so it wasn't hard to CASE at all! Here is her card I CASED. I just love the brights colors on this card! This one will go in the mail tomorrow for my friend Deb's birthday!

I had a lot of fun doing these challenges, even though I waited 'til the last minute to finish them! Wish me luck!

In a Happy Orange Mood!

I was in an orange mood when I made these bright, happy cards. I love orange anyway! I don't use it a lot, except around Halloween. So, I consider this my challenge within a challenge.

I made these cards to participate in TaylorVanbruggen's 1st anniversary Cupcake Sketches challenge. I made 9 cards from 9 different sketches. Two were so hideous I won't be sharing them here! If you must see them, they are on my Spilt Coast Stampers gallery under "queeky." They may not be there for long...I may delete them!

I love the Upsy Daisy Card on top. I didn't stamp a sentiment so that I have the option of making it what ever kind of card I choose. Whether it be thank you, sympathy, birthday...what ever! I also like the Eastern Blooms circle card. Believe it or not, I've never done this type of masking. It was so quick and easy. I just love the results. The last card is the cute little whale from Pun Fun. I omitted his spout and used the candle from the retired goodie Fun Filled. I think it's whimsical!

Hope you enjoyed today selections! Check in tomorrow. I will be sharing the 4 other keepers!

I can finally post this one.

I had to wait to post this card because my good friend, Deb would see it before it arrived in the mail! She and her husband just celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary! Best wishes Deb & Michael! I thought about this layout during the down time at my open house on Sunday, so once I sat down to make it, it went pretty fast. I love the Soft Sky & River Rock combo and I will miss them both. However, the new Baja Breeze is just as yummy! I also used Old Olive Flower Fusion. I really like these little felt flowers and you get a lot of them! I just got the set Wonderful Favorites and I already know I will get lots of mileage out of it! Anyway.....it's late, I'm tired and I need to get up early and go fishing with the kids, hubby and my dad, so off to bed I go! Thanks for checking in with me!

A Little Birdie Told Me

Here's another card I did some time ago. It was for a friend who had just had shoulder surgery (yes, you Connie!). I put the card through my printer so I could use a personalized message. Inside it read, "You injured your wing." I really like this stamp set, A Little Birdie Told Me, it's so versatile. I used scraps for most of this card, from the colored background squares to the bird it's self. The bird body and tail came from the retired Designer Paper, Petals & Paisley. A simple card but sometimes those are the best ones.