Show CASE - Crazy For Cupcakes by Nancy

Well, I kicked it up a notched yesterday.  I priced garage sale items all day.  I still have more to do but I'm feeling pretty good for tomorrow's set-up.  I anticipate having TEN 6 foot tables full of merchandise!  Don't ask me how I accumulated so much in one year!  I guess I could blame it on my love of auction box lots!  Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here....

In the meantime...

When free time is in short supply, a card CASE (Copy And Share with Everyone) can be the perfect way to have a little fun!.  Show CASE is my personal attempt to have that time for stamping, without of the pressure to create something totally original.  I want to pay tribute to the many talented stampers out in the blogosphere that are so inspiring to me.  I hope you enjoy seeing my "take" on their creation.

Today's card is from Nancy @ Paper Smiles.

My changes:
DSP (Sending Love, Berry Bliss, Loves Me)

I hope you check out Nancy's original card HERE.

Happy Heart Birthday

I've been trying to make my niece's birthday card all week. Every idea I had went nowhere. Then, I was in a corner, I HAD to do it. I decided to try something really out of the box. In the process, I managed to accomplish three challenges.

Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge.Plus, Just Us Girls - Stitching Challenge.
Along with Crazy 4 Challenges - Birthday Challenge.My out of the box technique was to cut out my stamped and colored elephant image from Happy Heart Day and mount it onto a patterned paper. Have you noticed that three of the patterned papers I used is some sort of polka dot? What can I say, I like my polka dots! I think the color combo is bright and cheery. I allowed myself to play with my scraps and didn't over analyze my color choices. The colors I used are: So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Regal Rose and Rose Red. I did cut my ribbon a little short, wish I hadn't done that, but I decided to "let it go." After all my niece is two! Let's be sensible here!

I don't want it to happen my posting streak might come to an end this weekend. I'm going to an all day auction on Saturday. Plus, hubby keeps asking me about taking down our Christmas tree. We'll just have to see! Until then, have a great weekend!

Cupcakes Are Always Good!

I am hanging on to that streak by a thread! I couldn't get anything going in the stamp room today. Oh, I tried, just nothing worked out. I did have a headache for most of the day, so that didn't help.

So, I am sharing ONE MORE older, not posted card. I wanted to make a card with minimal stamping, more punch art. You can't go wrong with cupcakes, right? Everybody loves cupcakes. The sentiment, in fact, is from Crazy For Cupcakes.
I promise to have a really good card to share tomorrow. It's the one "trapped" inside my camera, which my mom has right now. I will see her in the morning and hope to have it posted by the afternoon.

Wednesday my new stuff arrives! If the UPS man comes early (and he usually does) I plan on playing with my goodies right away! Forget that my Christmas tree is STILL up in my loving room! Putting it away can wait one more day!

Crazy For Cupcakes

You know I was actually afraid to get on my blog and post today! I knew it had been quite a while since my last card, and boy was it ever! Three weeks! I don't know how other bloggers do it. Once I was done with my Christmas cards all my focus went to other holiday activities.

So here we are in the New Year and I am ready to go! I decided to get the mojo goin' by doing a challenge or two. First two cards were VERY so-so and I won't be sharing those......yet! I was much more pleased with my next two efforts. This one is from Taylor VanBruggen's Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge!
I just LOVE my Medallion background stamp (see last THREE posts!) and this sketch SCREAMED for it. I used some pretty bright colors, which I like a lot, but tend to use less frequently. I think Pink Passion and Pumpkin Pie look yummy together. I have a lot of birthdays coming up so Crazy For Cupcakes seemed like the perfect fit. I tried to be free with my coloring, not worrying if I completely filled in the lines. I'm particularly happy with the shading on the cupcake tops, using my Sahara Sand marker. It is a technique I've known about but never really used. It's a keeper!

It has been super cold here (-20°) in Iowa the last few days, so it's been great to stay home and STAMP! I have at least one more card to share soon and if this cold sticks around (and it's suppose to) I will have more posts coming!

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!