Birthday card

It seems like I go in spurts with my crafting. We're on vacation so I had time to to play a little with My Digital Studio. Here is a card I made for the Color Eoundup over at Rubber Redneck.

I just realized I have been posting creations on facebook but haven't posted any of them on here.

Thanksgiving

This sketch is from Little Scraps of Heaven. All the paper is from My Digital Studio, the little turkey is from Little Scraps of Heaven. This is a digital page but I really think I need to redo the page, the turkey would be really cute as a 3-D turkey with the feathers textured using a embossing folder.

I"m on a roll

I've been averaging a card a day thanks to My Digital Studio. Love it.

The color combo came from Stamping 411 and the sketch is from Create with Connie
I'm still learning all the tricks of using MDS. The background paper is a white embossed digi paper I imported into the program, I changed the opacity so the tempting turquiose paper would show through and look embossed. I'm still trying to figure out how to get my digi stamps imported. I thought I had them in there but they aren't where I think they should be.

Sketch Saturday had a sketch that I couldn't resist using to make a card

The color challenge came from Rubberredneck

Now I've got to get back to reality and get my house cleaned and a cake decorated for my son's 2nd birthday party.

thank you card

The color combo for this card is from Color Throwdown
THe Sketch came from Stamp-a-Doodle

Birthday card

I bought My Digital Studio a few months ago but I never thought I would love the program as much as I do. With a toddler and a baby it makes it so easy to create projects. No more chasing down the toddler because he has snagged something from my craft table and I don't feel like a basketball player as I search for the perfect embellishment. ( One arm up keeping the toddler away from the drawer while franticly digging through the drawer. Yep crafting has because more peaceful.




The color combo is from Color Throwdown
The Sketch is from Card Patterns

Creative sketches card

Creative Sketches has a great color combo this week so I decided to join in.

my first attempt at a digital card

I'm trying my hand at digital stamping, still not sure I enjoy it as much as I do actually touching the paper,embellishments and stamps but I did have fun playing with the new to me stamp sets that came with My Digital Studio.

The challenge over at Staming 411 is to use basic grey, pacific point and bashful blue

Mother's Day poem

Wow I can't beleive it's been almost 3 months since I've posted anything to my blog.

I sat down this weekend and made a gift for mother's day. I modified the gift from a project we made at a stamp class with my local SU! demo. We made the most elegant wallhanging compete with paper roses made from a punch. I really wanted the wallhanging to say more than Happy Mother's Day so I searched online for a poem followed the sketch from The Pixie Cottage and came up with this gift.



All the paper is from SU! and the strip at the bottom is punched using a scallop punch from SU!. The large scallop square is from Micheals, it came as a book of 6 with a book ring. I used the crop a dile to punch another hole to create the wallhanging and covered the cardboard with Chocolate Chip paper. I used my Wishblade to cut out the flowers from Rose Red paper and then edged each flower with white ink to create a two tone flower. I followed the cutting guide given by my SU! demo to create the 3-D roses. The ribbon is sheer ribbon from Dollar Tree (I think).

There were several blogs that challenged their readers to either use flowers or to make your own flowers so this project has been submitted to the following blogs

Tellen's Place
Pollycraft Challenge blog
The Pink Elephant


p.s. I managed to delete how to place a direct link in the body of your blog and can't remember the exact code. Anyone have the code I'll go back in and fix it so my links are clickable. Thanks

little angel

Ever since getting back from Christmas vacation I have been just exhausted. I've been napping when my son naps and going to bed when he goes to bed. I finally have my energy back so I can create a few cards after he's gone to bed.

This card is for a ton of challenges. I had planned on getting the card done sooner but I had also put off housework so I had to catch up on that. I'm not sure if some of the challenges are still current challenges but I'll list them anyways.

The color combo over at Pals paper arts was Pretty in pink, Melon mambo and Basic black

The sketch came from Friday Sketcher's

Paper makeup stamps challenged us to use pink and bling. I used the new SU paper pack sending love which has glitter on the paper. I also used fun flock on the cloud and two tones dusting powder on the angel's wings for bling.

Over at Tellen's Place they played a tic tac toe game. The three items I chose were buttons, punch and ribbon. I used my Wishblade to cut out the circles and my new SU punch to cut the loops on the long rectangle.

Both Polly Craft and Crafty Creation's challenged us to use something with wings.

Tellen's Place week 3

Over at Tellen's Place the challenge this week was to create a card using thier sketch.
This isn't the best picture but it's the only one out of 10 that didn't come out blurry. Just have to love technology. I used twinkling H2O's on the rose but you can't see any of the sparkle, I painted 2 roses, cut out the center section and used a pop dot to make it 3-D. If you look real carefully you can see the organza bow I placed on the center strip.

The 3 strips of patterned paper is from my stash, the pink background paper is a digital paper from Funky fairies.

tellen's Place week 2

Oye! What a week. We ended up extending our vacation by 2 days because of the artic air that moved into the area. We just didn't think it was wise to travel 12 hours with a 1 year old with the wind chill in the negatives. Last Tuesday hubby came home from work with a sharp stabbing pain on the right side around his waist. I finally got him convinced he NEEDED to go to the ER and Wed at noon he had his apendix taken out. Thankfully he's not overly needy when he's sick but my craft room is upstairs and the living room where he's camped out is out of ear shot. Not much creating happened this last week. He's doing really well so I'm hoping to get a few more cards made this week. There were so many great challenges this week I'm really bummed I was only able to get one card finished.




This card is for the sketch challenge over at Tellen's Place

WIll you be my valentine

This super cute image came from Cute Daisy May

The challenge over at their blog is to create something with love in mind. This image reminds me of my niece and I thought it would be the perfect Valentine card for her.

The sketch is from Sketch and Stash I had to leave part of the sketch off until this weekend, we are visiting family for the holidays and I didn't bring a lot of supplies. I plan on adding 3 small hearts above the image to complete the card.

The color combo of red and pink came from Sweet and sassy stamps

Over at Flutter by Wednesdays since they have a new blog the challenge was to use something new. I used a new paper pack from SU! that was delivered the day before we left for my parents house.

hearts was on the agenda over at A Spoonful of Sugar

I'm blue

We are still visiting family for the holidays and I traveled with a very light amount of craft supplies so I'm very limited on the amount of challenges I can participate in.




The challenge this week over Tellen's Place at was to create a card with blue and silver. I packed one sheet of silver paper and some of my patterned paper was mostly blue so I was set for this challenge.

Paper Makeup Stamps also had a challenge to use either silver and blue or black and silver.

The sketch is from Tuesday Morning Sketches



The Pixie Cottage challenged us to use buttons. I didn't pack buttons so I borrowed a few from my mom. She has a huge button collection so it took me well over an hour to decide on which buttons to use. So many choices.

Roses

The front hall is lined with suitcases, gifts and other stuff we can't live without for a week. I really should be in bed but couldn't resist making just one more card. And low and behold it's not a gift card holder. :)

This picture isn't the greated picture of the card but it does show the glitter on the roses better than the first card.

I found the sketch over at Friday Sketchers

The color combo is from Just Us Girls the challenge was to use raspberry, green, kraft and red.

gift card holder take four

Ok, one last gift card holder using the stamp set from Whimsie Doodles. We were supposed to be on the road today but were heading to VA and considering the TONS of snow they are getting we thought it was wise to stay home an extra day and brave the road tomorrow.

The sketch is from The Pixie Cottage, we were challenged us to use red, green and gold on our creation over at Crafty Creations Challenge and eibbon, a Christmas theme and a current sketch over at Cooking it up with Katie.

gift card holder take three

I was able to get one final gift card holder designed and finally settled on a quote for the inside. Can you tell I love this stamp set. Now to try to find time to make a few more using the three designs before we leave for the in-laws Sat morning. I still have to finish doing a load of laundry, finish throwing a few clothes in the suitcase and entertain the little man, me thinks me shouldn't have procrastinated

I used the sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches

I also tried my best to follow the challenge at Tuesday Morning sketches. The challenge was to use 1 tag, 1 hidden message and lots of glitter. I'm not a huge fan of the mess glitter leaves so for me this is lots of glitter. The is glitter on the word Santa on the outside of the card and glitter on Santa's hat and his cuffs. For the tag I folded a peice of paper in half, lined the folded edge slightly above the bottom cut line of the Sizzix tag. I then scored the back side of the tag and cut off the scallop part on the front tag. I folded the scallop down to create the closure

The paper is retired paper from The Angel Company

The Santa saying and the underwear is from Whimsie Doodles

The Santa on the tag is from The Angel Company

The saying inside the tag is printed off my computer.

gift card holder take two

I was able to get one more gift card holder finished. I'm hoping to get at least one more designed after little man's bedtime. The inside of the card is very simple just a pocket to place the gift card. I'm still tossing around a few ideas for a cute saying for the inside.
This card is for several challenges
The sketch came from A Spoon Full of Sugar.
Over at Tellen's Place the challenge was to use black so the base of my card is black as is the layer under the saying.
Digital Ink Co challenged us to make a last minute gift. This will truely be a last minute gift as we don't have the gift cards to go inside the card yet.
The Pink Elephant challenged us to make something for Christmas or winter.

gift card holder take one

If all goes according to my plans I will have several versions of a gift card holder to show, my one year old may have other plans though LOL.

The sketch I found over at sketch and stash.

The stamp is a digital stamp I found over at Whimsie Doodles, I bought it a week ago but didn't get anything made with it until now.

You can't tell in the photo and you can barely tell in person but I went over the word Santa with a versamarker then I added a two toned red and gold embossing powder.

The paper is from SU!,