Hello Gorgeous Vine

Card base is Applemint card stock from Gina K. Designs.  The background is a large vine rubber stamp from Hero Arts stamped in Hero Arts black ink.  MFT dotted rectangle die used to cut canvas, then stamped with Hero Arts sentiment from the Hero Arts Hello Gorgeous set CL924.  Tiny butterflies are die cut with Lawn Fawn set Grassy Meadows Borders and Tiny Twine bow die is Waffle Flowers.  Entering this in:

Sugar Pea Designs Sketch #45

Polka Dot Great Day

Inspired by several challenges, today I made this everyday card using a floral stamp set from my stash.  I have no idea what the name of it is or the manufacturer is because it was one of my very first stamp sets and I didn't save the packaging.  The sentiment is Hero Arts Messages with Flourishes.

I masked off the center section and stamped and masked different flowers from the set in Hero Arts, Shadow Ink Peach Mid-Tone, Gina K Designs Lipstick and Blue Lagoon, and Versafine Smokey Gray.  Then I moved the mask to the outsides and sponged the peach ink inside the strip and stamped the sentiment in Smokey Gray.  I die cut the panel with MFT Stitched Rectangle die and added strips of May Arts polka dot ribbon to the top and bottom.  I put some polka dot washi tape on card stock and die cut the heart with Paper Smooches die, then added Wink of Stella to all the flowers.  I popped the panel up on fun foam on a gray card base.  I am entering this in the following challenges:

CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge 165

Less is More Polka Dot Challenge 269

CASology Washi Tape Challenge 191

MFT Color Challenge 42

Thanks a Bushel!

I'm back in the woman cave, crafting away!  It was nice to see my son, his wife and my 2 sweet grandkids over the weekend!

This card was inspired by several challenges and I always need thank you cards in my stash.  I used the stamp set from Jellibean Soup "Fresh Vegetable Soup" to stamp the carrots and sentiment.  I don't have many bunny stamps so I found this freebie digital stamp online, yay for freebies!  I colored the carrots and bunny with Zig Clean Color Markers, Copics and Spectrum Noir markers and fussy cut them out.  I used the Lawn Fawn Grassy Meadows die to create the grass after stamping the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black.  I tucked the bunny and one carrot in the grass, added a little cool gray shadow and then I added a little Wink of Stella on the pink parts of the bunny.  You can see it better in the close up below.  I'm entering this in the following challenges:

CAS Colours and Sketches 166 Challenge

Cupcake Inspirations 353 Challenge

Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge

Growing Love

Getting in some last minute card making before I get to go be Grandma for a few days!

I watercolored a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper with Distress Inks Dried Marigold and Scattered Straw, then splattered some Chipped Sapphire and a little Zig Clean Color Deep Green on it.  After I dried it, I stamped the sentiment from Gina K Designs Better With You set and added a Memory Box floral die cut out of cork.  The markings on the die were hard to see so I did some highlighting on it with a white gel pen, a Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Copper Star and a black marker.

I adhered the watercolor panel to a white card base and added a strip of gingham to the left side.

Entering this in:

StampTV MIUM Gingham Challenge

CAS Mix Up Challenge Stamping Watercolor plus your choice

The Paper Players CAS Challenge

Thanks for stopping by.....I'll be away from the cave till after Easter

Happy Easter all!

Cupcake Picnic

Having fun in the cave today before I have to go work with some chamber music students tonight.

This fun card was made with a free digi from Paper Smooches - the cupcake.  I printed it out, colored it and fussy cut it, then added Glossy Accents and Wink on Stella on the cherry and Marvy Snow Pen on the frosting.  I used Distress Ink in Fire Brick red on the gingham stamp from Lawn Fawn set called "Gingham Backdrops" which is where both sentiments came from as well.  I stamped one large panel of gingham and then cut it in pieces to place on either side of the white card base.  The red panel was stamped and heat embossed in clear with "oh happy day", then cut to fit the middle.  I used the Cheery Lynn Designs banner die to cut out the cute dotted banner.  Popped cupcake and banner up on fun foam and added small strips of black card stock to the edges of the red panel.  

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #126 Use Something Sweet

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #225 Anything Goes

Lasting Hearts Card Drive - A2Z Scrapbooking DT

Some of the DT members from a2z Scrapbooking are participating in the Lasting Hearts Card Drive.  

Check out our blog hop participants and comment by March 25 at 11:59 pm EDT on all the blogs for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to a2z Scrapbooking.

Start here with 

Kymona

Dawn Turley

llina Crouse

Cindy Chiu

Char Kochensparger

Angie Cimbalo - You are here

What is the Lasting Hearts Card Drive you ask?

It’s a card drive to help comfort mothers who have lost a piece of their hearts.  Losing a child can be one of the most painful events a parent can endure.  This drive is to raise awareness and to show these parents that they are not alone and there are many people from all over who care deeply and are praying for them.  I hope you can find a little time to join in and share your creations with this worthy cause!  

So Kimberly, the women who is in charge of this event, would love to include a handmade card along with this book:  “You are the Mother of all Mothers” books by Angela Miller to each grieving family to show them some love and kindness.

If you would love to send your cards to be included in this amazing drive, please send them here:

Lasting Hearts Card Drive
      2892 N Bellflower Blvd Ste 216
      Long Beach Ca 90815

I choose Rainbow Prayer theme for my card because a rainbow is such

a symbol of hope, the calm after the storm.  If you scroll down to the

bottom, you can see more views that show the rainbow colors in the foiling.

I used the Hero Arts/Simon Says set "Prayers" stamps and dies (SRHA15) to create this sentiment.  I foiled the sentiment on black cardstock with rainbow Deco Foil, then die cut it with coordinating die.  I also used the same foil on the strip "sending you".  The main panel was lightly inked with Hero Arts Ombre Ink's lightest color over the Hero Arts Bold Floral Stencil (SA067), then die cut with Die-Namics Stitched Rectangle Frames dies.  Also cut a black panel with the same die to make the black frame.  I adhered the tiny strip and Prayers die on the panel, then mounted the top panel to the card base with fun foam.  I added a tiny bow made from ribbon by May Arts.  

Thanks for stopping by!  The items I used are below.  If it's sold out in the store, just click the aqua Request Button on the store site and ask for it.  We'll get it to you asap at no extra charge!  And that goes for ANY Hero Arts product you're interested in.  Use Angie15 to get 15% discount on your purchase ($25 minimum, excluding shipping).  Here's a link to the store:  A2ZScrapbooking

Here's a few more views so you can see the foil rainbow colors and shine:

And here are some other cards I've been working on to send in a large envelope to

Lasting Hearts Card Drive.  I hope you can participate in this worthy cause!

Don't forget to comment on all the blogs by 3/25/16 at 11:59PM EDT to be entered to win a $25 gift card to the store!

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Mod Squad Rainbow Challenge

Curtain Call Rainbow Challenge

A Blog Named Hero Rainbow Challenge

Special Day

It's your special day card made for a family member.  I used the butterfly die from Memory Box and some white cardstock that I colored with a Zig Clean Color Marker to make the butterfly.  The sentiment is from Your Next Stamp Sentiments #4 and the dotted circle is from CTMH.  I added a small strip of Applemint card stock that I embossed first, to the left side and pearls to the sweet delicate butterfly.  Entering this in several challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #352 - Colors  Papaya, Grass, Pistachio

Addicted to CAS Challenge #84 - Delicate

CASology #189 - Doodle

Scrappy Land Challenge #38 Think Green