VCMP Challenge 3 Unique Christmas

Challenge 3 of the VCMP is to make a Unique Christmas card without the traditional Christmas colors.  It was a little harder than I thought it would be for me and I am honest when I say I colored this image three times before it became non traditional.  My daughter was tasked to color too but decided to go hang out with her daddy instead so I had to do the work this time! Enjoy!

Celebrate!

I hate that my camera makes it look red.  It's actually a deep pink, light pink, green, and blue.  The papers are from my stash.  The image is by Broken Box Stock and the sentiment is by SU!  Thanks for looking!

VCMP Challenge 2 Nature

I'm so glad that my card making mojo decided to come back just in time for the VCMP over on the S&S Blog.  The second challenge was to create a card with the theme of Celebrating Nature.  If you would like to play along too please click HERE.  Here is my card.

Celebrating Nature

Yes. I. Know.  VERY BRIGHT COLORS.  Thanks to my awesome 4 year old and her amazing coloring skills and paper choices!  I love the image and her added sun and sky.  This would truly make me smile to receive in the mail.  The DSP is from my stash (I should say her stash) and I used Melon Mambo and Chocolate Chip CS.  I gave credit to her on the back of the card by simply writing "Colored by Lainey Age 4"  Get the kiddos involved in your life.  I find them to be the best inspiration!

VCMP Challenge 1 Garanimals!!

It's Virtual Card Making Party time over on the S&S Blog.  Lots of prizes and fun and inspiration worthy of following along!  The first challenge asks for animal cards for kids.  If you want to play along visit HERE.  I love kid cards! Here's my first post for the day!

Moose Birthday

So I used a random stamped image in my stash probably from one of my coloring adventures with Sandy and added some glossy accents to it.  The DSP is retired SU.  I used chocolate chip and whisper white CS and my Square Lattice EF.  The brads were white ones from my stash that I used Copics on to make them brown.  Super cute and my daughter loves it so I believe I am kid approved!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to play along!

OWH Midweek Throwndown

The OWH Midweek Throwdown theme is Autumn.  To be honest, I hate making Autumn/ Fall colored cards.  I just have the worst time with the colors and the papers.  I pulled myself together though and created something to share with you.

Thinking Of You

Not too bad right?  I totally took the easy way with this one.  I chose to use a nicely pre colored image and kept it my version of CAS.  I printed this image in B&W too but my skills are not quite to this level yet.  I'll keep practicing! The paper has a pretty foil finish so I tied it to the image with some gold brads.  I love the use of black to calm down a crazy pattern and tie everything together.

Thanks for stopping by!!

OWH Birthday Bash We R Challenge

Hey crafters!  I am playing catch up with all the fun challenges going on over at the S&S blog in honor of OWHs Birthday! So much fun and tons of creativity and prizes.  Go play along if you haven't already!!
The We R Keeping an Eye on You challenge is a fun one.  To make a card with eyelets (or brads) and be creative!  I have no eyelets but plenty of brads.  Here's my card!

Hello Hello

I used my brads to frame my colored image.  I colored the bird and cut it out and popped it on another colored image.  The greeting of 'Hello' came from a SU set from the summer mini.  The paper is from a huge stack that I cut down to card fronts and told myself I WILL USE THESE!

Feel better Soon

This is my inspiration card.  A good friend of ours was sick a little while back and I made this to show her we were thinking of her.  Brads and Twine..YUmm!

Well that's one challenge down! Go play along and make sure you check out the Virtual Card Making Party this weekend!!

OWH Midweek Throwdown & PPA Sketch!

I think I need an award for the most inconsistent blogger!  Shame on me!  I've been making purses and stethoscope covers and hair clips and bracelets oh my but not posting any of it! I've made a few cards here and there and that's what I've decided to share with you today!

This weeks OWH Midweek Throwdown is to use inchies!  I also really liked the PPA Sketch 107 and thought it would work perfect with such inchies!

Welcome Baby

I'm not really sure why I decided to make a Welcome Baby card.  I don't know anybody that is pregnant or even thinking of being pregnant but the cute little outfit from my SU set was calling me.  I'm prepared now!

close up

I added some glossy accents to the hearts to give a simple card a little jazz!  Clean and Simple.  I like it! =)

In my last entry I told you all about the new addition to our family.  Meet my new baby girl..Gemma!

Gemma

Thanks for stopping by! Have a FABULOUS weekend!!

Where have I been!

I can't believe it's been almost 2mths since I've posted on here.  Life has really gotten away from me.  My oldest stepson graduated high school, I reorganized my craft space and we got a new puppy..good things!  I've been doing a lot more sewing lately but I did manage to get a couple cards in!

4 You

The image is from byLORIdesigns and the papers are random scraps from my slowly shrinking pile! I found myself swallowed by paper in my latest reorganizing task and found a lot of paper to cut down to card front size.  I've been using it a lot more now that I don't have to thumb through all the piles.  I only cut up the papers that I knew for sure I wouldn't use to scrapbook and the ones I had 3 or more of.

Elmo and Cookie Monster

My daughter has been crafty too!  She and her friend had so much fun putting these cards together.  A 4yr old using Nestabilities! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!  Teach them young! We are submitting these for the Midweek Throwdown over on OWH S&S.. cards for kids!