Thursday, May 9, 2013

I Love You!


Here's another beautiful card, that is just so gorgeous in real life.  The picture really doesn't do it justice, and now that I am looking at it here, I am actually thinking it would be perfect to even send to my mom for Mother's Day.  

This was another card from my Artistic Avenger days!

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Happy Holidays!


A Christmas card in May!  No rhyme or reason to the cards that come on this blog... just trying to get my cards on here for my own visual reference!   

This card is made with all SU! supplies.  It's one of the cards I made while on the DT from Carrie Gaskin.  It also uses the faux tile technique which ends up being really pretty when finished!



Tuesday, May 7, 2013

SBC Sketch 343

Okay, so I loved the challenge I did for MDSM yesterday so much, that I did another one today!  It really seemed to get the creative juices flowing.  I better be careful... this could become a habit... not necessarily a bad thing!


This time I played along with one of the May Challenges at Scrapbook Challenges.  It was the Sketch 343 challenge.  I did the one page layout version... and I am in love with the finished result!

Here's the sketch...

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And here's my layout based on it!



Like I said, I love the finished result.  And what's better is that I had actually scrapbooked these pictures before, but did not love the result.  Look what a little sketch inspiration can do for you!

Happy Birthday!


OK, not my favourite card, but this is not a blog of my favourite cards, it is a record for me of what I've made.  There you have it!

Monday, May 6, 2013

MDS Monday!


Instead of a card, I've got a scrapbooking layout today!  I love to digital scrapbook!  My love affair with scrapbooking began when my now-almost-10 year old daughter was born... and it is still going strong.  Back then I thought digital scrapbooking was a cop-out.... what would be fun about that?  Give me buttons, glue and ribbon, and I was a happy girl.  But after a couple more cute little girls were born, I finally realized something had to change... I no longer had time for that kind of scrapbooking (or precious little of it anyway!)  I bought MDS since I was a SU! demo and I've been a goner since.

I. Absolutely. Love. It.

I have never played along on a challenge before, aside from the time I was on the Artistic Avenger's DT, but that was never scrapbooking, always cards.  So I hope I can figure out how to link this whole she-bang.  Anyway, enough blah, blah, blah... here's the sketch and challenge for MDSM # 13.

Make a page using the sketch below and monochromatic colors. (Definition: Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue.) 
 

And here's my take on the challenge! 


I used different opacities of Tempting Turquoise, some staples and stitching, and the frames from the Downtown Grunge kit.  Love those frames!  Hope this fulfills the challenge!  If nothing else, it's another layout done in my book... make that three books, since I can easily import this into all three girls' books!  Gotta love that!

Love Box


Adorable little box.  You could put anything in here from a piece of jewelry to candies.  Anything from soup to nuts... well, maybe not the soup part!  Super easy.  This is the 2-4-6-8 box, and the tutorial could be found anywhere online really, but mine came from Splitcoast Stampers.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Friend


Love this card... very simple, very cute.  Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Look Who's Turning Two!







This card is such a cute one.  It uses a fabulous colour combo of Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder and Island Indigo.  Great card for a little kids birthday or by changing the colour combo and sentiment it would be a fantastic baby card.  Love those little animals!




Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Sail Away


An easy card to mass produce.  I love that it is another masculine card... I always seem to run short of these.... or short of ideas for these anyway!