Spring Flowers

Project 23 of my Simply Betty Stamps Challenge: Color every image in the Simply Betty Collection. That's over 500 images not including the new releases this year. I'm over the 20 project mark, and I can see 25 projects being complete by the end of the weekend. I am super motivated thanks to you and all of your positive feedback, but I have a long way to go, especially since Betty seems to release new images all of the time. This image is an oldie but a goodie. Come join my blog and cheer me on while I work my way through the Simply Betty Catalog.

For this project, I wanted to accentuate the flowers and make them pop off the page, leave everything else clean and simple.... The background, mat on brown, is embossed with a floral folder, and she is cropped down and mat on brown as well. I used a wide variety of Copics for the flowers, and kept the hair and skin neutral. The "spring" sentiment is stamped from Docerela Stamps, the Mix and Match III set. 

Challenges Entered
Bunny Zoe Crafts - Spring Color
Card Mania Challenge - Flowers
Cards in Envy - Spring Colors
Crafty Card Marker - Spring Has Sprung
Make My Monday Challenge - Flowers

Christmas Friendship

Docerela Stamps is hosting a color challenge right now. Use red, green, and white. This was a great opportunity to make this Christmas card for a dear friend. I used Docerela's stamp set Mix & Match III for the sentiment. The poinsettia is an SVG file from Designs on Cloud 9 and the photo corner is a die cut from Paper Artist. To add a little sparkle and shine, I added three Terra Glitter Skittles. 

Challenges Entered

Docerela Stamps: Christmas Colors

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Birthday's too

The winter holiday season is extra crazy in my family because not only do we have all of the traditional holidays, we also celebrate Hanukkah, and have three December birthdays (and a January birthday). You might think that is funny, but wait, the December birthday are - me, on the 11th, my brother on the 12th, and my husband also on the 12th. How is that for crazy! Now that my Halloween cards are complete and plenty of Thanksgiving cards have been made, it's time to shift my attention to those birthdays. 

I really wanted to do something special for my husband for her birthday instead of a generic birthday card. I confess, I'm not very creative when it comes to birthday cards, but with the help of cut files from SVGcut.com and some challenges like the Alphabet Challenge with R is for Rounded (I thought of rounding the bases), I attempted this baseball birthday card. 

The card is pretty straight forward. The rounded corner square with the baseball diamond in the center is the perfect backdrop. I inked everything since the field and bases do get dirty. I cut the bats that are underneath the jersey and I used a brown glitter pen to draw short lines on the bat, hoping that would mimic what a natural bat would look like. The last pieces were the baseball, the birthday sentiment, and the jersey numbers 33. My husband always plays with the number 33. 

Finally, I found the most perfect stamp from Docerela Stamps on the Mix & Match III set, "For my Husband."

I love the way it came out, and I know he is going to feel special with this card. 

Challenges Entered
A Gem of a Challenge: Create a Scene
Alphabet Challenge Blog: R is for Round
Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards: For the Boys
Kitty Bee Designs: Dies or Punches
Seize the Birthday: Birthday
Shopping Our Stash: Something for my sweetie
Eureka Stamps: Shaped Cards

Dracula

If you can believe it, all the inspiration for this card came from Docerela Creations. They have an Anything Goes challenge right now, and I wanted to use a stamp from Docerela stamp sets. This sentiment, "Bite Me," can actually be found on the Ready to Pop stamp set. Instead of creating a cupcake (the intention of the of the stamp set), I put my Halloween hat on and decided to create a cute Dracula.

Isn't he just adorable. I used the SVG set Halloween Cuddly Friends from SVGcut.com. I added some texture with the red Skittles, skull brad, and a nestabilites square.

Challenges Entered
Robyn's Fetish Challenge: Die Cut
Addicted to Stamps: Holiday
Docerela Challenges: Anything Goes
Great Impressions: Get Your Spook On
Send a Smile for Kids: Fall Colors

A.. B.. C..

Yes, I'm back to making school cards for my nephews. They are at very different levels of education from learning at home, to pre-school, to Kindergarten. I like to send them cards to interact with them consistently. I plan to send this to my nephew in pre-school, and ask him to sing the A, B, C song to me. Good thing Docerela Stamps was having a school challenge.

The background paper is from my stash.
The die cuts are from Cricut's Recess cartridge.
The stamp is from Docerela's Stamps the Mix and Match III set.
Finally the letter tiles are from American Crafts.

Challenges Entered:
Bitten by the Bug: Use a Cricut die cut.
Love to Create: Add lines
Use your Stuff: Back to School
Docerela Creations: School
The Stamping Boutique: School

Let's Chill

Are you using SVG files with your die cutting machines, well, don't miss out on Designs on Cloud 9. They have a terrific range of files - some complete files, some singular, and of course, a weekly FREE file. I am honored to be part of their Design Team.

For my project this time, I thought about how wonderful my summer has been, and with the rest of August to enjoy, I'm dreaming of relaxing out in the summer sun, swimming, and reading. Like my card says, Let's Chill. I plan to put this card in my husband's suitcase when we go on vacation next week. 

The svg cut file that I used for this is called, Hello Summer, and you can purchase it RIGHT HERE. 

Aren't these sunglass just adorable. They needed to be the focal point of the card, so I added glitter to the sand and water just to give the sunglasses a little more detail. I found this cute splash zone ribbon and used it to divide the glasses and the sentiments. Of course, I had to put "Relax" on the card, and then in a small stamped sentiment, "Let's Chill". The stamp is from Docerela's stamp set: Summertime. 

Challenges Entered

Crafts 4 Eternity: Beachside. 

Aud Sentiments Challenge: Favorite Season 

Paperminutes: Die Cuts

Docerela Creations: Anything Goes

Watch Your Toes

Are you using SVG files with your die cutting machines, well, don't miss out on Designs on Cloud 9. They have a terrific range of files - some complete files, some singular, and of course, a weekly FREE file. I am honored to be part of their Design Team.

For my project this week, I had a lot of fun with their Beach Crabs cutting file. This is such a fun set for summer with three goofy crabs. 

I decided to use the Beach Crab with the sunglasses. I think he's a little mischievous, and he wants to nip your toes. I used a soft yellow dotted designer paper from The Lemon Floral stack by DCWV. I smeared glitter glue all along the bottom of his crab legs and the into the sides of the paper to create the feeling of sand. The flip flops are actually ceramic, and I can't remember where I found them. The stamp was a gem of a find for this particular card and is from Docerela Stamps, Summertime Set, and the sand pebbles are Skittles in the color Pebble Glitter. 

Challenges
Cards in Envy: Toes in the Sand
My Craft Spot: Bright Colors
Crafting for All Seasons: Creature Feature
Divas by Design: Under the Sea
Crafty Catz: Lazy Days of Summer

Shouldn't I Be Working???

It's 3 pm right now, and yes, I should be working, but I couldn't help but use my new Docerela stamps. The set I used is called Summertime, and it is fabulous. I love Docerela stamps (a new find for me) because they take ink so well, and I always get a crisp and even stamp. I really wanted to use the Thanks a Melon sentiment because of this fantastic cut file from PPbN SVG site. All of the patterned paper is from my stash, including my glittered ribbon which I have barely used since I got it months ago. But, I have to take a moment to say how much I love my Skittles on this card. They just pull all of the colors together, so I used three sets of two colors. Not only that, but the pink Skittles color is called Watermelon. The green color is called Bottle Glitter. Get your Skittles HERE.

Challenges
Docerela: Anything Goes
The Pink Elephant: Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge: Die Cuts
Shopping our Stash: Three embellishments
Oldie but a Goodie: Use Your Stash

You Take the Cake

It's time to let you in on a secret, my husband and I are addicted to cupcakes. We found this amazing place that makes mini-cupcakes in fantabulous flavors, but they have to be ordered and delivered (no store). Guess how many times we have done that! 

I won't give that number away. 

Every trip to the supermarket we check the bakery for some speciality cupcakes. Right now there is a scrumptious strawberry lemonade cupcake in the refrigerator for me thanks to the thoughtfulness of my husband. 

And that was the inspiration for this card. 

I would normally never use such bold paper, but I thought if the theme was cupcakes - go all out. You can't see the cherry on the top too well because of the red mat, but it is covered in glitter. The white icing is covered with liquid appliqué to give it dimension. The stem of the cherry has a Skittle in the color bottle glitter. The stamp is from Docerela Stamps, Ready to Pop. 

Challenges Entered

Docerela: Kichen Related