Tinkerbell

At Charisma Cardz this week they are looking for fairies on your creation. Well I didn't have a fairy stamp, but I did find a pixie! If you Google search Disney's Tinkerbell images you can find some printable kids coloring pages that work great for downsizing and printing on cardstock! So here's my card:

I found some coordinating green designer papers and used the sketch from the challenge over at Our Creative Corner. Colored Tink with some jelly roll pens and then added radiant pearls in dragonfly wing to the wings and pom poms on her shoes. The radiant pearls really added some nice shimmer.

This also qualifies for the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #102 - Lucky Green

Stampin' For The Weekend - Monochromatic Week

Thanks so much for joining me this week here at Crafts and Cravings!

Birthday House Mouse with Candle

This card I put together with some coordinating scraps of dp I had on hand. I started by making a bifold card and then making a front panel for it. I cut all the scraps the same size, then put through the Martha Stewart Scallop Dot punch. I taped and layered them in a pattern, then added the green to tone down the pink. The image is from a House Mouse stamp. It originally had another mouse off to the left which I cut off and used on the inside. The flowers I used were from a packet I won from the weekly blog candy at The Craft Table. Thanks!

Here's the inside view of the trifold.........

And the other mouse who overindulged!!!!

This card qualifies for the following challenges:

Charisma Cardz - Birthday Card with a Candle

Creative Card Crew - Celebration

Tuesday Taggers - Swirls and Curls. The sponsor this week is Crafty Individuals. Please check them out!

I hope to have some more fabulous cards for you soon! Stay tuned!

Twilight Notebook

Here's a quick project to get you all through the weekend! My son is going to yet ANOTHER birthday party tomorrow, so here's the gift I made to go with him! Abbi is a Twilight fanatic, and that is the theme of her party, hence the photo!

I made this altered notebook with the sketch from Charisma Challenge #7. Black and real red cardstock from Stampin' Up, circles cut from the Creative Memories circle cutter, and silver eyelets put on by my crop-o-dile. The A is chipboard embossed with silver embossing powder.

Head on over to Charisma Cardz and take part in their challenge!

Week of the Man!

My second post today! Woo hoo, go me! :)

Well it seems that everyone is onto Masculine cards this week! I have started playing along at a blog called Cards for Men, so this works out perfectly for the rest! :) The challenge this week was to make a card primarily green. Here is mine!

The layout was from the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge. The main image panel I stamped on glossy paper using the large Meadow from Stampscapes and adding the bear from the Stampin' UP set Yukon. I colored it with dye based inks with a blender pen and sponges. I sealed it with Pearlcote Pearl Glaze, then backed it with black. I made a 5" square card base out of old olive cardstock and punched out four 2" squares from certainly celery cardstock. I used a black pen to create the "stitching." Used Versamark ink to stamp some leave on the certainly celery. It was lacking something so I decided to stamp the oak leaf from Stampin' Up set Lovely As A Tree. I cut it out and put it in the upper left hand corner with a pop dot.

Challenges this fits with:

Cards for Men - Green challenge

Sweet Sunday Sketch - #56

Charisma Cardz - Male

My Time to Craft Challenge - Green

Rosie - D's Challenge - Just for Men

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #7 - Masculine Cards

Crafty Creations - Stitching

Wow, that sure is a lot! Guess that goes to show you I have been browsing way too many blogs! I hope everyone has a great day!

Valentine's Easel Card

So this is an easel card. When I saw them on the Splitcoaststampers site, I said no way, that is way to difficult. Turns out it was the fastest, easiest card I have made in a while! Check here for the template.

I was blog hopping for a while yesterday and came across Charisma Cardz Challenges. This week's challenge is white on white. I don't usually make monochromatic cards, but I couldn't resist this one. I figured it was a great time to try out the easel card.

This card also qualifies for the challenge from the Alphabet Challenge Blog - New Technique. Hop on over to these blogs and try your hand at their challenges.

Ok, on to the card! I made the easel out of the white cardstock. More white put through the Big Shot with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. A white strip was also cut out with Spellbinders Borderabilities - Eyelets for the bottom section. The Big Shot was also used for the tag with Sizzix die Tag Set.

The heart stamp was from a Stampin' Up set called Polka Dot Punches. I stamped that on the tag with a light pink ink. Next I made a bow through the hole in the tag and attached that to the paper with the swiss dots with pop dots. Pop dots were also used to adhere that whole sheet to the card. For the lower section I used the Ultimate glue to put on the border and the pearls from Stampin' Up's pretties kit. The last thing was putting some diamond dust glitter in the holes on the border to give it some shine!

Enjoy your stamping!