Dream Valley - Things with Wings

Hello again Crafters!  I just wanted to say thanks for all the lovely birthday wishes I received on Friday!  I passed it relatively quietly as my daughter is still sick.  Good news is that we finally have our car back, and fingers crossed it stays that way!

Our next challenge at Dream Valley is to show us your Things with Wings!  Our sponsor is One Stop Card Crafts.  They have donated this as the prize:

I have made an explosion box (my first attempt!) with white and bashful blue paper and ink from Stampin' Up. 

 The flowers are made using Stampin' Up set In Full Bloom.  The sentiment on the inside was made using a stamp from Stampin' Up set A Greeting for all Reasons.  

The butterflies were punched out and glittered with diamond dust and adhered with the "Ultimate" glue.  The ribbon is from my stash.

I am entering this into the following challenges as well:

By the Cute and Girly - cute and girly

Just Add Ink - box or a bag

SSDS - glitz

Secret Crafter Saturdays - butterflies

Have a great week!

Can't Wait for Spring!

Here is the card that I made for the Mojo Monday Blog Challenge 123, and the Cooking It Up With Katie challenge.

The card base is almost a mustard yellow. I overlaid that with a forest green paper, heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Next I used versa mark ink around the main image with the second flower. The stamp set I used was Stampin' Up's In Full Bloom. The white border on the front was punched with the Marvy butterfly punch and adhered to the front flap. Where the yellow and the white come together I glued a strip of gold patterned paper. It doesn't really show up well in the picture, but the butterflies have been glittered with diamond dust. I glued them to the card with the Ultimate glue and folded their wings a bit to make them look like they are flying off the page!

Mojo Monday is a great blog that has a challenge posted every Monday. It is a sketch challenge blog, meaning they post an image pattern that you need to follow to be considered for the prize. Click here to check out the sketch if you want to play along!

This card also qualifies for the Cooking It Up With Katie Challenge #9. The non human elements are the flowers and butterflies, the texture is the heat embossed flower and the glitter, and the butterfly punch is new! I had a great time with this challenge!

Mojo Monday - Week 121 Challenge

I had some scraps left over from waaaay back! I had bought a scrapbook kit from Stampin' Up that coordinated with the stamp set In Full Bloom. (I'm not sure if the set is retired now or not, couldn't find the info) I had made a mini 6" x 6" album from the kit, and had set aside the scraps as I always do. Found them in a box last week, and when I saw the challenge from the Mojo Monday blog site I knew just what to use! If you ask me, paper scraps are the perfect way to come up with a totally different card! So here is my card for the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge Week 121.

This card was also a great way to use the Hodgepodge Hardware that has been sitting neglected in my craft box! If you are like me you can't wait to see the bees on the flowers!