Purple Tilda

Hello again! It has been a few days since I have posted anything. I looked at the house over the weekend, and realized I had to dig it out from underneath the filth! LOL! Ok, it wasn't that bad, but has taken some time to clean!

Ok, here's my entry for the Mojo Monday Challenge 125. I know, I know, it IS Thursday! Oh well. I decided Cherry Tilda needed some purple to color her day. Added a little bling on her hair ties (thanks for the idea Mom!). Posed her with pop dots over the pier from Art Impressions. I used some designer paper, the green, and propped all that on purple paper. Oh yeah, also wrapped a bow around the brown and green layers and added more bling in the upper left and lower right sides.

Special thanks to my husband for making me this wonderful box with which to take my pictures for the blog! Here's to no unusual backgrounds! :)

I have been spending time coloring in images, so I hope to have some assembled cards over the next week or so! Until then happy stamping!

Mojo Monday - Week 124 Challenge

Well, I was inspired by the last card I posted, to make one like that for the Mojo Monday Challenge. But first, I had to change a few things! Talk about never happy! LOL! In the main image I added a cabin that the people were walking to. Makes sense right? Stars are out, you have to be heading somewhere for the night! I put in some more trees and also added a different sentiment because I couldn't decide which one I liked better.

Again all images are from Stampscapes, the sentiment as well. I really love their stamps and making new scenes out of the same images is always amazing!

On another note, I want to put a question out to all of you crafting bloggers: How do you get nice sharp pictures that show all of that lovely detail? For some reason I am having trouble getting crisp images. I had tried scanning some of them, but the colors seemed to distort, and where it was blue it ended up looking purple! Talk about icky! :) Thanks in advance for all of your help!

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!

Winter Edwin

Hello. I've decided that doing a couple of challenges a week will help me have cards and gifts on hand to give for birthdays and anniversary's and just because. So this week I made a card for two challenges. I went to a fabulous sale at Stamped Designs in Dover, NH last weekend and was able to get winter Magnolia stamps at 25% off! Can't get any better than that!

For this card I used my new Edwin on Sled. He was so cute I couldn't resist him! I stamped him on white and colored him in with watercolor crayons. Cut out the image and blue backing using the Creative Memories circle cutting system. I also cut out some patterned paper and backed it with the same blue. Attached all the pieces to white card stock, and added snowflakes which I glittered with diamond dust. Also added some diamond dust to the snow around Edwin.

This card fits the Mojo Monday Challenge Week 122. Check out their great site each week for a new challenge.

It also fits the Roses on Paper Challenge 29. If you are a fan of Magnolia stamps then you definitely need to check out all the great ideas posted here.

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!