April Showers with Amber Ink

Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend. I know I did. The weather was in the upper 70's, the kids could be outside for the whole day, and we had a great family dinner! Couldn't be better! I guess all those conspired to get me moving today, because I whipped this one out for you after my trip to the crafty store!

This card I made for many different challenges, and I will list them all below after. I really wanted to put a plug in for this great company called Amber Ink. By way of my blogging treks, I heard about their company and that they had some free digis to try out, so I decided to check them out! The images are mega cute, and their service is very fast and personal! I hope everyone can take a look at this great company! Besides I love their slogan "because you're brilliant, not patient!"

So here is the card I made using Amber Ink's Rainy Day Girl:

And here's a close up of the image:

I used my new designer paper by the Paper Loft called Drizzle, Vintage Violet cardstock, some white and black cardstock, twill tape and some rhinestones and buttons.

I entered this card into the following challenges:

Mojo Monday - sketch

Incy Wincy Designs - any fold

Pink Elephant - Nature

Kaboodle Doodle - use a digi girl

Oh la la Creations - April Showers

Raise the Bar - April Showers

Totally Stampalicious - easel card

One Stitch At A Time - anything goes

SSDS week 34 - Flights of fancy!

Well it is week 34 over at Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturdays! The challenge is called Flights of fancy! That means we want you to use anything with wings. I hope you all come over and play with us and have a chance to win an acrylic stamp set from our sponsor 1-2-3 Stitch!

The DT was given some lovely images to play with and I decided to use the hummingbird. I had a bit of trouble with this one, because what do you do with a hummingbird? I could only think of flowers and that was pretty broad, but my hubby helped me along! Thank you! He said where do you normally see the hummingbirds? Duh...at the feeders! So along those lines here is my card:

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown - Springy

Fab N Funky #17 - Spring is in the air

Little Red Wagon - Rolling into Spring

ABC Challenge - R is for red

I hope everyone comes and participates in our challenge this week! I look forward to seeing all of your creations!

Happy Birthday To Me!

Yes, it is my birthday! No. Really. It is. This is no April Fool's joke! To celebrate I made a cute card with a funny lady!

I used some of my purple scraps and used a dark purple ink direct to paper. I also used my distressing tool around the edges. I colored this image from the Stampin' Up set Wisecracks with gel pens. All in all a fun card and super quick to put together!

I entered this card into the following challenges:

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Purple

Mojo Monday - sketch

Simon Says Stamp - distressing

Crafty Creations - anything goes

I hope everyone enjoys the day! I know I will!