Under the Weather

Hello all! I'll keep it short today since I should be resting, strep throat, YUCKY! Maybe this bright fun Mommy Day card will make me feel better :) I made it using Magnolia's Patiently Waiting Tilda, and some papers from my DCWV sweet stack, enjoy!

Patiently Waiting Tilda

Pockets Full of Love, and Lace

I am in love with pocket cards!!! The possibilities the ease, everything! Here's another Mother's Day card, hope you all enjoy it!

Tilda Spreads Love

I'm also in love with this DP from the Garden Tea Party Stack by DCWV. I used some of this paper a few weeks ago for my Tea Time In Wonderland post when I first received my Alice Bean in the mail. I fussy cut a flower and a few butterflies from one of the pages in the stack and used a small Recollections butterfly punch for the tiny butterflies here and there. The other DP was from the open stock at my LCS. I added some roses and stickled the background and small butterflies as well as adding a few pearls to complete the look. For the card insert I inked the edges with SU! Positively Pink and Tim Holtz's Walnut Stain to give it a distressed look. She will be entered in the Simply Magnolia 'Let's See Your Pockets!' Challenge (thanks Butterfly , for the suggestion!) as well as the Flutter By Wednesday's Challenge #238 and the Tilda Town Challenge #51 Anything Goes
OMG almost forgot to mention, the lace is from my local Walmart! The reason I'm excited is because they came in the cutest little plastic bubbles (which I have already re purposed one of). Each lace bubble contains 9ft of this darling lace and at $1 a bubble, I had to let everyone know about this deal! I'm including a pic below, has anyone else seen these things???

-Krys

Orange Overload

Am I the only person who hated their school colors? No, I mean really hated their high school's colors. Every pep rally was reminiscent of Halloween, seriously, of all the color combinations in the world, black and orange! Well in the spirit of rebellion I have apparently been subconsciously harboring ill feelings for the color orange lol! Well today I decided to pull out my set of twinkling h2o watercolors and get over my aversion by trying my hand at my very first monochromatic card, this was the result

Cheshire Bean

Too much orange! lol I plan to enter her in the Farm Fresh Friday (FFF) Challenge- Monochromatic .
P.S. does this make you crave orange soda? ^.^
-Krys

No Time to Say Hello, Good-bye! I'm Late I'm Late I'm Late!!!

Yes this is a very late last minute entry to the FFF Challenge- April Showers Bring May Flowers But here she is all the same!

Cheshire Bean

The post title is actually a line from the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland and quite fitting considering I entered the challenge with 2 minutes to spare! Boy do I feel clever,you know, in a not really sorta way ^.^ Anyway everything on this card was something from my scrap stash except the cloud/rainy DP I made that one myself with london fog memento ink, W2 copic marker and crystal stickles, the perfect "april showers" to go with my "may flowers", the roses which I  colored with copics B0000, BG32, and BV000 to match the background DP. I finished the look with the smallest rhinestones I had in my collection and voila! not too shabby, huh? Also entered in the Crafty Cardmakers challenge #90 April Showers bring May Flowers

-Krys

There's No Place Like Home! (PICTURE HEAVY)

Hello fellow crafters! After spending some time at my parents' house and giving them a chance to play with their grandchildren I finally made it back home! Technically speaking I've been home since Sunday, but boy have I been a busy bee! Among many other things, one of THE best things to have happened during my break was that my card making 'business' took off, sort of lol! I left my mom's house with about 4 card orders, one of which was a rather large order of baby dresser card invitations (40 to be exact) for a baby shower and 10 book cards for the same baby shower which I will be sure to post pics of once I get them complete. Today, however is mainly to showcase the card orders that I HAVE finished. I will most likely submit them for challenges to be named later in an update coming soon also. In the mean time, here ya go! I'm very excited about these

Edwin from Magnolia

This card was created for a boy's birthday who happens to be a Houston Texans fan. The image is a Magnolia colored with my trusty copics. I created the flags for the banner with my cricut 'Something to Celebrate' cart and made the star and stripe center with the 'George' font cart with red and white baker's twine to hold them up I used the tiny bubbles embossing folder to give the textured background and some alpha stickers I've had forever to spell out handsome along the side. The stars were actually orange table confetti from a party for my hubby but were recycled, recolored with copics, and given a coat of Judykins Diamond Glaze for texture and shine.

 

 

Tilda Sending Love

 

This pop up card was created for Mother's Day using another Magnolia stamp, Tilda Sending Love and also colored with copics. The DP is from DCWV and the solid green is a scrap embossed with the swirls embossing folder and lightly inked with aloe memento for definition. I colored the roses with my copics to match my card and the sentiment was from MFT. I finished off this card with some stickles here and there and a few pearls from my stash.

 

 

C.C. Designs- Swiss Pixies Sunflower Lula

 



 

 

 Last but not least, my first pocket card! I actually hate sunflowers, they creep me out (loooong story, I wont go into that!) But someone specifically requested them, go figure. Well there was nothing to do but grin and bear it right? So I made the most of it and did my best. The image is Swiss Pixies Sunflower Lula colored with copics and stickled to death ^.^  The green DP is from the same DCWV stack used on the previous card and the rub on sentiment is also a DCWV. The yellow was actually just a scrap that I stamped and heat embossed sunflowers onto. I colored a few rhinestones I've had forever yellow with copics to match the color scheme of my card and completed the look with a ribbon recycled from a cookie basket and a (creepy) coffee filter sunflower made by me ! Hope this wasn't an overload but I was just so super excited to be back home, and I've got the cardst to prove it :)

 

Challenges entered:

The ABC Challenge Blog- M for Make it Sparkle

The Ribbon Girl Blog- Magnolia Only, Add a Die Cut

7 Kids College Fund Challenge Blog- #72 April Showers Bring May Flowers

Creative Card Crew- Challenge 35 Bling

Oozak Challeng Blog- # 14 Anything Goes with Earthtones

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog- Happy Mail