Dragon

This cute little dragon is from DigiShack. I colored him with metalic colored pencils so he's shinny like all healthy scales should be. I cut him in a circle, then mounted him on some Creative Memories paper. I used a scrap of my TAC printable paper and some pink polka dot paper for the background. One of the creative messages I came up with is "Sure is hot around here" or maybe have him make some comment about helping to light all the candles on the cake because someone is celebrating a big number birthday (FIL had 50 candles on his cake many years ago and they don't do that any more because it takes a long time to light that many and the amount of light it put out...whew!).

Thank you Yellow kitty

Second card of Thank you swap. I am tired of that edge showing up around the letter so I got my exacto knife out and trimmed it (it was attached to a wooden block so it wasn't easy).

Thank you kitty

First of two cards for a Thank you swap.

DigiShack Laughing Chickens

I whipped this one out in order to get the challenge done. I followed the SNR Universe sketch and got the free digi-stamp after our fireworks. I used my watercolor pencils and aqua pen on the chickens but the background was with copics and Prisma markers. I then added a ribbon and tied three knots. Then I mounted the image on yellow/gold and light green mats and adhered them all down.

Happy Lamb and Birthday Cupcake

I followed the sketch at Little Paper Shop (new to me blog that I think I'll try looking at more often since I like their sketches). I used TAC printable (the purple) and Lindsay's card kit (the red). I seem to have made the rectangles and oval a bit bigger than the sketch because there wasn't much room left for the 6 dots (3 per side). I used my trusty glue and multi-colored glitter to create the dots.For this lovely card, I followed the sketch over at Lili of the Valley (my birth flower's name). I think I did a better job guessing the sizes of the shapes, but I didn't have flowers as tiny as the sketch seemed to ask for or else my circle is bigger than the sketch's. I printed the cupcake from Lindsay's stamps and colored it with my colored pencils then cut it out. I glittered the icing with clear glitter and the sprinkles with pink glitter. After it was dry, I adhered it to lilac cardstock that I cut into a circle with my CM cutting system. The 2" x 1 3/4" rectangles are a printable freebie I pick up somewhere last year. I inked the edges of the rectangles and the circle with purple and attached them to gray cardstock (I don't have card sized purple cardstock - guess I know what I can buy now ). I glued purple flowers and pink strips in the right spots and wrote Happy Birthday with purple marker on the pink strips. As a final touch, I added a dot of silver paint to the center of each flower. It's now ready to go to my MIL for her Birthday.

Hope everyone is enjoying the 4th of July holiday.

Baby shower card

My cousin is having a baby (2nd one but it's been a while since the last one and I guess she didn't keep any previous baby stuff so there's a bay shower planned for her). I made this card for her but I don't know yet what I'm going to give her. I don't even know if it's a boy or girl so I made sure the card wasn't too frilly. I think I did a slightly better job of the glitter border (bottom edge and bottom right corner is a bit wobbly). The ribbon at the top is using the two-hole punch that I bought like a year ago and never used but I've been watching a bunch of you-tube videos and was reminded of this gadget when I saw a how-to with ribbon. I used a punch out that I never used on my scrapbooks (my babies are grown up past this stage) so I thought I would used it on a card rather than toss it out. The orange baby hands and feet were created with my cuttlebug and a fiskars embossing plate.

Sheep are Cool Card

Here's another card for my Mother In Law.

Yellow/Red Challenge - Summer card

On one of my card making yahoo groups (which I need to update my list on the side) there is today's challenge to use Red and Yellow on a card. I pulled out this yellow daisy I had colored, put it on the red cardstock (TAC print-you might even see the copyright in the corner), used a fancy corner rounder, added the thin line of glue and glitter, tied a ribbon that I got from my friend Lisa and attached it to yellow cardstock.