Be You

Take a look at this lovely card I created for Ribbon Carousel Challenge this week as well as the Inspired By Challenge #30. It was also inspired by a card I saw on Dawn McVey's Blog. I love the vibrancy of the colors, layered flower, mis-match of embellishments and the distressing.

The challenge of Ribbon Carousel was to do paper piecing. I chose to stamp the flower 3 times and then cut around the petals to give it dimension. Piecing it all back together on the card really makes it a focal point!

This was the inspiration photo on Inspired By. The colors, flowers and bit of polka-dots is what really caught my eye!

May Cricut Club {an H2H challenge}

May Cricut Club and the Heart 2 Heart challenge this week are a perfect match! I am absolutely in love with this month's promotion "Dotty For You" paper kit. Last month we created a Dream Banner for our project and this month I've decided to use the Dotty papers again. We will be exploring another box that can be cut on the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge, the fry box! It will hold four cards that feature the lovely floral paper which happens to coordinate with the Card Word Puzzle stamp set, one of my favorites this season. I have also incorporated the fun Birthday sentiments from the Just a Number stamp set, also a favorite! This will be a great project to keep for yourself or give as a gift!

Each card with humorous sentiments inside~

Just a bit of glitter glitz finishes the flower perfectly~

Please visit the Heart 2 Heart blog to see more floral creations from the design team and play along with us!

Favorite Spring Stamp

With every new Idea Book I usually find a stamp set that quickly becomes my favorite. In the Spring/Summer book my pick is the Card Word Puzzle. From the moment I opened it a ton of ideas kept flooding my head. Here are the images in this stamp set.



These are the first 3 cards I created~


I stamped the flower on a solid surface and cut it out, I colored it in with watercolors, and I stamped it multiple times creating a background. This stamp has so much versatility!

Then I decided to create a few sets of cards. I put them all together using another new stamp called Crafted With Love. I placed the sentiment on a band tied with some new grey twine.

All three sets contained 4 cards each in all the same color combination of colonial white, creme brulee and grey wool!

I also stamped the back of all the cards with the Crafted With Love stamp for a personal touch.

Inspired By #7

Last week I was selected as the winner of the Inspired By challenge #6, see it here. Once I saw this week's photo I was definitely inspired and had to play along.

I love the converse shoes. I can totally see my own daughter doing this for her wedding. She is a big fan of converse shoes and the color green, but they would be {lime} green!!



For my card I wanted to pick up the lovely color combo of grey and yellow, which I've been doing a lot lately in much of my card making. I wanted the white to be minimal and really just pop the green in there with a fun ribbon! This card also gives you a sneak peek and my absolute favorite new stamp called Card Word Puzzle found in the new Spring 2012 Idea Book. Hope you like it!


Be sure to visit the Inspired By Blog and play along with the challenges, it's fun and addicting!