Late Night Cardmaking!

It seems the only time I have to make cards now is late at night, when everyone is sleeping - finally!! Tonight, I made this adorable Birthday Card using a Phindy image - isn't she cute in her spring dress? I paper pieced the dress, flowers, shoes and hair ribbon. Generally, I don't like how this comes out whenever I try it, tonight, it seemed to work well for me!

Phindy's Challenge this week is a color challenge - pink - this was a nice change for me who has been seeing WAY too much blue lately!

I used a sketch from this week's Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge - all of those flowers just seemed to call for pink!

Pixie Dust Studios also had a pink challenge this week, "pretty in pink".

I hope you enjoy this card as much as I do!

Done with thank yous - for now!

Okay, this is my last batch of thank you cards - for now at least! I made 4 of these.....

They are for 2 different challenges:

1.) Sketch Saturday - Sketch

2.) Cupcake Inspiration - Photo Inspiration

Not Blue And Not A Thank You!

Can you believe it? I made something other than a thank you card!!! I know, I'm pretty excited about this!! It was so much fun making this card. I got to use new papers that a dear friend sent to me. I got to use pinks and purples too! I think this cutie from Phindy's Place is just adorable and I don't think I've even used her yet - crazy!!

So, I made this card just for fun and for a few different challenges too!

1.) Phindy's Place Challenge - birthday

2.) Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - sketch

3.) Digital Tuesday - butterflies or lace or both

4.) Cupcake Craft - lace

5.) Creative Card Crew - cute and girlie

More Thank Yous!

Hello All! I'm back with another thank you card (actually I made 3 of these!)! I'm getting really good at coloring Phindy's "Hugs from Here" image quite quickly!!!!!

This card is for many challenges:

1.) MelJens - Clean and Simple (I used the easily reproduced definintion for this one too)

2.) Friday Sketchers - Sketch

3.) Allsorts - Primary Colors - Use Red, Yellow and Blue only

4.) Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes - that was easy!

5.) Stamptacular Sunday - Snips, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails - Okay, I don't know what a "snip" is but the challenge says it meas "all about boys" so, there you go!

8 different challenges in one card!

Hello All!

Well, I have managed to make one card that covers 9 differet challenges! I'm pretty impressed by this! Here are the challenges:

1.) Allsorts - "dressing up" - Hedgie is all dressed up for her birthday!

2.) Sketch Saturday - Sketch

3.) Stamptacular Sunday - "Out of this World" - I don't know about where you live, but hedgehogs don't wear dresses in Canajoharie!

4.) Cute Card Thursday - "Whateva" - this was just easy!

5.) Paper Cutz - "Skunk, monkey, squirrel, or hedgehog" - as soon as I read this, I thought of cute little Hedgie!

6.) Fussy and Fancy Friday - "Pink and Black" - not colors I normally use but it was fun to challenge myself there!

7.) Phindy's - "Happy Birthday" - well, it is a birthday card!

8.) Stamp Something - Photo Inspiration - the photo had a birthday theme so I went with a birthday card!

9.) Pile It On! - "butterflies/bugs/bees" - there is a little bee swarming around poor Hedgie's head! Really, it's there!

Operation Write Home and a few different challenges!

Incase you haven't seen it, there is a section in my side bar about Operation Write Home (OWH). This is a great organization that I support whenever I can. Crafters donate cards to be shipped to soldiers overseas so they can write home to their loved ones. Since my little obsession is making cards, I always seem to have an abundance of them (I'm great about MAKING them just not about SENDING them!) Right now, OWH has a challenge going on called the 1/2 and 1/2 challenge. They are asking people to send in a 1/2 box of fall/winter holiday themed cards and a 1/2 box of every season cards. This first set of cards works for the every season cards. I had been working on Halloween Cards so they will work for the fall/winter holiday theme. I have also made set of get well cards and then 8 random every season cards that I had made for different challenges!

This week, Phindy's Place Challenge Blog's challenge is "Clean and Simple". One of the definitions of "Clean and Simple" is "can be copied and mass produced fairly quickly". When I read that definition, I immediately thought of OWH. I like to make sets of 8 cards. On the website, they explain that they generally send out 8 batches of cards at a time. So, by making sets of 8 each batch gets one of each of my sets!

This set of cards also works for the Papertake Weekly Challege this week. Their challenge is called "White and Bright" - your card must have white and at least one bright color on it. I'm pretty sure these oranges, pinks, and blues cover bright and my image is on white paper, the card boarder is white, the string is white, and the sentiment is on white!


My second set of cards, get well cards, works for The Wild Flower Wednesday Challenge at The Wild Flower Patch. Their challenge this week is embossing. For this set of cards, I used a sentiment that I got from the Sentimental Sunday's Challenge Blog. I used a clear acrylic stamp for the flower, stamped it on white paper, heat embossed it using white powder, then "colored" it with a diaper wipe and an ink refiller! It's a simple way to make a card that I think looks pretty neat!

Here is a picture of all of the cards being shipped out for the OWH challenge:

Clean and Simple

I'm back with another entry for the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog! This week's challenge is "clean and simple". It is really helping me to get caught up on baby thank yous because they are so "simple" to make! Again tonight I made 2 identical cards, I think I'm down to only needing 1 more (so far)!!!

Here is my second entry....

I decided to leave out a sentiment just to make it even more "simple". I think they came out pretty cute!