The Race and some cards

I am so excited that the race season has started. I am a huge NASCAR fan. I spending time in my craft room watching the race and making cards. That is what I did today. My daughter asked me to make her some cards that she could send out. I decided to take some time today and work on some of those cards. Since she will be mailing them I kept the embellishments to a…

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Loving my punches

I have created quite a few cards using my punches lately. I have also been on a flower kick. Not sure why, maybe I am anxious for Spring. I am also doing a lot of layering. Not sure you can tell from the pictures but there has been a lot of dimension on my cards lately. Today’s card used the sketch from Our Creative Corner . When I saw the circles I thought it would…

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Ladybugs on the move

Happy Valentine’s Day! I think this card is so cute. I won’t chat much as I need to get going as I am going to a Valentine’s dinner. Sorry the picture is dark, but it is cloudy here today. Today’s card uses Amy’s Friday sketch. I was looking through my stamps and saw this hedgehog with the ladybug. I then saw my ladybugs on the brick wall and knew I wanted to combine them. I…

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A Wonderful Surprise

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so surprised this morning when I went to my blog to post a challenge picture on the appropriate website. I had 5 comments that needed to be posted. When I clicked on them it was a message from Dana at Craft Critique/ saying that 5 of my posts had been included in the Valentine Carnival at Craft Critique. I must have entered but don’t remember. Craft Critique is a great…

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Our Creative Corner Splitcoast Color Card

Wow, what a title. I absolutely love this card!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used my 5 petal flower punch to create a card for a commitment I had (you can actually see the other card on February 21 here on my blog). I liked the flowers so I modified the flower and came up with this flower that looks so cool. I also used the punch to make the leaves on the flowers. I began with the idea…

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Mojo Monday Colour Create Card

Boy I really challenged myself with this card. I had to modify the colors as best I could. I discovered a new color challenge site. Colour Create has the color challenge to use peach and aqua. I looked through all of my inks and found that my VersaMagic pads had 2 colors that I could use. I also wanted to do Verve’s sketch challenge for this week. I decided to combine the 2. I needed…

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