Gallery Idol 2011 Submission

Well, I decided to create a card for the PaperCrafts Gallery Idol 2011 contest. Today.

My sister and her husband are buying their first home. I'm really excited for them and so I thought I would make a congrats card for them tonight.

As I was thinking about what to create, I remembered a card I made (waaay back) here and decided to use that same idea. This time I used my Cricut and Gypsy to create the base, welding and flipping so that I would have a pocket which was much easier than the last time!

I cut the roof off the outer pocket and cut another house to create the insert. Since my sister's bedding is a grey with bright pops of colors I decided to pair some grey script paper with some Basic Grey papers. All from my stash. I love the little crystal doorknob and wreath on the door. And the lace trim.

Happy Birthday!

My brother celebrated his 30th birthday this year and suggested golf stuff or gift cards to golf as ideas from his wish list. I was able to make his card this morning before we all gathered for lunch to celebrate his day and the Fourth of July.

The image is from Magenta; not sure if they still make it or not as I've had it for years. It was fun to sit and color and my little man sitting nearby creating a card for his uncle at the same time, sharing colored pencils and listening as he learned to draw a flag from his daddy. I think my brother was pretty impressed with that card....might have been his favorite although my sister got him a singing one that brought back great memories of our childhood so there might have been a tie!

Hope your day was wonderful for our nation's birthday! Our time with family was terrific but now we are home and I'm figuring out what to do next. Normally we would be heading to the local fireworks show in an hour or so. The rains just have not come this spring and early summer so not only have fireworks been banned in the city (they usually are) they are banned completely. Someone told me from the whole state but I'm not sure if that is true or not. Either way, no fireworks this year. The city is doing a laser light show instead and I have to say I just think that is lame LAME. I hope they bring back the fireworks next year!

Here's a quick card I did last night. I am trying to use up all my stuff! I think this will be a great wedding card - or a Valentine's card, although it's pretty girly for me to give to hubby!
Have a wonderful day!!

WARNING!!

Stamping can be Hazardous to your Health!
This was the last challenge I was going to work on Friday night. As I was bent over a drawer looking through stamps, I felt my back go -eeecckkk! I don't even think I really moved, but something moved in my back. It was so bad I didn't think I was going to be able to stand up. I yelled for my hubby who came in, sighing and saying "where's the spider? when are you going to learn to kill them on your own?" Yea! Do you feel the love??? After he realized I was hurting I don't think he felt any more sorry for me! But he did kindly help me to the bed. After a very full day on Saturday, I was able to come back to the challenges after I got the baby to bed. I picked up here again. Pretty basic card. I had wanted to add stickles to my stars and some of the fireworks but I still couldn't find them. Masking is such a great technique and fairly easy to incorporate on a simple design like this. One of my stamping goals is to start thinking out my projects a bit more so that I can create really elaborate scenes with masking.
See the chat thread for this challenge HERE and view the other creations!!

I have other cards to post but I think I'm going to go find my stickles and restore some more order to my stamp space!

Shoes? Chocolate?

Both please!! Second challenge for VSN was to create something inspired by these pink and brown shoes made out of chocolate. Yummy!
I used the Sketch Challenge 159 for this card and a cute Maribou shoe I picked up a few months back in Norman, OK.
You can check out all the other creations (and see the inspiration) HERE on SCS.

Circle of Friendship

The first challenge of VSN was to create a circle card. I had ordered some MFT sets weeks ago and decided that TONIGHT (Friday night) was the night I was going to use them. I am also going to Dallas in a few weeks for a jewelry team meeting and 2 of my gals are going with me early - we are hitting the malls so I wanted to send them a card before we go to let them know how excited I am to be getting away with them! The challenge only allows you 45 minutes to make your card - and I made 2! Now that they are done, I wish I had matted pop dotted the main image. I use to blow off pop dots - but boy, what a difference they make! I haven't decided yet if I will send these or remake them. Thanks for stopping by!

Here is a thank you card I made using a sketch challenge last week. For the life of me, I can't remember which one it was. I made another card using this same sketch - but gave it to my sister before I took a photo of it. (ETA: It was Di Hickman's sketch) Hope you like it! And some more: I was running on adrenaline and just decided to mass produce them. ETA: (I finally remembered details on this card too! I needed something quick and sharp looking and remembered a card Kristina did for MACM (here) and came up with my version....I still remember the music she had playing in her video and have been humming it for weeks in my head!

MOJO Lilacs

Here is a card I made for Mojo Monday #19 - my first Mojo sketch to participate in. I love her sketches so I am going to go back and do them all over the course of the year!