Bunny

There's a "bunny" challenge going on over at CASology this week, and I literally got this stamp set in the mail earlier this week from Pink by Design- purchased with a gift card I had won as a prize- and I thought it was perfect! It's technically a Halloween set, but a cute little bunny is just so spring!

I stamped the bunny three times- once on white cardstock, once on grey cardstock, and once on computer paper.  On the white cardstock I colored the feet and carrot with some colored pencils.  I paper pieced on the grey bunny costume.  On the computer paper, I colored the face in with a sharpie and then paper pieced that in too.  I wanted the face to be on thinner paper so it would look just slightly like the costume was on over top of it. 

The square mat was just cut with my paper trimmer and then rounded with a corner rounder.   Both pieces of paper are from the Echo Park 6x6 "Country Drive" pad. Then I put them onto a cardstock base that I had punched with a border punch.  The cardstock is slightly thinner in width than a regular A2, because I had a pit of trouble with my first round of border punching and had to slice it off and try again.  ;)

Birthday Bird

I felt like making a festive birthday card this week, so I pulled together a few challenges and came up with this birthday bird.  I used a sketch from Die Cuttin Divas for the layout of the card.  I mostly used regular cardstock, with the exception of the Happy Birthday paper and the starburst blue paper, which were from a 6x12 stack I had in my cupboard, which I'm pretty sure was from Paper Studio.

I cut the bird from Birthday Bash and he came out a little bigger than I had planned, but I moved the balloon down a little and made it work.  I think since the bird alone was the main image, it sized it based only on the bird and the balloon was just extra inches.  Live and learn.  :)  The two black rhinestones are from Recollections.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Cardz TV- Make a Wish (Child’s Birthday Card)
Pile it on Challenges- Happy Birthday
DL.Art- Birds
Fantabulous Cricut- Bye, Bye, Birdie
Die Cuttin Divas- Try a sketch

Pawprints

I've got a card today using Pink by Design stamps and a cut from Four Legged Friends.  I used some pink cardstock and stamped paw prints from Pink by Design's "Furry Friends" all over it as if it was background paper.  Then I put a piece of brown and pink ribbon on it and adhered the whole thing to kraft cardstock.  I cut the heart from Four Legged Friends- doesn't that paw print match PERFECTLY with the stamped one?  The actual cut has 4 layers, but I decided that the third layer was unnecessary and I liked it better using only three layers.

Inside the card, I stamped a sentiment from the same stamp set.  Then I used the negative image of the pawprint from the heart and put it in the cornere for a little decoration.

This card is being entered into the following challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays- Wallpaper

Pink By Design- Anything Goes

I have a new Blinkie!

When I first made my blog, Picnik was still open for photo editing and I loved a cute little doggy picture that they had- you know how I love dogs!- and put it into my header and button because it was free and I assumed that meant it was public domain.  It was pointed out to me today that the dog was close in appearance to a licensed character and after some thought I decided that even though it was probably different enough to not infringe on any copyrights, I didn't feel like it was fair for me to ask people to not copy my work without permission when I had something that appeared to be copying someone else's work right on my header and button.

I changed my header to not have any character in it, and my button to just include a pawprint that I got from a royalty free website.  They may go through more revisions because I don't love them like I did before and will probably keep looking for something cuter, but for now at least I can be at peace.  I'm really grateful that I found out, so I could make it right.  :)

All that is to say...if you have my old button on your website, it'd be great if you could just grab the new html and switch it out.  I also figured out how to get rid of those two weird characters that used to be underneath the button, so that was a bonus. 

Loads of fun

Happy Monday!  It's time for another challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges!  This week, our challenge is:

For the Boys

This was a fun one! My projects tend toward the girly side of things, so this made me look through my cartridges for cuts that I might not necessarily gravitate toward initially, which can lead to so much inspiration.  I decided that this was a perfect challenge for the B is for Boy cartridge, and then picked out this dump truck.  I had gotten this "Diamond Plate" embossing folder for Christmas, which was a perfect fit.  I used gray cardstock to make it look like the silver plates I usually see this pattern on when I go to the hardware store with my husband.  To finish it off, I put some ribbon along the bottom that reminded me of a street.  :)

Since I don't really have any sentiment stamps that would go with this card, I made my own using Lawn Fawn's "Harold's ABCs."

Are you feeling inspired?  Head over to Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges and see the masculine inspiration that the rest of the Design Team has for you, and then make a project of your own for the boys.  :)

A great giveaway!

Just a note to let you know about a great giveaway going on right now.  Mee Chelle at Cards by Mee Chelle is hosting a $25 gift card giveaway- and she's giving the lucky winner a choice of three different craft stores to pick from!  She's celebrating giving her blog a facelift with a whole new design.  You should stop by and check her blog out!

Thanks!

I'm continuing to work on building up my "Thank You" card stash right now.  This card is on a hot pink base (why do so many cardstock packs come with so much hot pink?), with a layer of black cardstock and then another layer of white cardstock, which I embossed with the Chevrons folder by Sizzix.  Then I put a strip of We R Memory Keepers washi tape along the bottom (I like that it's leaves, and it goes with the flower on the stamp!)

The stamp that I used is by Hero Arts.  I stamped it a few times to make sure I had the dimensions right, then I got out my Accent Essentials cartridge to cut the circles.  In case you have this stamp set, the dimensions I used were:

Black scallop: Shift/Shadow of Accent6 @ 2 inches
Pink circle: Shift/Shadow of Accent1 @1.75 inches
White circle: Shift of Accent1 @1.75

I left the white circle on the Cricut mat and stamped the stamp directly on, so that it would stay in place.  Then I adhered the three layers together and put them on with a foam square!

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge- Anything Goes                     

CASology- Circle