Fusion 4 Challenge

Awhile back I came across a brand new, just starting challenge

called "fusion"

 

My idea was to do each one from day one on.....

well, I made it to the first one, and here it is the 4th challenge....

and I ended up missing 2.....

but hopefully I can now keep up.....

if you haven't seen it yet...then by all means follow my link there

as there is some awesome, and I mean awesome eye candy there....

you vote on your 3 favorites, and it is hard, as these girls are creative!!!

 

 

For my creation, I used a background paper from Crate Paper Neighborhood Collection....

the doily is a Cherry Lynn Die

the flower is one I made a few weeks back using the Wendi Vecchi modeling film

and I stamped my sentiment on some twill tape....

Now I am headed back outside to the flower gardens...see ya tomorrow!!

In The Clouds

It's going to be a sunshiney day here today....

I will be outside in my flower gardens for awhile...yeah!!!

 

I think my "mojo" is finally returning a bit.....

I needed a card for a granddaughters birthday....

so decided to sneak a card into the challenge at City Crafters which is "clouds"

Which by the way, I am a guest designer there on May 7th...so that is exciting....

They have very fun challenges, and I try not to miss them!!

For my card, I used an IO cloud background stamp to start with

I then used a few Unity stamps from one of their past KOM club

I added a bit of bling to my airplane, and stamped "happy birthday"

with a Hero Arts Stamp

 

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I have had a few "wins" lately......

my altered box received an "honorable mention" at the Shabby Tea Room

My little happy camper won at Papercraft Star...and I won a $50 gift certificate

to the "Shabby Apple"

and then I won some "fab" blog candy from my friend Dianne at Magpiedi-Magpiedi

So it has been a very fun week or so!!!

A Little Something.... Finally

Today is was raining, so I had a project to complete for my guest designer

spot on May 7th at City Crafters.....

As long as I was somewhat back in the creative mood

I decided to get my mojo in gear and do a challenge.....

I made this card for the challenge at Papercraft Star using the photo below for inspiration...

 

 

here is my card I made.....

 

 

I have had these little wood teapots for years, so I stamped on it...

.turned out kind of cute.....

Micro Glitter Tulips

Well, I must say, I am not usually fond of doing more then one post a day

but due to some other things I have going on

 

I wanted to make sure I got this posted.....

so here it is, my Micro Glitter Tulips card

 

 

you might remember me doing this technique last fall

using the Elizabeth Craft Stickers, micro glitter and Copics

the stickers are peeled off and placed on Scor tape paper

glitter is sprinkled on (micro glitter) and then colored with Copics

you just want to make sure you clean your Copics very well when done

it's a somewhat easy and very rewarding process...

I am entering this in a "new to me" challenge at Stampendous Impressions to use

"Micro Glitter".....

if you are not familar with this glitter it is a very, very fine glitter

it can be purchased in lots of colors, I used a plain white (warm) color on my card

so I could "color" it.......

these are the stickers used, the ones on the left are after they are peeled off

and the ones on the right are before they are peeled off......

Gingham and Daisies

Can you believe we are having snow flurries.....

nothing major, but I am so "over" snow and cold weather....

Mother Nature is playing some bad tricks on us!!

 

 

I made my Gingham and Daisies card for the challenge at Impression Obsession

"flowers for you challenge"

I used Dew Drop Dandelion and SU Gumball Green for my IO gingham background stamp

the twig wreath and the daisy flowers are cut with IO dies....

the ribbon is a past $1 Michael's purchase.....the butterfly brad is Basic Grey (I think)

Frame It

Hello Monday.....

I still am having problems getting my creativity back...

does that happen to you??

 

 

I walk into my room full of wonderful things to work with

and draw a blank...

I have tons of inspiration...other blogs...Pinterest....but nothing seems to help

I think I have what writers call "writers block"...lol

I am hoping it goes away soon!!

 

I put this card together for the challenge at Flourishes "frame it"

I used a little plastic Maya Road frame for my sentiment...

the image is from Flourishes...

after coloring it with Copics, I added some shimmer to the flowers using Perfect Pearls

today is to be our best day this week, 60's in the afternoon and I plan to work outside

maybe the fresh air will clean my brain of it's cobwebs and my mojo will return!!

Pretty In Purple Challenge

Whew, it sure is taking me a bit to get my "mojo" going.....

I don't know whats wrong with me, but it seems like I am starting all over like a newbie!!

Maybe it's this cold weather, we had a HARD frost last night.....

so annoying, as my daffodils and other flowers got hit hard....

my leopards bane was loaded with buds, am not sure if they will come out of it.....

 

 

So, I "attemped" to do a challenge this morning for "Pretty In Purple" challenge

at Cheery Lynn Designs.....

my purple shimmery flowers are anyones guess, just a purple flowers I guess....hah!

 

I have to say I am NOT a PURPLE  person, but gave it a go.....

 

to make the flowers I used my

Cheery Lynn dies fanciful flourish, BAF #2 , BAF embellishments #2

the cardstock is Concord Crush from SU

and the sentiment is SU Vintage Verses

the flowers were sprayed with Tattered Angels

a rather simple card.......