Happy Father's Day!

Good Morning again! 

It's time for another Pink Elephant Challenge!  

YEA!

The Pink Elephant Challenge #254

This week Ella has a Theme Challenge:

Father's Day

Father's Day is less than a week away!  

Do you have all of your Father's Day cards done?  I still have a few more to do.  I've had a couple orders from the Hubs' colleagues and of course, then, I have the Hubs, and our fathers to cover.

Here is my card using Puddle Jumper Scout from By LORi Designs Digi Shop.  

SPIES:

STAMPS: Puddle Jumper Scout (By LORi Boyd Designs).  Sentiment (Taylored Expressions).

PAPER: Brown, navy and green cardstock.  DP from Stash (so old - found it in a box of photos I need to scrapbook!).

INK: Versamark and emboss powder on sentiment; Copics on image.

EXTRAS: Scallop border die (My Favorite Things); Decorative label die (Spellbinders).

Now stop by The Pink Elephant Challenge Blog and see the fabulous projects the rest of Ella's design team has to share.  Then, get crafty and link up your Father's Day cards on the Inlinkz and join us.  We love having you play along!

For Following Challenges:

Cardz 4 Guys #21 - Father's Day

QKR Stampeded #91 - Father's Day

Catered Crop Manly Men Recipe Swap

Pink Elephant Blessings!

Happy #24 Anniversary!

Good Monday Morning!

I have a special post this morning!

Today, the Hubs and I celebrate our 24th Wedding Anniversary!

June 9, 1990

I made this special card for him:

SPIES

STAMPS: Sentiments - 1st Three (Hampton Art); Sentiment "Together" (Fiskars).

PAPER: White and teal cardstock.

INK: Turquoise (SEI).

EXTRAS: Flower emboss folder (Cuttlebug); Rose die (My Favorite Things); pearl strings; pearl gems.

I know it's a little froo-frooie for a guy, but he won't mind.  I'd been trying all week last week to figure out what kind of card to make him.  Then, the challenges at Colour Me and Muse kind of helped me along!  Colour Me's color challenge is "coastal cabana", kind of a turquoise color.  And, over at Muse, the "muse" card has a lot of turquoise also.  And, turquoise happens to be the color we had in our wedding ---- turquoise and white!  Perfect!

For the Muse challenge, I chose to kind of reverse things, putting the "stripes" or my cake layers, on top along with my sentiments.  

For Following Challenges:

Colour Me #23 - Monochromatic Coastal Cabana

Muse #70

Mod Squad Challenge: Anniversary

The Hubs is off work today so we have an action packed day ahead of us to celebrate.   Kayaking, swimming, a movie, dinner, then dessert (homemade s'mores with gigantic marshmallows) on the patio tonight.  

Anniversary Blessings!

Tool Time

Happy Sunday Afternoon!

I've been busy ----

 SPIES:

STAMPS: Sentiment - All The Fixings (Taylored Expressions).

PAPER: Kraft cardstock; Metallic silver; red cardstock; black cardstock; Woodgrain patterned paper (stock).

INK: Wicked Black (Colorbox).

EXTRAS: Pegboard die (Taylored Expressions); Tools/bolts dies (Taylored Expressions); Label die (Spellbinders); Striped emboss folder ((Cuttlebug); silver brads.

For Following Challenges:

Eureka Stamps #92- Father's Day

Take It Easy

Happy Sunday!

In the Christian world, it's Pentecost Sunday!

So, if you are Christian, 

don't forget to wear Red today

 to represent the 

fire of the Holy Spirit.

Then, get ready to get your craft on

with another spectacularly "sweet" challenge

at Cupcake Inspirations!

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #264

This week our sponsor is 

Fresh Brewed Designs

Thank you for your sponsorship!

A generous prize will be offered to our randomly selected winner.

Today's challenge  is a color challenge:

CORAL  ~  POOL  ~  BANANA

Inspiration Photo Compliments of Clever Little Cupcake Company

For my card, I used the image "Pinata with Coffee"

I'm still slightly lacking in coral patterned paper it seems and almost lacking in the cardstock area as well.  So, after pouring over my DP stock, I went with a non- patterned paper card.  With the distressed rectangle dies and triangle embossed border, I tried to emulate the shape and texture of the pinata.  I borrowed the sketch from the Fusion Challenge and used three of the borders, one in each color. The final touch of enamel dots are homemade from plastic beads melted down.  Such an easy peasy, inexpensive alternative to the somewhat pricey store bought kind. 

SPIES:

STAMPS:  Digital Image - Pinata with coffee (Fresh Brewed Designs); Sentiment "Take it Easy" (Lawn Fawn); Dad word (Inkadinkadoo).

PAPER: Coral, Light Blue, yellow cardstock.

INK: Wicked Black Archival Ink (Colorbox); Copics on image.

EXTRAS:  Distressed rectangle die (Spellbinders); Love Triangle emboss border folder (Cuttlebug); Enamel dots (homemade from plastic beads).

For Following Challenges:

Eureka Stamps - #92 Father's Day

Sweet Cupcake Blessings!

Pomp & Circumstance

June in NC means end of school and with that, graduation.  I made this card for Hubs' colleague for her daughter's high school graduation.  The digital image is from Saturated Canary.  I colored the hair/eyes to match the actual graduate and also matched the gown color to the school color (burgundy).  It was also requested to have the graduation year on the card too.  So, I made kind of a reverse banner at the bottom corner with the year. You can't tell in the photo very well, I added red Stickles to the tassle and the top of the hat.

SPIES:

STAMPS: Graduate Girl 2012 (Saturated Canary); Sentiment & numbers-High Five Grad (Raisin Boat); Flowers (Inkadinkadoo).

PAPER: White cardbase. DP - Kneehighs (BasicGrey).

INK: Copics for Image; Lagoon, Rose Petal, Lemon, Red Grape (SEI).

EXTRAS: Basic oval die (Spellbinders); Stitched rectangle mat (Lil Inker's Designs); Small banner die (Taylored Expressions); Banner pieces (Spellbinders); pink lace ribbon; Bubblegum seam binding (Paper Sweeties); pearl gems; Diamond and Xmas red Stickles.

For Following Challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks #196- Crazy Egg (Anything Goes)

Sister Act #59

Graduation Blessings!

Chillax

Happy Tuesday!

It's time for another 

{PIN}spirational Challenges #110

Here is the inspirational photo:

Is that a great inspirational photo or what?

A great photo to kick off the first month of summer!

Take a look at who are our wonderful sponsors this week:

Bugaboo Stamps --- Prize is 7 Digis

AJ's Digi Shoppe - Prize is 2 Complete sets of stamps or 4 Sets of paper. 

Dilly Beans Digi Stamps - Prize is 3 Digis. 

A big thank you to all of them!

Here is my card for some inspiration:

SPIES:

STAMPS: Beach Baby 2 (Bugaboo Stamps); Sentiment (Paper Smooches).

PAPER: White & Red cardstock; DP - Summer (American Crafts).

INK: Copics on image.  Black (Colorbox).

EXTRAS: Scallop circle die (Spellbinders); Basic circle die (Spellbinders); Cloud die (Taylored Expressions Rainy Days); Teal chevron ribbon; red baker's twine; red heart button.

I chose one of the Bugaboo Stamps, Beach Baby 2, offered to the team for my card.  Isn't she adorable?  She was perfect for my card as this is our second summer to have a pool and I've been excited to swim again.  It's not huge, but big enough to swim some laps, water walk, water aerobics and even just chill and cool off.  We've been having lower than normal temps, though and so the "cool" off part is pretty darn COLD! But temps will be climbing in the 90s later this week so I can't wait!

Anyway, I digress, back to my card.  I colored the image with Copics, added some diamond Stickles to the water drops and Glossy Accents to the sunglasses.  I made a peep hole from the background paper and set the image behind it.  Then placed the scalloped circle die on top.  I cut a cloud die to make the sentiment tag that I tied to the chevron ribbon and then added a heart button.  I decided to keep the card fairly clean and simple to focus on the image.

Don't forget to stop by the {PIN}spirational Challenge blog and check out the rest of the Design Team's fabulous projects.   Then, using the photo for inspiration, link up your own project and play along with us!  We love to see your creations!

For Following Challenges:

Bugaboo Stella Says Sketch #211

Cut It Up #46 - Summer

{PIN}spirational Blessings!

Orange Flutter

Happy 1st Monday in June!

Hope everyone is enjoying this lovely summer day!

Monday, you know is pink day  --

meaning time for 

The Pink Elephant Challenge!

The Pink Elephant Challenge #263

This week is a color challenge:  

Use some Orange

As you can see, I used lots of orange! :)

SPIES:

STAMPS: Butterflies (Hampton Art & Inkadinkadooo); Sentiment (Paper Sweeties).

PAPER: White and orange cardstock.

INK: Wicked Black Archival Ink (Colorbox); Copics.

EXTRAS: Decorative border dies (Spellbinders Bordabilities); banner die (Reverse Confetti); black gem dots.

Stop over at The Pink Elephant Challenge and check out the rest of the Design Team's projects and don't forget to leave them each some blog luv!  Then, link up your own paper project using the color orange, rather a bit or a lot, and share it with us.  

We love having you play along!

For Following Challenges:

4 Craft Chicks #196 -- Crazy Egg {Anything Goes}

Pink Elephant Blessings!

Sunflower Power

Happy 1st Sunday in June

and 1st Day of June!

Summer is here!

One great way to celebrate is to play along

with us at

 Cupcake Inspirations!

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #263

Our sponsor this week is

Robyn's Fetish

Prize:  3 Digital Stamps

Thank you for sponsoring us!

Here is our inspirational photo

and this week's theme:

Flowers

Inspirational photo compliments of:  Riviera Bakehouse

Robyn's Fetish was generous to give the DT some digital images to play around with.  

Here is my card using the sunflower image:

SPIES:

STAMPS: Sunflower Image (Robyn's Fetish); Sentiment (Lil Inker's Designs).

PAPER: Pale yellow, olive green and white cardstock. DP-- old from my stock.

INK: Copics on image; Tuxedo Black.

EXTRAS: Flower dies (Lil' Inker Designs); leaf flourish (My Favorite Things); Oval border die (Spellbinders); black gem dots.

I can't believe this is my first post in the past two weeks. I took last week off from DT duties as I just could not find time to get into my craft room.  I finally got my laptop upgraded thanks to my son and had to do some maintenance on it so it would run better.  And, we've been very busy spring cleaning inside and out.  Our backyard and patio were looking pretty sad after the winter.  So, had to get in gear to get ready for some summer barbecues and swims.  We had our pool set up three weeks ago, but the water was still pretty chilly.  Then, last Sunday we decided to get in anyway.  It was still down around 72 degrees.  That's a tad cold!  Brrrr!  Then, the pool pump goes! geesh.

So, while waiting for the pool to improve, I've finally been able to have some crafty time!  Yea!  My craft list is long and I'm hoping to get a lot of it crossed off this weekend!

Make sure you stop by the Cupcakes blog and check out the rest of the Design Team's fabulous projects.  Many of us have used the same image but just look at all the different interpretations of it!  Really great! 

Then, link up your own flower project to share with us!  If you are our lucky random winner, you will get 3 free digital stamps of your choice from Robyn's Fetish!

My card is entered into the following challenges:

Try Stamping on Tuesdays #169

QKR Stampeded #90- Baby, Spring or Celebration

Craftitude #66 - Anything Goes/Pop It Up

Sweet Cupcake Blessings!