Baby You're A Firework Card

Ok, here is the last of my 4th of July, Firework, Patriotic, etc. projects for the year. I was not really sure where I was going with this card, then I started getting one idea after the next. The zigzag circle was cut from Cricut Art Philosophy at 3". I braided red, white and blue embroidery floss and looped it around my card and made a starburst in the same colors and tie it together on my braid. I used stickers and CTMH stamps to create my sentiment. The stamped image is from Close To My Heart and I colored it with Copic Markers and added some glitter gel pen to make it sparkle.

My card is based on this sketch:

Challenges I will enter:

1. Sketches By Carly - #59 sketch

2. My Craft Spot - #62 4th of July and Canada Day

3. Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog - Fireworks, sparkler, boom

4. Made Especially For You - 4th of July

5. Paper Playtime - Die cuts red, white, blue

Thanks for stopping by. Hope everyone has a safe, blessed and fun July 4th.

Mermaid In The Sun Card

Hello again Crafty friends,
I know its been a while since my last post, but I have been super busy in other areas of life. Therefore, my crafting has been neglected a bit. But I'm getting my motor running again and I made this BEAUTIFUL card today with a really cute mermaid digi image from The Paper Shelter. I have fallen in love with several of their images and I will be buying more. I made this card with a sweet friend in mind. She lives back east and I like to poke fun at how sunny and warm the weather is here on the west coast in sunny Cali, so this card is perfect with it's sunny SMILE sentiment (from Close To My Heart) and fun sea scenery.

I colored the image with Copic markers, added some Stickles for bling and sparkle, added Glossy Accents on the water, some of the starfish have sand paste on them. I also distressed the edge of two of the star fish with brown Distress Ink and two were distressed over the whole thing with orange Distress Ink. I love the way this card turned out.

I will enter this card into the following challenges:
1. Sentimental Sundays
2. Gingerloft Challenge
3. The Paper Shelter
4. Paper Play Time
5. Creative Inspirations
6. Tammy's Scrapin Corner

Birthday Girl in Action Card

Hi Everyone!

Today I have a birthday card that I made for a little girl. I decide to make a Cricut-less card. I colored a stamped image with my Copic markers and added some Stickles. I used my Cuttlebug (ONE OF MY FAVORITE TOOLS) to cut a die from MCT. I wanted to layer the die, so I glued it down onto some paper and cute about 1/4" around it to give it a border. I then stamped the die with a coordinating border stamp that looks like party confetti. I used a Martha Stewart corner punch on two corners for a bit more easy detail. I wanted this card to be colorful, fun and vibrant. I like the way it turned out. I even added an Action Wobble to the girl. I'm sure the 4 year old I'm giving this card to will have fun with this.
I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

Wobble Wednesday’s Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Challenge 

You can see the motion of her moving in this picture.

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Have a great day.

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Christmas Theme & More Challenge

Hello my Crafty blog buddies,
Today I have a card that I made for multiple challenges. There are several things I needed to incorporate to cover everyone's challenge. Here are the things I was required to incorporate between all the challenges: Christmas theme, PKS faces, fabric, follow a sketch, snowflakes, sparkle, use a Dilly Beans Digi stamp, add a bow or ribbon, use red embroidery floss and use the colors lime, pink and teal. OMG, I must tell you this was a challenge for sure to me to create a card that incorporated everyones requirements and still looked pretty, flowed well and kept with my style. I used my Copic markers to color the snow family, Cricut Art Philosophy for the 2" snowflakes, a punch for the tiny snowflakes,  The challenges I will enter are listed at the end. But without further a do here is the card I created and LOVE.

Here is a view to see where I added Liquid Applique to create some 3d snow.

I used some left over felt fabric for the snow on the ground.

Here are my Peachy Keen Faces stamps. They are stamped in an aqua blue and I sprayed on the snowflakes with some shimmer mist. (This ended up making them harder to see, but they are still adorable). Here is also my bow and ribbon.

I added some Stickles glitter glue on the hats and scarves for some addition sparkle and love it.  

You can see more of my sparkle here on the heart, buttons and scarves. Here is were I incorporated the red embroidery floss I strung through the button on the snowman. 

I actually made some doodles on the blue hat with my Glitter get pen for a different type of sparkle.

Challenges I am entering:
1. Peachy Keen-- Fabric Scraps. http://www.peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/
2. Skipping Stones Designs-- Sketch. http://skippingstonesdesign.com/decembers-first-sketch-challenge/
3. The Pink Elephant Challenge--Snowflake & Sparkles. http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/pink-elephant-tpe128.html
4. E.A.D Designs-- Color Challenge #19. http://stencilwords.com/blog/2011/12/08/ead-designs-color-challenge/
5. Trendy Twine--Tic Tac Toe December 2011 Challenge. http://trendytwine.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-trendy-twine-tuesday-challenge.html
6. More Than Favors--Wacky Wednesday #61 Christmas. http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/
7. Dilly Beans Challenge--Snow Family. http://dillybeanschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/11/snow-family-challengegiveaway.html
8. Scrappy Moms--Terrific Tuesday Challenge Christmas. http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2011/12/terrific-tuesday-challenge-christmas.html
9. Robin's Creative Challenge-- Ribbons & Bows Challenge #2. http://robinscreativecottage.blogspot.com/2011/12/rcc-challenge-2-ribbons-and-bows-stamp.html
10. Docerela Creations --Pink Christmas. http://docerelacreations.blogspot.com/

Krazy Kreations Glitter Card

Hello, I have an awesome card to share today that I made with Krazy Kreations Glitter Kit products. I bought it at the Scrapbook Expo I went to on Friday and I can't stop drooling over it. It's a glitter, sticker and paper product combo that you can color on with your Copic markers. The glitter is an extremely fine type of glitter that is so fine it feels soft and fuzzy. Basically you take the very sticky adhesive paper and sprinkle the glitter all over it, knock off the excess glitter and put an outline sticker on the now glittery paper. It can then be colored on with Copic markers. Other glitters will damage the nibs of your Copic markers because they are to rough and not fine enough. I will post a video soon on this cool technique so you can see start to finish. In the meantime here is the card I made...

Challenge- Shape Card & Halloween

I am entering this card into two challenges:

• Shaped Sketch Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
• Delightful Sketches

I cut the card base from Wild Card and two circle layers. I stamped the edge of the card base with a wheat stamp I had from Prima. Doesn't it sing Autumn? I also stamped the word Halloween on top with a MPS stamp. I cut the smallest circle into four parts and used two of each color I cut. I cut a scallop from Mini Monograms (I'm so glad I purchased this cartridge, I turned it down once and later realized I did need such a cartridge). I cut the big pumpkin on my Gypsy from Gypsy Wanderings (I have been finding so many handy things on GW). I was going to add some Stickles on the yellow "light up" face parts, but I ended up liking it plain. I made hand cut grass. I used an EK Pumpkin punch for the line of pumpkins--it's such a cute punch. I also colored through the cutout parts around the edge of the scallop onto the inside of the card with a Copic marker so when the card is closed it doesn't look so plain with the white showing through. Hope this card gets your Halloween juices flowing.


Don't forget to join my blog before you go, so you will know when I start doing my GIVEAWAYS and can play along!!!
Have a Crafty day.
-SSNC

Challenge Card- My Favorite Little Things

Hi there,

I made this adorable card using Cricut Mini Monograms for the scallops and Winter Frolic for the hot cocoa mug, which I have wanted to make something with since I bought this cartridge last year. I love the colors together, this is one of my favorite color combinations...maybe my fave actually. I used some square iRock bling next to the sentiment. I've been wanting to play with these square shape ones for a while now. I think they look cute. I sparkled up my mug with some Coffee Ice Stickles. The whip cream in the mug was made using a Marvy Snow Marker and my heat gun. I thought the stamp that said "Just Whip It!" was a great match for the cards whip cream. I colored the edge of the card with a Copic marker. Hope you like it.
Have a Crafty day!
P.S. I hope you'll keep coming back to check out my newest projects. Join my site to keep in touch. Bye :)

Cricut Cardz Challenge #89

Hi, I am entering this card into the Cricut Cards Challenge #89. Theme was a kids jungle birthday card. I LOVE how it turned out.

I used a Stampendous animal print stamp to make the cute zebra stripes across the card. The zebra is cut from Create A Critter at 3".
Quick tip: You can color rhinestone jewels with your Copic markers. The one on the card was colored with VR 09 Fushia, because I only had pale pink rhinestones and I wanted a different shade of pink. GOTTA LOVE MY COPICS!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #179

I am entering this card for a challenge at Cute Card Thursday. It is of sketch #179. I like how the colors end up looking together. Considering I did this card backwards by coloring the image first and then picking the paper. Sometimes I like to work that way. But I'll tell you, its much easier to pick the papers first then chose matching Copic markers to color your image.