Summer Watermelon Card

I made this cute little watermelon card and I ended up liking it better than I thought I would. I turned out pretty cute. The shape is cut from Doodlecharms. I added some black Glossy Accents to the seeds. The sentiment is from Close to My Heart.

 You can sort of see the black glossiness from the black Glossy Accents. 

I will enter this card into these challenges:
1. My Craft Spot - # 61 Summer colors
2. Cardz TV - Summer Fun
3. Fantabulous Cricut - #117 BBQ Time

Guess Hoo Loves You Layout

Hello there,

I am very please with the way this layout turned out. My theme color is purple and I was inspired by owls for this layout. The phrase and owls are cut from Hoot N Holler. I added some Glossy Accents to the eyes, but they have not dried in the picture (I couldn't wait to post it after they dried--hehehe. I will add a new pic once they dry). I also added some Stickles on the little owl and to some of the leaves.

The Glossy accent eyes have dried!

I will enter this layout in these challenges:
1. Little Scrap Pieces - purple
2. Simon Says Stamp Challenge - anything goes
3. Cardz TV - Anything goes
4. Jaihart - Anything goes

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

Challenge- Thank You Favorite Color

Hello,
Wow, this is my 3rd post for today. Good grief am I tired. The made a card to enter in a DL.ART challenge. You are suppose to make a thank you card using your favorite color as the predominant color. So my card is mostly purple. I used a cute owl from the Hoot N Holler Lite Cartridge, which I just love. I stamped the sentiment from a PBD stamp set with own puns. I mounted the owl onto an action wobble. I made an asterisk on one of the eyes with a Stardust gel pen and then used some Glossy Accents on the them. I also, used a Stampin Up photo corner punch. I love this card, I don't want to give it away...but I always need thank you cards, so I will have to. Lol.

Here is the challenge I will enter:

• http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2012/01/thankful-thursday-part-2-giveaway-jan5.html

PKS Challenge- Designers Choice

Hello Happy almost Christmas Eve,

I made this cute little elf card to enter in a PKS challenge. I cut the elf from Jolly Holidays at 4.5 inches. I've been trying to cut my images as big as I can and fit them on a card still because it makes piecing them together so much easier. I added some black Glossy Accents to the lights string and some Stickles and clear Glossy Accents to the lights. I also used a Snow Marker I got at Joann in the isle with the fabric markers and it doesn't work that well at all. I distressed the edge with a Winter Seasonal Distress Ink called Iced Spruce. I will be sticking to my Liquid Applique. I stamped his little face with one of my PKS assorted faces stamps. Here is my elf cutie...

Have your elf a merry little Christmas!

Christmas Holly Jolly Ice Skater card- Challenge

This is one of my first Christmas card of the season. I guess its nice to get a jump start. I made the girl from Cricut Lite Jolly Holiday at 4 inches (any smaller and I think her skates would have been completely destroyed on the main cut). This is my first cut from this cartridge, so I was really excited to use it. I love the way the ice skater turned out. She is adorable. I hide the facial cuts on her face with my Gypsy and stamped it with my PKS wide eye faces. I put some glossy accents on her dress button. I added some black Stickles to her ice skates, some diamond Stickles to the ball on her hat and some glitter pen to her hair ties. For a final touch I ended up adding some blush (chalk) to her cheeks.
I am entering this card into the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge: http://www.alwayscrafting.com/2011/09/anything-goes.html .

Challenge- School Card

Hello, I found a cool blog today, Cards by Jovan and there was a challenge to make a school card. I thought, YIPPE! I can't seem to get enough of the school theme right now. LOL. I made a school house cut from My Community cart and a bus cut from Doodlecharms (a must have cart with tons of useful stuff that is super easy to layer). I made the sentiment on the front on my computer and cut the edge with a border punch by EK called Binding Edge---LOVE it. I added a "road" made of black dashed ribbon (l heart that kind of ribbon). After deciding my sentiment, I thought a real bell in the school house bell tower would be so cool and cute. I must say it came out SUPER cute and realistic. In order for the bell to lay right you need to pop up the front layer of the house on some pop dots. So if you shake the card it rings (rocks!). I also used some iRocks on the bus and I didn't have any red ones, so I colored it with a red Copic marker and it worked like a charm. I went back and added some glossy accents to the window you can see from the before and after picture how the Glossy Accents turned the windows I had colored with a white gel pen pink. I think it looks cute though like some curtains hanging in the window. TTYL