Be Mine ... Or Else! :)

I was browsing the lovely blogs on my favorites list looking for inspiration for a Valentines card for my sweetie (awwww! lol) and I found some Mojo at Mojo Monday and I also found Paper Player's open challenge which I of course had to do! UPDATE: Totally missed the deadline at Mojo by just a little. Oh well it was still a fun design! :)

This is done with some basic cardstock bits I had one hand plus some fun bronze metallic paper. I found the heart paper at a local store and it was to cute to pass up. I accented with some rough/lacy/don't know how to describe it ribbon type material :) and some flower soft on the leaves.

I am hoping to get back to crafting more then once a month so hopefully getting back to going through the blogs and looking at all the wonderful work will be the inspiration to sit down and craft even if it is just for an hour.

The Magic of Winter

I am a huge, HUGE, Christmas fan and until this year I never did much crafting in a Christmas theme for some reason. Other then the odd gift,a handful of cards and a few other things but never all the projects I had floating in my head.

So this new creation (I am working on turning this into a class possibly! Very exciting for me since it would be a first) was inspired from some paper I bought called "Jovial" which I think is a funky take on Christmas paper. It also sealed the deal as paper of choice when I saw the Colour Queen challenge for this week and I think it matched really closely. Since it's such an in depth project time wise I was pleased that I could find a challenge for it.

I also get to play along with the excellent Paper Players this week with there anything goes challenge.



I"m working on finishing up one other flower arrangement for another challenge and for a family member who is going to be celebrating 5 years of being breast cancer free! I will try and get that up later today.

Dreams Really Do Come True

I did this card up for the Peachy Keen Challenge and the My Pink Stamper Challenge.

My pink stampers challenge was to add a bird. I added a little pink bird to go with my scene from the Winter Woodland cartridge.

I used my Peachy Keen face stamps and the layout from there challenge to complete my project.

This was their challenge sketch:


I flipped the square (my princess) and the orange stripe (my tree) to opposite sides of the sketch. The brown strip is my ribbon and the squares are my castle scene in the background. I used the faces I had on the princess and the sun. I'm probably over doing these scene cards but I'm having a really good time with them and they are forcing me to get really creative!