Birthday Sundaes - Guest Designer

Hi My Friends,
I'm sooo excited and honored to have been asked by Birthday Sundaes to be one of their Guest Designer's today. Today's Theme is "Birthday Card with Birthday Sentiment". Easy Peasy, right? Here is the card that I made using the Paper Doll Dress Up Cart. I have had this cart for a while as some of you may have read, but I've never gotten around to doing one of the doll images from this cart. What's taken me so long, I couldn't tell ya. I mean that was the reason I purchased my first set of Peachy Keen Stamp Faces. Well I can say for sure after this cut, it will be a while before this cart catches any dust.(lol). Here's my B-Day Card w/Sentiment...

The inside sentiment is from PBD stamps. They were perfect for this card. The other stamping is from my stash. This card is also going to a special little guy named Ethan who's been featured on Madison's Funky Cards: "I Feel the Love" project for October. Take a little time to go over and read a little about him. Madison has such a genuine special heart and I Love being a part of this cause whenever I can. Happy Birthday Ethan. I will also be creating a card for his big sister Haley, who's now 8. I think she should Feel the Love too. I've already mailed them before this post. Come on and join us over at Birthday Sundaes and get in on the fun. After all, one can never have too many birthday cards. Smooches...

Masculine Card

Hi Friends,
I'm so happy to be able to create this card because I rarely do any for males. The majority of my family is women so when I saw the challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion - "Male Birthday Card, must use Metal" well I thought... great. I need to add some make birthday cards to my stash. So off I went. The hardest part was trying to get some metal that would still be masculine. I think what I came up with is fine. Just picture that glass shape as a beer mug and it works just fine (lol). Real Men drink martini too. In addition the challenge over at Birthday Sundaes - "Tall/Long Birthday Card". This worked perfect for what I created.

I had to keep it simple to make sure it remained masculine. The stamp print on the banner flags is from MSS (Market Street Stamps) "Argyle". That's one down and 9 more to go of male cards. I told you my stash was low (better yet empty...lol). You still have time to join in on the fun. Check out both of these blogs, grab some inspiration and join the rest of us. Smooches...

Easel Card & Digi Coloring come together...

Hello Friends...
I'm at it again. I'm trying my second Easel Card and also another attempt at coloring a Digi Stamp. I got this stamp from the progressive challenge over at Designed to Delight. This little girl "Maisie Belle" is the cutest and I couldn't resist entering again for the 2nd time. I'm still growing in my coloring skills, but I'll get there. I'm a fast learner. When I saw this, I knew just the coloring I was going for because over at Birthday Sundaes, the challenge is an Inspirational Photo. There were soo many fun colors to choose from in this photo I couldn't go wrong. I hope you like what I've done, but keep in mind...I'm just a "Scrapper in the Making" (lol).

My First "Easel Card"

Hello Friends...,

I finally took the plunge and tried my hand at my First Easel card. I've heard that they are sooo easy to do and I've watched enough videos on seeing them done. So I said, "what the heck"..."Just Do It"! Well when I started putting hand to paper, I couldn't stop myself. I've found another new love. I think you'll be seeing a few more of these from me from now on. I absolutely LOVE how this came out and I got to use one of my favorite stacks from DCWV (Lemon Stack) to make this even more cuter. I am sooo proud of me. I think this is just the cutest that I don't even want to give it away at least not for now that is. One of my BEST Girlfriend's (I call her my SIS) Birthday is Today and she's out of town. Since I have a key to her place I'm going to leave a Goodie Gift along with this card as a Surprise when she returns. Shhhh.... (I hope she hasn't read this due to her too busy celebrating)

I think I'm going to need another pack of that Lemon Stack... I just Love that Paper Pad. Let me know what you think. I have a few other crafty things I'm working on so check back often. I love reading your comments. Smooches...

Recipe:

Cart: Celebrate with Flourish (All cuts at 2.5")

Papers: PTI, SU, DCWV, Bazzil, Recollections
Sentiment: Inkadinkado (Happy Birthday), PBD (Party Animal)

Tools: irock, Inks(SU -Green Galore, MS -Metallic Silver, Memento -Tuxedo Black), Crop-a-Dile, MS -Birthday Presents Punch 

Embellies: Brads (Recollections), Ribbons (Michael's & My Stash), Twine (Dollar Store), White Gel Pen, 3D Pop-Dots

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion - Birthday Easel Card

Birthday Sundaes - It's All About the Brads
Pink By Design - Fan Flash Fridays on Facebook

Birthday Sundaes & Tacky Tuesday Challenge

Hi Everyone,
 I've haven't been online in a while, only through my phone. Our AC has been out since Friday and I've been miserable. Having no AC in South Florida during the Summer is Brruu-talll. I keep praying we get it fixed soon. In the meantime, I told my DH that as long as the AC is Out, So am I by going to the malls. I can't help it if I end up buying a little something or two...lol. It wouldn't be sooo bad if we didn't have a water boiling ordinance on top of that and to add even more, it's been raining. Well you would think that should keep things cool a little, but it's no fun when you're caught outside in it. All while trying to keep my little two year old as cool and calm as possible. Enough of my little personal journal...
 On another note, I did manage to get in my craft area for just a short bit of time until the sweat starts running down. I really relied on my gypsy to create and setup the items I needed and I had to go into the living room to put things together. Remember I share my craft space with part of the office space in our home. Well I'm hoping to get this card I made in on a 2-for-1 deal. I just had to enter Ruthie's Tacky Tuesday Challenge over at September Ninth. We had to make a "Cool Treat" using the word "Sweet" in it. I tell you, looking at all those cool treats really made me want to eat every last one in hopes it would cool me off. In addition, Birthday Sundaes was having a "Anything Goes Birthday Card" challenge. Since I knew I couldn't stay in my craft space too long before sweating I had to make something that I could use for both challenges. I hope my card is worthy as an entry. Have a look for yourself. Let me know what you think. Smooches...

Hey what good is ice cream without cake. I always like to have both even though I don't need either one of them. I guess the ice cream cone must have felt the heat in here as it started melting while I was making it...lol.
 A2 Recipe:
Cart: Sweet Treats, From My Kitchen
Paper: M&MBI, Bazzil Bling Basics, Recollections
Tools: MPS (Punny-licious & Winter Punnies) - I masked two different stamps to make the sentiment.
Embellies: Brads, Hearts, Bling (my stash)

Birthday Cake Shape Card

Hey yall this is my FIRST 2 for 1 entry . This make things soooo much easier when you can combine an entry with another challenge. I hope it is not a problem for the blogs that I'm entering this on. Here is my card. I didn't read it anywhere on there.

Recipe:
Paper: DCWV Pattern Paper (Sweet Stack), Recollections, Bazzil Bling Basics
Cart: Simply Charmed (All shapes cut at 4")
Stamps: MPS (Fruit & Veggie Puns) "You're Very Sweet", Inkadinkado "Happy Birthday"
Stickles: Orange Peel, Yellow, Cotton Candy
Ink: Memento-Tuxedo Black & Studio G Chalk Ink

I really had fun making this card and it turned out super cute if I do say so myself. This will be entered into the My Pink Stamper Birthday Crazy Card Challenge and Birthday Sundaes - Shaped Birthday Card.