Luxurious Birthday

This card speaks to my girlish fantasies of  vintage lace, pink, sparkle, and feminine glamor.

I kind of love it.

I was really inspired by the colors and the color board at CR84FN. Just look at this...If I had an extra house I might decorate it only in this color scheme. So elegant and feminine.

***Please use the 3 named colors as your MAIN colors.*

I used the sketch from Get Sketchy for my layout. 

I layered different sizes and types of doilies on top of each other for the layered circles of the sketch.

Easter Cutie

I linked this card to these challenges:
Off The Wall Craftiness-colors

Crazy4Challenges-Use die cuts

and

 Wee Memories- Source of Inspiration...I was inspired by vintage looking easter decor. 

Wishing bird

This little guy is a wishing bird, you might throw your wish into the wind, and he'll find it and catch it, and bring it to you. In the form of a coupon. A cool vintage Crafty Secrets coupon. True story.

I stole a moment to craft yesterday. I've been really busy and haven't been crafting as much as I'd like to..

I love to create, its so fulfilling and satisfying. Its that instant gratification, and the realization of an idea that is all yours. Its a piece of your world that is just right, no matter what.

Well on that note, I took a few minutes to make a card for The Shabby Tea Room challenge this week.

Here is the cozy inspiration photo.

(small secret- I love knit blankets and these ones look absolutely warm and snugly...I could just curl up with these, a good book, and some Twizlers-yum.) 

I had a hard time getting the ribbon to look right in the photos, its actually a little closer to the bird's greenish blue color. I really need to take a photography class. Until then, I'll continue to describe what your are really seeing in these photos. ;o)

Live Laugh Love

Here's a card I managed to make yeserday.... I made it with a few challenges in mind.

The colors are straight from The Color Throwdown 

The layout of the card is from the sketch at Card Patterns 

I also entered this card in the 'Live Laugh Love' challenge at Wee Memories.

Enjoy

One last card for the Shabby Tea Room design team call. 

I stamped the background in pink with this really pretty lace background stamp. I got it at a craft show, it came unmounted and now I can't remember who the manufacturer was. Its a really pretty stamp, I also used it on my "Girl in the moon" card, you can see a bit peeking out at the top.

The tea pot is a vintage image from the Graphics Fairy. I printed it out, then glimmer misted with a color I made (I mixed a pink bubblegum with pearl) and then I embossed the whole tea pot several times with clear embossing powder. The embossing powder makes the piece sturdier, and give it a bit of a shiny finish. I like how this turned out, it totally doesn't look like something I printed off my computer.

That bitty star is an embellishment I made using a Sizzix die and some German glass glitter.

I did use the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge sketch#34 for the layout. 

Its seems like a clean and simple sketch but I embellished it up a bit. 

I hope you likey.

<3

Girl on the moon

 

I love this whymsical vintage image of the girl sitting on the moon. Its so darling and fun. AND so appropriate for my blog name. Love it. It comes from the Crafty Secrets creative scraps, Altered Fairies. I really like using these Creative Scraps. I want all of them! 

I also used some of my pink scraps, you might recognize the papers from some other recent cards. I really dislike accumulating scraps, so I really try to use them asap! 

I got the colors for this card from The Play Date Cafe Challenges. 

See the button string at the bottom? I love love this! And you'll be seeing it again, and maybe again and again.  I was inspired by all the button festivities at PTI. 

Birdie Darling...

 I love making these flowers! I told you that you'd see more, and this isn't the last either. They turn out so beautifully with very little effort. I glimmer misted this one with pink bubblegum glimmer mist while it was still closed. 

 

I linked this card to the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge . Here is the sketch for this week...

I also used the colors from ColorQ colors for this week.

 Just look at this gorgeous inspiration photo. 

I seriously love all the rose cabochons I've been seeing around.

I used an image from the Graphics Fairy, I love the vintage images she puts up for free on her blog. 

Party Girl

So i've been having a hard time getting the colors right in my photos lately...I wonder if I accidentally changed a setting? I don't know... any tips? It seems as though the most saturated colors in the photo appear warmer than in real life. I tried messing with photo editors but no luck.. Does the ISO value mess with colors? Thats the only thing I can think of. 

Anyhow. After that large disclaimer here is another card!

I finally cut up some crafty secret scraps that i've had for a little while. I love this little girl's expression, its so shy and cute. I gave her a little crown and some pearls on her dress and crown.

I made this card as an entry for the Shabby Tea Room design team call.

Here is the inspiration photo. My train of thought was like this: PINK. Polkadots. Black. Girly. 

Tea PARTY. and then of course SHABBY!

I would have so much fun designing for The Shabby Tea Room! Cross your fingers for me. :o)