Its been a while

Since i've posted eh?

Well I haven't been crafting much lately, but I do have some cards to show you. I made them a couple of weeks ago and just got some time to take pictures of them. I used up some more K&Company scraps, and also sneaked in some Crate Paper paper... fun huh? 

I've been busy busy, and lazy lazy. And feeling the blahs... It seems like lately all I have the energy (motivation) to do is take care of my kiddos and my house(barely).... I did get to sit down today and make a fun little project for the Shabby Tea Room (Check my blog tomorrow night for that one!) and it felt good to sit down and create. I DID want to make more, and I had all these ideas running through my head but before I knew it, my kids had woken up from their nap. Maybe if i'm not too pooped(where's the propriety?! I know..!) i'll get to cut, glue, and embellish. Anyway, I know you're here to see the cards sooooo....... ;o)

Oh yes, don't forget to check back tomorrow night for The Shabby Tea Room post, its a good one ;o) 

Overflow

 Here are some cards I made in this past week...

I've been trying to use up my supplies, as they are taking over my house! I'm thinking of selling some of my stuff...if you've sold extra supplies online, where did you do it? Did you have a problem selling 12x12paper because of shipping? 

Thanks in advance!

Just for you

As promised, here's one of the cards I made the other day... I made this one for the CR84FN color challenge. This week's colors are brown green and kraft. 

I used a bird embellishment from K&Company and stamps by Papertrey Ink. The papers are PTI, Prima, and Melissa Frances. The flower is from a vintage necklace I found a few years ago. 

I've really been experimenting with my photos, I think i'm getting closer... what do you think?

Thanks for visiting!

On your special day

So I promised that I would be working on some wedding card. I think this counts as one right? Technically 'special day' could be ANY special day but this one is elegant, and wedding like. So... its a wedding card. 

I was inspired by this week's color combo challenge at CR84FN... the pictures they choose are always very inspiring and lovely! 

The flower and vintage inspired label are from K&Company's Flora and Fauna line. They're been living here for a little bit, but this time I actually took them out and used them. I love how K&Company has the die cut packs to match their lines, they're my favorite product! 

I used a Just Rite sentiment on the label... (I won my first sets of Just Rite stamps at the Shabby Tea Room a few weeks ago- yippee!) I really like the elegant fonts they use for their sentiments. 

The seam binding is from a batch that I dyed with shimmer mist.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your Tuesday evening.... (Its Glee night!)

Pretty roses

 

 I sat down to create yesterday, and although it took me some time to get going, eventually I started getting in the 'groove' ;o). So here's a card I made while inspiration struck.

I used Card Patterns' sketch for this week for the layout. 

I've been trying to use my scraps since my scrap drawer is overflowing. On this card I used scraps of DCWV Garden Stack, and PTI's music paper. Love that stuff. I got the postcard paper at Ms a while ago, can't remember who its by. 

Well, I gotta run, I have some sick kiddos to take care of. Happy Tuesday....

 

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.

Embellished cards

It all started with this Mother card. I made the Mother card for a challenge at Embellish Magazine.

I mean, how could you not be inspired by that color board?

After creating the Mother card, I had all these wonderful papers and embellies out... and then came the Baby cards. 

baby 1

baby 2

baby 3

So now I have this family of retro kitschy vintage-y cards. 

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. 

Chocolate Love

 Whats with me and chocolate lately? I'm not sure but this chocolate thing is not limited to papercrafting, last week when I was grocery shopping I bought a bag of Toffee and Almond Nuggets and guess what, they are gone. Yikes!

So this card came pretty naturally to me....;o)

It was inspired by this picture at The Shabby Tea Room

   

The challenge also included the use of hearts.

What a cute  set in the photo! I love wooden play food...my kids have a whole arsenal of Melissa and Doug play food. But be aware that wooden toys are heavy weapons. I've kissed a few boo-boos inflicted by some of these toys. My kids' favorite set is the Melissa and Doug donuts. I'll let you in on a little secret...I mostly buy these because I love them (shhh)..

I had such a hard time picking my favorite pictures of this card, so you get a few more than usual. I am a little picture-happy in general, I think. When I look at other people's blogs I just enjoy looking at the pictures the most. A lot of the time I will click on the photo to enlarge it, I love taking in all those tiny details that make the project. 

 The above picture shows the dimension on the card, thats so hard to capture with a straight on shot. I used pop dots to adhere the tag, and then also  to adhere the chocolate yumminess. 

I used Martha Stewart clear glitter on the cakes and chocolate. It reminds me of sugar. 

 I used the Get Sketchy sketch# 73 for the layout, again. Fun Fun. 

Butterflies should fly.

I made this card for a couple of challenges.

 The colors are from The Play Date Cafe

Let me tell you that was not an easy color combination for me. I did find some papers from the DCWV Mariposa stack that worked though. I love using patterned papers. A lot of the time when I make a card, I start with picking out patterned papers in the colors I need first. 

The layout comes from a Get Sketchy sketch for this week.

That one was also a challenge... So I decided to combine them. (what?)

Right before I went to take pictures of this card, my almost 2 year old son decided to "play" with the butterflies. All the butterflies were off the card, and he had torn one right down the middle...He was making them fly (AKA Throwing them in the air)...What a goober. lol. Well I got them glued back together, but he left his mark. 

Do I sound super whiney, or what?  I don't mean to. But its all snowy outside too. Yuk.

I promise my next hope will be so cheerful it'll induce smiles.