Spring flowers

Hello friends! I've had a busy week, but here I am again. 

Yesterday was so beautiful I took the kids on a walk to the park, and today it snowed. Thats Colorado weather for you, gotta love it! I'm having a little spring fever though, and although its snowy outside, and my garden will be dead for another month or so, I'm SO ready for spring!

I finally took out my new February release PTI goodies and got to stamping!

I used the colors from CR84FN as inspiration. Aren't they beautiful together?

 

I used the tulips from the new Friendship Jars Spring Fillers, and embossed them along with the jar in white. Then I colored them in with Copic markers. I think they almost look watercolored. I had an oopsie while cutting the flowers out...I cut a leaf off! EEk! I tried to fix it but you can still tell a little bit.

I used papers from PTI and The Girls Paperie. 

I also entered this card in the Moxie Fab stamping with markers challenge,

And the City Crafter's 'spring fling' challenge.

A couple of jars

 I used PTI Friendship Jars and additions, one of my favorite stamp sets ever, to make these two simple cards

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This first one uses the marbles? or bubblegum? or candy? and jar from PTI and a noteblock stamp from Purple Onion Stamps. The papers are from October Afternoon- I love them.

I'm entering this first card in the Off the Wall Craftiness color challenge. How could I not be inspired by such a beautiful collage of photos? Oh how I love vintage...and the idea of vintage fairs and carnivals and parties that I get from this color board. (Okay IRL fairs and carnivals are stinky)

 

This card uses the PTI Jar and pickles, and Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen papers. This is my FIRST ever attempt at paper piecing. It was fun, I might (maybe just might) do it again...hah

I entered this card over at Moxie Fab World for their paper piecing challenge.

A little Glam a little Shabby Chic a lot of girlie-ness

 

 I linked this card to a couple of challenges for this week.

Moxie Fab World's "Gray is the new black"  challenge was to use the color gray in an innovative way. 

I don't ordinarily use gray a whole lot, but I really do like the look and i'm definitely going to do it again.

The other challenge was a Wee Memories challenge to use ribbon. Now thats a challenge I can handle. :)

I even used two different types of ribbon, the pink seam binding ribbon, and the black pompom trim ribbon.

Something different, something fun!

I know, this card it totally different than what you usually see here on my blog, but you know what? I like it. And I had fun making it.

I took me a few days to wrap my head around the color scheme at Moxie Fab World, but I think i got it.

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I did have to really DIG though my stash though.

I followed the sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. Sadly, it is their final sketch challenge.

Overall I'm really happy with how it turned out. You might just see more cards like this in the future.

Pinkx3+purple=3c

Three more cards inspired by 1 Moxie Fab collor challenge.

 On this card I tried a technique iv'e seen, for the first time. I love how it turned out. Altough don't let me fool you, that x-acto knife and I had to fight it out.

The challenge if you haven't guessed it yet was the Pretty Pastel color challenge.

 

I couldn't stop layering on this one. Can you tell? I got to use a bunch of goodies though, like WMS music background stamp, border punches, spellbinders die, lace, buttons...ect

I used ink and my heat tool to age the edges of the paper. If you try this be very careful not to keep the heat tool in one place too long... It might catch fire. But you know that don't you.

The cricut did all the work cutting out the card base for this one. I love that shape so much.

 The punny valentine images are from a sheet of patterned paper I found at Hobby Lobby (or Michaels?) a while ago.

Pink, and adventures in style.

I've been on a roll lately, i'm telling you I'm loving the challenges out there. They really inspire me to create in ways I would probably not have thought of on my own. So here are two completely different cards inspired by the same color challenge.

This card was all made with 1 sheet of patterned paper. I just cut out elements I really liked and added them back on with dimensional adhesive.

The pallette for these cards was inspired by Moxie Fab World, this one is the Monochromatic challenge.

Thats right, pink x3. Sweet.

For this card I used a couple different papers from the Sweet Stack by DCWV (I used the smaller mat stack size)

I love the rick rack on the edge of the card.

I've really been experimenting with my style of creating latley. (I'm sure you've noticed!) I don't know that I have a "style" thats just me. I really like so many different techniques and trends...I do know that I like feminine. Girly and glittery :) And vintage/retro. Whether its bold like my "Love you forever" card or soft and shabby like these cards, I created it and its me.

Bright Spot

This card was inspired by the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge.