Mo's Challenge #117

Hi friends!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I have another card for Mo's Challenge Blog.  This week is Clean & Simple.  It's not usually my favorite technique, but with the fractured wrist, a little less in the embellishment department wasn't a bad thing.  Honestly, the small amount of coloring on the card took me almost 3 days of sporadic coloring to finish.  Don't tell my husband, but I removed the bandage on my right arm to do the coloring.  I figure if the arm is that bad they would put a real cast on there.  Ace bandage?  Meant to be adjusted at times....right??  Anyway......I used an image that I've used before, but this time it looks completely different. 

I used Siku & Shiya.  They are too cute.  I used them here on a great box.  Lots of work but I'm still in love with it.  :)  This card has no embellies....but its growing on me.  And it's for my hubby for Valentine's Day and he doesn't like embellies so it's all good.  I used a Nestie to draw a circle around their faces.  I'm still not sure if that is obvious.  I hope it is.

See??  There's not much to say about this card cuz there's pretty much nothing on it except Mo's great image.  OMG!!!!   I just remembered.....I was chosen for a prize last week at Mo's!!!!  That was so cool and really made my week!!!!  I have been slowly getting better from the accident and when I saw that I texted EVERYONE to tell them  :)  lol  I assume they were all properly impressed!  Thanks Mo!  I LOVE your images and am so glad to be getting more.  :)

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Mo's Digital Challenge Blog - Clean & Simple

 

Thanks for taking a peek today!

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle

Mo's Challenge #116

Hello, thanks for stopping by today.  I have a fun new card today.  I've never used this fold and it turned out great! I'm so glad Mo posts what the upcoming challenges are, because I was riding snowmobiles with 3 of my boys 3 nights ago and we crashed.  I don't remember anything about the crash, but I broke my arm, my nose, part of my back, and my forehead.  I don't remember anything till I woke up in the hospital.  It was kind of freaky  :(  My boys are all pretty much ok.  I guess that's what happens when you are old!  So, anyway, my card was made ahead and I can get it posted.  Yippee for me I guess  :)  I used Teacup Fairy and she is such a cutie.  She's for my best friend's birthday and I'm safe because she doesn't follow any blogs.  lol   I colored her with my Prismacolor pencils.  She turned out pretty good.  Now that the card is done I think I should have colored the teacup more, but I was taking inspiration from my teacups and they were all white backgrounds.  Now that my wrist is fractured the coloring is going to take longer. 

I added some fine glitter to the wings, as well as my face and my son's face.  He was very sparkly  ;)  Because the card was such a great fold, and I used a MS PATP. I felt like it didn't need alot of embellishments.  I didn't add flowers because I thought they would interfere with the folds.

You can find the instructions for this card over here.  She has some beautiful examples that will inspire you!  My DP is from K & Co.  It is Susan Winget, Botanical.  It has beautiful paper and the great thing is I'm using up and that means I'll be able to buy more without feeling bad about adding to my stash. :)  WAHOO!!  I used some cream colored seam binding from Wild Orchid.  I love this stuff.  It is so pretty and has such a wonderful feel.

I used a stamp from Inkadinkadoo to fill in the edges of the stamped image panel.  Otherwise it looked too blank. 

Here, it is with the "belt" untied. 

Here is a picture of the inside and the writing panel.  The website, I'm sorry, I can't remember her name, gives you all the measurements for the triangles to fill in the empty spaces.  My brain isn't working so good, it got hit pretty hard the other day.  If you go to her blog she has all the instructions. 

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Anything

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Sparkly & Ribbon

Papertake - Anything

Ribbon Carousel - Anything

Top Tip Tuesday - Anything

Thats about it.  Thanks for taking a peek.  Hopefully I'll be back again soon.

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle

My Eight-Hour Card.....No, Really!

Hello there and thanks for stopping by!  I have a great post for you today!  First, I have a great card (and it truly did take me 8 hours to make this card.  I don't know why, but it did.  I had fun so that's all that matters right?) using an image from Krista Smith of Saturated Canary.  But I also have a great prop in my pictures that I made following this tutorial by Karin over at Creative Chaos.  I just discovered her blog and she is talented, funny, creative and AMAZING!  I have spent as much time on her blog as I have on Pinterest lately (and that's saying alot!).  Go check out her blog.  She has made me laugh many times.  Makes me wish I lived in the southwest so I had a better chance of meeting her!  OK, enough of me, check this out:

Karin makes the most amazing Crepe Paper Trees.  (This is my tree, not Karin's.  Her's have more embellishments and are soooo pretty!)  I've made one and can't wait to get more crepe paper, pink, turquoise and whatever else strikes my fancy!  Thankfully the crepe paper perfectly matched my cardstock for today!  I was trying to figure out how to work my tree into my post and it worked itself out!

So, my image is A Winter Ragamuffin.  I've used her before, I know, but she is so cute and I couldn't resist.  And I am so impressed that my husband and oldest son (Oren) both recognized that I had used her recently!  They earned some serious brownie points let me tell you!!  lol  I colored her with my Prismacolor pencils.  I added plenty of glitter to the snowman and snow.  I used glue and German Glass Glitter from Wild Orchid on the edges.  The metal filigree is from my local craft store.

The DP is MME (Deena's Penny Lane).  Now that the card is done it looks kind of like a circus!  It's so bright and fun!  The pink fabric on the left is a piece of needlework linen.  I used to do a lot of stitching and I could never throw away the small strips that I would cut off the piece when I was making an ornament.  After all, you pay for that stuff by the square inch!  So, I have a whole box of scraps.  I got the idea from Iulia at My Adored Adorables.  She has such beautiful cards!  She made this great box and put some brown fabric behind the image.  To me it looks like a piece of large count evenweave fabric.  I tucked that thought away and decided to use it on this card.  The beads are all in my daughter's stash which now abides permanently in my sewing room.)  It really should be called my studio but old habits are hard to break!

The beautiful flowers are all from Wild Orchid.  I added Stickles to bling them up a bit.  The large blue rose is so beautiful!  So glad I ordered them this time!

Here's the inside.  I used a small snowflake punch and added small pearls to the centers.  I isolated the snowman from the image and printed him on the writing panel.  He got a glitter treatment also.  :)

I'm entering my card in the following challenge:

Saturated Canary - Christmas/Winter

That's about it.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle

Mo's Challenge #114

Hello friends!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Its very humbling to know you would take the time to stop by and see what I have been up to.  Yesterday I made this card for Mo's http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/  (is anyone else having trouble with blogger today?!?  ggrr the frustration!)  Anyway, I chose to use this great image Maisie Caroling http://www.mosdigitalpencil.com/maisie-caroling/ (blogger is adding links this way today.  idk why, but it's still frustrating me!!)  She is so sweet and I can't wait to use her again.

I colored Maisie with my Prismacolors.  She is sort of a Victorian raggamuffin so I didn't add any glitter or bling.

I followed the sketch from Sketch & Stash.  The paper has been around for over a year and the ribbon for way longer than I care to admit.  The flowers are beautiful new (well, new to me) flowers from Wild Orchid (honestly, ladies, google it if you don't have them bookmarked, those stupid url's look awful in my post!!  lol)

The DP on the front and on the inside is from K & Co.  A great pad called Classic K McKenna.I made the sentiment on the computer.  I stitched all my panels.  They look naked without the stitching  :)  lol

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

http://mosdigitalchallenge.blogspot.com/ (Mo's Digital Challenge Blog) - punches and/or dies  (I used my circle and oval nesties)

http://citycrafter.blogspot.com/ (City Crafter) - Make the cut

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ (Top Tip Tuesday) - Anything Goes

http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/search/label/challenges (Really Reasonable Ribbon) - Anything Goes

http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.com/ (Sketch & Stash) - Sketch

http://www.fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/ (Fairytale Challenge Blog) - Something Easy (and this sketch was VERY easy!)

That's about it.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle

Merry Christmas

The big day is drawing near.  How relaxing to sit and make a fun card today!  I used another great image from Krista Smith at Saturated Canary called Winter Ragamuffin.  I think she is so cute, but then, I've decided all of Krista's images are really cute!  I'm so glad I found her!

I colored this cutie with my Prismacolors and added some glitter and Stickles to bling things up a bit!  :)  lol

The DP is from my stash and I don't know where it came from.  I only less than 1 sheet left.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid.  I just recently got in a new order and I had fun using lots of different flowers!  I added glue and glitter to the large blue rose.  These flowers are beautiful!  I think they are the best out there!  The feathers and beads are from my stash.

I used 2 embossing folders on the left panel, Swiss Dots and Snowflakes from Cuttlebug.  I made the sentiments on my computer.

I embellished the right panel with a die cut from Memory Box.  Its called Winterland Tree.  I know I've said this before, but I love these dies.

The back is embellished with another Memory Box die.  Its called Snowflake Corner.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Saturated Canary - Favorite Christmas Card

Cooking It Up With Katie - Anything

Pixie Cottage - Sketch & Anything Goes

Thanks for taking a peek today.  I appreciate you stopping by!

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle

Sweet Cocoa Boys

Hello again!  Today I have a card that I made for my son.  I don't make as many "boy" cards, so this one was alot of fun to make.  I used an image from Saturated Canary called Hot Cocoa.  He is so cute  :)

I colored him with my Prismacolor pencils.  I refrained from using stickles or any other glitter this time around.  I really don't think my boy is a glitter kind of guy  :)  lol

The card has a very clean and simple look.  Well, clean and simple for me.  No flowers.  No ribbon.  No sewing.  No inking the edges.  And I love it.  I did add a few beads from my stash.  I think they work well.  The papers have been in my stash for a few years I think.  I don't know who they are by.  I actually found them at Walmart, of all places, on the clearance rack.  I think they look great!  The 2 snowflakes are from The Paper Studio.

I used alot of paper inside as well.  The right side has the writing panel.  I used the same sketch for this side as well.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Saturated Canary - One For the Boys

Mojo Monday - Sketch

Thanks for taking a peek!

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle

Peace on Earth

Isn't that a great wish?  Peace on earth?  I've been listening to a great song by Casting Crowns for the last couple of weeks.   Listen to I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day!  It touches my heart in a way I can't explain.  (Casting Crowns does an amazing job with a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Great song!  Anyway, that is what inspired this card.  Mo's has this great image Ragged Angel.  She is so sweet.

I colored this beauty with my Prismacolor pencils.  I'm pleased with her skin again and the colors.  I've used some colors I haven't used before and I like the vintage feel of them.

The papers are from MME.  I love their papers.  This collection is called Lost and Found.  I found mine at Hobby Lobby.  I used mine up, I'll be going back for more very soon, like this week!!  The back right panel is embossed with my Cuttlebug embossing folder "Snowflake".  I distressed all the edges by running them over my brown ink pad.  I added some twine, it has a rustic feel that I thought went well with this image and the papers.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid.  I just received a new order and I can't wait to play with them more.

I printed the words from the original poem and made a tag.  I think its a great size to be used as a bookmark. 

Here's the inside.

The top panel shows off the gorgeous design papers.  I printed all the sentiments from my computer.  I don't know what color I ended up using, but its somewhere between a brown and grey.  A little softer than black.  It goes with the image, the song and the feel I was going for.

Here's the writing panel.  I had to show off the companion for the design paper.

The back shows off the design paper and my custom stamp.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge Blog - Banners or Tags

Cute Card Thursday - Anything

Cooking It Up With Katie - Anything

ABC Christmas - Anything

Pixie Cottage - Sketch

Papertake - Favorite Color

Ribbon Carousel - Twine
Digi Tuesday - Winter Wonderland

I guess that's about it.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Blessings & Hugs

Michelle