You Rule!!!!

I recently purchased a set of stamps from Paper and Such called "Bitty Love".  I just thought this would be a cute set to have around for making lil cards for my granddaughters. My oldest Evyon will be 7 in a few short weeks and is in 1st grade. OH MY....where did that time go : )  And my youngest, Isabella is 2-1/2.

I stamped the "You Rule" on both white & yellow cardstock.  I then cut out the ruler on the yellow & paper pieced it onto the white to make it look more like an actual ruler.  I thought I would send this to Evyon as a little surprise ~ "How is school going....you rule".  Then I punched some stars out of shimmer and glittered paper to match my background paper.  Just a real cute and simple little card!

Hope you like it!!! 

Thanks for stopping by
Michelle

Challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays ~ Anything Goes
Scrappy Frogs Challenge ~ Back to School

The holidays are coming......

Cooler temps, changing colors.....fall and all the wonderful holidays will soon be on their way!!  And it's time for our Monthly Reveal at D2D!!

Faith has some wonderful images for the upcoming holidays.  Personally~I am a fall person. I LOVE the cool mornings, comfortable afternoons with the brilliant colors of the season all around us.  Which is why I surprised myself when I found 2 of my 3 release cards were actually Christmas/Winter images : )

Anyway....I hope you enjoy them all. And make sure you check our the other DT cards as well. There are some wonderful cards out there!!

For my 1st card  

IMAGE: O Christmas Tree

COLOR MEDIUM: Gamsol and colored pencils

PAPER: Misc. scrap papers

MISC: Stickles~Crystal, Gelly Roll Gel Pen~Clear Star, Doodlebug Design Mini Pearls, Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large & Lacey Ovals, American Crafts ribbon

For my 2nd card

IMAGE: Snowman Skier

COLORING MEDIUM: Gamsol and colored pencils

PAPERS: Scrap Christmas paper, kraft paper

MISC: Stickles~Crystal, Doodlebug Designs Pearls, Liquid Applique, Gelly Roll Gel Pen~Clear Star, scrap ribbon

And for my final card

IMAGE: Pumpkins and Cat

COLOR MEDIUM: Gamsol and colored pencils

PAPERS: Fancy Pants Oct 31 Paper Pad, Scrap orange and black paper

MISC: Bo Bunny Boo Crew flowers, Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist, Dress it Up Halloween Collection (Spider), Hobby Lobby Halloween crafts ribbon, Spellbinders Lacey Circles, EK Success Dotted Scallop punch

Thanks so much for blog hoppin' with D2D! Remember, all New Release Digital Stamps will be on SALE until Sept 23. Details HERE.





For more inspiring ideas from this new release, please visit the other designers' blogs:















Thanks for stopping by!!
Michelle

Challenges:
Stamping Scrapping Challenge~Halloween
The Corrosive Challenges~Animal Companions
Squigglefly~Halloween



Monthly Reveal

It's that time again at D2D...monthly reveal day. Faith has come out with a few new fall & winter images that I am sure you will just LOVE. Plus, some of the gals will be 'revisting' some her older fall & winter images as well.

I decided to use 2 of her new images. For my 1st image, I used "Reach for the Stars Snowman" and created a tag.  I'm always so focused on creating cards, that I don't think about making tags for gifts. And I thought this image would be perfect for that purpose. And I am also always doing my images on white cardstock and I have seen so many people do the images on kraft paper. So, I printed my image on the kraft cardstock, colored the stars w/my atyou Spica markers for some shimmer. Then my Memento markers were used to colors the scarf and nose. A little Stickles for the snow, a piece of green cardstock folded in half, punched a hole and ran my ribbon thru and TA DA!! Easy peasy : )

For my 2nd image I used "Fall Mailbox". Fall is my FAVORITE time of year with all the changing colors & cooler weather. Again I wanted to keep it simple but yet use alot of those wonderful colors we associate with fall. I also used a new Spellbinder die that I recently purchased and absolutely LOVE it!



Well, I hope you have a chance to check out the other DT creations as well! They have some awesome creations and inspiration for you all.
Thanks so much for blog hoppin' with D2D! Remember, all New Release Digital Stamps will be on SALE until August 23. Details HERE.





For more inspiring ideas from this new release, please visit the other designers' blogs:







  Michelle

Challenges:
Inky Impressions~ Pearls or rhinestones
4 Crafty Chicks~ Circles

Fish tales

My father-in-laws birthday is coming up soon, so I created this card w/him in mind. He really likes to fish, so I used an image from Prairie Fairy Stamps called "Fisherman Lewis".

I LOVE that he comes both colored and uncolored.  It saves alot of time when trying to do cards from time to time. I just added some Glossy Accents on his glasses and some 'shimmer' to the water w/my Gelly Roll Clear Star pen. I wanted to make it look like he 'flipped' the line out onto the card.  So, I strung twine from the bottom of the pic, up and back around and finished it off with some actual spinning lures.

I forgot to take a pic of the inside, but I wrote ~ Tell all the fish tales you want, it's your special day. I really hope he likes it  : )

Michelle

Challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays ~ Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge ~ M for Men Only
Bearly-Mine ~ Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks ~ Distressing

Fun with letters !!

I was at the craft store awhile back with my oldest granddaughter. It was fun and trying at the same time. She's 6 and full of energy and of course ideas!!  At the time, her room was getting painted one of hers and my favorite colors ~ purple!  While rummage thru the 60-80% off clearance aisle, she came across a letter E. Well of course she said "Grandma, that's what my name starts with E for Evyon".  And I said yes, and she proceeded to tell me that this would be nice in her room on her wall. And I said "Well, lets looks around for more ideas and see what we come up with".

In the meantime, she found a leopard pattern 'trinket' box marked down to $5.  And a cute little lamp that was originally $24.99, marked down to $4. She said we should get it so her little sister Isabella wouldn't be afraid of the dark when she goes to bed. How cute!! Such a great big sister : )

Well, we found another E and this one I told her Grandma could decorate for her. It's just one of those thin unfinished wooden letters that you can decorate however you want.  So now of course I had to get an I for Isabella too. Evyon wanted hers done in purple, and said I should do Isabella's in green. 

So, I bought some acrylic paints and painted my edges.  Sprayed w/some Elmers Spray Adhesive, and glue some scrapbook paper on there.  Distressed the edges a little, blinged it up and TA-DA my finished project.

I dropped them off last week, but the girls were by their mother so.  I get to see her this weekend and can't wait to see whats she says about her altered letter that I made for her : )

Toodles for now

Michelle

IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE.....

It's that time of the month again - REVEAL DAY!! It's our "Bird Brain" Blog hop!

Make sure you hop on over to D2D and check it out.

My first card image is called Birdbath Chick and I just couldn't wait to use it.  It's been so hot here by us in the Midwest and along with our recent drought, I have been filling & cleaning our birdbath constantly, as the birds are always looking for a cool drink : ) These last couple of days we have FINALLY managed to get some rain and things look a tad better, but we could for sure use more rain!

Anyway, I wanted to keep this card real simple, so I just started off by stamping just the bottom half of the kardstock w/a background stamp. I then cut a 1-1/2" piece of DP and punched 1 edge w/a border punch. Then put my image on top of that and then just had to finish it off by doing the bubbles w/some Stickles!

 Below is a little better view of all the wonderful Stickles

 For my 2nd card I used Martini Chicks. I just LOVE this image!! It is just to flippen cute! I just love how she did the birds eyes. He looks kind of 'whacky' and out of sorts if you will. So I wanted to make a card that was kind of the same way.  I wanted to use brighter colors and mix up my patterns.  I know there are some scrappers out there that go "NO...you don't mix stripes & circles together", but I thought this image begged for that! I used a little Glossy Accents on his eyes to give him that 'glazed' look.

Well.....I hope you enjoyed my creations. Don't forget ~ we will be having a challenge again this month. Our readers will be invited to use the color scheme from one of the designer's cards from the blog hop. You will then have two weeks to enter, and Faith will select a winner or two from the challenge.

Thanks so much for blog hoppin' with D2D! Remember, you can enter our Blog Hop Challenge for a chance to win some FREE Digis! Also, all New Release Digital Stamps will be on SALE until July 23. Details HERE.




For more inspiring ideas from this new release, please visit the other designers' blogs:






Thanks again for stopping by
Michelle

Challenges:
Lexi's Creations ~ For a Friend
Divas by Design ~ Anything Goes

Have a happy & safe 4th of July!!!