One Card Six Challenges

Well happy Thursday everyone. I've been so busy getting my house cleaned up, and working on my sons grade 8 graduation, that I didn't even realize it had been so long since I posted. My apologies. The weather was lovely so I gave the house a good spring clean. You know one of those ones that you even do the inside of cabinets and china buffets. UGH, Well a quick look at my lonely blog this morning and decided to get off the rest period and make a card. This is what I came up with.
For my card I used my Easter fence stamp from Magnolia, and one of my cute little girls from the winter kit, (I think). I colored them with my copics to match this fabulous paper from October Afternoon/Thrift Shop Line. I used tons of punches for this card, all Martha Stewart punches. I used 2 butterfly ones, a flower boarder one and a large lace like one that I have wanted so bad. The final MS punch I used was to make the little flowers which I put pearls from the dollar store in the middle. Oh yeah, I used another one to make the greenery. A lot of punches. The 2 buttons are from Papertrey.

My card was originally made for the Magnolia-licious sketch drawn by the ever talented Claudia Rosa shown here:

I also made my card fit the following other challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie (cards with tons of Cuteness)
Oh Alice - Flowers ( Use flowers on your card)
Crazy 4 Challenges (1 Ribbon, 2 Buttons, 3 Punches)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Make a Scene
and finally
Flutter By Wednesday - Open (Must have butterfly or angel)

This is my first time entering in this challenge, but my friend Christine enters all the time and really loves this challenge, so I checked it out and it looks really cool. Here is my first attempt at Flutter By Wednesday.

Hugs xx
Carolyn

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Spots and Dots

This week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge our Challenge is Spots and Dots and we are looking for cards with 2 patterned papers with dots on them.

Our sponsor this week is Meljen Digital Images. Over at Meljen's they were fantastically generous this week and donated a digital image to each of the design team members if they wanted to use it in the challenge. I jumped on that one and chose this fabulous sunflower image called sunflower buggies. Isn't it darling. Please take some time to go through Meljen's images as there are just so many fabulous designs and they are so easy to print up and color. I used my copics on this one, and used a black gel pen to color all the dots on the ladybugs and stripes on the bees. I added tons of glitter, a Papertrey ribbon and a fabulous Magnolia flower.

For my papers I used my pink bo bunny paper for the picket fence I cut out with my Martha Stewart fence boarder punch, but it is really hard to see the dots on that one unless you click on the picture. My other paper was from Best Creations called California.

The fabulous prize this week is 4 digital images of your choice from


Don't hesitate and get your cards in for a chance at this fabulous prize that I would love to have.

Hugs xx
Carolyn

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Going In Circles

This week at Stamptacular Sunday Challenges we are looking for cards or projects with as many circles as you can add without it looking gaudy. There's tons of paper out there with circles on them, cricut cartridges with circles, die cuts with circles, stamps with circles, so let's see what creation you can come up with. For my card I used my Basic Grey collection, and cut a couple of the circle patterns out and mounted them. I stamped a couple of my Just Rite stamps on some circles I punched out of cream cardstock. I ran some pink cardstock through my cuttlebug with my Bloom Dots Embossing folder. I mounted all my little circles and added them to the top part of the card in various order. I used my Martha Stewart Loopy Boarder punch to punch out some matching Basic Grey paper, and added green ribbon ontop of that. I then added matching rhinestones and baubbles and my card was done.
Here's our fantastic prize this week:
A $25.00 gift certificate from Simon Says. Wow, you can pick out whatever you like. Plus this certificate includes FREE SHIPPING!!! So get those creative juices going and let's see what you can come up with this week.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

Don't forget to pop over to Stamptacutlar Sunday Challenge to check out the Design Team call. We are looking for some talented people to join us.

Rain In Ontario?

Well here's a Tilda card with my new image from the Spring line. We had a beautifully sunny Sunday here in Ontario, a little cool, but sunny no doubt. I'm not sure what tomorrow holds as we celebrate Queen Victoria day here with a Monday off work for all. I thought if it was going to be rainy I would prepare everyone with my little Tilda in the Rain, and maybe by doing this little card early I might force Mother Nature to bring us another sunny day. Happy Victoria Day to all my fellow Canadians.

What a beautiful day outside here in Ontario. I ventured out into the garden today and saw that both of my Lilac trees are completely covered with buds. Well I told you how much I love my Tulips, but I never told you that Lilacs are far more the favorite flower here in my home. I totally fill every room, with every vase stuffed full of Lilacs from my trees. If I could live somewhere where Lilacs flowered all year, that's where I'd move. So needless to say those buds on my trees inspired me to finish my Tilda with Lilacs Card. Happy Sunday!