25 Days of Christmas Challenge - Day 22

Hey!!

Yikes only 3 more days left!  Are we ready?!  I really feel like a re-do for the whole month of December.  Here's a fun winter card I made for day 22 of the 25 days of Christmas challenge with Linda & Kathy.

From top to bottom this is one fun CAS card.  I used Krystal from The Greeting Farm SSS.  The reindeer are dies from La-La Land Crafts.  The beautiful border is also from LLLC.  The hills were created with a Mama Elephant die.  I thought the sentiment from AmyR was sweet for this scene.  And the pretty blue snowflake paper was from my many years stash.  I love the color combo here, definitely a winter wonderland scene.

I think this one will be another short post tonight.  Tomorrow is another work day for me and I still need to figure out what I'll share for day 23.  I hope you're all having a nice relaxing evening.  Hopefully I'm not up too late writing that post.  lol..  Thanks for popping in!

xoxo,
Leanne

I'm so lucky!

Hello!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes for my dad!  He enjoyed being the center of attention, hahaha!

Recently I received the newest SSSC #15, Rose, from The Greeting Farm.  I think I waited a day before I inked and colored her.  I don't know why but I gravitated towards the greens and thought, "Hey why not make a St. Patrick's Day themed card?"  So I did, well sorta...

Ta-da!  hahaha!  Isn't she sweet?!  I just love her expression and her eyelashes are to die for!! (hahaha)  I did do a tiny alteration to the bow in her hair.  Instead of the skull, I wiped it away and closed it off.  I also used a different color combo on her hair.  There's a bit more orange which I like a lot.  I found that patterned paper in my stash by accident, but it turned out to be perfect for my card base.  The flowers although not 4-leaf or 3-leaf clovers were the perfect shade of green with a hint of rust. Right under the flowers and the leaves is a chocolate colored wreath.  I accented parts of the wreath with some green translucent gems.  Last was the sentiment.

Although the ticket doesn't really match I though it was fun.  The sentiment itself was computer generated, but the lines of dots are from an MFT stamp set.  Oh and you can actually see some of the orange in her hair.  You're also able to see some of the bling, the leaves and the flower up close.  For this card adding something to the inside was a must.

I used up the leftover patterned paper scraps, another computer generated sentiment (I know it has nothing to do with St. Patrick's Day, but now I can use it for anything and if I wanted to I could write in Happy St. Patrick's Day)  Trying to always think ahead.  :)

Wow! Time has just flown by, which means this is the perfect time to call it a night, or morning...  Have a great day and Happy St. Patrick's day!  May the luck of the Irish be with you always!  Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges:
TGF FFF - Get a little Irish (Green & White)

A card for Kathy's Birthday

Well hello!!

Hey I'm back to share another card I made but haven't blogged about yet.  It was Kathy's birthday on the 1st and she and I swapped our belated birthday gifts.  I'm still working on her handmade gift, but I wanted to share the card I made using the super adorable Sage from TGF.  She is the 10th release from the Super Secret Stamp Club.  When Sage came in the mail I wanted to ink her up right away and I knew I would use her for Kathy's card.

Happy Birthday Kathy ~ Sage, TGF SSSC

I picked blues and greens for her and lots of bling.  The pieces used are actually scraps from another project I finished, these are the leftovers.  The dp is from Basic Gray and I wish I had gotten a few more sheets of it.   I used Prima flowers and crystals.  The banners are from La-La Land Crafts and the border punch was from Martha Stewart.

I love Sage's expression, it's adorable!!  Can't wait to use her again for another fun project.  The shot above shows a little bit of a close up of the details on the bottom.  Below is what I did on the inside of the card.  Kept it nice and clean and left some space for me to write her a nice birthday message.

I had a blast putting this one together and I'm a happy crafter knowing that she liked it.

Well that's it for today.  I'm looking forward to sharing another post soon.  I'm also looking forward to coming around and seeing what you've been doing.  Hoping it's real soon.  Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a terrific day!!

Happy Birthday Makinley!

Morning,

Hope you all had a great weekend.  I got a chance to color some images for fun.  One of them was the first from the Super Secret Stamp Club from The Greeting Farm and her name is Fairest. One of my good friend's youngest daughter just celebrated her 3rd birthday and via FB I saw they went to Disneyland to celebrate.  Aww the happiest place on earth is the place to go to celebrate any birthday. I thought it would be fun to color Fairest as Snow White, but when I put together the card itself the colors did not match.  So I stamped another image of Fairest and colored her to match the card.

I'll just have to figure something else out with the original Snow White version.  I did a couple slight alterations with Fairest, do you see them?  If you guessed the cupcake then you are correct!  The cupcake is from Sister Stamps Miyoko.  I love how the stem & leaf from the apple that Fairest is originally holding works perfectly with the positioning of the cupcake.  It looks like it was made for this image.  I also added some bows to her shoes using a Memento marker.  As I was trying to figure out a layout I remembered a card that my KBD teammie Shirl created and thought it would be fun to make for the first time.  Thanks for the inspiration Shirl! :)

It's called a building block card.  I found the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers.  The only issue I had with this was after cutting the building block part, it did not want to close flat so I had to make a couple of adjustments.  All in all it turned out really cute.

I'll need to do a few more of these to get the cuts right.  The Happy and Makinley letters were cut with CC Designs Cutter Bubble Alphabet dies and the birthday letters are cut from MFT Dienamics Little Lowercase letters.  The card is white cs from Neenah, the hot pink cs is from Recollecitons, the patterned paper is from my current go to girly paper, Colorbok (Confetti).  The yarn is from Daiso, the pink button is from Recollections and the twine is from Taylored Expressions. I used a Swiss dot embossing folder for the pink squares.

Gonna pop her in to the mailbox today and hopefully Makinley will like it.  I have another project I used Fairest on as well as the second SSSC release, Tress, that I will share later, later.  For now, I hope this card made you smile.  I'm hoping to send out more birthday cards, even if they are late cards, to my family and friends.  I have quite a few that are coming up, so better get back to coloring and creating.
Thank you all so much for stopping by and leaving your wonderful comments, you're all so sweet!  Have a fabulous Monday!!