little butterflies Thinking of You

ahhhhh Spring, I'm so very very VERY ready for Spring so I'm channeling it through this card I've created for Unity Stamp Co.'s Friends with Flair

Printed Papers - aren't these wonderful?  I just got them in yesterday... CloseToMyHeart Skylark

Floral Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. Charming Cone Flowers

Inks - Stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black & colored with various Copic markers

Sentiment - Unity Stamp Co. Sending My Love

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Butterflies - UmWow Studio Butterfly Confetti dipped in Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue

buzz buzz HELLO

Midweek Throwdown from Operation Write Home is Hexagons!  well, I can do that

Sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #122

I'm also entering this into Unity Stamp Company's Friends with Flair


Cardstock - Bo Bunny Doubble Dots in 4 different colors






Hexagon Punches - Creative Memories

Bee, Woodgrain & Sentiment Stamps - Unity Stamp Co. Bee Happy Hexagons

Ink - Memento Rich Cooca, Tuxedo Black & London Fog

Hexagon Mask - UmWowStudio

Ink - Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy

Small Dot Embossing Folder (on background paper) - Cuttlebug

Just a little Prayer...

that God will keep you in His care.




Life, at times, is sad.  very sad.  A friend of mine has a teenage daughter who lost one of her best friends in a freak car accident this past weekend.  It really goes without saying that her heart is hurting.  This card is for her.




Tuesday Morning Sketches #235 provided the perfect sketch for me to use





Printed Papers - MyMind'sEye BellaBella

Brown Cardstock - CloseToMyHeart Chocolate

Brown Ink - CloseToMyHeart Chocolate

Blue Ink - Tim Holtz Stormy Sky

Bird & Background Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. Layers of Life Dream a little bigger

Sentiment Stamps - CloseToMyHeart Card Chatter - Sympathy

Bling - Imaginisce (I know the glue shows in the photo but in real life, you cannot see it at all... probably my wonky lighting)

Foxy

after a day yesterday fill with hearts hearts and more hearts, I've gone on to something completely different!



ODBD sponsors a monthly challenge for Operation Write Home where, depending on the number of cards submitted, they will pay for the shipping of boxes of cards to our soldiers... January had 2 boxes mailed, so I'm working on some cards to help get that number up even more.  This month's challenge is BROWN

I combined the ODBD challenge with Freshly Made Sketches #121

Printed Paper - Creative Memories (very old stuff)

Image & Sentiment - Unity Stamp Co. KOM April 2012 Follow Your Own

Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa,  colored with various Copic Markers and for the white I used Sakura Glaze in White

Cardstocks - Recollections

Chippies - UmWowStudio Circle Confetti

loving you

more each day

What a great thing to read!  Especially since I'm making these cards for Operation Write Home... Sketch #201

Mask - UmWowStudio

Ink - Tim Holtz Evergreen Bough

Printed Paper - Recollections

Sentiment & Heart Stamp - Basic Grey

Sentiment Ink - Tim Holtz Pine Needles

Heart White "paint" - Gesso

Chipboard - UmWowStudio Heart Confetti colored with Gesso

for the cool-looking middle strip, you can read my first post from today about the Gelli Pad

{splattered} Love

Fusion Card Challenge #3 is perfect for Valentine's Day cards.... I love the mixtures of their photo inspiration
and their sketch

Grey Cardstock - DieCutWithAView

Washi tape from Tim Holtz

Heart Punch - Creative Memotires

Red Bling - Making Memories

Ink Splatters - Tim Holtz Spun Sugar & Gesso

Sentiment Stamp - Imaginisce

Ink - StazOn

for this pretty swirly pattern on the larger two sizes of hearts, see my previous post about using the Gelli Pad (I love this funky thing! I have the 8.5x11)

sheesh Winter

ok Mother Nature, take it elsewhere!  You know like the ski slopes or even just further up north where they have the road equipment to deal with this white stuff.. alright, nuff of the whining... time to put on my flannel big girl panties & just craft!


Sketch is from CAS(E) this Sketch #62


No Printed Paper! For the background I used light pink, hot pink & red on my Gelli Pad and blended them with a feathery paintbrush, the added a bit of Gesso to my large Unity Stamp called "Dinged Dots" stamped onto my Gelli Pad then with what was left over, stamped this background.  You'll see those other uses from this technique later in the day (hopefully).

Added two different Washi Tapes

Painted a Large UmWowStudio Heart Chippie with the same Red Paint

You and Me stamp is a part of CloseToMyHeart Soul Mates set embossed in white

Twine - The Twinery

Bling - Imaginisce

and a tiny bit of Grey Paper Frills from Doodle Pantry



I also lined the inside of the card and used an old Creative Memories punch to dress-up the inside just a little bit.