Happy Friday!

Hello everyone! Today I have two cards to share with you that I made. Yesterday was a bit overcast but I was able to get some decent pics, better than if I had taken them inside.



The first card I made most of it a while back but I never added a sentiment or anything. So last night I just heat embossed some black powder and added the embellishment and called it done. The second card I made for my cousin, she had a baby a week ago. Yeah, better late than never, right? I made it to participate in Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #93 over at The Sweetest Thing. The image is from Squigglefly, it's called Bundle of Joy. I printed and colored that image at least a half dozen times. The color kept bleeding when I used the blender pen. So I ended up opting for some paper piecing. I really like the way it turned out better than the colors I chose to color it in anyway.
I have no baby boy PP so I bought some single sheets from my LCS. The twine is from the November Monthly kit and the buttons are a sneak peek from December's kit. I will have the reveal of December's kit on Monday.

Happy Crafting!!

Holly Jolly?

Edit: I made a little correction to today's card. I felt it was a bit plan on the top of the card and I saw a Birthday over at Karen's blog where she layered the Poinsettia. I am not sure why I didn't think of that before. LOL! But I thought I would change my card up a bit and see how I liked it and I think it filled in the top of the card a little bit better. So I have a before and after picture of the card.

I can't believe I am thinking about Christmas. I know most of you have already and have also probably made a ton of Christmas cards. For me making a card in September is weird but last year I think I waited until November-ish and then it left me stressing about getting them all done.

What better way to kick off my Christmas card making than to use a brand new stamp set from Practicing Creativity Designs. This stamp set is super cute. It has a bunch of great sentiments and several very beautiful images.

Before

After

I have also decided that outdoors are not for me with taking photos of my cards and projects. In the first card you can't even see the score lines on the front of the card.

The Pretty Poinsettia is from Squigglefly. I used some stickles to go around the edges of the flower as well as around the "Christmas" sentiment. My picture really turned out a bit crappy. Sorry about that. I may take a new one later today. It was a bit windy when I took this picture and I had to be quick about it. I don't think you can tell in this picture but the "have a holly jolly" is stamped with red and green ink. Hope y'all have a great Sunday!

The Christmas Wonder stamp set by Practicing Creativity Designs can be purchased at Artfuldelight along with all of PCD's stamp set.

Happy Crafting!!

You're Dandy!

I wanted to say quickly, don't forget to enter my crinkle ribbon giveaway, it ends Aug 22nd at midnight EST. Click here!

I think this card turned out really cute. This card is pretty all digital, the papers and the image. Even the card base. I purchased this digital kit from Two Peas Sugar and Spice by Brandy Buffington. I really love this kit. For one it has a cool Kraft paper and second I love the embellishments. The image is from Squigglefly.

I colored the image with my Prismacolor Pencils and a blender pen. "You're Dandy" is from Practicing Creativity Design's stamp set called You're Dandy which is available at Artfuldelight.com. It has to be one of my favorite stamps sets. Everything else on this card is digital. For the flower pin I added some crystal effects to give it a little dimension.

And that's it. I hope you are all having a great week. I am starting to have a nervous breakdown about school which is starting in 4 days. Tony was doing some practice in his Calculus book yesterday and was working on it for 5 hrs. That was just one class, he has 3 others. How are we going to manage, 4 kids, his full time job and our full time school schedules. I am freakin' out. So thankfully I have been able to craft the last couple days in order to clear my mind a bit.

Happy Crafting!!