Polka dot pinwheel birthday and Estes Park!

Hi Everyone!

I am finally home after our wonderful family vacation in Colorado. I’m sharing a couple of photos at the end of this post. If you ever get a chance to visit Estes Park, I highly recommend it!

So, now back to the matters at hand. I have another birthday card to share. I know I’ve been sharing a lot of those lately. Full disclosure:  Many of the cards I’ve been sharing since I started blogging again have been cards I made a while ago and had just stashed away.  So this is the last birthday card I have and now I’ll need to actually get situated at my craft desk and make some cards!

This is another super simple card I made using some polka dot pattern paper. I made some simple pinwheel flowers and added the sentiment at the bottom.  I added the panel to a piece of Aqua Mist card stock from Paper Trey Ink and attached it all to a white card base.

Not a whole lot else to say about this one. I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll be back again as soon as I can!

Challenges for today’s card:

Sunday:

1.  Dare to Be Artsy: August Anything Goes
2. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: Anything Goes
3. The Corrosive Challenge: Anything Goes

Monday:

1. PammiesInkyPinkies: Anything Goes

 Finally a few pictures from our vacation!

Cupcake Birthday Wishes!

Hi Everyone.

I am still on vacation in beautiful Colorado! I posted some pictures to my Instagram story...hope you get a chance to pop over there and take a look

Sharing another quick birthday celebration card. This one made with inkadinkado stamps. This is one of those stamp sets that I always seem to keep no matter what othering purging I do of old craft supplies.

I layered some fun bright colors and stamped the little cupcakes with Simon Says Stamp very black ink and then colored them in with some Copic markers. I don’t remember where the sentiment came from and I’m not at home to look. I think it’s a Simon Says Stamp one; but it’s quite possible it could be from an old “Verve” set

Have a great day everyone and I’ll post again when I can!

Challenges:

1. Crafting By Designs:  Anything Goes
2. Crafty Creations: Anything Goes (2nd Entry)
3. Crafty Gals Corner: 3+layers
4. Creative Moments: Anything Goes

Celebrate your Birthday!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you’re having a great day so far. By the time this posts, I will be in Colorado for a family wedding. I’ve never been to Colorado, but have always heard wonderful things so I am looking forward to it. I will share pictures over on my instagram account, so be sure to follow me over there if you haven’t yet. Just click the green circle instagram button over there to the right ➡️😊

So I am prescheduling a couple of posts for while I’m away so that I keep my rhythm going here in the blogosphere. Today’s card I’m sharing is another very simple card just using some patterned papers and sentiment stamps. The sentiments are from Altenew and honestly I don’t remember the paper. I think it’s just a pad of paper I picked up from Michael’s a while ago.

I loved all the different fun colors and polka dot patterns and then I just added a couple of hearts with glossy accents to add something extra because otherwise it was a little too much polka dottiness going on.

Anyhow, I do hope you enjoy it.  Thanks for visiting me and I’ll be back again soon! Have a great day.

Challenges for today:

1. Cute N Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes
2. Get Creative Challenge: Anything Goes (no twist)
3. PammiesInkyPinky Challenge: Anything Goes
4. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Birthday!
5. Crafty Sentiments Design: Anything Goes
6. Lemon Shortbread Challenges: Anything Goes
7. Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes

CAS Butterfly Birthday and Thank You

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to my blog! If you’re a first time visitor, thanks for stopping by and visiting me. I hope you like what you see and get some good inspiration. For my returning visitors, thanks for coming back again, it’s always good to know people come back!

Not a whole lot of extra things to talk about today, so I’m going to just jump right into the cards for today. Today’s cards were simple to make and ones that can be made into multiples easily just by changing the center color panel and sentiment or embossing folders.

For both of the cards I used the Quatrefoil embossing folders by Paper Studio that I bought from Hobby Lobby. I used the small die cut from Papertrey Ink’s What the Doodle: Butterfly Die Set. The sentiments are from Verve Stamps “Joyful Blooms” set. I kept them both black and white except for the pop of color with the teal and pink. I added some glossy accents to the center of the butterfly’s an some sparkle around the outer scalloped cut circle.

Have a great day everyone, and I’ll see you again soon!

Tuesday Challenges

1. Lemon Shortbread: Anything Goes
2. Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes

Wednesday Challenges:

1. Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything Goes
2. Crafty Creations: Anything Goes
3. Creative Moments: Anything Goes
4. The House that Stamps Built: Anything Goes
5. Mod Squad Challenges: All that Sparkles (stickles around the scalloped circles and glittery ribbon)

Happy Dancing Penguins!

Hello Everyone!

I'm here today to share a fun birthday card I've made using Party Penguins and Your Birthday. I really wanted to use some bright, fun colors to make this card, so I decided to use pink, green, orange, yellow, aqua blue and white  I used a curved edge die for the yellow piece to add a little bit of interest for the front of the card.



I used an embossing folder to add some texture to the green background piece. I stamped the penguins in blank ink and used various Copic markers to color them in. I stamped the sentiment in orange ink before layering it on a piece of aqua card stock. I added some white stitching lines along with white sequins and silver stickles for some final touches.



That is all for today, I hope you have a great day and I'll see you all again soon!

Fun Fold Friday Week 2: Free Stand Pop Up Card.

Hi Everyone!

It is time for week 2 of my Fun Fold Friday’s series. Once again, I trailed through the tutorials of Splitcoast stampers and decided to go with the “free standing pop up card” This is a fold that I liked very much when I first learned it years ago mainly due to the fact it folds up flat but still makes for a fun revelation for the recipient. I haven’t made a card using this fold for quite some time, so I was excited to try it again. Now, I must apologize for these pictures. It has been rainy and overcast, dark and cloudy the past few days, so getting good pictures with natural light has been nearly impossible. I also tried to take the picture from a couple of different angles to show the design of the card.

I used a piece of Kraft card stock for the card base and embossed it with my Swiss Dots embossing folder. . For the tag part of the pop up card I used a piece of blue that I had that coordinated with the
Caribbean Blue ink I was using as part of the color scheme. The other colors included Willow and Orange Peel. I stamped the balloons from Altenew’s “Birthday Greeting” by first stamping the center balloon in Orange Peel and then masking it and then stamping the other balloons on either side. I drew a few squiggly lines with a distress marker towards the present at the bottom. I made the present by stamping one of the squares from SSS “Perfect Shapes” in Orange Peel and then decorating it as shown and then stamped a simple birthday greeting at the bottom and then added some orange ribbon at the top
I added some fun details to the balloons as well for a little extra attention to them.  I kept the base of the card simple by just adding a little ribbon.

All and all a fairly simple design; but I think the pop up fold gives it just an extra bit of kick.

Have a great weekend, everyone; and I will see you all again on Monday!

Challenges:

1. Polkadoodles: Anything Goes
2. Making Memories: Anything Goes (2nd Entry)
3. Jo's Scrap Shack: Anything Goes
4. Creative Corner: Anything Goes
5. Crafting with Friends: Anything Goes

Fun Fold Friday Week 1: Joy Fold

Hi Everyone!

I hope you've all had a fantastic week. I am starting another new feature on the blog this week. I know, another one! I told you...2017 is going to bring lots of fun and new things to PCC!!
I thought it would be nice to spend some time focusing on cards that showcased different kinds of folds. So, welcome to week 1 of Fun Fold Fridays!
To start our fun fold theme, I chose to showcase the "Joy Fold Card" This fold is an oldie but a goodie and I dug back through the tutorials on SplitCoastStampers to refresh my memory. I like this fold because it's a fold that looks complicated; but it's really rather easy to put together.

For my card today, I've made another birthday card. (I have a personal mission to make more birthday cards for family and friends, so you're going to be seeing a lot of them!)I used pattern papers from a 6x6 paper pad called "Happy Day" by Simple Stories.  In addition, I used  Desert Storm from SSS; Harvest Gold, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist and Cream from PTI.

I decided instead of doing a stamped image, I would use one of the sentiments from the paper pad. I left the inside of the card blank to write a personal message later. I added the small birthday hat sticker just to help keep the flaps closed. Since there are so many patterns going on with this card, I decided to just keep the final touches to a minimum by simply adding some green and gold stickles in the corners of the sentiment panel.

I would love for you to give this fun fold a try, and I'd love to see what you create. I decided to add a link up here for you to share your cards! This is not a challenge. It's just simply a place for you to share if you'd like. You can add as many cards as you want! The link will remain open for one week and will close at 11pm next Thursday, January 12. Have fun! 

That is all for me today. Have a great weekend, and I will see you all again on Monday!

Challenges:

1. Crafting with Friends: Anything Goes
2. Creative Corner Challenges: Anything Goes
3. Jo's Scrap Shack: Anything Goes
4. Making Memories Crafting Anything Goes
5. PDE Linky Party: Anything Goes

An InLinkz Link-up