ETSY Inspired #38! Bird is the word!

This week's Etsy Inspired challenge is Bacon Square Farm. They have some whimsical birdhouses and garden picks for your inspiration this week!

My card base is Really Rust and I used DP from Chloe's Closet Collection by Making Memories. I stamped the "for you" from SU's Great Friend set in Chocolate Chip ink. I used some So Saffron ribbon at the top and the DP flower and button embellishment is also from the Chloe's Closet collection.

This card was super easy to make! It took about 5 minutes!

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Have a great weekend!

Emily

Hip Hop Hooray!

Hello! Happy Hip Hop Hangover! I made this card yesterday, and can you believe that I saw the biggest double rainbow yesterday evening after a rain shower?! Rainbows just make me happy! I think that no matter how many I see, or how old I get, I will always stop to look in wonder and awe.
The DP is from K&Co's Daydream collection. I just love the whimsical papers in that pack! The stamps are from Unity's March KOTM. I colored it in with my SU markers and then cut it out and layered it over the craft. I paper pierced around the edge and added some heart buttons. That luscious ribbon was a steal at Wal-Mart! Only $1.99!

Have a great weekend!

I will have blog candy posted tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emily

A sketch challenge at The Digi Shack!

This week The Digi Shack has a sketch challenge for you! I used this adorable drink image and paper pieced the glass and the umbrella with some SU DSP. I changed the small square in the upper right corner to a circle in the lower right. Added some Michael's bridal confetti flowers with some bling along the side. I am not really sure why I colored the straw bright green (it doesn't match ANYTHING), but it is what it is!!! If I had it to do over, I would make it baja breeze! LOL!

I hope you play along with the sketch this week!

I will have blog candy tomorrow!!! My hits reached 10,000! YAY!

Have a great day!

Emily

Berry Best sketch challenge!

Hello! I made this card for the sketch challenge over on SCS. I really struggled with this one, at first, but that is why they call them challenges, right?! I am pleased with the end result. The stamps are from Artful Inkables. I am going to plug this stamp company because they have some wonderful stamps, and don't get the recognition they deserve. These stamps are deeply etched red rubber and are packaged THE BEST! I am all about great packaging! I know exactly where they are and when I am done I just stick them right back in the snap container! I have included some photos of the packaging. This set was only $9.95! There prices are really reasonable. They just came out with some new releases, and I can't wait to get some new stamps from them! Go check them out HERE.

See what I mean about the packaging! FABULOUS!

Have a great day!

Emily

Clean and Simple Butterfly

Hello! Hope you all have had a great holiday weekend! I made this card for the CAS challenge over at SCS. We were to re-do a card we had previously made. I chose to re-do THIS card. I basically changed everything but the layout. I used the SU set Great Friend for today's card. The base is baja breeze. I used a blender pen and reinker to color in the white areas of the butterfly. I also cut out the butterfly and popped it up with dimensionals.

Stay tuned...I will have blog candy when my blog hits reach 10,000!

Emily

A contemporary First Communion Card!

Hello! I made this card for my nephew, Logan. He is celebrating his First Communion today. I decided not to do a typical religious card. I love this funky paper from K&Co (Daydream collection). The stamp is from the dollar bin at Michael's that I have had forever!

I was inspired by THIS card. Mercy is the featured stamper on SCS today. I pretty much changed everything except the LO of the card! I think this LO is fab!

I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday weekend! It is a scorcher here, today! Very humid! YUCK!

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Etsy Inspired Challenge #37

This week's Etsy shop is sunbasilgarden.

They have some of the cutest handmade soaps I have seen! They have a soap to match anyone's taste or any occasion. I was inspired to make my card from the soap in the photo above. It screams summer, to me! One of my co-workers just had some surgery, so I think I may order this soap for her and send it along with the matching card. A super cute gift for someone recovering from surgery.

Make sure you check out the other Etsy Inspired team projects. Just look on my side bar for the other DT members and the links to their blogs.

I used various circle punches on my flower and hand cut the stem and leaf. I also used the eyelet border punch on the side panel. My card base is white and I used wild wasabi, pumpkin pie, and so saffron. The ribbon is so saffron (from this year's celebration). The sentiment is from PTI's Mixed Messages.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

HOME with a HIP HOP HANGOVER!

It's another Hip Hop Hangover kind of day! Check out Unity's site for some great deals this weekend! 30% off all stamps!
I made this card for the Unity Oh, my word! challenge. We were to use words as the focal point of our card. This stamp is from Unity's May KOTM. I colored the letters with prisma pencils and blended with OMS. I tied some hemp twine at the top and hand cut a heart and attached it with a jump ring. I have some of those left over from my jewelry making days! LOL! I sponged chocolate chip ink around the edges and distressed the edges of the sentiment.
Have a fabulous Friday!

Emily

TDSC06-A color challenge!

Hello! It is time for another challenge over at The Digi Shack! This week is a color challenge. You are to use black, bashful blue, taken with teal, and grey is optional. You do not have to use SU colors, just something along these lines will work! I was really stumped at first, but love the funky look of these colors together. This week I made a layout and used a sentiment from The Digi Shack along with some digi paper.

I love incorporating flowers into my boy's pages. I think you can pull it off as long as you use bright or funky colors. I thought this color combo was perfect.
The scalloped flower paper is from colorbok as are the die-cut buttons. I used some teal, felt ric-rac and created the scallop border with a SU punch.

When uploading to an online gallery please use keyword TDSC06. Hope you play along!

Emily

Botanical Hello

Hello! I made this for the CAS challenge on SCS. We were to use black, white and a bold bright! I stamped my leaf image in green galore and then "stamped off" to get the two tones. I am loving the big script "Hello" from Unity's April KOTM! I just realized I have been using it on a lot of my cards!
I needed a quick clean and simple challenge today. Most of my family, including me were up puking all night! YUCK! My oldest son was so upset that he had to miss school today. He hasn't missed a day all year. I felt so bad for him!
I hope you all are well! Thanks for stopping by! I love reading your comments!

Emily