Cupcake Craft Challenge Top 5!!

Whoo hoo! Imagine my excitement to be chosen as one of Cupcake Craft Challenge #37 Top 5!! I was so pleased to be chosen as there were lots of great submissions! Click on the link to check them out!

Billybootabella...

Living in Southern Alberta is so interesting! Strange, strange weather! We were enjoying warm temps and spending time outside in the sun, and the last week it's been COLD with lots of snow! You really need to be resilient to live here! But, it's looking good from here on. Good thing, it's almost May for crying out loud!

Anyway, I just love spring colors, and so I love the challenge this week from The Cat's Pajamas shown above. The glasses are so pretty and I just love their ideas!

I also used inspiration from 2 Red Bananas and their challenge to use stripes! Don't usually think about stripes, but I love the paper I had in my stash from Close to My Heart.

I also enjoy visiting the Cupcake Craft Challenges blog, and their challenge this week was to use five different embellishments on a project. On this card, I used more then five including colored staples, fiber, buttons, flowers, clips and gems. Great fun!

As usual, I also gathered inspiration from Amy's Sketch #58. She is an amazing artist, and I love going to her blog for terrific ideas! They way she colors in images is particularly fantastic, so make sure you check it out!

I just love this stamp from Stamping Bella called Billybootabella. Isn't she sweet? I used Liquid Glass from Close to My Heart to make the umbrella look wet.



Supplies: Close to My Heart My Acrylix stamps 'What a great day' (flowers & sentiment), cardstock & patterned paper, flowers, button and jute, black ink, Liquid Glass, staples; Billybootabella from Stamping Bella; fiber from Scrapbook Sally; BIC markers.

Thanks for visiting and I'd love to hear your comments!
Karine

Yellow flowers...

March is finally starting to bring warmer temperatures, although we are dealing with lots of wind! As I've said before, Chinooks in Southern Alberta bring a warm wind, so they are both desired and hated. Lots of people suffer from migraines when a Chinook hits, but I'm lucky that I usually don't. I hope that you are enjoying the {almost} start to Spring as much as I am!



Today is my Mother-in-Law's birthday, so I used Amy's Sketch #53 to make her a card. I also followed Cupcake Craft Challenge #29, which was to find inspiration from the photo. Here's my take on the two challenges....

This card was fun to make, although I think it still takes me too long to complete a card like this!
On a good note, the Penicillin finally is working and my tooth pain is gone - for now! I am booked for my FOURTH root canal in a year on April 6th. I will be glad to get it over with and hopefully the last one for a while! Thanks for all the good wishes you have been giving me!


Supplies: Close to My Heart 'In the Garden' My Acrylix stamp set, brown, yellow & green textured cardstock, white cardstock, black ink, prisma glitter, flowers & leaves, brown ribbon; Provo Craft patterned paper; Stamping Bella bling.

Have a great day!
Karine

Long Time No See!

I feel so out of touch since I haven't posted on my blog for so long! However, I have been away, busy and in pain. My family took a weekend away at the end of February (it was great!), but since then, I have either been really busy or just not well enough to post to my blog. I swear, I'm in good health - really! - but I am now working on my fourth root canal in the last year. This time, it's another molar, and I have to say that tooth pain is infinitely worse than any other pain I have ever experienced. This includes childbirth with no drugs, which I can totally attest to! So, please forgive me for not posting here sooner. I haven't been crafting at all, until today. So, I am participating in several challenges with this card. First, Amy's Friday Sketch #52 seen here.

Next, the High Hopes Challenge #21, which was to use zigs and zags on a card, which I have done with sewing! I love sewing on paper, but not too sure how much the sewing machine likes it...

The next challenge, I got from Jen del Muro's blog I {heart} to stamp. It's for TCP Tuesday, which is from The Cat's Pajamas. They have some terrific products, so check it out.

Lastly (I know this is getting to be a little much...), I wanted to do a card for Cupcake Craft Challenges #30, with the theme of spring! Great idea, since I definitely can't wait for it truly to arrive! Here in Alberta, our spring weather is so tricky - warm and windy one day, and really cold and calm the next. It certainly makes life interesting! Anyway, after all that, here's my card!



Supplies: Close to My Heart My Acrylix Stamp Set "Happy Spring", cardstock (white, brown, blue & yellow), black ink, yellow & white flowers; stickers from Michael's; bling from Stamping Bella.
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

Karine