Mojo Monday Butterfly Love Card

Did you guys know that Mojo Monday Sketches are back? Like I know I've been out of the loop, but Mojo Monday!! I'm so totally on board for this.

Today I broke into my Feels Like Home papers. I paired that with one last visit with my April Stamp of the Month. I wish I'd climbed back onto the crafting bandwagon sooner this month. My watercolor paints got to come out and play for the first time in months. I stamped the butterfly over the top of my painting in Charcoal ink, then flicked it all with Black shimmer brush and White watercolor paint.

I fussy cut the flowers out of the Feels Like Home B&T  - its' just so soft and pretty. Then I added black stickles and shimmer brush. Feels good to be home in my creative space again for sure!

Have a Magical Day Card

After a week of being so sick I could barely move, never mind lift a stamp, it was super satisfying to get back into my stamp room this weekend. Some amazing friends came over and we made 17 vinyl shirts yesterday (this one was my favorite), and the crafty time we spent together was balm to my soul. then I got a start on my swap cards for next weekend's Scrap Expo in Puyallup. The theme for the swap is embossing!

I sanded the cardstocks and created the rainbow strip to go along with this week's Mojo Monday Challenge. Then I added some sweet rainbow polka dot washi. I used the matching Thin Cuts dies to bust out a herd of these unicorns and banners. The white background is actually heart embossed cardstock, and the Unicorn's body is embossed with a sparkly bridal type embossing powder.

I used the watercolor over stamping technique from my Unicorns & Rainbows Workshop to paint the unicorn's nose, tail, mane, and horn. Then I topped off my sparkly unicorn with mis-matched googly eyes and sprinkles gems and sequins around her. I hope my swapping partners will be happy next weekend!   

Sending Smiles Snowman Mason Jar Card

I'm starting to transition out of Holiday cards now, but today's card is a bit of a bridge into winter card. I just got my new Flower Market Cricut cartridge and when I found the mason jar my wheels started turning...

So I flipped over that mason jar and filled it with the Cozy Christmas snowman. I used the matching Thin Cut dies to do his hat and the holly sprig. I loved being able to shape his arms into a friendly wave with the flexibility of a clear stamp. After I stamped his body I masked it off with a post-it and stamped on the "snow" texture using one of the stamps that came with my Flower Market Cartridge. I mounted my mason jar snow globe over two kinds of embossed white cardstock (stripes and snowflakes). White on white textured backgrounds make me so happy! I used the Mojo Monday sketch as inspiration for this card design.

I cut two of these flowers from the Flower Market cartridge. I loved how the layered flower was so easy to make since the layers are automatically sized so you don't have to figure out all the measurements. I cut one at 2" plus one at 1.5" and the cartridge resized all the layers automatically - so easy! My SENDING SMILES sentiment came from another of the stamp sets that are part of the Flower Market bundle. The mixed fonts are just so pretty. I didn't mean to make more holiday cards at this point, but I'm snow glad I did!

Mojo Monday Merry and Bright Card

I am neck deep into Holiday Card season now. My table is covered with tree diecuts, glitter gels, and snowflakes galore. I'm not decorating for Christmas yet, just wallowing in the sparkly holiday card prep and peppermint hot chocolate!

Today's card was inspired by the new sketch over at Mojo Monday. I layered a woodgrain heart cutout panel over my holiday sentiment from Woodland Wishes. I layered this over some Swan Lake paper and silver shimmer trim banners.

The background is embossed with a snowflake folder. I used the matching Thin Cuts dies to die cut a tree, which I stamped with the coordinating image and embellished with lots of glitter gel. A couple of bitty sparkles topped off this design.

I hope you are saving some time on November 27th to stop by and make a few holiday cards of your own at my Holiday Card Buffet!

Magic of Christmas Card

I know it's early for the holidays, but it is totally time to start making holiday cards!

This card is inspired by the sketch over at Mojo Monday. My stamped images are from Season of Magic except for the snowflake which is from Woodland Wishes. I filled in the green panel with that snowflake tilted on an angle. The white background is embossed with a snowflake embossing folder.

I stamped and cut out the flowers and leave individually. I dotted the flowers and wreath with red glitter gel for a bit of sparkle that won't affect mail-ability. I love holiday card making season!

Thankful Beyond Measure card

So I am (as I'm sure many of you are as well) completely in LOVE with Betsy Veldman. Everything she makes is Amazing with a capital A, and if you haven't met her yet, go there now. I'll wait...and you're welcome.

So this week she did this card for Papertrey Ink Make it Monday and I about swooned. Immediately I knew I had to MAKE THE THING. So I grabbed my September SOTM and got inky. I started with the new Mojo Monday Sketch. I wanted to spray my background with Distress Spray in Antique Linen, so I extended that second panel to meet the first so my card base wouldn't curl up. I also extended the banner bits into a shiny copper twine wrap because shiny, And copper. I hope Mojo Monday will forgive me!

Instead of florals I used the big pumpkin image. You can imagine how inky my paws were after I finished the leaves and pumpkin inking.I added some touched on shimmer pen and glitter gel to the background stamping, but the real sparkle is that copper twine, which I scored at Target. 

Don't forget my new Card Buffet is coming this Sunday! Hope to see you there!

Foxy How You Doin'? Card

I already shared earlier this month about how this sentiment from Spring Critters makes me thing of Joey from Friends... and tonight I thought what if that cute little fox was actually a little sassy...

So I grabbed the new sketch over at Mojo Monday, and punched some 1" holes down the edge of my card front. Then I ran a strip of wide green washi tape down the left side of my card to back the punched holes and slipped just the head of that adorable fox into the third hole.

I gave him a single wiggly eye so he'd give the recipient a little wink-winker, then added Joey's catch-phrase popped up with a bit of thin foam tape. A little marker work and I felt that I was doing mighty fine, thanks for asking! 

Day 359: My Type of Friend Card

I just love this sweet Share the Love stamp set  CTMH is offering to benefit Operation Smile this month. I'd totally snap up this cutie even if it wasn't also doing a world of good for children in need of life saving surgery.

Tonight's card was done is quite a hurry. We arrived home from a fun visit with good friends and I was supposed to start dinner. Instead the power was out...with a late night estimated return. Our emergency box of LED lanterns is lost somewhere in the boxes stacked in the garage. I knew my middle of the night crafting wasn't going to cut it since there might be no light at all to craft by, so I immediately set out to make a super fast card before the light was lost. I finished this sweet card in fifteen minutes, in large part because of the super cute sketch from Mojo Monday. 

I layered on Penelope paper in the background. Then I stamped one of the sentiments repeatedly in Pear, Crystal Blue and Thistle inks, filling in any spaces with the tiny heart stamped in Canary. I stamped the typewriter three times (once each in Slate, Crystal Blue, and Pomegranate), then quickly paper pieced it as the light was growing dimmer all around me. I grabbed a couple quick shots with all the blinds open right where I was working, then started loading the kiddos into the car to go to dinner. Just as we headed out the door....the power came back on. I'm writing this with a tummy full of Chipotle, and a new determination to find the box with my new Shot Box!

Day 350: Share the Love Blog Hop

Welcome to the Share the Love Blog Hop.  Share the Love is not only an adorable stamp set, but with $7 of each set purchased donated to Operation Smile, it's also doing good for children in need. You might be arriving here from SHEILA'S BLOG. We have dozens of consultants sharing their love for this stamp set, so let's hop!

I decided to start off with the new sketch from Mojo Monday. I filled the sketch in with Penelope papers and green washi tape. I love this delicate rainbow polka dot print!

I stamped the telephone image in Black, Canary, and Thistle, then paper pieced the image before adding details with a tiny black journaling marker. I stamped the arrow image onto the background and added the heart bubble topped with a Penelope Complements sticker. I outlined everything with the same tiny marker.

Share the Love is available through the month of February - contact your consultant or CLICK HERE to get this sweet set and help change the life of a child. Next up on the hop is VICKIE'S BLOG. Happy hopping!

Day 292: Mojo Snowflake Kisses Holiday Card

I am loving these American Crafts wood veneer snowflakes! I added them to this card which was inspired by this week's Mojo Monday Card Challenge.

I used the scraps of Moxie Seasons Greetings papers left from my Holly Jolly layout.

I added some clear acrylic White Pines embellishments for the sentiment. Then I added some clear glitter gel to the wood veneer snowflakes. I finished up with a bit of stitch penwork.

Day 235: Kitten Pawsome Card

I am so loving the new Operation Smile stamp set, Animal Greetings. The tiny sweet animals are just too adorable!

I use the kitten and the puppy on this week's Mojo Monday challenge. I started with a panel of Glacier cardstock that I embossed with the Heart embossing folder. Then I layered on some Georgie paper and little banners with the sentiments that I attached with mini staples. 

I added a tiny Doodlebug Doily in aqua. Then I layered on a pinwheel made from 1 inch strips of Georgie paper. Then I cut the center out of a yellow doily and topped that with a scalloped circle of Glacier cardstock. I colored the animals with alcohol markers. Sweet!

Day 229: Happy Christmas Card

Tonight I'm sharing a quick and easy holiday card made using Picture My Life pocket scrapbooking cards.

I used one 4x6 card (trimmed down to 5 1/4 inches) and one 3x4 card from the White Pines Collection. My card was inspired by the new Mojo Monday Sketch. I really loved the bow on the sketch, so I made mine using the last bit of my gold stitching thread. Guess I'll be off to Hobby Lobby to get more soon! I topped my bow off with a red enamel gem.

I couldn't resist popping some wiggly eyes onto the cute owl from this card. I also glittered up his package bow with some shimmer gel pen, and added ornament stickers down the side. A few more enamel gems and some bitty sparkles finished off this festive quick card!

Day 219: Love This Life Card

This week's sketch over at Mojo Monday is Tall and Skinny. So I made my card 3.5 x 5.5 inches - a fun size that still fits in a regular A2 envelope. 

I stamped the camera image from the Hello Life stamps (only available for two more days) in Slate ink all over the card base. Then I added a panel of La Vie En Rose chevron stripe. I matted the patterned paper with Sweet Leaf cardstock. 

Then I embossed the LOVE image win white onto the black cardstock circle. I stamped the rest of the sentiment images onto scrap white cardstock using Sweet Leaf and Canary inks. A few grey enamel dots finished off my card.

Day 186: Mojo Happy Birthday Card

Tonight I was playing with the new Mojo Monday Sketch.  

I wanted to use my favorite Doodled Designs, but the circle was a bit too small, so I doodled my own bigger circle using a skinny black marker and my shimmer gel pen. I sanded some Sorbet cardstock for the band, and added black stamped stitches using the Zoe WOTG stamp set.

I added a framed sentiment using the August SOTM. Then I topped the card off with some Zoe Assortment buttons and green epoxy dots. Fast, fun, and done! See ya tomorrow!

Day 177: Have a Lovely Day Mojo Card

When the new Mojo Monday sketch hit my inbox this morning I knew I wanted to make a card with it. After spending the morning at the pool stitching on a layout, the afternoon was spent playing games with the boys, doing laundry, and making strawberry jam. This evening I finally found a moment to make this sketch into a card. 

I sanded a Glacier CS card front. Then I added a few strips of the cloud heart Washi Tape I got from Love My Tapes. I layered on a few bits of Zoe paper, and outlined everything with a shimmer gel pen.

The sentiment and the flower images are from Lovely Birthday. I stamped the flowers in Sorbet ink and then washed them with ink using my waterbrush. I layered some sequins and sparkles onto the fussy cut flowers to finish off this sweet, lovely card.

Day 173: I Am Grateful Card

Tonight I busted out my Simple Stories I Am pad to create a card for this week's Mojo Monday sketch challenge. 

I trimmed out a card front panel from the brick/heart pattern sheet. I layered on a black open circle and and black cardstock circle covered in silver chevron washi tape. I stitched around the open circle with white thread after threading on some coral shimmer trim. I lined the card base with silver geometric washi tape before mounting the brick panel onto the card base. 

I trimmed out the I AM and THANKFUL words from the pad, adding banner tips to each side before mounting them with thin foam tape. I popped on a tiny 1/4" Artistry butterfly, then painted the butterfly and the sentiment with clear Wink of Stella. I added a couple of Bitty Sparkles. 

Day 168: Zoe Artistry Thanks Card

 I've been scrapping with Zoe all day, but I'm not quite ready to share yet, so I pulled up the new Mojo Monday sketch instead and whipped up this sweet little card with some Zoe scraps.

I stamped a White Daisy card front with the THANKS sentiment from the August Stamp of the Month in second generation Slate ink. I layered some of the Zoe Arrow print over the bottom of the card front. Then I stitched around the edges of the small White Daisy panel. I stamped the sentiment again on that stitched panel in 1st generation Slate ink and adhered it to the card front. I added two banners instead of one wide banner to add in a bit more of the Coral Shimmer trim I used in the floral Cricut embellishment.

I've been playing with paper piecing some of the Artistry die cuts with the new Zoe papers. For this one I pieces some of the flowers in the Sorbet Dot print, and all the leaves in the small Sweet Leaf Dot print. Then I used my water brush to add some touches of Canary yellow ink, but left the biggest roses on this cricut shape just the base white daisy. Them I backed the whole panel with Coral Shimmer Trim. I added some medium and bitty sparkles, and lightly filled the main sentiment image with a bit of clear Wink of Stella. 

THANKS for stopping by to take a peek, Stampin' Friends!