CELEBRATE / ACT #36, PIO #25, TSSC #127, EIC #94 & CC #73...

By far this is the most challenges I have ever put together... what a weirdo I am - lol!

For this card...

Stacey's patriotic colors @ the Curtain Call - I love 'em!

Mary Jo's sketch - sorry, I took some liberties with it!

Etsy Inspired - The 'sparklers' & color scheme mimic this bag.

Crafty Creations - wanted some "shine" (ie - glitter or bling)

Pile It On - wanted something done to the paper, I distressed!

Whew! Anyway, I used Papertrey Ink's flowers from Green Thumb to make my glittered "sparklers" - I loved sparklers on the 4th of July when I was a kid! I used Stampin' Up! Craft ink & then embossed with Dazzling Diamonds EP. The sentiment is also SU!, Celebrate Everything. This was the first time I'd inked it up!

Have a happy evening!

FULL OF LIFE / USSIS #61 & DCBD #182...

It's time for another Unscripted Sketches ~ Sketch It Saturday!!! Also, starting July 1st, we'll be celebrating "Christmas is July" at Unscripted - EVERYDAY! You'll definitely have to join us!

Since it's been TOO long since I played with the Diva's @ Diva Coffee Break Challenge, I decided to go check them out this week & I'm so glad I did! They had some AWESOME colors!!! So I used them with the Unscripted sketch for this super fun card!

The stamp is from a set called Full of Life from Stampin' Up! ~ the sayings are so funny! I also used the small star punch from SU!. I did some faux stitches, and used my swiss dots Cuttlebug EF for the white panel. For the panel the stars are punched from, I connected the 3 pieces of card stock with a thin sheet of paper adhered to the back of them, which I then punched the stars from. That panel is popped up with dimensionals. A white star brad, a snippet of ribbon & a turquoise brad finish it off!

Hope your Saturday is awesome!!!

HIPPY FLOWER HELLO / SCIC #8 & PPC #3...

Okay, obviously I had a problem finding a name for this card - lol! I always try to name them something I'll remember in case I want to find them again at some point...

I played along with 2 new~ish challenges, Stampin' Celebration! and Paper Player's Challenge. YAY - 2 challenges that I REALLY wanted to play with!

This was a really fast card, Stampin' Up! paper, so groovy, and dies from Papertrey Ink. A little bling, faux stitching, embossing & I was done!

Happy Friday!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY / SSSC #74 & TPE # 72...

Today is my parent's 38th wedding anniversary - WOW - how cool is THAT?!?

I decided to use Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch and paired it with the color challenge from The Pink Elephant. Pink & black & a perfect sketch, how could you go wrong?

This is the first time I used the Manhattan Flower EF from Stampin' Up! I actually had forgotten I owned it! I rubbed it with Pink Pirouette before embossing.

I'm cutting this short, because I have a couple cards I have to make...

Bye for now!

MESSY MAISIE / TPE Scrap #12 & JAI #22...

Here's a LO of Maisie's first solid food. She couldn't quite get the hang of it! SO after many spoonfuls going into her mouth & falling back out, we just put the cereal into a bottle for her - she was pretty happy with that...

Well, I missed the Just Add Ink challenge, but only by about 12 or so hours - lol! I forget where they are! I paired their colors with Lori's cool sketch at the Pink Elephant.

This is too many digi kits to count... I love being able to just mix & math them! And being able to change the colors to suit what I'm doing is the most awesome part!

Have a great night (or morning)!