From the bottom of my heart

I was the lucky winner of a stamp set from Paper Smooches from their latest blog hop.  I won the I Heart Art set.  I received it in the mail and made my first card with it.  

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I used the Carta Bella Alphabet Junction collection for my papers.

It's really hard to see in the picture but I used glossy accents on the pencil and on the easel. It looks cool in person. : )   I also used foam dots to pop up the pencil.

I know I'll get a ton of use from this stamp set.  Especially since my little 4 yr old sweetpea is such an artist.

Thanks Paper Smooches for the prize!

Make sure to check out their website HERE. They have such fun stamps. 

Thanks for stopping by.

God Bless.

--Chris

Partly to Mostly Awesome

Happy day to you.  My post today is a birthday card I made for my niece who's turning 10.  I saw over on the Create Blog that they posted a January 2013 Card Blog Challenge and it's based on a color challenge.

I combined this with the DCWV Jan 2013 Card Sketch Challenge that's based on this sketch:

And this is the card I came up with:

(click on the picture to see it larger.)

Because of all the glitter and shiny paper (and ok, because I'm not a great photographer,) I couldn't get a great picture but this really is super cute in person.

I fussy cut the yellow sun and the duck images and used pop dots to give the card some fun dimension.

The sentiment says ... "you're partly to mostly awesome"

It's from Paper Smooches. 

So are the sun and cloud stamps I used to showcase the # 10 for her 10th birthday.

The papers are all from DCWV. 

The light gray base is from the Black Currant Stack

The "Chartreuse" green is from The Shimmer Stack

The patterned paper is from the Doodlin' Around Stack

I hope to be participating in the DCWV layout challenge too. That will probably be my next post.

Thanks for looking.

God bless.

-Chris

Sweet deer

I'm trying to get back into the groove of things... my schedule has been off for a couple of weeks.  One week was planned for a volunteer project.  The other week wasn't planned.  I was sick and I'm still not quite 100% but I'm getting there. 

For this post I'm sharing a card I made for the Challenge Me Monday #104 "Out like a Lamb" on the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog.  The challenge this week is to make something with a gentle animal like a lamb, puppy, kitten, etc. 

I chose to use a sweet little deer. 

I cut the deer from the Best Images of 2010 Cricut Cartridge.

I cut the circle using the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge.

The "Spring Blessings" sentiment stamp is from Paper Smooches.

The patterned paper is from Pink Paislee.

The rest of the paper is from my scraps box. 

The textured orange ribbon is from my stash. 

Thanks for taking a look. I'd love for you to leave a comment.

Each one is a blessing.

Paper Smooches

I recently purchased a set of stamps from Paper Smooches called Eco Friendly.  I just love all the images on here.  So many cute things!

So yesterday I was able to play with this set and made the following two cards:

(you should be able to click on the pictures to see them bigger)

Some details on the above card: 

The patterned papers are from Stampin' Up. 

The plain papers are from my scrap pile.

The pink mat for the Lion & Lamb was cut using Elegant Edges.

The lion and lamb, I stamped on patterned paper and cut them out. I added white liquid pearls to the lamb to give it some puffy dimension. I also stamped the lion again on the tan paper and cut out his face and tip of his tail and paper pieced them. 

The flower is a Prima Flower and the orange pearls are from the dollar bin at Michaels.

Some details on the above card:

I can't tell you any details on the papers because they are from my scrap pile.

I stamped the clouds on different papers and cut them out. I stamped them in different color inks to make each cloud a little different. I also stamped and cut out the wind, snow, lightning and rain drop to add to each cloud.   

The sentiment I made using my computer.

The sentiment says "no matter the weather...we'll always be together."

I added some faux stitching in black and thought it was a little too harsh. So I went over it in the bright blue. 

I inked the edges of the card base in the blue also. 

I'm really enjoying this stamp set.  I'm sure I'll have lots more projects to share with you. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Have a fabulous weekend.