Freshly Made Bunny

It's time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!    The super sweet and talented Amy is our hostess this week.  I love the sketch she gave us.  The design team really came up with some fabulous ideas with it and I know you will as well.

Normally sketches with off-center things stress me out, but I enjoyed this one.   I think I've moved on to being stressed by tilted layers instead.  lol  

So much crazy in this one.  

Last Hope

Another huge round of cards for Hope You Can Cling To!  This will be my last post about them as I finally FINISHED!  Yay. I love being able to do all 35 cards, but it seemed extra challenging to finish them all this year.  I am happy that my mom and Jason both encouraged and supported me to make it happen.  Now on to the cards (and then on to cleaning the house! Yikes):

This one using the MFT Bokeh Builder set for Kelli's bokeh challenge.  Pretty easy choice of stamps for this one.  lol     I used one Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad for all the pink and just stamped off to get the different shades.  

Kathy's challenge was all about the book The Fault in Our Stars and asked for a romantic card to give to a significant other.   I think this image is so sweet and it was sitting on my shelf brand new and needing love.   Jason is sweet and cuts up apples for me all the time, so I thought it was pretty fitting for the love of my life.

Lydia's final challenge for this year was to make a card based on our favorite children's book.   I love books and always have, so it was hard to pick just one.  I do remember being super obsessed with a book called Spooky Tricks and decided to do a magic card.  I actually won a The Cat's Pajamas gift certificate one year from the HYCCT challenges and got this stamp with it.  :)   Perfect, right?!

This sweet little bunny from Mama Elephant just had to make another appearance on my cards.   Tabbatha's challenge was to use two different mediums on your creation.  I used distress inks, craft ink, and alcohol markers for mine.    The clouds are another HYCCT prize that I picked with a gift certificate from Your Next Stamp!   I love being able to use previous prizes on these cards.  

Here's an almost all Stampin' Up! card for you purists.  :)  Teresa's challenge was about cheering and we spelled out BOOBS. ha!   Blue, circle element, round embellishment, and black.    

Angie's card was about tilted layers.   I was almost asleep the other night and the idea for this one popped in my head.  I started telling Jason all about it and I think he was confused as to why I was thinking about stamping when I was supposed to be going to sleep.   Men are just so different from women!  I do my best thinking right before I fall asleep.  He got me this fun Texas stamp last year for a stocking stuffer and I thought it was time I inked it up.   I kept the card clean like the Texas flag.  

This is the last one.  I actually plan to go back and add some Crumb Cake seam binding to it because I'm not happy with the end result.  The challenge was Susie's to make our own background, no designer paper.   I love my background, but not the rest of the card.  Hopefully I can get it apart and fix it before I mail it off.   The SU World Map stamp is so fun with watercolor paper and distress inks! 

My little picture helper this morning.  She's telling me all about the Texas she found on this card.  lol 

Curses!

Whew.  This card...I don't even know what to say about it.  I had quite a bit of time to stamp yesterday and I fought with this one card for the entire time and got back up this morning still not happy with it.  I figured I'd post it anyway because we all make some bad ones every now and then, right?  lol   I loved the Sweet Sunday Sketch this week and wanted to play along.  Too bad my mojo didn't.  Ha!  We'll blame it on the moon.  Yeah, totally the moon's fault.

I mentioned I'd been trying to mail out most of my cards.   Life gets in the way of course and they end up late a lot.   I thought this sentiment would be perfect for a belated birthday card.

My two loves.   Jason is enjoying his guitar and I'm so happy about that.  He needed a hobby or interest terribly bad and I'm glad he finally showed interest in something.  :o)  

Happy Father's Day

Have you subscribed to My Paper Pumpkin yet?  I had signed up ages ago but never got around to assembling the cards so I canceled it.  With all the new improvements, I decided to jump back in and I'm so glad that I did.   This Father's Day stamp was in there this time and I love it.  As you can see, you can use the stamps for anything, not just the cards it comes with!  I'll actually assemble and post the kit cards later this week, but I wanted to share this one today.  I am going to enter it over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Stamp Challenge since it is Anything Goes week.

Stamps:   My Paper Pumpkin, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:  Versafine Black
Paper:  Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Modern Medley DSP (retired)
Tools:  PTI Tag Sale #5 die, The Cat's Pajamas Mustaches Cutups
ribbon scraps, Neutrals Candy Dots

Jason called me in the playroom the other day to show me this.  It's always crazy what happens when the man of the house is in charge.  ;)  We are having a rough day, so send lots of calm mommy vibes my way.   It's almost 3 o'clock, so there's hope of surviving the day!

Fusion Bunny

 

I'm such a huge fan of this color combination, so when I saw the inspiration picture at Fusion, I just had to play along.  I thought about flowers, but I had this set that I hadn't inked up and needed to work on my coloring goal I set for the year.  He's such a cute little bunny, huh?   I got this set with one of the gift certificates I won participating in the Hope You Can Cling To challenges.  It's fun to get to try out some other stamps sometimes, especially for free!  :)  I wish I had used Basic Gray, but oh well.  I always find that I'd change something once I start editing and working with the picture. 

 

 

Stamps:  The Cat's Pajamas Presto

Ink:  Memento Black

Paper: Basic Black, Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White

Tools:  Big Shot, Star Framelits

 

Thanks a Latte

Friday night I could not go to sleep because the idea for this card kept running through my head.   Thankfully my new stamps got here yesterday and I was able to play and make it!   It uses the awesome sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch! again.  I have to admit, I really love this sketch.   I can see it working for so many ideas!  

Stamps:  PTI Heart-2-Heart #1, TCP Thanks a latte

Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar, Garden Green, Early Espresso

Paper:  White

Tools:  Coffee Cup, Aquapainter, Big Shot, PTI Heart-2-Heart die #1

Here's another picture from Laila's birthday shoot.   My sister-in-law actually brought this outfit and necklace as an afterthought and it worked out great! 

This past week was been a tough one!  Laila was teething and one of her molars finally broke through it looks like.  Friday I was in tears all day because I didn't feel good and she refused to nap.  We survived, but there were points that I didn't think we would.   Thankfully yesterday was better and now Jason's home for his four days off.   It was nice to get to sneak in my room and stamp.  :)