BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!!!!

Today is an extra special day! Welcome to Lee's blog hop!

Today is my friend Lee's birthday and some of her "posse" have gotten together to celebrate her with a blog hop!

There is so much that I can say about Lee that I really don't know where to start. I guess I can start with the fact that I am very lucky to have been able to know Lee. She is one of the sweetest, truest people I know. Lee's creativity is a constant inspiration to me and I know to others as well. Lee is always ready with a smile or a smilie, as the case may be. Suffice it to say that Lee is a very special person and I am thrilled that I can help celebrate her on her "YOU" day!

For Lee's birthday card, I tried to incorporate many of the things that Lee loves. We start with some Gina K Pure Luxury cardstock, add in some glitter, copics, bling and pink... then we finish off with a fairy. Whew.. that was a little on the difficult side.. LOL.  Lastly, please work with me here... that IS a birthday candle ;-)

Lee, I truly hope that your birthday is as terrific as you are. May all your wishes come true! Enjoy your hop on your day :-) MWAH!

Thanks for stopping by and please make sure that you stop by the rest of the blogs below for some more tributes to Lee and some incredible crafting!!

Alison -- YOU ARE HERE
Carole
Crafty Math Chick
Joanne
Lori
Lydia
Misti
Nancy
Paula
Christi

LEE!!!!!


Recipe:
Stamps: Penny Black
Paper: Innocent Pink, Dark Chocolate, Sweet Corn Pure Luxury card stock; DCWV Once upon a time DP
Ink: Memento Cantaloupe, Tangelo, Angel Pink
Accessories: Copics, Nesties, Glitter, CB Swiss Dots folder, Ribbon, and rhinestones

distressed music

I decided to try my hand at a distressed card look.  I used my background stamp from Cornish Heritage farms.  I stamped it lightly on the Ivory cardstock.  I tood the card stock and crumpled it all up.. that was hard. :-)  Then I used the Tim Holtz distress ink pads and light ran it over the crinkly card stock.  I actually like the way this card came out.  Obviously I couldn't go totally distressed because that would be way to outside my box.  ;-)

Thanks for stopping by!

Key to my heart

One of the VSN challenges was to make a card with a kitchen/food theme.  There were bonus points  for using a key on the card.  When I read the challenge, my mind immediately flew to one of my favorite chefs!  And what goes better with a chef than wine and cheese!!  The chef's kerchief is colored and his pants a paper pieced!  I found this adorable charm that had a key on it, so that became the main course of this meal!! 



Recipe:

Stamps: Voila
Paper: white, black, lipstick red (GKD)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black
Accessories: White gel pen, copics, charm
Techniques: paper piecing

What is Love?

The VSN challenge that I hostessed was called Love Is....

Love is… many things to many people. There are so many different kinds of love i.e. true love, friendship love, familial love, goofy love, serious love… any of these can make your heart sing! So, what is love to you?

Your challenge: Take inspiration from one of the quotes below. Be sure to tell us in your card description which quote inspired you tonight!

1.) Long live the Irish! Long live their cheer! Long live our friendship, year after year!

2.) You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better
than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

3.) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop

4.) We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

One of my greatest loves is my children. I see this mom holding her little one and I imagine the loving smile and the sweet kisses. I used the teardrop rhinestones to represent the end of the quote.

Recipe:
Stamps: Willow with toddler (Whiff of Joy)
Paper: White, Little Boy blue, Kraft, DP
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Accessories: rhinestones, copics

Thanks for stopping by!

Spring is Here

Hi there peeps! Here is a new card... *Shock and Amazement* --
In all actuality, this card is a standard A2 size and has oval shapes. Obviously my camera angles are messed up :-) I have to work on that some more. Anyway, this card is for a color challenge for the CMC Birthday Challenge. We were supposed to use purples, yellows and cream/white




The Copics I used were V00, V12, V15, V17, V99, Y13,Y15, Y19, YG11, YG13, and YG17.

I'm still working on my light sourcing as well. The goal on this card was to show the light coming from the middle and top of the card. I paper pieced the center using DCWV Latte Mat Stack. The sentiment panel is popped up with glue dots.

Recipe:
Stamps: Friends and A Beautiful Life (Gina K)
Paper: Pure Luxury Cream, Dandelion, Violet; DCWV Latte Mat stack
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Dandelion, Sweet Plum
Accessories: Sakura Stardust pen, rhinestones, Copics, Nestabilities, Inkssentials White gel pen

Thanks for stopping by!

Monochrome - Love card

Isn't this fun?! I was experimenting with the monochrome look. Such a simple easy to put together card. I've lost some mojo coming off of VSN, but am hoping to create some new cards in the next few weeks. I've got to get back into challenges and I'm going to try my hand at some scenery cards. I shamelessly have copied down some of the many tutorials that Theresa Momber has written up. I'm going to see how close I can get to her total card goodness!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Recipe:
Stamps: Love Notes
Paper: Kraft, Ivory (Gina K); DP - unknown
Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento)

Seeing Stars!

This challenge card was a tricky one. The rule was you could only use 2 layers of cardstock. A lot of people understood that to mean a 1 or 2 layer card. I played the odds on this one and got a 4 layer card that still met the requirements. The background was made on Vellum (not cardstock). I have a star stencil and I used the Copic airbrush system to add the color. That airbrush system is sooooo much fun!! The third layer is felt (not cardstock). Cardstock, Vellum, Felt, cardstock! Voila!!

Recipe:
Stamps: Stars (GKD)
Paper: Kraft, vellum, white
Ink: Potter Clay - Memento
Accessories: Copic Airbrush, star stencil, rhinestones, ribbon, felt