Maryland Wedding

This card is for the Featured Stamper's Challenge on SCS. This week's featured stamper is Cindy aka CJoy. She has many wonderful cards in her gallery. It was hard to pick which card I wanted to CASE. I need a wedding card for a friend's son who is getting married in August so I decided to CASE Cindy's Orchid Opulence Wedding card .

I changed the size of the card from square to A2. The theme for the wedding is Maryland so I changed the colors to black, red and yellow. I used a different Cuttlebug EB folder for the center panel. For the flower I used a Black-eyed Susan digi image from OWH in place of the Prima flower on Cindy's card. I love how it turned out. I hope Leo & Lauren will like it too.

Welcome Summer!

When I get hungry for something cool and refreshing on a hot, humid summer day, the first thing that comes to my mind is ice cream! I made this card for SCS Free For All Challenge. The challenge is celebrating July by making a card that highlights one of the holidays listed on this link  Fun & Funky July Holidays. There are some really different holidays but I chose a tame one, July 17, National Ice Cream Day. 

This cool image is Ice Cream Man digi by Hambo Stamps. I paper pieced the umbrella and ice cream cart. I made the background look like Neopolitan ice cream by embossing the cardstock with Cuttlebug's Divine Swirls folder. I used my Scor Buddy to make the ice cream cone layer. I love how this card turned out. What better way to welcome summer than with ice cream!

Pig Over the Moon!

It's Hambo Hoedown time again. Challenge #17 is to use Moonscape and any other Hambo image you would like (or none) and as an option add texture. I used the Floating Pig - digi with the Moonscape digi to create my card. I added texture with my Stars EB folder and some silver star sequins. I was trying to give the impression of looking through a telescope. What do you think?

Come join the Hoedown - free digis and fun challenges.

Skater Boy Birthday

This week's Designed2Delight image for the progressive challenge is this cute Skater Boy. I combined this challenge with the DYSU challenge #18 to use a tag and made this card. I think it's perfect for a boy's birthday.

Can't Get "Ogre" You

Isn't it funny how sometimes the finished product is nothing like you envisioned it. That's what happened with this card, but I love how it turned out. Hambo Hoedown Challenge #11 was to use this cute Orge - digi and one of the sentiments to make a  card with some distressing on it somewhere. I very rarely do any distressing on my cards so this was a change for me, but change is good. I used my scissors to distress the edges of the card stock and tore out the sentiment. I decided to leave the ogre uncolored to give him a sketchy look. I outlined him with a C1 Copic to give him a little dimension and sponged around him with Cameo Coral. IMHO he looks quite handsome on the embossed heart background!

Look What I Made!

What a great day ...fun, food, friends and stamping! Amanda was a perfect hostess and planned some beautiful cards for us to make. We got to play with some new things - the Basketweave and Framed Tulips embossing folders, the new seam binding ribbon and the Nature Walk stamp set. We even used designer fabric to make a card with a matching candle.Take a look.

Thank you Amanda for a wonderful day.