Two for One Project of the Week for Repeat Impressions

It's my turn to share a Project of the Week at Repeat Impression's blog, The House that Stamps Built. I decided to share two new ideas with you- a fun fold and a great product for stamping, sponging and distressing. The fold is the Reverse Gate Fold and here is a picture of how the fold looks from the top:

 Start with a base card that is 9 1/2" by 4 1/4". Score at 2 3/4" and 3 3/4" from both sides. Valley fold the first score lines on  both sides and mountain fold the two inside score lines on both sides. Cut a piece of cardstock 3 1/4' by 4 1/4"  for the front of your card and then decorate the card and front as you wish.

For the front of the cards I am sharing today, I chose to use a Specialty Stamping Paper by Ranger which is a matte coated surface for distressing and other techniques. I sponged on blue and green distress inks (also by Ranger) and then spritzed with water to create the spotted background. Then I stamped the Over the Hill swing stamp (part one) in black archival ink. The sides were embossed with a Tim Holtz Sizzix pine trees embossing folder and then sanded for a distressed look.

This is what the back of the reverse gate fold card looks like and it does fold flat to mail in an A2 envelope. I stamped the punch line of the Over the Hill swing stamp set on patterned paper and left the right pieces blank to write a happy birthday greeting to the over the hill recipient.

This fold and the specialty paper were way too fun to play with so I had to make a second card to share with you today. I created the reverse gate fold the same way described above out of a shiny pink card stock. I embossed the whole card with a flowery embossing folder by Cuttlebug. I sponged pink, green and blue distress inks onto a 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of Ranger's Specialty matte paper and then spritzed with water. Then I stamped Repeat Impression's Ode to Spring with archival black ink and attached it to the front of the card. On the back I attached some pink patterned paper and stamped The Beauty of Springtime greeting.

I am entering the second card in the "Make your own backgrounds" challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow and the Animal Antics challenge at Open-Minded Crafting.

I hope you will try this fun fold and specialty paper and check out Repeat Impression's great stamps. Have a great day- I know I will, because I am celebrating the Wisconsin Badgers in the Final Four, the start of the baseball season and my birthday with a lobster dinner out at  favorite restaurant with a 60% discount:)

Spring Card on Silhouette Sunday

I just had a few minutes to play today and needed a quick Spring/Easter card and this is what I came up with. One of the reasons I love my Silhouette and their cutting files is that it is so simple and inexpensive to make a fun card. This whole cutting file cost 50 cents on sale this week and I simply cut out the little girl silhouette in pink, the basket in yellow and the eggs in various papers and attached to a green card base that was embossed with a tulip embossing folder by Stampin' Up. Sweet and easy.

I am entering this card in the Spring challenge at the Silhouette Blog and the Spring is in the Air challenge at Polkadoodles.

Chalkboard Live Your Dream Card

I haven't made a chalkboard card for quite a while so I decided to play with the technique and a set of very cool stamps from Precious Remembrance. I embossed the main inspirational sentiments with white embossing powder and a heat gun on a black piece. Then I added the arrows, circles and the heart with white pigment ink. I sponged some of that white ink around for the chalkboard look. I used a new Chalk Marker from Close to my Heart and a ruler to draw a line around 3 sides. This is the best white marker I have ever used so am really happy I bought it from CTMH!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Crafty Catz and Craftitude.

Grand Re-opening of the Crackerbox Palace Website!

It’s Crackerbox Palace Friday and we are celebrating the Grand Re-opening of the Crackerbox Palace website!! Woo-hoo! If you follow my blog you know I am also celebrating a big birthday and spring and my own blog upgrade with a chance for you to win one of two prizes if you leave a comment and become a follower here before April 1st. Now we have another great reason to celebrate! One of the prizes you could win is a whole bunch of awesome Crackerbox Palace stamps! Vicky mentioned on Facebook that for a limited time there is free shipping on anything ordered from the new website, so head on over and check it out. You can get your stamps one of three ways- on wood, on cushion or plain rubber, so you can choose your favorite.

Today I am sharing a card I re-designed recently for a class I am teaching. I have shown the Vellum Dimension technique before, but with this card I added coloring the focal image after the dimension was added. This card is part of the Vellum Varieties class I taught last night, and my students just loved the soft pretty look of the completed card. We stamped CBP’s rose bouquet on vellum with Archival Black ink and let dry a few minutes. Using a stylus and a thick pad, we “colored” the roses from behind which stretches and whitens the vellum creating great dimension. Then we colored the roses with bright pink and green Copics again from the back. We framed the vellum image with a burgundy piece that was cut and embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. We rounded all the edges, layered on a black card and added some pearl pen accents to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Please visit the Crackerbox Palace website for these and hundreds of other great CBP stamps.

I am entering these cards in the Anything Goes challenge at Creative Moments and the No Designer Paper challenge at Crafting for all Seasons.

Red, Black and White Card in a Box for Classes

I made one more card in a box using one of my favorite color combos - red, black and white. This one will be taught in the individual class in my home where you could learn how to make this fun card that folds flat to mail. I used flowers, butterflies, leafy flourish and word dies and punches to create the card. Here are some additional photos showing it  from the front and also laying flat from the back:

I love using positives and negatives of dies and that is what I did on the side flaps. The dies and punches are from Memory Box, Martha Stewart, Cherry Lynn, Paper Smooches, Tim Holtz and Stampin' Up.

I am entering this card in a box in the Anything Goes challenges at Through the Craft Room Door and Party Time Tuesday.

Winged Things Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions

It’s another Designer’s Choice Challenge at The House that Stamps Built, Repeat Impression’s blog. It’s Brenda’s turn and the theme of her challenge is “Winged Things”.  After you make your card with wings of some kind, you can enter it for a chance to win some awesome Repeat Impressions rubber! Please visit the blog for all the details and to see the other Rock Star's cards for this DCC challenge. 

I have been admiring the acetate cards several of my fellow Rock Stars have been making and decided to try one myself. I found this fun spotted acetate and created the card base with that. I die cut two white scalloped ovals (Spellbinders) for the front and inside of the acetate card. I stamped Repeat Impression’s beautiful large butterfly in blue ink on the white front piece and again on a dotted peach dp. I cut out the peach one and attached in the center with glue dots so the wings are raised above the flat image. I added some baker’s twine and sequins to complete the front of the card. Here is a picture of the inside of the card where I added one sequin, a sweet sentiment and another smaller butterfly both from Repeat Impressions, of course. 

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at My Craft Spot and the punches and die-cuts challenge at Lexi’s Creations.

Nate and Grandma's Despicable Valentines

I was out of town this weekend stamping away with friends at the Madison Mingle and so missed posting a Silhouette project on Sunday like I normally do. The challenge this week at the Silhouette Blog is Anything Goes (using your Silhouette) and at Robyn's Fetish, they want to see anything but a card. I am sharing a scrapbook page I made showing my sweet grandson and me and the valentine we made together. He and I made 30 of these minion valentines and I was so grateful that I had my Silhouette to cut out all the circles and pieces rather than punch or die-cut them! I also cut out the interlocking hearts on my Silhouette using one of Silhouette's cutting files. Right now they have all their files 50% off! So for 50 cents a piece, you can really load up on them! Many other specials are going on right now too, including a free file everyday until March 27. It would be a great time to check them out.

Happy Birthday to Wendy of Repeat Impressions!

I am so grateful to the special companies who share their stamps with me so I can have fun designing and blogging with them! Repeat Impressions was the first company and challenge blog to choose me to be part of their design team and I still love designing with their high quality rubber stamps! Today is the birthday of the owner of Repeat Impressions, Wendy Wyman.  I created this card for her because she liked the other building block card I made recently for a challenge at their blog here.  The front is vellum over a dotted yellow cardstock. I colored the robin, leaves and branch with my copics from the back. The real fun happens when you open the card:

I decorated the steps of the center with Repeat Impression's Happy Bird-day Flip Set. I learned how to make a Building Block card from this tutorial on Splitcoast. It is the hardest of the new fun folds I have learned lately, but if you can measure all the specific 1/8th measurements, it creates a fun card. I sent it to Wendy and am wishing her a Happy Birthday and year to come!

What If? Wed. Sketch Challenge at Repeat Impressions

Happy Wednesday everyone! It's time for another fun sketch challenge at The House that Stamps Built and we are challenging you to make a card using the sketch below and link it up for a chance at some great Repeat Impressions rubber! For all the details on what you can win and to see the other Rock Stars cards using this sketch, please visit our blog.

I decided to make a guy’s card with Wendy’s sketch today. I started with a green card base and some manly dp that I distressed before attaching. I love using positives and negatives when stamping and I chose Repeat Impression’s Forest Positive and Negative for the circles in the corners. I sponged blue ink on a piece of Ranger Specialty paper and flicked water on it before stamping the tree and deer silhouettes. I finished the card with an RI sentiment cut out with deckle scissors.

Here is the sketch for you to follow when you create a card for our challenge. You do not need to use Repeat Impressions stamps to enter our challenges, but you get an extra chance to win if you do!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at My Craft Creations and “It’s a Guy Thing” challenge at Raisin Boat.

Subway Art Inlaid Die-cut Card and Blog Candy Alert!

**Reminder: you can win some sweet blog candy!  Click on the picture on the side of this blog. Leave a comment on that blog post and be sure to become a follower and you could be one of the lucky winners!**

I played with some of the techniques from the online CAS class I am taking this weekend, and this is one of the birthday cards I made:

The subway art look is very popular right now and I pulled out some of my favorite birthday and friend sentiments to make this card. The "friend" was cut with my Silhouette diagonally on a white piece and again in light blue. I attached the blue friend inside the negative space on the white card front so it laid flat and then stamped right over it with the various sentiments. I added some light dots by sponging with purple ink through a Heidi Swapp stencil.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Sister Act and 613 Avenue Create.

CAS Homework Card

On the first day of the CAS on line class I am taking, we learned about inlaid die-cuts and faux metal and so far those are my favorite techniques they have shared. I played with the faux metal technique on this card. Basically you heat emboss 4-5 layers of silver embossing powder and then stamp in the last layer while it is still hot to get this look. I liked it, but I always find embossing powder so messy to work with. I created a small circle mask for the faux metal circle and a larger circle mask for the center circle. I sponged with purple and blue ink through a Memory Box butterfly stencil and added dots all over the same way with a Heidi Swapp stencil.

I am entering this card in the thank you challenge at Totally Gorjuss and the Things with Wings challenge at Kitty Bee Designs.

Print and Cut on Silhouette Sunday

The challenge this week at the Silhouette Blog is to create a new project using their print and cut files. I made this fun frog card for a special young lady using a Silhouette America frog that I printed and cut three times. One of the frogs was flipped before printing and cutting. Those operations are so easy to do with the Silhouette software. I cut 3 holes in the center piece with a Spellbinders circle die and have the cute frogs peaking out from them. The sides were punched with an ek success border punch, and the "cool" sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

I am also entering this card in the challenge at Cut it Up to use green and die-cuts.

Pastel Colors 4 Kids at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at  Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Pastel Colors 4 Kids. Create and link any card for a child using pastel colors and you could win one of our great prizes.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge:  Crackerbox Palace is giving their winner a $15 gift certificate! Kenny K. Downloads is giving their randomly picked winner 3 digis of their choice!  And Sassy Studio’s winner gets 4 images of their choice! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge. 

My first card above features the beautiful Girl on a Swing by Crackerbox Palace. If you follow my blog, you know I love Crackerbox Palace stamps! I stamped her on vellum and colored from the backside with subtle pastels. I decided to feature her pretty hat and so I stamped it on yellow polka-dotted paper and paper pieced it to the front of the vellum image. I attached with little flower brads to an aqua card base and added the perfect sentiment (also from Crackerbox Palace.)

My second card features Dancer from Kenny K.  I printed her on white cardstock, did a little coloring with Copics and paper pieced the rest. I created a musical stencil with my Silhouette and their cutting files and sponged in various pastel colors to create the background. I hope one of our teen-age girls will like this card.

I am entering these cards in the Girls, Girls, Girls challenge at Cute Card Thursday, the For a Special Girl challenge at Simon Says Stamp and the Anything Goes challenge at Aud Sentiments. 

Card Drive for Emma

It's Crackerbox Palace Friday and I am sharing a card I made with Crackerbox Palace stamps and sent to a special little girl named Emma who has been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. I learned about a card drive for Emma on this blog post. Here is a note from Emma’s family:

Tuesday, October 22, Emma went in for a quick check of a persistent cough as well as to address some concerns about her recent fatigue and pale coloring. A chest x-ray didn’t reveal any fluid in her lungs but her primary care physician detected an enlarged spleen. She suggested we take Emma for blood work to rule out mononucleosis. Within an hour of the blood work we had preliminary results of severe anemia. At this point, her primary care physician gently warned us of a possible diagnosis of leukemia. By 2pm that afternoon we were checking into the hematology/oncology clinic at Dayton Children’s and meeting the amazing staff who would travel this 2+ year journey with us.

I sent this card and a couple others, and am asking you to read the blog post and if you can, send one or more cards for Emma and her family to show the world is full of stampers who care.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. The CBP website is being upgraded currently, but you can always email or call them if you want any of the stamps I share.

Inlaid Die Cut Card for CAS Class

I am taking a CAS One Layer Cards on line class and learned so much already on the first two days of class. I was glad to see the instructors are being flexible with their definitions of one layer and CAS. I find it much easier to work with a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of cardstock for the front of my cards and then attach to an A2 card base. Then it doesn't matter what the back of your front piece looks like. This technique is called Faux Layered Die-cuts or Inlaid Die-Cuts. To get the look, you cut a hole with your die-cut and fill it with the pieces of paper cut with the same die so they lay flat at the same level as the front piece. I chose a quilt die from W Plus 9, cutting it several times with different patterned paper and then popping them back like a puzzle. A tip I learned from the class was to attach tape across the back of the framed piece and then the pieces you pop in will stick easily in place. I embossed a square frame with a Spellbinders square and my thick rubber mat, No More Shims. I added some hearts sponged through a Heidi Swapp stencil- I wish I had used a lighter touch with the ink sponging, but too late now. Next time:) The perfect sentiment is from Repeat Impressions.

Last time I took one of these classes, I had all sorts of time to play. That is not the case this time, but  am hoping to have time to make and share a few cards each week with you. I highly recommend these classes and you can take it any time even after the live ones are done.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Addicted to Stamps and More and at Through the Craft Room Door.

Flower Show Designer's Choice Challenge

It’s another Designer’s Choice Challenge at The House that Stamps Built, Repeat Impression’s blog. It’s Cheri’s turn and the theme of her challenge is “Flower Show”.  After you make your card with flowers, you can enter it for a chance to win some awesome Repeat Impressions rubber! Please visit the blog for all the details and to see the other Rock Star's cards for this DCC challenge. 

I have created a Building Block card featuring Repeat Impressions beautiful rose stamps. I learned how to make a Building Block card from this tutorial. The rose wreath on the front was stamped on vellum and colored from behind. I added the Love sentiment and attached to the patterned cardstock base with two flower brads.

I stamped and paper pieced the Rose Flip Stamp Set and placed the roses opening up on the steps in the inside of the card. I stamped the perfect sentiment on the right side of the card to complete it. Here is another picture from the top to show how the card opens after cutting, scoring and folding, then decorating.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at  Love to Create and Crafting from the Heart (with favorite colors pink and green because they remind me of spring.)

Personalized Card in a Box

My twin brother is turning 60 on March 31st which is also opening day for our Milwaukee Brewers. I decided to make him a special card celebrating both his birthday and opening day. I am totally infatuated with Hank, the stray puppy the Brewers have adopted at spring training. If you haven't seen him, or need something to make you smile, check out this link for more adorable pictures.  I printed one of the cutest pictures of Hank as well as an Opening Day emblem. I punched the Happy Birthday (Martha Stewart) and cut the 60 with my Silhouette. The sides were embossed with a Cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder. Here are a couple more pictures for more detail:

I am having so much fun with different Cards in a Box that I will be offering a class in my home on how to make them.

I am entering this card in the Sports challenge at Allsorts and the Oldies BD challenge at Speedy Fox and Friends at Mark's Finest Papers.

Personalized Birthday Card on Silhouette Sunday

One of the things I love most about my Silhouette and their cutting files is that I can make very special personalized cards for anyone I love. This card is for my grandson Nate who loves his super heroes. The Batman on a motorcycle is a print and cut file and the Kapow is another Silhouette cutting file cut in yellow, black and red.  But the real magic happens when he opens the card up:

Super Nate pops up and floats in the inside of the card! This is another of the Floating Image cards I have been playing with and I love how it turned out. The inside of the card has two 1/2 inch scored pieces that are matched up in the center. 1/2 inch wide pieces of acetate in various lengths are used to attach the letters and other elements to. If your special child's name is too long, the whole name could be placed in an circle or oval on a piece of acetate. Another great thing about the Silhouette and it's software is that any font you have downloaded on your computer automatically pops into the Silhouette software for you to cut your letters with. I chose a nice chunky font for the letters of Nate's name and a super hero font for the Happy Birthday. The batmobile is another print and cut file, which are so easy to use. Here is another picture that shows the whole inside of the card:

I was having so much fun making cards with the floating image technique, I submitted the cards and an article on them to Scrap and Stamp Arts and just found out it will be published in the November/December issue!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Jo's Scrap Shack and Sister Act.

Vellum Brighter Days Class Card

I am loving using vellum on my cards again! So much so that Vellum Varieties is the theme of my first in home individual class I am going to be offering this spring! I am teaching this card, as well as the second  card shown in this blogpost with the tiger and the Vellum Dimension technique. I will also add a third card or even a fourth- I have several designed you could choose from. If you are local to Wausau WI, you can choose a time for you and a few friends to come and make some cards with Vellum or any of the other techniques and card styles I will be sharing.

I love this card and think it would brighten anyone's day if they received it. I used all Hero Arts stamps on vellum over a yellow cardbase. I embossed the dandelion background stamp with white embossing powder on the vellum piece, and stamped the pretty sentiment in the center with black archival ink. The dotted Swiss flowers (also from Hero Arts) was also embossed with white embossing powder on vellum, colored from the back with yellow markers, and cut out.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Sister Act and Crafty Girls.

Blog Candy Update- Another Prize you can win from Crackerbox Palace

We are still celebrating March Madness all month on my blog and look at what I got in the mail today! Over $45 worth of awesome Crackerbox Palace stamps for a second random winner! Thank you Vicky and John! Also thanks for my awesome personalized stamp with my new blog badge and blog address for the back of my cards! Did you know Crackerbox Palace can make personalized stamps for you? They have designed several for me for Send a Smile 4 Kids and for me personally. Visit the website here for a phone number and email address you can contact them at with any of your personalized stamp needs.

Reminder: you must leave a comment on this blogpost only- comments on other blogposts do not qualify you for the prizes. AND you must be a FOLLOWER of my blog. That means your beautiful picture is on the side of this blog under followers OR your name is on the list of followers on Bloglovin'. I love my subscribers and consider it a great honor if you choose get my blog post in your email everyday, but I cannot see if you are a subscriber, so please also become a follower if you wish to have a chance at either prize. Winners will be drawn on April 1st.

Check out the original blogpost for a way to have a second chance at winning either prize. You can go here or just click on the picture at the top of the side of my blog.

Vellum Tattoo Lady Card for My Daughter

It's Crackerbox Palace Friday and I am sharing another card I made for my daughter with Crackerbox Palace’s Lady with a Tattoo. My daughter and I just love this stamp and she asked for some cards featuring her. For this one I stamped her on velum and colored her outfit and tattoo with markers from the back. I framed her with an embossing and cutting folder from Cuttlebug and then layered that piece on a white card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. The CBP website is being upgraded currently, but you can always email or call them if you want any of the stamps I share.

I am entering these cards in the Anything Goes challenges at Paper Take Weekly and Loves Rubberstamps.

CAS One Layer Card

In anticipation of taking another on line class about CAS One Layer cards from On Line Classes, I decided to play with any idea that popped into my head the other night. The last class I took from them was all about using stencils and after taking it, of course I had to buy some more stencils. They are very reasonable and fun to design with. I have to admit I have a hard time designing one layer cards. I do CAS easily, but I usually add a layer or two and dimension to my cards. But I am taking the course to learn some new techniques from the fantastic designers who teach the classes and I can always use the ideas on layered cards as well.

Anyway, the idea I had was to use the painter's tape technique with a stencil. I started with a white card base and a Heidi Swapp stencil. I pushed my painters tape into an aqua blue ink and placed over the holes in the stencil for a distressed look. I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp, the circle from Hero Arts and the blobs from Precious Remembrance. I think I like it- but I expect I will like the cards more after I take the class, and will definitely be sharing here with you.

I am entering this card in the Spots or Dots challenge at Crafty Sentiments and the Anything Goes challenge at Through the Craft Room Door.

What If Wed.? Sketch Challenge at Repeat Impressions

Happy Wednesday everyone! It's time for another fun sketch challenge at The House that Stamps Built and we are challenging you to make a card using the sketch below and link it up for a chance at some great Repeat Impressions rubber! For all the details on what you can win and to see the other Rock Stars cards using this sketch, please visit our blog.

When I saw the sketch Wendy at Repeat Impressions drew for us for this challenge, I immediately saw the arched Stained Glass Window from this new series of stamps at the Repeat Impressions website. I love that the set also has the individual quilt blocks that you can stamp in different colors which I have done here, using peach and blue patterned papers. I raised the center block and the arched window on top with pop dots. I layered on aqua blue cardstock and added a burlap ribbon with a peach flower tied on with gold cord.

Here is the sketch for you to follow when you create a card for our challenge. You do not need to use Repeat Impressions stamps to enter our challenges, but you get an extra chance to win if you do!

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at That Craft Place and Challenges 4 Everybody.

Hello Spring Card in a Box

I am still having fun making Cards in a Box and using bright spring colors. Scroll down my blog if you want a link on how to make these fun cards. Or if you are local to Wausau/Schofield WI., contact me for details on a class I will be offering on how to make these really cool cards including this one.

I started with a two sided cardstock from Stampin' Up and then added flowers (Tattered Florals die by Tim Holtz), butterflies (Martha Stewart, Stampin' Up and Memory Box), greens (Cherry Lynn), and a new "hello" from Paper Smooches. Here is a picture where you can see the front better and also the inside of the box where some of the elements are attached:

And here is a picture of the card laying flat so it can be mailed and where you can write a message:

Too fun! I am entering this card in the Flowers Galore challenge at Come and Get It, and the Anything Goes (with optional Use your Stash and I have not used my Tattered Florals in a long time), at 613 Avenue Create.

Celebrating March Madness with Blog Candy You Can Win!

It's March Madness time and Spring just has to be on the way! I am celebrating the whole month of March and you can win this sweet bunch of stampin' blog candy if you join in the celebration! What am I celebrating you ask? Spring is on the way! My blog makeover with my very own blog badge! And a big birthday at the end of the month!

Hey Ryan- thanks!! What can you win? 

* Heartfelt Creations Large Ornamental Die Set
*Memory Box Heart Chain Die
*QuicKutz Birds Die Set
*Couture Creations "I Dream" 5x7 Embossing Folder
*Cloud 9 3D Gel Stitches Stickers
*Studio G Snowman Stamp Set
*Crackerbox Palace "Woo Hoo" Stamp
* Two Sets of Paper Flowers with Rhinestones
*Washi Tape Roll

PLUS a second prize from Crackerbox Palace which will be announced later! (Edited to add: check out this blogpost to see this awesome second prize you can win!)

How can you win? There are only two requirements to qualify you to win: You must be a  Follower of this blog AND you must leave a comment on this blog post with your name and email address so I can contact you for your snail mail address if you win. (USA addresses only please.) You can type out your email address (like khasheck at gmail dot com) or, if you prefer and have a blog, give me blog link in your comment so I can leave a comment on your blog if you win.

For a second chance at winning, you can copy my blog badge code from the side of this blog and place my blog badge on your blog, then leave a 2nd comment and a link so I can come check it out if you are one of the random winners. OR post the picture and a link to my blog candy to your FACEBOOK PAGE, and let me know you did. You are not required to post my blog badge or post on your Facebook page, but I sure would love it if you did and you would earn a second chance at winning either of the prizes.  Each comment will be assigned a number and two winners will be selected by Mr. Random on April 1st. No fooling:)

Help me celebrate March Madness all month and leave a comment for a chance to win.

Pearls and Flowers on Silhouette Sunday

The theme of the challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp challenge is Anything Goes with Pearls. My favorite embellishment to add to a card is pearls and I have them in every color under the sun. I created a black gatefold card and simply attached a wedding dress and a tux both cut out with my Silhouette using Silhouette America cutting files. I added a couple peach flowers and each flower on her dress was highlighted with a pearl. Fun and easy wedding card for a special couple.

I am also entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Through the Craft Room Door.

Easter/Spring Cards 4 Kids Challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Easter/Spring Cards 4 Kids! Create and link any Easter or Spring card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes. We start early for each holiday during the year, because if the cards are going to be donated for our kids, we need to receive them in time to bring or mail to the children’s hospitals we serve before the holiday arrives.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: Squigglefly is giving their winner 3 digis! QKR Stampede is giving their randomly picked winner 5 digis of their choice!  And Oak Pond Creation’s winner gets 1 image of their choice! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.

My first card above features Bunny and Egg and Hoppy Easter digital stamps from QKR Stampede. I stamped the sweet bunny on pink patterned paper and the egg on yellow and cut them out. I cut a blue pennant and attached to a yellow polka-dotted card base. I added the green square diagonally and then the yellow pennant with "Hoppy Easter" and some doodling. The bunny was attached with an adhesive spring so he wiggles and wobbles when moved.

My second card features another sweet bunny called Bunny Boo from Squigglefly. I printed her on white cardstock, paper pieced her outfit and added some pink coloring. The card base is spring green with a floral border punched with a Martha Stewart punch. I attached yellow cardstock to the inside of the card and added a Happy Spring sentiment cut with my Silhouette and a Silhouette America cutting file. I finished the card with another flower and a couple gems.  

I am entering these cards in the Anything Goes challenges at Crafty Catz and Sister Act.