More Flowers and Pink for Spring Warmth

It is bitter cold here in Wisconsin with dangerous wind chills, so for the second day, I am posting a pink flowery spring card "Filled with Love". All the stamps on this gatefold card are by Inspired by Stamping. I just love the mason jar set and seeing what you can fill it up with. I chose pink flowers this time and a pink floral jar cover too.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Challenges 4 Everybody and Scribble & Scrap.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Roses for my Friend

I had new sets of stamps from Stacy Stamps and Inspired by Stamping and a new roses embossing folder from Cuttlebug that were all sitting in NSIHNUY pile on my bed (new stuff I have not used yet), and now they are not in the pile and put away where they belong:) I embossed the rose corner and single rose on velum with white embossing powder, then colored from the back with markers. I cut out each and layered on a pink embossed piece with a leafy die. I stamped the sentiment and tag,  cut out and raised with a pop dot.

I am entering this card in the Something New challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and the Anything Goes challenge at Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge.

Stamping smiles, Karen

CAS on Silhouette Sunday

"In A Word" is the theme this week at  CAS-ual Fridays and with this CAS card, I am saying hello to the new year and new adventures to come. I simply cut hello with my Silhouette with a chunky type font and put two shades of paper below the openings for the letters. Then I cut a line of birds on a wire again with my Silhouette and added them to the CAS card.

I am also entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Creative Fingers and the Die Cut challenge at Addicted to CAS. 

Stamping and Silhouette smiles, Karen

Valentines 4 Kids Challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids

Happy New Year everyone! It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Valentines 4 Kids. Create and link any Valentine themed card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes. We start early thinking about Valentines, because we would love for each of our kids in the hospitals we serve to receive a Valentine and that means delivering them around the 1^st of February. You do not have to send in your cards to enter our challenges, but our kids would sure love it if you did.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge:  Dollar Graphics Depot is giving their winner a $15 gift certificate! Bugaboo is giving their randomly picked winner 7 digis of their choice!  And Fred She Said’s winner gets a $10 gift certificate! 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 is an easel card made with "My Bunny Valentine" by Rajv's Graphics from Dollar Graphics Depot. She is pre-colored so all I had to do was cut her out with a scalloped heart die from Spellbinders and add some sparkly punched hearts. The sentiment piece that holds up the easel is made with a digi from Doodle Pantry and some more punched sparkly hearts. 

My second Valentine for our kids is a telescoping card using sweet "Happy Valentine's Day to Ewe" digis by Bugaboo. I am sharing pictures of the card closed and open. I paper pieced the Valentine lamb in the top circle, and printed her smaller and colored her in the bottom circle. One advantage of digital stamps is that you can print them any size you would like. I did a little coloring with gel pens and attached thelayers together with brads.

My last Valentine features Nolan with a Heart by Fred She Said. I love colored digis and don't feel a bit guilty about just printing and cutting out to make another CAS Valentine for our kids. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and did it again to get the pink conversation heart UR GR8. 

I am entering these cards in the Anything Goes challenges at Inky Impressions and LEJ Designs.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

You're Utterly Fabulous!

It's Crackerbox Palace Friday and I am sharing a “utterly fabulous” card I created with some new stamps I received recently from Crackerbox Palace. I decided to keep the card CAS and simply embossed the fabulous lady on a kraft card, then cut a hole in the white piece with a rounded oval die to show her off. I raised the white piece with pop dots and added some ribbon and the fabulous sentiment from Crackerbox Palace to complete the card.

I am entering this card in the Something New challenges at Sweet Stamps and at Simon Says Stamp.

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. Happy New Year everyone!

Crackerbox Palace smiles, Karen

Hope Your Birthday is the Cat's Pajamas!

I remember this phrase from my childhood and love cats, so could not resist this stamp from Stampendous on a recent shopping trip to a stamp shop in Illinois. I love to paper piece and immediately knew the pjs would work great with that technique. I am also loving the angled layering of many of the cards I have seen and tried that on this card. I added some doodling just cuz it seemed the bottom of the card needed something.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Bearly-Mine and Through the Craft Room Door.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Something New to You Designer's Choice Challenge

It’s another Designer’s Choice Challenge at The House that Stamps Built, Repeat Impression’s blog. It’s Geri’s turn and the theme of her challenge is “Something New to You.” After you make your card with something that is new to you, 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. 

It was very easy for me to make a card with something new from Repeat Impressions because not long ago, we received our package of new stamps for the New Year. One of the stamps I chose is the Skating Penguins. They just make me smile. I paper pieced their scarf and hat, colored a little and cut them out in a diamond shape. I layered on a teal blue diamond, then patterned snowflake paper, then on another diamond shape with embossed dots. I added some more RI snowflakes and a perfect sentiment for this winter card.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at The Squirrel and the Fox and Kaboodle Doodles.

Stamping smiles and Happy New Year, Karen