Happy Easter

Hi everyone!! How are you doing on this fine Easter monring??? Hope you get to spend time with family and friends...as we remember our Savior's suffering for our sins. And most importantly, His resurrection...so that we could have new life in Him. :) How awesome is that!

Just wanted to share a quick card I made for Easter. I won a set of stamps by CHF called "Glory of Easter" last year (right  after  Easter of course!)...and I've been waiting to use them ever since! It's an amazing stamp set! And I love them! (clear stamps don't come close to rubber/cling-ons!)

And here's my card:

I embossed the background with the Victoria Cuttlebug folder. Coloured the "crown of thorns" with a golden gel pen to give it the shine. I'm really impressed with how it turned out! Love love love the stamp set! :) TFL

I'm entering the card into these challenges:

Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog -- Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday -- Photo Inspiration

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge -- Easter/Spring

Craft Your Days Away -- Easter

Stamping Sisters in Christ -- Make a Joyful Card; Something Celebratory

Paper Craft Star -- Anything Goes

Secret Crafters -- Easter

Rainbow Lady Challenge Blog -- Happy Easter

Just Keep on Creating -- Anything Goes

DL Art -- What Easter means to me

Also...if you're interested in winning this clear stamp by Schoffie's

go to my 100 followers giveaway post  and sign on up! 

Remember, you can't win it if you don't try! :) Good luck! :)

Back with a Baptism Card

Hi guys. I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted anything! I don't have a camra around these days (other than my ipod) which has kind of been keeping me from showcasing new cards. It's definitely something I've had to get used to -- and after a couple weeks of not posting, I've decided to give my ipod camra (low quality photos) another shot. I'm sure you'll get the basic idea of the card, and hopefully I'll get some better photos of my cards soon so I can showcase them better.

So enough about that. :p On to the card...

This card is for a friend's baptism. A lot of young people in my church are getting baptized around Easter time....so this time each year has me making lots of baptism cards. It's a good thing my mojo is in good form right now -- 'cause I don't really like to make too many of the same cards (although mass production of a select few favourites always does happen).

I actually picked up this paper from a garage sale last year, so I honestly don't know what the line is called. But whatever it was, I absolutely loved it! :) The coloured paper on the first layer actually has a print on it, but it's so faint you hardly notice it. Out of curiousity I put it through my cuttlebug to see if it would look good even if there was a pattern on it, and I was impressed with the results. I actually cuttlebugged the whole sheet 'cause I loved the look so much! But after trying it with other printed paper, I quickly discovered that the end result is not always as great. I would suggest using only plain cardstock or only lightly printed paper when you cuttlebug.

The cross stamp is from a stamp set called "The Glory of Easter" that I won last April (right after Easter of course). It's been sitting on my shelf for close to a year now, and I was so excited to finally have a reason to use it. I absolutely love love love this set!

I borrowed the border punch (fiskars Apron Lace border punch), which is one of my favourites. I seriously need to get to a Michael's Craft store soon so I can buy some supplies and punches. It's amazing how difficult that is at times! :p

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to come visit my blog. I'd like to encourage all my readers (once again) to follow my blog using Linky Followers since the Google followers is apparently supposed to stop working as of tonight! :( So link on up -- I don't want to lose my faithful followers!!!!!!!!!

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2 Sisters -- Anything Goes

Everybody Art Challenge Blog -- Monocromatic

Simon Says Stamps Challenge -- Anything Goes

Craft Room Challenge -- Use the Colours Orage, Brown and Cream

Always Crafting -- Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesday -- Anything Goes

Stamp and Doodle -- Embossing of any kind!

Bling and Squares

I borrowed some Fiskars punches -- the scalloped square and circle -- and  I thought it would be so simple to come up with a design that I could incoorperate them into. I quickly discovered that I had a challenge on my hands, 'cause nothing I tried worked out the way I wanted. :( LOL

After a lot of tries and failures, I've finally made a card I like! Actually I love it! :) Love cards with bling...and this one has the bling as the centerpoint, which is cool! :) Gotta love bling! :)

I embossed the background and put the "wrong" side on top, which with my camra unfortunately is hard to pick up....cause the embossing doesn't pop as much as it could. White is tough to take pictures of...and have all the details come through. Hopefully you can get the idea...'cause the colouring isn't very good either. :p

TFL :)

Stamptacular Sunday -- Texture
Crafty Cardmakers -- No Floral Embellishments
My Time to Craft Challenge -- Favourite Embellishments -- bling bling bling! :)One Stitch At A Time -- Anything Goes
Pan Pastel Challenge -- Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges -- Anything Goes
Truly Madly Crafty -- Anything Goes
Unstampabelles Challenges -- Anything  Goes, No stamps


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Cards for Easter

Someone ordered 10 Easter cards! Honestly, I was a bit stressed...'cause I was running low on supplies, low on mojo (I had just completed a big order the previous day) and basically had no ideas whatsoever!!!

I love love love online galleries!!! I found a few card sketches I liked...and set to work. LOL Apparently stress makes my mojo flow!!! Who knew!! :p At the end of the day, I had a whole set of cards that I loved. You might not to able to tell, but I managed to use up scraps at the same time!!! I'm totally happy with how these turned out! :) TFL 

 PaperPlay Challenges -- EasterCupcake Craft Challenge -- Lots of Layers

Quirky Crafts -- Sparkly, Punches & Easter
My Time to Craft -- Easter Wishes
 Pear Tree Designs -- Easter

Totally Stampalicious -- Keep it Simple
Daring Cardmakers -- Spring

My first ettempt at an Easter card

I wasn't sure whether I was gonna even try making Easter cards this year -- then I got an order for one! And it had to be a "serious type" versus the fun types that so many people are making. (and like the ones I had thought I'd try lifting if I attempted a card). But, I did find an idea in a gallery and then set out to lift it.

This is what I came up with.

I was surprised how well the flowers turned out -- especially since I made the pattern...and was basically clueless about the whole process for the most part. I'm not 100% satisfied with how they look, but pretty happy nonetheless. And the card's overall look -- love it! And seriously, as long as the customer's happy, everyone's happy, right??? TFL

Entering this card into the following challenges:
Nutshells's Challenge #12: Easter
PaperTakeWeekly: Open Theme 
Crafty Creations Challenge: Anything Goes