FALLING FOR YOU

"THIS CARD WAS A WINNER AT INKTEGRITY DESIGN TEAM CHALLENGE" CHALLENGE #15

Everyone is talking about it being fall and the leaves and grass changning colors. That is one of  the few things that I miss about living in Illinois. The changing of the seasons. Here in Alabama everything is still green and it is still over 90 degrees. But, I try not to complain to much, because if this winter is like last winter I am in no hurry for it to get here. I wish we could have temperatures between 65 and 78 all the time. that would be so perfect. Some rain every now and again for the farmers and the grass and trees. Oh well, nothing is perfect.

So I guess I will get on to my card. From the title you will guess that this is a fall card. Which is true. I have animals and birds. And I think that this one turned out really good.  Let me say that I have been using papers from my scrap file and that this card was made completely from scrap papers. The little girl image is a freebie that I got sometime last year and I think that it is a Cute Daisy May image (now Whoopsi Daisy ) if I am wrong I hope someone will let me know. The little bird is Magnolia, you know my favorite place for Magnolias is the Magnolia-licioous Online Store, Diana is the owner and the customer service is awesome.
The tree, the rake  and are Jolie stickers, bought for little of nothing on clearance. I got one for each season. This one is called autumn. The squirrl is a $1 stamp that I have had a while. . The images were colored with my copics. E00, E11, E13, E24, E32 G21, G24, YR14, YR15, YR18, Y17, W1, W3. As I said earlier, the papers are all from my scrap file. The bling is from my stash and the sentiment was typed on the computer. I used the cuttlebug to emboss the brown paper with the swirl embossing folder. The faux stitching on the base circle was done with a copic.  The circles were cut with the Spellbinders Nestibilities circles.

The sketch is from Inktegrity Design Team Challenges:

And, yes I have challenges that I will be entering this card into.

Crafty Sentiments Designs Use your scraps

Crafty Creations Falling Leaves

A Crafty Little Place Brown Green Orange

Raise The Bar Bundle Up (jacket/scarf) I think this one is covered

Creative Inspirations Two or more stamped images. (I go that)

Stamp Scrap and Doodle Saturdays  Real or Faux stitching

Flutter by Wednesday's This week only use winged things other than butterflies, angels and fairies. I got a bird.

Stamp Something Something with fall colors

Paper Cutz Critters

Well, I guess that is all for now. I hope to be back soon with a project that is totally out of my comfort zone. Let me know if your like this. I would love to hear from you.

My Little Fairy Princess

Hi everyone, I am back. I told you this morning that I was being creative, well that is partly true. I was also working on my office. I have been working around a lot of clutter and other hobbies, mainly genealogy. My computer desk was a mess and my scrapbook/card making work area was even worse. I have been working the last couple of days to make my space a crap free zone. I have moved alot of things cleared up my work space and moved a lot of things around. I cleaned out my walk in closet that I had been using for a storage closet and now it will be an extension of my work space. I bought a bookcase today that I will put in the closet to use for all of the stuff that will come off of my corner computer desk and I will be able to use the shelves on this desk to hold baskets of craft items. I feel liberated . The space is now open enough for two people to work in. But now I just have to put the bookcase together. Ok, enough about this.

You will have noticed that my blog is going through some changes. I think it is having a nervous breakdown. At the end of April it will be my 6 months anniversary. When I started this I did not think that I would make it 6 days. So I am trying to think of ways to celebrate. But, over the next week or so, the blog will probably take on some new personalities and colors. I will be trying them on for size.

I am back to post one of the cards that I have been working on. It is of course for a few challenges. It is the first time that I have used a fairy as my image. The image is a freebie from Cute Daisy May store. And the challenges is from the Cute Daisy May challenge blog, Linnie picked Fairies to be the challenge, so it is only right that I use one of her fairies. The next challenge is from Sophisticat Challenge Blog it is a color challenge "Mint green, lilac, and flowers plus any other color". The next challenge is from Raise the Bar  April fools, to do something totally different that usual. Well, I don't usually use fairies on my cards and the card to me is really busy. I like more of a clean look. But I like this. The next challenge is from the Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge the challenge is a color one, pink, green and flowers. So the pink is the other color for the Sophisticat challenge and they just go together.

The image is colored with copics. E31, E33, E09, E15, RV02, V04, and BG13. The papers are from Basic Grey, cherish and urban prairie. The card base is Bazzill. The pink embosed paper is Paper Studio. The bling is from my stash. the embossed green papers are from Tuesday Morning and the flowers are from my stash. I cut the leaves with a Martha Stewart punch. the ribbon is from my stash. I used crystal stickles on the wings. I really think that she looks like she is ready to fly off to Neverland...

The sketch for this card is from Sketch Saturday. I won the challenge over there 2 weeks ago. See my side bar. I won a $25 shopping spree at Simon Says Stamp. My new stamps are on there way to me.

I would really like to hear what you think of this card. It is so not my usual style.

Spring is Sprung

Happy Monday everyone. I am goingto make this a quick post. It is 10 pm and I can barley keep my eyes opened. But,  I did not want to miss out on the following challenges. And because I took Saturday off and did not do anything crafty. You might ask yourself why? The why is that when I am creating everything else falls by the wayside. I had not vaccumed or did very much of anything around the house. I had to get a reality check if only for a little while. But, here I am once again, and it is all about spring.

The challenges are Friday Sketchers (sketch); Pixie Dust Studios, The Power of 3; Paper Take Weekly Lilac and Lemon; Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog Spring is in the Air; and Secret Crafters Spring is Sprung.

My papers are Bazzill cardstock. the The image is a freebie that I got from Cute Daisy May some time ago. The flowers and bling are from my stash. The spring stamp and the flowers of the bottom of the easel came from the $1 bin at Michaels. I used two Martha Stewart punches and I colored with my Copics.  I also made another easel card my second.

Here is the card.