So Sorry Floral Card

Before I show you my latest creation, here's the most recent exciting news from Blue Moon Creation...

The Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station will be opening soon! Products from Silhouette, Tsukineko, The Robins Nest will soon be available! As well as BMC Grab Bags, card kits, and more! So keep an eye on the website for all the fun!

In other exciting news, this weekend I will be one of your hosts for OWH Labor Day Virtual Card Making Party! Yippee! I go live at 2:00 Pacific Time this Sunday! I can hardly wait!

Okay, so onto my latest creation...

This weeks Peachy Keen Challenge is a sympathy card, so I decided it was time for a few more Peachy Stamps to join my collection. Taking advantage of the sale that began on the same night as the challenge, I picked out some stamps. I love shopping...especially during sales! As soon as my stamps arrived and I had a moment to myself, I started playing around with the stamps and here is what I ended up creating...

I had so much fun using white pigment ink and stamping into black 2.75" square. I used my Soufflé pens (white, orange, and green) to lighten up and color in the stamped image. Then I used my orange and green glitter pens to jazz the card up. Used my white pen for some faux stitching. And tied on some black ribbon. Used the So sorry for your loss stamp from this months release, only inking up the So sorry part. Attached it to the card using some double sided adhesive foam. Placed this all on top of my 3" square card base. I am very pleased with it. Simple, not too much going on.  What do you think? How do you make sympathy cards? Have a great day! Don't forget to Get Inky! with us over at my Challenge Blog!

Blogaversary Challenge : Silicone

The most recent Crafty Card Gallery Blogaversary Challenge was silicone. We were given 2 pieces and asked to create a card with it. I decided to create ornament cards. I stamped the ornament image on and careful as to not rub it off, I used my black Glaze pen to trace over the stamped image. Once that was dry, I used some stickles to jazz it up. That needed drying time. I embossed white card stock after having stamped on the sentiment on and layered that on some patterned paper. Coming up with these cards for this challenge...

These were fun to make. I will be making more like them (maybe minus the silicone and add a ribbon and bling).

I am entering these in the current challenge at All That Stickles HERE.

Thanks for stopping by! Until next time, be good crafters!

Our Two New Goldfish...Angel & Buddy

Hey there crafty pals! The new challenge started over at the Peachy Keen Challenge blog tonight (well actually last night at this point)...but I bet you are wondering, "Just what does this have to do with 2 new goldfish?" Well, let me tell you...

The theme is 3-D Objects : Pet Theme. It took me a good 15 minutes to figure this one out. Dog? No. Cat? We have 2 cats...naw. Hmmm...fish! My kids fish tank broke earlier this year, it sprung a leak. And today we just bought a tank to donate to my sons classroom. My 2 year old kept asking her father, "Can we buy a fish for Mommy?" Lol. Answer being no. Well, it hit me after seeing this current challenge and thinking about last months SOTM set (found HERE). With the cute fishy faces in that set, I couldn't resist grabbing a plastic bag and 

creating these two fishy cuties, as if we just bought them at the pet store...

Here they are in their plastic bag, home from the "pet store"...

And of course they already have names...

These cute name tags will also help my kids identify which fish is which.

It was pretty simple to create these two fish...here's how I did it:

First I looked at the images from the little fish on the stamp, then I picked what size I'd create. I punched out four circles, two for each fish. Then by hand cut out head fins, fins, and tail fins. I used paper from my stash. I stamped the eyes on the circles then again on white paper and fussy cut the white eyes to glue onto my fishy faces. Then I glued the fish pieces on, as well as glued the beading wire into the top fin. I also glued a cotton ball in between the circles for the fishy body, just to give it a bit of dimension. Used my Cuttlebug to create the tags and picked two names from my Peachy Keen stamps. Angel was on the set found HERE, and Buddy was part of the word Beach Buddy on last months stamp set found HERE. 

I found some matching twine to tie it off. Actually, it has a rubber band around it and I can add air easily when needed, I don't need to take anything apart to add it either! 

I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I enjoyed working on it!

Until next time...be good crafters,

Shoot for the Moon!

Hi! If you read my last post, you'd know I was determined to make a better card based on this weeks PKChallenge Sketch...

After some thought, I realized it wasn't the sun I was wanting...it was the moon! Here's what transpired after that realization...

With my Peachy Keen Stamps and Get Inky Stamps, I created this cute card. Those fish faces from last months SOTM set (found HERE) are too cute as cloud faces. Don't you agree? And the big eyes with the nose from the same set, made for a great peeking moon face. The sentiment is from the Get Inky! Stamps Whimsical Moon and Stars (found HERE). 

The papers are from my stash. And so are the gems, as well as the ribbon. I love how the ribbon really matches the card.

Thanks for visiting!

 

Sunny Fun

Hello crafty pals! We are in the midst of summer, so when I saw the current sketch challenge over at Peachy Keen Challenge, I immediately thought of the sun peeking up over the clouds. But I have this habit of not changing up sketches and the sketch showed stars...the sun peeking up with stars just didn't seem right. However, I thought I'd see what I could come up with. I got out the PK-SOTM June 2013 and got to work. Here is what I came up with:

What I LOVE about this card is the stamped Fun in the Sun. First, I stamped it in white. After letting the white dry, I stamped it again in brown but a bit to the right. This created a shadowed look. I'll have to try this again on another project. Also, the big sea star is on an action wobble. Cool, right?

No... I still wasn't happy with my card. I decided to get out some of my Get Inky! Stamps and create a better looking card for this challenge while thinking outside the actual look of the sketch. 

There's these beautiful whimsical clouds on two of the GI sets. And the sun needed some help too...oooh...my Market Street background stamp would be perfect.

So with PKS, Market Street, and Get Inky...

Closer...This is more of what I had in mind, but its not as clean as I'd hoped. I was trying to make this card in under 10 minutes...not such a good idea for me. I was so stressed by this, that I kept dropping pieces. Even big pieces with glue on them straight onto the wrong places of the card (hubby was showing me something at the time so my attention wasn't completely on card making). So needless to say, there are many unnecessary layers on this card to cover up my oopses. If you look closely, you will see em. :0(

So that's what I have as of now. If I get another one done tonight I will add it. I am determined to make a cute sun card with this sketch.

Thanks for stopping by! Have fun and be good, crafters!