Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 204 + Simon Says Challeng

Challenge 204 of the Cupcake Inspiration challenge is some of my favorite colors.  Anything with purple steals my heart.  Green is the color I wear the most because I have red hair and green eyes. 

 So what better to put those two to together for this challenge.  

My lavender is a little light in the photo.  In person it is darker.  

Also the Simon Say's Challenge blog is hosting a Birthday card challenge.  I will be posting this card there too.

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Retro Fresh Challenge.... It's All about the Boys

Happy Monday and April fools day.  I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend.  We had a quiet day with just my Hubby, Son and myself.  We usually spend the Saturday before Easter with my family at my Aunt's property.  So Easter Sunday is just for us.  

My 12-year old Son did inform me that the Easter Bunny will be visiting our house still so we made sure that the bunny did make his visit.  

I did get a little crafting time and made this card for my Cousin who will be 

graduating from High School in May. 

 I didn't want to go traditional.  So I picked some fun boy colors.  Inside it does say "Happy Graduation."   The image "CC Saturday" from the Greeting Farm.  

I am also including this in the Retro Fresh Challenge on the Splendid Stamping at the Greeting Farm blog.  

I hope to be back later in the week for some more challenge post.  I have a few projects in progress.  Hopefully I'll find some time to create.  

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 203

It is that time this week for the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge.

Here is the challenge photo.

I was inspired by the flowers and their colors.  I also of course added some Easter eggs for the Easter theme.

I don't know if this will be my last post this week so I want to wish everyone a wonderful holiday weekend.

Easel Card

Hello Friends.  Today I am going to share with you the second easel card I have ever made.  

I love the end result but they do take a little planning.  

I made this card for two challenges.   One is the Splendid Stamping with the Greeting Farm for Farm Fresh Friday. Where the challenge is to make an Easel card.  

The second Challenge is for the Cards Blog Challenge on the Northridge Publishing Creat Blog.  

This is a color theme challenge.  Very Spring/Easter like color.  

 I used the precious CC Thursday Stamp from the Greeting Farm.  

The Sentiment is from Hero Arts.  

If you have not made and Easel card before here is an illustration on how the parts got together. 

 I made mine 5x5.    

Thanks to Nitash at Docerela Creations I am now adding this card to the pastel challenge.   

Cupcake challenge 202

Happy Friday!  Boy it was a long week for me.  Nothing seemed to go right at work this week.  I put in some long hours and  my evening crafting time has been minimal.  So to celebrate Friday I stopped at my local Joann's and picked up a few cool items and came home to craft.  

I've been thinking about this challenge and have been stumped by the colors.  I love green but not a big fan of the yellow.  Since St. Patty's day passed I was not in the mind set to make a lucky card.  

Here is the cupcake inspiration

here is my cool frog.

He sort of makes me want Summer to be here.  

Have a great weekend.

Farm Fresh Friday

Today I am posting my project for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge on the Splendid Stamping with the Greeting farm blog.  

The challenge is Sparkle 

I choose my Ebony stamp because I think the little skull looks great with glitter.  I also added glitter to her head band.this makes her a little cutie.  

The flowers are sparkle stickers and I added some more glitter to the little butterfly wings.  

I left off the sentiment because I was not sure what I wanted  it to say yet.  Sometimes I do that and then add the sentiment right before I send out the card or use it on a package.  That way I know who the card is going to and have the sentiment match that occasion.  

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March Great Impressions & Spectrum Noir Challneges

I think this is going to be a record month for me completing challenges.  I just love participating in different challenges to help me grow as a card maker.  I have learned from each challenge.  Some of my projects turn out as planned and others just turn out ok.

This card I made for the Great Impressions March challenge.  The challenge is "Green" .  I colored the image with my Spectrum Noir markers.  I am rather please with the results.

I am also going to enter this card in the Spectrum Noir challenge   The challenge there is "Spring"

There is still  time to participate in both challenges.  I have made sure that there is a link to both challenge blogs.

Happy Crafting