Up and Away Birthday!

I have been inspired by several challeges today....

• Cupcake Craft Challenge for Up in the Air and option green (have a little green)
• Double Dutch challenged for a creation (not into recipie cards, but bunny has a cupcake!)
• Crafts 4 eternity gave me the color palette of aqua, green, purple
• Sketch n stash gave me the design layout with their sketch
• Crazy Challenge challenged us to use brads or eyelets
• Creative inspirations challenged us to make an Easel Card (this is my first one!! had to look up the tutorial on splitcoaststampers.com so I could do it!!)
• And finally Paper Sundaes challenged us to keep it simple, and I think I did that very well!

The cardstock is Stampin Up, dewdrops are fakes from Michaels. Aqua paper and patterned paper I got from TAC years ago, called a little Whimsy. Perfect for the color challenge!! I used Copics to color in the Lili of the Valley stamp, which is my first time using him! So cute! (c03,05-bg000, 02, 05--yg01, 03, 17-v09, 06)

Black brads was from SU when I was a demo, which was before i was a mother! And my oldest is 5.5yrs old!!! Come to think of it, all my SU stuff is that old! I have only bought black, metallic and white cs and have never had to buy more color CS because I had bought so much as a demo!!

Lili of the Valley Stamps AND a Clean and Simple Birthday

• Today I made 2 cards, one with my NEW Lili of the Valley Stamps from the UK and one with Papertrey Ink "In Celebration" stamp set.
  
• The first is this adorable little gal, whom is colored with copics (r20, 24, 27) and I used tip to tip technique since I didn't have the R22 color to blend well. I think it went rather nicely. I learned this at a 4 hr copic class from a certified copic gal Dionne (her blog here)
  
  
• CS is from SU, patterned paper is DCWV Whimsy stack, silver satin ribbon from Michaels, silver embossing, sewing machine, Spellbinders circle, big scallops and fancy tags. Sentiment is from Gina K along with the oval stamp around it. Embellished with faux dew drops from Michaels. Stickles on wings, wand and antaneas are "icicles". I love the end look. She is just so stinkin adorable!

Challenges entered:

• anything but a square--rectangles circles oval, but no square! at Cupcake craft challenge


• Show us a Circle at Lili of the Valley Challenge


• Papertake Weekly Challenge is anything goes with option of something old....well, those dew drops are over 2 yrs old....


• And...for the Pixie Cottage Challenge...something cute! If this card isn't cute...don't know what is!

• The Clean and Simple card is for my husband's birthday which is in 5 days and must be simple because he doesn't like a bunch of stuff. All stamping from the Papertrey Ink set mentioned above. Silver paper is from a package of shimmer paper from Michaels. Silver embossing, black ribbon from Michaels and that is about all for this one!

Challenges Entered into

• Gorjuss Challenge for black and....(one color--Mine is silver!)


• Charisma Cardz Challenge for black, white and one other color

MY GOAL for MARCH: Make 2 cards "not girly" for ever 1 that I make girly. I did make two of the CAS today, the other has a different sentiment and is going into the donated to Kindergarten gift basket for a raffle later this month.

I just find that I make what I love the most, but need to branch out into cards that other people might enjoy also. . . and I enjoy making them, but it is not my passion.