The Big Picture...

This week at Stampin' Royalty, we are having a Picture Inspiration challenge! 

(here is the picture)

Almost everything on this card was made with a punch. The sunflowers are made with the little hearts, the medium, and biggest hearts from a retired triple heart punch from Stampin' Up, but you can substitute similar hearts :o)

I made the fence by cutting strips and cutting the tops using the corner of a square punch. Then i used the 'confetti' portion of the Cupcake Builder punch to make the 'nails'.  I had cut the stem of the flower.  

Supplies:

Cardstock- Bermuda Bay, Hello Honey, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Old Olive

Decorative Dots Embossing Folder, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Cupcake Builder Punch, Square Punch, and the 1-3/4 circle punch, 1-1/4 circle punch,White Embossing Powder, Retired Triple Hearts punch 

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Fill My World with Color

This week over at Stampin' Royalty, we are doing a Color Challenge!

If you have been reading my blog for ANY length of time, you will notice i always revert to birthday cards :o)
so why stop now! haha...
this card is pretty easy to figure out, but i will explain how i did the faux brads...
i used my Cropadile to punch out some small circles, glued them on, then put a generous blop (that is a technical term, by the way..) of Crystal Effects on each of them and let them dry. Voila! brad-like elements! in any color you need! and you can use..... SCRAPS! (love it!)

The Good Old Days...

The challenge at Stampin' Royalty this weeks is Masculine projects, and since Fathers Day is fast approaching, i thought i would make a card for the upcoming occasion :o)

My dad is very much into photography, and luckily, one of the images in the new Traveler stamp set, is this cool old camera! 

for the background panel, what i did was take a regular panel, and cut it exactly in half diagonally, then skewed it slightly on the Early Espresso panel, to give it kind of a modern feel. the whole thing kind of reminds me of old stuff like leather and wood boxes or carrying cases, etc.  

Hi!

The Challenge at Stampin' Royalty this weeks is a Picture Inspiration! 

Above is my take on the fun image!

I Do!

This weeks challenge at Stampin' Royalty is Weddings!

for this card, i wanted to keep it fairly simple, but have enough interest. I don't have the shiny gold paper, so i used my embossing powder to make a sheet of embossed gold, then punched out some circles.. after i glued them on to the Whisper White panel, ran it through my Big Shot using the diagonal stripe embossing folder.  i punched the heart out of Silver Glimmer Paper, and surrounded it with pearls.  I embossed the sentiment in gold

Hippity-Hoppity

This weeks Challenge at Stampin' Royalty is Scrapbook Pages!

Here is some adorable pictures of my little girl gathering Easter eggs in 2013. I used My Digital Studio to make this page. I went for a simple layout and design.

 i could continue to embellish this and put more stuff on it, but why complicate things? 

 Although i will always love traditional ways, I really love using digital scrapbooking...you can do so many things! and then make duplicates! 

WOW!!!!!!

Just stopping in with a little now to say,
I am SUPER excited and having a little personal party because i just checked my stats,
and i have over 200,000 views to my blog!!!  

YYYAAAYYYY!!!!!!!

There seem to be a few cards in particular that are the most popular. 

here is the link to my #1 viewed card

Thanks to all of you who come visit me here!! 

I'll Have A Blue Birthday

The theme at Stampin' Royalty this week is Flowers!!

SO! of course, i had to make a birthday card....I always do ;o)

and i actually already had the Pacific Point flowers already die cut and stamped out, just begging to be put to use on a card. I need to keep my little flowers happy, don't I? 

I also have been wanting to use my Gingham Stampin' Wheel since i bought it, but never had the right card for it. Well, it was my lucky day, because not only did i give the flowers a new home, i gave my Gingham Wheel a chance to shine! Then interesting thing about this card (and the thing  LOVE about it) is that besides the cardbase, every piece was a scrap or something I had already done and was waiting to be used. Oh, how i love to use my scraps!!
i will also admit i was in a bit of a hurry to get it done and went for the simplified style :o)

Stamps - Cycle Celebration, Secret Garden

Ink - Pacific Point

Cardstock - Pacific Point, Whisper White, So Saffron, Old Olive

Accessories -  Gingham Stampin' Around Wheel, Pearls, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Little Leaves Sizzlits, Secret Garden Dies, Bitty Butterfly Punch

My Wonderful Mother

The theme at Stampin' Royalty this week is MOM!!!

I truly have the best mom in the world and love her so much!
I was inspired by colors i thought she would like together to make this card. I heat embossed the butterfly in white, then used sponges to kind of 'color' the wings. I then cut the butterfly out and layered it on an embossed background piece. I heat embossed the sentiment and hand cut it out, and layered this one on also.  I used my glitter glue to add some sparkle to the butterfly, because you can never have enough sparkle, right? The card is very pretty in real life, and although she might just see this post, i am excited to give it to her for Mothers Day :o)

Stamps - Swallowtail, Delightful Dozen

Cardstock - Coastal Cabana

Ink - Tempting Turquoise, Summer Starfruit (for Butterfly sponging)

Accessories - White Embossing Powder, Glitter Glue, Sponges

Beautifully Baroque Embossing Folder,

Bloomin' Birthday

This weeks Stampin' Royalty Challenge is a Color Challenge! :o)

I actually found it challenging to put in both Daffodil Delight AND Summer Starfruit, because they are fairly similar in color. But i used it as one of the mats, on the center of the flowers, and the ink for the En Francais stamp used behind the sentiment. 

Baby, Baby

The theme at Stampin' Royalty this weeks is Babies!

This card is fairly self explanatory, I die cut the moon as a circle, then ran it through again, creating a moon shape. I used my markers to create the stitching effect, and created 'stars' with silver glimmer paper. 

after i had already made the card, i thought it would be cute to put a little punch art baby laying on the moon...
i guess i will have to make another!

Color Wheel

The Challenge this week at Stampin' Royalty is a Color Challenge! 

I created a VERY simple card for this challenge, and i used placement and texture to 'fill out' the card and keep it interesting. I knew i would have the solid cardbase with no mats or anything, so i decided to emboss it so it had texture. The sentiment is heat embossed on Peach Parfait with white Embossing Powder.  The center of the flower was made by me, i used one of the eye punches for the Owl Builder punch, punched out a circle of white, glued Dazzling Diamonds Glitter on it, then covered it heavily in Crystal Effects and let it dry. It gives it kind of an opal look. :o)  One more thing i think i need to mention is that i put silver mini brads in the center of the wheels. not a lot of product used, and very simple to put together, but it has a finished look. 

Celebrating with Candles

This weeks challenge at Stampin' Royalty is a Sketch Challenge!

Here is the sketch...

I really adore this sketch and believe i will use it many many times!

But for today, i used it on this birthday card!

I knew there would be a lot of patterns on it, so i decided that the circle should just be an embossed solid. Beyond that, it is just layering, and i used White Embossing Powder for the sentiment portion :o)

A Different Angle

The challenge at Stampin' Royalty for the week is a Picture Inspiration Challenge! 

Here is the inspiring picture...

It is probably obvious as to what i gathered my inspiration from...the 'handrawn' look of the images on the plates, the pattern on the bottom right..the arrows, the triangles, the colors...

I think the card explains itself, but here are the other details:

Supplies:

cardstock - Basic Black, Very Vanilla

Ink - Basic Black

Stamps - Yipee Skippee

A Burst of Happy

The Challenge this week at Stampin' Royalty is a Color Challenge!

The picture makes the Pistachio look really bright, but i promise, it is Pistachio Pudding :o)

I will admit that i kind of threw this card together, but i had the idea for the scrap piece halo(and yes, they are supposed to be offset)  around the main sentiment first. so i had made that portion before the rest of the card, then put the rest of it together. it really is better looking in real life than the picture makes it look haha. And using a bit of Silver Glimmer Paper always makes everything that much better! 

Supplies:

Ink - Early Espresso, Pistachio Pudding

Cardstock - So Saffron, Pistachio Pudding, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Stamps - Yippee Skippee, Gorgeous Grunge

Accessories: Silver Glimmer Paper, Silver Ribbon, Decorative Dots Embossing Folder