Dandelion Mouse

There are just a few more days to play along with the Summer Swirls and Pearls challenge over at the Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog!  If you want to join in the fun, be sure to link up your creation by midnight, June 30th!  Our sponsor this month has been Meljen's Designs and what a selection of adorable images are in the store!

The little mouse I used on my card this week is called Dandelion Mouse.  Isn't he just the cutest?!  I paired him up with some paper from American Crafts (Amy Tangerine collection) as it reminded me of dandelions!  I used one of my favorite Memory Box dies for the swirl and four little pearls, one of which is in the center of the dandelion.  The sentiment if from Paper Trey.

Today is my last post for The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog.  I have enjoyed my time with the wonderful gals there, but need to clear some space on my calendar for a creative endeavor of mine that I have brewing for July!  Plus, our family vacation is coming right up as well as DS1's birthday.  Then, before we know it, school will be starting again!  This summer is just flying by!

Enjoy your Wednesday!  June is about done!

Summertime Treats

A new challenge has started over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog!  This month, the theme is Summer with Pearls & Swirls and Meljen's Designs is our sponsor.

I had fun with this card.  Summer, in my mind, means a wide variety of cold treats become readily available and root beer floats are near the top of my favorites list!  However, only A&W root beer will do!  Do you have a favorite summertime treat?

The main image is colored with Copic Markers.  I embossed the white panel behind the main image with a swirly Cuttlebug embossing folder and added a red pearl as the cherry.  I couldn't resist adding a bit of clear Stickles to the top of the float and a little Crystal Effects to the glass dish!  The digital float image can be found here.

Flowers & Butterflies

I can get myself into trouble over Unity Stamps if I'm not careful.  The company has so many wonderful stamps that it's hard to choose just one or two stamps or stamp sets at a time!  Thank goodness for the Kit of the Month Club because that seems to keep my Unity cravings at bay!





Unity is the sponsor over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog this month and I can't tell you how excited I am about it!  The theme for this month's challenge is Handmade flowers with butterflies.  To be honest, I have never made a flower before other than punching one out with a paper punch!  *gasp!*  Yes, it's true!  I have a couple flower dies in my stash, but just hadn't taken the time to use them until this challenge forced me into action!  Now that the first step has been taken, I can see myself playing with handmade flowers more often!

My card for the challenge uses stamps from one of my Kit of the Month kits and the flower was made using a Sizzix die.  The ribbon is Stampin' Up! and the decorative paper is from Echo Park.

Spring Pastels

It's time to share another creation for April's challenge over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog!  The theme this month is Spring with Pastels.  Our sponsor this month is Meljen's Designs, an online store full of fun and fabulous images!  For today's card, I chose to use Chickadee Teacup.  Isn't this image just adorable?  I used a Martha Stewart leaf punch and added clear Stickles to the whipped cream on the birds' sweet treat just for fun.  The fabric flower in the bottom corner is one I discovered in my bottomless stash.  I'm working on shrinking that this year...

Remember, if you play along this month, the prize is four (4) digital images (uncolored) from Meljen's Designs' online store!

Spring Rain

Spring is really beginning to show itself even though the temperatures have dropped back down toward freezing.  I'm crossing my fingers that the beauty that is emerging around us won't get bitten by Jack Frost before steady warmth arrives!

This month over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog, we're to make spring cards using pastel colors.  Our sponsor this month is Meljen's Designs, an online shop with a ton of adorable, heart warming images!  The prize this month is four (non-colored) digital images from the store!

For my card this week, I chose to use this little umbrella, called Heart Strings Parasol.

I used some decorative paper from my retired Stampin Up! stash and some coordinating cardstock.  The cloud is actually the top of the cupcake from the Stampin Up! cupcake punch!  (I love it when things can be used for more than what they were originally intended!)  The little pink dots are tiny pink gemstones, but the photo doesn't show them very clearly, unfortunately.

**I am also entering this card in the I {Heart} 2 Stamp April Sketch challenge.

Big Time Thanks

It's the last week of March and that means time is running out to enter the current challenge over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog!  The challenge is to use ribbon or lace and this month's sponsor has been Digital Delights.  I have to say, I'll be visiting their online store again before long!  They have so many cute images, including this adorable little guy!  A perfect image for a thank you card I've been needing to make from my sons!

(I am also submitting this for the current Mojo Monday challenge.)

Supplies:
Stamps - Digital Delights (Peyton - digital), SU (sentiment)
Paper - SU cardstock (Pumpkin Pie), Paper Trey CS (kraft), My Mind's Eye DP, Copic blending card
Ink - SU (Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black)
Accessories - SU grosgrain ribbon (Real Red), SU marker (Pumpkin Pie - dot frame), staple, foam dots (popped up sentiment panel)

Tiger

Over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog, there is a new challenge for the month of March.  This month, the challenge is to use ribbon &/or lace.  I chose to use ribbon since I really don't own much lace at all!

This month's sponsor is Digital Delights.

Supplies:
Stamps - Digital Delights (Cupcake Timmy - digital)
Paper - misc. DP, SU cardstocks (Basic Gray, Basic Black), Copic blending card
Accessories - SU black grosgrain ribbon, SU heart punch, orange gemstones
Coloring - Copic markers
 

Daisy Pixie

Some of my mother's favorite flowers are daisies.  Her wedding flowers were daisies and she still prefers them, but with a little purple mixed in now.  I just love the sweetness of this little pixie from A Day for Daisies and created a card using this month's colors from over at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog:  red, pink & purple.  You have about a week left to play along if you want to join in the fun!

Supplies:
Stamps - A Day for Daisies (Tiny Pixie Daisy - digital)
Paper - SU Real Red, Rich Razzleberry & Pretty in Pink cardstocks, Copic Blending Card, My Mind's Eye DP
Ink - SU Real Red
Accessories - SU buttons, Nestabilities (circle & blossom), SU Rich Razzleberry taffeta ribbon, foam dots (popped up main image circle), baker's twine
Coloring - Copic markers

The Crafter's Cafe Blog Hop!

It's time for a GIANT Blog Hop to celebrate the new design team at The Crafter's Cafe!  Come join the fun!

At the end of the Hop, you have a chance to win a prize package from Fresh Brewed Designs.

You should have arrived here from Laura's blog, but make sure you start at the beginning of the Hop!  (If you need the complete blog hop list, scroll down to the bottom of this post!)

Here is my card for today's hop:

Supplies:

Stamps - A Day for Daisies (digital)

Paper - SU Basic Black, Pink Pirouette & Real Red cardstocks, Copic blending card

Ink - SU Real Red (sponging)

Accessories - gemstones, SU Basic Black marker, SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter, SU Real Red ribbon, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Nestabilities (oval & circle), foam dots (popped up main image panel)

Coloring - Copic markers

 

While you're here, you'll need to pick up your "Clue" for a chance to win the FBD prize!

My Clue is:  E

Your next stop in the Hop is Beckie's Blog.


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One other announcement!!!
 

Tomorrow (Saturday) we're having a great big, all day, grand opening party at The Crafter's Cafe with lots of games and sponsors, including A Day for Daisies.

(They provided the image I used on my project today!)

Come over to the party for a chance to win all kinds of great prizes from all of our amazing sponsors, get to know our new design team and check out the new look!

All the games and events will be listed HERE!

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Here is today's blog hop order if you get lost along the way:

The Crafter's Cafe

Stacie

Heide 
Angela

Gloria

Kristina

Asha

Susan

Jacqy

Ruth

Monique

Julia

JLJ Designs (Jennifer)

Wendy

Christine

Marjo

Rhonda

Leslie

Tracey

Karen

Linda

Elizabeth

Laura

Melissa (You are here.)

Beckie

Karen

Miss Sue

Arielle

Samara

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog

If you've never visited The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog or The Crafter's Cafe online community, you should go take a look!  There is so much fun going on at The Crafter's Cafe that they decided to start an official challenge blog!  I was asked to be a part of the Challenge Team, so here I am sharing my first card for the new blog!  The challenge this month is to use a pink/red/purple color combination.

 

This month's sponsor is A Day for Daisies, a fabulous online shop with tons of wonderful images!  They are providing a $12 gift certificate to the store for this month's challenge winner!  This little pixie was fun to color and I decided to make her the star of the show by keeping things clean and simple!  Isn't she sweet?!

Supplies:

Stamps - A Day for Daisies (Tiny Pixie Rose - digital), The Stamps of Life (sentiment)

Paper - Paper Trey white CS, SU Elegant Eggplant CS, My Mind's Eye DP (Love Me)

Ink - SU Basic Black (sentiment)

Accessories - purple gemstones, Nestabilities (ovals)

Coloring - Copic markers