Grateful

I have a Gratitude card to share today.  The sketch is based on that provided by iSpy Sketches:

and I'm also using the color combo by Cr84FN:

My clean and simple card looks like this:

Christmas again

I've created another Christmas card again!  This time I'm using it to enter multiple challenges.  I'm using the sketch by iSpy Sketches:

Using Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, Olive cardstock and Stella paper, I've made my Christmas card:

It's super simple and super Christmas-y!

I've also entered the challenge by Makeover Monday and Bellichallenge.  Be sure to check out what others have created!

Welcome Little One

My friend just had a little girl!

This is her second child but the family is just as excited as they are having the first one.  Her family is super busy and I have yet seen the little one in person.  I've made a little card for the cute little girl:

The sketch came from iSpy Sketches:

and the color scheme came from Dynamic Duos:

I've used Baby Pink and Heavenly Blue cardstock in place of Pink Pirouette and Baja Breeze.  Unfortunately both colors will retire as of August 1, 2012.  If you need these colors for your little one's layouts, you'll need to order them soon before they are gone!

Happy Birthday to You!

Let's come back to the hot sunny July from the Christmas cards of the past two days (Having said that, you'll see more Christmas cards coming later......)

I'd like to use some bright cards to make a simple card.  I found a simple sketch on iSpy Sketches and a summer color combination on The Paper Players:

Using a couple of cardstocks and stamp sets, I've made the following card:

Materials used:
1.  Olive cardstock
2.  Smoothie cardstock
3.  Creme Brulee cardstock
4.  Colonial White cardstock
5.  Olive Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
6.  Creme Brulee Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
7.  Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
8.  A Tweet stamp set
9.  Card Word Puzzle stamp set
10.  Sophia WOTG

A little birdie told me....

Just can't resist to try a technique with the little birdie.  I've used a sketch from ISpy Sketches to finish the card:

The card I made looks like this:

What did I do with the birdie?

I stamped the birdie in black archival ink, then picked a couple of colors (Creme Brulee, Honey, Sorbet, Chocolate here), squeezed the stamp pad tightly so that the ink from the pad would be transferred to the lid.  Now the lid becomes my palette where I used the waterbrush to dip to the ink on the lid and colored the birdie. 

I did the same with the little flowers on the branch using Tulip.

Materials used:
1.  Stella paper packet
2.  Life is Tweet stamp set (SOTM)
3.  Archival Black Exclusive Inks
4.  Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge
5.  Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
6.  Honey Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
7.  Creme Brulee Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
8.  Sorbet Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
9.  Olive Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
10.  Color-ready Seam binding ribbon
11.  Cremem Brulee reinker
12.  Waxy Flax - Colonial White
13.  Buttons - Red Assortment