Blue, Green, and Kraft

The Color Throw Down had a blue, green, and kraft challenge. Here is my version:

The ink blended oval is Concord and 9th inks Blueberry and Parsley. Gina K Silhouette, SU sentiment.  I recently won a Concord and 9th drawing and am loving their inks I chose!!!!  I layered kraft behind the cream layer to soften the transition to the black layer. Here is the inspiration image:

Be sure to check out the current Send A Smile 4 Kids Spring/Easter challenge!  

Send A Smile 4 Kids - Spring or Easter

It’s the first Saturday of the month and that means it’s time for the Send A Smile 4 Kids challenge. This month we are looking to see Spring or Easter themed cards in our gallery.  

This is made from a Paper Pumpkin kit. I think that I get so caught up in techniques, that I lose sight of how easy and pretty kit cards are to make. So give yourself some grace, and know that not every cards needs 20 die cuts or 10 layers. Simple is great too!!  Show off your Spring or Easter card, no matter how simple or fancy it might be at Send A Smile 4 Kids! 

Celebrate Everything!

The Paper Craft Crew has a fun challenge this round. 

I’m not a big Valentines person, so the banners and colors were my inspiration. 

I used the Taylored Expressions Hooray quad for the background, and Honey Bee Stamps sentiment. There is a lot of great inspiration on the Paper Craft blog, be sure to check it out!

SOS -Once Upon a Time

Shopping Our Stash has a Once Upon a Time challenge to create something inspired by a fairy tale. What says fairy tale better than rainbows and unicorns?

The white edges were spattered with purple and silver ink. Paper from Echo Park, Fiskars sentiments, My Favorite Things rainbow die. 

It’s been a minute!!

Life has gotten in the way of blogging.  All good things happening!  Hubs retired and that’s an adjustment in and of itself. We bought some property and are building a new home with a huge craft room. Yay for me!  

I have been playing with the Taylored Expressions create in quads and triple slim layering stencils. If you haven’t tried them you should!  All 4 of these card fronts were made with one piece of paper and one quad set of stencils:

Taylored Expressions Cookie Monster, Punpkin Pie, Pineapple, and Blue Corn inks. The sentiments are from their line of Simple Strips. Love these!!!

Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge: Cards 4 Moms/Special Ladies

 This month's challenge at Send A Smile 4 Kids is Cards 4 Moms/Special Ladies.  Here is my take:

Stencil and images from Hero Arts, cut on my Scan n Cut.  Such a sweet bunny!  Be sure to link up your creation at the Send A Smile 4 Kids challenge blog.  

Send A Smile 4 Kids March Challenge: 4 The Boys

The March challenge over at Send A Smile 4 Kids is cards 4 Boys.  Feminine cards tend to be more common, so cards for the boys are always appreciated!

Sentiment and papers from CTMH, the bling is from This calls for confetti.  I like how flat these sequins are!  Be sure to link up your card 4 Boys at Send A Smile 4 Kids.