Last Chrismas card!?

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog. Here is one of my last Christmas cards (I made this one last night). Ok, so this is going to sound really stupid - but I've never before had holepunched my image to run a ribbon though... until now! I really liked it and I'm thinking I'll be doing it a little more often :)
I made this card for few challenges:
Delightful Inspiration - to use this sweet little snowman
Simon Says Challenge - anything goes

Thank you for visiting. I'm sure you're all getting super busy with the Christmas preparations :) I just can't belive that tomorrow is Christmas eve... time is flying by way too fast! :)

Joy to the world...

I was playing with the new Sizzix die I bought and here is what I came up with... I cut "joy" out of burgundy cardstock to use on another card. But this is actually what was left after I pilled my word out and I decided to use it on top of the white cardstock

several layers, but it was so simple :)

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Thanksgiving day card...

I made this Thanksgiving card weeks ago, but didn't get a chance to post yet. I have mailed all my Thanksgiving cards out, so now I'll slowly start posting them here :)
I bought these fall theme thick stickers at JoAnn's and wanted to try using them for the "window effect" by putting the stickers inside of the card and punching circles out from the card front.

It's kind of hard to see on this picture, but I used beige cardstock and sprayed it with my gold Glimmer Mist, so it has the shimmer. After it all dried I embossed it with cuttlebug. Not super happy with it, but I really like how embossing looks with the shimmer cardstock :)
Hope you guys are done with your Thanksgiving preparations! Thanks for stopping by!
This card is for following challenges:

Passionately artistic - to use fall colors

There's Magic In The air - to use red and cream

Halloween cards

ok, I know it's little late for Halloween now :) but I didn't get a chance to share some of my Halloween cards before the holiday. I've been making cards, taking pictures and mailing them out and just never got them posted....These two are the same except for the faces ...

These cards have much more sparkle IRL as I used a lot of stickles...

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going apple picking

Hello and happy Wednesday! Hubby and I are going to go to the local orchard for apple picking this weekend and going to see if his parents want to come with. So I made this card for them. Unfortunately I rushed to take a picture of it this morning before putting it in the mail and didn't really check the quality of the photo... and this is what I ended up with... the color of the green paper behind the white paper is not like it was IRL and that just sinks :(I followed Mojo's sketch for this card, used Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background and EK Success border punch. I also added liquid accents for the apples and Stickles on the apple tree trunk...

This card is for following challenges:

Delightful inspiration - to use these sweet yummy apples

Double delight - to use border punches

Mojo Monday - follow a sketch

Halloween???

Hello and thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. Today I have a very simple and my 1st Halloween card! Yeah, I've finally started....
I glued only a body of the bat, so her wings stand out...

This one is for following challenge:

Delightful inspiration - to use this cute image "scardy cat"

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Wild birthday...

Hello and thank you or stopping by for a visit. My today's card was made for one of my coworkers. She LOVES animal print, so I just had to use it on her card. Just animal print seemed...boring... so I added a touch of red:Here is the close up... I really liked the flower at first, but then wasn't too happy about the way it turned out. I was going to add another one, but it seemed too much... tried the larger flower - that didn't work either, so I left this one...

I will use this card for a Cuttlebug Challenge - to use a Cuttlebug (I used my cuttlebug for the spellbinders dies) and have 2 layers on the card.
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A much better day today!

Thank you all for your sweet wishes - today was a MUCH better day! Thank you!! And I even got to craft a little bit. Here is the card I came up with...Here is the closeup to my sweetie. I've been seeing this ribbon technique everywhere, so I thought I'd give it a try too :)

This card is for following challenges:

Sassy Studio Design - to get punchy (I'm using MS punch and punched snowflakes)

2 Sketches 4 You - follow a sketch

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Sassy card...

This one is for SassyStudioDesign challenge "freestyle". I had this digi stamp for some time and just never got around to use it...until today! :)

I thought I would just go with the theme of Moulin Rouge and create like a boudoir background, but then I also didn't want to have too many colors, so here is what I came up with:

Well, that's all for today :) Gotta run. Thank you for visiting me today!

A bear? A cupcake? A cupcake bear :)

My today's card is for StretchNBubbles challenge. I received this sweet cupcake bear after playing with the challenge last week. If you missed it, you can still pick it up at the SNB store.
Here is my closeup on the sparkle on my cupcake bear...

Hope you guys are staying cool and well hydrated. It's been 110-115F here, so it's been nice to stay around the air conditioner :) Thank you SO much for stopping by! I greatly appreciate all of your comments! Have a wonderful day!!!

Sassy challenge

This card is for a sketch challenge at SassyStudioDesign. After I took a picture of this card I realized that last 3 cards I made are all blue...hmm, I wonder what my is favorite color :)

I had no clue what sentiment to use :) And since I have an anniversary coming up (my hubby and I exchange cards on monthly basis) I thought I would do "Anniversary" :)
Here is my closeup to the sparkly jewels my sweetie is wearing (AKA glitter pen)

I just bought this Martha Stewart lily punch, so I had to use it right away :) And I LOVE it!!!

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Sassy Birthday card and trying out for a DT

Hope you guys are having a great week. Mine has been super busy and unfortunately that's why I didn't get to stamp or visit your blogs. But today I made sure to take some time to create this card...
As I have mentioned before I absolutely love-love-love Sassy Studio Design images, and now they have a DT call. OMG, I was so excited and just had to give it a shot. I'm sure they'll get so many applications from many super talented people, but you never know until you try... right? So here is my card... I used my new Cuttlebug folder (it is from Asian collection). It's kind of hard to see, but the rhinestones I used around my image are light pink. I also used liquid glaze for her eyes.

Well, I'm totally keeping my fingers crossed :) Please keep yours crossed for me too!

Thank you for stopping by! Have an awesome week!!!!

working on 4th of July cards...

I know, I know we still have little over a month, but I wanted to start early :) (well, at least I'll get something done in time)
I made this one for my hubby's parents... The image is a digi stamp - Ava from InStyleStamps, but unfortunately they had to discontinue her, so she came to live in my house :)
She originally had 4 balloons, but I erased one to make room for "USA"

I also used glossy accents for her eyes and stickles for her wings.

Thank you for stopping by today and leaving me your feedback - I always love to hear from you!

FFF 9 challenge

Hello! Hello!
Sorry for being MIA for couple of days. I was out sick... after spending Sunday in the ER and being off work for last two days, I'm feeling much better now.
I am going to try my luck again at the challage at "The Greeting Farm" Ok, so here is my card.
This is officially my first Christmas card this year. I really-really need to start working on more of those some time soon :)

For the border in the middle piece I used snowflake border punch and layered white card stock underneath it and used snow glitter for ssparkle. I seem to have very difficult time taking good pictures of my cards. It really does look much better in real life...

Here is a close up (I was trying to take a picture where you can see the glitter and my different embossing powders).

Thank you for visiting. Happy crafting everyone!