Swiss Pixie Cupcake Birgitta

Isn't she sweet?

C.C. Designs, through All That Scraps, has the cutest series of Swiss Pixies.  A number of them are sitting and they do sell cute little fences, etc. for them to sit on.  But I think it is just as simple to have her sit on the image panel!!

• Stamps: C.C. Designs Swiss Pixie
• Paper: Stampin' Up Lucky Limeade, MME Just Dreamy dsp
• Ink: Memento Black, copics, Antique Linen distress ink
• Accessories: Circle and scalloped circle nesties, ribbon from Jo-Ann, Stickles

LIM: A Snowman Family

Our church card-making group has a special gathering in two weeks to get a head start on holiday cards...so that's about all you will see on my blog for a few weeks. 

This week's Less Is More challenge is to use the colors of our flags.  I knew that our red, white and blue could easily become a snowman and, just yesterday, I had received an order of stamps from DeNami Designs...a card was born!

  

COLOURS 

of 

YOUR NATION'S FLAG!

• Stamps: snowpeople by DeName Designs, sentiment by Taylored Expressions (Wings of Joy)
• Paper: Stampin' Up Real Red and white
• Ink: Stampin' Up Real Red, Night of Navy, Only Orange
• Accessories: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Stickles, red gem

This is my second post today...go to the next Older Post for FIVE simple baby cards!

A Bundle of Simple Baby Cards

As I was feverishly working to prepare for church cardmaking the last two days, I suddenly realized that I hadn't even thought about baby cards.  Luckily, I think a CAS look works very well for sweet baby cards!

A Muse stamps

Verve cross, sentiment unknown

Serendipity image, Inky Antics sentiment

A Muse stamps

Banners by Taylored Expressions,
Bird is Clear Dollar Home Tweet Home,
sentiment by PaperTrey Ink.
Credit to KingstonMama

Color Throwdown on a Get Well Flower

I have a church cardmaking gathering tonight and you can always tell when it is getting close because my cards get very simple.  Of course, I prefer a CAS style - so this really isn't a problem for me - but I do try to put together a variety of styles for all the other cardmakers to play with.

I used the color's from this week's Color Throwdown.

I also want you to check out the left side of my blog page because I did some cleaning!  I moved the "Tips and Techniques" section to its own tab at the top of the page.  I plan to pretty it up and organize it a little better, but that will come later.

Most importantly, I added "My Blog List" - these are the blogs that I read every day!  I did set it up to only show you the 25 blogs that have most recently posted - if you saw everything that I read, you would definitely realize how obsessive that I am!  So check this section often because you will definitely find other blogs to love!

Apologies to you if you think that I have missed you on My Blog List.  I have worked very hard to clean up my "following lists" and my Google Reader - but I think they are playing tricks on me.  Blogs that I am absolutely certain that I follow are no longer listed.  Just random stuff - but it's going to take me awhile to clean it up.  So if I definitely follow you - don't worry - you'll get on My Blog List!

• Stamps: Stampin' Place
• Ink: Stampin' Up markers in Pool, Olive, Crumb
• Paper: Stampin' Up Pool, Olive, Crumb
• Accessories: Nestabilities die, Sizzix embossing folder, SU Olive Taffeta, Stickles (on the flower)

CR84FN with SCS Sketch

This is my second post for today.  The first was bright and "royal", this one is soft and gentle. 

That's one of the things that I love about being involved in a church card ministry (see labels down the left side for complete information.)  I can play with styles and colors and techniques....I can make baby cards or retirements cards.  I am not limited by what I need - the church needs them all so I have total freedom to play!!

For this card, I used today's Splitcoast Sketch Challenge...

And I used this gorgeous CR84FN Color Challenge.



• Stamps: Stampin' Up Fast & Fabulour, Clear Dollar Stamps Heartfelt Sentiments
• Ink: Stampin' Up Basic Gray and Almost Amethyst, a copic marker for the greenery
• Paper: Stampin' Up Going Gray, Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst CS and dsp (old pack)
• Accessories: My Favorite Things border die, Stampin' Up Celery twill, Stampin Sizzlit dies - Birds and Blooms?, misc buttons and pearls

Clean & Simple Inkspirations!

There is nothing particularly unique about this card, but I like the "royal" look of the banner...

My card follow this week's clean&simple sketch exactly.

I browsed this week's color challenges until I found a challenge with a least one royal color - purple!  I chose the Inkspirations challenge.

• Stamps: The Angel Company (an old single stamps)
• Paper: Stampin' Up Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz dsp from Greenhouse Gala, Peach Parfait dsp from Ice Cream Parlor
• Ink: Stampin' Up Concord Crush
• Accessories: Quickutz banner die, EK Success border punch, Stampin' Up word window punch, American Crafts brads

LIM: Feeling Fruity with a Cherry Fairy!!

This week's challenge at Less Is More is

FEELING FRUITY

I have been watching cards from a digital company called A Day for Daisies - they are absolutely and totally charming!  I was browsing yesterday and saw the Cherry Fairy.  The Less Is More challenge was a perfect excuse to fill my shopping cart with that digi and a few others (as if I need an excuse!)

I then found the A Muse sentiment stamp in my collection and the style of it was perfect!  And, yes...I do know that the sentiment is a "berry" and the stamp is a "cherry"...I'm just hoping that I am the only one bothered by that!

• Stamps: A Day for Daisies digi, A Muse sentiment
• Ink: copics
• Paper: Stampin' Up Garden Green
• Accessories: Art Institute Glitter Kiwi and Pearlescent, Smooch Pearlized Top Coat on cherries