HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARDYTH

YAY!   My dear friend, fellow BABE and world renowned card maker Ardyth is celebrating a birthday today!

I was so fortunate to have had the pleasure of meeting Ardyth in real life at our fall 2014 BABES getaway! She is one cool & very, very talented lady!

We have all come to know her beautiful clean & simple style, her love of bright vibrant colors, her flawless stamping AND ink blending and her NEVER ENDING unique ideas that she puts to paper and shares for our viewing pleasure.

I am inspired to create every time I visit Ardyth's blog.

Wishing you a happy day filled with tons of craft room time, a nice dinner out, and lots of cake & ice cream!

Happy Birthday Ardyth :)

Card deets: Silhouette file (tweaked a bit) and a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

Card Concept Challenge 36 & SSS Anything Goes

Happy Wednesday everyone! Can you believe how fast we have zoomed around to another CCC challenge? Seems like it was mere days between challenge #35 and #36!

Another yummy photo to inspire your creativity and likely have you heading to your local bakery for some sweet treats! Hop on over to the CCC blog and feast your eyes on the sweet creations posted by the DT.

A quick & easy, clean and simple card. I repeatedly stamped the stripes (PTI Square Prints) using Ranger Lily Pad ink on a strip of paper, cut a chunk out of the card base, popped up the inked panel behind the cut out and added a SSS sentiment.

I`m also entering this card into the Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp.

                                            

Happy crafting!

SEIZE THE BIRTHDAY / A BIRTHDAY CARD FOR REESE

A quick post to share a cute "Olaf" card that I made for Danny's grand-niece Reese who is turning 3 years old! Reese is in love with everything and anything Frozen!

A quick Google search led me to a million Olaf images. Miraculously, I managed to import this image into my Silhouette! I really should have written the process down for 'next time' !

I accidentally created a cool blue-ish ice looking reflection on the card base (you can see it on the pic below) by adhering an icy blue piece of paper behind the popped up main image panel, which then reflects to the card base! It looks really neat in real life! 

BTW, you would never know by looking at the photo, but the sentiment is stamped in a lovely Caribbean Coast blue ink (Ranger Inks)!

I am playing along with a 'new to me' challenge at Seize the Birthday where "Anything Goes". 

Happy crafting :)

CARD CONCEPT CHALLENGE #35

Yes...you've arrived at the correct post.  And yes, the card on the CCC blog is NOT the same as this one! 

Why? Because the other card is one of those "what was I thinking" cards!

For those of you who don't me well...I'm a hopeless procrastinator. 99% of the time I'm crafting until the wee hours of the morning trying to come up with a decent card. That is why the other card (Blech!) made it to the current challenge post. 

So I sat down at my craft desk this afternoon and came up with this lovely, clean & graphic card in a matter of minutes! A fabulous Clearly Besotted silver embossed sentiment (shiny in real life), some new Freckled Fawn enamel dots, a pierced border...done! 

Ahhh....now this feels right!


                                          

                                       How will you be inspired by this photo?

Do you want to hear a good one?  I originally thought the images were flowers! DH pointed out that they are cupcakes....which 'splains the fork!  Please don't tell his guy friends though!

We would love to have you share your interpretation with us. Pop on over to the CCC blog to see what the other DT members have created. Then craft away and share!

Happy crafting!