A Halloween Hi!

It's time for another Cupcake Inspirations Challenge.


The inspiration is this cute little jack-o-lantern! Isn't it neat how it actually glows inside?!


Here are the DEEtails:

I started by printing and coloring the image from Soft Pencil, using my Stampin' Write markers. I trimmed the image and matted it with some Garden Green card stock. Okay, I will confess... The reason why I used only a portion of the image is because I'm not very good at coloring, and messed up the cute cat on the other side of the image. I was so frustrated and didn't want to start over, so I decided just to cut him out of the picture! It seemed to turned out okay. :) I adhered my image to some Basic Black card stock, then added my sentiment from my The More The Merrier stamp set, punched with my Modern Label punch and a couple of silver brads. Then I added some Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon and ric rac to add some texture. This will be a great card to send to my little nieces and nephew for a Halloween Hi! :)

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you'll play along!

Lovely Bird

Yes! I made a card today! This one is for this week's Off the Wall Craftiness challenge. I love these colors and the inspiration photos are just gorgeous!


Here are the DEEtails:

I started off stamping the image from my Wings of Friendship set. I inked the branches in Early Espresso and stamped it onto Baja Breeze card stock. Then I stamped the bird separately with VersaMark ink, embossed him, then cut him out. I adhered him to the branch with Stampin' Dimensionals. Then I took a few cream flowers from my stash and arranged them on the card. I took one, and folded it up for the flower on the right. I took two flowers, adhered them together and added a cream halfback pearl from my Pretties kit for the flower on the left. I added a Very Vanilla mat before tacking on a crimped Early Espresso eyelet border and a strip of Early Espresso Satin ribbon.

Hope you like it!

Inspire DEE Challenge Winner!

Happy World Card Making Day everyone! This week has been so busy that I've only spent 15 waking hours at home from Monday through Friday. Crazy! And I still have so much work to do! So, I'm trying to play catch up today. Hopefully I'll have a bit of time to make a card or two...

I wanted to pop in to thank my participants in the Inspire DEE challenge this month. Thanks to Darlene, who gave us the inspiration to make our button butterflies, and thank you Regina, Mary, and Gail for your fabulous creations! Here they are:

made by Regina from The Stampin' Bean

made by Mary from Stampin' Pretty

made by Gail from Gail's Crafty Goings On

As a special Thank You to Darlene, she will receive 3 of my card DEEsigns that I created just for her, including my original Button Butterfly card!

Thank You Darlene!

And now for our winner...

Congratulations Regina!

Regina will receive a selection of 50 colorful buttons from my collection! I can't wait to see what she creates with them!

Darlene and Regina, please contact me so I can make arrangement to get your prizes to you!