Boy stuff - Girl stuff

I have managed to complete a few layouts recently and I wanted to share one of them with you.

 I created a collage of my favorite photos from this park visit, Picassa makes that so easy.

 Notice my Target Paper Tapes as my decoration? They look great against white cardstock.

 I picked up some chipboard pieces by October Afternoon as accents.

 This little sentiment is from a sticker set by Echo Park.

 Gotta share a girly card too. LOVE these products from My Little Shoebox.

The cloud, the little girl and the flowers are all cut from patterned papers.

And for a few photos...

I was walking in my backyard this week with my camera.  Have you ever seen the blossom on a Passion Fruit plant? They have to be one of the weirdest creations. One of those wonders of God's creation that just amaze me as they all turn out identical and very strange!

More of my fushias too.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Putting ink to stamps

I seem to go through phases but for now, I seem to be reaching for my stamps a whole lot.

 First off I used the Colour Q color combo for the inspiration on my card.  I picked up one of my Crafter's Workshop stencils and added the color to my background by rubbing it with a few different Fluid Chalk stamp pads.  I used all of the colors in the combo, just rubbing here and there.  The card base and the frames were cut with my Cricut Expression.

 This wonderful butterfly is a stamp by Stamps by Judith. I stamped it with white ink and white embossing powder and then colored the white cardstock with some Distress Ink.  The white embossing acted as a resist.  I added some Glossy Accent to portions of the butterfly.

 Can you see the spatters of color? When I finished the stenciled background, I felt it needed a little something more so I used a paint brush and a couple puddles of some Distress Stains and flicked the brush against my finger.  This ends up fitting in with Cath's challenge on Moxie Fab to do some spattering.

 Here is the inspiration piece from Colour Q.

 Now onto the Paper Smooches SPARKS inspiration piece.

 And, the Card Patterns sketch that I also used for my next card.

 I cut my Little Yellow Bicycle piece of patterned paper in pieces to look like the rays.

 The houndstooth band is a stamp by Paper Smooches as is the cloud. I added a pattern into the cloud with another stamp. The sentiment is a stamp by Paper Smooches too.

 Next off, I played along with Kimber's Saturday sketch at 2 Peas. I liked the sketch and saw a cute reason to use this little elephant stamp by Paper Smooches.  You can tell I still had that patterned paper by Little Yellow Bicycle on my table and I thought it fit pretty great. 

I have also wanted to play more with cut out shapes and thought that fit pretty well here too. That top design is a border punched with a Kreaxions 4-in-1 punch. 

And for a few photos...

 This is my brand new rose, I just put it in the ground not many days ago and it already has blooms all over it. It is called Ketchup and Mustard! Does that fit or what?

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Flower Soft cuteness

The Flower Soft team has a challenge today.

 That is to use one of the new Mabel Lucie Atwell stamp sets in a project.  I LOVE these cuties so this was an easy one for me.

I wanted to keep my coloring and colors very simple so I stayed with soft and subtle colors. Her little dress is paper pieced, that is such a fun way to get a pattern on her dress area.

You can check out the other design teams blogs for other ideas, the list it on the side bar of the Flower Soft blog.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Flowers and a Tree

First up, I want to share a card I created to fit a couple challenges.

 The main reason I needed to sit down and start on this card was my new Hero Arts flower stamp, LOVE this stamp!  The birthday sentiment helps it fit the Cas-ual Friday birthday celebration challenge.

 The green zig zag design is a Hero Arts background stamp, I loved the color on color making for a subtle design.  I colored the flowers very simply leaving some of the areas in the flowers without coloring them.

 I went to the retro sketch for this week for the layout of my card.

 And, to share my Card Positioning Systems card for this week.

 Momenta is our sponsor. You find lots of great Momenta products at Micheals and as I have looked around the store I see so many alphabets and other accents that I can see using often.  I was amazed at the wonderful package I received to work with and how it contained so many great pieces that coordinate.

 I loved this tree with sentiment sticker.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

What's Love Got to do with it?

First love - a card created for a Paper Smooches challenge using a sentiment about LOVE plus I used The Play Date Cafe color combo.

 Kim gave a challenge to create a card with just cardstock. Sometimes that is a hard one for me, today it was easier for some reason. I used a piece of glitter cardstock by Core'dinations and cut my card base out with a Cricut cartridge. The cut I used cut the card base and the window opening. I also cut the matching gray frame.

 I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock and placed that behind my window opening.  For my light pink like in the color combo, I stamped the gingham border twice with pink ink.  Next I stamped the rose over that. I did a little bit of accenting with some pink Copic markers and I colred the leaves too.

 Here is The Play Date Cafe combo - isn't it yummy?

 Next up, is my youngest grandson, he is soooo easy to LOVE! He can also be a comedian like in the photo.  I wanted to play along with Cath's Spectacle challenge at Moxie Fab. I took a little artist license with how I interpreted the challenge!  I thought this photo would be a pretty cut focus on a card. 

I used some paper tape by Queen & Co to accent my card along with some triangle shapes. I just punched out squares and cut them in half. Easy-peasy!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Some Stamping Love

I just had to do a little playing last night and here is the result.

I wanted to use the Colour Q combo and I also wanted to create something to fit A Blog named Hero challenge.  That color combination is just yummy.

 I used a Hero Arts dot stamp and stamped it with brown ink on brown cardstock and then embossed it with clear embossing powder.  LOVE that subtle dot look.  The A Blog Named Hero challenge is to use words stamps in other say then for the sentiment and I thought that maybe this stamp fit, a heart shape that comes with all of those words on it to look like a portion of a postcard. I had already made the flower from a My Favorite Things die and thought it fit pretty well. 

 Check out my newest border punch by Recollections! COOL!!! The striped piece is a strip of my paper tape that I picked up a Target. 

 Here is the Colour Q combo

 And, I went to the archives at Card Positioning Systems blog to find a sketch that would fit and here it is. Did you know there is a whole treasure trove of sketches there????

 Next off, I want to share my card for this week for Card Positioning Systems

 Skipping Stones Designs is our sponsor. I just loved creating this little scene. All of the stamps are in the one set that I picked to use.

I am most fond of that adorable little quote. The letters are tiny but it stamped well. The clouds are actually the billowy strip stamped twice. I used that same strip to stamp the trees on my hills.

And, I have to share a photo...

 She just loves cuddling in her blankets, it is such a riot how we find her sometimes.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Wishing on a Star by Flower Soft

The Flower Soft blog is showing off some new products this week.  Be sure to check out the Flower soft blog and the other design team members blogs for other idea.

 My card shows off  supplies from the Wishing on a Star collection. The papers come all colored and ready to cut out and use.

The collections come with a few different sentiments, I picked this label.  The label shape with the moon on it is cut out, it is designed to match a Spellbinders Nestabilities. I then cut out the label with the sentiment on it. I added some silver Liquid Peals to some of the stars and some yellow Flower Soft to portions of the moon.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)