ME4Y Colour Challenge

This week are to make a card using a colour theme. I'll show you the 

picture in a few, but first things first, here is my card.

I love this little guy. I haven't done many boy cards but this little

fella reminded me of my son's when they were little, going fishing 

with their dad. 

Doesn't he just look like he has the world by the tale? I stamped him on

Gina K 120# card stock. I love this stuff. I just recently ran across it

and decided to get some. It doesn't bleed through when you use your

markers and it blends your colours perfectly. Then I bordered him on 

chocolate brown.

As you can see my background paper has all the colour of our challenge

card, so that was easy. I just got this stamp and absolutely love the saying.

I also bordered the sentiment with chocolate brown.

And what little boy doesn't love frogs. I just love these guys and

they happen to be in the right colour. 

Now for the challenge card.

And I always add alittle something to the  inside just to

bring it to life  as well,

Isn't he cute. Well I hope you have enjoyed my card for this

weeks challenge. I look forward to seeing everyones cards.

Happy Scrappin.

Card using a recycled material

This weeks challenge was to make our card using some kind of recycled material.

So I found a thin piece of cardboard and used my water color pencils, colored it

all in this blue and with a slightly damp paint brush, brushed the color which turns

into watercolor. It's really cool how these work. Then I ran it through my crimper

to get the corigated look. I wanted something to sit my jar of bugs on so I used one

of my Sizzix dies to cut the red then placed my jar of bugs on top. I used Lady bugs

and tied RRR ribbon around the lid and backed my sentiment with the same color red.

I usually do a longer post on these but got behind. Life happens.

RRR - challenge-46-black-white-and-one other color

Black & White Challenge

I love using a palette that is simple and clean. I decided to use the color Yellow for

my choice of color. Here is my card.

I had this beautiful grosgrain ribbon in my ribbon box so it made my choice very

simple. I used my Sizzix small dots embossing folder to emboss the bottom half of

my card. I placed the ribbon over the mid way part and left the top half plain. My

ThankYou stamp is by Stampendous. I used my Creative memories circle cutter to cut

 out the sentiment and the black circle that frames it. The butterfly really looks like a

I stamped it, but it is actually  a cutout from Martha Stewarts punches. I love how the

black and white paper looks on this butterfly.

For the inside, I used that same butterfly cutter to place a butterfly in the corner

and the matching border punch for the bottom. Can you tell I love butterflies.

Hope you enjoyed my card.

Made Especially For You Challenge: Create a card featuring three flowers

Weekly challenge.

 I am always excited to get to work on my newest card challenge,

and this week is no different. Our challenge was to make a card with

three flowers. I new that I was going to use my Tim Holtz flower maker.

I just love how much demention these flowers have. So here is my

take on this weeks challenge.

I decided to make  a Thank you card since I am getting low on those.

My backgound paper is just a piece of scrap that was in my scrap box. Just love

that box :) I used one of my Martha Stewart edge cutters and placed a simple

edge around the entire card. I had precute the square that I placed in the center and ran

it through one of my embossing folders. Although it is hard to see, it has vines

and birds on it. Then I used more scrap paper to make the white vines. On top of

the flowers I hot glued silk flowers on top and finally cut a banner and stamped the

Thank you sentiment.

This view gives you a closer look at the edging  and the Thank You banner.

And for the inside, never wanting to leave it blank, I used my background paper

and topped it off with a piece of left over pink.

One last look of my card.

Die Cuttin Divas: Spring Colors Challenge

Their challenge this week is a....

Color Challenge:

Let's use Pastels (light pink, baby blue, soft yellow, and pale green)

     I haven't made many baby cards lately and when I saw this
challenge it just said "BABY" to me. I dont' use

                                        many pastel colors in my cards but I must say, I do love
how this came out. Here is my challenge card.

I love this striped paper. I think I have had it for several years and it just had all the color

requirements for this card. I cut two fancy swirls with me Sizzix and placed them under the

scalloped ovel for alittle more demention.

 The sentiment is a Jolenes sticker set that I

    have had along time as well. It so much fun digging

through all the scrappy stuff that I have stashed

here and there to find the perfect thing I am looking for.

I used a Jolenes border sticker for the bottom. And for the inside

I always make it at pretty as the outside. Take a look here.

For this scallop I cut one out of the front background paper, then cut another

one out of the pink. Then with my oval cutter I cute the loops off the pike

and layed it ontop of the pastel striped one. I love the look. And of course

to finish it off I had to add another little Angel. I hope you enjoy this

card as much I as I did making it. Here's one last look.

Made Especially For You Challenge

Create a card inspired buy this sketch,

Here is my take on that sketch.

I so  do love my scrappin bag. Evey piece of paper on  my little gal card came from

from scrap bag. At this rate, I'll be using all of my scraps It's such fun digging around

to see what I can find. Anyway, enough rambling. As you can see I wanted this to be bright

and cheery so I chose Yellow for the background.

For the 3 stripe down the card I used my new Martha Stewart lattis punch that I just got. I am goin

to love these punches. HSN has a special going a couple of weeks ago, where you buy a set of 4

punches and this was my first set. Can't wait for the other three to arrive..So, for the swirls and flow I

used my sizzix die to cut the swirls and them with some precut florals, I chose some colors that went with

the pattern paper.

 I used the bottom end of the pattern paper for my strip. Cut an oval, embossed it  and

cut the get well sentiment. My little girl is done with my  new Copic markers. I know I'm gonna

love them. I need another set but I have to wait. They are quite spendy. Isn't she sooo

 very cute with her red hair though.

Come back again and checkout my next project.

ALSO! Don't forget about this month's lucky link-up! Throughout the month of April, you have unlimited opportunities to win the Wild Card cartridge being given away by me , Pam from Scrappin Fab Pam. Here are the guidelines for the giveaway:

- You will receive one entry for every card you enter in our weekly challenges (you can enter as many cards as you want for each challenge as long as they each have their own post on your blog)

- You will receive one entry for liking the Made Especially For You Facebook page

- You will receive one entry for every friend you get to link up to one of our challenges (your friend must let us know in their post that they have linked up because of you, otherwise we can't count it)

The winner of the cartridge will be randomly chosen and announced on Monday April 30th.

- This upcoming Friday, April 13th, the Made Especially For You design team and the Creative Cutter Room design team are teaming up for a one day Rockin' Robin-themed blog hop. Stop by to join in the fun and enter to win prizes from our multiple sponsors!

CFC- 47

This weeks challenge over at http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/ was to create an Easter Card with something that you would find in an Easter Basket. I just happened to have this stamp that had two
of those items that you would find in a basket. A bunny and an Egg as well as grass. So perfect for this
challenge.

Here is my card.

I found this back ground paper in my stash box. I cut my scalloped retangle frame from Sizzix to sit my oval

on top of so that my rabbit would really pop. The rabbit is a stamp from Stampin Up.

The trim I used is also from my scrap box. I picked it up at a garage sale this past summer and I love the way it looks like grass. And the lovely bow is from Reasonable Ribbons.

The Happy Easter is another stamp from Stampin Up.

For the inside I just cut two ovals one larger than the other and back them for the journaling. And for the bottom of my card I used alittle more of the ribbon lace to sit my little rabbit on. This one will be hard to give away, but I have the perfect person.

I am also entering this card in these challenges

http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/

http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/

 

And if you are a Cricut lover be sure to come back on Saturday for our

DO YOU SPEAK CRICUT reviews.

ALSO! Don't forget about this month's lucky link-up! Throughout the month of April, you have unlimited opportunities to win the Wild Card cartridge being given away by me , Pam from Scrappin Fab Pam. Here are the guidelines for the giveaway:

You will receive one entry for every card you enter in our weekly challenges (you can enter as many cards as you want for each challenge as long as they each have their own post on your blog)

- You will receive one entry for liking the  Made Especially For You Facebook page

- You will receive one entry for every friend you get to link up to one of our challenges (your friend must let us know in their post that they have linked up because of you, otherwise we can't count it)

The winner of the cartridge will be randomly chosen and announced on Monday April 30th.



Do You Speak Cricut Saturday- Lovely Floral

Do You Speak Cricut Saturday---Lovely Floral

Welcome to the 5th week of Do You Speak Cricut Saturdays! I don't know about the

rest of you but I am finding this to be very helpful. I have had my Cricut Espressions

2 for over two years now and I am still learning and having these Cricut reviews has been

wonderful. This week I have chosen to do my review on the

 Lovely Floral cartridge.

This cartridge offers many designs, shapes, fonts and sayings. It  has over

50 designs some with layering. I have used this cartridge for making wedding cards

to baby cards and allot more in between. It is a very versatile cartridge.

Like some of the other cartridges this one doesn't offer allot of special features. But what

it does offer is fantastic. Some of the sayings that this one offers is, and this is my

favorite one, "Scrap Queen", plus Home Sweet Home, Smile, Thank You, Handsome

Fellow, Create and much, much more.

Sometimes the most beautiful parts of a design are just the accents. The Cricut® Lite Lovely Floral cartridge is filled with tags, flowers, and phrases that are great additions to scrapbook pages, home decor, cards, and other projects. You’ll also love the font that complements the cheerful theme of the cartridge. So with that all said, here is my card creation using the wonderful

LOVELY FLORAL CARTRIDGE.

Make sure you come back next Saturday for another Cricut review. And don't forget

that every Tuesday we do a special technique tutorial.

Made Especially For You weekly challenge: Easter card with digi

This weeks challenge was to make an Easter card using a DIGI image.

I personally love Easter and found this challenge extremely fun. So

here is my DIGI and the card I made using it.

The background paper is a raised polka dot in all the colors that I was using on my card. I cut

my scalloped circle using my Sizzix stackable die then ran it through my small dots embossing

folder. The purple in the back was also ran through my small dots embossing folder.

I used a Jolenes Easter dimensional sticker for my sentiment. Using my swirl die, I used white

 to make the swirl then cut it into two pieces and placed it behind the sentiment. I had these iridescent butterflies that I thought really topped this card off.

I used the Egg DIGI for my card. I just love how it turned out. Here's one more look at

my finished card.

I have also entered this card at

 http://perfectsentimentschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/04/psc26-easter-bling.html

http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

And if you are a Cricut lover be sure to come back on Saturday for our

DO YOU SPEAK CRICUT reviews.



Really Reasonable Ribbons

Challenge #45 - Buttons & Bows Theme

This weeks challenge is called Buttton and Bows. Here is what I chose to

make for this challegnge.

For the back ground of this card I used a double sided paper and I can't even tell

you were I got it. I have this habit of taking all the paper out of the books they come in

and putting them into colors. I have since stopped doing that so I can tell where the

paper came from.. Anyway,I have this really cool Martha Stewart edge cutter that makes these really nice swirls along the edge of the paper, then I used my Cricut and my Picturesque card to make the

fancy swirls. I purchased this almost sheer ribbon from Joanns sometime ago and decided to make

this large loop along the edge.

For the flowers I used my Pansy stamp, colored them with Prisma colored pencils

and topped them with a button. I hope you'll come back and checkout another

scrappinfab card.

CAS-ual Fridays

CAS-ual Friday Challenge 46

With all this rain this week, it wasn't hard for me to chose my theme for this weeks challenge.

Here is my take on this weeks challenge.

I used your standard sized invitation card and went searching in my

scrap bag to find the pretty blue that I used for the back ground. I

ran that through my small dots embossing folder and my BigKick

machine.

With my Fiskars dots and scallops die cutter, I edged my card.

On my computer I made the "Spring Showers" and cut it out to look like

a cloud.

I made the umbrella and stamped the little duck in rubber boots. I used

my Prisma colored pencils to color them and then I had these really

cool jell rain drops from Imaginations that I placed randomely on the page.

With all th rain that we are having here in Oregon, I think the card

speaks volumes.