Green Thumb + SSS #131

The weather here turned sunny, and I have new gardening gloves!  Time to go outside and get things ready for spring. Whoo-hoo!  But first I had to play along with Catch the Bug challenges here. The March challenge is to create a card with the Green Thumb theme, and I have also used the Stella Says Sketch challenge.  I used a fun Bug digital image and sentiment, and paired it up with some CTMH Splendor paper  (retired). I used the CTMH Artiste Cricut cartridge to cut a grass border from Topiary card stock.  Now I'm in the spirit to go outside.

Perfect Fit Birthday

This quick and simple card uses Perfect Fit Frames 2 and Perfect Fit -Birthday sets.  I cut the frame from Ruby card stock using the Cricut Artiste cartridge. The card stocks and ink colors used are Outdoor Denim and Ruby.  Love the new chevron ribbon!
It's always good to have some guy-friendly birthday cards in the stash.

Focus on a Friend

Loving the new stamps available with the Spring-Summer catalog from Close To My Heart.
This fun stamp and sentiment are only $6.95.  Want one? Click on "Shop with Me' on the sidebar and search My Acrylic Stamps, Card Chatter- Focus on A Friend, A 1138.
I used some papers from a special campaign last year, Sunset and Lagoon, and a Buttercup card stock base.  The eyeglasses were cut from another fun set (I'll be posting cards using them soon), called Puns of Praise, and I added Liquid Glass to the lenses.  This will be a card we make at my workshop tomorrow.

Basket of Good Luck

At Designed2Delight - Delightful Inspiration from the Heart- here you can see the lovely basket digi collection. It is the stamp set for February's stamp of the month challenge.  I colored the image with Prisma pencils, and  paired it with an old Irish blessing.  The card stock is Close To My Heart Black and Sweet Leaf.

Bunny

I am really photo challenged...I built the white photo box...but I guess my light is too yellow.  Ugh.

But on to happier things.  Although my bunny looks not so great in my photo, he is REALLY cute!
I CASED the idea from this wonderful blog called Cricut With Heart  If you have a Cricut, you must check this blog out. She has wonderful projects and gives all the measurement directions. Her bunny (superbly photographed) just spoke to me.  I hopped upstairs and made several right away!

  Bunny is white, and I used Cotton candy for his nose and feet pads.  Grey baker's twine for whiskers, and some  retired Background paper for inside ears.  Opened he has a pouch for a gift card or two miniature candy bars.  I think we should also add a cotton ball to behind.

Fabulous You

Some days nothings looks the way you thought it would...

 

I've used a new stamp from a CTMH set, Fabulous You, and a pattern from Make It From Your Heart. 

Bedtime for Bear and Sketch #6



Another lovely digital image found at From the Heart Stamps and their i {heart} sketches challenge.
A friend just had her second little boy, and this will go to her. It really should have been a square card, and yet I think it works as a standard.  I made the 'quilt' background panel adhering small squares to graph paper before running it through the Swiss Dot embossing folder. Hard to see the embossing in this photo, but it really does add to the quilt feeling and matches the dots in the image.


Image: From the Heart, Bedtime for Bear
Papers+ Inks: CTMH, Clementine packet; Twilight and Sorbet card stock and stars Cricut cut from Silver Glitter paper; metallic pen, silver twine.

 I used the Angel sentiment in the inside