Gratitude Flower

Well I am back again tonight for another fun card. I combined some fun challenges for this beauty. The first challenge is the Make it Monday challenge. I made this flower with the balloon die. Izzy used some for her flower as well. I used the Color Q challenge this week as well. It is hard to see, but the red is on all of the flower edges.

For the sketch, I used the clean and simple card sketch found here. Lastly, I will be entering this beauty in the Simon Says flower challenge. Wow, that was a lot. Have a wonderful night.
It's a good life!
Terri E.

Bloom ghost stamping

Have you been able to check out the MIM video this week? It was really neat! Here is my take on the challenge. I also did this for the online clean and simple class, a one layer card.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Make it Sunday LOL!

I am so happy to have had some time to make a fun card and get it uploaded as well. I have no idea why, but I kept getting really odd angles with this card when I was taking pictures with it, Oh well.

I made this for three challenges this week. It is for PTI's make it monday challenge, CASual Friday/Clean and Simple sketch challenge and the color challenge from Colour Q. Does it get any better?

I really like how the colors just popped off the page with this one. I then added 2 of the hand colored ribbons and the button as a focal accent. The ribbon was made by coloring with copic markers. The only thing I realized is that I don't have a plain old ruler in my craft room. Really, how could that be when I have every other gadget under the moon LOL!

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Make it Monday teamwork

Yet again, we are Making it Monday on Saturday LOL! For this one I combined a few challenges and I had help from Izzy. First and foremost, I used the Make it Monday challenge from Papertreyink. This week we were challenged to use diminishing appetures (I am sure that is not spelled correctly, but I will link PTI's site up.). I combined that with the Clean and Simple sketch challenge and the Dirty Girls challenges that are going on right now. Crazy huh!

Without further ado, here is my beauty

Can you see where Izzy helped out? She colored the background and had a blast doing it. I used the limitless layers lager size dies to cut out the center piece. My only thing I am working through with this technique is how my cutting plates are leaving lines on my paper. If anyone has any tips on that I would appreciate it.

Also, if any of you ladies knows a stampin up demo in the Coal City area, I would love to have their info.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Framed Card Birthday

I LOVED the make it monday from PTI this week. LOVED it so much that when I saw the challenge on Clean and Simple I knew I needed to get up to the stamping room asap!

Here is my creation
I also used the color combo found here by color cue. Boy I am missing all of my challenges that I used to have so much time for. Maybe I will get back to that one day.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Flying fall birthday

Well it is challenge central here at our home. For this one, I used the color throwdown challenge and the sketch from clean and simple

Here is the falling leaves pop up element

Here is my handwritten sentiment

Since I am a blogging slacker, this was supposed to go up 3 weeks ago LOL! Needless to say these challenges are all gone, hopefully you will still find something fun here.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: Ippity Right Where you Should Be
Paper: Kraft, dusty durango, so saffron, old olive, chocolate chip, stampers select white

Ink: Choclate chip

Accessories: terra cotta tile ribbon, 1 3/4 circle punch, glue dots

Butterflies

This card was made for Cammie's card drive found here. It is a wonderful card drive for those who care for patients of Alzheimers. I feel that nrusing is a very underappreciated carrier and if I can send a card and give a smile, that is fabulous for me!

For this card, I combined a few challenges the first is the sketch from the CAS blog. I love their sketches.
Here is the fun challenge from embellish magazine.

Here is my card

This is also for the stamp tv challenge to make your background and your main image from the same stamp set. As you all know I LOVE background stamps, so it was challengeing to find a set that I could use for a background and the main image as well. I used copic markers to color on the back side of the vellum.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are SU unless noted

Stamps: GKD Take Flight

Ink: Basic Grey, Momento Black

Paper: Stampers select white, cardstock vellum, basic grey, basic black

Accessories: Copic markers, mat stack #4, lemon zest ribbon, stampin dimensionals, glue dots

Esty inspired

Well, I have another fun new challenge blog that I found called Estyinspired challenge. It is amazing how many there are! This one is inspired from esty the blog found here Cathy Walters.
Clean and Simple had this fabulous card last week as a fun challenge.

Here is my card

Isn't this card so much fun? I really loved the whimsy. The only thing I haven't figured out is the impression plates. I LOVE them, but I don't always get the depth of impression that I would want with these. Any tips about this would be appreciated.

The clouds and balloons are dies as well. Love them. The stiching I added to touch up the card.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are PTI unless noted

Stamps: Up, Up and Away

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Stampers select white, Aqua mist, Kasier crafts dsp

Accessories: Polka Dot impression dies, cloud and balloon dies, white gel pen, su stampin dimensionals

Happy Birthday LeAnne

I am so excited to share one of my Colour Q friends birthday celebrations. Happy Birthday LeAnne!!! What better way than to use this weeks Colour Q challenge
I combined this with the Clean and Simple sketch

Here is my card

One thing I love about Colour Q is it gets me loving neglected colors. I don't have the new Su in colors, so I used appricot appeal and I am in love! Okay probably just with this color combo, but love it none the less LOL!

This was an easy card to put together. I used my Mod Squad (I am loving this right now as well) to make the "dsp" by stamping the one image in all 4 colors. The sentiment is embossed with white on the bottom. I finished the card by corner rounding and adding the old olive ribbon.

Here is the next person on the blog hop this morning

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: Coming later, I have a little one who needs my attention

Thank you Clean and Simple

I am in love with the Clean and Simple sketches. If you have been following the recent cards, you will see I am so far gone that I have gone back to the stacks so to speak with old sketches as well.
Here is my version.

I used this for one of the splitcoast stampers dirty dozen challenges. That has been tons of fun as well. They have 33 challenges total and if you complete all of those then you will have your name put in for a drawing for some goodies. I am not sure that I will get them all done, but I have enjoyed the ones that I have been able to do.

One thing that I am glad I did was finally break out my Through the trees stamp set, even if it was only for the birds LOL! I adore PTI leaves set and have yet to put it in the cart. I must say I am so pleased to finally realize that my blooming button bits also has some fun leaves that will get me through until I am able to get the other.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: PTI Through the Trees, Take a Bough

Ink: Versa mark, Early Espresso, Real Red, Delightful Daffidol, PTI Ripe avacado, simply chartrouse, new leaf

Paper: Basic Grey, PTI Stampers select whtie

Accessories: PTI lemon tart ribbon

Little bundles!

It is fun, fun, fun here today! My cousin, my sister and myself all had babies this year all 5 weeks apart. Cece is right in the middle, well today we had our first photo shoot with the three. Cece(7 weeks) is the lower left, Logan(12 weeks) is the lower right and Ellie(2 weeks) is the upper.
Now onto the fun card for Ellie I used this color combo from the pink couch

I used an old sketch from Clean and Simple

Here is my card

This was for baby Ellie. The funny part was I remembered to bring the card for photo day, but forgother gift! What a stinking nut. Anyway, this was also made for the CAS-tastic Challenge to use a few design elements. I used masking, spounging and paper piercing as well. Hope you enjoy.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Guidelines 2, signature greetings

Paper: Stampers select whtie, true black
Ink:true black, raspberry fizz, orange zest
Accessories:Matt pack, paper piercer, pink passion marker, spounge

Thanks for the lift!

I am so excited to be able to participate in the SPCC again. I adore this color combo and couldn't wait to try it out. I got my SU order in and haven't played with it yet. That is one of the things I LOVE about color challeges. They usually get me using my colors in different and fun ways. Here is this weeks combo I combined this with an older Clean and Simple sketch. Another thing that has been fun is going to some of my favorite challenge sites and looking at older challenges. Here is that site if you would like to do that as well.
Here is my creation
As I was thinking about this card I read the Moxie Fab World Blog and found out that there are tons of fun challenges there this week. They are exploring different styles of cards. I thought this might work for the Fun and Cute challenge

So I started with my Early Espresso from SU and stamped with Polka Dot Basics 2 with vesra marks so that I could emboss with clear embossing powder. I then stamped some fun clouds on the bashful blue card stock and the kite from the PTI set Up, Up and Away. I haven't used that nearly as much as I like, but I am going to work on it LOL!

I had to stamp the kite again on white so that I could add the tangerine tango to the card. I finished with the sentiment and then added the buttons. This is another of my many thank yous that need to go out. I might start a count down soon, it seems to motivate my daughter, so maybe it will be motivating for me as well.

It's a good life!
Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are SU unless noted
Stamps: PTI Up, Up and Away, PTI Polka Dot Basics 2
Ink: Versa Mark, PTI Snow White, Tangerine Tango, Early Espresso
Paper: Early Espresso, Bashfull Blue, PTI Stampers select white
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Heat gun, stampin dimensionals, glue dots, basic gray buttons, dmc floss

Embellish clean and simple

I have been needing to craft lately. I think it is because the new baby will be here in a week and I need to keep busy. So I finally made some time to get the embellish challenge done. It has been too long, but I was really excited about using butterflies for some reason LOL!
I paired it with the Clean and Simple sketch. I'm not sure how clean and simple my card is, but it worked well with the sketch LOL!

Here is my card

Well after last night looking at all of the different ways to use felt, I just knew that I had to break into some of my other colors that I have been "saving" from PTI. It really is a nice product and it does add such a fun dimension to the card.

I found this dsp from SU in my stash. I am determined to use some of this fun product I keep collecting LOL! It was kraft and black, so perfect for this challenge. The butterflies are die cut with the top notes butterfly die and the sizzlets butterfly die as well. I liked the duo of butterflies.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Stamps: Round and Round PTI anniversary set

Ink: Momento Black

Paper: PTI Spring Moss, dsp, basic black

Accessories: PTI simply chartrouse felt, PTI large scallop die, PTI black satin ribbon, big notes butterfly die, sizzlet butterfly dies, bling, stampin dimensionals, glue dots

Happy unisex Birthday

I am back with a fun card that I made combining 2 challenges. The first is from Clean and Simple sketch challenge #88. The second challenge was the Finally Friday challenge to make a unisex card. I think this will work for that. What a good idea it is to have a stack. Mine has been depleted, but I can't wait to start working on building it up again.
Here is my card

Isn't that fun? I had my cosmo cricket papers out, so I used some of those. I actually purchased material girl in the normal 12X12 pack and then I got 2 of the 6X6 packets for the other lines. These are papers from that line. I thought the numbers worked and the colors are going to work for anyone. The ribbon is crushed curry polka dot ribbon backwards so that it is just plain grosgrain. I love it when a ribbon has more than one look.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Stampin Up unless noted

Paper: Sage Shadow, Cosmo Cricket

Acccessories: chipboard white letters Michaels, white gel pen, crushed curry ribbon, corner rounder chomper

Happy Mother's Day!

I am so excited to finally get some fun stamping time! I have been working on my cards for Mother's Day and Father's Day since the baby is coming in the beginning of June. I am so sorry there will be a lot of those in the near future.

I have combined some fun challenges for this card. The first is from Colour Q. These colors were tough for me, but I do love the end result.
When ever I have a tough color combo it seems I am drawn to clean and simple sketches. This was perfect for this week's Clean and Simple sketch.

On to my card

A close up of the flower element.

Finally I was able to put this flower together with the Stamping Sisters in Christ flower challenge. I really wanted to bling it up and add the fun button and ribbon element. Don't you love the new PTI dies? it sure makes the flowers and really every image they have a matching set for shine. I must also admit that the less cutting I have to do the better LOL! Do you see the fun background? It is the first impression plate that I have purchased from PTI and I love it. I couldn't get all the sets I wanted this month, so I went with the plate for the wood grain. Now that I have it the set is on the list as well.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are PTI unless noted

Stamps: Beautiful boutique 2, Mother

Ink: SU baroque burgandy, tangerine tango, green galore

Paper: Stampers select white

Accessories: Orange Zest ribbon, wood grain imipression die, flower #1 & #2 die, su 2 way glue, su dazzaling diamonds, yellow button, dmc floss, su glue dots, su stampin dimensionals

Happy Mother's Day

I am finally getting around to not only putting some fun cards together, but also getting then uploaded LOL! I have combined a few challenges for this beauty. The first is the color challenge from Colour Q.
And this fun sketch from the fun Clean and Simple challenge

Finally here is my creation.

Isn't this card tons of fun! I made this beauty for one of Izzy's Great Grandma's. I used the fun cut out flowers from PTI and then stamped the great flowers to add some pop. The white/ruby red piece was popped up with stampin dimensionals. I added the bling to the center of each flower for some pop.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are Papertrey Ink unless noted

Stamps: Beautiful boutiques 2, women of life

Paper: Stampers select white, SU Ruby Red

Ink: SU ruby Red, SU regal rose, SU bermuda bay, SU pumpkin pie

Accessories: Flowers #3 die, stampin dimensionals, bling

Praying for you

Well this is a fun card that I made with some challenges in mind a few weeks ago, but getting a photo and putting it up was too much LOL! I am really liking all of the color challenges that are out there right now. Too much fun! This one is from Colour Q and it was just the right amount of brightness.
I had also just stumbled upon the Clean and Simple challenge blog and it was screaming my name. I really like all of the sketches even though I haven't been playing along the best right now, LOL!

Here is my creation

I can never get enough praying for you cards. This was supposed to get in the mail for Taylor's drive, but it never made it, so now it is a welcomed card in my stash. I adore this little dragon fly that I haven't used since her dragon fly challenge. Aren't the polka dots fun?

I used a 1 in punch to get these circles and then scored the paper and poped up the top with stampin dimensionals to add a little bit of fun. Hopefully Izzy and I will have a day of stamping, organizing and creating today, cross your fingers that this will actually happen.

It's a good life!

Terri E.

Deets: All supplies are PTI unless noted

Stamps: Wishing you, Scattered Showers additions

Ink: Basic Black, SU tempting tourqoise, SU Crushed Curry, SU Old Olive, SU Tangerine Tango

Paper: Stampers select white

Accessories: SU 1inch circle punch, SU stampin dimensionals, scor pal