Quick birthday card for a friend who loves baseball.  The image is a Paper Pretties image and I used copic markers to color the image.  

Have a great week.
Enjoy, Delia

NSD challenges

I finally complete the last three NSD challenges.  The first challenge I completed was the rounding the corners challenge.  So here is my birthday card with some rounded corners. 

I like how it came out.  Cardstock is SU along with the Stamps and embossing.  The Designer paper is DCWV I believe, I need to double check.  The cute gold and silver embellishment is a button I found a while back and I also used mini buttons.


The second challenge was to make a pin. This was a first for me and I was thrilled to try. I have hundreds of pearls and crystals from making my wedding veil 13 years ago. Nice to finally put those things to good use.  I will be making more in the future.  Maybe some as pennants or tags.  This was fun and sooo easy. 

The third was a color challenge.  Here are the swatch colors.

 For this card I used Paper Pretties birthday fairy Bella and colored her using copic markers.  SU paper, DCWV and rhinestones. I love this fairy she is a doll. 

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you all have a great day. 

Delia

Basketball Cards with Cricut Cartridge

It's been a while since I posted, but I really don't like to craft in the winter. My craft room is in the back of the house which is the main entrance and it is always cold. We had two day of beautiful weather and I was able to hang out and make two cards for Logan's basketball coaches. I used Sportsmania cricut cartridge. It was so much fun, I did a little stamping using Stampin up canvas background and Paper Pretties basketball stamp, pass, shoot, score. Here are the cards:

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!!

Delia

Back to School card

What a week! Here is the card I promised to put up a couple of days ago. For this card I used the "back to school" digi from Paper Pretties . Logan gave this card and the gift below to his new teacher. He was thrilled to have something for her, because as he stated, "4th grade is incrediably awesome". The only problem he foresees is that he will have homework to do on the weekends.



I used the Paper Pretties digi "back to school", SU cardstock, DP, ribbon, bakery thread (thanks Heather), nesti and Copic markers.

R24, R29, R39, R59, G82, G67, E33, E39, YG03, YG11, RV11, R81, C1, C3, B24, B26, B32, YR65, YR68, B60.

Have a great weekend!!

Delia

Teacher gift

Logan starts school tomorrow and I wanted to send a gift to his new 4th grade teacher. I ordered this perfect "back to school" digi plus sentiment from Paper Pretties and gave my copic markers some love.




I used the Paper Pretties digi "back to school", SU cardstock, ribbon, nesti and even kept track of the Copic colors I used, here is the list:

R24, R29, R39, R59, G82, G67, E33, E39, YG03, YG11, RV11, R81, C1, C3, B24, B26, B32, YR65, YR68, B60.

Now to work on getting a card done, I hope you all have a great Labor Day!!


Delia

Logan's 3rd grade DOUBLE layout

With school approaching I wanted to show something school related so I took a one page layout of Logan's first day in the 3rd grade and made it a double layout. You will recognize the first page, I posted in my blog a while ago. Here are the pages:

This page was a lot of fun to make with the stamps, rub-ons, paper clips and Cricut letters. Enjoy!!!

Delia

Blog Hop to benefit Cystic Fibrosis

If you have arrived here from Jacquie's awesome blog then you are on the right track. If you started here or got lost along the way, feel free to go back and start at the Paper Pretties blogs. Today I am proud to be a blog hopper for an excellent cause. My friend Heather, owner of Paper Pretties has commissioned Joni Stringfield to design these awesome digital Easter babies. Heather is donating all the proceeds from the sale of these images (minus paypal fees) to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In case you are not familiar with Cystic fibrosis.....

Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes mucus to build up and clog some of the organs in the body, particularly the lungs and pancreas. When mucus clogs the lungs, it can make breathing very difficult. The thick mucus also causes bacteria (or germs) to get stuck in the airways, which causes inflammation (or swelling) and infections that lead to lung damage. Mucus also can block the digestive tract and pancreas. The mucus stops digestive enzymes from getting to the intestines. The body needs these enzymes to break down food, which provides important nutrients to help people grow and stay healthy. People with cystic fibrosis often need to replace these enzymes with medicine they take with their meals and snacks, which helps them digest food and get proper nutrition.

For this hop, I made a layout using the Easter babies Easter basket and chicks. I adore these little chicks, notice the one at the top looking sideways at the title. I just thought he was too cute and had to use him. Here is my page:

For this page I used Paper Pretties digital Easter babies, DP Imaginisce, SU cardstock and punch, Martha Stewart punch, copic markers, glitter, Cricut, Sizzix Lollipop letters, chipboard, glitter dots, flowers, ribbon and Microsoft Word.

This was a very easy page to make, probably because I just came off of a crop weekend and I was still in Crop mode. What I like about digital stamps is that I have freedom. What do I mean, when I get a digital image I save it into a folder I made on my desktop. Then when I need it I open up the image in paint.net (free program that I use) size my image or flip it to get the mirror image. Flipping the image gives me the option of adding the image to the right or left side of my scrapbook page. It really gives me a freedom I never had before. Of course I also love that I can make the image as big or small as I want to fit the space I have on my layout.

Feel free to send me a note if you have any questions. Your next and final stop on this blog train is the amazingly talent Heather's blog. As always, thanks for stopping by!! Delia

Sophia card for two challenges

Here is a card I made for two challenges: Paper Pretties(any glitter) and Fussy and Fancy(paper piecing or embossing). For the Paper Pretties challenge I used the glitter dots and for the Fussy and Fancy challenge I paper pieced Sophia's dress.

This was a fun quick card because I really wanted to finish a layout. Will have to share it with you sometime soon. Here is my card:

For this card I used Paper Pretties Swing on by Sophia and Elegant Sentiments , CS, DP, Nestabilities, MS punch, Glitter dots, Rhinestones, copic marker and Got Prints flowers.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope everyone has a great week!!!

Delia

Paper Pretties challenge PWC139

This week's Paper Pretties challenge was a sketch challenge. Here is my card:
For my card I used the adorable Paper Pretties image Celebrate Sophia. I cut her out using the CM circle cutter. I used DP - not sure of the maker, SU cardstock, ribbon and Red Rhinestones.


Thanks for coming on by, have a great week!!

Delia

Autism card

This is my last entry for the crop out diabetes challenges. This challenge was posted by Clare and the challenge was to scrap a health issue that I care about. There are many causes I care about especially if children are involved. The hardest part of this challenge was chosing just one health issue. I finally decided to make a card to represented autism. I don't have stamps on autism so I went out and bought puzzle pieces and used the colors of autism.

I hope you like the card.

For this card I used SU cardstock, puzzle pieces from ACMoore, Butterfly and xoxo image from Paper pretties stamps, flower, storybook cricut for the green leaves, Rhinestone, ribbon, sentiment typed in Word using Cooldots font.

Thanks for looking,

Delia

Paper Pretties Hop for a Cure

My second post today!! I know totally amazing but that is what happens when you have two days off because school is closed because of snow and I can't get to work. Here is another suprise, I also finished a layout for this hop but the lighting is poor and the picture was horrible. I will try and get a better photo tomorrow.

The Paper Pretties challenge for the Crop out Diabetes was to make a card or project for a child. I love this challenge, I have been waiting to for an excuse to use my Skater Zac image. Here is the card:

For this card I used Paper Pretties image Skater Zac, SU cardstock, Black Scalloped paper DCWV, DP Basic Grey Oliver, Glitter dots, copic markers and star embossing folder.

I love this card, I hope you do too. Have a great week.

Delia

Spring card for two challenges

Here is my card for the Crop out Diabetes and Paper Pretties Challenge. Crop out Diabetes has a hop going until midnight Feb 5th. All you have to do is hop along with the gang and complete the challenge and donate to JDRF and you could win some great prizes. It's for a great cause!!!

Paper Pretties challenge this past Wednesday was a sewing Challenge. Did I pull out my sewing machine...nah, to hard to do with the kids around. So what I did was make the holes using a guide and then hand stitched the yellow around part of the card.

For this card I used the Paper Pretties image Swing on by Sophia, I paper pieced Sophia's dress and used copic markers, DP is Prima marketing, white cardstock, SU barely banana and lace ribbon, color me crazy flowers and lemon pearls.

Thanks for dropping by, have a great week!!

Unique Fold/Non-Traditional Fold Challenge Card

I completed this card yesterday and although I can't find my memory card for my camera, my camera allows 3 shots to it's internal memory. So I was able to get a few shots of the card. This week's Paper Pretties challenge was to make a card with a a unique or non-traditional fold. So I found this card design online. It is different and I had fun figuring out how to fold it and design it.

Here is my card:I used Paper Pretties Love Fairy Anna image along with sentiment and flourish . The circle was faux fun circles from Waltzing Mouse stamp. I used DP, SU cardstock and punch, copics, pastry doily sponged with SU Ruby Red ink, glue pen, shear ribbon and glitter.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great week.

A Card!!! PWC135

Today schools were closed and it snowed about 6 inches here, so I called into work and told them I was taking a personal day. The roads were really bad and with an hour commute, driving was not what I wanted to do today. So I saved myself some major stress and time and just stayed home.

So what do you do on a free snow day, you play in the snow, color with the kids, cook and find time to craft. Today I was able to get some time to complete this weeks Paper Prettie Challenge. This weeks challenge was a sketch challenge. You can find the sketch here and here is my card:

Isn't she adorable? For this card I used SU cardstock and DP. I used Paper Prettie's Garden Fairy Katie for the main image. For the sentiment I used two Paper Pretties stamp sets. For the oval I used elegant sentiments and for the words I used the sentiment for Love Fairy Anna which I colored one word at a time to get them separated. I really like how that came out. I also used Colorbok rhinestones, Recollections flowers and chocolate pearls. I colored Fairy Katie with Copic markers and I also used pink colored pencils. Why doesn't copic have a pretty light pink? Like SU's Pink Pirouette, I love that color.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card. I hope you all have a great weekend. Feel free to join in our the challenge, you might win yourself a free stamp.

Hugs to all!!

Christmas Exchange Card PWC132

I made this card for my friend Cammy. Cammy was part of the Christmas exchange swap group where you send a card to one person and in return one person sends you a card. I also made this card for this week's Paper Pretties challenge. The challenge was to make a boy or masculine card.

For this card I used PP image Sledding Cooper, colored him in with Copic markers, used hardware from Making memories, Pearls and SU paper and Mi Casa DP. So sorry I am not sure where I got the red DP, had it in my stock for a long time.

As always thanks for stopping by.

Holiday Polly Card - PWC130

Today I made a card for the Paper Pretties weekly challenge. For my card I wanted to make it look like Polly was poking in to say "Merry Christmas". This is what I came up with. Here is the sketch:

and here is my card:

I used SU cardstock, Basic Grey Paper, Paper Pretties Holiday Polly, copic markers, Glitter dots, Glitter and SU ink.

Swap cards and PWC - 126

Today I have for you the Paper Pretties swap cards from the swap I recently hosted. I absolutetly love all the cards and had a great set of ladies joining me!! All the ladies did a fantastic job as I am sure you will agree!!! So here are the cards:

This card was made by Jackie, she used Paper Pretties stamp set Holiday Fairy Meg, if you would like to see more of her awesome cards, you can visit her at her blog.

Virginia made this awesome Halloween card. Virginia used Paper Pretties Witch Sophia and tried her hand at copic markers for the first time. She did an amazing job and I just love how this card came out. Virginia is also my Stamping Up demo and has a SU website.

Cammy made this adorable card. I just love the coordinating colors and LOVE the paper piecing. Those pot-a-dot books just make me smile, I love them. Cammy used Paper Pretties Tis the Season Sophia. Isn't see just beautiful. To see more of Cammy's beautiful work go to her blog.

This card was made by yours truly! I am also using it for the Paper Pretties weekly challenge. This weeks Challenge was a sketch challenge, you can see it at the Paper Pretties Blog. I used Paper Pretties Everyday Lily and adorable paper by SU and Mi Casa. I used Copics to color in the image, Martha Stewart punches, Kaisercraft white Pearls and flowers.

Feel free to let these ladies know what a great job they did. I would like to thank each of them for making this swap so successful. Thanks ladies!!!

Thanks for stopping by and everyone have a great weekend!

Happy Halloween Card PWC124

The Paper Pretties challenge for this week is a color challenge which incorporates purple, green, and orange. So here is the card that I came up with:

For this card I used: Witch Sophia, SU cardstock and DP, Prima DP, doily that I inked black and they clear embossed, copic markers and an embossing folder.

Isn't Witch Sophia adorable, I won her from the Paper Pretties blog hop. Thank you PP ladies, I enjoyed all your cards!! If you would like to participant in this week's PP challenge you could win the Paper Pretties set "Beach Bum Cooper". For more details go to the Paper Pretties Blog.

Thanks for stopping by and everyone have a great weekend!

Happy Birthday Heather!!!

Today is my friend Heather's Birthday!

Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Heather...Happy birhtday to you!!!

Happy Birthday Heather!!!

For Heather's birthday I made her this card.

This is a tent card and I used Paper Pretties Make a wish Sophia, SU cardstock and DP, Green DP is Peaches and Cream not sure of the company, Copic markers, Kaisercraft white pearls, Prima flowers, white ribbon and glitter.

If you would like to wish Heather a Happy Birthday feel free to go to her blog by clicking here and just leave her a post.

Thanks for stopping by and again, Happy Birthday Heather!!!

Hugs

Delia

Happy Autumn Card PWC122

The Paper Pretties Challenge this week was a sketch challenge. With a sketch I usually find making the cards easier but this sketch was thought provoking. Here is the sketch and my autumn card:


For this card I used three Paper Pretties stamp sets. Fall Cooper, Tire Swing Cooper and Falling for you Sophia, these darling are adorable and perfect for this card. I used SU cardstock and ink, the designer paper Basic Grey Max and Whiskers. I used Copic markers and Tropical glitter dots.


If you would like to play along with the Paper Pretties challenge you could win Paper Pretties set Bundle Up Cooper. Just click here to go to the challenge blog.