Hello Friend card

For this card I was inspired by the inspiration challenge for this week at Ruby Rockit. I always love the way paper collections look when they are all laid out together. So I was inspired by the part of the image where the different papers are all together. I chose a collection that I had a bunch of scraps from and used a small square punch for the Create Magazine punch challenge - to cut squares from all of the coordinating papers, then I glued them down in a pattern.Finally I used my sewing machine to sew a zig zag pattern across them.

here is the Ruby Rock-It inspiration piece

The paper on my card is Crate Paper restoration (oh how I loved that line!) the stickers is SRM stickers, the pins are jillibean soup and little yellow bicycle. The trim is may arts.

Map Card

I made this card for the Moxie Fab Map to your heart challenge.

I used an old map with a controlled tear on the edges. I cut the house with my cricut from the Jubilee cartridge. Then I sewed around the edges, stamped the sentiment and wrapped with twine before adhering it over the map with foam tape. The cardstock is Coredinations for a little bit of texture.

Hearts Card

This card is for the Around the House Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. 
For my around the house tool I used my sewing machine. Yes, I mostly use it for scrapbooking now, but it was something that was just around my house before I stole it for my paper crafting. I used it in a unique way by sewing layers of die cut hearts together.
I was also inspired by the Runway Inspired Challenge shown below

I kinda adore this card! I love rainbows! Something about them just makes me happy.

This is also for the Charisma Cardz clean and simple challenge.

To make this card I used my Cricut with the Jubilee cartridge to cut the hearts in various sizes. The papers are from Simple Stories, Jillibean Soup and Bella Blvd. 

Pinterest Color inspiration

I saw this on pinterest and loved the color scheme. I couldn't get it out of my head. So when we went to get our hair braided in key west, I chose colors for the thread and beads that mimic these colors. I think they were a good more 'grown up' choice compared to the purple and white that I had last year. (If hair braiding can be grown up.)

Source: flickr.com via Megan on Pinterest

Anyway, I am happy with how it turned out and proud to be sporting this, IMO, chic color scheme for the next month or so. Here is how it turned out, even if Im not particularly thrilled with this photo. Do I really look like that?! I am going to go with no! I'm going to blame it on the angle, the early morning, the lack of makeup, the photographer ;) basically anything really. But I still wanted to share. So check out that braid! It matches nicely with my hair color don't you think?

Card with rolled paper

I made this card for the Create blog rolled paper challenge and for the Cas-ual fridays scallops challenge. I have used pretty much every last scrap of this Jillibean Soup paper, so I had to make the rolls shorter than I had hoped to get them to go the whole way across.


Also, sorry about the photo. It isn't the best because it was EARLY morning and dreary outside, but it's been a rough week with me being sick. You do what you can.

Valentine Card

I created this card for Carrie's challenge over at the Ruby Rock-It blog - to use a banner, tag or pocket. I have had this My Mind's Eye banner garland for a while, but had not used it because I find banners difficult. This challenge inspired me to break it out and make something.

I combined this challenge with the Embossing & Debossing Challenge in the Moxie Fab World challenge. I used pre-embossed coredinations cardstock for the front and sanded it to show the embossing more. I also debossed the card itself for a little added texture.

Paper Crafts call creations

I haven't been posting new stuff for the past couple of weeks because I was busy working on cards for Paper Crafts magazine's latest call. (and ok, I was just plain busy with holiday stuff too)
Anyway, I am happy to say that I got TWO - count em TWO cards picked up for publication in the July/Aug issue of paper crafts magazine. So... that means I can share the ones that didn't get picked.

So here are a couple:
Here is one that I created for the sketch challenge. I just adore this card, it's so bright and fun! Don't you think?

and here is one that I made for the back to school call. This one is so simple, but I love how crisp and clean it is.