Sparkly Lily Fairy

When I first discovered Stampin Up, I was all about the pastels. Now I find myself leaning towards Bold Brights more than anything, so it was fun for me to open up the Soft Subtles drawer again. For using pastel colors is the Crafty Hos challenge this week.

Lily is all decked out in her fairy wings, which are painted with Twinkling H2Os before outlining the outside edges with Cotton Candy Stickles. The designer paper is from a new-to-me stack by DCWV which I just picked up at Michael's. Doesn't it look as thought Lily is floating away on little glittery bubbles?


The rhinestone are random generics I found in my stash, one of which appears to have slipped while in the scanner. I will have to fix that on the card, but I do not have time to re-scan, so it'll have to do for this post...






Card Details:
Image: Pink Cat Studio
Sentiment: SU
Cardstock: GP, SU, DCWV
Ink: Memento
Tools: Nesties
Coloring: Prismacolor markers
Embellies: Twinkling H2Os, Stickles, generic rhinestones

Happy Birthday Sarah, Kirsten and Makayla

The summer is a busy time for birthdays in my friend Linda's house. Keeping that in mind, she chose a festive theme for the Sisterhood for the month of April;. A birthday card to fit any of her daughters upcoming age groups, 16, 11 and 7.

I know Kirsten (almost-11) is not a fan of pink, so with her in mind I chose turquoise and purple. Of course it helped that I had this patterened paper on hand.

The sheep (Pink Cat Studio) is covered with Liquid Applique except for her arms legs and face which are touched a bit with Prismacolor markers. The cupcake and 'hands' are raised on a dimensional, making it look as though her arms are really attached to her body.

To Sarah, Kirsten and Makayla - I hope each of you ladies has a very happy birthday!






Card Details:
Image: Pink Cat Studio
Sentiment: SU
Cardstock: GP, SU
Ink: Memento, SU
Tools: SU punches, heat gun
Coloring: Prismacolor markers
Embellies: Liquid Applique, generic dimensionals

Fairy Friends from Pink Cat Studio

Have you heard? Pink Cat studios is having a new release on August 6th called Fairy Friends. Follow their blog to see the sneak peeks beginning Tuesday, August 4th. They are sure to be SUPER CUTE!!

Happy Birthday Kathleen

Yesterday was my friend Kathleen's birthday. I found out rather late, around 10AM, thanks to a reminder from Facebook. Having just a few hours til her quartet's dress rehearsal, I ran to my workshop. (Also known as the table and requisite supplies that have taken over the living room) (and perhaps I did not really run, but I did put it first on my 'things to do today' list)

Here is a card very similar to the one I whipped up. For after finishing Kathleen's, I decided to use the same design for Mary's Getting Ahead swap; and this morning finished a batch. This is Lily from Pink Cat Studios. (For Kathleen she had black hair, a teal outfit and a purple alien). Lily is stamped on GP, colored with Prismacolor markers and mounted on pop-dots on a newly discovered (by humans anyway) cuttlebugged planet. All cardstock besides Lily is SU.

I must give a shout out to Main Squeeze who listened to how I wanted the alien to look and made one for me to trace onto cardstock. Trust me, this was not as easy as it may sound.

On the inside I wrote, "Hope your birthday is Out of this World!"

(Mayhem, the quartet, during whose dress rehearsal a birthday celebration was planned, upon seeing this card, has requested that I make them 23 of design of my choice for them to give to the other competing quartets. Oy! ...Breathe...)

Lily's New Release

Lily is hitting the beach. Who is Lily you say? Lily from Pink Cat Studio, of course.





April 23rd is the big day - plenty of time for summer stamping!

A Meeting of Hos

Saturday, January 17 - a day like no other. For that was the day I met some Hos and participated in my first shoebox swap.

A shoebox swap is where each person brings a project for the others to complete and all the parts with which to complete it, in a shoebox to a predesignated location. In this case, it was Michele's house.

My first project was a pop-up box card.

I used Dress-up Lily and her accessories from Pink Cat Studio on my second card.

Here are some photos from the day:

Su, Yvonne, and Michele

Me and Michele

Me, Yvonne, Su and Michele

Annabella. We wore her out, which her mother says is very difficult to do.