Birthday Blog Hop for Kimberly

Hello!
Today is a special day for a special someone!  Kimberly Wiener of wienerhoneymooners is having a birthday today and we are having a little blog hop to help her celebrate.  A bunch of us stampers get together in real life on a regular basis and decided it would be fun to send some birthday wishes Kimberly's way!

I first met Kimberly at a live stamping class at Impress taught by Julie Ebersole.  I know how much Kimberly loves her, so I thought it was fitting to use Julie's stamps in making Kimberly's card for today. 

I used the Wish Big stamp set and stamped the hippo, party hat and balloon in Memento black ink.  Then I colored the images with my copic markers and mounted it on some Lawn Fawn paper.  I added a little wink of stella to the party hat and the balloon for a fun touch. 

I decided to keep the card CAS because of Kimberly's DT gig over at CASology!  When I entered my first challenge over at CASology, it was Kimberly who left a comment.  She was so supportive and encouraging!  It really made me feel like I belonged among the talent of people who enter CASology each week.  Thanks Kimberly for always being so encouraging!!!  (and using all those exclamation points!!!) 
I hope you have a wonderful birthday my friend!

BLOG CANDY ALERT!! 

Leave a comment on all of the stops of the hop, and go to Kimberly's blog to leave her a Happy Birthday message and your name will be in a drawing to win a $15 gift certificate from Butterfly Reflections Ink, courtesy of Amy!  Drawing to be held on Sunday May 3rd.   


Here is the complete list of hop participants:

Amy  

Katie

Laura  <<<--- you are here

Lisa

Tonya

Kate 
Kimberly  <<<---Birthday girl!!

 

Thanks for hopping in!
-Laura

Ellen Hutson and Lawn Fawn

Hello again my bloggie friends!
Today I have a fun card made for the mix it up challenge over at Ellen Hutson.  You are to combine stamps from the Ellen line with Lawn Fawn stamps.  Two of my favorites!!  I used the Wish Big set from Ellen and the Milk & Cookies and Here's the Scoop sets from Lawn Fawn. 

 

I layered my panels onto some Lawn Fawn paper from the Beachside collection.  I tried to capture all the things you would need for a big birthday celebration!!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

-Laura

 



A Little Baby

Hello!
Today I am sharing a card I made for the current CASology challenge where the cue card is NEWS.  This happens to tie in with the great news they shared on the blog, that design team member Gillian gave birth to a baby boy on April 1st.  CONGRATS to Gillian and her family!  What glorious news indeed! 

To help celebrate, I made a new baby card with the fun HA set 'A Little'.  I customized it with an alpha set from Lawn Fawn.  And don't you just LOVE that green ombre paper?  It is from a 6 X 6 paper pad from My Mind Eye called Market Street. There is a pink ombre one as well, but Gillian had a boy, so I thought the green was more appropriate!    A couple of HA gems finish the card.   Enjoy your new bundle of joy Gillian!

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Rainbow

Hello!
Today I am sharing a card I made for Darlene's rainbow challenge.  If you don't know Darlene, you should definitely go check out her blogs Darlene Designs and Live Love Cards.  She is extremely talented and full of inspiration.  I learn something new every time I visit her blog.  She just started holding challenges at her new blog, Live Love Cards.  This month the theme is rainbows.

My card was a bit time consuming to make, but I was pleased with the way it turned out.  I used the memory box loopy rings die and cut it from black cardstock for the positive die cut.  Then I cut it again from a rainbow of colored cardstock for the negative pieces.  The time consuming part was putting all those little pieces back into the circles where they belonged.  But it was kind of like a puzzle, trying to figure out which piece went where!  I added a black and white twine bow to tie in the black outline. 

Thanks for checking in and have a great day!
Laura

Easter Wishes

Hello Hello!

I have some Easter cards to share with you today.  I made some of these a while back with my Mom when she was here visiting, but I am just now getting around to posting them.  My Mom and I did some crafty shopping and I bought these cute little bunny dies from Impression Obsession.  They are so fun!  My first card uses them in a traditional way, as Easter bunnies in the grass with eggs scattered around. 

 

I colored in their ears and tails and added some clouds to the sky.  The sentiment is from HA. 

My second card uses the bunny die in a funnier way!

 

 

I cut the bunny out of some brown paper and made a chocolate bunny.  Then I used a scallop circle punch to take a bite out of his ear!!  Of course chocolate bunnies belong in an Easter basket, so I created one weaving pink and green strips together.  I added a handle and some grass and tucked my nibbled on bunny inside. The white embossed sentiment is SU.

 

My last Easter card was created with the PTI rustic wreath die.  I cut multiple wreaths out of different pastel pattern papers and stacked them on top of each other.  A few sequins scattered around and a pretty yellow bow finishes it off.  This card was easy, but I really liked the way it turned out.

 

 



Thanks for sticking in there through my lengthy post today!  Do you have your Easter cards finished?

-Laura



Hero Arts Scramble

Sunday was super fun over at the Hero Arts Flickr group!  We held another scramble, number 105 to be exact.  Don't know what a scramble is?  Well, it is where card makers from all over the world get together at the same time to create a card or project with a certain theme - and the kicker is that you only have 90 minutes to do the whole thing - learn the theme, create your card, photograph it and post it on the Flickr site.  Now you understand why they are called scrambles!!  Well, I was definitely scrambling today!  Janet was our hostess and she had a great theme to use sentiments create a 'word art' on our card.  I wasn't even sure where to start?!?  I thought of using a stencil and stamping words inside it, but that didn't seem quite right.  I thought of using a speech bubble die cut and stamping HELLO repeatedly inside of it.  This worked out okay, but then I didn't know how to finish the card.  That idea led to me what I finally ended up doing.

At one of our last crafty get togethers, my friend Kimberly shared some of these great big balloon die cuts!  They are so fun!  I stamped Happy Birthday in the middle of the balloon in black ink, and then filled around it with 'celebrate' in a rainbow of colors!  It turned out better than I thought it would.  I mounted it with foam tape on a fun patterned paper with tiny stars.  The twine was curled to look like the balloon was floating! 

Thanks for hosting Janet and making me think!!  It was really fun.  Hero Arts scrambles are held every other week on the Flickr group.  Join us next time!

Thanks for stopping by!
-Laura

Star Stencil

Hello!
Today I am sharing a card I made for the challenge over at Live Love Cards, hosted by the ever talented Darlene DeVries.  I have been following her blog for a long time, and she decided to start challenges!!  What fun!!  Her challenge this month is to used stencils on your card.  She of course had an amazing example where she used a circle stencil and made them look 3D!  I tried that same effect with a stencil that looked like a stone pattern, but my attempt was an epic fail!!  But, I really wanted to play along in the challenge, so I came up with this card instead.

It might be hard to tell, but the little stars were added with a stencil and a fingertip sponge dauber.  I had this great patterned paper pad from My Minds Eye, called On the Bright Side.  I used a sheet that had the banner across the top already.  There were two sheets of each pattern, so I cut some of the banners off the second sheet and popped them up on the card.  The happy was die cut with the Memory Box die and inlaid into the card.  The birthday from Paper Smooches was white embossed on a scrap of the navy paper from the pack.  After it was all completed I added the stars from the stencil in coordinating colors of ink.  I used Memento Lady Bug and SU So Saffron.  Even though the stencil was a last minute addition to this card, I hope it still qualifies for the challenge.  If you haven't seen Darlene's work, you should really go check her out at her blog:  Live Love Cards.  She shares a ton of tips and tricks in her videos, you won't be disappointed!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura