Inspired by Nature (and Kerin's sketch)

Well, I will not miss the deadline this week! :-)

Here is my card for this week's challenge (from Kerin's blog)

I decided to use some of my 'pre-stamp' stuff from not yet completed cards...and/or projects:-)

Ingredients: watercolour crayons, watercolour card stock, kiwi kiss, chocolate chip, markers, textured very vanilla card stock, brads, ribbon, adhesive and it even surprised me...no dimensionals and no punch...:-)

See you all tomorrow!

Happy Wet Monday!!!

What could be better than to start the week off with a few challenges:-)

This had to be a quick card as I didn't know how long my son would nap (he usually doesn't anymore) so let get the list of challenges and ingredients...before he wakes up!

Challenges: Pile it on (buttons), Timeless Tuesday (Layout), Color Chef Challenges (colors - red-white and blue)

Ingredients: Whisper White, Real Red, and Brilliant Blue in cards stock and inks + bordering Blue (ink only). Ribbons, brads, buttons, adhesive, glue dots, punches, crop-a-dile (for the star) family phrases and boho backgrounds stamp sets. Hope I didn't forget anything:-) Enjoy this week as it will be a short one (here in Canada-July 1st being a Holiday and the 4th in the USA)

OMG...Where has the day gone?

I really needed to sit and create something today. To much stuff happening! First groceries (yes, I have a ffamily to feed :-)) then picking my son up from school on his last day (lots of stuff to carry home, poor thing...

Anywho, back at home now, he is fed and now he is watching Handy Manny on Disney channel, quiet time for me...in return a card for you! I whish I could do more than one today, unfortunatelly, My allergies are driving me up the walls!!! Tomorrow 'WILL' be better (think positive).

Challenges; Color dare and Taylored Expression

Ingredients: Célèbre en grand (just love that cupcake) and sentiment is from the crazy for cupcake stamp set, Pink Passion, Kiwi Kiss, Appricot Appeal and Whisper white. Punch, ribbon, dimensionals, markers and a Button. Tada, that is it for today. Hope you'll come back soon!

Feel free to 'snoop' around on my blog, I have a lot of card ideas posted so far and it is all there to help you get inspired and creative...that is what I LOVE about sharring ideas!!!

It's here...Daisies #2 for the Big Shot!!!

I can not believe how easy this is (I'm talking about the big shot and once you find your inspiration of course). I just love it.

This card's layout is from the I heart 2 stamp site.

Ingredients: Baroque Motif stamp set, kraft, regal rose, white (craft ink)basic Gray, pink pirouette, button, glue dots, clear acetate, the 'Die - Daisies #2', punches, ribbon, designer paper from the hostess pack.

I think that's it...Hope you like it. This layout looked so easy to work with...That'll teach me to speake before I actually have a project completed:-)

Last post of the day... :-(

Well, it's 9:ish in the pm here and I need to get my monkey down as tomorrow is his last day of school.

Last challenges for today as well. First is 'stars' from Our creative corner, second is the layout that came from Kerin's Thursday Challenges (sorry I missed the deadline for that one) and my own...I've been wanting to play with Certainly celery, Brocade blue, Ruby Red and Crushed Curry.

On a Finally Friday (2 peas in a bucket) Kristina made a quick Birthday card using fun shinny letters and I remembered, I have funky lettres too, might has well use them before the glue dries up! :-)

I think it is cute, not sure if I like it yet...It might take a while to grow on me...

Ingredients: whisper white, crushed curry, ruby red, brocade blue, certainly celery, ribbon, 'Dollar store bling', funky letters and buttons (probably from a dollar store from a long, long time ago), punches, markers sand the 'Picot mignon' level one hostess set.

See you tomorrow with new, different ideas for birthday cards.

Good night:-)

Still very hot...Margarita Soooooo tasty, yummy :-)

3rd post for today...yeah!!!

This card is a combination of 2 challenges (got to love it, and I do!). First Challenge is the Inkspiration challenge (Layout) and I could not decide on the colors, so the Color throwdown came to the rescue just in time:-)

Ingredients: Fresh cuts stamp set, whisper white card stock, pink pirouette card stock and ink, baja breeze card stock, ink and buttons, and kraft card stock, taffeta ribbon and designer paper from the hostess level 1 pack. Punches, glue dots, adhesive, sponges and finally - bling from the dollar store, it is called 'Art Stickers'.

Come back later on as I will do one more card today. This is just too much fun, hee, hee :-)

Fifth Avenue Floral...Why wait until later?

Stay tuned cause today, I'll be sharing more than one card (as you can already see). It is so hot and humid outside that I'd rather stay in the 'cooler' dry environment that my 'stampin Oasis' offers me. And what better excuse to get caught up on all challenges that have a Wednesday deadline:-)

This color inspiration is an actual challenge from 'Raspberry suite' and the layout is from 'Card Patterns - weekly card sketches'.

Hope you like it...

Ingredients: very vanilla, chocolate chip, regal rose, cameo coral, punches, ribbon, dimensionals, sponge and voilà.

Pile it on plus 2 challenges (kinda)

This quick card is a combination of 2 that can count as 3 challenges. Pile it on (any purple), Sweet Sunday (layout) and SP Color Combos (colors).

Ingredients: Trendy trees stamp set, lovely Lilac, Garden Green and Chocoloate Chip inks and card stock + whisper whiste card stock. Ribbon, punch designer paper.

Tada:-)

This is just too Cute...Can't wait until tomorrow to post.

For this card, I started backwards, I wanted to do a sheep...I did, the only problem was how can I use it in a sketch challenge? Well, Mojo Monday fits (if you rotate it and center it).

I had fun (and so did Donna)...

Ingredients: Circle scallop (bigshot), punches, ribbon, Inspired by nature stamp set, and the tiny teeny words stamp set(coming soon in the July 1st catalogue), one button, whisper White, basic Gray, Kiwi Kiss, sponges, a regular pen and voilà.

Techno stamper Lunch Time sketch Challenge

I just love this card....so peaceful. Layout inspiration is from the Monday Lunchtime sketch challenge.

I hope you like it too:-)

Ingredients: Thoughts & prayers stamp set, kraft, bashful Blue, very vanilla and Chocolate Chip in inks, pastels and card stock, punches and ribbon.

Enjoy!

Back after the week end off from stamping :-)

Today's challenges are from 2 different inspirations. The first one is the color challenge #55 from the KWerner's site and the layout came from the cupcake craft challenges blog.

Ingredients: Always Stamp set, ribbon, more mustard, basic Gray, very Vanilla, really rust card stock and inks, puches, dimensionals and designer paper.

It took me a while to get started, but once I did, I managed 3 cards today. Curious? Come back over the next couple of days to see them!

Bloomin' Beautiful

Another one…3 more challenges. The first challenge is from 3 clovers which required no layering, the layout is from the 2 sketches 4 you design team and the colors came from the color Dare challenge.

I had fun doing this one:-)

Ingredients: Whisper White card stock, Riding Hood Red, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron in inks, a touch of markers (artichoke, mustard and olive – great now I want food, lol), sponges, black stazon, blender pen and ribbon. Stamps set used for this card; Bloomin' Beautiful.

See you soon with another one. TTFN

Embrace Life :-)

One 'kewl' card and you know me...2 challenges. The first one is from Color Throwdown and the layour comes from Techno Stamper's Lunch time challenge.

Hope you like it...I personally find it cute:-)

Ingredients: Kiwi Kiss, Cameo Coral, Tempting turquoise and Whisper white, inks and card stock, Embrace life stamp set, ribbon, dimensionals, glitter, glue dots, buttons, adhesive, sponges and the Circle scallop for the big shot.

Tada!!!

Happy Birthday Mélodie :-)

Here is my card for today's challenges (and by today I mean, I did it today, lol). Colour inspiration is from KWerner Color Challenge and the layout is this week's Mojo Monday challenge.

Mélodie is my friend's baby...Such a cutie...she will turn 2 on June 24th. I just thought that I could do a quick, cute 'kewl' card by combining the 2 challenges mentioned above and then send the card her way:-)

Ingredients: Taken with Teal, Soft Sky (retired), Pumpkin Pie,Green Galore in card stock and inks and markers. Pun fun stamp set and Best friend number (retired). Soft Sky dp and ribbon (both retired), brads, punches, dimensionals, adhesive.

Completely out of my comfort zone but a kewl-cute result in the end...TTFN.

Just one quick post for today…

As I am writing this, I’m sitting on the ground in my driveway. I have no access to internet so I’m ‘Borrowing’ the signal from a neighbour’s house :-) (Thanks Donna)

So, this card is a combination of 3 challenges. Pile it on, Sweet Sunday and Colour Throwdown.

Ingredients: So saffron, Brocade Blue, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery in card stock, inks plus Whisper White in card stock. I also used ribbons, punches, dimensionals, sponges and the ‘Enjoy every moment’ stamp set and one silver brad. Hope I did not forget anything as I don’t want to stop and lose this signal…Enjoy :)

Let’s hope that our new modem gets here really fast as I don’t see myself doing this every day.

Father in law's birthday on July 5th

You might have noticed that most of the cards that I create to send to my family contain 'French' sentiments...The reason is simple, I am French... My family understand English (well most of them do) and just to keep it on the safe side, I try as often as possible to put French words so that they don't feel like 'idiots' :-)

This layout was from the I heart 2 stamp sketch.

Ingredients: kiwi kiss, soft suede inks and card stock plus whisper white, a scoring blade, adhesive, brads, punch, dimensionals and voilà a masculine birthday card. Stamp sets used were word from 'Vie de famille' (French version of the Family Phrase) and Trendy trees.

See you soon...Have a great day!

65 years of mariage...WOW!

My Grand Parents wedding anniversary is coming up on July 1st and for the occasion, I decided to make them a card as I see this event as a HUGE milestone in someone's life.

I love them very much and just whish that I could visit them more often.

It took me a lot of time to create this card as I wanted it to be very pretty. My Grand Mother actually framed the card that I sent her for mother's day...Don't want to disappoint her with this one :-)

Here you go, the layout is from the Taylored expression challenge #72.

Ingredients: Pink pirouette, basic black, kiwi kiss card stock and inks, top note die and oval scallop (Big shot), heard from the heart and voilà to go stamps, pretties kit (flowers and pin), punches, adhesive and patience :-) oops...ribbon and glue dots.

See you tomorrow or later on today with another card! Happy Sunday!

Mojo Monday on a Friday :-)

What can I say...busy week that's all :-) Yesterday I received 2 boxes full of goodies - including my Big Shot...Wahoo! I'll be able to make more 'kewl' projects too.

For now, only 1 challenge from Mojo Monday.

Ingredients: new 'In' colours - Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo and Soft Suede in inks and Dusty Durango, Crush Curry, Whisper White and Bermuda Bay in card stock, ribbon, punches, cisors, adhesive, glue dots, crimper and Dream du Jour stamp set...

I know that it is late in the week to enter a challenge for Monday, I just had some issues with my head :-) It was aching...a lot!

See you soon with more 'kewl' ideas ;-)

Another card version for Father's day :-)

Today’s card is a sketch challenge from Our Creative Corner. Since I have visited with my dad and Grand Father and Father-in-law, I was in a ‘father’s day’ card mood.

Once again, using as much as I could of my ‘In’ colors, I came up with this.

Ingredients: Lovely as a Tree, Wonderful Favourites stamp sets, Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point in card stock and ink, whisper white card stock and ribbon, adhesive and chocolate chip marker.

The most time consuming piece here was the actual cutting of all the pieces…TTFN !

As promised, My card for today:-)

Quick, simple and using mostly 'In' colors I decided to go for the Sweet Sunday by KGiron Challenge.

It was fun and I'll use it next week-end for the music teacher as a thank you note for putting up with...My monkey:-)

Ingredients: pink pirouette, riding hood red, basic black card stock and inks plus a touch whisper white card stock, ribbon, punch and adhesive. The stamp set is a retired one from Stampin'Up! called; Elegant notes.

Enjoy:-)

Just a tinny break from Blogging due to a kid's birthday party

Hi everyone...just a quick HELLO and then, I'll go play with my stamps. My son turned 5 on the 31st of May and since all of our family lives in Quebec, I took a quick (exhausting) trip to Quebec over the week-end to let him enjoy a bit of play time with cousins:-). Now that I fell a bit rested, I'll have a card for you in the next couple of hours. Just need to decide on which challenge to steel my inspiration from!!!

In the mean time, here are a couple of pictures from my little monkey...see you soon!

Yahoo, 2 challenges for you :-)

I had fun with this card and I am satisfied with the result. My first challenge came from Inkspiration #8 and the 2nd one is from Color Throwdown...I didn't think that I could use these colors but it worked!!!

Ingredients; dimensionals, adhesive, ribbon, punch, markers in green galore, chocolate chip and pixie pink, same for card stock plus whisper white.

Now I feel like eating chocolate cup cake with raspberry frosting:-)