friend...thinking of you

Happy Monday!  Did you know I have a cookie addiction problem?  I'm not much a fan of sugar cookies, like the inspiration photo for Inspired By All the Little Things, but give me a chocolate chip cookie any day and I'll never say no.  My card uses some MFT dies, a Hero Arts background stamp and a heart doily die from Top Dog Dies.  My second card is for this week's PTI Make It Monday, shadow sentiment.  Mine just looks a bit blurry, but...

Just a little lovely...

A mix of procrastination and motivation... today's card includes 2 cards I made for this week's card class, plus playing along with the Ellen Hutson Mix It Up Challenge (top card with Ellen Hutson and Concord & 9th), the PTI Make It Monday A La Carte Challenge, the Inspired by all The Little Things Challenge.  My final butterfly card isn't for a challenge, just playing with pieces.... Although, that being said, this week's Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is "Something new" and I used my new-to-me butterfly dies from Lynn.

Coffee solves everything

Hello... going strong for the Winter Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  Today's post brings my total number of projects up to 40!  I'm playing along with a few challenges.  The first card uses the MFT Sketch and because I used a SugarPea Designs sentiment I'll add this in their anything goes challenge.

Playing along with the Fusion Card Challenge.

Playing along with the Inspired by all the Little Things. 

Inspired by the PTI Create with Us Challenge inspired by Heather's card.

thinking of you...

Tinkering away (instead of the "real world" to dos...).  My first card is for the Ellen Huston Pin Inspired Challenge, with the new Ellen Hutson stamps I got with my gift certificate from last challenge.  And since Ellen is celebrating her birthday, I'll consider this my favorite set (b/c did I really have to have just one?).  My snowman card is another tag for Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas tags, finding inspiration from Day #25.

This holiday tag is inspired by the new challenge at Inspired by All The Little Things-- as well as the MFT Blue Prints, holiday tag challenge (and I followed directions this time and actually used one of the Blue Prints sketches).  The card is also for the Inspired by All The Little Thing Challenge, you know those trains of thoughts, you go down one rabbit hole....

And my final tag is a CASE from 25 Days of Christmas Tags Day #23.

you're awesome

You're awesome...  this card is a rather literal take on the Inspired by the Little Things challenge and using the MFT sketch as a frame work.  I combined MFT dies and sentiment with a LID cover die and a Verve coffee cup and a piece of May Arts burlap ribbon.

you make my heart smile tag

Welcome to another Tag You're It Challenge, hoping you find some inspiration from the new challenge and join us.   And since I went through a bit of crafty withdrawal (I went on a vacation to Mexico) here are two more cards for current challenges.  The first one is for the MFT Sketch Challenge and the second one by Inspired by All the Little Things.  I hope you guys come join us at Tag You're It Challenge.

dream.believe.achieve friends

Happy Saturday crafty peeps!  I'm using the same sentiment from yesterday's tag (Clear and Simple Stamps).  The top card uses the MFT Sketch Challenge as an inspiration, loved their camping post (which I saw after I made this card, but still...).  The trailer and the tag die are from MFT, the trees are Hero Arts, square die from Lil Inkers, Sizzix woodgrain embossing folder and a mix of distress inks, water and distress stain.  And the card below is for the new Inspired by All the Little Things challenge, with a CASE of the guest, the talented Jill Foster.  I used Altenew flowers, Hero Arts text background stamp, PTI friends die, MFT tag die, May Arts twine and a number of inks and water.  Hope everyone has a great weekend, I promise I'm going to take a couple of hours off today...  

happy mother's day card

Inspired By All the Little Things, yeah for Lynn being their guestie, so I used the Little Tangles stamp, some water colors, a long neglected pad of Core'dinations and a little piece of May Arts ribbon for this card.  The card also works for the current Simon Says Stamps challenge, "Make it Girlie".  Below, a preview from the super fun (and very wet) Instagram meet up last night, thanks to my friend Lenka for snapping this picture of me.  I'll have photos up on the Outside Inn's blog later today.

Happy Birthday

I have to admit that I have pretty much given up on trying to keep up with all the card challenges, because in addition to the ones I've played along with and love, there are often new ones cropping up in my overflowing blog reader... so if you follow my blog, I stick to a few and occasionally branch out... so when multiple crafty peeps played along with this week's Inspired by all the Little Things I found inspiration (and no guarantees of remember to play along again).  I used the flower trio stamp that my friend Lindsay designed for Impression Obsession.  I stamped the tag first and realized that I wanted the colors to be closer to the inspiration painting, so I made the card second (literal girl is showing her hat again).  The top card uses a Verve Stamps sentiment and the tag uses a Lawn Fawn sentiment and May Arts ribbon and PTI dies.  I want to expand my water color pencil supply, anyone have any good leads on any sets?  And totally unrelated, I wrote a fun blog post yesterday on my campground blog about my spirit of adventure and how it runs in the family, click here for a little armchair travel.