Designed to Delight Monthly Challenge

Faith has made another lovely digi for her progressive challenge participants called 'Tweet Birthday Gift'. If you head on over to her blog at Designed 2 Delight, you can get details on how to play along!

Here is my card:

It was hard for me to get the sizing right for this one. I ended up making a mini card that I can add to a gift bag. I coloured her with my copic markers and used a SU stamp. The cupcake is glittered.

Hope you like it :)

MelJen's Challenge Time

Hello :) I hope you are all having a fabulous Friday!

Today the children were to stay home as the teachers in our district were on strike. We knew there was a possibility that it may be called off and were advised to watch the news. Nothing was on the news at 11pm so I made plans to take them to a friends house in the morning.

Well, the joke was on me. We knocked, and knocked on the door and no one came. Must have slept in, we thought.
As we passed by the school in the rain we didn't  noticed anyone protesting....hmm I thought, is there school? I went to the grocery store and saw lots of children. Phew, so it is a home day......wrong!!

Four messages from the school asking if I knew the children weren't at school today. Apparently at 4:30 in the morning it was decided school would be on. Well, this may be shocking to know but since my children have been 8 months old I haven't seen 4:30 in the morning. Not once. So how on earth was I to know school was on??? Ugh.

I clearly didn't win 'mom of the year' as I took my kids to school at 11:30 am. However, it did give me time to do some crafting  :)  So always a bright side to things-lol


Imade this adorable card for the  MelJen's challenge blog. The theme is to use the colours from  the photo provided. Here is my card

I coloured the digi with my copic markers  (E50, E53, E31)and added the purple ribbon for contrast (still keeping within the colour palette)

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

It's Hambo Time!

It's another challenge over at the Hambo Hoedown! This week the challenge is to use felt. I used an oldie but goodie digi from Hambo called 'eye monster'.
I wanted to make a card I can give my son for valentine's day :)

The monster was coloured with copic markers, the heart glittered with stickles. To cut the shape of the felt star, I punched out a cardboard template using my SU star punch. Faux stitching  around the border and orange brads in the star finish off my card. I think he'll love it :)
Thanks for stopping in, as always I appreciate you taking the time to leave me comments.

Hugs
Laura

Hambo meets Clear it Out

It's Hambo time so head on over to their blog and join in the fun! The challenge is to use 3 of the 4 colours hot pink, aqua, orange, or sunny yellow. I  used the Hambo digi 'solemates'.

It's also the second week at the Clear it Out Challenge blog 'warm fuzzies, use texture'
Here is my card (please excuse the photo, my lighting is horrible!) Hoping for my lighting box for my birthday next week!

I embossed the background with dots using my Big Shot. I printed the fishes in aqua, orange and pink on cardstock twice and popped them up.I added the purple ribbon scrap to finish it off.

Thanks for looking :)

New Beginnings

It's been a full day of crafting at my house with my little ones eager to make their Daddy a Birthday card. Needless to say I couldn't find my desk when I wanted to craft-lol. Once I unearthed it and put things away, I really started to notice things I don't use that often. Like my Big Shot. So, I pulled it out and was determind to incoporate it into this challenge.

The challenge this week at the MelJens's Challenge Blog is 'New Beginnings'. I knew I had a card to make that expressed exactly that. A friend of mine was left at Christmas time by her spouse of 11 years. So I made this to send to her

All the images are from MelJen's except the tag 'hugs' I wrote freehand. I glittered the clouds and coloured the bear with copic markers. I used my big shot to cut out the bear with a 'tags' die cut.

Inside I wrote "when someone closes a door, God opens a window"

Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!

Happy Birthday Boy Card

My friend's adorable little boy is turning two and I made this card for him. He is in love with Thomas the Tank and got a whole train table for Chrismtas, so I knew this image by Jelly Park was perfect!

The challenge at Jelly Park is to use something old and new. The old- my background papers. I've had them since 1998. Yes, I remember the date. I was pregnant with my first child and thought they would be great for his scrapbook. Clearly you can see how much I've been scrapbooking -lol.
My something new is the image, the ribbon, and the dark chocolate Bazzill paper :) I coloured the digi up with my copic markers.

I'd also like to enter this into the Forever Friends Challenge . This is a new challenge site for me but after I saw the card made my Cotnob, I had to check it out! The theme is Birthday.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I appreciate your kind comments :)

Digi Darla Challenge Time!

This week the challenge at Digi Darla's is to use ribbon. I picked up this adorable image Archer girl a while back and just love it. I love how strong she presents herself, yet feminine :)

Here is my card.

I used a colour combo of soft yellows, deep red and browns. Not my fav but I think I made it work.
I added glitter to the arrows and popped up the panel with pop dots. She is coloured with copic markers.

Thanks for stopping by. The challenge runs until Dec 5th :)