Mazel Tov!

I had to go out of town today to sign a contract for my new job.. annnd conveniently, this is where our nearest Michaels is located... of course I stopped in! I picked up a couple super cute Studio G stamps!
I made a handful of these cards up quick for a swap I'm doing... Love this stamp!

You are my sunshine...

This card is for Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge 36! As soon as I saw this challenge, I knew I would be using their adorable 'You are my Sunshine" stamp!

I love how bright and cheery he is.. so cute! I wish I had added some embossing to the blue background now for some texture.. next time haha!

REGISTERED NURSE!!!

I am so excited... I just found out today that I am officially a REGISTERED NURSE! Meaning I can start working ASAP! Just waiting on my job to call me and let me know when they want me to start.. I am so excited I have been waiting MONTHS for this!!!! :)

Annd.. more cards.

Ok. I am carded out. Tomorrow during my crafty time I'm going to finally start working on a mini-album of 2008 or 2009. I am sooo far behind in my scrapping.. ugh.
Anyway, some quick cards I made up this afternoon/this evening after dinner. All use scrap paper from the bottomless drawer.

These are probably my favourite from earlier this afternoon. I love the clusters of flowers!

The sentiment looks a bit blurry on this one - I stamped it twice, once in blue, once in brown to give it a bit of a shadowed effect.

Snazzy Apron Cards

Soo in all fairness, I DID tidy up my scrap area a BIT... but I got bored and just really wanted to work on something! I must say for once I am happy with a card - I love the way this turned out! I used some paper scraps I had laying around. Sentiment is Stamping Bella. I believe the paper is My Minds Eye Quite Contrary line, or something like that. I'm trying to use up a lot of scraps, I have a large drawerful to go through... my goal for the end of the year is to clear most of it out!

Had to craft another one before I went to bed last night... Love!!

Scrapkeeping...

I am being firm with myself today, and I am not allowed to scrap or make any cards until I have cleaned my scrap area to what i'd like it to be. Ugh. This wouldn't be so bad if I actually cleaned up after myself after working on a project... I've also gotten into the habit of throwing misc. stuff into these white bins I picked up to be organized more (HAH.). It shall be quite the job... blah.

Be Happy Card

I am going to put my feet up and watch some tv after this! Ahhh Lady Gaga was so great last night... and I am sooo tired today but I just HAD to make some cards with my free time this evening!!! ...Not sure what to do with all the cards I`ve made this week lol.
This card is for Day 188 - Divide and Conquer - divide your card into 6 equal parts, and decorate. I decided to make 6 assorted flowers from the Paisley cart, and stamp faces on the flower centres. Unfortunately, the faces aren`t complete since I somehow have lost my darling white gel pen (which I didn`t even know I owned until a couple weeks ago). I`m sure the card will look much cuter once I`ve added some detail to the eyes! Anyway, here it is for now!

Shape Up Challenge

Okay.. I promise, only one more post for 365 Cards after this one tonight.. then I will slow it down! This challenge was to use a polygon as your dominant shape, so I made a five-sided card out of kraft paper. Also used some pearl bling and paper rope from Dollarama, K&Co stickers and chipboard journal spot, American Crafts crocheted flower and Basic Grey patterned paper. I think I`ll use this to go with the gift set of cards I made last week.

Ad Inspired

Another post for 365 Cards - this time it was an ad inspired challenge - see link for the ad. I had a lot of fun with this one!

Drawing from the ad, I was inspired by the colours, flowers and the shape of the clockface. I cut out some of my favourite scallops from Plantin' Schoolbook, ran them through my Cuttlebut using the Swiss Dots folder, and inked them. The stamp is Stampendous, I think, I bought it in a set from Winners - $3.99 for 6 giant beautiful phrases! The flowers are various Primas and cheap Michaels I have collected over the years, not sure about the brads.

Friday Favorite Challenge

So today's challenge at 365 Cards was to make a card related to your favourite food! Hmm.. guess what I picked???
A cupcake of course !!! :) I used some scrap cardstock and KI memories patterned paper, Offray ribbon, dollarstore pearl bling and 2 new finds today - some paper rope and straight pins! The cupcake is from the From My Kitchen cart, and the sentiment is Stamping Bella. Love the colours on this! Nice, fresh and girly. I think sometime this weekend when I have time, I'm going to go over part of the frosting and add some stickles.

Off to my friends to get ready for a wedding this evening.. and then Lady GaGa tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No crafting until Sunday for me!!!

Russian Doll card

I have had the Paisley cart for a few months.. and have never cut out any of the adorable dolls!!! This is half the reason I got the card, those dolls are tooo cute!
When I saw the 365 Cards Sunday sketch challenge 182, I immediately knew I'd be using one of the cute dolls off the Paisley cart! (Here's the sketch)

I used some Paper Studio paper I had laying in my scraps. I really don't like the way the dolls face turned out, but oh well. Live and learn! I really love the colours on this card tho!

Opposites Attract Challenge

Another post for 365 Cards challenge blog! Challenge 184 was to use a colour we liked, and another colour we didn't like, or didn't scrap with a lot, and create (what else?) a card! Pink is my favourite colour, and I seldom use yellow, so here we are! Ran the pink and white cardstock through my cuttlebug, used an Imaginisce stamp (I forgot I had this! Haven't used it before), some yellow flowers from the $1 section at Michaels (which I think I actually bought for 15 cents? score!) and some cute MM pink button brads! Simple, but that is what I love.

'Digging Deep' challenge

While browsing some of my favourite creative blogs for inspiration, I decided to work on some of the challenges over at 365 Cards. I'm going to try to complete all this weeks challenges.. but we will see what happens lol.
Day 183 - Digging Deep, was a fun challenge! In it, we had to use a non-paper item at least six months old (I used ribbon from HL that I bought for 35 cents sometime in the spring of 2009), 2 sheets of patterned paper you've never used (used 2 sheets of coordinating KI memories paper - this was the FIRST patterned paper I ever bought for scrapping, and I never used it lol... but its soo cute!), an embellie you've had for over a year (I used a cute little balloon paper clip I bought at the dollarstore at least 2 years ago... I've had it so long I can't even remember), and finally a stamp that you've never used, but had for at least a year (I used an adorable imaginescense stamp from the 'All Kinds of Happy' collection - I got this from a scrap gift swap sometime spring 2009 and never used it). Inked my edges a bit (of course.. what else do I do?) and added a few pearls. This card is perfect for my sis-in-laws birthday, Sept 29! Now that I've used this stamp I want to use it on all my future birthday cards.. for the time being lol! This challenge was great to help me dig into my stash!