Lisa’s Handmade Cards

Project #11

This weeks Squigglefly challenge is to do a mostly white card with lots of sparkle. This was a true challenge for me. I used a digi sentiment from artist Nina Brackett. I cut two hearts out from felt, sewed them together, and stuffed it. I didn’t think to show a side photo so that you could see that. The patterned paper is from Sassafras. I embossed my card with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

Every Monday Squigglefly has a new challenge. There’s a prize now given every week!  The prizes will vary from free images to goodie bags. A Squigglefly image does have to be used to be eligible for a prize.

I’m entering my card into the following challenges as well-

Frosted Designs- embossing

Dare You to Digi- Hearts/Valentines

Here are my son’s birth announcements. As you can see he is now three months old. My goal was to have them ready before he arrived but then he came three weeks early. I’ll just pat myself on the back for getting them done  at all.

The little boy is a Whipper Snapper stamp. The sentiment is from Stampin Up. It’s one a.m. and I’m too tired/lazy to go check everything else.

I’m entering this little bit of fabulousness into the following challenges:

Simon Says- New Baby

Practical Scrappers- Patterned Paper

I’ll be on vacation January 29th through February 7th. Today is the last day I’ll be accepting any invitation orders until I return. Also, Imagination Movers invites are on hold right now. Our computer crashed and took the cut files along with it. After vacation I have a lot of new invitation ideas I’ll be posting so stay tuned!

I have quite a bit I am trying to accomplish before leaving so please forgive me if I am lacking on posts the next few weeks. I have so many projects I want to work on and so many challenges I want to participate in but no time. Speaking of challenges, there is a new challenge blog starting on February 25th called Marianne Design Challenge Blog. I have already added it to my sidebar.

They are offering this blog candy for spreading the word. I’ll spread the word about any new challenge blog. You know how I love my challenges! This particular blog is in Dutch and English and is open to all.

In other I-like-to-bite-off-more-than-I-can-chew news, I am trying to get my house back in order after the leaky pipe disaster and organize my craft room to fit in my husbands desk and computer so my newborn can have his own room. I thought about taking a before pic of the craft room disaster area but didn’t want to give anyone nightmares.

I am slowly getting organized. Here are a few of my brads, eyelets, and buttons. I’ve been researching ways to organize and I’ve seen some amazing craft rooms photos of ladies who have special rooms build just for them. Some day my friends, some day. Until then I am being creative on a small budget and excited to actually spend less time searching for what I need and more time creating. I still need some paper storage, somewhere to display my stamps, and someway to sort all my other larger embellishments. Any suggestions are welcomed. …well, back to work! Thanks for stopping by!!

Project #9

I thought I’d have a ton of time to craft today but it didn’t happen. So instead I had only a few minutes to whip up a card this evening. I’ll take what I can get.

It isn’t Valentine’s Day without my favorite smoochin’ frog. Isn’t she cute? These Whipper Snapper stamps are definitely my favorite image/sentiment combo. I’ve colored her up multiple times and decided this go around to make her pink. She looks sunburned and fabulous at the same time. The patterned paper is from Sassafras.

I’m entering this card into the following contest:

One Stop Craft Challenge- Love & Kisses

Stamp Something- Funny Something

Project #8

I know, I come up with the best titles. I don’t know how anyone could resist after seeing such an awesome title.

My little family and I have a lot of people to thank these days. Between watching our kids, working on our house, and letting us stay at their house while it get fixed- I have some thank you catch up work to do. I started on this card last night while my husband did side job work and I waited for the dryer. I then had a hard time going to bed because I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I turned out almost as well as I imagined it…almost.

I used Elmer the Elephant. He’s one of my favorite High Hopes Stamps. Very versatile. The stripe paper is from Daisy D’s and the green circle paper is from Scenic Route. I used my fancy new (I bought it before starting my project challenge) Fiskars Effervescence border punch (love it), my Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder, and my mom’s Mickey Font Cartridge (shhh, I’ve had it for months). Thanks mom!

I’m entering this card into the following challenges-

High Hopes- spacey colors (purple, blue, green)

Stamp with Fun- sketch

AIFactory Challenge- 5 embellishments total (I used 5 on the front, no one else shows the inside of their cards so I think that’s what they mean…I hope)

And my own personal challenge- don’t use any white