Lisa’s Handmade Cards

I love owls. Have I mentioned that I love owls? This digi is from Dustin Pike. I have a soft spot for Dustin Pike for three reasons (other than his fabulous images, of course). One, he’s High Hopes newest artists. Two, he loves Disneyland, and three, he too lives in Utah. If you know me, you know I love all three of those things. It can’t get much better than that.

Check out Dustin’s site. He has some fantastic images and gives out lots of fabulous freebies. He also has a challenge blog that I have yet to enter but plan to. Lol, I sound like a commercial. I don’t know Dustin, I’m not a DT member either, just a fan.

The sentiment is from High Hopes. The checkered green paper from American Crafts and the orange polkadot paper is from Pebbles Inc.

I followed this weeks sketch at Friday Sketchers. I finished this card at 1:30 this morning so please forgive me for spacing the horizontal stripe. I swear it wasn’t on the sketch last night, lol.

I’ll be back tomorrow with my Squigglefly DT card. It turned out fabulously if I may say so myself.

I really don’t have time to craft today but I couldn’t resist. I did a quick card using a digi from Meljen’s Designs. What, what’s that? You want this image too? Well it is your lucky day. It’s a freebie you can pick up here! The sentiment is from High Hopes.

I can’t believe it’s already 4:30! Where has my day gone?

Once again I broke out Leo the Lion for this weeks High Hopes challenge. I just find Leo to be extra fabulous. The challenge is called “seeing stars”. I believe in the “go big or go home” rule so I went big, real big. I used Cricut cartridge George and Basic Shapes to cut out the stars. I used my watercolor pencils to color Leo.

I’ll be back soon with another lion card using a fantastic Squigglefly new release image. I have to get my work done and my house clean before then so I better get to it! Thanks for stopping by!

I made this simple card using a Penny Johnson Stampavie image called Bear Flowers. I used my watercolor pencils, a bit of ribbon, and a few stickles. It’s a small A2 size card that refused to photograph well, sorry.

I followed this weeks sketch at Midnight Madness and Stampavie’s challenge is Spring.

Also, I have a confession to make. I’m on project #25 of the “use my stash” challenge (one project I didn’t photograph or post) and this week I purchased a few things. I ran across a listing on e-bay for 100 unmounted High Hopes sentiment (one of my top two favorite rubber stamp companies). How could I pass that up?? I won them for $16.50! I think they should be in the mailbox today. I can’t wait!! And then yesterday I was on the hunt for pink polka dots for a few Minnie Invitation orders. It took me five craft stores to finally find one that worked. Have you ever gone into five scrapbook stores after depriving yourself of any crafting goodness for months? Hauling two children? I was exhausted! I’m proud to say I only faltered some patterned paper and a few ink pads worth. My patterned paper and card stock stashes are getting dangerously low. Anyway, I’m back on the wagon and will finish my next 25 projects from my stash (quickly, I hope).

I love this cute little Whipper Snapper stamp of a little girl named Nurse Morgan. I colored her to match the fab green paper from American Crafts and the pink polka-dots from Bo Bunny. I used my Cricut to cut out the circles and embossed the front circle with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. The lace border punch is from Martha.

Challenges:

I followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday. Both The Pink Elephant and Cute Card Thursdays challenges are to add green (my second entry for both). Stamp Something challenge is “something girly” and Simon Says is also “girly”. Last but not least Creative Inspirations challenge is to add lace, pins, and pearls.