Lisa’s Handmade Cards

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 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.

Project #22

If your here looking for my Truly Scrumptious sketch challenge card click here. Sorry, I spaced linking to the post itself.

I am dead tired. I’m also stubborn. I refuse to go to bed until I finished my High Hopes Challenge card that I started two days ago. I can’t decide if I’m just stupid for doing so (I cut my finger and wasted a great deal of glue dots before I remembered Mike’s layers are supposed to be 3D) or grateful (it turned out fab, right). Any excuse to use my High Hopes stamps and I’m in.I’m a sucker for them.

The challenge is to use brown and orange plus a circle. I received Mike (the monkey) in my Christmas stocking and just hadn’t inked him up yet. The bananas and sentiment are from C.C. Designs. At the time I didn’t know of a source that sold High Hopes stamps or I wouldn’t have bought this banana bunch. I still might…

You can’t tell from the picture that well- the orange is velum and I put the same patterned paper behind it. I also made Mike extra 3-Dimensional. The circles are cut out with my Cricut and embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. Hope you love him as much as I do!

There are so many babies that have just arrived or are about to come. Last night I whipped out my New Arrival cartridge. It has so many adorable cuts that I just have never used before. I have so many more I can’t wait to cut out and ink up! The sentiment I stamped years ago using one of my mothers stamps. I believe it is a Inkadinkado but don’t quote me on that. The patterned paper is from BasicGrey.

I’ve had a few ladies e-mail me asking if my cards are for sell. By all means, If you see a card you’d like to own please e-mail me at lisasummerhays[@]gmail[dot]com. I won’t be taking special orders and I only have one of each card shown.

I am entering this card into the following contests-

Crafty Creations- stitching

ABC Challenge- O is for one paper

Our Creative Corner- something old that’s new

Project #15

This weeks challenge at Squigglefly is to use an animal image. I used Doggie Pile by artist Crissy Armstrong. I adore all her images. I love how this card turned out. It’s lacking some embellishment flair but nothing seemed to fit right. So, here it is plain and fabulous. Check out the other DT girls cards too and join in the challenge!

The pattern papers are by Doodlebug. I used my cricut, sewing machine, cuttlebug, and Nestibilities too.

I’m entering this card into this weeks contests at Crafty Cardmakers (digital delights), CRAFT Challenge (digi coloring) and the ABC Challenge (N is for new- the image is new).