Lisa’s Handmade Cards

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!

I made this card for a fabulous top notch friend who is having a birthday tomorrow. …it’s going to be a little late. Happy Birthday Ricky! I locked myself and my family out of the house yesterday for the second time. I swear I am loosing it. I left my key in the house and my husbands key was at the shop with our one and only car. Thank goodness we have family that lives close! We stayed at family members houses for two days while waiting for our car. It was a relaxing but now I’m way behind on my crafting/orders.

Anyway, all the patterned papers and brads are Bo Bunny (thanks Marianne!). I used cuttlebug folder Perfect Paisley and Swiss Dots. Gavin the Givin’ Dragon stamp is from High Hopes. The sentiment is a rub-on.

Challenges entered-

I followed the sketch at Moving Along with the Times.

High Hopes challenge is to add texture.

SophistiCat Challenge is embossing.

Stamp with Fun’s challenge is stitching.

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).