Peacock

Hello!  I love peacocks!  I have had the pleasure of seeing them roaming around some beautiful gardens and they are one of the prettiest birds in the world.

One of my scrapbooking/stamping friends let me borrow this beautiful peacock stamp, thanks Jen!

This peacock stamp is from Inkadinkadoo.

I stamped it onto white card stock and colored it with my FlexMarkers.

My nephew and niece used peacock feathers in their wedding, so when I was making their wedding scrapbook, I got a 'peacock' pad of papers, this blue was in that pad. It is just gorgeous, and worked great with the peacock stamp.

I used the "celebrate" from the "Friends" set (#46202) from QKR Stampede.

I stamped it onto white card stock and then went over it with a gold pen, then fussy cut it.

I thought this card came together very nicely.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

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Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Country Brunch Invitation? Possibly.

When I started this card, I had no idea where I was going with it. 

I stamped the "Large Jar and Apples" (#23105) from QKR Stampede onto water color paper and colored with water color crayons.  I loved the image and how it turned out, but couldn't decide what kind of card to make with it.

One of my friends, Cheryl, suggested that it would make a cute invitation to a country brunch.  I liked that direction, so it's the direction I took.

I had bought the checked paper specifically to use on some cards and it seemed to go well with the country idea and the image.

When my son, one of my trusted critics, saw it, he thought it looked like a "Grandma card" 

Either way, country or Grandma, I love how it turned out.

What do you think?  Leave a comment and let me know.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you'll come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Small Lacy Butterfly

Hello stamping and crafty friends!

Today I'm showing you a card that I made using

"Small Lacy Butterfly" (#58902)

from Eureka! Stamps.

I stamped the image onto a page of an old book and colored it with FlexMarkers (alcohol ink markers)

I punched several strips with a EK Success border punch

and inked them with brown ink. 

I layered the scalloped strips onto a white card base for about 1/2 of the card, then covered the rest with another piece of a page.

I stamped the "Small Lacy Butterfly" onto the card.

After I fussy cut the colored image, I adhered it onto the card right over the stamped image on the card.

I lifted the wings up a bit to give it the look of flying off the card.

Eureka! Stamps has many wonderful butterfly images to choose from in red rubber and digital, so there is something for everyone.

Thanks for stopping by today,

leave a comment if you will and come back soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Party Poopers

Hello all!

Today I have a card to show you that I made for a challenge on one of my favorite blogs, Going Buggy.

Each month Enfys posts a challenge and I have been saying that I'm going to do the challenge, but I haven't before. 

I always have good intentions,

but I am so bad at getting challenges done. 

Well surprise!  This month I did it!

The challenge was to make a card for a child.

Here is my card.

I used "Party Poopers" (#14303) from Eureka Stamps

I colored the image with my FlexMarkers (which I love working with)

I layered it onto some red card stock from my scrap stash and added the bit of ribbon and the balloon brad, then adhered it to a card base covered with some fun polka dot paper.

I had a lot of fun making this card.  I hope you'll pop on over to

Going Buggy

and see all the cards entered into the challenge

and maybe you'll join in too.

Be sure to check Enfys' other posts, I'm sure you'll enjoy them.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

QKR April Bunny Hop

Hoppy Day to you all!

Welcome to the April "Bunny Hop" for QKR Stampede!

If you have just happened onto the hop, you will want to go to the beginning as you won't want to miss any of the "Bunny Hop" projects.

If you have come from Jessica's blog, you are right on track. She is so talented, isn't she?!?!

As I'm sure you can tell, this months theme is bunnies.

QKR Stampede has a lot of bunny stamps to choose from and I chose

"Daydreaming Bunny" (#15209) for my project today.

I also used "Some Bunny" (#10603) for this card.

I think this "Daydreaming Bunny" is the cutest guy!

I stamped him onto water color paper and used some water color crayons to color him.  Just a little bit of gray and pink did the trick. 

The flowers were made by punching some paper flowers and layering them then using a bit of stickles in the centers.

Inside I used the "Some Bunny" sentiment stamp.

Now you can hop on over to see what

Kristine

has to show you at her blog. 

I'm sure it will be something wonderful!

Now hop to it!

Once you have finished the "Bunny Hop" why not hop on over to the

QKR Stampede shop and see all the adorable bunny stamps they have to offer.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you'll hop in again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Box with border design.

Hello!

Today I'm showing you a little box I made.

I used 2 stamps from Eureka! Stamps on this project.

First I stamped the brown card stock with

"Baroque Background" (#57701) using Versa Mark Watermark Ink.

Then I stamped a strip of tan card stock with

"Filagree Border" (#57703) using Color Box Fluid Chalk Ink.

I scored and cut the brown card stock to make the box.

I cut the tan strips into pieces for the sides of the box and adhered them with ATG tape. Then I folded and adhered the box together.

I did cut a piece of cardboard for inside the bottom

of the box to give it a little extra stability. 

This will be used at My Happy Place Scrapbooking

to hold everyone's punch cards. 

We have punch cards that are punched each time a person comes for a crop. Once they have 10 punches they receive a free evening crop. 

Many of our scrappers/crafters were putting their cards in a safe place and forgetting where they were, so we decided to keep the cards in this little box along with the punch that we use on them.

Everyone loved the box when I took it in, I think it turned out very nice.

Eureka! Stamps has many background stamps that are wonderful for giving a plain piece of card stock or paper a little extra pop.

Borders can be added as a border or as a focal point of a project.

Stop in to the Eureka! Stamps shop and see what they have to offer!

Thanks for stopping today!

See you again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Love Those Sunflowers!

I know a lot of people who really love sunflowers.

They aren't my favorite flower, but they are up there!

I do love this "Flower Border" (#17915) image from QKR Stampede.

There are actually 2 sizes of this particular image and this is the larger of the two.  It measures 4.5"x1.5" the smaller version "Sunflower Border" (#17501)measures 3"x1"

I am a huge fan of Kristina Werner and she often uses

Color Box Fluid Chalk Ink, I finally decided to give it a try.

I'll tell you, now I know why she uses it so often. I love it!

I stamped the Flower Border onto water color paper and colored it with water color crayons.

I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the brown paper.

The ribbon is cream grosgrain and I finished it off with a

large goldtone brad that I had in my stash.

I'm pleased with how this card turned out, I do love those sunflowers!

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you wish

and please do come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!