Love you so much

I finally finished all of my Valentine cards. This card for George made me so happy. the little kitty is the spitting image of our dear old girl Pinkie. This card will be from her.

I am entering this card in two challenges:

The Male Room

Inkspirational

Each site are featuring "love" cards.

I hope my cards inspire you to get started on your Valentine cards.

I love fall

There is a funny thing about having seasons change, spring and summer you can't wait wait to put away your long pants and sweaters and get into shorts and t-shirts. I am in the long pants and sweaters stage. I am ready for the cooler weather. 

The leaves are beginning  to change here in Pa. and the hotter days are fewer  and fewer. My creativity is leaning to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards. The next few months are my favorite time to craft.

In honor of the start of fall, I am using my gift set from Simon Says Stamp called "Fall Frenchies".

I am joining the fun at a few challenges.

The Male Room

Inspired By... 

I am also going to submit a second card to AAA Cards.

So put on your long pants and sweaters and joining in these "cool" fall challenges!

Go with your heart

I don't know about you, but by the time Christmas is done, my mojo just disappears. It takes awhile for it to return and each year I think how am I ever going to create my Valentine cards. What do you all to get your mojo back? For me it was looking at pinterest, buying some new stamps always helps and of course pushing myself by entering a challenge.

My card today is for my special guy, George. he loves any cards with teddy bears on them. Where did he come from??!!? Really??!!? Teddies??!!? Ya just gotta love a guy who loves teddy bears!! 

I am entering this card to The Male Room. The theme this week is "love your man". Well, I sure love my man!! For my card, I used Newton's Nook's "Winston takes flight". The trail of hearts is a very old Hero Arts stamp- back when there was only wood stamps!! LOL !!! The sentiment is from Mama Elephant's "sight seeing".

The Card Concept is hosting a "love in in the air" challenge. Come on I would be foolish not to enter!!

I made a very similar card for the male nurses on my staff.  I used the airplane from Lawn Fawn's "bon voyage".   It's always a challenge to create a Valentine card for a guys who aren't your "special someone".

Check out the challenge over at The Male Room. There is still time to play along. 

The sky's the limit

This is the time year where graduations abound. My BFF told me she was going to her granddaughter's graduation from preschool. Preschool!!!! I then found out there are graduations not only from preschool but kindergarten, elementary school, middle school. Geez, you can tell I don't have kids! 😀 Well if all these graduations are going on, you are going to need a bunch of congrats cards. I figured I better get a stock in.

CAS(E) this Sketch and Addicted to CAS both had a challenged that when I saw it, I knew exactly what I was going to do. Sometimes it happens like that. You just grab your stamps and 20 minutes later you have your creation done.

Die cuts seem to be a buzz word this week. Both The Male Room and Just Us Girls are looking for us to use them in our work.

 

I used Lawn Fawn's Blue Skies. I sponged the blue sky background and added the clouds and hot air balloon, all colored with copics.  Die cut them. (what would we do without dies?!!) The sentiment and gems were added and voila- the card was done.

These are some really fun challenges. Click on my links and play along too.

The Male Room Challenge #35: Transport

Today is rather bittersweet, it is my last challenge for The Male Room. I am stepping down as a designer because of work and school commitments. Unfortunately, life does get in the way of things sometimes. 

I hope that every now and again I can play along just like all of you. So before I get too sappy, lets talk about this weeks challenge. The Male Room is asking us to "transport". Lucky for me, My best buddy shared a new StampinUp set with this cool Volkswagen beetle. I added the pup from another set. I coulda swore there was a stamp of a girl, but I couldn't find it to save my life.

I think the sentiment says it all- "life is a beautiful ride" and my last year with the folks here at The Male Room has been just that. What an awesome crew!

So I hope that you will play along with us and show us how you transport!

The Male Room Challenge #34 Shakespeare

Today's challenge at The Male Room is "Shakespeare". Get your thinking caps on.

I am not saying anything about my card accept that I had to go and buy this adorable stamp set to make it.

I hope you get my tongue in cheek play on Shakespeare! Please join us at the Male Room and Shakespeare with us!

The Male Room Challenge # 33 Triple Stamping

Happy Sunday everyone. I am looking at a bright sunny day after a very weird day of fat snow yesterday. It snowed all day long and it just coated the ground. we had thick fat snow that looked like feathers floating.

Last weekend I spent in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania with a few girlfriends. We went for the Allentown Heirloom Rubber Stamp Convention but it really was just to spend quality time together stamping.

The weekend was the perfect opportunity for me to catch up on challenges. Today at the Male Room the new challenge is "triple stamping" I have to admit, I had no idea what this was until I googled it and saw it and thought "oh yeah I've seen that." You can google it and see a million videos or tutorials. Here is one from Split Coast.

So since I was in the road trip mood from traveling to the "No's", I went for a travel theme card.

The only problem with this card is the don't carry too much baggage. We are talking bringing stamping supplies- between 2 of us, the whole trunk was filled, leaving the back seat for clothes and food. Needless to say we pretty much spend the weekend in our jamis.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with this cool technique challenge at The Male Room!

The Male Room Challenge #31 Easter

My sincere apologies to my team at The Male Room. I totally missed our deadline this week. I have never ever done this before. I could make a gazillion excuses and they might all be accurate but the bottom line is I forgot. I had my card made, photographed but I just plain forgot to write my blog.

The challenge this time is Easter. I have barely started on my Easter cards, except for the few I have done for challenges. For my card today, I used an adorable stamp from Endless Creations that I picked up at last years Heirloom Rubber Stamp Convention.

It couldn't have been simpler especially since I have been crazy busy lately. I stamped the word bubble from one of those cheapie dollar stamps that you can get at the big box craft stores. I thought I had some some cotton puffs for the tail but could not find them (another item that probably went in a purge!) so i just used a pearl. Desperate times......

So don't be like me and miss the boat on this fun challenge but get out your bunnies, eggs and chicks and get crafting and share with us at The Male Room!!

The Male room Challenge #29 Monochromatic

 

All of you were champions last week with a challenge that was even a challenge for the DT. Today we ware reward you with a fun one a The Male Room.  I always like these. Monochromatic. Same color, same color family, same shades, you get the picture dontcha!??!

I think monochromatic cards are great ways to make set of cards, like I did here. I made the same card in blue, green and turquoise- manly colors. But you make it in pink, yellow, or lavender and you have a very feminine card. See how versatile monochromatic cards can be?

For my cards today I used the "mixmash" stamp set from Happy Little Stampers and mixed it up. Too busy do ya think? Sometimes I do get carried away.

So get out your favorite color and stamp away making us your best manly monochromatic card an share it with us at The Male Room!!