Unbelievable Birthday Card Trio

Good morning, crafty friends! It's Christy here with a masculine (or unisex) birthday card trio to share with you all. Since I never seem to have enough birthday cards when I need them, I've started making several at once. Though I still enjoy making each card unique, I don't mind making them a little bit similar. In fact, that even makes them seem like part of a set, although I still typically send them out to different people.

For this trio, I particularly needed some masculine birthday cards, so I pulled out one of my favorite sets, Lovable Legends, and combined it with some elements from Party Animal to give them some extra party pizazz. I colored all the images in with Copic markers.

Today is the last day to enter our Color Scheme Challenge sponsored by Lawn Fawn. The winner will receive a FREE stamp set of their choice, so be sure to check it out!

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Fall Is Here with Christy

Good morning, friends! Christy here, with a few tips on how to use geometrics in your cards for our latest challenge. At first look, it may seem intimidating, trying to incorporate triangles and hexagons and all sorts of shapes into your projects. But don't be afraid to go simple. It can be as easy as adding some patterned paper with a graphic print, or die-cutting your focal panel into a circle or square, as I did on my cute hedgie card. Doesn't he look like he's having a blast?

And WE want you to have a blast when you play along in our challenges! If you're the kind of person who loves bold prints and patterns, don't be afraid to take your card there! But if not, there are easy ways to achieve that clean, graphic look while staying in your comfort zone. 

I hope this inspired you to get crafty! You still have a day left to enter our Geometric Challenge. I look forward to seeing your projects there!

You're Fintastic, Best Fishes

Hey everyone! Christy here. I'm super excited to be featured on the blog today with another card for our Rainbow Challenge! A friend from my writer's group is moving away, so I decided to make a tri-fold card with a peek-a-boo window, depicting a fish transitioning from a tank into the ocean.

I combined images from Lawn Fawn's Fantastic Friends with a few from Mermaid For You for a little more variety. These sets play so nicely together. I created my background by drawing waves on some Bristol Smooth Surface paper using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, then watercolored right over top and flicked on additional clean water for a bubble effect. I also watercolored my images in a rainbow of colors to fit our challenge.

I then glued my Bristol to the second panel of my tri-fold card and stamped a sentiment on the center panel, leaving plenty of white space for the entire group to write their messages. It was a big hit at her Going Away Party this week, and she said she's going to keep it up on her desk in her new home to remember us all by.

Our challenge ends this evening, so still have a few hours to enter if you haven't had a chance yet. I can't wait to see all your gorgeous rainbow colored projects! The winner will receive a FREE stamp set of their choice from Lawn Fawn! Definitely a great incentive.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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You're Fintastic, Best Fishes

Hey everyone! Christy here. I'm super excited to be featured on the blog today with another card for our Rainbow Challenge! A friend from my writer's group is moving away, so I decided to make a tri-fold card with a peek-a-boo window, depicting a fish transitioning from a tank into the ocean.

I combined images from Lawn Fawn's Fantastic Friends with a few from Mermaid For You for a little more variety. These sets play so nicely together. I created my background by drawing waves on some Bristol Smooth Surface paper using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, then watercolored right over top and flicked on additional clean water for a bubble effect. I also watercolored my images in a rainbow of colors to fit our challenge.

I then glued my Bristol to the second panel of my tri-fold card and stamped a sentiment on the center panel, leaving plenty of white space for the entire group to write their messages. It was a big hit at her Going Away Party this week, and she said she's going to keep it up on her desk in her new home to remember us all by.

Our challenge ends this evening, so still have a few hours to enter if you haven't had a chance yet. I can't wait to see all your gorgeous rainbow colored projects! The winner will receive a FREE stamp set of their choice from Lawn Fawn! Definitely a great incentive.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Watercolor Waving Hello with Christy

Hey crafty friends! Good morning! It's Christy here with another card for our current challenge: Distress Mania! I created by background by blending on a whole bunch of Distress Inks, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Evergreen Baugh, and a little Pine Needles. Then I took a paintbrush and flicked some water over top and blotted it away with a paper towel for an even more distressed look.

Then I watercolored my images from Mermaid For You with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, popping some of them up with foam tape and gluing others flat to the card to create the look of dimension. I thought I was done, but while snapping the photos, the mermaid's tail was just crying for some glitter, so I added some Stickles for a fun pop of sparkle here and there.

I hope you enjoy it! You still have a week to play along in our Distress Mania challenge. Hope to see your projects there!

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It's You're Birthday, Bling It Up!

Hey friends! It's Christy here. Today is the last day of our Sparkle It Up Challenge and I wanted to give you one last push of inspiration to encourage you to enter while you still can! There are so many ways to add sparkle to your projects, from paper to foil, sequins to sprays, stickles to embossing!

For my card I featured Lawn Fawn's Year Six with a backdrop of coral and sea grass from Fantastic Friends and blinged it out using gold glitter paper, foil, and embossing. I colored my images with Copic markers and framed them up using two of the Stitched Circle Stackables dies to echo my polka dotted paper.

You still have until the end of the day to link up your own sparkly projects, so get crafting! The winner will receive a FREE stamp set of their choice from the lovely folks at Lawn Fawn.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great day!

You're A Legend with Christy

Hey friends! It's Christy here with another card I made for our current Sketch Challenge. Today is the last day to enter, so if you haven't already, hopefully this inspiration will push you over the edge! Did you know that sketches are open to interpretation? You can flip them upside down or on their side or swap out one shape for another.

For my card, I replaced the two diagonal stripes with a set of footprints from Lawn Fawn's Lovable Legends.  I used Doe ink to stamp them, and Jalapeño and Noble Fir for the trees. I pulled out the old classic Bannerific to stamp my sentiment in, and colored Bigfoot with Copic markers. Distress Inks set the stage for the background panel and a little water splatter gave it some fun texture.

I hope you like it! Hurry up and post your own projects before the inlinkz closes tonight. Happy crafting!

Donut Worry, Be Happy

Good morning, friends! It's Christy here with a deliciously sweet card for our current Sweets Challenge. This tasty little set was just begging to be inked up! And while they're still calling for another snow shower or two here in Northwestern PA, I am definitely ready for spring with its bright pops of color, so I just had to incorporate them into my card.

I also filmed a quick video tutorial to show you how I put the card together. I hope you enjoy it!

You've still got one more week to play along in our yummiest challenge yet! So link up your sweet projects right here. We can't wait to see what you create!

Congratulations with Christy

Hello everyone, it's Christy here with another version of dino card I made previously for our Celebration Challenge. I've found that by stamping and coloring a few extra images, I can make TWO cards instead of just one, with very little extra time.

I used the super fun Critters From The Past colored with Copics, and set my scene with the Grassy and Hillside Borders, borrowing the clouds from Blue Skies. I had a mountain die that I added to the mix, but you could easily cut these out by hand. To keep my sentiment versatile, I grabbed the brand-new Ready, Set, Shake set so the card can be given for any occasion to celebrate!

I hope you enjoyed my card! You still have a few hours to play in our challenge if you haven't already. I hope to see your project there!

Winners: Sending Love - Queen of the Green, Top Mow-It-Alls, Honorable Gnomes

Good morning, everyone! Christy here, wishing you all a lovely Valentine's Day Eve. I hope that you'll be spending your day with someone you love. Love was definitely in the air for our Sending Love Challenge! We had such a great turnout and a fabulous selection of entries. I love it when you all make our job hard! Lol.

We want to thank the lovely Ellen Hutson, LLC for sponsoring this round. Our lucky Queen of the Green is going to walk away with a $25 gift certificate for her effort, and the rest of us get to walk away inspired by all this great talent! Let's get to it.

Our Sending Love Queen of the Green is:

Ro

Isn't this just darling?

Congratulations, Ro! 

Please contact Laurel at laurelbeard at me dot com within 48 hours to claim your prize.

Let's move on to our Top Mow-It-Alls:

Wiebke

Melissa

Francesca

These projects just couldn't be any sweeter!

And last but not least, our Honorable Gnomes:

Emily

Vicki

Lexa

Lenae

Lindsay

Arlene

Sonja

Dianchik

Aida

JBrady

Huge congrats to all our winners! Please grab your winner's badge from our tab up above and display it on your blog with pride. You earned it!

We'd like to thank everyone who played along in our Sending Love Challenge! We enjoyed every project! Please tune back in here on Monday for a brand-new challenge that we just know you're going to love!

I Wheelie Like You By Christy

Hey everyone, it's Christy here with another card for our current challenge: Watercoloring! I was super excited that my feature fell during this one, because I adore watercoloring, and I just can't seem to get enough of it. Especially when there are so many awesome mediums out there to try. Today I wanted to play with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens. I've had them less than a month, so I'm still learning their unique properties and just having fun experimenting with them. And since I'm still in the middle of my 2016 Valentine Card Series on YouTube, I knew I wanted it to be a valentine card as well. So I pulled out the adorable Wheelie Like You stamp set by Lawn Fawn, and this little cutie was the result. I colored him to look like our guinea pig Cosmo, who passed away of old age last year. But I couldn't leave out his brother Sprocket, who is still thankfully with us, so at the end of the video I show you an additional card  that was colored to look like him. I hope you enjoy it.

If you're feeling inspired to create a card for our Watercoloring Challenge, you still have today to play along! I hope to see your project there! Have an awesome day!