Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 66: Fantasy

***WARNING: A BIT PICTURE HEAVY***

We've got a fabulous challenge for you all over at Crafty Cardmakers!  This time, our hostess is Lin, and she'd like to see creations with a fantasy theme.

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Di says, "I have been drawing since a child and studied graphics at College many years ago, I now work as a Medical photographer part time but my love was always drawing. I started cardmaking about 4yrs ago when I bought my daughter a cardmaking kit which we did together, but I’m afraid I got the bug! My daughter preferred scrapbooking. I then started looking online at other blogs and this then became my passion and I loved sharing my cards with likeminded people.

I love stamping and loved finding images, but sometimes I could not find what I wanted so I started to draw myself.
This then has become my second addiction and I have never looked back, I love thinking of new images, and its just fabulous to see others take them and make them into beautiful works of art. Long may it continue!"

Here's my card for our challenge~

Details~

 I've used a fairy image off of a collage sheet from Swing Shift Designs. Added some vintage embellishments including hand crocheted flower from my dear friend Ellen at In a World of Craft to keep with the Victorian feel of the image.  I adore how this card turned out--it's not a style I usually create, but I LOVE it! :)

So, what are you going to create for us to see this week?  I can't wait to see! :) Happy crafting! :)

Nervous blogging...

So, we just had tornado sirens go off and the tornado is literally headed towards us, so I am nervously blogging.  Just finished a card for the Gingersnap Creations "Last Century" challenge.  I'm calling it "Fashionable Century".  Perhaps the last card for quite a while...maybe I'm just freaking out...anyway...

Here it is~

Details~

Prayers are very much appreciated.  I've never been so nervous for a storm as I am about this one--it's a very large tornado that is heading towards us.  Even if we don't get hit, many friends around us will, so I'm sure we'll have a lot of opportunities to serve our fellow man!

Our power is flickering...hope I can link this up! ;)  Happy stamping, all!   So grateful to have you all as blogging friends!!!

Let us try once more...

...shall we?  I have another card for this week's LIM challenge--to use 3 shades of green.  This one is more up to par with what I had envisioned.  I got to use a brand spankin' new dry embossing folder, purchased this afternoon.  And butterflies!  I forgot I had this butterfly Embosslits die.  I know.  HOW?!  This is the first time I've used it!  I'll be back tomorrow with another card that uses up the rest of the green butterflies...but onto the card!

Here it is~

Details~

 

This is also my weekly "Spread the L-O-V-E" card, for a family who's father had a heart attack a few days ago and had heart surgery today.  Scary.  What else can you do but pray?!

Won't you join me in Spreading the L-O-V-E?  Click here to sign up!!! :)

Thanks for all the well wishes.  My week hasn't really gotten all that better.  I think it's just grief.  You know how when someone you know passes away and it brings back all the loss you've had?  I've had a lot of loss...probably not as much as some, but quite a bit.  And it's a bit of a downer at times.  Hopefully I will be back to my "happy" self soon...Happy stamping! :)

Have a Happy Easter!

Just a quick card in two different color schemes to wish all of you a very Happy and Blessed Easter!

Pastel~

 

Primary~

 

I hope that each of you feel of the Love and Peace that come from the Atonement of our Savior.  Happy Easter, and happy stamping!

These are for~

Prairie Fairy Fridays: Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

It's already 11:30pm?!

Wow.  It's kinda late!  Oh, well...I'll just take a nap after work again tomorrow... ;)  Seems to be my theme this week since last week was spring break and now I'm back to the "real world."

I've got a fun set of cards to show you tonight!  As it's almost Easter, but barely spring, I went with a spring theme that could be used as Easter cards should I choose to use them that way.  I made a box to go with them (I made 5) and stamped matching envelopes as well!

Here's a peek at the set~

A better look at the card~

 

 

Other parts of the set~

So, what do you think?  Maybe I'll give it to someone I love very, very much.  Maybe I'll use it as blog candy.  Maybe I'll use it as a prize for Technique Tuesday (starting here at On a Stampage on Tuesday, April 3).  We'll see. ;)

I'd like to enter this set into the following challenges~

JUGS: Create a set of cards w/ a box

Creative Card Crew: Spring

colourQ: Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo, White

I {Heart} Ribbon: Printed ribbons