Spring Time Card with my Favorite Colors and Die cuts

Happy Monday!!

I personally love Mondays, because they are my day off.  Yesterday I spent some time with my parents, while my children went to their cousin's swimming birthday party.  I took my mother to the antique store!  What a fun visit!  I will be sharing my creation with other Make it Monday fans.

I had some time today to play today and found a few challenges to enter this week.

  For the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown wk 90: Spring cleaning I used one of my favorite Bluebird die cuts, some pink buttons a tiny doily flower and one of my favorite embossing folders.  The papers are all ones I created in GIMP, and these are all scraps of my favorite pieces. 
The Paper Play Challenge for week 12 is spring colours, which is perfect to enter this week!!  Paper Sundaes: Spring Blossoms is perfect for my creation too.

Fashionable Stamping Challenges Spring is in the Air , is another perfect challenge for me to enter this week. They ask that you use a STAMP for all of their creations.  I am going to clean up my studio and find all my stamps!!  I used my favorite background stamp that I drew and carved myself to use on the lower half of my card.  I used Ranger's Peeled paint distress ink for my stamping.  You can see all of this in the close up below.  

The Bluebird die cut (one of my favorite images from the Graphic Fairy)and other pieces were all cut out using my Black Cat Cougar which I purchased here.  I just love the Black Cat Forum.

I distressed all my edges with Old paper Distress ink and added some Perfect Pearls in Perfect gold around my embossed piece and tiny pennants.  I used some pop dots to elevate my "Tweet" and my little pennants.

I thought I would also share some of the weirdness that goes on at my house.  Here are my two boys, goofing around while I am trying to get photos.

 LOL..noticed how I spelled WRONG..."WORNG"..I guess I will face palm myself now...LOL.  

Have a fabulous Day and thank you for visiting!!

Hugs!!

Heather

Gecko Galz Blue and Green Challenge

Hello Friends

Just a quick post to say

there are only a few days left to enter your creations into the 

Gecko Galz blue and Green Challenge.

Just click on the link above it will take you to the 

Gecko Galz Paper crafting Yahoo Group.

All you have to do is click the button that says "join this group" 

when you do, let them know that Heather sent you :0) pretty please.

Here is my entry for the challenge.

I used a Gecko Galz digi stamp from the TooTweet Collection (the bird in the center of my blue ribbon.  I also used a blue digi paper from the Gecko Galz "Secret Garden Digital Paper pack.  I also used a blue butterfly from the April set of Ephemera by Gecko Galz called "Pretty little butterflies"..the sheet is GORGEOUS!! All of these collections you will be able to find on the main page at Gecko Galz in April.   I used GIMP to layer the digi stamp on top of the

 digi paper.

I used Inkscape to do the "Get Creative with Gecko Galz Digi Papers and Stamps."  I also created cut line for my project in Inkscape.  Normally I would of used my Black Cat Cougar to cut this out.  But I got a new laptop and I have to have my DH help me set things up.  For some reason instead of my files going to my cutter they are going to the printer...LOL.

I used perfect medium pen to do some doodles on butterflies and around the edges of my ribbon.  I then applied perfect pearls in perfect copper to give it a added touch.  Used Ranger Liquid pearls in  ocean blue to add some dimension .  I cut out an extra set of butterflies, to add dimension as well.

I used the Gecko Galz Fairy Boarders set of clear stamps, specifically the butterfly one to create my pattern on the "paper ribbon" part of my Blue Ribbon.  I used Ranger's chipped sapphire with the border stamp to stamp on the edges of both sides of the papers.  Then I used Peeled paint distress ink on the stamp and stamped a few butterflies down the center of each paper ribbon.

Again, added some perfect pearls in perfect gold.

One last look at the whole thing.

Please come and join us at the Gecko Galz Yahoo Group.

I am off to work in my garden.

Hope you enjoy your day!

Hugs!!

Heather

Shabby Chic ATC Gift Tag with my Digital Collage

Hello friends!

Had a little time to play today. 

I have a Beautiful ATC Tag that I created using a collage sheet I created myself with some Graphic Fairy Images and background paper I created myself.

you can purchase it in my Etsy.

I will be sharing my ATC tag with The Shabby Tea Room (spring theme and dry embossing),   Tuesday Throw down (add a clip),  Allsorts Challenge (Say it with flowers), Simon says Stamp and show (anything goes) and Fashionable Stamping Challenges (BINGO).  Since Spring is the thing, I will be sharing this with the ABC DT Challenge this month.  I will share this with Make it Mondays for inspiration :0)

Here is my ATC Tag

If you visit the The Shabby Tea room (it is their 2nd birthday..fabby prizes ..so stop for a visit)...you will see that I have many colors from the inspiration photo.  I embossed the little butterfly square at the bottom of my tag.  Inked the raised portions with Ranger's old paper distress ink.  I have flowers on the ATC Collage itself..as well as some flowers from Pro 31 Designs Etsy.

You know I love using Beading wire in my projects, so I created my own clip for the Tuesday Throw Down Challenge, I tied a green with polka dots ribbon to it.  Gives it a great artsy look.  I used my favorite background stamp (that I carved) and peeled paint distress ink to add the leaves and flower around the edges of my project.   I used it on the back too, as well as a "Happy Birthday" stamp that came in bunch of stamps I bought online (they were used, not sure who the maker is).  The stamping and the button, vintage and flowers works for my BINGO (plus a few others) for the Fashionable Stamping Challenge.

Look at that fun Pink Crystal flower..perfect for the Allsorts Challenge.  You can find it, the flat back pearls, Ivory Curly rose, and pearl spray at Pro 31 Designs.  You can just barely make out the embossing.  Now that I see this close up, I think I will add some of the liquid pearls in lavender like I did on the rest of the card.  It will be fabby!  Here is the back.

This side I did in a light pink background, but for the collage I made a darker pink one (I will probably list both).

The bumble bee is a die cut I created in the past from a Graphic Fairy image. 

I also did some doodling on both sides with my perfect medium pen and perfect gold perfect pearls by Ranger.

So please stop by and visit all these wonderful challenge blogs! Lots of creativity and inspiration!

Thank you for visiting!

Hugs!!

Heather