Peppa Pig Birthday

So one of my friends is a regular customer of my cards. She needs several birthday cards in January and this is for her granddaughter that is turning 2 and loves Peppa Pig. Knowing nothing about Peppa except that she exist I went to the internet. From looking at images and using the Bonus Sketch I came up with this! I turned the sketch horizontal and didn't put Peppa on a mat. I know the cloud shape is usually blue but that didn't look right to me so I went with white. I thought this turned out pretty good for my first Peppa Pig card!

Original Viva la Verve November 2012 sketch

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Peppa Pig Unicorn @ Kelly's Hobby Closet Etsy
Star Metal Die: Sizzix Thinlits Die - Stars
Cardstock: Bazzill (starmist, petunia, sunbeam)
Accents/Tools: Xyron X, pop dots

Love you just like a little PIG!!

This is another card the lady at work wanted. This one is for her granddaughter (almost 1) to give to her mom (the ladies daughter). She wanted a pig with this saying:
Love you little!
Love you BIG!
Love you just like a little PIG!!
Happy Valentine’s Day
(the ladies MIL use to say this to her daughter…so a family saying)

I put the saying inside the card and used this cute pig from Imagine That! Digi Stamp on the front. All the paper came from my scrap drawers! Yep, I have way to many scraps!!!I used Atlantic Hearts Sketch #198 for my inspiration.

Feb Inspirational Card Challenge – theme – Love

Imagine That Digi Stamps – Creative Playground Monthly Challenge – February – Anything goes. Get the free digi of the month if you use a Imagine That Digi Stamp.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: A Little Behind @ Imagine That Digi Stamps
Cardstock: American Crafts (Cabbage), Bazzill (Romance)
Patterned Paper: Reminisce (XOXO)
Inks: pre-colored digital stamp printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: Sizzix textured impressions embossing folder (swirls & square set), Cricut Expressions, Cricut Basic George Cartridge

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Farm themed baby card

Inside: It’s a Boy! Congratulations

One of the guys I worked with last year just had his first baby so I wanted to make him a congratulations card. From what I could get out of him is that his wife was doing a vintage farm theme…well that’s how I interpreted it! So I went through my files and searched the internet and thought Farm Critters and Barn from Doodle Pantry fit the theme. I was stumped at first as what to do with the image because I just didn’t want to print it out and stick it on the card. So I went back to the internet where I found this awesome card on The Rubber Cafe Design Team Blog. The design it was the perfect design for all the elements I wanted on the card. My best friend, Stephanie, took my ideals and made the cute saying!

CHALLENGES:
1) August Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites Category – Recreate a card or sketch you’ve saved in your favorites either on this site, a blog, or Pinterest.
2) Doodle Pantry – Ants in my Pantry Challenge #20 – Anything digital goes.
3) Crafting By Designs Challenge – Down on the Farm.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Farm Critters and Barn @ Doodle Pantry Digital Doodles
Cardstock: Bazzill
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: EK Success 1/16 pop dots, Martha Stewart fringe scissors, Scor-pal

Just a Wee little note

Wow! Just made that deadline!! Why I scheduled a craft the same weekend as Mother’s Day weekend is beyond me. I know I have several card orders to do every year for Mother’s Day. But somehow the good Lord helped me to get it all done!

I made this card for the progressive challenge at From the Heart Stamps. Each month she has a digi of the month and if you make a project using it then you get next month’s image free. I loved this saying so I decided to go with that. I also needed a card to mail to my best friend as I decided this year I was going to mail her a card each month. I have done good so far except I didn’t get the card in the mail yesterday so it was the first month I missed. But I plan on mailing it tomorrow so I will mail two in May…hope that counts! I also decided I would use this card as one we will make at the Retirement Home next Saturday. I found 3 different patterned papers in my stash and this is what we will make!

Did you see how PigWit was colored? Well, I batted my eyelashes and asked my husband to color him in photoshop for me. He did and turned the outline a mauve and I loved it….why didn’t I think of that!

CHALLENGES:

1) From the Heart Stamps – use the digi of the month to create a project and get next month’s image FREE!

2) Crafty Cardmakers and More Challenge #137 – Dots. I used big dots but they are still dots!

SUPPLIES:

Digital Image: Hamlet PigWit Being Shy @ From the Heart Stamps

Cardstock: Bazzill (white), Paper Studio @ Hobby Lobby (pink)

Patterned Paper – very old old stuff! 🙂

PigWit Halloween Style

I got this adorable stamp FREE since I played in last months Stamp of the Month Challenge @ From the Heart Stamps. I decided to make him Halloween so I could put the sentiment “Hope your Halloween is filled with squeals of delight”. I thought that would make a good Secret Pal Halloween Card for the lady at the retirement home. I then saw Anna’s totally cute Halloween card done with this sketch and knew I wanted to lift it for this card.

CHALLENGES:
1) August Card Sketch Challenge – Sketch #4 – original sketch was Sketch-N-Scrap Card Sketch #5.  I also used Anna’s card too to influence my design
2) August Stamp of the Month Challenge @ From the Heart Stamps – use the image provided and get next months image FREE.

SUPPLIES:
Image: Pumpkin PigWit @ From the Heart Stamps
Cardstock: Bazzill (Intense Kiwi, orange discontinued), Hobby Lobby (purple)

Patterned Paper: Reminisce (Boo Bash)
Inks: colored in Adobe Photoshop and printed on Canon inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: brads, pop dots, cutter bee scissors

Healing thoughts

Inside: Healing thoughts and prayers are being sent your way.

I have 2 sisters that come to my craft class at the retirement home. Both of the ladies are in their 90’s (probably average age for the class!) but they show up every month they can. This month one of them couldn’t come to class because she fell and broke her hip so I made this card for her. Wanted her to know that she was missed and we are praying for her.

I used the March Stamp of the Month at {From the heart stamps} called Hamlet PigWit Think Spring! This card is a hybrid card…half computer colored and half with Tombow markers.

CHALLENGES:

1) March Stamp of the Month Challenge at {From the Heart Stamps} – Use the stamp of the month before the 31st and get next months image FREE.

2) Sketch Saturday Challenge #303 – pick any sketch from #215 to 302! I used sketch #300

3) March Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Favorites Category – I used a saved sketch from my favorites.

4) Card Makin Mamas Challenge #83 – Photo Inspiration. Use the photo as inspiration. I took inspiration from the yellow flowers, green desk and the color of the lamp.

SUPPLIES:

Digital Image: Hamlet PigWit Think Spring @ {From the Heart Stamps}

Cardstock: Bazzill (White)

Patterned Paper: from my scraps so I don’t remember (I think the green is Michael’s)

Inks/Markers: The pig and yellow flowers were colored in photoshop. The flower stems, grass, flower pot and butterfly were colored with Tombow markers (yellow 985, pinkish red 905, green 126, brown 947)

Accents/Tools: Fiskars scallop border punch, Stickles – yellow

Technique: Watercolor with markers, hybrid

Hog and Kisses for you!

Yippee!! I made my goal for the Bugaboo Birthday Challenge Week!! I wanted to enter in 3 of challenges and complete the blog hop and I was able to do all 3!! I also was able to do all 3 with Bugaboo Images!! Yea me!!

I made this card for a lady that requested this image and saying for her daughter’s Valentine’s card. Hope she likes it!

CHALLENGES:

1) Catch the Bug Challenge – Sunday, January 19 – Birthday Celebration Sketch  –

2) Simply Create Too Challenge #53 – Valentine’s Day or use Hearts. I did both!!

SUPPLIES:

Image: Bobblehead Greetings – Hogs and Kisses @ Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Down at the Funny Farm….

We sing ei-ei-ei-o!!

I’m being silly but that is where we went at For Fun Challenges this week….The Farm! How ever you want to interpret it is up to you. Can’t wait to see what you come up with. ***If you want to be a Guest DT member at For Fun Challenges leave me a comment letting me know!***

We are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps. The random picked winner will win 7  Free Images!! Today I used Bobblehead Greetings – Hogs and Kisses

A girl at work buys my cards and will put in orders when she needs a special one. Her grandma-in-law is 88 years old and loves pigs. So that was her request for a Valentine’s Card and this is what I came up with. She loved it so that is all that matters!

CHALLENGES:

1) For Fun Challenges – Down at the Farm

2) Catch the Bug Challenge – A sketch challenge. Use the sketch provided as inspiration.

SUPPLIES:

Stamps/Images: Bobblehead Animal Greetings – Hogs and Kisses at Bugaboo Stamps

Cardstock/Papers: Chatterbox, Bazzill Cardstock

Inks/Markers: printed on my computer

Accents/Tools: heart punch, EK Success edge punch, brads

Techniques: Paper Piecing