Mushroom Living

 I am   delighted to do another  Guest Spot for My Crafting Heaven this time  showcasing the digital stamp 'Mushroom Living'.   Christine Gray is the  creator of these delightful mushroom homes and is showcasing them  January 23rd .   Christine's wonderful digis   can be found  here at her shop! You can also visit her blog here: My Crafting Heaven.  I will be using this card for a Congrats New Home card, I think it will be super for such an occasion.  I also used a tutorial I found for making flowers from paper bags. I   first found the tutorial on Marsha's  blog and followed her link to the  site that had the instructions. Super easy to make!


Card details:
 Digital Stamp 'Mushroom Living' by Christine Grey from My Crafting Heaven
 Colour medium: Prismacolor  markers
Ink: Stampin' Up Ballet Blue for the clouds  
Paper: Stampin' Up cardstock  whisper white, cajun craze, tangerine tango: Designor paper: Stampin' Up's Pattern Pack  111  and the background paper behind the whisper white is from stash
Die Cuts: Impression Obsession   DIE022-U
Punch: Martha Stewart scary branch punch, E K Success 'retro flower' 1/2 inch' punch"   
Other: rhinestones
Other:  hand made paper bag flower see here
Sketch: partially based on the CLP Sketch challenge #54

Challenges

1. Inky Chicks: #2 Becky's Bingo - I used diagonal row with die cuts, image. flowers

2. Through the Craftroom Door -TTCRD Challenge: Jan 33 -28th, 2013 Always Anything Goes
3. Vickies Challenges:Anything Goes
4. Bunny Zoe's Crafts Monthly Challenge: Anything Goes
5. Crafty Bloggers Network: Monthly #7 Flowers
6. Created with Love Challenge: CWLC25 - Anything Goes
7. Cupcake Craft Challenges: #226...Make a Scene
8. Eureka Stamps: #23 Anything Goes
9. My Grafico Crafts:#144 Anything Goes
10. Whoopsi Daisy Challenge: Use a Digi

BJ's Card

My friend and stamping buddy Dawn has three wonderful son's . The middle son moved out a little while ago and I have been planning on giving him a little gift ever since. He not only moved away from the nest, but to another city and has bought a home and gotten a new job. Lucky Calgary to have such a new citizen. This Kenny k stamp doesn't really look like him but it gives off the vibe of jubilation  a young man must feel at the start of a new life and going out on his own. Good Luck  and all the best that life can give BJ. 

Stamp: Grove Dude by  Kenny  K

Ticket stamps: Whimsy  stamps (these ones were blank and I wrote in the sentiment)

Paper: certainly celery, whisper white by Stampin' Up, blue weathered bacground paper  from Stamp TV's free digital paper ; navy background  wall paper

Embellishmnets: button from stash, Epoxy Stickers by Recollections

Challenges :

Bearly Mine Challenges #23 : One for the Boyz

Digital Tuesday:  challenge #136 Anything goes

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges: #46 Anything Goes

Heart Song Inspiration:#23 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations: Anything Goes

Kenny K Krafty Girlz Challenge#68: Celebrations (mine is celebration a new job and home for a young man.

Paper Sundaes: challenge #94 rectangles - mine has lots of rectangles from the card base to the images frame and the background papers. Even the 'tickets' are rectangles:)

To New Beginnings

I've been busy readjusting my life and cleaning up downstairs as my son has moved out:0(   I am happy for him of course and he drops by  most mornings for coffee,....but my family room has echos in it, it is so empty and not only from the furniture he took, but from the missing voices. The family room was filled for years first with  young boys, then teenagers and for the last few years with young men and their ladies.    I shall miss them all, those young happy souls who spent so much time with us, but life moves on and now my son shall start on his road to  independence . I wish both him and his lovely Katie all the very best .

Challenges entered:

Anything Goes Challenge Blog: Home Sweet Home
Papertake Weekly: Punch it Out  use punch or die cuts
Tuesday Throwdown: die cuts
Crafty Creations: anything goes
Craft us Crazy: something new and/or favourite embellishment - my something new are the tiny green buttons and fav. embellishment is the butterfly, I love butterflies on my cards
My Grafico: monthly challenge for May

Card details;
Stamps:  Stampin Up's Neighborhood (jumbo wheel) and ?
Sentiment:  computer generated
Paper: Stampin Up
Spellbinders Nesabilities
Other: small pearls, crystal effects on the TV and picture glass, small punched butterfly

Jeff & Katie - New Home Card

This card is for a friend of my son's who he has known since  kindergarten.  He is a wonderful boy and he feels like a second son to us.....Time passes, they grow, meet lovey ladies, fall in love and before you know it , one of them (my son's friend and his love) are off looking for a home. They find one they they think is right and are due to move in early December. Hoping to get a head start on things ( at a stamping play date  with a friend  yesterday) we decided to get the 'move in' card made . This is my result.  I have included two pictures just to show the crystal effects on the windows as it did not show up in the first picture.

 Note:  Inside the card I have stamped 'Congratulations on your new Home'

1. Stamping Vacation 'The To Who ' challenge - Make a card for someone who  has just bought their first home     http://stampingvacation.blogspot.com/2010/10/to-who-challenge.html

2. Cute Card Thursday - challenge #138 Anything Goes   http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/

3. Easy Craft Projects - challenge #25 - Red   http://ecpchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-25.html

Stamp: SU 'Right at Home' stamp  and mesh background stamp ' 

Paper: SU

Ink: Parismcolor markers. SU always artichoke, mellow moss, bashful blue

Ribbon: green from SU, black(?)

Other: embossing folder, crystal effects

Technique: Dry embossing, marker colouring, some sponging and for dimension added two little green bushes and a cloud