TT-DIY embellishment

We are making our own embellishments for this week's Tuesday Throwdown challenge. I just kept it simple and did a little bow treatment with sewing on a button. Come join in the fun and have a chance at winning some great prizes from our sponsors! :)

TT-Stripes

This week's challenge at the Tuesday Throwdown blog is to use stripes! I found some striped paper in my stash and decided to make a very non-traditional baby card using the Special Delivery sentiment. Hop on over and join us this week!



*If you would say a few prayers for me and my hubby as we are well on our way to Ethiopia! Looking forward to being home and I'll be sure to share:)*

Swimming Faith

The moment I saw this pretty fish cut on the Seasonal Limited edition Luau cartridge from Scrapbook Pal I knew I wanted to make this card. For those of you that know, today my husband and are in the air somewhere on our way to Ethiopia to meet our baby boy and are one step closer to having him home. It has sure taken a lot faith and perserverance to get this far! Here's how I made my card.

Using the Luau cartridge cut the fish at 1 1/2" 8 times, once with the FLIP feature on. Since I wanted my one fish to stand out I also cut him out of colored patterned paper and used the layer feature as well. For the blue fish I dry embossed them with Swiss Dots and swiped them with white ink. For my sentiment I used the Pink by Design set, Faith and used a black Tombow marker to color only the words I wanted to get the sentiment to line up the way I wanted without having to do any masking. Whatever you are going through, keep swimming and keep the faith!

Baby Cards and some news

Good Wednesday to you all! Today I have a couple new images for you that are up in the Heart Song Designs shop, they are Baby Giraffe and Tiny Miracle. I hope you like them! My cards used each image and for the Baby Giraffe one I used Copic markers to color and the Tiny Miracle I paper pieced the moon and star.

 Baby images are very fitting right now for me as this coming Monday, the 23rd my husband and I are making our first trip to Ethiopia to appear in court to finalize the adoption of our baby boy. Sadly, our baby will not be able to come home this trip...we have to come home and wait hopefully just a few weeks to get clearance to travel again to bring him home, but this is a huge step closer to our family being all together. I will be out of the country from May 23rd through May 31st, so any orders placed during that time will not be sent within the 24hour time period. But, they will be filled asap as soon as I am home. Prayers are much appreciated and I look forward to sharing when I am back home. Hugs...

TT-Die Cuts

This week's Tuesday Throwdown challenge is to use die cuts. Well I use die cuts on just about every single card I make so I thought I'd use the negative space of one which something I don't do that often. Hop on over to see who our sponsor is this week and join in the fun. Thanks for stopping by!

Pretty Pansy Frame

A new image from Heart Song Designs called Pansy Frame. I colored it with Copics and Prismacolor pencils and trimmed it out and mounted it onto a doily that I used Fine Linen distress ink to lightly distress the doily and inside of the frame. I hope you are having a blessed day!

Small Beginnings

Finally posting something here! I have been so busy, and sick, getting ready for our Ethiopia trip that I just haven't had time to craft. I am hopeful that since I have had a very bad head/sinus cold and the stomach flu that I will be healthy for the trip! I played along last night with the SCS sketch and used the Bird Nest image from Heart Song Designs. I colored the image with Copics and for my lace paper used a MS puch that I punched on either side of my paper strip to create the double edges. I hope you are having a great week! Thanks for stopping by:)

TT-Baby or Child

This week's Tuesday Throwdown was right up my alley as it was to make a baby or child card. I colored up this week's sponsor image and added some pretty finishing touches and have a sweet baby card. I hope you'll hop on over an join us. Thanks for stopping by!

Aloha!

This month I go to play with the seasonal cartridge Luau from Scrapbook Pal which is on sale for a great price and they have free shipping on any order over $25! Kind of fun to have this cart in my collection now as I grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii! For my card I decided to go with some fun, fresh tropical colors and use the hibiscus and Aloha cuts. Here's how I did it.

I cut the hibiscus, or flower2 at 3 1/2" two times so I could layer them using foam adhesive in between to give some dimension.

I then cut the leave at 2 1/2", once with the FILP feature on. I cut the stems off so they'd fit behind the flower nicely and not show in the middle.

I cut Aloha at 1 1/2".

I embossed the green card base with Polka Dots embossing folder and used Color box chalk ink in Dark Brown and Warm Red to ink my card edges, my hibiscus and Aloha. To finsh it off I lightly curled the flower petals up after they'd been layered together and added some faux dew drops to the center. Thanks for dropping by! ALOHA~

TT-Mother's Day

Mother's Day is fast approaching so it's the perfect time to make a card for that special mom in your life and join us over at the Tuesday Throwdown challenge. I colored up this image with Copics from our sponsor this week and did some dry embossing, distress inking and added some punched butterflies and ribbon treatment to finish it off. Hope you all have a wonderful day!