Stylish Blog Award for me!

Hey everyone- I have been really busy with work, so it was a nice surprise to get the Stylish Blog Award from Danielle over at Let's Craft Together. 

She's a new blogger so let's go show her the love by stopping by and checking out her blog. She has some cute cards and some really cute jewelry over there. 

Thanks Danielle!

Now I am to pay the award forward to 8 other talented people and tell you 8 things about myself.

Here are the people I would like to honor with this award:

Jingle Belles

Brick Buzzy Mom

Imagine What You Can Do

Happy Life Crafty Wife

Sarah's Stamping and Stuff

Paper Maine-Iac

Wahoo Crafts

Trail of Treasures

Check them all out, they have some great things on their blog.

Now 8 things about me:

1. I live in Minnesota- no it is not always cold here.

2. I love Hockey

3. My favorite words are FREE and SALE

4. My favorite cricut carts are Life's a Beach, Create a Critter and Paper Doll Dress Up

5.I love to travel

6.I am a Creative Memories consultant

7.I am new at blogging but totally enjoy it

8.My goal is to reach over 1000 followers by the end of the year.

Do you see Green?

Yes, I am seeing green. I think I pulled out every piece of green paper to find just the right shades to make this card. 

Only a few weeks to St. Patrick's day and thought I should make a few "lucky" cards. 

I found this digital image over at Digital Delights. It was actually a freebie last week in the black and white version. I downloaded it, printed it and start to color. Well, I decided, I did not have the all the right marker colors to make it look good. Rather it looked like a first grader had done it. 

 

So I went back to Digital Delights because they usually have a pre-colored version for sale. Sure enough and only $2! It was well worth it. In a matter of a couple minutes  I had downloaded the colored image and printed it. 

I saw a tip on someone's blog- I am so sorry I cannot remember who, but they used their finger to dob on some versa mark ink and then lightly dusted with embossing powder to kinda give the edges some sparkle. I am not sure I totally like this yet but it is growing on me. You can see I did a second card without it.

For a 3D effect, I printed the image a second time and trimmed out key parts like the hat, shows and shamrock. I attached these over the first image with pop-dots.

I will be linking this over at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge 
and Celebrate the Occasion 

Here's how I did it...

Basic A2 card size with Green card stock

Pattern paper is Reminisce

Digital image printed on cream card stock

Chalk for edges and gold embossing powder. 

Sentiment inside card "Kiss Me I'm Irish" from Scrappy Moms Simply Charmed Stamp set

I'm a "Wordy Winner"!

Yeah!!!- I just saw that I have been give the Top Talent Award for my Getting Wordy challenge card entry over at Our Creative Corner. I am so excited. It is always fun to be recognized for your work. Be sure to hop on over there to see all the other winners and entries. They are all fantastic. 

It's a Tweet day!

Hey everyone!-- I am still jumping with excitement due to all the great news yesterday. My mind is spinning with what I want to get done.

My Pink Stamper is having a challenge today so don't miss out. Here is my feathered friend card.

I found this adorable chick in the Once Upon a Princess Cartridge. I really need to go back to that cart and take a closer look.

Here's how I did it...

Standard A2 size card

Pattern paper from Heidi Grace

Chick and layers cut at 2.5" from Once Upon a Princess, p. 63

Side tag cut at 2.25 from Once Upon a Princess, p.63

The green tag shadow is cut slightly larger since this cut does not have a shadow feature for this cut

EK border punch

Bloom dots Cuttlebug Folder

Sentiment from My  Pink Stamper Tweetie Hoo Puns stamp set.

A few doodles with my gel pen and some accent chalk