Mojo Monday Challenge

I just realized that I only seem to be posting once a month lately.  My scraproom is in my basement.  It's cold down there, so I don't have much ambition to go down there at night.  Yesterday I had the day off of work and turned on a portable heater and went to work.  Since the Mojo Monday email had gone out yesterday I figured that I would tackle that too.  I'm going to give this card to my sister Michelle for her birthday since her birthday is 2 days after Easter and this card reminds me of an Easter egg.  Here's the Mojo sketch and what I came up with.

Happy Stamping!

Mojo Monday sketch challenge 146

It's been so long since I've done a mojo card.  I need to get my mojo back and find time to enter my cards more often.  I liked this weeks sketch and used some embellished papers that I already had made in my craft room.  I had embossed some paper with my cuttlebug and then brayered it with rich razzleberry.  I love trying to make my own patterned paper and come up with something different.  The flower was made with a 2 scallops that were scored and folded to create this 3D design.  I wouldn't dare put it in the mail because I am pretty sure that it wouldn't fit in the envelope too well but it's perfect to give with a gift.

Mojo Monday sketch challenge

This month's sketch challenge came at a perfect time because I have a ton of cards that I need to make. I made this card for my Nephew Jake's 6th birthday that's coming up very soon. I've been waiting to use this cute monster stamp for a while and finally got the chance to. The only thing that I wished that I had for this card was some green flock. How great would it be to have a furry monster on this card. Maybe next time.

Mojo Monday 116

It's that time again for the Mojo Monday sketch challenge. Every Monday they have a sketch and you come up with the rest. Every first sketch of the month is a contest. This sketch was a fun one! Since I still had more Christmas cards to make, I decided to do one for the challenge. To check out the sketch for this week click here.

Mojo Monday 111 Contest

I almost missed it. It's Sunday night and almost the deadline for the Mojo Monday sketch challenge. I didn't even have enough time for my silver stickles to dry before taking the picture. I've been wanting to make a card using triangles as trees for a long time and now I'm very happy that I did. The're so simple to do and look so pretty on paper. I used many dimensionals on this card. I popped up the snowflake, the large square and a couple of the trees to create a layered affect. I added some crystal glitter by Martha Stewart before adding the trees. The paper is by DCWV and paper trey ink-kraft.

Mojo Monday Madness

It's time once again for the Mojo Monday sketch challenge and once again they came up with a great layout. This one was easy because I used a Martha Stewart stamp set that I've been wanting to use for a while now. This set is a 2 step stamp set that has the solid part of the flower and the 2nd step outlines the flower. I used a marker to color in by the center of the flower and red ink to do around the petals. I outlined in colorbox fluid chalk warm red. I used paper from a DCWV mat pack and dry embossed the black with my cuttlebug. It's pretty simple, especially when the layout was all done for me. If you want to see some more cards made with this same layout, just click on the link in this post or click on the blinkie on the left bar of my blog. The design team came up with some great ideas.

Mojo Monday Sketch challenge

I've been so sick this past week that I haven't had any time to do my Mojo Monday sketch challenge card. I made a halloween card for this one. I used paper from a DCWV mat pack. They are just the right size for making cards. The pumpkin stamp was actually picked up at a target $1 bin. Now that's what I call a deal! The punch going along the bottom is from the Martha Stewart border punch collection. I also added some bling to the black strip going along bottom to give it some more shine. The pumpkin looked a little plain so I spread out some diamond stickles and filled it in to give it some more shine. OH....By the way, how do you like my new fall colors on the blog. I figured that I would change the colors since fall is coming up so quickly. I think it looks festive.

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge

Once again, I'm joining in on the fun at the Mojo Monday site. If you'd like the see the original sketch for this challenge you can click here. I kind of got a little funky with the colors but it's summer time after all. I love to use these bright fun colors. I started this card with some dry embossing with the cuttlebug spots and dots folder. The background patterned paper I used is from the girly glitter pack from AC Moore. The wonderful label shape comes from my new Spellbinder nestabilities set called Label 1. It works so great and I can't wait to get more shapes. The strip down the left side was made using Martha Stewart's doily border punch. This card was left with no sentiment and can be used for almost any occasion. It's going into the Etsy store shortly for sale.

Mojo Monday Challenge

I'm nice and early this week. I wanted to join in on the Mojo Monday challenge last week but I ran out of time to enter. I just started participating in on the fun going on at all the blogs out there and wanted to do too much at one time. This time I'm pacing myself. I'm actually hoping to start doing videos soon as soon as I can get it set up. Well, onto the card. This is a pretty simple layout that they asked for so I kept it simple in design. I used 2 papers from a me and my big ideas pack. I also used a textured piece of light blue card stock. The butterfly on the circle was already on the printed card stock and I outlined it with diamond stickles. The antennas are strings of pearls that I found in the wedding section of Michaels. The blue strip on the left is also a piece of the same light blue card stock except that I paper pierced it and added some white gel pen to create some faux stitching. I topped it off with some rhinestones and button. Dimensionals are also used to make the card pop. This card will be found in my etsy store.