I've had a few rolls of washi tape for quite awhile now.  Every other month or so I'll think of a card to use them on...but it seemed to be pretty rare.

Until our new challenge came up this week for Tuesday Throwdown.  Our fabulous sponsor this week is The Twinery, and the theme is to make your own background.  Is there anything that goes together better than washi tape and twine!?  So I set out to try and create something that used both of them...and my love for washi tape began.  And twine!  Man, that stuff is awesome!

Making this card was so much fun!  This pretty much shows my complete collection of washi tape...I have a pink polka dot as well but it didn't really coordinate all that great with the others.  So I need to desperately work on my stock because this stuff rocks!  It's so fun, and easy to!  And my favorite was that if I messed up, I could just pull it off and try again!  Lol :)

Anyhow, I took a little inspiration from some cards on The Twinery's blog and cut out some circles in my washi tape background.  That whole panel is affixed with mounting tape so it stands off the blue background and helps the twine stay level with the washi tape.  The Twinery provided us with a fabulous little package of their yummy twine, so I chose colors that coordinated well with my washi tape.  Then just globbed some glue down in the circles and spiraled up the twine!  I added matching gems to the centers to help cover up the frayed ends of the twine.

I printed the sentiment, which is from Create with TLC (works so well with this background) and then used a spellbinders die to cut it out and frame it with the light blue card stock.

I absolutely love how this card turned out!  It's so bright and fun.  And I love the twine circles.  And the washi tape!  New obsessions have been made :)

Be sure to stop by and visit the rest of the design teams to see their fabulous backgrounds!  Then come back and join in the fun!  Just remember to use a stamp (digi or rubber), and link up to 3 creations!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Ruby's Rainbow #52-Round and Round
    Whoopsi Daisy-Use Circles
    Word Art Wednesday #76-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Monday!
Wow, what a weekend!  We are in the middle of moving to a new apartment...it's crazy once you start packing to see how much stuff you have accrued...it never feels like we have that much.  But we made several trips to the new place with a loaded car full of boxes.  Made a few repairs (Matthew even surprised me by fixing the screen in one of the sliders!  He's so fabulous :) ) and we plugged in some Air Wick air fresheners to try and cover up the bad smoker smell that comes in from the rest of the apartments.

We had some crazy winds on Saturday so we opened up both sliders and let the gusts of air just fly through the place.  It was pretty awesome!  I love having sliders...let alone 2!!

So onto Digi Makeovers challenge this week :)
We want to see your animal friends!  I love making animal cards.  They can be a challenge sometimes, but animals are so much more versatile than people images...so they work for just about anything.

We've had some fabulous new digi images added to the store this week, be sure to check them out!  One of them was Carter the Dino Fairy, and I had to use him!

He's just so cute sittin on his dino in his little dino hoodie!  I realized after I took and posted the pics that I forgot to sparkle up his wings...so I will need to go back and do that.  But at the same time, he sort of looks okay without all the sparkle.

I colored my image with my pencils and distressed all the paper edges with my scissors.  It's a pretty simple layout which worked well for this image.  I printed off the sentiment and flagged the end.  Then made up a small button to affix at the top.

Quick and easy...which is nice since my time is pretty crunched with packing.

I hope you will join us this week at Digi Makeover!  Remember to use a digi, and visit the rest of the Makeup Artists to see their fabulous animal friends!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    A Gem of a Challenge #76-Distress It
    Aud Sentiments #78-For a Guy
    Crafty Catz #179-This One's for the Boys
    That Craft Place-For a Child

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Monday!
I hope the start of your week has been fabulous!  We are beginning a new challenge today at Digi Makeover and it's Girly Girl!

The first thing I think of when you say girly girl is pink and animal print...so I ran with that!

We have 2 weeks until we have to be fully moved out of our current apartment, so my mission has been to try and use as much of my scrap paper as I can so I don't have so much of it to move :)

This card did just that!  I took a little risk in using two different prints together.  But I sort of loved how the pink leopard print stood out on the zebra strips.  So I stacked those together and used a light pink in the background as sort of the neutral ground for the two prints.

Everything is matted with black card stock.  I cut out my scallop frame with my Cameo and then printed off my sweet image-miss Emma from Paper Makeup Stamps.  She is colored in with my pencils and then trimmed into a circle with my scallop scissors.  I wrapped some twine from The Twinery behind my layers and then flagged a sentiment stamp at the bottom.

The final girly touch was the clear gems in the corners :)

I hope you will join us this week!  Be sure to check out the rest of the fabulous digi makeup artists creations, and remember, all you have to do is use a digi!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Chocolate, Coffee, Cards #36-Color Inspiration
    Crafts 4 Eternity #119-Wonderful Wings
    Shelly's Images-Use Scallops
    There She Goes #203-Just Because

Happy Friday!!  How has everyone's week been?
Mine has been fabulous!  Except for this icky snow! (sorry for the dirty word!)  I mean really!...it's mid April and snow should be a thing of the past now!  I do pray that this is the end of that stuff and we can move onto a more glorious spring.

I want to say a warm welcome to my new followers!  I'm so very happy you are here!  If you're visiting and would like to stay connected, you can find my links over there on the right for Facebook, Pinterest, and Bloglovin.  I haven't jumped on the twitter bandwagon yet...something about it scares me...but maybe someday I will get there :)

Onto my cards for today.  Playing a little bit of catch-up..again :)  I had a great card-making day yesterday.  4 cards completed!!  And I figured, instead of spreading them out over multiple blog posts, I'll just do them all together :)

We will start with Mother's Day cards!  I've made quite a few of these over the last few months.  They are always so much fun to make!

This little sweetie is So Tall from Pollycraft Designs.  Adorable little image.  I thought it worked great to make as a mother's day card from a daughter :)

I colored it all in with my colored pencils and then layered all the papers together with a large bow at the bottom.  The border is my MS lace edge punch that I love oh so much (I think 90% of my cards recently feature that punch :) ).  I printed off the sweet circle sentiment and then added some blue liquid pearls in the corners.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Dilly Bean-Pastels
    The Paper Shelter #107-Spring Delights
    Send a Smile 4 Kids-Mother's Day
    Sketchy Friday #14
    There She Goes-Blue, Yellow, Neutral

Onto the next Mother's Day card:

I think this was my favorite of the day yesterday.  It's Spring from Pollycraft Designs all colored up and surrounded in girlie pinks!  My goal yesterday was to try and tackle some of scrap pile and get rid of some of it so I don't have so much to move.  These papers all seemed to go so well together!  I just loved that!

I layered 2 ribbons together and made a bow to stick at the bottom.  Then added 6 of those sweet little flower brads to the corners.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    2 Creative Chicks #1-Mother's Day
    Divas by Design-Flowers
    Pattie's Creations #65-Make it Sparkle
    Pretty Little Ribbons #21-Spring is in the Air
    Simon Says-April Showers/Spring Flowers
    Sweet Sketch Wednesday #201

And now onto Father's Day :)

This is one of my favorite images to use for Father's Day cards.  I think it totally reminds me of my dad, so it makes me smile every time I look at it.  Again, it's Robot Dad from Pollycraft Designs (I was on a roll with their images yesterday, can you tell?)  And I've used that fabulous MS lace edge punch again, along with some Twinery Cappuccino twine behind the image and tied into a bow around my handmade button.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Aud Sentiments #78-For a Guy
    Digi Darlas #57-Take Me Out To The Ball Game
    Seems a Little Sketchy #36
    Robyn's Fetish #154-Anything Goes

Well, if you made it to the end, thanks for sticking around!  I know it was a long one, but this weekend will be pretty busy for us...as will the next several weeks as we move into a new apartment.  So I may be a bit quiet.  Please bear with me!  I will be back, I promise :)

For now, love to you all! <3

We watched a small video on Sunday during our virtual sermon with Eastlake Community Church in Seattle, WA.  It was about slavery.  A heartbreaking video to watch while it talked about the people affected.  What they are forced to do for the gain of another, how they are treated, and the living conditions they must live in.  It's wrong...and it needs to end.

End it Movement is shining the light on this awful issue-Slavery.
I really meant to have this posted yesterday, which was their awareness day...but for some reason I kept thinking that April 9 was today (wednesday)...So I'm a day late, but I don't think that will matter much.  Getting this information out to the world to help fight against human trafficking, sex trade, and slavery is the most important point of this message.

Visit their website to find out ways that you can help.  We need to fight against this.  We need all of you to help.

Image:  Set Free from Saturated Canary
Colored with pencils.  All edges have been distressed with a light brown ink.  Recollections pearls in the corners, and liquid pearls on the butterflies.

The joy that this little girl is feeling should be the joy that every child gets the chance to experience.

Join the movement at End It.

Challenges entered:
    613 Avenue Create #14-Anything Goes/Spring Fever
    Catered Crop-Twine Love
    Corrosive Challenge #171-Spring Fling
    Crafty Catz #177-Anything Goes
    DigiStamps4Joy #64-Anything Goes
    Fab n Funky #166-Spring Colors
    Flutter by Wednesday's #235-Anything Goes
    Ladybug Crafts-For a Child or Teen
    Let's Craft and Create #67-Anything Goes
    Nutcrafters #40-Shaped Cards
    Saturated Canary #40-Pastels 
    Shelly's Images-Use Scallops 
    Stamp n Doodle-Bows and Butterflies
    V's Sweet Ideas #10-Anything Goes
    Word Art Wednesday #75-Anything Goes

Hello Loves!
It's time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!  This week it's Fancy Folds!  We want to see your creations that include more than 1 fold!  So start making those gate folds, and Z folds, and easel cards now, cuz we have a fabulous sponsor this week that you are going to love!!

That's right!  Little Darlings Rubber Stamps is our sponsor this week!  Woot woot!  The winner will receive a $15 gift voucher to their shop...now who doesn't want to win that?  Lol!

LDRS provided our design team with some stamps to use on our projects this week.
I went a little crazy with my card, but only because it is a birthday card for the wonderful mother-in-law so I wanted it to be special :)

 I went with a gate fold for my fancy folds card.  I've done a lot of easels lately and wanted to try something different.  There was this awesome idea I found at From My Craft Room to use a die cut to cut out a window in the middle of the card!  I loved the cards she made that way, so thought I would give it a shot.  And I love it!

Of course, I was a little stumped with the papers...I love this blue fuzzy paper, but because it already has detail of it's own, I wasn't sure what to add to it.  So I stuck with flowers...those go with everything right?  Especially when the center image is this gorgeous Fairy Wishes from Saturated Canary!!

I colored her in with my pencils and added glitter to her wings.  She was a blast coloring!!
 All of my flowers are handmade.  There are a few large rolled roses in the centers, and then some smaller punched roses around them.  Along with some blue daisy's and some fillers.  I misted both sprays with some shimmer mist so that they sparkled.

Since the inside of the card is still a main focal point of the card, I wanted to add something that could be used for writing a message on.  So I added a pocket behind the image so I could have a pull out tab there.

And printed off a fun little birthday sentiment :)
The card doesn't really stay closed but that's ok since it will look great on display!

I really hope you will join us this week!  You can use any images/stamps you wish and make any project you would like!  Remember there is a limit of 3 entries per person, but that still offers a great chance to win this awesome prize!

I also wanted to remind you that a great way to stay connected is to follow me on Bloglovin! 

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    7 Kids College Fund #70-Things With Wings
    Alota Rubber Stamps #104-Dress to Impress
    Delicious Doodles #30-Folds
    Mayzy Art #14-Sparkle
    Melonheadz Friends-Make it Girly
    Ruby's Rainbow-Birthday
    Simon Says-Happy Birthday
    Totally Gorjuss #178-Anything Goes with Sparkle
    Whoopsi Daisy-Swirls

Thanks for stopping by!

Have you ever tried a monochromatic coloring of your image?  Me either...until today's card.
I decided to give it a try after seeing the Sunday Showcase at Designed to Color.  It looked interesting and I wanted to challenge myself.

Our theme this week at Digi Makeover is Water, and I have had this sweet Jill image in my folder for quite awhile just waiting to be colored up.  So I figured she would be perfect for this card.

I went with purple because...well I just picked up these 2 papers from Michael's and really wanted to use them :)  So what do you think?  Be honest :)  Since I only have a small collection of colored pencils, my color range wasn't all that great..but I tried to shade darker with some colors to help add definition.

I printed off the sentiment and cut it out with the edge of a spellbinders die.  All the edges are distressed to help break up the layers, since they are all purple.  The large gems in the corner were also a sweet find at Michael's since they were on liquidation!!

Anyhow, let me know what you think of the monochromatic coloring.  And if you try it out, let me know!  I'd love to see what you come up with.

Join in the fun this week at Digi Makeover for our water challenge!  We are all getting ready for those hot summer days where beaches and waves sound so good!  And stop by the rest of the makeup artists blogs to see their fabulous creations!  They always blow me away and are such great inspiration!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Color Me Creative-All About Hair
    Craft Your Passion #157-Water, Water Everywhere
    Deconstructing Jen Sketch #96
    Ruby's Rainbow-Happy Birthday
    Sassy Studio #171-Use Something Wet (glitter glue on wings and lure)
    Simon Says-Happy Birthday
    Songbird #17-Five Colors in Her Hair

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy  Monday!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend!  We had some friends over for a fabulous night of Dungeons and Dragons!  It was a blast and I can't wait to play again!

This week our challenge at Digi Makeover is a simple one-Anything Goes!  Which was great, because I was so busy this week/weekend that I almost completely forgot to make my DT card!  Oops! 

I figured since we will be moving into a new apartment later this month, that I would make up a card to go along with a new home.  In a recent shopping trip to my favorite craft store, I bought these super awesome papers and when they caught my eye again while digging through my stash to find paper to use on my card, I immediately grabbed them!  I just love them so much!

Gorgeous right!?  I love the bright colors on these papers!  They just immediately make me smile!  I used an image from the Home Matters set from Paper Makeup.  Colored it in with my colored pencils and then added some small white flowers to the base and roof.

The bottom border is punched with my MS Lace Edge punch, and then I wrapped a large blue ribbon and bow around the middle.  Quick and simple but so gorgeous!

I hope you will join us this week for our Anything Goes challenge!  Really wow us with your creations!!