SAIL ON! TEA CUP TRAVELER, HAPPINESS IS IN THE JOURNEY

Meet Pure Innocence (PI).  I love the simplicity of this little line drawn sweetie and she is a favorite character of Lawn Fawn. PI reminds me of both myself as a little girl and my granddaughter.  Lawn Fawn has several new releases of her every year and she is always doing something fun.  Her every day antics fit into my memories of life as a little girl.  When I saw this version with her eyes covered, my imagination jumped immediately to putting her into a hot air balloon.  This concept turned into one of my favorite all time cards.  I chose the "where" sentiment because it was one of my granddaughter's favorite words at the time.  The banner is an Our Daily Bread Designs diecut.  The barn is from Sweet 'n Sassy stamps, "Landscape Sillhouettes", the cup is from, "A Nice Cuppa", by Stampin UP.  The paper for the hot air balloon is from "My Mind's Eye.

Using a bit of Corrie Ten Boom's wisdom, (see Knowing Your Purpose, a Missionary Heart 5-26-2013). I made this graduation card for my son, who graduated from law school this year.  It was a happy day for the Bobb family!  Congratulations, Nick!

The stamp set is from Our Daily Bread Designs.  It was stamped with Ranger Archival ink, color is from Copic markers, both air brushing and pen strokes.  A quilled daisy flower was added for an embellishment.

I'm pulling for all those exams to turn out well!  

Thoughts and prayers for the student in my life.  

Today's card was made with a Flopsy stamp from "My Favorite Things". Flopsy Inked up with Mementos ink and colored with Copic Markers.  The background is airbrushed with Copic Markers.  The sentiment was stamped with a frame from Our Daily Bread Designs mini tags 1 and cut out with Spellbinder's Nestabilities Ribbon Tag Trio 3.  Ant is from G-Rated Rubber Stamps.

Monochramatic Blues Blog Challenge

This card was created for the Monochromatic Blues Blogger Challenge.  I haven't worked very much with blue, so this was truly a challenge!  The stamps are from Our Daily Bread Designs and are colored with Copic Markers.  They are fussy cut and placed on the ovals cut from Nestabilities. The sentiment was embossed.  I like the design of this stamp set as it seemed meant to frame an oval so nicely.

Be Faithful in the Little things

Hello, thanks for stopping by.  Today's post is a response to a Challenge posted on Lisa Somerville's blog for a Blog Hop ( you hop like a little green frog from blog to blog enjoying the cards made in answer to the challenge along the way).  And if you're a spirited little blog frog who really feels like having fun, you create your own card and enter the challenge with us! (using the link below the cards in the blog)
The challenge is to make a card using the technique or media listed in a straight line of the Tic Tac Toe board.

For my design, I used the line starting in the lower bottom left corner, middle lower space and right lower corner.  So my card is made with:  Buttons, Die Cut Punches and Ribbon/Seam Binding.

The sentiment for today's card is from one of my favorite Stamp Companies which has just celebrated their third anniversary, Our Daily Bread Designs.  The sentiment is embossed with Color Riser Embossing powder.  The pink, purple, turquoise and sunflower hues were created with Pan Pastels on white card stock,  The die cuts for the sentiment are Nestabilities label 10 and the matching stamps for the die cuts are from Waltzing Mouse and are called Vintage Labels 10.   The turquoise label is embossed with Craft Essentials Embossing Powder.  Waltzing Mouse is (for me) a newly discovered stamp line from Ireland! The purple label is embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dot.  The white background is embossed with the Cuttlebug Heritage folder.  The cornice punch at the top is EK Success Flourish Scroll Edge and the Buterflies are punched with a Martha Stewart edge punch.

Have fun blog hopping along enjoying the beautiful sights at the other blogs.