Clayton"s First Birthday

Hi!

My great, great nephew ( I know...I'm that old!!) is turning ONE!

Since I'm making him a special birthday card this is a perfect time to link up to

 My Favorite Things Birthday Project Challenge.

Here's the card I made:

 

Lots of bright bold colors on this one!

Here's a peek at what I did for the inside:

I'm sure his mommy will have fun buying him something with the gift card.

Supplies used:

My Favorite Things - BB Beary Special Birthday 

My Favorite Things - Blueprints #13 die

My Favorite Things - Gift Card Greetings

Simon Says Stamp - stitched circles die 

 Waffle Flower - Flower Circles Inverted die

Lawn Fawn - Lift the Flap die

Lawn Fawn - push here

poem from the internet

Thanks for looking!

Have a great day.

'till next time,

Doni

Thanks

Hi!

 Today's Color Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers is to use green, black and gold.

The desert is anything goes ( think out of the box).

 

Well, those colors and the time of the year coming up made me think of St Patrick's Day.

 However, needing to think out of the box, I made a Thank You Card! lol!

I used the Peppini Oval Frame Die from Poppy Stamps, cutting it first from

gold sparkle paper and then laying a dark green frame

 ( with the inside pieces & parts punched out) over top of the gold.

The Thanks was die cut using a die from Papertrey Ink ( Uncorked Stamps & die set).

'till next time,

Doni

Gnome box

Hi! 

So, since I had colored a bunch of Gnomes and I love to make box cards it only

 

makes sense to combine the two.

So that's what I did today.

As luck would have it  Back to Basics and Beyond has a challenge calling for box cards.

Guess where I'm linking to! 

Thanks for stopping by.

'till next time,

Doni

Gnome

Hi! 

Today's card was made to play along with the MFT Wednesday  Sketch Challenge #425.

 

Here's my take on the sketch using the MFT stamp set "You Gnome Me".

and here's what I put on the inside:

Thanks for stopping by today! 

'till next time,

Doni

Spring

Hi!

 Today's Color Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers is to use
daffodil delight, pear pizzazz and white.

 The desert option is to use rhinestones.

Here's the card I made:

 

I used:

Create a Smile - Crokisses (clear stamp)

Neat & Tangled - Hello Spring Die

Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle Layers

Simon Says Stamp - stitched Circles

DCWV - White Embossed Stack (6x6 paper pack)

Foam tape 

green rhinestones 

Thanks for looking.

Don't forget to have some fun today!

'till next time, Doni

Splitcoast Color Challenge

Hi!

 Today's Color Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers is to use peach, blue, and brown.

 The desert option is butterflies.

Here's mine:

 

 There's a hidden butterfly! Did you find it?

Hope you can play along.

'till next time,

Doni

Valentine

Hi everyone!

 Today I made a cute Valentine card to share with you.

I used the Lawn Fawn stamp called Let's Toast to make this very quick and easy card.

Don't you just love those sweet little smiley faces?!

These are the supplies I used with links to the Dies R Us Store 

Lawn Fawn - Let's Toast

 

Lawn Fawn - Let's Toast Dies

 

'till next time,
Doni
 

 

 

Gorjuss Hello

Hi 

 Today I'm sharing a card I made for the Addicted to Stamps challenge. 

This month aNNie chose the theme " anything but a square".

I decided to try my hand at doing a rocker card:

Here's the supplies I used:

I like the way the card turned out, however I did learn something important.

Because I wanted her to look like she was sitting on the fold,

 I die cut the Papertrey Die shape out of white cardstock and

 stamped and colored her with Copics markers.Then I fussy cut the areas below 

the line she's sitting on and then attached this background shape 

to the back of the folded circle gluing her legs to the front of the circle.

Well, looks great...but to be able to open the circle to write a message

you would be folding the image in half ( not sure I would like that!)

Could be why all the other rocker cards I saw had the smaller shaped attached on the front!

 Duh! Live and learn I guess!

'till next time,

Doni

Color Challenge

Hi! 

I have the honor of being a Guest Designer for February over at SplitCoast Stampers

on their Color Challenge.  This week Stef has chosen night of navy, blushing bride, very vanilla 

and a metallic of your choice. The desert option is to use a die cut or a punched element.

Here's what I came up with:

 

I really like the look of the gold embossing on the soft pink vellum.

 ( I don't even want to think about how old that vellum is!) 

here's a closer look:

I hope you're inspired to play along with this challenge.

'till next time, 

Doni

Valentine's Day Shaker

Hello!

It's my turn to do a tutorial for Dies R Us.
I had fun making a heart shaped shaker card.

Here's some of the supplies I used :

My first step was to die cut a 4 inch Dotted Square from designer paper. 

Then I cut out the heart shape from the center.

Next step is to adhere clear acetate onto the back side.

Then I wanted to layer the shaker front onto a 4 1/2" pink square,

so I needed to remove the center so you could still see through the heart.

To make it a shaker, use foam tape on the back ( I used 2 layers).

 

cut a piece 4 1/2' square out of whatever paper you want

 to see behind your heart (I used plain white) and sprinkle all your  shaker goodies in the center.

remove the covering from the foam tape on the back of the heart

 and center that panel over this and the shaker part is done! Hurray!

Attach the love die cut to the shaker front and then put the whole thing 

on a square card base and you're done!

Supplies used:

Tutti Designs - Dotted nesting squares


Tutti Designs - stitched nesting hearts

 Poppy - little halo love

Thanks for stopping by.

'till next time,
Doni