I have been taking the Insider Card Class with Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire and friends. It has been AWESOME!! I am truly enjoying each day of this 4 day class…and I wish it wouldn’t end!

Here is one of the cards I was inspired by Kristina to make:

It’s a happy, cloudy sky card with vibrant flowers. THEN, when you OPEN it…

It grows and grows and grows!

I used Paper Smooches friendly flowers stamps as well as Autumn Flowers stamps, Stampin’ up ink pads and Distress ink to make the sky. Inktense watercolor pencils are my favorites right now for coloring in these flowers. The “Hi” and those stars are heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

I thought this card would be perfect for my daughter who is pregnant (aka “growing” a baby)…what do you think?

Loving this card class, Kristina & Jennifer!!

Linking up to Paper Smooches challenge and Simon Says Stamp challenge.

Aren’t eggplants a funny vegetable. They really seriously make me smile. That is what inspired this card today, well, that AND the Paper Smooches Color Story card challenge. The colors they chose are called “Fresh Fall:”

With those colors to work with, I immediately thought of my Paper Smooches “Vegtastic” eggplant stamp. It is a funny little stamp, but it always makes me smile. When I got this stamp set, I wondered what I would EVER use that eggplant for. This challenge was perfect! Here’s what I came up with:

I watercolored the eggplant and used some purple glitter glue on a few of them. (Don’t touch yet…wet glue!) For the sentiment I used the “YOU” stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. The cloud die cut is also from SSS.

Look at those cute little shadows the eggplant makes…I popped them out with pop dots. A little washi tape makes the fun pennant banner. Those eggplant veggies *might be having a little party.

Here’s a side view so you can see the dimension. I hope this card made YOU smile.

Entering the Paper Smooches challenge here.

And the Simon Says Stamp challenge here. Have a week of SMILES!

If you got this card in the mail, would you laugh out loud?! I think I would. I am just loving the Paper Smooches Vegtastic stamp set. And that chevron embossing folder (Lifestyle Crafts) is adorable, too.

I did a color wash on those tomatoes with watercolor and then used some pop dots to give dimension to the card (see that in this side view pict). After I was taking some pictures, I thought it could use a bit more of the green color, so I added some unfaceted gems to the sentiment flag:

They are difficult to see in the pictures, but they’re a nice light green to match the tomato tops! That sentiment is fantastic…and it really pops with the white heat embossing.

I tied the red twine to the top, and I think it sorta resembles a tomato splat…can you visualize it?! 🙂 I hope you enjoyed this happy card today!

Joining up with the Paper Smooches Challenge here and the Simon Says Stamp Challenge here.

Lately I have been making lots of cards. I love to put them together and I love to send them to people I care about. I also love to enter them into challenges! The latest challenge from Simon Says Stamp is called “Animal Antics” with Lawn Fawn stamps.

So I whipped out my FAVORITE stamp set from Lawn Fawn and another FAVORITE stamp set from Simon Says Stamp and put together this cutie:

I just love those puppies in the “Critters at the Dog Park” set. And this “Happy” set from SSS is perfect for this scene, don’t you think?

That red twine is fun and fuzzy and reminded me of tennis balls…so I thought it would fit right in.

I used some pop dots to give those tennis balls dimension, and also used them on puppy pups there. I like how the dog bones at the top seem to jump right off of the card.

A little Christmas red Stickles on that heart adds the right amount of sparkle. That paper reminded me of wallpaper — I love it!

Wish me luck! I hope your day is HAPPY!