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!

This weekend has been a whirlwind of activity for me! So to take my mind off things, I made an adorable card with my Paper Smooches stamps to enter into their card challenge here.

I am in love with Paper Smooches stamps! And this was my first time playing with my new “Friendly Flowers” set. This week’s challenge was inspired by this picture:

So I took the idea of lace, and pink, and flowers and put them all together in my card here:

 I used the Paper Smooches Friendly Flowers for the flower portion, and the Paper Smooches Vegtastic set for the sentiment.

The doilies bring in that lace element and the pink chevron paper is from Me & My Big Ideas.

I used liquid pearls in “Platinum Pearl” on this card. I think these pearls turned out pretty good! That pink ribbon is seam binding (which I love!)

Well, what do you think? Is this a winning card?
I had a great time working on this challenge! There will certainly be more Paper Smooches in my future! See you next time. 🙂

I made this card especially for my daughter. I love how it turned out. In fact, I would love to get a card like this myself! That sunshine/sun rays stamp will probably be one of my favorites.

I made this with mostly all the loot I got from Simon Says Stamp! I LOVE my stamps, and especially when I win them!
Here’s the inside:

Because it was a little grey, I thought the envelope could use some bright colors, so I made her a bright pink envelope. Who wouldn’t love to get this happy envelope in the mail? I purposely made it much bigger than the card so the banner wouldn’t get crushed. There’s definitely plenty of room in there for this card!

Linking up with Simon Says Stamp Challenge. 🙂

And I thought the yellow and grey was perfect for the Runway Inspired challenge, too.