A little off and a Thank you!

Here is a card that I made for the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge. The theme is Sky or Water. I have this mountain range included in the stamp set called Keep Climbing. I love this stamp!
I also used a stamp from the stamp set called Lift up Your Hands.
I first covered the edges of my water color paper with masking tape. I took my Faber Castell Gelatos and scribbled some colors, then used a brush with water to blend them...so fun!
After that dried, I stamped my image and sentiment and used white embossing powder to make it stand out on the gelato colored paper. I used a few brads from my stash instead of ribbon because I intend to send it to a male relative.
I hope that you can't tell too much that the sentiment is a little crooked :(
That's what I get when I try to cook and craft at the same time!
I just want to say "Thank you" to all of those who have served or are still serving our country in any branch of the military. My dad was a WWII veteran and his grandfather was a Civil War veteran. Dad didn't talk too much about the war until his final years, so although I didn't comprehend it when I was younger, I am so amazed at what he and all of the living and deceased veterans have sacrificed to maintain our country's and other countries' freedom.
I will be thinking of my dad, his grandfather and all of the other veterans tomorrow :)

Thinking of You

I finally opened up my gelatos and played. This was my first time using them. I stamped and embossed after I colored with the gelatos. Next time I will stamp and emboss first-I think it might work better.
I used a Phyllis Harris Unity stamp kit called Brandy and Emma: Forever Friends. I am trying to get this done for Friends with Flair-I'm cutting it close!
Oh and see the pretty white cotton twill ribbon that I won from May Arts! Can't wait to ink and color it up! But I like the white here ;)

Happy Birthday!

This is a card for my sister. She likes dragonflies and angels. I added a little Pinque Peacock angel beaded pin above the flowers. I am late in mailing it, but I told her she would get her card from me a little late :)

This is for the Our Daily Bread Shining Light Challenge. The challenge was to use wood or stone. I had picked up this dragonfly a while back at Michaels, not sure what I would do with it. I have not done much with wood, but I figured I'd start with some paint. I used water colors, went over it with some Creative Inspirations Paint

and some Twinkling H2O in Egyptian Gold. I used Black Diamond Stickles to outline. I will also enter this in the Creative Inspirations Paint blog's Anything Goes Challenge. You don't have to use their paints to enter, but if you do, you can be entered in the monthly drawing twice to win 5 jars of paint. I am also entering this in the Cocoa Creations Challenge at Crop Chocolate. There is a prize involved :)
I am also entering this in the Celebrations challenge over at Ribbon Carousel.

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I was going to enter this over at The Color Throwdown blog. I didn't make it :(

Here was the color challenge

Other products: My Minds Eye Six by Six Playdate, Hug Snug ribbon, Our Daily Bread Designs Stamp Keep Climbing, Unity Stamp, Cuttlebug Embossing folder D'vine Swirls, Recollections Floral embellishments, Distress Ink-Barn Door, cs

Happy Mothers Day!

I made this card for my mother-in-law, who is 90 years old and has not been feeling very well the past few months. I figured that she needed this sentiment more than she needed "Happy Mothers Day!"

I have to post this quick to enter into the Our Daily Bread Shining Light Challenge for this week.

I used a Sketch, Paint, Ink and Nestabilities (4 letters from SPRING). The Our Daily Bread Designs stamp that I used was a quote from the Get Well set.

Here is the sketch I used from Sunday Sketch and Stamp

Here was my color inspiration from The Color Throwdown

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Products: Nestabilities Resplendent Rectangles, My Minds Eye So Sophie Graceful and MME Lost and Found Ruby 6x6 paper packs, ODBD Stamp Get Well, Unity Stamp Tulips and Daisies, Distress Inks Bundled Sage and Vintage Photo, 3 Girl Jam ribbon, Prima Flower, Imaginisce Bitty Blossoms, Creative Inspirations Paints, sequins/bling

Needs more...

I was trying to do a last minute card (at 12am!!!) for a couple of the National Scrapbook Day challenges over at Crop Chocolate and I made this card. One of the challenges was to include a sunburst and the other was to follow the sketch below

I also wanted to use some of my new shaped chipboard pieces from UmWow Studios to create the sunburst. These are nice, sturdy chipboard shapes that you can do just about anything to!
Being that this was late at night (early in the morning!), I felt there was something missing on my card, but I had to stop and get to bed. I had to enter it in the contest before 9am CST, so I didn't get to add to it.
If you can give me an idea that I put into place that makes me Happy about this card (since it is my birthday today), I will send you a little blog candy. I will make my decision and post a winner on Monday May 13.
ETA: See below for the new and improved card and blog candy winners!

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Products used: Authentique Blissful and Lively, Bo Bunny Bodacious Brads-Buttercup, Distress Ink Black Soot and Mustard Seed, Unity Stamp of the Week Sentiment Tags, UmWow Chipboard, Hug Snug ribbon, yellow Stickles, Creative Inspirations Paint Antique Gold, Twinkling Waters Egyptian Gold

Thanks for all of the suggestions! I took a few of them and added a couple of my own ideas. It's still not my favorite card, but it is definitely better than the original!

I changed out 2 of the brads in the bottom right corner. I covered the white and yellow Hug Snug with some 3 Girl Jam Coral Crush ribbon and added a crinkled ribbon at the bottom left side. I added the stamped vellum piece over the sun with some rhinestones on it and added some rhinestone swirls to the middle of the card.

Since so many of you gave me ideas that I used, I pulled 2 names. Blog candy winners are Jeannie Walsh and Crafting Lily. Since you are both regulars over at CropChocolate, just PM me with your info. so I can mail your blog candy.
Since I used Unity stamps, this card will be entered in the Friends with Flair this week.

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Glitter shower

I ran across a pack of paper from Doodlebug called Lilly White Boutique Assortment. One of the papers had a pretty floral/glitter pattern. I was making a card for my daughter for finals week at college.
I thought that this paper would make a pretty sparkly card. Oh how I forgot about how that pretty glitter  goes all over, like a rain shower!
Challenge #60 over at CropChocolate.com was to use a neutral background and some twine for a pop of color. I was a little sad to hear that Crop Chocolate will be closing their retail side of the company. They will still have the site up as a crafters social site with challenges, tutorials and their classified section where you can sell items (mostly craft). They have 8 Challenges going on to celebrate National Scrapbook Day under "Community"/"Contests". It is open until next Friday, May 10 (my birthday!) and there are prizes (randomly drawn)! Check in to see what is happening.
I used 2 stamps from Unity Stamp Co. They are celebrating their 5th year with 50% off the entire site.

Products used:Doodlebug Lilly White Boutique Collection, Jillibean Soup Bean Stalk (twine), MM Dilly Dally brad, Copic markers R81 & R85, Distress Ink Pumice Stone, Glossy Accents, DCWV Fabric Stack, Stazon Jet Black ink, Unity Stamps, MEPXY markers, Twinkling H2O-Egyptian Gold, Unity Stamps You Did It! and Stamp of the Week Real Shared Happiness, StazOn Jet Black ink, Distress Ink Victorian Velvet.