Birthday Bike Kid

Hello!  Thanks once again for coming to visit me.  I really do appreciate you coming by and checking out what I have made.  So have any of you done the transition from Google Reader to something else?  I am now using Feedly.  It's pretty simple to use so far.  We'll see... Hopefully it doesn't get on my nerves. :-)

Anyway, on to my card:

 This is Kenny K's Bike Kid.  He is so super cute!  I love the joy in his face.  He was embossed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os.  This card is similar the card I made here.  I had the papers ready but wanted a different image.

Card Details:

Base - PTI Orange Zest

DP - DCWV All About Boys

Birthday Stamp - PTI Inside and Out Birthday

Twine - Twinery Midnight Blue

Button - my stash

In hindsight, I wish I would've used glaze on his glasses.  That would've looked pretty sweet!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Cards for Men - Let's Get Sporty

Kenny K's Krafty Krew - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Gracias for hanging out me!!

Ninja Birthday

Some of the stamps from There She Goes Stamps are so funny and clever.

I only have four sets but I have so many more on my wish list!

Here is a card using Ninja Skillz.

 I absolutely adore these little Ninjas!  They are so stinkin' cute.  This one was embossed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os.  The sayings that come with the set are fantastic too.  

Card Details:

Base - PTI Poppy red

DP - SU Night and Day

Ovals cut with Silhouette

Speech Bubble Clip - SU Hung up

Polka Dot Washi Tape - Michaels

 You can't really tell from the picture but I also added some glaze to the cupcake.  It looks really cool in person.  Isn't that always the case? :-)

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

There She Goes Clear Stamps: Anything Goes

Cards for Men: Boys Will be Boys

MayzyArt Challenge: Anything Goes with Bonus Polka dots

Stamping for the Weekend:  Anything Goes

And this Ninja Chica is out!

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge #105: Father's Day

Hey there!  It's time for another Wags 'n Whisker Challenge!  Woo hoo!

Challenge #105:  Father's Day!

Show us your amazing cards for the father's in your life.

One lucky participant will win a free Wags ‘n Whiskers Rubber Stamp!

You don’t have to use a Wags ‘n Whiskers image on your card, but if you do, you will be entered into a 2^nd drawing for a free Wags ‘n Whiskers Digi!

Here is my card:

 This is Super Ryan.  He is a cutie with his Pillowcase cape and stuffed (or shall I say "flat") dog.  He is embossed onto watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os.

Other card details: 

Base: SU Old Olive

DP: Making Memories Just Chillin'

Other stamps: "Super!" - TGF Amazing Duo; "Dad" - PTI My Dad My Hero

Twine: The Twinery Denim

I used a notebook punch on the edge of the "robot" DP and inked the edges.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Creative Craft Challenges - For the fellas

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Boys

Cards for Men - Dad

Challenges for Anybody - Anything Goes

Crafting When We Can - Punches and/or Die Cuts

Gracias for hanging out with me!

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 103: Girly Birthday

Two weeks go by quick!  That means it's time for another
Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge - Girly Birthday!
 You are welcome to use any stamp to enter the challenge. However, if you use a Wags 'n Whiskers stamp, you will be entered into a 2nd drawing for a Free Wags 'n Whiskers digital stamp in addition to the regular prize.

Wags 'n Whiskers stamps are so versatile! So many of the stamps can be used for any occassion.

 This is Tiny Dancer.  She is embossed onto watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os.

Other card details:

Base - SU Pretty in Pink

DP  - MME Magnolia

Ribbon  - It's hard to tell from the pic, but it is a sheer purple.  I believe I bought it from the Dollar Tree.

Rhinestones - Queen and Co.

 This stamp is so precious.  It works for any number of occassions and it is very, very girly! :-)

I am also entering this card into these challenges:
Crafty Ribbons Challenge:  Anything Goes with ribbon
Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes
Challenges for Everybody: Anything Goes
Gracias for hanging out with me!

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 102: May Flowers

Congratulations to the Wags 'n Whiskers challenge winner!

It's time for another Wags 'n Whiskers challenge:  #102 May Flowers

One lucky winner will win a free Wags 'n Whiskers rubber stamp.  You don't have to use a Wags 'n Whiskers stamp but if you do, you will be entered into a 2nd drawing for a free Wags 'n Whiskers digi.

Here is my card:

Card Details:

Stamp -He Loves Me embossed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os

Base - SU Bashful Blue

DP - MME Totally Girl 

Swirls - die cut with Sizzix Flourishes #11. 

The flowers I crocheted myself.  They are tiny and I added some green ribbon as the "leaves".  The brads are just plain yellow ones I think from Joann's. 

I am also entering this card in these challenges:

Stamp and Create - April Challenge Use at least one die cut

All Sorts - A passion for flowers

Bearly-Mine Challenges - Spring Flowers

 Gracias for hanging out with me!

Blog Candy Winner!!!

I ended up with 20 followers - which is better than only three.  :-)  So I have one stamp to give away!  I will be offering more blog candy soon, so please check back with me and please visit me again.  I love visitors.

So the winner of my blog candy (according to the order in which you followed me) is....

(insert drum roll)

That would be Susan D!!!! Please email me (yojoxa@yahoo.com) so you can get Wags 'n Whisker Bubble Fun stamp!

Thank you to everyone who has followed me!

 

 

 

Blog Candy!!!!

This post will remain on top until April 12, 2013.  Please scroll down for more recent posts!
Thank you!

I am one of the new members of the Wags and Whiskers Design Team!

In honor of that exciting announcement I am offering some blog candy! 

Thanks to Lacey, from Stamp and Create, I have a super awesome stamp (Bubble Fun - pictured below) to give away to one lucky winner. 

All you have to do is become a follower of my blog and leave a comment on this post letting me know that you have become a follower.  Also, leave a post of my candy on your blog (you can still enter the candy if you do not have a blog).

Once I reach 25 followers, I will add the stamp Ryan's Chocolate Trouble (pictured below) to the prize:

If I reach 50 followers, I will add Shoot the Puck:

If I reach 75 followers, I will add Slam Dunk:

And if I reach 100 followers, I will add this paper pack from Kaiser Craft:

That means a total of 4 awesome stamps and 1 paper pack to a lucky follower.  This blog candy will run until Friday, April 12, 2013!!  So follow me and tell your friends!

Maggots

Ok - so here's the story with the title of this post and the card below -

I work at a preschool.  So during a child's birthday, a parent will usually bring in cupcakes or some kind of treat.  On one little girl's birthday, the parent brought in storebought cupcakes.  Jan, who is the wonderful teacher I work with, and I were raving about how good the cupcakes from this particular store were.  We talked about how fresh they were, blah blah blah... The parents also brought in pizza and with the yummy garlic butter.  After they left, Jan ate her cupcake and meanwhile, I enjoyed my pizza with garlic butter.

As I walked around the classroom to make sure the kids weren't making a ginormous mess, I looked at one of the kid's cupcakes.  He had licked all the icing off of it and had taken a very small bite.  I looked at his cupcake and noticed something inside of it move.  He said, "What is that?"  I nonchalantly picked up the cupcake and said "Oh nothing.  It's just from the icing."  As I walked away, I hear him tell his little friends at his table, "It looked like a worm."

I told Jan, "Don't freak out but look inside this cupcake."  Inside was the fattest maggot! 

Jan almost threw up!

Needless to say, we walked around grabbing everyone's cupcakes (we just told them they were full because they ate pizza too and we didn't want them to get stomach aches).  We called the parent's (They were absolutely mortified and they ended up getting a full refund from the store).  Jan was seriously gagging.  She asked me why I wasn't gagging (It was because I threw my cupcake away.  Thank God I was enjoying my garlic buttery pizza).

It wasn't funny that actual day, but the couple of weeks after it was pretty funny.  We joked about it.

So then it is Jan's birthday - and what do I do? 

Exploit the situation of course!

(Understand that I would not do this if she didn't have a wierd sense of humor like I do - so it was cool!)

Here is my card in all of it's gross glory!  I also made a cake to match which is behind it.  You can see it better in the following pictures, but lets talk about the card first.

I used a cut file by Bird.  She is awesome for having so many cut files for FREE! 

Show her some love. 

This is a super cute, cute, cute, cute cupcake file.  I cut the base out with SU Basic Black. The wrapper is SU Taken with Teal and the Pink is SU Pink Piroutte.

 If you take a closer look, you can see a "maggot" sticking out from it.  It is the end of the snake from SU Zoofari on a scrap of green.  I did in green because the maggot in the chocolate cupcake had this light greenish color.  It was DIS-GUS-TING! Seriously. 

 I even added some glaze to it to make it look shiny.  Hahahaha!  The "Got Maggots" I printed on my comptuer and used a circle punch.

The next pic is the top of the cake whick I covered in yummy sour gummies.  Sorry about the pix.  It was late at night when I finished it.

Needless to say, she loved the cake and the card - of that, I am extremely happy. 

That was the whole purpose - to make her laugh.  Even her husband, who was there, laughed!

Challenges entered:
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #148 - Shaped Cards (plus a sentiment).
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Gracias for hanging out with me!

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 101: April Showers/Spring

It's time for a new challenge at Wag 'n Whiskers! 

Challenge 101: April Showers/Spring!

Don't forget - One lucky participant will win a free Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber stamp!

You don't have to use a Wags 'n Whiskers image on your card, but if you do, you will be entered into a 2nd drawing for a free Wags 'n Whiskers Digi.

Go check out what some of the lovely ladies on the Design Team have done! 

I also have some blog candy featuring some W&W stamps open until April 12 here!

Now on to my card:

 This is the Angelica digi (also available as a rubber stamp) printed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os.

Other card details: Base - PTI White; Other cardstock colors- SU Pink Piroutte & PTI Raspberry Fizz; DP - DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies; Twine - The Twinery Shore; Button: SU Sycamore Street.

 You can't really tell from the pix, but I used gold star sequins from Joann's on the big stars and stickles on the small stars.  The blue rhinestones are from Queen & Co.

I'm also entering it into these challenges:
 Brown Sugar - Spring
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me Challenges - Spring
Digi Haven - Spring

Gracias for hanging out with me!

Dustin Pike Girly Challenge

I really like Dustin Pike images.  I didn't discover him until his stamps came to High Hopes.  Of course, I was new to the stamping world and just into Stampin' Up, High Hopes and Wiff of Joy.  Since then there are so many new companies and so many wonderful stamps I have discovered.  Still, I enjoy Dustin Pike's whimsical images.  There is a challenge on his blog for a Girly Card.

As a mom of boys, I need images that work for all the men in my life and their friends.  My boys do not dig girly cards.  So when my youngest was invited to a birthday party for one of the girls in his grade, he did not want to give a girly card.  I made this one, but he said that that one can come from us.  I had made it because the invitation she sent was pink and black.  It was a Paris theme.  Very pretty.

He had another design in mind.

 Yes.  It says "U  R  A  monster".  :-)  Yes.  He is my little turd.  The girl is a very sweet girl.  I adore her.  He has a like/hate relationship with her.  It is quite hilarious actually.  He allowed me to keep the pink/black theme but the image was not to be girly.  I think it is still girly.  Don't tell him I said that.

This is High Hopes Willy One Eye illustrated by Dustin Pike.   It is embossed on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2Os. 

 I put some glaze on his eye, tongue and spits to make it stand out.

Other card details:  Letter Stamps - SU Best Friends Lowercase; Base - SU Pink Piroutte;  the Black paper is SU Basic Black emossed with Swiss Dots folder with the Cuttlebug; Buttons - PTI Sweet Blush.

Gracias for hanging out with me!