Holy mother of adorable Batman!

So.... I've been working like a mad woman trying to get enough things in different price ranges to open an Etsy store, and in the meantime I've also been pouring over the forums there trying to learn as much as I can about store promoting and whatnot. But, I keep getting distracted by pretty shinys LOL Last night I was wandering through a thread with shops that have $5 and under items thinking I'd find some great stocking stuffers and I found... wait for it.... a DRESS made out of a PILLOWCASE. Are. you. kidding. me? I bought the darling one above that looks like a fruit bowl of fabulousness and I can not WAIT to get it :) It was supposed to be a B'day present for Elli, but I don't know if I can wait that long to put it on her! And the prices are ridiculous! The one I bought was $12, but I think it was the most expensive one. If you have a little girl to buy for head over to Tsurfer's shop HERE and snatch up your own, she has quite the selection of patterns :) She also has some other cool funky stuff, but I can't show you the other thing I bought cause it was a present for Lex and she actually knows how to use a computer LOL

Day 31 WOO HOO rounding the corner :)

Oh my gosh I can't believe I got all 31 days cards done at 365 Cards :) It's been such a crazy, stressful, ridiculous month and if it weren't for the blog and cards I would have gotten nothing done! Now I have 31 gorgeous cards and a huge sense of accomplishment WOO HOO

Touchy feely Friday

Friday's 365 cards challenge was all touchy and feely LOL The challenge was to create a card using at least 3 texturing techniques. I used all coredinations cardstock and sanded and crumpled the daylights outta them. It actually looks kinda cool how they stand off the page like that :)
then I stickled all the dots on the ribbons and also on my stamped sentiment :)

365 cards sketchy sunday

Oh i just love this sketch!!!! I got to play with my new circle cutter :) Again I dipped into the scrap pile and found some oldies but goodies! I just love this giant ticket! And I used a fun little stamp and stickled it up a bit :)

Scraplift myself you say?

Ha what a fun idea :) I might have to do this more often cause I really like how this turned out! The challenge at 365 Cards was to scraplift one of your layouts and turn it into a card. I used this layout of Miss Lexi And I used it as a sketch to make this card :)

A happy little scrapper

The very best thing about the 365 Cards blog for me so far is I'm using up SO much stuff that I had saved!!!! Thid day's challenge was to have a ladybug as your inspiration. I had a good laugh when I saw that! I have had this ladybug ribbon in my stash for years! Several times I've thought about RAKing it out to someone else who might use it, but it was so darling I just couldn't. And WOOHOO a ladybug challenge LOL I used a couple PP scraps and several ribbons to create the stripes on this card.

Love me a good crossword :)

Over at 365 Cards they had this printable I love you crossword to build a card around.... FUN! I went back to my Little Yellow Bicycle scraps for this Love card :) My printer was being all wacky.... it needs ink in a bad way LOL I didn't really love the blue tinted black so I cut out tiny squares for all the black spots. Dontcha just love it when an "oops" turns into something you love :)

I had to take a closeup of this little do-hicky. I have no idea where it came from but it just is so darn pretty :)

365 Cards ad challenge

Isn't this a fun ad? 365 cards had it as an ad inspiration challenge this week! I wasn't really sure what to do with it except it reminded me of these clear American Crafts stickers I got in a kit and had had lying around for awhile. I went through my scrap drawers and also found papers that fit with the ad colors and here's what I came up with!

Back to nature

One challenge at 365 cards this week was to make a card with a nature theme. I wasn't so sure about this one at first, but it's definately my favorite one of the week now that it's done! I received these My Little Shoebox papers in a RAK and they were the first thing I thought of when I read the challenge.
I cut out a strip of trees and adhered them with pop dots and of course stickled the apples LOL I had this acrylic bird laying around so I covered it in pink and brown Stayzon and tacked it down with a couple brads. I ususally stay far far away from the clear stuff as they're a pain in the rear to adhere to paper, but I really love this little birdy :)

And I had a die cut that matched so that one went on there with some pop dots too :) Thanks for lookin!

Is there ANY color I don't like?

the answer is no LOL One of the challenges this week was to make a card with your least used color. Ummm.... yeah it took me more time to figure out a color than it did to make the card :) I really don't have one that I don't like. But I noticed I don't use a lot of red except around valentine's day, so I went with it. I had all these really cool red textured papers and some fun scalloped cards and here's what I ended up with :)