Birthday Birdie

It's Leap Day and boy has the month has flown by.  I have been participating in the coloring challenge over at The Daily Marker and have colored every day (yippee!). I have actually finished over forty cards this month.  So excited!  My card stash was really low.  I have been putting them all on my Instagram account and haven't been updating my blog.  Bad me.  

Last week Jodie put out some of the cutest digis over at Bugaboo Stamps.  They are so adorable.  I purchased three of them and colored them all in the colors for the February Color Challenge with Copics.

Here's my first card.  I am entering it in the February Color Challenge.  

Bugaboo Stamps - Birthday Birdie 4

I took my photo a little early and the Glossy Accents was still a little wet.  I used papers from the Doodlebug Sugar Shoppe 6x6 paper pad.  

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Melanie 

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

I haven't posted in what feels like forever.  I didn't make any cards between Thanksgiving and Christmas and instead worked on felt ornaments to give as gifts.

To get myself back into the swing of things I am participating in the coloring challenge over at The Daily Marker.  Its only day three, but so far I have colored everyday and love seeing what everyone posts.

Here are the images I colored for days 1 and 2.

Day 1 - Bugaboo Stamps

Day 2 - Di's Digidownloads

Thanks for stopping by,


Melanie

Christmas Copy Cat

I have been busy making cards and felt ornaments for the past month, but unfortunately not getting them posted.  I made four cards following a post by Nichol Magouirk.  I love the "scene" cards that she creates. So I watched her video for the second time, copied down the layers and measurements and then went to town.  

Here are my cards:

Lawn Fawn - Winter Alpaca

Lawn Fawn - Snow Day

Lawn Fawn - Winter Bunny

Lawn Fawn - Winter Owl

I made all four cards using the same layout and just changing out the stamped critter.  All the stamps I used were by Lawn Fawn.  I used my Scan n Cut 2 to do all my cutting for me.  It didn't like the trees, as it kept cutting off the bottoms, so I did use the die on some of them on the front layer.

I need a little more practice with heat setting on vellum, but am over all happy with my results in "copying" her cards.  So grateful that there are so many great crafters out there sharing their talent knowledge with us.

Thanks for stopping by,

Melanie

Harvest Mice

Today I have three cards that I made with the Harvest Mice stamp set by Birdie Brown. Thought I wasn't going to find the time to get them made before Thanksgiving, but luckily I did. They were too cute not to get them colored this year.  

I colored all my images with Copics and then cut them out with my Scan n Cut 2.  Loving it for just this reason.  I did the same layout on all my cards, and just changed the papers and colored image.

I used various dies from My Favorite Things and Lawn Fawn and papers from Doodlebug and Lawn Fawn.  The enamel dots are from Doodlebug as well.  I was very happy with how they all turned out.

Thanks for stopping by,

Melanie

Autumn Squirrel

I have been on a crafting roll this week.  Turning all my colored images from the thirty day color challenge in October into cards.  I have another Bugaboo Stamps image today.  I love the super cute images Jodi has on her website.  This time I have Autumn Squirrel.  

Autumn Squirrel - Bugaboo Stamps

I rarely enter challenges because I never seem to have the time, so that fact that I am entering the challenge over at Catch the Bug Blog twice in one week is amazing to me.

Thanks for stopping by,

Melanie

Crabby Cat

Last month I participated in the challenge over at The Daily Marker and I have several colored images sitting on my desk now.  This month I am turning those colored images into cards.  Today I have Crabby Cat from Bugaboo Stamps.

Crabby Cat - Bugaboo Stamps

I love the expression on his face.  It makes me think of the Grinch.  I think this is what he would look like if he were a cat.  I did a pretty simple layout, just using a few layers of paper.

I am entering this card into the November anything goes challenge over at Bugaboo Stamps.  

Thanks for stopping by,

Melanie 

Turkey Cards

Last year my Girl Scout troop made Christmas cards for the nursing home that is right down the street from us.  This year our Girl Scout Community made Halloween cards for the nursing home and cards for Operation Welcome Home for the soldiers.  

Not to let the girls have all the fun, I thought I would make some myself this time.  I made about 20 cards the other night for Thanksgiving. Nothing fancy, but I did get to use my Cricuit and my favorite cartridge "Create a Critter", and some dies with my BigShot.  

I plan to have the girls deliver them to the nursing home the week of Thanksgiving when they are going to play board games with them.  Love the service projects we get to do through Scouts. 

Jennifer McGuire is hosting a month long of Share Handmade Kindness and I think it is the greatest idea.  Let's share our joy of making things with everyone.

Thanks for stopping by,

Melanie