YNSC #48 Beautiful Borders

The YNS Challenge this week is to make a card using border punches or dies on your card. Since I just purchased my first YNS set, I had to make a card!!

I love this Birdie Banner stamp set because you can put any sentiment on the banner. Of course I realized after I started coloring it in, that I didn't have any good bird colors in my copic markers! So I used regular markers, but I think it came out okay.

Jen P :)

Flashback Friday 13.0 Challenge

The Flashback Friday 13.0 Challenge is to post your First Non-Traditional Shaped card. It took some searching thru pictures but I finally found my very first non-traditional shaped card!
I made this card years ago for my niece's Christening. It's hard to tell from this picture but there is a layer of cardstock with a layer of vellum loose on top to make it look like a real dress. The cross is actually a real necklace - on the inside I made a little pocket to hold the chain.

Jen :)

Sundays with Crissy March Challenge

Over on Crissy's blog Sundays with Crissy, the challenge for March is to use stitching on your card/project. I love how stitching looks so I couldn't pass up this challenge!
I know it's hard to see in this picture...but I did stitching on the sides of the first layer of patterned paper. Here's a close up:

I love this stamp from Whimsy...this dog is just so cute - who can pass up that face! And you'll notice that I'm finally putting my copics to use!

Jen P :)

Dutch Dare Challenge

My sister sent me another great blog to check out - Dutch Dare Card Challenges. They have weekly challenges with great prizes. This week is a sketch challenge:

I decided to try out my new PTI flower die...

...sadly I have to say that my sister had to show me the best way to make the flowers! I read most of the instructions online and thought I had it...but it was sticking out way too much and when I squished it down, it pretty much killed it! But she read the full instructions and needless to say - the flower looks great!

Jen P :)

Button Find!!

I think stamping or crafting people are the only ones that could understand my excitement yesterday so I've gotta share what I found! I was helping clean out my great-aunt's house and we found this old shoe box filled with :

BUTTONS!! Come to find out - my great uncle & aunt both worked at a button factory years ago and I didn't even know. These buttons are awesome - so colorful and odd shaped. To everyone else it was just a box of buttons...but to me this was a gold mine - LOL!!

Jen P :)