Crazy 4 Challenges Sketch and Pizza Box Birthday Set

Happy Tuesday...Here's a new challenge site and I wanted to share it with everyone. This is their first week and it's a sketch challenge, the one posted below. If you get a chance pop on over and check out their blog and what the DT has done with this sketch. It's called Crazy 4 Sketches....

The card below is what I made for the sketch.

The birthday set below I made for our little one's friend (backyard friend as we call her) ..lol..They have been fence friends ever since they have been little. And now they are both in Middle School. She had an under the sea party this past weekend and this is the little set I made. I made a pizza box to store her little goodies inside. On the card and box I did the allegator faux technique. My first time trying this out. The mermaid was cut from Life's a Beach Cricut cart @ 4" and 5"...I added stickles to the hair, flower and little top and some glittery beads stuff to her tail.

You can kind of see the technique. It was abit hard to take a photo of it.

I also made the background paper using white cardstock, acrylic paints and some more of the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. After that dried I embossed the whole piece using the technique.

Well thanks for stopping in. I hope everyone has a lovely day. Hugs from Charm City....

The Pink Elephant and Caardvarks Challenges

Happy Sunday!!!!! Just a quick post today. The cards below I made for the challenges over at the Pink Elephant (sketch challenge) and Caardvarks (make a baby/bridal theme card/project) sites. I really enjoy their challenges and have missed playing along these past few weeks. So I thought I would sit down and make these cards....Enjoy!!! The stamped image is from Motivet Rubber Stamps...I just love all of their fun stamps that they offer and wanted to use this darling smiley little stamp to bring some sunshine on this dreary day here...Normally I don't use colors like these--so I am way out of my element---but she is just fun and I wanted to use some cheery bright colors. What do you think? Did I achieve it? The clear photo turns and snaps are from Tim Holtz' collection and the silver brads are from The Little Black Dress. I know the coloring is still off, but I'm still working on that... I used the Life is a Beach and Wedding Cricut carts for these cutouts. I also glued real sand onto cardstock, tore and then inked the edges. I have noticed there are more and more weddings happening at the beach than a traditional church wedding. This could be used for either a bridal party invite or even a wedding invite. Something simple but fun. Well I hope everyone has some sunshine going on in their part of the world today. It seems like we have been getting alot of rain here. Although we really do need it, I really need to get outside and finish my projects that I started for the "yearly birthday party" bash for our little one coming up in 2 weeks. So wish us luck....Hugs from Charm City