Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello there crafty friends!
I want to share a card I made for the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, although the party has started on Friday, and today is Wednesday, I don't want to miss it!
I had a lot of fun visiting so many blogs in the past few days.
Here is my card.

The background paper is by Lawn Fawn, the coffee cup is by My Favorite Things and the sentiment by Hero Arts.
As a thank you to our awesome crafty community I'm giving away a $ 15 Starbucks gift certificate, you have time to leave your comments until midnight Saturday, I'll post the winner on Sunday.
Thank you for visiting and have a blessed rest of the week.

ETA I'm also adding this to Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge "Anything goes"

Sending Love and Prayers

Hi there sweet crafty friends!
I have a colorful card to share today. I took a wonderful class at Online Card Classes, called "Exploring Mediums". As usual, I'm behind with my homework, so today I'm using Zig Clean Color real brush markers, which we "explore" on Day 1.
I used the sketch by CAS(E) this Sketch and the Butterfly Drift die by Simon Says Stamps, I colored the inside of the butterflies with the markers in rainbow order and them embossed the border of the die with silver embossing powder.  For the sentiment a used the Sending die by SSS and then embossed it with the same embossing powder, for the love and prayers part of the sentiment I  used my Brother label maker. (I wanted to use those words but for unknown reasons my stamp doesn't stamp all the letters?).

And that's all from me for today. Have a blessed rest of the week and I hope to see you all soon.

NBUS - Happy Birthday!

Hello crafty friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I had lots of fun today, I finally had time to make 2 cards for my coworkers who have birthdays this month.
I used new (to me) dies from Simon Says Stamps and Cole's ABC by Lawn Fawn, so I'm entering this in my bloggie friend Darnell's challenge NBUS # 5. 

 ^{So here is my card}

It's over sized because 12 of us are writing messages for her.

I'm also joining Seize the birthday challenge. 

I'll be back later in the week to share my other card. Have a blessed week!

Loly 

Challenges

Hi dear friends! 
Yes, it's me again, first time ever I'm posting two days in a row, I challenge myself to post as often as I can this week, my goal would be at least 4 posts this week, let's see...
I made another card using the sketch at CAS(E) this sketch and I'm playing also with The Paper Players, and Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge,"We're going dotty"

The paper in the main panel is an old one from my stash, I used a SSS stencil for the card base and I cover it with Versa Mark and embossed with Recollections Pesto embossing powder. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches "Think fast" set, the flower is Bold Blossom by Julie Eversole, Essentials by  Ellen, which I cut it twice in two shades of pink and then cover it with Wink of Stella. 

This was fun! I'm also adding this to July Mix it up Challenge, at Ellen Hutson, The classroom.

Thanks for visiting!

Loly

July Birthday

Hello crafty friends! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. 
I have several birthdays in my family this month, so I made one card today. I'm using the colors suggested by "Less is More"  RED, WHITE & BLUE and this sketch from CAS(E) this sketch.

 So here you have it, very simple, the sentiment die cut is from Lawn Fawn, the cupcake is Impression Obsession and the border is by Stamping Up! No inking, but I do love the result.

I'll try to make at least one more card today.
Thanks for visiting and  have a wonderful week! 
Loly.

Watercolor fun

Hi everybody!
I hope you are having a great weekend. I finally have a little crafty time today, so I decided to play along with some challenges. I used the sketch of CAS(E) this sketch and the watercolor fun from Pretty Pink Posh. 

 So here is my card. All the stamps are Simon Says Stamps (Always and Forever for the flowers and Sending happy thoughts for the sentiment).

To color I used Derwent Inktense colored pencils and distress inks.
Thanks for your visit and I'll see you soon.
Loly

Happy Crafty Easter!

Hi everybody, I wish a Happy Easter to all of you that celebrate it, and for those of you who don't, I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
I have a card to share with you all. Since Monday, when I saw one of my crafty idols,  Laura Bassen's "Double Partial Diecutting" video on the Make it Monday # 207 at  Paper Trey Ink's blog, I wanted to give this technique a try. I love the result, and I have lots of fun making it! Thanks Laura!

ETA I'm adding it to Paper Players # 239 To Die For.

I'm also adding it to Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge Happy Birthday
Thanks for visiting!
Have a blessed week.
Loly