cards by Val

Friday, March 25, 2011

red, black and white

I love this stamp, it has all dressed in white above and below it but I've masked the text off to use as just the dress. I find using red, black & white a great color combo. The black sticker is from my local $ store and of course I added a few pearls, ribbon and bow to finish. I'm entering this at Mojo Monday for the sketch challenge.

happy birthday cupcake

this cute cupcake is a free image from Papercraft Inspirations. They have a lot of wonderful free downloads. I used the swiss dot and the victorian embossing folders for this card. Lot's of pearls and a little flower finish it off. I'm entering this into 2 challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges - color challenge

pink, kraft, turquoise & brown

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Thursday, March 24, 2011

A Yummy Sundae

this card has lots of layers, I like layering so was happy to see that Sweet Sketch Wed not only has a great sketch but lots of layers too. The digi I used is called Sweet Treats and is by artymrscreativespot but unfortunately I cannot find her link. If anyone knows it please pass it on to me, thanks! I used 2 embossing folders - swiss dots and floral fantasy. I'm entering this into 2 challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wed - sketch

Kaboodle Doodles - color challenge

using yellow, blue, pink and green

Happy Spring

this great stamp is from Great Impressions, I do like how my card turned out. I used the dvine swirl embossing folder for my background, for the butterfly I used the floral fantasy embossing folder and really like how it turned out. Added lots of pearls and gems and a bit of ribbon. I'm entering this into 3 challenges:

A SpoonFull of Sugar - Ribbons, Pearls/Rhinestones & Flowers

The Pink Elephant - sketch

Flutterby Wednesday - open challenge

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

me and my lollipop

This adorable image was free from Robyn's Fetish (thanks!). I just think she is so adorable! I've colored her with pencil crayons and OMS, added some stickles to the lollipop and a bit on her sneakers too! I've used the dvine swirl embossing folder (1 on my favs) for my background papers, a couple of flowers and some pretty pearls finishes it off. I'm entering this into 2 challenges:

The Sweet Stop - sketch

congratulations on your 100th sketch

Paper Sundaes - embossing

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

A New Baby Boy

a very lovely friend of mine had a sweet baby boy this month! I know she's a bit too busy to be coming to my blog (at least I hope so, LOL) as I'm posting this before she'll receive it! The darling papers are from Papercraft Inspirations. I made a little onsie using cardstock that had little footprints on it, added a bow and some gems. I'm entering this into 2 challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wed - sketch

Meljen's Designs - dots

Jessica turned 30

My niece Jessica turned 30 on Mar 21st. Last Sunday we went to her darling little apartment to help her celebrate. Below are a few photos we took. I made her a lemon pound cake (her request) and decided to decorate it as well. Years ago I use to do cake decorating but you wouldn't know now, LOL.....anyways Jessica loved it and I'm happy she did, we had a lovely day.