Twisted Sisters Challenge...

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I made this card for the Twisted Sister challenge at Split Coast Stampers...It was Sylvia's turn to come up with a challenge this week, and her challenge is to use paper piecing, paper piercing, and pearls on our cards.

My card was stamped using a Rubbernecker stamp (child w bouquet)  my husband colored my image for me with copics.  I also have to confess that I purchased this stamp about a year ago and it's the first time it has seen ink.  I have been trying to use the supplies I already have.
I paper pieced the dress.  It's a technique that I enjoy doing.  I think it's fun and easy to do,

If you have never tried using the paper piecing technique here is a tutorial  from Split Coast stampers...

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/paper_piecing/

For my piercing I pierced around the oval that I cut out with a spellbinder die...

The link below is for paper piercing.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/paperpiercing/

For the pearls, I just added two little pearls on her shoes.

I also scored some lines at the bottom of my card using a Martha Stewart scoring board.

The scallop was cut with a die from SweetNSassy stamps.

My Designer paper is from October Afternoon

and I added ribbon and prisma flowers.

My Daughter's Birthday Card...

This is the card I gave to my daughter for her birthday.  The sewing machine is made from a die that I borrowed from my crafting buddy, Kathi, but I made the sewing machine so long ago, I can't remember which die it was...I cut the machine out of black card stock...sponged it with gold ink,(while it was in the die) and then clear embossed over it.  My background paper is from October afternoon, and my birthday sentiment and the stitching is rub ons.

My daughter loves to sew and make quilts, although, these days she doesn't seem to find much time for sewing.  She has a featherweight sewing machine that had been her grandmother's and this reminded me of her sewing machine.

Today was a busy day for me, I invited four of my former classmates to come to my house for dinner.  Hubby cooked for me, (I know how fortunate I am)  but I was still busy getting the house ready, setting the table, making dessert, etc.)  They seemed to have a good time, because everyone stayed a bit longer than I thought they might..but that was a good thing.  It was a lot of fun...catching up, laughing about the old days, and looking at old pics, etc.  I had my camera all ready to take pics, and got so busy I forgot all about taking pictures.

Another House Mouse card

I originally made this card for the House Mouse Challenge HMFMC12, but I just realized that I am a day late...I missed the challenge. smile...It sounds like something I would do. This is the newest stamp that we just purchased, and I thought it would be cute for the "Let's Get Fruity Challenge.
I think I said before that One of my Motto's is... "Always a day late and a dollar short!"
That's me for sure...LOL. My husband colored the card with copics, and even made me flowers out of the cut end of straws to embellish the card. He seems to be taking this card making even more seriously all the time. (Which is alright we me!)
Rubber stamped image is from Stampabilities, and it's called Soda Fizz, HMTR1063
Colored with copics, E30, E34, RV29, G99, RV55, BV04, BVo8, Y000,R81,G21,G40, G07,YR68,
YR15, Y17, RV21,RV20, YG00,T1, Co, E50,RV10,E,40,E35,C2,RV00,E00.
Background paper October Afternoon,
embellished flowers, straws, ribbon, and stick on beads.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Blessings, Jill

Baby Boy card

Needed to make a quick baby card.  I used an image that my husband colored with copics---
the stamp is unknown.  I had stamped this a while back when I had a really fun day getting together with a group of stampers at a scrapbook store. 
The designer paper is from October Afternoon, the top of the card is embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder (Swiss Dots) and I added a ribbon , sticker, and some pop dots to pop up the image.

House Mouse Monday Challenge HMFM113

My husband loves to use copics (as some of you already know ...Smile) and another favorite of his ...is coloring House Mouse images.  So I decided to try and enter one of his colored images into a house mouse challenge card.  My first House Mouse Challenge.  I made this card for my grandson who is in his first year of college.  I thought this Would be a good image for a card for him

My card uses Copics (Husband wrote down ALL the colors he used. RV000, E40,E31, R02, YR24, B60, R27, E41, V99, G12, G82, Y11, E30, E07, YG05, B45, B39, YR61, YR04, E81, T3, B0000.
October Afternoon for the designer paper, Image is stamped with Memento ink, quote from DCWV Quote Stack, added a ribbon, brads, and pop dots for image

Challenge should be found at the link below...
 http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/make-wishes-come-true-hmfmc113.html