RC-For You {The Cutting Edge Challenge no.3}

I was inspired by The Cutting Edge Challenge. It's a new challenge blog and it's been lots of fun so far. They post an inspiration photo and you just have to use die cuts in your creation. Easy Peasy! I love my dies!

I loved all the white space and the rainbow of cut out hearts on the inspiration card (see below). I reached for the Tag Me, too Confetti cuts. It's awesome, have you seen it? The tag is super cool with the scalloped edge and I can't refuse scripty die cut words. Yep! They are included in this die set. 

I cut up a rainbow of card stock strips and glued them down. Then I placed my word dies on top and ran it through my Vagabond. Then I cut the words two more times with just white card stock. I layered up the pieces and glued them together to give some depth to my words, with the rainbow colors really popping! This also gives lots of stability to the skinny words and allowing me to add the dimension I LOVE without having to cut up teeny tiny foam dots. 

 I also loved the white space on the card and added embossed dots in the background. The word "happy" from Celebrate Cake were stamped repeatedly across the red card stock strip. A bakers twine bow and enamel dots finished this one off. 

I'm also linking this up to the Moxie Fab World- Wonderful Words Challenge: word dies.

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Moxie Fab Thanks Cath: Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to what might just be the world's largest Blog Hop. And it's all for Moxie Fab Cath!! She has been an inspiration and supporter of the card making world for years! This is our chance to say thank-you for all she has done. 

You should have arrived here from Julie Cambell's blog. She's #189 in the Inlinkz list below. 

I made a card to show my appreciation. It uses some of the just released Reverse Confetti stamps-So Stripey and Lots To Say. 

I used the layout from this week's Seize The Sketch challenge. It was perfect for my graphic and fun card. I used the Tag Me Confetti Cuts to cut my fishtail banner piece from Sweet Tooth cs. Then I ran it through my Vagabond with the Dots Cutups from TCP and wrapped around some navy twine. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

 And a HUGE Moxie FAB Thanks to Cath!!! I wish you all the best!

Here's the big link up! 

Follow the list and have fun hopping.

I am #190.....so head on over to my Friend Jimmi's blog. 

She is #191. 

A Quick Sunday Post

I've been tempted by the Moxie Fab challenge....Grey is the New Black. I was inspired by this great paper from Bella Blvd. called Midterm.

Love all those colors with the grey, so I got busy with some MFT die-namics and stamps.  This was a quicky I made yesterday before J's soccer game. I really played up the green and yellow, it just felt happy for a birthday card.

die-namics used:
1/4 rosette
notebook edge
framed greetings
and the stamps are from the Framed Greetings set and More Essential Sentiments.

See you back tomorrow for another grey challenge card with my ippity stamps!

Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger

This is one of those cards I couldn't get out of my head, I just had to play along in this week's Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge. I saw this trigger photo and right away thought about this stamp by Unity. It is from the August 2009 KOTM.

I also was really drawn to the beautiful colors in the photo, so I played those up on my card-razzleberry, tangerine tango, simple chartreuse, and kraft. I chose to use some variation in my shades of green by adding in some designer paper (SU-pear and Oct. Afternoon-cherry hill). I did this with the oranges, too by adding the darker Terracotta ribbon.

I added some rolling hills, lots of stitching, some woodgrain embossing and a kraft tag (playing up the winding road) with a great MFT sentiment from this month't Triple Scoop-Happy Thoughts!

I am so glad I created this one, it's perfect for our fine fall day and it makes me happy! Hope it puts a smile on your face, too!

Moxie Fab-Tuesday Trigger

soooo, I love it when I see one of my bloggin' friends make rockstar status!!!! I was hoppin' through blogs Tuesday and stopped at the Moxie Fab blog when a name jumps out at me, Megan Lock. She a buddy I've met online and have gotten to know mostly through the MFT fourm, but she's everywhere. This girl's got talent! She had the Tuesday Trigger for us (it's basically an inspriation challenge) at Moxie Fab. I just had to play along. Here is the Picture that inspired her. Here's what I did. The first napkin on the left really spoke to me and I loved the idea of a set of note cards. To mimic the linen napkins I used white textured cs. I kept these very clean and simple by stamping the leaf image from PTI, beautiful blooms. I accented those leaves with some vintage buttons and twine in coordinating colors. The sentiments are from Damask designs and beautiful blooms. Here's a close up of the avocado leaf card, it's my fave!

Thanks for stopping by today! I've got lots of goodies to share tomorrow. The carpet laying was good for my mojo!

Looking for {ippity} ? You can get some free with a $50 order!!!! AND I'll have some samples up later today, if all goes well. Hugs, Lisa

Girly Girl, Bling and Ruffles!

I've had this one done for days and should have just posted it over the weekend, or even last week. So I guess you get two posts today! I used all PTI on this card, well, except for the grey, it's from SU. The Embellish online mag issued another challenge, Embellish the Cure with Bling: Fuschia, Grey, and Light Pink with some Bling! I was in a girly mood and wanted to use ruffles for the Moxie Fab Challenge, too. So that's how this card came to be.
I used my Merry & Bright set, added lots of stickles (those are the small dots on the centers of the polka dots and snowflakes) and a crisp white felt snowflake with a rhinestone brad in the center. Thanks for stopping by! See you tomorrow. Hugs again, Lisa

And then there's this one! It's my favorite!

I've got another holiday card, surprise, surprise!!!! I used some good ol' kraft on this one with classic black and cream. Isn't it pretty? I kept it clean and simple, but yet it has a bit of elegance to it Okay, so maybe not Moxie Fab's definition of elegace, so maybe it's more shabby chic, which totally cracks me up because I thought the vintage/shabby chic challenge was the hardest. Oh, well, call it what you will, it's still my fave! The chip board candy cane is Cosmo cricket! I used the Unity Poinsetta again this time in vintage cream along with a PTI sentiment from Holiday Treats in real red. Thanks for checking in with me, hope you're feeling inspired to start some Christmas cards. I'm working on the design for my family card-I swear they're going to get finished before Dec. 1 this year!!! How's that for a goal? Hugs, Lisa

More Holiday-this one was hard!

Yep, I did it and I am quite proud of myself. Cath's challenge on Tuesday last week was vintage/shabby chic. Well, I love the look of vintage and there are many great crafters out there that can create amazing shabby chic cards like there's no tomorrow. I am not one of those people. I wasn't going to take on this challenge, but I had done all the others so I pushed myself and came up with a vintagey card I am quite proud of. I used some new SU flocked paper (ooooohhhh, is this stuff gorgeous! it's coming in the new mini on Sept. 1) and a cool music note dp from the cosmo cricket Jolly By Golly pack. I stitched around the edge and I sponged some soft suede ink to give it that antiqued look and stuck to pretty vanilla satin ribbon and some pearls. The poinsetta stamp is the gorgeous one by Unity that you can find in the Hodge Podge of Happiness kit. Here's a close up of the details. Like I said, it may not be Moxie Fab vintage, but I love how it turned out! Hugs, Lisa

Moxie Fab-Fun & Cute

I think a lot of my cards are this style. I'm just drawn to cute and whimsical images. It helps when you have just the right paper, like this darling Jillibean Soup dp. It's from their new Christmas line, Grandma's Christmas Soup. I've been using my PTI holiday sets for most of the sentiments I've been stamping. Add a bow, a button and a gingham scalloped edge and this screams cute to me!

Check out the Moxie Fab challenges. There was a new one posted each day last week! Hugs, Lisa

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas....

well in the crafting world it is. I can't say I have started this early before, but Cath over at Moxie Fab put up the challenge and I jumped at it! Plus it helped that I got lots of new goodies from Limelight. I know, I keep saying that but it's true and I just LOVE it all. So for my next few posts, and probably more than one each day I'll be sharing with you what I've been working on. Last Monday the call was for Clean and Graphic HOliday cards. So thanks to the new Cosmo Cricket line, Jolly By Golly, I whipped up this fun card.

So what do you think? Is it Moxie Fab enough for you? Hugs, Lisa

Just For You!

A quick Sunday post. I created this card earlier in the week for the Moxie Fab Citrus Color challenge. These are the yummy colors we were asked to use and this is the gorgeous inspiration piece to draw from.

Sooooo, this is what I came up with. I used my PTI bitty dots paper along with my FAVE unity May KOTM image. I think it's so Moxie Fab!
That's all I got today, BUT stay tuned for tomorrow it's a two post Monday with lots of fun and EXCITING stuff to share! It's Limelight's First Birthday Celebration and I've got a little something else.....you'll just have to stop back by to see! Hugs, Lisa