Happy Birthday to You

Still going with the bright colors!  Dustin Pike's Clown 1a from his Blogiversary 3 collection was calling to all the Copics laying on my desktop, "Color Me!"  Lol, who am I to ignore the pleas of a happy clown?  My father's birthday is next week, and this card should bring a smile!  I used Hootenanny papers from MME, and actually stamped the sentiment directly on the card face (you have no idea how much I wanted to run it through my printer instead).  The clown and his balloon are fussy cut and attached with foam sticky dots.  Adding the twine for the balloon string and some red bling finished off the card.

A shout-out goes to Mary J of Where's My Creativity for the inspiration for the card layout!  Thanks Mary!

Hop, Hop, Hop

Are you surprised to see a Saturday post from me?  I had to hurry and squeeze in the remaining Easter cards.  This bunny and his pals are digis from Dustin Pike.  I fussy cut the image Bunny Chix and then fussy cut some of the extra chicks from the image Pile On.  The Hop tag was cut from a sheet of patterned paper from the We R Memory Keepers Peep pad.

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!  Thank you for stopping by!

A Little Different Christmas Image

While it seems I have purchased nearly most (at last count 6,989...I can scarcely believe I have that many) of Dustin Pike's images (they are so dang quirky and cute).  Not sure why exactly but, I rarely seem to actually make them into cards.  Yes, dear husband you can once again state that I am a collector rather than a user, lol.  Starting today I'm going to make an effort to use a few of these fabulous images each month.  This little monster is from Dustin's Christmas in July 2012 set and reminded me of a Yeti or Abominable Snowman.  So of course I had to cover his body in Flower Soft to make him fuzzy!

 
Glazing liquid gives his candy cane antlers/horns and eye a glossy look.  And, although it doesn't really show in the picture, he's lifted off the page with sticky dots.  Hope you like my use of a little different Christmas image!

Low 80's

Today is the perfect day to show this card using one of Dustin Pike's vacationing Santa images.  We are FINALLY leaving the 90 degree weather behind us!  Hello Autumn!  No, I am not complaining...there are perks to living in the sunshine state.  I'm just happy to have a little less of the heat for awhile.  With any luck we won't see the 90's again until late Spring. 

The background paper was a random 12x12 we picked up to scrap one of my husband's golf trips, but he's not too crazy about the colors or the very busy pattern.  So, I pilfered it to use on cards and am loving the way the card turned out.  Santa's dotted shirt is my favorite element.  I typically make a complete mess of it when I attempt to dot anything, but this time the creative spirits were on my side.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Sunshiney Days

Good morning!  Seems we have an unusual batch of rain showers hanging around for the next couple of days, so let's bring the sunshine in with this card.  The flamingo is a Dustin Pike image and the tropical paper is from an old Me & My Big Ideas pad.

Have a fabulous Thursday!  And thank you to those who've left such nice comments.  I really do appreciate it!