There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 5 - Part 1

Here we go!

Day 5 of There She Goes Birthday Celebration! They'll remain in my heart forever for I've shared the creative process with my daughter.

She spurred me in these past days, she wanted to know my ideas and she was so happy when she could show me her finished cards.

This is her last card:

She loves this reading girl from the Believe in You stamp set and she has created this card around it. She is a trued reading girl so it's easy for her to receive books as presents.

The theme for Day 5 was birthday + at least 3 embellishments.

In her opinion 3 embellishments meant 3 different kinds of embellishments, that's why she used rhinestones, flower sequins and ribbon.

I'll be sad tomorrow... no cards to make and no post to write!

TSGBC04 - Part 2

Well... working with my daughter for the cards for There She Goes Birthday Celebration has been a demanding experience.

She talks and talks and talks and if she is not talking she asks me to think aloud... and laughs at what I say (or think).

I really enjoy my crafting time with her, it's great now that she is old enough to share the same passions and stamps and ideas but sometimes I appreciate some silence,,,

In a week or so she'll be back to school and my crafting time will be much quiter... and I'll miss her so much...

Here's my card for Day 4 of There She Goes Birthday Celebration:

A banner was requested together with the birthday theme and I glued this little banner made form paper scraps next to this lovely girl on a bench from the Blossom by Blossom set.

In order to decorate the white space of this round card, I stamped four pretty flowers from the Wrapped in Joy set. and added some light green rhinestones.

I really love it!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 4 - Part 1

Ready for a new post for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 4, this time for my daughter's 4th card:

As I told you she is a bit ahead of me, so she was making her 4th card while I was still making my 3rd.

This is why I managed to copy the way she glued two clouds together: I was struggling with my clouds without finding the perfect position when I saw her card and... voilà, the solution!

The theme this time is to make a birthday card with a banner of any kind on it!

I LOVE her banner made of flowers stamped from the Blossom by Blossom set from There She Goes, but of course, I can't copy it for the same challenge!

The puppy and girl image is from the Puppy Love set, that girl is super cute!

My stamp for this new challenge is already colored... I have only to assemble the card and make the banner...

TSGBC03 - Part 2

Here I am again!

Wow... 2 posts per day... a record for me!

Here's my card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 3:

If you rember my previous post, the theme for Day 3 was given by a photo with a turquoise + red + white color scheme.

I've used a paper from DCWV and this lovely girl from There She Goes Blossom by Blossom stamp set.

It's such a lovely color scheme, it gives such a fresh look to cards!

Well, better go and prepare the card for Day 4: my daughter is already done and, I must confess, she had a couple of brillant ideas... I copied the two clouds glued together you see in this card, I loved the idea!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 3 - Part 1

My daughter is always ahead of me!

She finished her 3rd card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Challenge before me and she has already done her 4th card.

Here's her card:

On Day 3 the challenge was to make a birthday card inspired by this image:

We both chose the turquoise + red + white scheme and, of course, a There She Goes stamp (the dog is from the Puppy Love set while the tulips are from the Blossom by Blossom set).

There She Goes is opening a new store! I've already had a look and believe me, it's great! My computer is old and slow and looking through the stamps in the old store was a nightmare while now it's quick and easy!

See you later for my 3rd card!



TSGBC02 - Part 2

Here's my daughter's card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 2:

My stash of There She Goes Stamps lacking male images, she chose a dog from the Puppy Love set and the cake from the Ruh-roh set (it was her idea, not mine... I copied her...).

She then added bones on the picnic tablecloth and some pawprints (also from the Puppy Love set) assembled as a banner.

She wanted her card to resemble a gift, that's why she added a ribbon and bow on the top.

Her coloring of the dog inspired mine (well, yes, she was finished before me... she works fast!) and I love how she uses colored pencils!

We are already working on our card for Day 3, see you tomorrow!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 2 - Part 1

Good morning!

Here I am again, ready to post my card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 2:

The theme for day 2 is a masculine birthday card and I've used a lovely little dog from the Puppy Love set and a little cake from the Ruh-roh set.

I realize that I'm not too much into masculine cards, I'm more for pinks, blings and girly things!

Come back later for my daughter's card!

TSGBC01 - Part 2

Hi again!

Ready to post my card for Day 1 of There She Goes Birthday Blog Hop!

As I mentioned in my previous post, the theme today is Birthday + number.

I chose two images from the Believe in You stamp set and added some pretty papers and number 6.

I love it!

Both my daughter and I have worked hard today and are almost ready to link our cards for Day 2 of the blog hop! See you tomorrow!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 1 - Part 1

Yesterday I saw that There She Goes Clear Stamps is turning 4 and that they are hosting a new Challenge everyday for the whole week.

I couldn't miss it and I immediately reached for my There She Goes stamps and started planning my card.

As soon as my daughter got up, I told her about the Challenges and she decided she wanted to create some cards too. She chose her image and, once the ink was dry, she created this card:

In addition to the birthday theme, each day there's an additional theme and yesterday it was to use numbers on the card or project.

She worked faster than me and managed to created this card with an image from the "Wrapped in Joy" stamp set (I'm sorry but the shop is under maintenance so I cannot save a direct link to the products). She then put number 2 on her cake and used an incredible quantity of rhinestones (she now has her own jewels so she can use as many as she wants without hearing me grumble...)!

Later today I'll be posting my card for Day One of this birthday celebrations!

Owls...

When I discovered Etsy a few years ago I discovered owls too.

I have friends who collect them but I've never taken too much care. But on Etsy... well... I've discovered such funny, tender, whimsical, cute owls that I'm starting to love them!

Even if I keep myself from starting a new collection of "physical" owls, I realize that I'm collecting digis with them as theme.

With one of my latest buy I created this card:

It was a pleasure to color and to embellish with glitter and I wanted to achieve a "night look" in the card, so I used very dark blue colors.

The image is Little Wizard Owl from Meljen's Designs, while the paper is again an old scrap and I don't remember the name of the Company.

I used Copics to color it and some glittery paper from DCWV.

I'll enter this card in Meljen's Designs Challenge # 125 - Anything Goes.

Isn't he cute?