365 Cards - Day 9 - Do That Decade: The 90's & Going Green with D2D

Welcome to another wonderful Wednesday at my blog! My first card up is for Day 9 - Do that Decade: The 90's at 365 Cards. This one was hard for me. I graduated high school and college in the 90's, but for some reason I couldn't recall any trends or fads! So after a little research and being reminded of "grunge rock" out of Seattle which then reminded me of coffee, I came up with this card. I grunged it up with ink, embossed/ sanded core-dinations paper, and torn paper, then "rocked" it with the sentiment and music paper (please ignore that it's actually Christmas paper! It's the only music paper I had!), and finished it up with this fab MTF Who's that Girl stamp! So what will the Decade of the 90's inspire in you?!?

Here's the other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. A Spoon Full of Sugar  - Vintage/Shabby theme: I think the "grunge" is pretty "shabby" and "grunge" is almost vintage!
2. Aly's Sunday Challenge - anything goes
3. Craft your passion challenges - anything goes
4. Creative Card Crew - no flowers
5. Let's Ink It Up - embossing + hand stamped image
6. Mojo Monday - sketch
7. PaperPlay Challenges - shabby chic/vintage
8. Stampin' B's Design Team - strike up the band (something music related)
9. The Crazy Challenge - lovely ladies

Next up is my sample for the current challenge at the D2D Card Ideas blog. This week's challenge is "going green" by using recycled elements. Well, I made that little silver shamrock out of a nut can topper! I also used the Lucky Bird image which is still free for everyone, so dropped by and get yours at
Delightful Inspiration and join us for the challenges!

Here's the other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. Alphabet Challenge Blog - R for Ribbons
2. Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Die Cuts: the image was cut out and matted with die cuts
3. BasicGrey Challenges - Wings + Basic Gray item: The patterned paper is BG (Lime Rickey)
4. Catch The Bug Challenge Blog - anything goes
5. CES challenges - St. Patrick/Good Luck: got both on here!
6. Crafty Ho’s Challenge Blog - St. Patrick's Day
7. Crazy 4 Challenges - sketch
8. CREATIVE BELLI BLOG - animals
9. Do you Stack up - Just GREEN it
10. Easy Craft Projects - Challenges - Green
11. Hand Stamped Sentiments - Go for Green
12. INKY IMPRESSIONS CHALLENGES - easel card
13. Iris's Spot - buttons
14. Karens Doodles Challenge Blog - go green
15. Lollipop Crafts - critter
16. Paper Cutz Challenge - St. Patrick's Day
17. Paper Pretties - Ribbon
18. Paper Romance Challenges - Vellum
19. Papertake Weekly Challenge - Lemon Zingy
20. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Going for the Green
21. Really Reasonable Ribbon - Green + ribbon
22. Sassy Studio Designs - Green as main color
23. Scrap-Creations - going green
24. Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - good luck
25. Stamp Something - Digi Day
26. Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - You Lucky Duck
27. The Corrosive Challenge Blog!! - Green
28. The Crafty Pad - ribbons
29. The Creative Cottage Challenge - Tag you're it
30. The Shabby Tea Room - Luck of the Irish + Green

Thanks for stopping by and can't wait to see your creations!
Aloha,

Hoppy Saturday...Sunday!

Aloha, all! My mom is feeling a bit under the weather this weekend, so I hope checking out my creation cheers her up a bit! (that's if she can see through all the "gunk" in her eyes!) This is a card for my friend and Malie's "auntie" who's birthday is Sunday. She loves frogs and I found this super cute Meljen image that works so well! Colored him up with copics and made a fun tag to stick behind the image (see pic below to see it out)

Here's the other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. A Spoon Full of Sugar - create a tag or use a tag
2. Alota Rubber Stamps - all about bugs: well this one has bugs on it (those cute little flies) and I used my cuttlebug to cut out the image, mat, and to emboss the cloud paper with swirls
3. Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Birthday creations
4. CardPatterns - sketch: I flipped some of the elements but it's all there!
5. CCEE Stampers - swirls: I embossed a swirl pattern on the cloud patterned paper
6. Charisma Cardz Challenges! - 4 legged friends
7. Craft Us Crazy - nature
8. Crafty Sentiments - birthdays
9. Flourishes - St. Patricks Day or use green as main color
10. fun with shapes and more - happy birthday: I punched the border and used dies to cut out the image
11. Meljens Design Team and Challenge - U R such an Animal
12. Papertake Weekly Challenge - anything goes + optional extra of something old: my old is the patterned paper and the ribbon...I've had both for at least a year
13. Simon Says Challenge - 1 image, 2 patterned papers, 3 different types of embellies: my embellies are ribbon, glitter brad, and little rhinestones (on the image)
14. The Sisterhood of Crafters - ribbon and brads
15. Tuesday Throwdown - Tag your it!

Hope your feeling better, Mom, and I hope everyone else has a wonderful Sunday!
Aloha,