An Easter card for the Our Creative Corner Challenge

Good Morning! I'm not being a very good blogger lately. Sorry about that, but I have been working hard on getting new products up on the 2RedBananas website, so I hope that helps :)

Silke Ledlow, who does AMAZING work, asked me to be a guest designer on Our Creative Corner for today. The challenge is to make an Easter card using your favorite Easter stamps. Well, my favorite Easter set is Jami Bova's "the Gift" set. I absolutely love this set and how there are so many different ways you can use it with the bunnies and the birds. And you have a chance to win it, so be sure to go to the OCC blog.

I used lots of fun stuff on this card. I started with a cream colored card base and then layered some purple polka dot BoBunny paper, then some Webster's Pages Purple Majesty paper. I used my Nestabilities Labels Two to cut the purple layer and the image layer and added lilac shimmerz to the border. I colored all the images with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and then added Inkssentials white pen to make the highlights. I added Angel Wings Shimmerz to the white cloth on the cross. I also added white flocking to the bunny tails :) The bunnies are up on pop-dots to make them higher than the cross layer. The strip of paper that the bunnies are 'standing' on is more of the BoBunny paper with a strip of the opposite side of the Webster's Pages paper then a length of May Arts violet velvet ribbon (which is also on the clip at the top). To finish the front I added purple dew drops from the Grapes and Leaves collection.

The second picture is the inside of the card where I put my sentiment and some embellishments too :)

2RedBananas has donated "the Gift" stamp set for a prize for this challenge so be sure to go to the Our Creative Corner blog and link your Easter card to be entered to win. All the details are on their blog :)

Our quote for the day: "He has made everything beautiful in its time." - Ecclesiates 3:11

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Banana Split Sunday on Monday :)

Good Morning!! Today I'm going to show you what I made for the Banana Split Sunday Challenge.

I have a really good reason for not posting it until today though. Saturday, our oldest daughter, Erin, got married!!! So, we were in Louisiana all weekend for the wedding. It was perfect and Erin was BEAUTIFUL! So Congratulations ERIN & JEFF and have a wonderful and relaxing time on the beach!!!

This layout is what I made for the Banana Split Sunday Challenge, which was to use some kind of gems. You can participate and be entered into the drawing to win one of the newly released bottles of Metallic dew drops! They are what I used on my layout. Erin is the one at the top of the picture :)


Supplies:
Paper: October Afternoon- Daydream Collection - Freshly Mown Lawn
Ink: Chalk Ink - Chestnut Roan
Other: Metallic Dew Drops, May Arts ribbon - blue twinkle, champagne satin, 7Gypsies tag, Blumenthal Lansing button.

Our quote for the day: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:13

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It's Banana Split Sunday :)

Good Morning! It's Banana Split Sunday and today's challenge is an inspiration challenge. This is a print by William Templeton called Banana Bandit. I love the colors in this as you will see from my card :) I really wanted to get a touch of the green in my card, but I didn't so I just may have to do another one :)

Go to the 2RedBananas blog to get all the details and to see the dt's take on this inspiration. They are fabulous!! Then you play too and be sure to use Mr. Linky to show us your creation!


This is the card that was inspired by this print! I love the warm colors so that's what I went with. The browns, oranges and yellows just warmed me and it's funny because I usually reach for blues and greens. Guess that's what challenges are for aren't they :)



Supplies:
Stamps: Quotes - 2RedBananas
Ink: Versafine-Vintage Sepia, Chalk Ink-Burnt Sienna
Paper: Bazzill, MME - Bloom - Polka Dot Punch, Webster's Pages -Reflections of Nature - Amber Waves
Other: Nesties, Dew Drops-sunflower, May Arts Ribbon, silk flowers - Autumn Leaves


Our quote for the day: "It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you." - Cory Flint

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Good Evening! Today I have two cards to show you.

This first one is for Danni's Flutterby Challenge, which is posted every Wednesday and always has something to do with butterflies. This week's challenge was to use butterflies and buttons. Well, I've been using this sentiment from Jami's Value of Joy set alot lately and I don't have any butterfly stamps, so I used my Michael's coupon for this Martha Stewart clear set. I love the different sizes of butterflies. :) Then when I was in Joann's getting buttons for the dress I'm wearing to the wedding, I found these really cool shell buttons :) They are so cool, they're brown on the opposite side and pearlescent on this side!

Supplies:
Stamps: Value of Joy - 2RedBananas, MS Butterflies, Inkadinkado Sketch Flourishes
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia, Chalk Ink -Chestnut Roan, VersaMagic -Sahara Sand
Paper: Paper Adventures (old)
Other: Gold Glimmer-Blingz, pop dots, Jute, prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits

This second card was made for the SCS Limited Supplies Challenge. It was to use a spring theme and soft subtles (in the Stampin Up line) of colors. This is what I came up with.

Supplies:

Stamps: Whipper Snapper, Hero Arts

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, chalk inks

Paper: WeRMemory Keepers

Other: May Arts velvet ricrac, Hero Arts gems, prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits, nestabilities

Our quote for the day: "Goals are stars to steer by, not sticks to beat yourself with." - Barbara B. Smith

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Three more Challenge Cards

Hi! Three more challenges I get to show you today!

This first one keeps me laughing. The challenge is the Ways to Use it Challenge on SplitCoastStampers. For this one you were supposed to use stickers and stamps. Well, I knew exactly what stickers I wanted to use. I've had them in my stash for a while now, but I remember buying them. I saw them in the store and just started laughing out loud!!! Not, just once, but every time I looked at them. This is just one of the zebras in the package. Oh my goodness, he still makes me smile :)

Supplies:
Stamp: Hero Arts
Ink: Versafine Onyx black
Paper: Bazzill, Prism
Other: Jolee's stickers, May Arts red satin ribbon

This card was made for the sketch challenge on SCS. Once again I used the October Afternoon papers, they just feel so 'springy' to me :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Caring Critters - 2RedBananas
Ink: Versafine Onyx black, Chalk ink- Chestnut Roan, French Blue
Paper: October Afternoon
Other: Dew Drops-water, prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits, Inkssentials white pen


This final card is for thee SCS Try a New Technique and the technique is ribbon frames. I love this purple ribbon and I knew that this was the one I wanted to use, so here is the card:

Supplies:
Stamps: Wrapped in His Love - 2RedBananas
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
Paper: Webster's Pages, Paper Loft
Other: Gold Glimmer Blingz, May Arts ribbon

Hope to get more done soon! Remember to check out the 2RedBananas blog for this week's challenge: Make a 'Spring' project.

Our quote for the day (this is one of my favorites :) : "Where we love is home, HOME that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes


Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

TWO from ONE

I'm just a little late to be saying Good Morning, so Good Afternoon :)
I'm excited about this post. Although, these projects didn't take all that much time in actually making them, getting the time was the challenge. :)
You know how I love to use double sided papers so I can just use one sheet, well this time I took it even further and used ONE 12X12 sheet of dp to make TWO projects - Woo Hoo!!!

I used the MME Bella Bella, French Flea Market Collection - Simply Plaid paper which is the seafoam green on the back side.
The only other papers I used were a scrap piece of brown cardstock and a plain white cardstock base for the card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Quotes - 2RedBananas
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia, Chalk Ink - Chestnut Roan
Paper: MME Bella Bella -French Flea Market Collection - Simply Plaid
Other: Brown Grosgrain RicRac, star journaling circle

After I finished the layout I used what I had left to make this card :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Caring Critters - 2RedBananas
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia, Chalk Ink - Chestnut Roan
Paper : MME Bella Bella, French Flea Mkt Collection - Simply Plaid
Other: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Prima flowers, Dew Drops - soil (shades of brown), prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits, white flocking, Satin Champagne ribbon, pop dots

This was fun to do and I don't have many scraps left :) If you try it, post a link in the comments, I would love to see what you come up with.

Remember to check out the challenge on the 2RedBananas blog, it's a Spring challenge and there is a prize that will be randomly drawn for.

Our quote for the day: "True strength is delicate." - Louise Nevelson

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!!!

2RedBananas - Banana Split Sunday

Good Morning! Today is Banana Split Sunday, 2RedBananas new challenge day :) The challenge today is to make something Spring related. It doesn't feel like Spring here yet, but I'm still hoping that it will be soon :) There is a prize with this week's challenge so be sure to go over to the 2RedBananas blog to read all the details and see the projects that the dt has come up with. They're amazing!


This is my card for the challenge. I love these Spring papers from Imaginisce and this new grosgrain ricrac, it's so cool! The papers already have sparkle on them so I didn't use many embellishments, I let the image and the paper speak for themselves :)

Supplies:
stamps: Just Ducky - 2RedBananas
ink: Versafine Onyx black
paper: Imaginisce - For Peep's Sake line
Other: prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits, Inkssentials white pen, Nestabilities Labels One, May Arts Grosgrain RicRac

I don't have ballgames today, so maybe I'll get some more cards made :)

Our quote for the day: "In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." - Margaret Atwood

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!