Baby DeNami giraffe

I love this DeNami giraffe stamp, and I love this semtiment stamp from Stampin' Up - don't know why I haven't thought to put them together until today!
Will be entering this into DeNami's sketch challenge ;)

Kissed blue flower

I've never tried kissing stamps before (let me rephrase that - I've never SUCCESSFULLY tried kissing stamps before) - so when I saw LilyPad cards had a kissing challenge, I thought I'd better give it a whirl.

Also submitting this to Clean and Simple Stamping's sketch challenge (see sketch below) and to Moxie Fab's Cure the Winter Blues challenge. 

Masculine candles

I always need masculine cards, and never have enough, so gotta try to build up my stash.

Submitting this to CASual Fridays challenge in mind - "Jest for the Pun of it" - using a fun or jokey sentiment, and to Moxie Fab's Cure for the Winter Blues challenge.

Turtley cute!

When I saw this week's CASual fridays challenge, "Jest for the Pun of it", I had so many ideas floating around in my head (might come back to some of them), but seeing as I had just pulled out my stash of DeNami Stamps for their sketch challenge, the little turtle just screamed at me, "USE ME!!!!".  So I did! 

 I had to modify the sentiment stamp somewhat........

Have a turtley wonderful day :)

Masculine card for a wedding? Engagement? Something!

 Here's something you don't see very often - a masculine card for a wedding or engagement - what if you're a bloke and you want to give a card and can't stand all the flowery, glittery things you sometimes see in the card shops?  You need something like this:

I'm submitting this to The Paper Players for their CAS masculine challenge. 

This card started off completely different - when I made this card >>>>>>>>>
I stamped the sentiment OK, and then dropped the ink pad on the card!  I didn't want to waste a perfectly good piece of PTI white card, so I decided to cover up my boo boo!  I had to start the original card from scratch.  That's the fantastic thing about paper crafting - you can often rescue a blunder :)