♥ MME pinspiration ♥

good morning, happy weekend!  i LOVE weekends and do not take them for granted any longer.  it's a time for me to get caught up from the week of family, work, school and dt work and it's beautiful.

i wanted to pop in and share a card created for the MME Pinspiration 

post this week on the blog.  I have shared with you HOW MUCH i love these posts.  there is so, so much inspiration in our My Mind's Eye Inspiring Pages and Cards board.  i love to peruse the gallery of gorgeous projects and every single time, find it so hard to pick just one project.

this card by Lucy Abrams 

  isn't it just gorgeous?  love every last bit of it, from blocking to focal to stitching to sentiment placement, just gorgeous!  you can check out more from her amazing blog here too Lucy's Cards

and here is the card, completely inspired by her gorgeous creation

 her gorgeous card, with the blocking and centered focal gave me a springboard to mix soft colors and center a layered flower embellishment

thank you Lucy for the inspiration 

pop in to the My Mind's Eye blog to see more Pinspiration and creations

i hope to pop in a couple more times this weekend before the start of another week, thank you for visiting me

happy creating♥

danni

♥ scraptastic september kit ♥

loving it, loving it, loving it!

 

isn't THIS KIT gorgeous?

and here's a couple of cards i have created so far with this beautiful kit

 

  

 

 

i hope to update this weekend again with lots more to share and some upcoming sneak peeks.

thank you so much for visiting me

danni

♥ cupcards to go summer card kit part 2 ♥

hello.  are you having record-setting heat or down-pouring rain right now where you live?  we are burning hot here and it makes it a challenge to keep kids cool and relaxed.  my kids are allergic to the chemicals in our local swimming pool, they have to swim in fresh water or smaller hotel pools, the larger swim centers have to use more of the chemicals and it does not sit well with any of my boys.  so, to cool them down, we take them to various lakes and smaller pools, which is a little ways away.  i am very excited for all the fun picture-taking opportunities and memories this week, it's a week i won't soon forget.

sorry for rambling, but this has been a H*O*T week and am wondering what it's like where YOU are.

i am back to share some more cards from the gorgeous CupCards to Go Isabella Summer card kit.

i love everything about this kit, from the papers, to the embellies, to the washi, to the sentiments, it's all perfect!

i shared the first set of the cards created with the kit HERE

here's Isabella 

(Part Two)

i love this fabric paper that is in the kit and used it on quite a few cards, fun to play with!

 the challenge this month was to create a masculine birthday card using the supplies in our kit also.   using my guitar die and the embellies/papers from the kit, this card was fun to create.

  my "hello" card was inspired by this month's sketch 

 

  instead of the strip of paper in front of the block of cardstock, i chose to cut my paper and create faux washi tape with it.  i kept the greeting the focal of the card and embellished it with the fun and happy papers. 

i cut one of the happy birthday sentiments down to just read "hello" for this particular card.

 

and with my leftovers from the kit, i created hand-made embellies.  i like to create hand-made embellies before throwing out the very last tidbits of a kit that were too small so when i need a card, it is easy to adhere them to some cardstock and go.  i actually have a small box of just handmade embellies for that very purpose and use it all the time.

and here are three cards i created with them and the tag will be tied to a gift bag very soon

and a shaker card using some fun sequins i had in my stash 

   i hope you'll check out Isabella 

for yourself, you will NOT be disappointed, it is packed FULL of fun supplies in order to create a LOT of cards!

thank you so much for visiting me and for your incredibly sweet notes!

happy creating♥

danni

♥ CupCards to Go sneak peeks ♥

just wanted to pop in here and share the newest sneaks from the July CupCards to Go card kit.  the kit will be up for sale on July 1st and you will NOT want to miss it.

here's the card sneaks i have prepared to share of the cards created with this card kit.

everything on my cards is from the kit (plus a couple of sequins on one, one sheet of vellum on a card or two and some Cameo cuts)  everything you see here, minus the cuts is available in this kit.  isn't it delicious?

keep checking the CupCards to Go card kit blog for more sneak peeks from the designers all week.

hugs & so much love!

danni

♥april scraptastic scrapbooking kits♥

are on sale now and they are incredible.  i will be working with BOTH April kits this month, because i couldn't decide, so i didn't....giggle. 

this first set of cards is up on the Scraptastic Scrapbooking Blog today using the 8 Days a Week kit and add-on.

8 Days a Week Kit

8 Days a Week Add-On

 

 

8 Days a Week Stamps 

 i LOVE the fonts in this set, loooove them.

here are some sneak peeks of my cards that you can see on The Blog today

(hope you'll pop in and say "hello")

thanks for visiting me today!

happy creating♥

danni

♥April Fool's Day Birthday--MME style♥

Hello!  Happy April Fool's Day 

a.k.a

My Maternal Grandmother's Birthday.  

And, it is with her birthday in-mind that I created the card, tutorial and links for this year's birthday card for Grandma.  I am sharing all of these on the MME blog today and YOU can enter THIS MONTH'S FUN APRIL CHALLENGE, just hop on over for the challenge and to link YOUR project♥

 

 Supplies:Lost and Found 3:Ruby -Postcard patterned paper,Medallion patterned paper,Honeycomb patterned paper,12 x 12 chipboard, stickers ;Boy Crazy:enamel dots ;Misc: Silhouette Cameo, twine, machine stitching

 Danni says:

April Fools Day is actually my maternal grandmother's birthday, so it's fun for us to create cards to make her smile and laugh out loud. Today I thought I would share this year's card with you.

I adhered my faux $20 bill to the inside flap, when the recipient (my grandmother) opens it up, trying to remove the $20 bill, they will see the 20 bucks (of the deer persuasion) instead......April Fools (smile)!!!

For those of you who do not have a Cameo, I've added some printables for you to create your own card with your MME supplies.

For the money printable CLICK HERE
For the printable bucks CLICK HERE

And if you do own a Cameo, here is a quick tutorial:

   Fun right?  I hope she giggles, thank goodness for her GREAT sense of humor, it makes this day even more fun!

I hope you'll give the challenge a try, should be so much fun to see all the entries, I can't wait!

happy creating♥
danni

♥ masculine cards jillibean style ♥

good morning.  how are you?  

 i wanted to pop in here to share a couple of the cards i created with the jillibean soup game day chili line.  i love, love this line because we have 3 boys and 1 girl here (who also plays sports) so it's the perfect line for our many sports layouts and necessary cards.

sports love card

(click pics to enlarge)

these ticket die-cuts from this paper make me so dern happy and i wanted to have them be the focal on at least one of my cards. 

birthday wishes card

these stars, oh these stars, they make me happy, a rainbow of stars....swooon.  so, i left them to be the focal on this CAS card and i love how colorful they are.

cut a banner strip from the lined diecut in this paper

happy card

my boys love all three sports very, very much.  during each season, they tell me whatever they are playing at the moment is their "favorite sport".  so i had to create a card with all three of the sports on it, now they will fight over who gets this one....giggle.

                                                       it's not how big you are card

 

i loved the circles from this diecut paper and wanted to make them the focal of a card.  the cute hearts and stars are so fun on these and make me smile.