Big Mamma's Craftin House

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Nuts about you

Just got home from errand running with my BFF. First time in about two weeks I have seen her and she live just down the street. You see her husband works in another state and only comes home about a weekend a month but for the holiday and cuz it has been snowing where he works he has been home for some time. When he comes back into town he puts a lock down on her.. (not really but to me it feels like it) and I don't see her. I can't believe she would rather spend time with her husband than me.. oh well I guess it all works out.. I get her when he's gone. Hehehe

Just before I left I had just finished another Valentines challenge card. Thank goodness we are getting back into our challenges. I live for my challenges. Well to start off I used The Sweet Stop SSS89 challenge sketch. It was pretty darn complicated for me. Just a lot of layers and I'm not very good at that but I think it all worked out darn well.I just moved the flower a bit and you will see why but you have to read on.. haha..

Next I went for Stacey's Stamping Stage color challenge - Act #63

The colors are: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Cajun Craze, and Always Artichoke.

So now what card to make.. I went with a very non-traditional Valentines card but it is perfect for a rough tough guy. Now I just have to fine one.. LOL.. I crack myself up. I know I will send it to my daughter so she can give it to her boyfriend for Valentines.. I just thought of that.. not only do I crack my self up. I amaze myself! Ok enough about me.. on to my card.

I know what your thinking.. How the heck is this a Valentines card..The stamp is just one single block stamp from Recollections. It might even be from the $ bin. See how I put the flower in a different place well that's because Claudia & Company challenge #69 asked us to Tag it with Love.

So I did.. Cute huh. It's part of my tag.

One last challenge for this card is for Fab n Funky challenge #54 - Anything Goes.

Ok that's it for now but I hope you like it and had a great day. It was for me and it would be sad if it wasn't for you.

Big Mamma Luvs Ya

XOXO

Monday, January 3, 2011

My very first ATC!

I know what your thinking.. what the heck does she mean her very first ATC. I'm not kidding. I have never made one just by itself but this week at Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #75 asked us to. So I stepped outta my box and BAM! I did it! It was hard when you're so use to making cards, even though every card you make has an ATC as part of it. The size is so small that most my stamps are much larger than the card size alone. haha I do have a set from Inkadinkado called Friendly Characters which ended up being the perfect size. I also need Thank You cards for after the holidays to send out and that ended up being perfect cuz two other challenges asked for Thank You themes, Allsorts Challenge #84 and Cute Card Thursday Challenge #145. I made the ATC colors Purple & Yellow for The Corrosive Challenge #97

So what do you think for the very first one.

As I sit here looking at it I'm not a big fan of this but maybe I'll get better if I do more of these. I can say now all I need to do is slap it on a card base and I'm good to go. I guess there is a silver lining after all.

Big Mamma Luvs Ya

XOXO

Another Birthday card

Happy Monday everyone. I hope the start of the new year is going well for everyone. It is for me, I just got back from the gym. I took a break at the holidays and my body sure is showing it! Big Mamma is lookin like BIG MAMMA! LOL

Well after I made my last card and posted it I stated to really look at it and decided that it was just to immature to give to a 17 yr old. I am sure you will agree.. (just look at the previous post - Birthday Bear) So I made a new card for her and will save the Birthday Bear for something else or maybe post it to my Etsy. I am a die hard follower of Bugaboo. If you haven't stopped by you really need to. Every Friday they have a freebie digi. Last Friday they had the cutest girl holding a cup cake and I thought it would be perfect to use for her card. Bugaboo has a challenge blog called Catch The Bug and they have a monthly challenge and this week it is "Anything Goes" I colored her with my copics, put some pearls on her, and used my sparkles to glam up her cup cake and dress. My card inspiration came from two challenges #1 Just Us Girls Challenge # 65 - Sketch and #2 Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #92.

What better inspiration to start a project.

One last challenge for this card is Kaboodle Doodles challenge #48 - Anything Goes .

Here's a close up of the cup cake.. you can't see the sparkles on it,.

HAVE A GREAT EVENING EVERYONE AND IF I HAVEN'T TOLD YOU LATELY THEN

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STOPPING BY.

Big Mamma Luvs Ya

XOXO

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Birthday Bear

This weekend sure has flown by fast. I hope that's not how the whole year is going to go. 2010 went by before I knew it and I told myself I am going to make 2011 last and remember the small things.

On small thing I did today was make another challenge card. This one is for a birthday coming up in about a week. A long time girlfriend of my youngest daughter. I used the sketch from CPS199 I changed it up a bit by adding a ribbon and switching the circle and square. Isn't the ribbon the best. I got a bunch of "NEW" ribbon for Christmas that has themes on them. Like new baby, thank you, paw prints,, etc... I thought it was just perfect for this card due to the color combo worked perfect. PINK! The Color Dare Challenge #90 asked us to use Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Rich Razzleberry & Very Vanilla. Whew that was a mouth full... lol. The colors and the ribbon all go together so well that you just want to sing Happy Birthday to YOU! How can that not be one of your favorite songs..Every time you hear it you know there is cake, hopefully ice cream and presents not far off.

I used Polly Craft free digi I got a while ago, isn't he cute with his balloons. I added the little trail after him. Just thought it gave him some dimension. Of course I used my Copics to color him in. It is my favorite way to color images but I am still learning. I use to use Prisma pencils a lot but I think I am finally getting the hang of these markers.

Well on to the next challenge card. I think it'll be another birthday card. My stash is low.

The rest of the challenges:
Really Reasonable Ribbons Challenge #15 - something new plus ribbon (my ribbon is new.. lol)
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Favorite Song (Happy Birthday to you.. happy birthday to you)
I Did It Creations Challenge #36 - Favorite Technique (copic coloring)
Paper Sundaes Challenge #50 - Something New ( the happy birthday ribbon)
Big Mamma Luvs Ya

XOXO

Saturday, January 1, 2011

First card of 2011!!!!

Yep this is the way I spent my New Years Eve nite. Making a birthday card for my brother. His birthday is towards the end of Feb. but after I saw the sketch at Our Craft Lounge Challenge #46 I had to make the card now. It also gave me the perfect excuse to use a new set that I haven't used yet from them. It is soooo cute. It's called Eiei Hello. If you have never see their stamps you have got to go by their site/store and check out everything they have. So many and so many different cute themes. I have probably about 7 sets and haven't got to use them all yet.

As I was going through the challenges for this week I found three challenges that have the same color theme.

#1 - Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge #39 - Use the colors BLACK - WHITE - GREY