Sending You Monster Hugs

I was so excited to pick up the new Monster Mash set from Lawn Fawn.  These monsters are so cute!  I stamped them all out and just started coloring for fun.  Since I now have a bunch of pre-colored monsters in my stash, I pulled them out and made a clean and simple card with some of them.  I just used some green grass cut using the Lawn Fawn Grassy Border Die with some green paper from the Echo Park 6x6 Paper pad For the Record 2, a few of my pre-colored monsters and one of the cute sentiments from the stamp set to make a card in record time.  To finish it off, I chomped the corners with my Corner Chomper.

On a Baby Card Roll Using Wild Child from Newton's Nook

I'm on a roll replenishing my baby card stash thanks to the Wild Child set from Newton's Nook. 
The stamps are just so cute.  For today's card, I played along with the sketch challenge over at Newton's Nook for their Inky Paws Challenge #13.  If you haven't checked out their stamps or played along in their challenge, you are missing out.  Don't wait any longer and go check it out.  They have such cute designs.

For today's card, I used the super cute kitty image colored with copic markers.  I looked at several paper pads for the card, but finally settled on the Echo Park For the Record 2 6x6 paper pad selecting some gender neutral green and yellow for the card.  I followed the sketch and added a button with some baker's twine (sorry I don't know the brand, it was used to tie up a Citrus Twist kit from last December) from my stash.

Butterfly Card

There is one thing about Pinterest that really frustrates me:  when people pin things such that I cannot find the original source.  Sometimes this is because the person making the pin doesn't understand how Pinterest works.  The person is reading a blog and sees something she likes.  She pins it not realizing that you have to pin from the specific entry, otherwise Pinterest will simply take me back to the most recent post of the blog.  Then I have to sort through all the entries to find the one that is really for the item that caught my attention.  Sometimes, however, I cannot access the original source because I simply don't have access.  The Stampin' Connection is a good example.  I cannot log in to see the sources, but I can see the pictures on Pinterest.  Sometimes the artist is smart and leaves me a breadcrumb in the form of a watermark that at least lets me know who I can give credit to for the inspiration.  That's the case here.  I loved this butterfly card I saw on Pinterest.  Of course, it was a Stampin' Connection link so I could see where it had been pinned from.  But the watermark is from Carrie Gaskin, the Artistic Avenger.  She stopped blogging in October last year and some of the pictures on her blog simply would not load for me, so I couldn't find if she had posted on her blog about it.  It was really kind of a shame too because from the few pictures I did get to load, I can tell I would have found even more inspiration.

The only paper on here that wasn't from my scraps bin is the green pattern paper peeking in the background.  It's from the 6x6 pad called For the Record 2 by Echo Park and designed by Lori Whitlock.  The butterflies were cut on my Cameo using the Echo Park butterfly design.  I cut out only the base and then inked them with various shades of Distress Ink.  I used a french curve to draw the butterfly path and then poked the holes with my stylus and my Stampin' Up paper piercer template to make sure the path remained reasonably evenly spaced.  I finished it off with Hemptique baker's twine instead of ribbon and some glossy accents down the middle of each butterfly. 

I've left off the sentiment on this one because I'm not quite sure what I want to use it for.  I think it could do well as a birthday card, a sympathy card or even just a thinking of you card.  So for now, I'll leave those possibilities open.