Cowabunga!

I made this really bright card for a friend the wears these floral shirts in the summer. It was fun to make with the bright colors and I love my quickutz wave die. The stamp is from 2RedBananas called "Hawaiian Chicken". I love all the chicken stamps that were new this month. Every time I make a card with one I think it's my favorite, I just can't decide.

Here Birdy

Today I took the MoJo Monday sketch challenge. I always like to have a sympathy card on hand and my supply was getting low. Those cards are so hard to make so a challenge is a good way to get one done. The colors didn't really turn out that well on this post, I like it better in person. The background stamp I used is from 2RedBananas called "wrapped in his love". I also used a couple of pieces of felt that I just love on cards. They add such great texture.

Green/Blue

The OCC had a color challenge and the colors I use the most on cards are blue and green so this was an easy one. I didn't know that those were my colors until I started looking at some of my old cards and over half of them were green and blue. I also have some birthdays coming up and I need to make a few cards and I'm just in love with this Birthday Chicken set from 2RedBananas.

Welcome

I'm sure you have read that we have some changes at the 2RedBananas DT. One of the new additions is Cassie at for the art of it. Welcome Cassie and all your creativity. The reason I am mentioning this again is because last week she had a tutorial for this cute little card house she made. I fell in love with it the second I saw it. My brother just bought his first house and I wanted to make him a card. I had also been holding on to this Elsie paper just waiting to use it. It turned out so cute I can hardly wait to send it to him. I have to get his new address first so I have time just to look at it myself and think, "how cute is that". I can't wait to see all the fun things that Cassie is going to do with the 2RedBananas stamps. So welcome again Cassie!

Banana Split Sunday Challenge

Wearing Stripes is our Banana Split Sunday Challenge this week. That's right you need to use stripes. I love the striped paper and had fun with this new stamp called "Chicken Impossible". I am also loving felt because it adds such great texture. I also always enjoy sewing on a card so it was fun to sew these two pieces of felt together to try and add another stripe to my card. If you want to play along this week there is a paper pack for a prize from My Minds Eye. Really cute, go check it out at the 2RedBananas store.

MoJo Challenge

Today I took the MoJo Monday challenge. I needed to make a thank you for my mom for watching my dog and had no ideas so their challenge was perfect inspiration. I used the Gunthers Greeting stamp from 2RedBananas for the dog image and the paw print on the inside. I found out this bread of dog is black, but my mom has a cocker so I thought it kinda looked like that bread too so I went for it. Don't forget about the 2RedBananas challenge this week to use your favorite animal.

Go Green

Okay, my card isn't green but it's for a green challenge at Our Creative Corner. This Wed. is Earth Day so their challenge was to recycle something. I just found out that a friend is pregnant so I needed to make her a card. The stamp I used is from 2RedBananas called "Chicken Dumpling". I have two recycled things. The first is a baby wipe. I have a package in my scrap room to wipe up stamps or any messes. So, I used a little left over corner of one of those for the diaper and the sentiment. After I inked the edges with yellow I decided I could have used another color but thats what I did. The other recycled peice is the pin. I save the pins that they sometimes hook tags on clothes at the store. You never know when you might need a safety pin. So remember earth day and think about joining the OCC challenge. The 2RedBananas also have a challenge to use your favorite animal and this little chicken is quickly becoming one of mine.