From Courtney's Closet meets Texas Tuesday!

It's time for another From Courtney's Closet, where as the name implies, I share a card inspired by something from my daughter's closet. Well actually, today it's from the dress-up bin, not the closet! Since I missed making a Texas Tuesday post earlier this week, I just had to make this card after I snapped a photo of Courtney playing dress-up!


And here's the inspiration photo:


Usually she's in princess dresses or tutus, so it was lots of fun to see her take a break from those and put on this cute little Jessie costume! I bought it on mega-clearance the week after Halloween - one of my brighter ideas, I have to say. I got the kids a bunch of Toy Story & superhero dress-up clothes that week, for very little money!

I had also been itchin' to make a Texas Tuesday card using this new little cowgirl stamp from Hero Arts. I totally squealed when I saw her in the new catalog. I just knew Hero Arts created her **JUST FOR ME**, for my Texas Tuesday posts. HAHAHA! (a girl can daydream, right!?)

I am often drawn to using hemp twine on my Texas-y cards, and tonight I thought it would be fun to try to shape some into little rolled flowers. I think they turned out rather fun!


I had a couple blog challenges in mind as I made this card. First, the Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge, which had the theme this week of "Live Laugh Love". I think this post fits, because I was inspired by a photo of my sweet girl living her little 3 year old life, she makes me laugh almost everyday and I love her and her brother more than anything on the planet. :-)


I also took inspiration from Card Positioning Systems #205, turned on it's side. Have you been to that blog this week? It's anniversary time so they've shared a ton of fabby cards!


I want to give a little shout-out to my Texas Tuesday friends before I go - make sure and check out their blogs if you like Texas-themed stampy goodness! The links are over on my sidebar.

Thanks for stopping by today!

• Stamps: CG272 Howdy from Hero Arts
• Paper: Hero Arts layering paper, Memory Box, Making Memories, The Paper Studio DP
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers
• Accessories: Hemp twine, green grosgrain ribbon, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, SU scalloped edge punch, brads

Out of this World!

A week or so ago, Melanie Muenchinger asked me if I'd like to join her and some of her other past guest designers & friends in a little blog hop, highlighting some of Melanie's stamp sets for Gina K Designs. Since I happen to think Melanie is out of this world, I happily said "YES!".


I was honored when Melanie asked me to guest design with her wonderful Wee Tees set over a year ago! You can see all of my other Wee Tees cards HERE - I had lots of fun with them! For today's card, I had planned to make a sweet little baby girl card. I even NEED a baby card to send to a new mommy. But then I started looking through various blogs for inspiration, and the latest Play Date Cafe "colour splash" challenge made me think of Melanie's CUTE little flying saucer image.


Black and white with a splash of color. The specified color splash is GREEN! A splash of green? How about a little green alien?? hee hee!

For the sketch I played along with the CPS challenge:


One fun detail I wanted to point out - I used a little Ranger Glossy Accents for the "bubble" on the flying saucers, and added a little Diamond Stickles for zing.


Melanie asked several other designers to share cards tonight as well, please make sure and check out what they did!

Brenda Turner
Carla Suto
Carolina Buchting
Geri Utterback
Karen Knegten
Linda Payne
Melissa Shultz
Selma Stevenson
Shari Seffens
Sue Van DeVusse
Tina Gilliland

And of course make sure you see what the creative genius herself, Melanie, created tonight!!

Thanks for stopping by. And thank you Melanie for inviting me to play along!

• Stamps: Wee Tees by Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs
• Paper: Black, silver, white cardstock (Stampin' Up), DP from American Crafts
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers
• Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 3 die, 1" circle punch, nailheads (Mark Richards), embroidery floss, Glossy Accents (Ranger), Diamond Stickles (Ranger)