I've Been Inspired

This has been a week of inpirations for me.  Last Sunday I went to a hammered dulcimer concert at a nearby assisted living facility.  That inspired me to start practicing mine.  I haven't touched it since I played in church in late August.

I went to a couple of quilt shows this afternoon and got inspired again.  I may have to stop cardmaking for a while and get busy with a quilt.  Well, maybe not yet.  I usually reserve my quilt making for when we go south in the winter.  It's easier to transport my sewing machine and fabric than my Cricut and cartridges and paper and ribbon and glue and, well you get the picture.  I do plan to get enough cards made by then to be able to post while I'm gone, though.

Just like the concert and quilt show inpired me, I also get inspired by all the terrific bloggers out there.  Even if the cards are not my style, I can still be inspired by their creativity and/or beauty.  If only there were more time in a day to check out more blogs but then I'd never get anything done for myself. 

My card inspiration for today is the sketch from Mojo Monday .

Cooking with Cricut asked for a card with a cake, cupcake or teddy bear on it.  I decided the combine the two to make a birthday card.

The three printed papers are from a 6 x 12 stack from Cricut called Celebrations.  I found a matching blue and yellow to make the rest of the card.  The scalloped piece was cut from MS Elegant Cakes and embossed with Swiss Dots,  The cupcake is from Doodlecharms and the frosting is embossed with Divine Swirls.  I also heat embossed the swirls with clear embossing powder.   The lines on the cupcake paper are made with my Score-board.   The "happy" square and the cupcake are mounted at different levels with dimensionals.

Another Birthday

Today is my youngest son's birthday, although he's not so young anymore.  A lot of bloggers say how difficult it is for them to do masculine cards.  I don't find it difficult at all, which is good since I have three sons.  I guess I'm just not a "blingy" girl and try to keep things simple so it suits cards for men.  This is the one I did for my son.

It's not very fancy.  I glued an old dictionary page to a tag and then inked the edges.  The Happy Birthday was cut from MS Elegant Cake.  Even though the dot said it should be cut at 5" tall, I cut it at 2" and it was the perfect size.  I cut it from the same rust paper that I used under the stripe from DCWV's Amber Autumn.  I added three different ribbons/strings and pop dotted the tag. 

I plan to do some more challenges and I want to give a shout out to Cheryl at http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com.  She sent me her list of challenges by day and told me how to list them on my page for reference.  She also does wonderfully creative work.  Please check out her blog.