Love is in the Air

Recently I have been wandering around my house a lot more often and realized that I finally have some time to spare in order to get crafty before I'm swamped by studying for finals. In order to gain some inspiration for my latest creation, I scoured my varied sources of challenge blogs and stumbled upon Inkspirational's Purple Colour Challenge. Just as the name suggests, I had to incorporate purple into my designs, and I decided to also incorporate the second element of the challenge by allowing my card to focus around the theme of love. To me there is nothing in nature that screams love more than pairs of birds, and as such, I depicted two birds flying in unison as they equally support a sign with the word love emblazoned on it. Glean whatever symbolism you'd like from that description. My card also happens to coincide with Fairytale Challenge's Springs & Wings/ Feathers & Wings challenge as birds are quite often known for their ability to take flight due to the advantage of wings.

Even in its simplicity this has suddenly become one of my favorite cards. In order to create the sky and grass look I simply utilized markers and sponges in order to attain the desired effect, and then used a Stampin' Up bird punch for the two birds. I also had some string leftover from another project which I used as "rope". Hope you enjoy!

Flutter Over There

     Today has been a day of firsts. Not first in the usual way, but as in the first time for a long time. Today is the first time I have written on this blog for over three years. Wow, actually typing that makes me realize how much I've neglected this little space of the internet carved out just for me. Another first is the fact that today was the start of the first weekend without having an obscene amount of homework to complete by Monday which is definitely a plus. Now onto the actual first of the day. Today is the day I launched my Etsy site NoelleCorner! I originally intended for it to be called NoellesCorner, but due to an apparent lack of originality on my part, that name was already taken. My store is comprised of homemade cards, knit goods, and eventually any little idea that comes into my head that I feel is worthy enough to sell. So I am extremely excited to be looking after my own business, and of course making money by doing something I love.
     To top off my blog post I've decided to show one of the cards for sale on my store. This is a thank you card with a shaker on front in which I used various beads inside. Other than that the card sort of speaks for itself. Hopefully I'll be back soon.

Just Add Tearing/ Distressing

Well I'm in the card making groove again so I started to check out some card making challenges and just happened to find myself at Just Add Ink. Over there I noticed that the most recent challenge is Just Add Tearing or Distressing. So I thought to myself: "This is THE perfect challenge for me". So, here's what I came up with, ENJOY!!!

As you can see I decided to go with the tearing part of the challenge and decided to sponge the torn edges to give a little something extra. Hope you liked it and see ya next time at Noelle's Corner.

Stampin For Fun Divas

At Stampin For Fun Divas they're having some fun with a new challenge and that challenge is to make a card having anything to do with animals. So, without further ado, here is my card and I sure hope you go bananas!

Well, when I saw this monkey it just screamed birthday to me and the primary colors just really made it pop, so, I hope you liked it!!!

Well, over at Stampin For Fun Divas, They're having a color challenge, but it turns out that I don't have any of those colors so instead I decided to participate in their second challenge. To make any 3-D project; so it could be a box, jewelry or pretty much anything. When I saw this well, let's just say that I got an 'idea'. ENJOY!!!

Sorry about the picture turning out sideways, but I was looking in my closet, found a little metal tin and decided to decorate it. Then this is what I came up with, hope you liked it!

Stampin' For Fun Divas Sketch Challenge

Here's another card I made for the Divas sketch challenge. ENJOY!!!

Stampin' For Fun Divas Sketch Challenge

Over at Stampin' For Fun Divas they're having a sketch challenge. (As well as some blog candy) Well it's not really a sketch challenge, but anyway, all we had to do was come up with a Valentine's Day card and send it to an OWH shipper to send to the troops so I hope you like what I came up with.

Stamps R Us

Over at Stamps R Us they're having a nature challenge and this is what I came up with:

Stampin' For Fun Divas Color Challenge

Over at Stampin' For Fun Divas their having a color challenge using the Stampin' Up! colors: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake. At first I didn't know what to do, but after a little consideration this is what I came up with, hope you enjoy!

Just Add bling... and PINK!

Over at Just Add Ink they're doing a challenge for national Pink Ribbon Day! So all we had to do was add pink and bling! I thought it would be easy seeing how I use a lot of pink in my cards so here's my entry:

I found out how to make the pansies at the OWH and instead of using a normal brad I decided to use a brad that had some bling. I know it's a simple card, but sometimes simple is the best.

Stamps R Us

Over at Stamps R Us they're having a challenge and it's also an OWH event! OWH is an organization that sends cards to our troops to send back to their families. Don't forget to stop by the Stars And Stamps challenge blog by OWH as well. Onto the challenge. It was to make a card for a child's birthday! I thought it was perfect because I had recently found this really cute digi from the Free Digi Stamps blog and was dying to use it, so enjoy!!!

Funky Friday Challenge #73

Over at Funky Friday Challenges their theme this week is Something Sweet.  So I went to work and came up with two cards so tell me what you think. And please in your comment mention which one you like the best

First up is an ice cream cone made entirely out of punches and then I used some glitter to create sprinkles. And if you can't see over in the background I repeatedly stamped the word Sweet.

Next up is a card I made by finding a big donut stamp   and put it on the card and then I drew the little stick girl(just to be clear my artistic ability is far greater than that) and wrote, 'Just One More Bite...' So I hope you enjoyed my cards, BYE!!!

Stars and Stamps/ Funky Friday Challenge

Over at Funky Friday and Stars and Stamps they were having some challenges so I made a card to combine Funky Friday's color challenge( chocolate chip, elegant eggplant, certainly celery and pale plum) and Stars and Stamps sketch challenge, so enjoy!

If you can't see I sponged pale plum on the whisper white and the frog is a digi I found from some sight. I hope you liked my card!

Stampin' For Fun Divas Inspiration Challenge

Over at SFFD (Stampin' For Fun Divas) they have an inspiration challenge and you had to use this picture as inspiration:

When I saw this I immediately thought flowers and since the pink seems to be the main focus I decided to make my card by using the purple tones. So, here it is:

Since I have a very small amount of variety in paper I used Elegant Eggplant as the base and then (sorry that you can't see it) sponged Whisper White with some different blue chalks to try and give it a sky effect. The colors on the card are also different shades of purple and I put some pearls on the butterflies. I colored the flowers with markers and tried to match how in the pic the flowers have the light color on the outside and the dark color on the inside. Enjoy!

Just Add Ink- Helping Hudson Challenge

This week's challenge over at Just Add Ink was all about the Helping Hudson fundraiser. I went over to their blog and Hudson seems like a great little boy who just needs a little help getting his wheels in order to be more independent. So, onto the challenge, which was: just add wheels. Anything that was circular met the requirements. When you see my card you're probably wondering: Christmas, in July? Well, I'd just been given the daunting task of creating 20 Xmas cards and when I saw this challenge I was really motivated. So this is what I came up with, enjoy! (the circular part of my card is that the ornaments are made from one of the circle punches Stampin' Up! has.

Funky Friday Challenge #70

Welcome to my spot on the Funky Friday Challenge #70 thingy. This week you had to make something or I should say anything craft related as long as it didn't contain a square. So I CASE'd Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street (can't remember who originally made him) and used him as my entry, enjoy!

I finally got around to making a card for the OWH stash challenge this week. The DSP and gem type things are actually from the box of stuff that I got from Shirley S. and I just found the stamp somewhere and thought it looked nice. So, enjoy! Oh, also if it's hard to see I sponged the paper where the flower is with a purple inkpad from Stampin' Up! that I can't remember the name of now.

Sorry that I'm just getting around to it, but all of you remember my OWH 4th of July blog candy winner Shirley S, right? (probably not) Anyway, after she got the blog candy i sent her she sent me all of this great blog candy. Some DSP (of which I've already used in one of my cards), googly eyes (I was thinking about using those to put on some seashells and make little clam     dudes and sea turtles, some ribbon flowers, and a container of Bella's Baubles from Stamping Bella.

Oh, I almost forgot that she also sent me some cool paper that I can play around with. (also some glitter, but unfortunately the bottle came undone so it splattered all over the box. (fortunately the glitter was in a separate little tin.)

Also I got some stuff from my grandma's friend Marisol. If you can't see she sent me some eyelets, flower and heart and whatnot shaped brads, little charms and what almost seems like paper clips(seen in the top left corner). Anyway thank you both so much for all of the wonderful things you guys sent me!

I'd just seen the OWH Christmas in July challenge when I pictured this card. I wanted to merge winter and summer so I did a snowman and sun stamp and with markers made the snowman look like he was melting. And instead of snow... GREAN GRASS!!! Then for the DSP and accents I chose a simple snowflake pattern and brads, and to tie it all together... Some ribbon! Hope you enjoyed my card today. BYE!

I literally just made this card last night. Not much to it, just melon mambo ribbon and paper some DSP I found lying around, a tag punch, cupcake stamp, cuttlebug texture folder and some buables from bella's bobbles.

Again with the Cuttlebug texture plate. I just love that thing. And on that paper I even did some Lovely Lilac sponging. I found the peace-sign brads at the same store as the donut stamp.