Flakey Friends with Dakota Cards

I decided to pair the blue papers in CTMH's Dakota paper pack with the new stamp set "Flakey Friends."  I stamped each snowman, and punched them out with a circle punch.  I attached that circle to a slightly larger scalloped circle, and then added at least one paper pieced dimensional item to each card that appears to come out of the circle.  Each card also has some mini opaque accents.  Possibly a future workshop....

State Fair Card

I found this stamp set (CTMH's "Country Life") in my stash today.  I've never used it, but it reminded me of the Iowa State Fair, which ends today, so I made what I'm calling my State Fair card.

Layout-wise, there's nothing special here.  I used CTMH's new Dakota paper pack, which works perfectly with the cow.  I stamped the cow stamp (all of that stamping is one stamp) on Barn Red (fitting name) cs with black ink.  I used a white colored pencil to color in the cow, which I think adds a lot.  The star is a brad I picked up at Hobby Lobby.

Bowwow Birthday / H2H Challenge

I decided to play along with the Heart 2 Heart Card Challenge this week:  "Dog Days of Summer."  The challenge was simply make something with a dog in it.  I hadn't used CTMH's "A Bowwow" stamp set yet, so I started with that.

The dog image is obviously from the Bowwow set.  I colored him with Copics and added a little bling to his dog collar, using the sparkly Spica pens for the nose and eye.  The butterfly is from CTMH's Delight stamp set.  The body of the butterfly is glued down, but the wings are popped up with dimensional adhesive.  "Happy Birthday" is from CTMH's Card Chatter-Birthday stamp set.  For the background, I used B&T paper from CTMH's new Dakota paper pack.  Lastly, the grass was cut with a MS punch.

Here's the sentiment inside--also from CTMH's Bowwow set.