Christmas Card of the Week

Managed to get my Christmas card for this week done.  I pondered over it most of the day

and finally just decided to go with it!  52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown has a sketch

challenge this week, which is what I used for inspiration.

This is the sketch…

and my take on it.

Thanks for taking a look!

Easter Tulips

Someone asked me the other day if I had any Easter cards. I had to say "no, but I can

make some".  So I have the first one here. I thought I would take the opportunity to

make it fit a couple of challenges. So, I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

and the color combination from Color Throwdown.

The vase of tulips image is a free digital stamp from birds cards.com. I colored it with

smooch ink and spectrum noir pens, fussy cut it and popped it with foam tape on the

dry embossed panel. I computer generated the greeting, punched a butterfly and 

added pearls. Thanks for taking a look!

HOC Photo Inspiration

March has a 5th Monday and that means that House of Cards has an extra challenge this

month.  It is a photo inspiration challenge using any and all styles!

Here's the photo…

and what I came up with in the Classic & Elegant style.

The first thing that caught my eye in the photo were the hydrangeas on the table.  So I

pulled out a K & Company hydrangea die cut I had and built the design for my card

around that.  I found I had a striped paper that mimicked the striped pillows and used

an embossing folder that looks like the bead board on the window seat. I hope you'll

be inspired to come up with your own creation and link it to the challenge.  And, as

always, thanks for taking a look!

JUGS #234

Just Us Girls has a wild card challenge this week. The challenge is to create a tall

and skinny card.  I will also link this card up to Seize the Birthday.  Their toppings
option this time is buttons & rhinestones, or any bling.

The stamp I used is from an Inkadinkado set called Meadow. My printed paper is from

a set call Sunshine and Shadows from Hot Off the Press. I used a Martha Stewart border

punch and a Fiskars butterfly punch.  The greeting is a Recollections sticker and the

pearls are also from Recollections. Thanks for taking a look!

Christmas Reindeer

I'm in a bit of a slump today. Don't know why. Spending time in the craft room usually
helps so I've got a Christmas card I put together using inspiration from 2 challenges. The
challenge over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown is to use one of their previous color
combos and Freshly Made Sketches has a great sketch this week.

I was digging through my Christmas stash and came upon the Jolee's reindeer and flourish
stickers. I've had these for quite a while and decided I would go with these colors based on
them. I decided to emboss the white panel behind the reindeer for a little texture and it
kind of makes it look like he's flying through snow, in my opinion, and finished up with
some gems.  I guess it came out okay.  The more I look at it the more I like it. Anyway,
thanks so much for taking a look!

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I'm so excited to be the Guest Star Stamper with Color Throwdown this week. The design
team has provided great inspiration, as always. So, if you like color challenges as much as I
do you should check it out and link up your own creation.

Here are the colors to work with this time.

And here's what I came up with.

I not only used the colors, I took inspiration from the photo. I love that room! I think
the patterned paper I used looks similar to the area rug and I used tulips.  The tulip
image is a digital stamp I found for free at bearywishes.com. I colored it with spectrum
noir markers, cut it out and popped with foam tape. The ovals were cut with a
Spellbinders die and I did a little dry embossing with a Paper Studio embossing folder.
I added ribbon, bow and some little pink pearls. Thanks for taking a look!

Birthday Butterflies

Just a quick post with a card I made for the current challenge at Color Throwdown. I think
I'll also link up with the Seize the Birthday challenge. They have a toppings option of
stitching this week, but I stuck with the "Anything Goes" option!

I stamped, heat embossed and die cut the butterflies.  They were colored with spectrum

noir markers. I die cut the circles and dry embossed them and the white background

panel. I made a banner for the sticker sentiment. Thanks for taking a look!