House of Cards Sketch 5

It's time for another challenge at House of Cards.

This month we have a sketch challenge.

The Classic/Elegant team is being spotlighted this week.

Here is what I came up with.

I used the Simple Elegance paper pack from the Paper Studio.

The solid paper on top was embossed with a Paper Studio

embossing folder called Curl Ribbon which I highlighted with a gold gel pen.

The flower cluster is a dazzles sticker from Hot Off the Press.

I backed the sticker with the same solid paper I used elsewhere on the card

and I colored it in with the gold gel pen and a bronze metallic marker.

The flower center is a Prima Say it in Pearls embellishment.

The sentiment was stamped in the center of dazzles label sticker.

Here's a close up of the flower and label.

Why don't you stop over at House of Cards and check out the other

fabulous design team creations and then link up your own.

Thanks for taking a look!

You & Me

My card design for 

C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps

this week features the large Andrew stamp
from The Boys in the Woods Series.

paired with Phoebe from Prima.

I am having so much fun playing with these stamps!

Andrew and Phoebe were stamped on white card stock,

colored with markers and pencil colors and fussy cut.

The printed papers are, once again, from

DCWV's the Music Stack.

All the elements are from the same sheet. They were fussy cut

and placed behind the couple.

I cut a couple of banners out of some solid card stock

and applied the sticker words.

I finished up with some paper flowers from Recollections.

Be sure and visit
C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps
and check out Andrew and the other boy doll stamps available.

I am linking up this creation with:
Inkspirational where the challenge is to use markers or pencils
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge Anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle Weddings or Love

Peace

This morning I have this week's Christmas card which was inspired by

the color challenge over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.
I love color challenges because most of the time the combos
are not something I would have chose on my own.
I think this color combo is particularly elegant.

I started by placing these beautiful gold Dazzles stickers
on the cream card stock which I matted with white and gold.
The white flowers were punched and layered on top of the Dazzles.
Once I had that done I needed something in the center of the card
so I placed the gold dove sticker on white card stock and fussy cut.
I die cut the circles and popped the dove with foam tape.
The Dazzles sentiment was added.
I finished by using silver Jewel Dazzles
as accents on the flowers and die cut circle.

Thanks for taking a look!

Bonjour!

I bought a new Julie Nutting stamp set from Prima called "Merci"

and decided I would ink it up when I saw the current challenge at

Tuesday Morning Sketches.

I stamped the doll and Eiffel Tower images
on white card stock and colored with pencil colors and markers and fussy cut.
The printed papers are from DCWV's the Music Stack.
I stamped the flourish with a set from Autumn Leaves
and the sentiment from the "Merci" set
and went over with a Souffle opaque ink pen from Sakura.
Two flowers were fussy cut from the same DCWV paper stack,
 layered and matted for some dimension.
I finished up with some gray pearls.
I probably could've done a better job but am pleased overall.

I'm also linking up to Crafty Girls Challenge Anything Goes

Thanks for taking a look!

Andrew Rocks!

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

This morning I have my design for the week for

C Thru the Woods Clear Stamps.

This card features the small Andrew stamp from

The Boys in the Woods Series.

There a few challenges represented in this design.

The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches.

The color combo is from Just Add Ink.

I also incorporated the theme at The Male Room which is Geometric

with the DP and embossed pieces.

Alex was stamped on white card stock, colored with markers and pencil colors

and fussy cut.  The embossing was done with 2 different

Cuttlebug border embossing folders.

The button is from stick Button Ups and the music and star stickers

are Dazzles from Hot Off the Press.

Be sure an check out the C Thru the Woods blog and see if

Andrew is available at a store near you or order him directly from http://cthruthewoodsclearstamps.tictail.com/products

As always, thanks for taking a look!

Another Poinsettia Christmas Card

In my earlier post today I said I was going to get back on track

with my goal of making one Christmas card a week. I guess I'm

doing better than that because this is the second one today!

I'm combining several challenges with this one.

The sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches

and the challenge at Just Us Girls where the challenge word is ribbon 

and since I used die cuts the Die Cuttin Divas challenge where anything goes.

One of my favorite Spellbinders die sets was put to use once again,
Layerd Poinsettia and The frame is done with the
3 Lacy Labels cutting dies by Paper Artist
from Hot Off the Press.
I used a Paper Studios embossing folder  called
Curl Ribbon, some Dazzles sentiment stickers,
of course ribbon and added some gems.

Thanks for taking a look!

Back to Christmas

I haven't made many Christmas cards in the last month. There was a blog hop

over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown and the design team

was kind enough to invite me to participate. 

Just want to thank them all for having me!

So now I'm trying to get back on schedule of meeting my goal of

 making at least one Christmas card per week.

Here's what I have for this week inspired by 

52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown's

current sketch challenge.

I used a Deep Red stamp called Winter Church which I stamped with black ink 

and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

All of the papers are from Paper Studio's Simple Elegance paper pack.

I punched the 3 snowflakes with a Marvy punch

and added the sticker sentiment from Paper Studio's Stickabilities line.

Thanks for taking a look!