Happy Birthday Butterfly

I'm back for a second post for today.  I went over to Just Us Girls to see what the color

challenge is this week and decided to give it a try using the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

Here's what I came up with

I love these colors and knew the Linen Closet stack from DCWV would work great.  It took

me a little while to decide if I should use the printed paper the way I did or if I should use it

as the skewed piece but I think the choice I made worked out okay.  Then I went back and

forth trying to decide if I should add some gems to the kraft banner and finally decided to

go without.  Then there's the decision on which photo do I post? Man, I think I just way

over think these things most of the time and I could probably get a lot more done if I
didn't! But I can about bet that I'm not the only one. Am I right? Anyway, thanks for taking
a look!

Monochromatic Christmas

There's a recipe challenge over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown this week.   This is a
good oneto help you get those Christmas cards done early this year.  I know  it's going to
help me!

 Here's what I decided to do.

I bought a whole bunch of new embossing folders a couple of weeks ago when Hobby
Lobby had them for 50% off, so I had to put one of them to use.  This one is called
Whimsical Frame by Paper Studio.  I used it to frame the Hero Arts tree image which
I stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Stampendous silver tinsel embossing
powder.  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts Christmas greetings stamp set which I also
embossed. I added the ribbon and a bow and of course finished up with some gems.
Thanks for taking a look!

Christmas Card #2

I managed to get Christmas Card #2 for 2014 completed this afternoon, so maybe I will

meet my goal with the help of 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown challenges every week!

This week's challenge is to to create a card with non-traditional colors.

Here's what I did.

I recently bought this cute little Deep Red Snow Family stamp.  I colored with some

spectrum noir pens, one of my Christmas gifts, fussy cut them and placed on the snow

that I created by tearing white mulberry paper and gluing to the background in multiple

layers.  The printed background paper is from the DCWV Winter Combo matstack.

Thanks for taking a look!

Birthday Wishes

I wasn't able to get any crafting done yesterday so I thought I would see what I could get

done today.  So far I've only completed one card but it fulfills the requirements for 3

challenges.  I really wanted to give paper piecing a try for the Just Us Girls challenge

and used the sketch from the Deconstructed Sketch and the color combo from

Color Throwdown.

Here's what I ended up with.

I found the floral corner stamp and thought it would work pretty well for the paper piecing

but it was quite a challenge for me.  I can't ell you how many times I stamped it on the 3

different papers I used before settling with what I needed up with. I added a paper flower

 to  the center of the largest one and added gems to all of them.  The other challenge I had 

was  using 5 colors.  Most of the time I only use 3 colors on a project but thought this 

sketch worked  really well for that many.  I'm pleased, overall, with the way it turned out! 

Thanks for taking a look!

JUGS #222 / DD #85

After going back and forth and back and forth I managed to get one card made today with

inspiration from 2 challenges.  I used the sketch at Just us Girls and the color combo at

Dynamic Duos.  The colors photographed a little darker than I wanted.  The green came 

out looking more gray than green and I'm thinking I should've gone with a brighter green,
but, what's done is done! Anyway, here's what I ended up with.

This is the sketch…

and the color combo.

I trying to do ore stamping.  So the flowers, vines and butterfly are from a Hero Arts stamp
 and die set by Sizzix.  I stamped the greeting, which is from a small set I found at Michaels
 for a dollar, on a die cut Taylored Expressions label set called "Label It".  The DP is from
 DCWV's Lemon Flower stack. Thanks for taking a look!

Mojo Monday / Color Throwdown

It's been snowing all day so it's a good day to get in some crafting.  I made a card using

 sketch #326 at Mojo Monday and color combo #273 at Color Throwdown.

Thanks for taking a look!

52CCT

After taking a few weeks off from making Christmas cards I'm at it again.  This year I

hope to do a better job at getting the number of cards done that I did not quite meet for

2013.  And I thought I started early enough, it was August, but I didn't. So with starting 

in January this year and with the help of the challenges at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown

I'm bound and determined to meet my goal!  The first challenge of the year is a sketch

challenge.

Here's my rendition.

I used a Deep Red stamp called "Winter Church",  some dark blue and silver shimmer card

stocks from DCWV and some lacy labels cutting dies from Hot off the Press.  I finished up

with some bling.  Thanks for taking a look!