The challenge at for A Spoon Full of Sugar #71 is a Christmas project. Here's a fun card with a pop up present inside! All images are Stampin' Up...the gift on the outside & the sentiment are from Holiday Wishes, and the gifts on the inside are from Something to Celebrate.
I thought it was time for another wedding card! Something about the Black & White + 1 challenge at Papertake Weekly put me in the mood. I think because 28 years ago I wanted a black & silver wedding, but my mother forbid it (black was not a wedding color in 1981) and I just haven't quite gotten over it! LOL I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. My patterned paper is Bo Bunny.
I created this pretty in pink anytime card for the monochromatic challenge at Our Creative Corner. I used Card Positioning Systems sketch for inspirtation. And you can peek-a-boo the Stampology flower stamp through the window, which meets the requirement for Crafty Creations #34 and the weekly challenge over at Card Maker Swaps Message Board. The patterned paper is Basic Gray Lemonade...Dandelion & Pretty Petals.
Iused Stampin' Up's Pick A Petal set to create this adorable lady bug. Pick A Petal is my all time favorite stamp set, you make practically anything under the sun with those petals! I figured while I was working with my favorite stampe set that I'd use my favorite DSP...Rainbow Sherbet. 
They're looking for something that will hold a gift over at 2 Red Bananas (which is worth the visit just to read the Mitch Hedburg quote). I used Stampin Up's Holiday Wishes set to decorate this plain brown gift bag, then added a cute tag. This is the stamp set I plan to use for my Christmas cards this year, and since I told myself I'd get those done in October and I can see October 1st on my calendar I'd better get busy!!
While the "album" is not technically a card, you could stamp a sentiment on the front and have a very unique card/gift. By the way, you can't tell from the photos but the felt we used to make two of our flowers was "snake skin", how neat is that?
CardMaker magazine Card Swaps message board. See what I mean by sweet?? I'm also entering Color Dare for the first time, my friend Lori is on the DT over there and she might get a little bent out of shape if I don't go play with her there!
I had a lot of fun with this card, and met the requirements for several challenges! The sketch I used for inspiration was from Paper Take Weekly. Ann challenged us to use basket weaving on our project, so I got out those scraps of Old Olive from the wedding and made a "mat" of those. Leaves were the theme for the Fashionista #4 challenge, and also the challenge at CardMaker magazine Card Swaps message board. I used three of the colors from Color Throwdown #61, which were also the colors in the PPA #9 Inspirtation challenge. The image & sentiment are both from Stampin' Up's Basket Full of Fun set.
, because I didn't have any patterned paper to work with, and you all know how I love my patterened paper! I just could not for the life of me figure out how to tie the colors for Stacey's Stamping Stage Curtain Call #4 together. She's looking for Brilliant Blue, Pixie Pink, Real Red & Whisper White. Then right before my eyes appeared these red & pink gemstone flower brads from Spare Parts and I was in business! My sketch inspiration is from Card Positioning Systems, and was an equally challenging sketch. The three elements on the diagonal just felt like it left me hanging, but when I added the pink ribbon on the other diagonal I felt a bit more complete.
When that kid is my niece and she's all "cuteness", this color combo is the yummiest and the sketch is the sweetest!
Three people in this family share the initials WLR...so I'm not sure who will get this birthday card, but then they're kind of big deals every day too! I used the Just Christmas and Birthday Cards #45 Sketch for this card. For the Fashionista #3 Challenge, I've used lime green, white & black polka dots. And over at One Stop Craft Challenges, they're playing "beary nice" and looking for cards with bears.
This is another one of those sketches that I've been staring at for almost a week...it comes from The Corrosive Challenge and I originally created my card with the "ribbon" running down the left side, but when I went to photograph is I just liked the top opening view better! Strange how sometimes things work out like that...
An Autumn theme is the subject of several challenges out there, and I'm loving owls on my cards these days so I thought I'd use this little guy on a card and knock out three challenges! You may or may not have missed me the past few days...I just had no mojo. *sniff* But I had several sketches sitting here and got busy this morning, so I'm actually ready to do a marathon of posting in order to get these cards in to some challenges.
Snowflakes...Let it Snow...that's the challenge over at One Stop Craft Challenge this week. I borrowed this snowflake stamp from a friend and originally worked this card up for a challenge during the Christmas in July crop over at the CardMaker magazine Card Swaps message board.
They're looking for embossing over at Crafty Creations this week. This is a card I made at one of Sarah's TAC Technique classes earlier in the summer. In fact, I do believe this was my first ever attempt at embossing...well, heat embossing that is. Both the dove and the swirl on the card base are heat embossed.
This sketch and this color combination were the most fun to work with! I had a blast making this card. When I saw the sketch at A Spoon Full of Sugar I thought to myself "too busy", and just wasn't quite sure how to approach it. But the Color Throwdown of Pumpkin Pie, Close to Cocoa & Ruby Red didn't cause me to bat an eye...even tho' orange is not at the top of my favorite color list I seem to work with it a lot, and have grown to love it for card making purposes. The patterned paper is from Fancy Pants, Delight Spice. The sentiment is Stampin' Up A Little Birdie Told Me. And I am absolutely in love with these Friendly Forest foil rub-ons from Colorbok!! Oh, if you're wondering "whooo" is the best...this card is for my daughter Whitney, she's got a thing for owls. She's just begun her second year of Vet School and might need an encouraging word in the form of a card from Mom. (Be sure to be on the lookout in the next few days...I have another darling daughter, so I'll have to be creating another "best" card!)
Of course my first thought when I read the Cupcake Craft Challenge was to use red, white & blue, was "stars & stripes" and all things patriotic. But then, I was in a mood to go out on a limb! So, I went with a lighter blue and steered clear of all things patriotic. Then I figured while I was out there on the limb anyway, I might as well attempt the the sketch over at Just Christmas and Birthday cards. All those circles and swirls really threw me for a loop!! The blue & white elements on this card are out of that Target $1 bin set...I'm telling you, that's been one of my favorite purchases of the summer! The square red brads were another "deal" from the Tulsa scrapbook convention. And the flowers are looking glass stickers from Making Memories. My birthday sentiment is from Stamping Up's Blooming With Happiness set.
I just had to pull out my pet card making supplies when I saw the Corrosive Challenge this week was to use a cat theme!! Then I combined the cat card with this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch, and here's what I ended up with!
Happy Labor Day! I hope the most labor any of you have to do is create a card. Ella & Dizzy inspired this week's color challenge over at Jazzy Inspirtaions, the colors of that poster are light blue, purple & white. My sketch inspiration comes from Card Positioning Systems. I was glad to have an opporunity to use up more of that Elegant Eggplant cardstock left over from wedding projects! I punched two hearts out of some patterned paper from a kit from Lora swapped at CardMaker magazine Card Swaps message board. The stamped sentiment came from another swap on the message board and is from Terrie. I added some Elegant Eggplant and some Bashful Blue with my blender pen (since I'm still too cheap to buy markers), along with a dot of Crytal Effects in the center of the flowers to make the image fit the color challenge.
Happy Weekend! I'm breathing a sigh of relief that another week of school is over and that it's a long weekend. My class is really full of a lot of little challenges this year. *sigh*
