Keepin' It Simple, Sweetie

The PPA challenge this week is to make a card with minimal layers & embellishments, that you can whip up in just a few minutes. This card is a perfect example of Keepin' It Simple! The hardest thing about it is the ribbon and notice I didn't tie a bow! The white layer was simple, as I didn't have to worry about placement of the swirly stamp and then I popped it on with pop dots, so didn't even need a tape runner. It was so simple that I decided I had time to coordinate the envelope with the easy to use swirly stamp!

Happy Birthday WLR!

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.
The black & white polka dot paper is from Bo Bunny, the lime green letters are Bubble-A-Bilities, and the bear image and sentiment are both from Stampin Up's Cute & Cuddly set.

Poka Dot Punches in a Recipe

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...


Then I took Ann's advice to Think Pink & Black over at her Creative Nook. I'm faking it with the Papertake Weekly Challenge, the "ribbon" is obviously not ribbon but a sticker strip whose manufacturer I can't recall right now but I got in an order from PeachyCheap.com. And I cooked this all up using the recipe over at Simon Says ! The recipe said to use 3 embellishments, 2 papers, and 1 image on your creation. My embellishments are the fake ribbon, the flower punches (part of a card kit from Jane over at the CardMaker magazine Card Swaps message board), and that very adorable pink brad which has swirlies on it. The brad is from Queen & Co. and I got it when I went to the convention in Tulsa. The two papers I used are from Bo Bunny's Alissa line, Kissable & Love You. And my one image is from Stampin Up's Polka Dot Punches!

Whoo Says Fall is in the Air!?!

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.

Anyway, back to Mr. Owl (who came to me in a package of card candy from Margaret, over on the CardMaker magazine Card Swaps message board)...I just put him on a brown base and added a couple of scalloped edges of Fancy Pants Delight in the Potpourri pattern. He's going to be entering two Fall challenges, first A Spoonful of Sugar #69 Fall Into Autumn and also Belli #74. I got my sketch from CPS, where their challenge #133 is being sponsored by Zva Creative.

OCC Challenge - Happy Fall Y'all

Fall & Autumn cards are what the Our Creative Corner girls are looking for this week. This is a card I made at Sarah's last Technique class, use the Scor-Bug embosser which was a nifty little tool I had to order for myself! The paper is TAC, from the Penelope collection (I think). This was a fun card to make!

One Stop Craft Challenge 46 - Let It Snow

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.

Crafty Creations #32

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.