Ballet Birthday

I had a lot of fun making this card. My colors came from Dynamic Duos. The sketch came from Retro Sketches. The image was inspired by CASE Study. The birthday theme came from Sentimental Sundays. I piled on the embellishments for Pile It On. And I used my favorite stamp set (Childhood Portrait) for Crazy 4 Challenges. I love it when I can combine so many challenges and still come up with a good looking card!

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Smokey Plum
Stamps: Childhood Portrait, Card Chatter- Birthday
Ink: Petal, Smokey Plum
Other: twine (not CTMH), Purple Gems

Dear Santa...

Here's another Christmas card for:

Atlantic Hearts
Merry Monday
Heart 2 Heart - lots of layers
Pink Elephant - distressing

Here's the inside:

Materials used:
Cardstock: Ruby, Colonial White
B&Ts: Pear & Partridge
Stamps: Believe WOTG
Ink: Ruby, Chocolate distressing ink
Other: Ruby Mini Medleys, Red Glitter Gems

The Cross

I was inspired by this week's art from Word Art Wednesday. The verse really hits home with me right now, to be more of Christ and less of the world. I was also inspired by the colors in the photo at Inspired By. The sketch is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Click on the  photo if you can't read the verse. I used Florentine paper, and a faux stitching technique around the edge of the Twilight layer.


Materials used:
Cardstock: Chocolate, Colonial White, Twilight
B&Ts: Florentine
Stamps: He is Risen, word art from WAW (not CTMH)
Ink: Chocolate
Other: Basic Brads Assortment, Spring Blossom Just Blooms

52CCT October Technique - Fancy Folds!

This week's challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown is to make a fancy-fold card. Now I don't know if I've ever even attempted one before, so I had to do some googling! I found this website and CASED her tri-fold card because I loved it so much. She also has a great tutorial about how to make these, so go check it out!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Cranberry, Colonial White
B&Ts: Pear & Partridge
Stamps: Glory to God
Ink: Chocolate
Other: Silver Glitz Glitter Gel

Gift Bag & Tag

Our colors for color dare #66 at Color My Heart are Gypsy and Buttercup. I made a gift bag for a new baby, and I'm also entering it into these challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays
Retro Sketches
Frosted Designs
Heart 2 Heart

This bag is 5 inches tall and is cut from the Artiste cartridge.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Kraft, Colonial White
Stamps: New Arrival
Ink: Chocolate, Gypsy, Buttercup
Other: Paradise Baker's Twine, Artiste Cricut Cartridge, Clear Buttons

Two Hearts...

Crazy4Challenges had a crazy challenge this week: a sketch, color, AND theme! Here is the challenge photo:



Here is my card:

I altered the sketch just a little, but you can still tell. I made the background panel above and below the circle instead of right behind it. I really like how this turned out. CTMH doesn't have colors like this, even though they're kind of trendy. I used some old cardstock that I had from my days before CTMH. I like this combo.

Materials used:
Cardstock: Colonial White, scraps from my stash (not CTMH)
Stamps: Precious Love
Ink: Black, VersaMark
Other: Gold Embossing Powder

WORD Art

Here is some artwork from the Word. I used the sketch from CASE This Sketch from last week, and the word art from Word Art Wednesday from last week. I made this card last week, but I didn't get a chance to upload it. I've ben busy because we had our anniversary on Wed, plus Dr.'s apts, grocery shopping, and all kinds of stuff. So here it is, a little late.

Materials used:
 Cardstock: Black, White Daisy
Stamps: Classy Doily, WAW word art (not CTMH)
Ink: Sweet Leaf
Other: Silver Bitty Brads, vellum (not CTMH)