For an Anniversary

Hey all! Today I decided to make a card to play along with some Wednesday challenges.

Freshly Made Sketches
Simon Says - Wedding/Anniversary
Word Art Wednesday - Psalm 1:1
Color Throwdown - Black and White plus Aqua

I used a Lagoon card base and layered  with White Daisy and a Black and White Daisy vertical panel. I stamped the sections of the cake in black onto White Daisy and the topper in Lagoon, then I fussy cut it and affixed it with foam tape. The sentiment was stamped in Lagoon and also affixed with foam tape. I was so tempted to add ribbon or embellishments, but I thought it would take away from the clean, modern look of the wedding cake, so I resisted the urge, and left it plain.

My printer isn't working right now, so I couldn't add the bible verse, so I stamped Proverbs 3:5 in White daisy on the inside. It is also a wonderful piece of advice for a married couple.

Come and play along with me at these challenges this week!


Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Lagoon, Black
Stamps: Happy Couple, Everlasting Life
Ink: Black, Lagoon, White Daisy

The Early Bird

So I found some interesting challenges today that I combined to create one card. I enjoyed the challenge of putting them all together. It was quite fun.

The first is CASology with a Clean And Simple assignment and a farm theme. The second was CAS Colors and Sketches with the colors Melon Mambo, Garden Green, and Pumpkin Pie. I used Close to My Heart colors Smoothie, Topiary, and Sunset. The third was Shopping our Stash to use some of your favorite things. My current favorite thing is this stamp set I used: Catch You Later. I've had it forever, but have not played with it much, so I challenged myself to use it this week. The fourth challenge was Tuesday Morning for the sketch. I altered it just a little to fit the CAS assignment. The fifth and final challenge was the banner challenge from Heart 2 Heart. So I made a cute little banner out of cardstock scraps. I hope you like it!

I chose a White Daisy cardstock base, and layered a White Daisy triangle over top of it. Then I cut out 1-inch colored squares and folded them at the bottom, and cut them into triangles from the fold point. They became dimensional that way, so I popped them up with foam dots. Then I stamped the rooster with the sentiment on White Daisy and cut it out into a circle. The little pin clip is stuck into the foam tape for the small circle element of the sketch.

I hope you can join me at these challenges today!
 

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Topiary, Smoothie, Sunset
Stamps: Catch You Later
Ink: Black
Other: Pin Clips

Summer!

Today marks the first day of my summer break. Hopefully I can work on some cards a little and I'm excited! We have moved, and I have a great craft room in my new house (pictures to come). Today was the first day I got to work in there, and it's so roomy, I love it!

Today I made a card using the colors from Color My Heart and the sketch from Atlantic Hearts. I didn't like the sketch at first, but after I put my card together I realized that it works! Here you go: I'd say my first attempt at creativity was a success!

I used chocolate instead of nutmeg, since I don't have any nutmeg paper or ink yet. I will probably send this card to my dad, or give it to my husband as a father's day card.

Come play along with me at these challenges:

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Chocolate
B&Ts: Flirty, Frosted
Stamps: Catch You Later
Ink: Chocolate, New England Ivy
Embellishments: Studs and star chipboard shapes

New Christmas Card

My goal for 2018 was to make one Christmas card a week, to have a good selection by December. January kind of got away from me, but better late than never.

I made this card for the 52 CCT sketch challenge. I also took inspiration from the pastels challenge at Merry Monday, but pretty sure it's too late to enter that one. (Plus I used red - NOT a pastel!)

Materials used:
Cardstock: Heavenly Blue, White Daisy, Cranberry
Stamps: Reason for the Season
Ink: Sweet Leaf, Heavenly Blue
Other: Cranberry Grosgrain Ribbon

Car Card

For my first three children, I had their scrapbooks finished shortly after they turned one. That is why it will come as a shock to you to hear that my 3-year-old's first-year scrapbook is not finished yet, actually it's barely started. Life changes and homeschooling have gotten in the way of my scrapbooking time. This week I pulled out my supplies and worked on the album for three days straight. Sometimes I make cards and think, "I'm using up all my scrapbooking time and supplies making cards I don't need." But I really like participating in card challenges, so I just need to find a balance. Maybe soon I will take some pictures of all the layouts I made and post them here.

My husband took my son canoeing this morning, so I let my girls watch cartoons and took a few minutes to make this card. It was not hard, and I still feel like it needs something, but one-layer cards are not my forte. I'll get better at it with practice.

Less is More is asking for a one-layer card using vehicles.
Addicted to CAS is asking us to make a one-layer card.
Just Us Girls is challenging us to use something shiny.
Crazy 4 Challenges says to use monochromatic colors.

You can see that I embossed the car in silver.

I used shades of green for my card.

I added another piece of advice on the inside of the card to finish it off.



Materials used:
Cardstock: Sweetleaf
Stamps: The Long Way Home, Ciao
Ink: Topiary, Whisper pigment Ink
Other: Silver Embossing powder

Happy Camper

I have not played along with Your Next Stamp yet, so I decided to try my hand at their sketch and color combo. It was a pretty one! I needed a theme, so I found the "Camp Out" theme at Heart 2 Heart and made a cute little camper card! I'm also going to enter this into the "Great Outdoors" challenge at The Paper Players.

The colors I used are: Chocolate, Slate, Cranberry, Olive, and Buttercup.

  


Materials used:
Cardstock: Olive, Colonial White, Cranberry, Chocolate
B&Ts: Babycakes
Stamps: Camper Crazy
Ink: Cranberry, Slate
Other: Chocolate woodgrain washi tape, Watercolor Pencils

Mickey Mouse Friend

At As You See It, they are wondering what helps us get our mojo back for creating when we've lost it. Well, I have always liked challenges, specifically combining as many challenges as I can. And I don't mean those "anything goes" challenges. No. I mean I like to find a sketch, find a color scheme, find an inspiration photo, find a theme, and maybe a couple others to inspire me! I feel like if I can successfully meet all the challenges, I have created something wonderful.


For this week I have found 7 challenges to try to follow. It was tricky.

For the sketch, I chose Atlantic Hearts:

For the colors, I chose Color My Heart. They asked us to use 3 or more colors from the prickly pear. Three of the colors were primary, so I chose those to also participate in the primary colors challenge at Pile It On: I chose Lemon, Poppy, and Sapphire. I also threw in a little Pink.

I added some flamingos to participate in the summery challenge at Cupcake Inspirations: 

The challenge at CAS-ual Fridays was to use only die cuts. So I cut out a Happy Birthday sentiment from the Artiste Cricut cartridge, and I used my Mickey Mouse head die and embossing folder.

I also wanted to do this tic-tac-toe from The Paper Players. I did the die cut and birthday theme (across the top) but I think I forgot the banner. Oops. I did use blue and pink, so maybe it counts for something!


I also wanted to enter this into the friends challenge at Heart2Heart, so I made my own background paper by stamping the word friends in Poppy ink on the flamingo paper. Hopefully using stamps to create background paper doesn't count against me in the die cut challenge at CAS-ual Fridays.

So, after seeing all that, here's my card. Do you think it meets all the challenges? Did it turn out well? I think it would be nice for a kid's birthday! Unfortunately, my dad was visiting last week, and I didn't get a chance to upload my card in time. So I am late for some of these challenges. But that's ok. I still got a great card out of it!

Materials used:
Cardstock: Sunny Yellow, Sapphire, Poppy, White Daisy
B&Ts: Calypso
Ink: Poppy
Stamps: Live Out Loud
Other: yellow ribbon (not CTMH), Mickey Mouse die and embossing folder (not CTMH), Artiste Cricut cartridge, Dots Embossing Folder