My hope and future are in God's hands

I made this card for Word Art Wednesday, the Color Throwdown and for Freshly Made Sketches. This sketch is awsome. It might jsut be my go-to sketch from now on! For the colors I used Lagoon, Sunset, Smoothie (all from Dotty for You) and Grey Wool.

Materials used:

Paper: Dotty for You, White (not CTMH) and Grey Wool cardstock

Stamps: Art Philosophy, free word art from Word Art Wednesday (not CTMH)

Ink: Black

Other: Just Blooms Paradise assortment, White Daisy Bigger Brad, Smoothie Baker's Twine

Retrosketches and Dynamic Duos

Here's one for Christmas in June! I used Kraft for my base and the colors were Ponderosa Pine and Bamboo.

thedynamicduoschallenge.blogspot.com; retrosketches.blogspot.com


Materials used:
Paper: Kraft, Bamboo, Ponderosa Pine cardstock
Stamps: Holiday Wishes
Ink: Ponderosa Pine
Other: Green Button, Chocolate Ricrac, brown baker's twine (not CTMH)

CAS-ual Friday is PINK

Here's my pink card for CAS-ual Fridays. It's my first time making a card with a lot of "white space" (pink space LOL).  I like the way it turned out. And I'm a Mary Kay girl, so I love pink :) This stamp set from Pemberly WOTG is always done with blue and brown or yellow, or just black and white. I like it better in pink :)

Materials used:
Paper: White cardstock (not CTMH), Baby Pink cardstock
Stamps: Pemberly WOTG
Inks: Hollyhock
Other: Bitty Pearls

A Day for Daisies and Craft-a-Scene

I don't have any copics, and I like the look of it in black and white, so I just left it that way. Close To My Heart is discontinuing their markers, so I'm holding out until convention (less than 2 weeks away!!!!) to purchase copics, CTMH markers, or anything similar. I used the free digi image from A Day for Daisies and then CTMH's Perfect Day stamp set to do the background. I think it looks kind of cool. What do you think? Craft-a-scene's challenge was beach themed - you have to have a bit of sand and water. A Day for Daisies' theme was texture, so I added the Ponderosa Pine Sassy Strands.

Challenges: adayfordaisies.blogspot.com, craftascene.blogspot.com

Materials used:

Paper: White cardstock (not CTMH), Crystal Blue cardstock

Stamps: ADFD free digi stamp  (ot CTMH), Perfect Day

Ink: Black

Other: Sassy Strands

ColourQ and Pals Paper Arts

Last week my patriotic card was in the top 3 at Pals Paper Arts! It was my first time, hopefully not my last. I think my artwork is improving. Any feedback would be helpful!!!!!

I was chosen as a Colour Q courtier for this card I submitted last week. I'm so excited!!!!

Here is a new one for Colour Q, and I used the sketch at Pals Paper Arts.

I was inspired by the paisley in this blouse, and when I saw that there was a paisley stamp in the rock the block set, I knew I just had to use it. So I random stamped this piece of paper and layered it onto a Buttercup card base. Doesn't that pattern rock?!?!

I'm also entering this into heart2heart's wedding theme challenge.

Materials used:

Paper: White cardstock (not CTMH), Buttercup and Pacifica cardstock

Stamps: Rock the Block

Inks: Holiday Red, Pacifica, Buttercup, Grey Wool

Other: Buttercup Marker, Cranberry Bigger Brad, Prima flower (not CTMH)

Shabby Tea Room and Pink Elephant

Challenges - theshabbytearoom.blogspot.com, thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com

Materials used:

Paper: White cardstock (not CTMH), Pink patterned paper from Creative Memories, Vellum from HL (not CTMH), Juniper, Baby Pink, and Sunny Yellow cardstock

Stamps: Rock the Block

Ink: Blush, Juniper, Sunny Yellow

Other: Yellow sparkles (not CTMH)

baby thank you card

The Friday challenge at Frosted Designs was to create your own embellishments. I made my own embellishments by stamping the teddy bear in Crystal Blue ink and embossing him with Clear Detail Embossing Powder, then cutting him out with the 1 1/4 inch Circle Punch and stamping "thank you" all around. This sketch is from the Sweet Stop.

Challenges-sweetstopsketches.blogspot.com, frosteddesigns.blogspot.com

Materials used:
Paper: White cardstock (not CTMH), Dotty for You, Heavenly Blue and Crystal Blue cardstock
Stamps: Wonderland WOTG, Birthday Boy, Happy Holidays
Inks: Crystal Blue
Other: Clear Detail Embossing Powder, Lagoon Baker's Twine