Rose Valentine Card

Here's a card I made for Valentine's Day. I'm entering it into these challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches
Color Throwdown
Word Art Wednesday

Here is the inside:

Click on the picture to make it larger if you can't read the sentiment.



Materials used:
Cardstock: Blush, Ruby, Slate, White Daisy
B&Ts: Dakota
Stamps: Happy Valentine's
Ink: Black, VersaMark
Embossing Powder: Black
Marker Sets: Ruby, Sweet Leaf
Other: Slate Polka Dot Satin Ribbon, Spellbinders enchanted embossing folder (not CTMH)

Color Dare #28 - StudioJ

I made a Studio J layout for my color dare project this week. You have to have 4 layouts in order to make a purchase, and I only have one, so I haven't bought it yet. It's cute though, isn't it?

I used the Elemental paper pack and switched up the colors of the B&T papers. That's one of my favorite parts of Studio J!

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to check out Color My Heart this week!

Triple time technique

I have never made a triple time card before, but I like the result. It is the challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. I used the colors from Dynamic Duos - crumb cake and soft suede. I translate those to be Desert Sand and Bamboo. I used the sketch from RetroSketches. Here is my card:

The inside says "joy." I cut out a shape from Art Philosophy and stamped the coordinating shape from one of the Art Philosophy stamp sets. The sentiment and the poinsettia are from the same stamp set. I won the washi tape from a blog hop, and this is my first time using it. I think it looks cool!

Materials used:
Cardstock: White Daisy, Bamboo
Stamps: Art Philosophy
Ink: Desert Sand, Bamboo
Other: Black Ribbon, Neutral Baker's Twine, washi tape (not CTMH), black buttons (not CTMH)

B-day Card

Here is a quick, easy (flat) card I made for my sister-in-law. I will mail it today, but her birthday is tomorrow. It will be late. Oops. I made it for these 3 challenges:

Freshly Made
Color Throwdown
Simon Says - Paper Piercing

Materials used:

Cardstock: White Daisy

B&Ts: Somoma, Magic Moments

Stamps: Artiste Birthday

Ink: Smokey Plum

Other: Artiste Cricut Cartridge

Retro Sketches and Dynamic Duos

Here is a one-layer card using masking and generational stamping. They are a little tricky to make right. I gave it my best effort. I used the Retro Sketch and the colors from Dynamic Duos:

 

Materials used:

Cardstock: White Daisy

Stamps: Mad About You

Ink: Cranberry, Black

Markers: Black

Another Christmas Card

Here is my third card for the design team application at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. I used the sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges.

I just love the rustic look, so when they came out with the wood grain background paper in bulk from the Dakota paper pack, I was in heaven! I adore this paper! But I haven't used the houndstooth pattern on the opposite side of it yet. When I saw the recipe challenge at 52 CCT, to use patterned paper and to decorate the inside of your card, I knew it would be perfect! I could use the pattern paper as my card base, so the pretty houndstooth pattern would show on the inside!

 

The recipe also calls for glitter, so I put red glitter on my holly berries, and gold glitter on the banner "string" to tie it in with the gold ribbon.

 

Here is the inside:

 

I added red glitter to the holly berries on the inside and green to the holly leaves.

 

Materials used:

Cardstock: White Daisy

B&T's: Dakota

Stamps: Remarkable Wreath, Christmas Love

Ink: Barn Red, Olive

Other: gold ribbon and extra fine glitter (not CTMH)

White snow card

Here is a card I made for these 3 challenges:

The Sweet Stop - Sketch
Our Creative Corner - White with Decorative Edges
Less is More - Friends

 

I cut out the card using the Artiste cricut cartridge, and I also used Artiste to cut out the decorative square. I thought it need something more, so I cut out one more square 1/4 inch bigger, and matted the first square with it. I like that look. I used my (only) cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the background piece. I was going to go to Green Bay today to buy more, but we'll see if that'll happen.

Materials used:

Cardstock: White Daisy

Stamps: Childhood Portrait, Winter Joy

Ink: Lilac Mist

Other: White Daisy Grosgrain Ribbon, White Button, Colonial White Waxy Flax