Just under the wire for the Embellish the Cure Color Challenge.
Here's my take on it. I was anxious to use one of the beautiful images on Papertrey's Giga Guidelines.
I got inspired today after finishing my card for the Raspberry Suite Challenge and finished three quick and simple cards for the Hero Arts Simple Holiday challenge.
I love this new embossing folder from Cuttlebug.
I really enjoy the color challenges. Often they are colors I would never think of putting together, but I ususally end up with an interesting card. This one is no exception. Here are Dawn's colors:
Since Papertrey's Vintage Cream was one of the colors, I printed the Raspberry Suite patterned paper samples on a piece of Vintage Cream cardstock and punched them with a 1.5 inch punch. The rest of the card is pretty straight forward. I used my new favorite, Smooch, to color in the leaves of the wreath.
I've been thinking about the Moxie Fab ruffle challenge for quite some time, but just today came up with a way to use this beautiful new ribbon I purchased in Rhinebeck two weeks ago when we were visiting my brother as well as my new Smooch Accent Inks. Once again I used this as an opportunity to get another Christmas card added to the stash.
Here's a close-up; the Smooch inks are so beautiful.
I liked the idea of a simple collage card posted as the challenge on the Cards Blog last week. In an effort to continue to add to my stash of Christmas cards, here's my take on the challenge:
Embellish's most recent challenge was to make a circle card with blues and greens. I made the card a while ago, but am just getting it posted under the wire! I don't often made shaped cards, but I enjoyed making this one.
This is the last of the World Card Making Day challenges. It's for the color challenge at Ellen Huston's The Classroom. Here's the challenge:
I've never participated in the Mojo Monday Sketch challenge, but when I saw it this morning I thought it would work well with the World Card Making Day challenge at The Classroom that specifies using sparkle and glitz. Here's what I came up with:
I may get another card or two done after dinner for Ellen's challenges, but I've finished two. The first one was an inchie challenge. I haven't used my inchies in a long time, and I loved this technique. I colored two of the inchies with Papertrey tea dies: Chai and Chamomile. Then I stamped the Magnenta branch with Dark Chocolate Ink, mounted the inchies on Dark Chocolate cardstock on a cream colored card from my stash. The ribbon is from May Arts. I will definitely use this technique again.
I made this card yesterday, but wasn't really happy with it so I took it apart today and put it back together. I'm much more satisfied. One of Nicole's challenges was to use outlines of white dots around an image. I pulled out two old stamps I haven't used in years for this challenge. I think it will make a good birthday card for a guy.
The third stop on the Papertrey tour is India. I recently found a box of charms I had collected years ago. It's been sitting on the floor of my study because I'm not quite sure what to do with them. I'm certainly glad I didn't throw them out! These elephant charms really spoke to me of India as did the beautiful paper from my stash.
The next stop on the Papertrey "tour" is Mexico. When I think of Mexico, I think of bright colors, sunshine, and beach resorts–where "life is good"–at least for the tourists.
Papertrey Ink is hosting a series of four challenges to celebrate World Card Making Day. The first stop is Japan. I've had this Japanese handmade paper for years, and this was the perfect time to pull it out. The elegant branch from Life also reminds me of the Japanese watercolor flowers. There's a tiny dragonfly charm on the bow.
It's been awhile since I've had a chance to participate in this challenge. Yesterday, however, I got a package from 2Peas with a new embossing folder from Quickutz. This seemed like a perfect sketch for it.
Here's my take on it–another Christmas card:
Cardstock: Papertrey Ripe Avacado; Card: Paper Source; Ribbon and patterned paper: unknown from stash; Krylon gold leafing pen, Quickutz embossing folder.