Another Colorful Valentine

This is my second card for the playdate cafe challenge 112. Click here to see the previous. I actually clicked on the wrong picture for the link to that one. Knew that as soon as I did it but couldn't grab it back.

The DP from Paper Studio has all those colors for the challenge. The red is from shimmer stack and green from scrap file. The EK scalloped punch looks like the tops of hearts lined up along each side. Heart stamp is $1 special from JoAnn's. The love sentiment and tag punch are both SU. I copied a verse from Card Maker Magazine (Jan 2012)for the inside:

"A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you."

Colorful Valentine

It is good to be back in the craft room. I have been away for awhile and really missed creating. I use the guest bedroom for crafting. Had to put away all of that paraphanalia for Thanksgiving so my 2 grandsons would have a place to sleep. Then we spent 10 days in St. Thomas & St. John. Sure hated to come back to the cold in Indiana. Now that Christmas is all set, I have time to myself to play.
The Playdate Cafe has this cool color combo inspiration picture for this week's challenge.

How fortunate that last week I purchased some valentine paper (The Paper Studio) in exactly these colors. So it was pretty easy to decide what to do for this challenge.

I used a white cardstock base, red from the Shimmer Stack by DCWV. The green is from scrap file. Sentiment is SU and the heart is $1 special from Michaels. Topped it off with red gem.

Masculine Christmas Card.

Tuesday Throwdown challenge is a "masculine Christmas card". I had to think about that for awhile to decide exactly what a "masculine" card would be. I had seen this image on a t-shirt recently and thought that it would be a cute card. Amazing where we crafters can get inpiration!

This little cutie sheep is inspired by a clip art but I decided it was close enough to a punched scalloped circle so that is what I used. I ran a black sharpie marker around the edge to give it definition. The face (cut from the clip art image) is traced on and colored with a flesh color pencil. The legs are free hand cut and taped to the back. The Santa hat is also copied from a clip art and paper pieced. It has clear glitter glue to the hat band and ball. The sentiment is computer generated and attached with green eyelets.

use a number

Papercraft Star challenge this week is using a number on a card. I made this cute/sweet card for a baby girl's 1st birthday:

Stamp: Inkadinkadoo

Number: cricut

DPs all from scrap file

See another cute/fun card with number here for any of your friends who claim to be 29--several times.

glitter & bling

mojo monday 211 sketch challenge:

My neighbor came over and asked me to make a birthday card for her granddaugher who like lots of sparkle and bling. I decided it would go well with the mojo sketch so here is my card:

That glitterty colorful DP is from the Butterflies and Blossoms stack by DCWV. Stamps: PTI (stems), TAC (flowers & sentiment). For added glitter, I added yellow glitter glue drops to center of flowers, silver dots on scalloped circle, traced the Happy Birthday with the rose star gel pen, and finally 2 small rhinestones on the butterfly which was cut from the DP. I use black jeweler's wire for butterfly antenna.





WMC72

Wee Memories challenge is anything, any Holiday. It is a little hard to think of Christmas and Snow when the temp is still in the 70s but I really need to get started on Christmas cards as I have a Craft Bazaar next month. So here is a Chritmas card:

A fairly quick and easy card to do. It is on white cardstock base. Punches: Martha Stewart. Stamps: The Angel Company. Snowman colored with colored pencils, frosted lace stickles to white snow parts, cotton ball to hat brim and tassel. I also used clear glitter gel on the snowflakes.

Okay, 1 down--many more to go.

flower shop

I love this sketch from mojo monday:

I just reminds me of an old fashioned flower shop with a colorful canopy. So here is my card:

White cardstock base. Green is Shimmer Pack from DCWV and DP is from Butterflies and Blossoms Pack also from DCWV. I don't know what happened with the scan but that pink strip is actually a bright pink as are the butterflies. Stamps: flower, Inkadinkadoo, Sentiment, Lawn Fawn. Inks: Staz-On black and MS geranium. Flower is colored with Tombow marker. And what would a flower shop be without a few butterflies. These are MS stamp and punch set. I used a clear star gel pen to give them a little glimmer. I think a thank you card ought to always be pretty and I think this one fits the bill.

"Spook"tacular Halloween

the playdate cafe has this colorful Halloween challenge


I made this fun card for my grandsons who last year were fascinated by all the blowup ghost lawn decorations.

Stamps: SU (boo), Inkadinkadoo (swirls on green and Happy Halloween), Craftsmart (ghost)

The ghosts are cut out and hung on polka dot ribbon from Michaels. I only secured the ribbon in back and left the ghosts to swing. I hope when they open the card the ghosts will pop out.

The Happy Halloween at the bottom is a little hard to see. I stamped it in black and then traced with clear star gel pen.

And this one for my granddaughters who are such cuties!!



This one is white card base smudged on edges with black ink. Scraps from the other card.
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo (swirls,cobweb, and sentiment) Craftsmart (witch)
Spider cut with Cricut

merci

Lawn Fawn has issued a challenge on this World Card Making Day of making a thank you note and sending to a loved one. My card is for a member of a committee that I am on. She has gone above and beyond in serving.

That cute french looking label is from a bag of craft items I bought at a yard sale. It is French Looking so I went with the "merci" stamp.The "fan" is a half circle of Martha Stewart paper doilies. The orange cardstock is DCWV Shimmer Stack. Hearts are from Stampin" Up.

Lace

papercraft star challenge 64 is to use lace on a card. Here is my card:

The dotted design paper is DCWV Holiday Collection and the print is Paper Studio. Those are backed by DCWV Shimmer Stack green on an ivory card base. The leaf is diecut from SU. The poinsetia is from a strand of them from Michaels. I only had white lace so I "tea dyed" (steep 3 tea bags in 1 cup hot water and soak the lace until shade wanted).

Here is another lace card I did a week ago for papercraft star "anything goes" challenge: