Pink And Blue Stitched Joy Card

Can You Handle The Pressure has a new optional theme going and it is
CHRISTMAS, our themes are always optional and you can enter anything
you want as long as an EMBOSSING FOLDER  is used.
Wet embossing is okay too, but you MUST use an embossing folder too!! 

For my card rather then using a Christmas embossing folder I used a Christmas
die to create my card.  The embossing folder is a favorite of mine
WeR Memory Keepers Quilted.

The ornament is a Stitched Ornament die from Spellbinders!
The greenery comes with this die.

 I also used a JOY sentiment from Cottage Cutz as it fits perfectly
on my card front!

I hope you will join us at Can You Handle The Pressure!
Make sure to stop by and see all the beautiful designs from the team!
This is a perfect challenge to get those embossing folders out and USE them!!

Sweater Weather

 It's Autumn and with much cooler weather we are all in need
of warmer clothes or in the theme at The Sisterhood of Crafters
better known as SWEATER WEATHER!

What could be cuter then a small kitty in a sweater?
Though I don't think I could get any of MY cats
in a sweater without a lot of struggling, meowing and scratching!
Good thing we have stamps of such cute things
thanks to Simon Says Stamps.
I used their Christmas Kitties stamp set.
The background is a metallic paper which when tilted
you can see a bit of pretty shimmer.
I used a Blanket Stitched Oval die cut from
Pink Fresh studios thinking the blanket stitch would work well 
with the sweater!

Once my card was put together I noticed a bit of black marks
on the red metallic paper so I added Emerald City Pops of Color
which I received free with a scrapbook.com order!!

Make sure to visit The Sisterhood for more pretty 
sweater' cards by my 'sistahs'!!

Peace On Earth Challenge #52

Peace On Earth has a new challenge beginning today
and we have a pretty mood board to inspire if you wish
but you can create anything as long as it is Christmas themed. 

I always tend to let the  mood boards inspire me
and as soon as I saw this board I knew I had the perfect
designer paper for it from Recollections A Winters Night.
The tag is part of the paper pack.  I added a few gems for some sparkle
but other then that, the card is complete!
This time of year when the holidays are fast
approaching, it is always good to be able to create
 a simple and easy card that still looks beautiful!!

Make sure to visit Peace On Earth as the teams always have

more beautiful inspiration!!

Sketch 739

Hello and welcome to our second Sketch Saturday for November.
The optional twist is to add a stamp featuring a person.
I chose to not use the option! 

One great thing about sketches is that you can 'make them your own'
as long as the sketch can be recognized and that is what I did with my card!
After a sleepless night in bed for some crazy reason I thought about the cards I

had left to do for the year for design teams and this sketch was one of them!

I remembered I had some dies from Impression Obsession that I thought
would work perfect for this sketch and had never used.  Well, they did, sort of!

When cutting the dies they don't cut out completely but cut 'into' the paper
but I wanted them to cut out, so die cut each one with a circle die, I tried a
circle punch first but it was either too small or too big!

But had I lined them up as the sketch shows I would of had perfect circles
with designs cut into the paper, just wasn't thinking I guess!
I thought about starting over but had already put too much work into
this card and decided this one was perfectly fine!!
Like I said, a sketch is a starting point that you just make into your own!

Hope to see you at Sketch Saturday and see YOUR interpretation of our sketch!!

TOB November Mid Month Reminder

We are halfway thru our challenge at Two Old Bats
and you still have plenty of time to join us 
and we have a fun inspiration board below!

I let the owls and bats inspire me this time by letting a designer paper
do most of the work.  Sometimes these designer papers are just too
perfect to cover up with stamps or dies and make the cutest cards themselves!
This paper looks as though it could have been stamped and inked
it's so cute!  I just added some black and white twine and a sentiment
and it was done, easy peasy!

Pop on over to Two Old Bats for some spooky fun and some
fabulous inspiration from the team!!

Lego's Challenge At A Barrel of Monkeys

 
A Barrel of Monkeys is all about using children's games/toys to use as
inspiration for your projects, so many ways to let it inspire,
the colors, the raised dots, the shapes, where ever it takes you.
Our theme to inspire this time is Legos!!

I created a Legos birthday cake, perfect for a young child in bright

colors using a Spellbinders A2 Curved Matting Basics A die set
embossed with WeR Memory Keepers Dotted Embossing folder.
I used another die to cut off the candles for the top and a few
decorative flowers along with the The Ton Easy Expressions stamp and die for the sentiment.
The background paper is from an old pad I am trying to use up of

DCWV Birthday Wishes (I now have only 2 sheets left...yay!!)!

Visit A Barrel of Monkeys and join in,
can't wait to see how YOU were inspired!!

Beautiful Blossoms November Challenge

We are well into Fall at Beautiful Blossoms and have a pretty
mood board for inspiration!!

I used an older Flourishes stamp 'Autumn Blossoms' for my card,
colored with Copics and die cut out with a Tonic Ribbon and Bow layering die set.
The sentiment is from The Greetery, punched with an SU tiny punch
 and the gingham paper is Prima Blue Denim.

I hope YOU will join us at Beautiful Blossoms!!