A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge #28

Every week, A Spoonful of Sugar, has a great challenge! And we all know how much I love challenges! The DT cards are gorgeous...I'm gonna have to get some of those Sarah Kay stamps!!!

Last night, while working on my cards (all on my own), I made a little thank you card in anticipation of what I'll need after Christmas.


And this morning, here was a challenge to make a Thank You card! Talk about timing!!!

Thank You card details:
Stamps: Lovely As A Tree (SU!)
Paper: Kraft (PTI), Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla, DSP (SU!)
Ink: Chocolate Chip ((SU!)
Accessories: ribbon

I hope you like my card! And thanks for looking!

Paper Craft Planet Color Challenge

I love Paper Craft Planet! If you haven't joined, you should!

They have a color challenge each week, and this week, the colors were fabulous! I do have Christmas cards on my mind, so I really struggled (unnecessarily I know) with using some of my Christmas stamps on the card.


I had to sneak a little summer yellow in there for the star, but I stayed true to the colors chosen and I really think Santa looks terrific!


And when I bought my crop-a-dile, it came with little bags of eyelets. The snowflakes were in one of those little bags, and they look wonderful on the card. I smooshed them a little too hard, but I don't think it takes away from the card.

Happy Ho-Ho-Holidays! card details:
Stamps: Ho-Ho-Holidays (SU!)
Paper: Kraft (PTI), Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Taken With Teal, Whisper White (SU!)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Taken With Teal, Summer Sun (SU!), StazOn jet black, Versamark
Accessories: eyelets, Winter Wonderland embossing powder

I hope you like my card! And thanks for looking!

Cupcake Craft Challenge #15

I love the Cupcake Craft Challenge! Sometimes it's a color combo, sometime it's a sketch and other times, it's a theme. For the Cupcake Craft Challenge #15, the theme was "sweets and treats".

I used a fabulous sketch from Amy Celona from UStamp4Fun! She used some really great Stampin' Up paper -- blue! Very non-traditional!


But I just had received an order from Papertrey Ink and it had some really fabulous holiday paper in it. And I really wanted to play with it, so I used the sketch from UStamp4Fun with the paper!


It wasn't until I was completely done with the card that I realized I had really mixed up all the supplies I used, lol. But I really liked the way the card came out and I will be using the sketch again.

Merry and Bright card details:
Stamps: Cause for Celebration (SU!), Ornamental Christmas (Verve)
Patterned Paper: Holiday Vintage Prints (PTI)
Cardstock: Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, Kraft (PTI)
Ink: Real Red, Always Artichoke, More Mustard (SU!)
Accessories: ribbon

I hope you like my card! And thanks for looking!

Color Throwdown #18/CCEE Stampers Challenges!

Quiet house, lots of cards...and boy-o-boy did I have fun!

I found yet another challenge, a sketch challenge, at CCEE Stampers and I combined it with another of my favorite challenges at Color Throwdown.


I have to admit I didn't see the part about using eyelets. I did read the part about changing the square on the card to another shape, so why didn't I see the addition of eyelets? Hmmmm...


The Color Throwdown colors are Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Pale Plum. I had to use a little Perfect Plum ink. I needed to do a little more work on the fairy and I couldn't keep adding more and more of the Pale Plum. I think it looks great!


I'm really loving this stamp from Inkadinkado Stamps. This is the sweetest fairy and the stamp is so versatile.


I hand wrote the sentiment. It's not my best handwriting, but when I give cards to friends and family, I usually do all the sentiments by hand. I should have practised a little before I wrote it.

Dream card details:
Stamps: Beautiful Fairies (Inkadinkado)
Paper: Old Olive DSP (SU!)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Pale Plum (SU!)
Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum (SU!)
Accessories: Ribbon (PTI), Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Scallop Circles, blender pen, stickles

I hope you enjoyed my card, and I really hope you like that fairy! It's quickly becoming my favorite stamp! Thanks for looking!

Color Throwdown #16/Dutch-Dare Challenge # 20

WOW! What a great color combination that those fabulous ladies at the Color Throwdown have given us this week...Ballet Blue, Green Galore, Creamy Caramel and Chocolate Chip. And I teamed it up with a new sketch challenge I found this week from Dutch Dare - Card Challenges.



I couldn't get to the card right away, and when I had 10 seconds to think, all I could envision was something outside, something pastoral. Silly huh? But I did get an idea, and it boiled in my brain all day today. Finally, I got to sit down and work on the card...and then, none of my stamp sets were right, awful huh? AND I was out of Chocolate Chip cardstock!!! DISASTER! (it's on order thank goodness, lol) Then I remembered a stamp set that I had bought for Father's Day from Papertrey Ink. They were just perfect!


I stamped the image, then stamped over it with Versamark and then embossed it. I used cosmetic sponges to rub a little of each of the colors onto the paper...WOW! I was so proud of the way it came out!


I also pierced the paper (as per the sketch) and I think it adds the finishing touch!

I think I'm getting a little better, no, I know I'm getting better. I'm not letting the new techniques intimidate me as much.

"You Are My Hero" card details:
Stamp - Father Knows Best (PTI)
Cardstock - Whisper White, Ballet Blue, Green Galore, Creamy Caramel (SU!)
Ink - Ballet Blue, Green Galore, Creamy Caramel (SU!), Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad
Misc. - Marvy punch, embossing powder (random), satin ribbon (random)

Ya'll need to try out this challenge! They are such a blast! And thanks for looking!