Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge # 11

I think this is going to have to be the last day I can participate in any kind of challenge, and I'm really sad about it. I do all my work on my dining room table, and I kind of need it now, lol. I've been packing the table up for days now, and I realized yesterday when I went to make my card, I had packed up more than I thought.

I couldn't find the patterned paper I wanted to use...
I couldn't find my craft knife...
I couldn't find this really cool bell stamp...
I couldn't find some wide burgundy ribbon...

ARGH!!!

And being me, over-critical & anal, I just couldn't make my card come out the way I saw it. But I'm posting it anyway, lol!

This week's Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge is inspired by one of the best classic Christmas movies, It's A Wonderful Life.

I used a sketch that I'm 99.9% sure came from Paper Craft Planet, again, I didn't write it down. I don't know what's wrong with me lately!

I found a pack of very old Stampin' Up metallic paper...and I wanted to make my card have some kind of metal on it. And the paper was perfect!

I couldn't find the stamps that I wanted to use, but I did know of a bell that I have on a CD in my graphic library. So I printed it directly on the cardstock and I thought it looked fabulous! A little glitter and the bells are perfect! I can't find this really fabulous burgundy ribbon so I just epoxied the bow as it was. BUT I'm going to keep looking for the ribbon and I'll re-post the card after I redo the card, lol!

When A Bell Rings card details:
Paper: Silver, Bravo Burgundy - retired (SU!)
Accessories: glitter, liquid epoxy, punches, ribbon

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

Paper Craft Planet Sketch Challenge

If you haven't joined Paper Craft Planet by now, you should and soon! I know there are lots of online groups, but for some reason, Paper Craft Planet is one of my favorites. I don't know if it's because of the way it's configured, or because it's easy to navigate, but I love it!


The sketch challenge for this past week is to use this sketch. I now realize why I'm not crazy about my card...lol! I shouldn't try to create cards at midnight!


First, I think the card is too busy...the DSP is fine, as is the little "medallion" in the upper left corner. The main image is wrong...wrong, wrong, wrong. I see it now but last night I couldn't see it.

I will rework this card...

Christmas card details:
Stamps: Lovely As A Tree & So Many Scallops (SU!)
Patterned Paper: Frosty Day (SU!)
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Bashful Blue, Tangerine Tango, Close to Cocoa (SU!)
Ink: Bashful Blue, Tangerine Tango, Close to Cocoa (SU!)
Accessories: ribbon (random), circle scallop punch (SU!)

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!

I hope...

I hope ya'll all had a great Thanksgiving. I think all the food is just about gone, thank goodness, 'cause I can't eat leftovers much more, lol.

Today I have a few cards I've made ready to post. I'll get them up as quickly as I can, but I have Mia today, so it's gonna be hit and miss, lol!


I started this card with the Mojo Monday sketch from Poetic Artistry. I love her sketches, and I love her stamps! But nothing spoke to me, nothing but the sketch. I teamed the sketch up with the colors from this week's colors from Paper Craft Planet, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White.

And then, Our Creative Corner had a challenge that we were to use snowmen or snowflakes! WooHoo! Three challenges in one card!


I used my new Martha Stewart embossing punch, I love it!, and some old SU! vellum. Inkadinkado stamps always work and I just love how it came out! I chose not to put a sentiment on the front of the card, it's inside.

Snowman card details:
Stamps: Warm Holiday Wishes (Inkadinkado)
Patterned Paper: old vellum (SU!)
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White (SU!)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red (SU!)
Accessories: Versamark, embossing powder, embossing punch (Martha Stewart)

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

Our Creative Corner & Paper Craft Planet Challenges

One day, ya'll are gonna get so tired of all my challenge cards! LOL!

If you haven't joined the Paper Craft Planet group, you should. There are tons of great stamp companies, stampers and scrappers that belong to it! You can even tailor your interests to a single stamp company! Really kewl!

This is a great sketch from Our Creative Corner! And I got the color combination from Paper Craft Planet! Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral and Riding Hood Red, FABULOUS!


The Cameo Coral really threw me, that's a hard color to work with. I used a piece of very old Stampin' Up patterned vellum that had a swirl of the coral (or so it looked to me). And if you look closely, Mia added a few touches of the color around the trees, which after I "fixed" it, looked ok.


Again, I apologize for the slightly dark pictures, it's too windy to take pictures outside and I can't find the proper lighting in my house.

Happy Holidays card details:
Stamps: Lovely As a Tree (SU!)
Paper: vellum, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral and Riding Hood Red (SU!)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral (SU!)
Accessories: ribbon

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