Congratulations, Happy Holidays and Hello

Happy Thursday.  One more day till the weekend.  Do you have anything exciting planned?  My husband is taking my youngest daughter to Denver for a lacrosse tournament and my older daughter will be at work.  So, I guess Sherlock and I will be playing in my craft room a lot this weekend.

I was dying to ink up my new Bloomers set, and pulled out a few WPlus9 and Hero Arts inks and stamped an entire front panel.  I impressed it with the Burlap IP, cut it on the diagonal and then used one piece to make this card.  Aren't those little black ziggy zaggy bits fun?  They are from WPlus9 Doodle Buds.

I wanted to make a card that was 100% stamping, to play along with Virginia's View #16: 100% Stamping Challenge and Happy Little Stampers CAS Stamping Challenge.   I am also entering this card at CAS on Sunday #62: Embossing, and Just Us Girls #300 where they are celebrating their 300th challenge with the word 'congratulations'.

The challenge at Poppy Stamps #10 is A Day in the Park.  I really wanted to play along, especially since they picked this card from their last challenge as a winner.  But, what to do because I do not have anything from Poppy Stamps that one would find at a park....or do I?  I had this idea while I was spinning...Think of a park in the winter.  Deep dark green from evergreen trees, white snow falling all around and a couple of birds singing.  Yes, that is my winter wonderland park that I invite you to explore.

I am also linking this card up at Simply Create Too #89: Get ahead for Christmas, and Paper Players #252: The Great Outdoors.

My last card is inspired by both the colors at ColourQ #298 and the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #194.

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Birthday and Holiday Cards

Yesterday, I spent 50 minutes in exercise class admiring the top that the instructor was wearing.  I was too embarrassed to ask if I could take a photo of her top, but when I got home, I created a water color panel inspired by that top.  I turned that panel into a card, using stamps from Hero Arts and Neat & Tangled.  I am entering this card at Seize the Birthday, and will give this card to my friend from that exercise class, as it is her birthday tomorrow.  I wonder if she will recognize our instructor's shirt?

My holiday card for today uses the colors from this week's Colour Me Striking--Navy and Silver.  I used a piece of silver foil paper from Add a Little Dazzle cut with the Mod Snowflake Background from Poppystamps and layered on top of a piece of Enchanted Evening paper.  I embossed my sentiment in white on Enchanted Evening, and popped it up with foam tape.  I am entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Bling it on and Poppystamps Challenge #3:  Sparkle and Shine.

The photo is not quite capturing how shiny that foil paper is, but trust me that it could light up a room.

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Seven Cards, Really?

Hello there.  I am popping in with a mid-week post with some cards for a few different challenges and 2 different card drives.

My first two cards are for the Anything Goes challenge over at Paper Smooches Sparks this week, and I am also sending them off to MD Anderson Cancer Center for the HYCCT challenge--this one is to create a sweetly romantic card.

I used the Lattice Frame die by WPlus9 and the Blossoming Buds stamps by Paper Smooches.  I love that the flowers are already arranged in this stamp set.  All I have to do is just color them in.


My next card is also for the HYCCT challenge--this one is to use music, birds or hearts.

While I had my Little Bitty Bird and LBB Additions stamps out, I decided to make another card for the same HYCCT challenge, but this time, I made it a one layer card featuring some bird houses.  I am entering this card into the One Layer Simplicity Challenge #11 Home, Sweet Home and CAS on Sunday #45 One Layer Wonder.  

As one thing leads to another...since I was now thinking of one layer cards, I made another card for the One Layer Simplicity Challenge #11 Home, Sweet Home.  This card uses a ghost stamping technique that I saw here on the Caring Hearts blog hop.  Of course, my card will also be sent along to the Caring Hearts card drive.   I am also playing along with Festive Friday , Colour Me #45 and  CAS on Sunday #45 One Layer Wonder.  

One more card for the  One Layer Simplicity Challenge #11 Home, Sweet Home challenge, CAS on Sunday #45 One Layer Wonder challenge and Caring Hearts, using the Winter Wishes stamps.

And, last for today is a card for this week's ColourQ cQc #266  and Caring Hearts.

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