DeNami Design Sketch Challenge #4

A quick post of a card I made for the current DeNami Design challenge.  The challenge ends in just a few hours so I'm really squeakin' in!   We were provided with a great sketch to work from this time around.  I used on of my favorite DeNami stamps, Leafy Vine Wreath, as well as one of their new super cute little pumkins, Small Jack O'Lantern.  I stamped the wreath on cream cardstock, die cut it with a Spellbinders plain circle die and then colored the leaves with autumnal colors.   The little pumpkin was stamped on cream cardstock and colored with my Copics.  He was trimmed out and adhered in the middle of the wreath.   I stamped a small leaf from a Hero Arts set, Season of Giving, on the brown cardstock with VersaMark Dazzle Frost ink, but it is kinda hard to see.  

Thanks for taking a peek... have a great day.  I will be back later with another card!  Yikes!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream & Dark Choc.; SU! More Mustard; Ink:  SU! Close to Cocoa; Closet to My Heart markers; Buttons:  DeNami Design & PTI; Spellbinders Plain & Scalloped Circle dies; Cuttlebug; Stamps:  DeNami Design Leafy Vine Wreath, Small Jack O'Lantern & Hero Arts Season of Giving

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Squeaking in with a card for Our Daily Bread's Stamping In Time challenge.  The challenge was to make a card using both ribbon and lace, something I don't often do.  I love to use ribbon on my cards and I do have some really pretty ribbon lace from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, but I haven't used it alot.  I did for my card today.  Since I'm getting my card in at the last minute, I kept things really simple.  I loosely based my card on a Mojo Monday sketch from a week or so ago that I really liked.  Not posting it since that particular challenge is over.   Cardstock and ribbon are from Stampin Up!  Lace ribbon is from May Arts.

Thanks for taking a peek... have a wonderful day!  I know I am!  Sweet Angella from the ODBD design team picked this card, as the ODBD Customer Card of the Day, today!  Thanks so much Angela!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Pink Pirouette, PTI Dark Choc. & Vintage Cream; Ink:  SU! Close to Cocoa; Memento Angel Pink; Ribbon:  SU! Pink Pirouette; May Arts Lace Ribbon; Kaiser Jems; Stamps:  ODBD Grow In Grace & I am the Way; Spellbinders Plain & Scalloped dies; Cuttlebug

Pairing Up Challenge - Day 2

Back today with my card for day 2 of my pairing up challenge with Latrice.  For this challenge we used the fall colors of orange, red and brown and the Hero Arts set Real Leaves or in my case, the Hero Arts cling Maple Leaf.   I don't have the Real Leaves set, but the cling maple leaf is a very close match to the maple leaf from the Real Leaves set.  I went clean & simple for my card today.  Cardstock and patterned paper are all PaperTrey Ink.  The sentiment is from the Hero Arts set A Season of Giving.

Thanks for taking a peek today... make sure you head over to Latrice's blog to check out her wonderful creation!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI - Vintage Cream & Dark Choc.; PP:  PTI Dotty Biscotti Orange Zest.  Buttons:  PTI Pure Poppy; DeNami Design orange button; Ink:  SU! Riding Hood Red & Choc. Chip; Stamps:  Hero Arts Maple Leaf cling & Season of Giving set; Clearsnap Smooch spray (vanilla)

Pairing up w/Latrice + City Crafters

A card today for a fun challenge that started over at the Hero Arts Flickr group.  Joy of Less is More and Jennifer McGuire spent a week in August challenging each other to create a card using a different Hero Arts stamp each day.  After some prompting from another member of the group, Joy started a thread where those of us who want to do a similar challenge could sign up and then be paired up with another Flickr member. 

My partner for the challenge is sweet Latrice and today we are using the Hero Arts set A Kiss from the Sun for our cards.  I also decided to use the sketch from the current City Crafters Challenge Blog (CCCB23) for my card.  I just adore A Kiss from the Sun, especially the cute little sun dress.   For my card I used some really cute Cosmo Cricket Material Girl papers.   After stamping the dress on a piece of the patterned paper I trimmed it out and added a bit of Hero Arts lace ribbon to the bottom of the dress.  To tone the colors down a bit I did some distressing using Close to My Heart's Parchment ink.  It provides a lovely softness to the edges of your patterned paper and cardstock. 

Thanks for taking a peek and don't forget to take a look at Latrice's wonderful project!  Have a fabulous day!  I will be back on Wednesday with another Hero Arts card for the challenge.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; SU! Pure Poppy & So Saffron; PP:  Cosmo Cricket - Material Girl; Stamps:  Hero Arts - A Kiss from the Sun; Ink:  SU! So Saffron; VersaMagic Brick Red; CTMH Parchment;  Hero Arts Ribbon Lace; Bakers Twine - Impress; KaiserCraft Pearls

ColourQ 51...

and another challenging set of colors for CQC51, but when I initially saw them I thought to myself:  "how pretty, I'm sure I can come up with something, no problem"...  Well, I did have a problem.   I made a card last night that after I finished it I just didn't like how it turned out.  And upon reflection I concluded that it was because I used way too much of the Poppy Parade color and way too much white.  I spent most of today rethinking how I would combine the colors and I think I came up with a more pleasing combination.  I kpet Poppy Parade to a minimum, as well as the white.

I used the current CPS sketch 185 to help me along.  And I think I still have enough time to post the card on the CPS blog.   

Thanks for taking a peek.... hope your weekend is going well!

Supplies: Cardstock:  SU! Old Olive, So Saffron & Poppy Parade; PTI white; PP:  SU! Peach Parfait; Ink:  SU! Old Olive & So Saffron; Stamps:  Hero Arts Little Butterfly cling & SU! Whimsical Words

White & Bright ODBDSLC

A card today for ODBDSLC30 to make it white & bright.  The only color had to come from our stamped images and any embellishments we wanted to use.  Took me along time to figure out exactly how I wanted my card to turn out.  I finally settled on using PaperTrey Ink's Ocean Tides ink, ribbon and buttons.  Ocean Tides is one of my favorite PTI colors and I just love it combined with white.  The ODBD set I used is "As You Graduate".  I don't have alot of graduation cards to make, ever, but I loved the main image in the set and to be honest the set is perfect for any kind of card. 

Thanks for taking a peek... have a wonderful day!  It is raining here in Washington State.  A good time to get some papercrafting done!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI White; Ink:  PTI Ocean Tides; Ribbon Ocean Tides; Button Ocean Tides; Cuttlebug & Spellbinders Small Labels die