Thank You

Still working on Christmas thank you cards. This one definitely isn't Christmasy, but the colors from the JUGS challenge this week are aqua, coral, and green. I combined that with the Our Daily Bread Designs challenge to use wings somewhere on the card. The result makes me think of spring.

Many Thanks

I'm still working on thank you cards for all the Christmas gifts we received, so I used the Sweet Stop sketch challenge for this week to create another one. The stamps are all from PTI (guide lines and through the trees). The snowflake paper was salvaged from a gift a friend gave us for Christmas.

Christmas all ready?

Yes, I am starting Christmas cards all ready! This year I was sending them out (ok, I was making them) the week of Christmas and I vowed I would start making cards in January and continue throughout the year so that wouldn't happen again. So, the challenges from Verve (the sketch for Viva La Verve), Our Daily Bread Designs (used something old and something new), JUGS (Envy of Envies--decorate & line the envelope), and Off The Wall Craftiness (color challenge, see the last picture in this post) were the perfect chance to start. For my something new: last week I just received the "Richly Blessed" set from Verve and I used the "Jesus" and "the true gift of Christmas" sentiments. Old things are the snowflake stamps (inkadinkadoo, I think) and all the cardstock.

JUGS #65

It's the time of year to need lots of thank you cards. So . . . since I had to make some anyway, I decided to play along with the JUGS sketch challenge for this week. The stamps are from Guide Lines 2 and Through the trees by PTI. The snowflake paper was recycled from a gift packaging a friend gave me. Wish I knew who made the paper, it's gorgeous. and I got to use my new Labels 5 die, I love new toys. : )

Sweet Stop 89

This card uses the sweet stop sketch for this week. I used a new little stamp set I bought at JoAnn's (I think) for a dollar. I thought the puppy was adorable. It also has the paw print and dog bone stamps I used on the background paper. I made a cute little "happy birthday" ID tag with aluminum tape and a circle die then made wire s-loop to attach it to the ribbon "collar".

Vive La Verve and OTWC#39

How can you not love black, white, and silver together?! That was the Off The Wall Craftiness colors for their challenge this week. I combined it with the Verve sketch challenge to create a wedding card for my cousin who is getting married this weekend. The damask stamps are from Damask Designs by PTI. The sentiment on the front is from American Brands-Wedding and the verse inside is SU! This was my first attempt at making a 3-d flower. It would have been much easier if I had the 6 petal flower punch instead of the 5 petal one I thought I needed. : )

Off The Wall Craftiness #34

The Off The Wall Craftiness challenge for this week is to use the color combination of blue/white/peach. Peach is SO not a favorite color of mine, so it took me a VERY long time to put this combo together. But I really ended up liking these colors together, with a small dose of peach. I just have to mention that the "ribbon" is a strip of paper that I colored with the same marker that I used to stamp the snowflakes. It came out so much better than I thought.