I appreciate you

 Hold on to your hats and maybe grab a snack, 'cause this post is going to contain a lot of pictures!  I created these cards for the Kendra's Card Challenge #8 on her facebook group.

The premise of the challenges is to take 6 sheets of 6x6 patterned paper and, following Kendra's cutting chart and card sketches, create 17 cards.  Yes, 17 cards!!  This time around, I created a set of "Thank You" cards as I was in need of several and they are always good to have in your stash.  So, here we go:

Before I start, I apologize for the color of the orangey card stock.  In real life it matches the patterned papers much better.  It is more of a melon color, but what are you going to do?

I chose some masculine-ish papers because I knew the first three I needed were going to go to the men who are the pastors at our church.  I made them back in October for Pastor's Appreciation month (yes, it took me three months to finish all of these!).  

I kept the embellishments minimal and tried to carry the star theme throughout the collection as some of the papers had stars on them and stars are good for both men and women.

I used the same sentiment set from Pretty Pink Posh on all of the cards; I used several of the different sentiments in the set.

I used the same three colored card stocks for all of the cards: kraft, Ocean Tides and Melon Berry from Papertrey Ink.

I used Spellbinders Circle dies on most of the cards.

A few of the cards got some texture from embossing folders.

Almost all of the cards have die cut stars from an old Verve star die set.

This card and the following card are two of my favorites.  They are much more feminine and use my all-time favorite embossing folder with a damask design from Cuttlebg.

Texture and stars on that one!

A few of them have some kraft grossgrain ribbon to add a touch of texture.

The above card and the one below have a bit of a patchwork look going on as one of the papers I chose had "strips" of all the papers from the set.

Several of the cards use some bright orange enamel dots.

I used a couple different border dies to add some fun and interest to some of the cards.

Phew!!  You made it all the way through to the end!  If you love patterned paper and like being able to use it up without having lots of little pieces left over, definitely check out Kendra's challenge.  She will have a new one starting January 1 that will run for 3 months.  I am going to try to play with more of her challenges in 2023, I only managed to play in 2 of them this year.

Supplies and Challenges:

Card #1:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large" and "Scalloped Circles, large"; Verve pennant border die

Challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #576--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Card #2:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"; Verve "To the Moon" small stars

Challenges:

Cards Galore Challenge #106--anything goes

Card #3:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Radiant Rectangles"

Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Card #4:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Verve star die

Challenges:

Crafter's Cafe #292--anything goes

Card #5:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large" and "Scalloped Circles, large"

Challenges:

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Card #6:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large" and "Scalloped Circles, large"; Verve pennant border die

SU! corrugated cardboard embossing folder

Challenges:

Penny's Challenge #536--anything goes

Card #7:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Verve star die

Challenges:

Creative Fingers #245--anything goes

Card #8:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Verve star die

Challenges:

Sweet Stampers #75--anything goes

613 Avenue Create--anything goes with the optional twist: up in the sky (stars are up in the sky)

 

Card #9:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large" and "Scalloped Circles, large"; Verve star die

Cuttlebug damask embossing folder

Challenges:

We love Stamping--I love . . . (I love damask designs in any for--stamps, dies, embossing folder, etc.!  I also love patterned paper AND being able to use up every little scrap of a patterned paper sheet!)

Card #10:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large" and "Scalloped Circles, large"; Verve star die

Cuttlebug damask embossing folder

Challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Card #11:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Verve star die

Darice embossing folder

Challenges:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #196--anything goes

Card #12:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Ovals, large"

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches #689--anything goes

Card #13:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Verve star die

Challenges:

The Paper Shelter--anything goes

Card #14:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Verve star die

Challenges:

CRAFT #662--anything goes

Card #15:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Verve star die

Challenges:

Snippets Playground #444--anything BUT Christmas goes (while technically these cards didn't begin with snippets, after you cut the paper for the first one, they all use snippets--and they use up 6 ENTIRE sheets of paper!!  All the white layers were cut from snippets as well as all the stars and many of the mats for the different layers)

Card #16:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Verve star die

Challenges:

Creatalicious #249--anything goes with the optional twist: CAS Christmas

Card #17:

Supplies:

Stamps: Pretty Pink Posh "Thoughtful Greetings"

Dies: Verve star Trim Trio border die

Challenges:

Paper Funday #48--anything goes with the optional twist: holiday time