Turning 40

 Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: .  Black and Orange

Here is my card for your inspiration:

So, I always struggle with color combinations in challenges and when I saw black and orange for this challenge all I could think of was Halloween.  And I don't do Halloween, so I was at a bit of a loss at to what to do.  When I saw that several of my teammates had managed to create orange and black cards without being Halloween related, I realized it was possible.  My brother-in-law was turning 40 this week, so I decided to make a card for him using this color combo.  I pulled out some definitely NOT Halloween paper and that was the beginning of this card.  I forgot to take a photo of it, but the "40" was die cut out of black glitter paper.  Yes, I did manage to use both glitter AND ribbon on a masculine card and I think it works perfectly!  The ribbon was recycled from some gift or something like that I had received a couple years ago and all the little stars are the left overs from the star border die I used down the side of the card.  I added a few more inside to surround the sentiment and added another die cut "40", this time in orange to contrast with all the black inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: PaperTrey Ink "Big Birthday Wishes"

Dies: Paper Trey Ink "By the Numbers" border die; Verve "Scalloped Trim Trio" star border die; Spellbinders "You are Here" arrow die; Stamps of Life star; unbranded label die from Amazon

Challenges:

Cards Galore Challenge #151--anything goes

Die Cut Divas--recycle, re-use & repurpose

Craft Rockets #140--use dies

Word Power--anything goes with sentiment as the focus

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #285--anything goes

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #699-sketch

Crafty Catz #714--anything goes

Creative Fingers #329--anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #770--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Pixie's Snippets Playground #541--anything goes with snippets (Almost everything was die cut from snippets and I reused the little stars left over from the border die cut)

Amazing

Hello, everyone!  It's time for a new challenge from the Creative Moments Challenge blog.  The theme is: Colors of Fall.  I am using an image from our fabulous sponsor: Kit and Clowder.

 Here is my card:

I used this beautiful leaf image and printed it nice and large so it would be the star of the show.  I die cut it with a stitched rectangle die,  colored it up in shades of yellow and then stamped over it with a light gray ink and a French script stamp.  I then die cut "amazing" out of the image, cut out the word two more times and layered them all together for dimension and then adhered it back into the negative space.  It adds such a fun touch without letting the sentiment overwhelm the image.  I stamped "you are" over the die cut stack to complete the sentiment.  I added a few yellow gems sprinkled around to finish it all off.

You have all month to play along.  So, get inky and link up your creation; I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies:

Stamps: Kit & Clowder "Dogrose Leaf"; My Favorite Things "Essential Sentiments" (I masked off the rest of the sentiment to fit with my die cut); Hero Arts "French Script"

Dies: "My Favorite Things "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle die; STAMPlorations "amazing"

Challenges:

Cards Galore #151--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #246--anything goes with handcolored sentiment

Creative Inspirations--Hello, Autumn

We Love Stamping--trees & leaves

Craft Rockets #140--use dies

Crafty Gals Corner #280--anything goes with the optional twist: fall foliage

{Pin}spirational Challenge #341--inspirational photo (I was inspired by the leaves)

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #285--anything goes

Atlantic Hearts Sketch #699--sketch

Crafty Catz #719--anything goes

Creative Fingers #329--anything goes

Sweet Stampin'--CAS

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--CAS

Shape it Up!

 Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Shape Up.  

Here is my card for your inspiration:

This has been a year of celebrating ALL the things.  Back in May, we celebrated my husband's grandfather turning 90.  We also celebrated his wife turning 80!  This is the card I made to celebrate her birthday.  She is a very classic white and black type of person, so I went with this classic, elegant combo for her card.  This die set is one of my favorites; it is so gorgeous, so it was definitely the time to pull it out.  the ribbon was left over from another project and the rhinestone ribbon slide was part of a craft kit one of my girls had and didn't want any more.  I think it turned out so pretty!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: PaperTrey Ink "Big Birthday Wishes" th; Verve "Be Blessed" sentiment

Dies: Spellbinders "Radiant Rectangles"; PaperTrey Ink "By the Numbers" border die numbers

Challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #768--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Creative Knockouts #578--lots of layers

Krafty Chicks #836--birthday

Creative Fingers #328--anything goes

Sweet Stampin' Challenge--use a die cut

Cards Galore #151--anything goes

Unicorn Challenge #124--not square

Die Cut Divas--recycle, re-use, repurpose (the ribbon and ribbon slide are repurposed)

Word Power--anything goes with sentiment as the focus

Magical birthday

Happy September 1st!!  It's time for a new challenge on the Critter Crazy Challenge blog!  As always, it is a month long challenge: Anything Goes as long as you feature a creature.  Here is my card for your inspiration:

I know this is stretching it a little bit, but if we can use mythical creatures, then why not a mythical birthday cake creature?  I mean it's a unicorn cake, right?  I won the chance to purchase this set as part of a GIANT box of goodies from Jennifer McGuire several years ago.  So much fun stuff in there, but almost all of it has sat around in a box ever since.  So, I'm working on using some of the sets and this one came out to play.  There are several different decorations that can be used to decorate this fun cake.  I decided to keep it relatively simple and just added some piping around the bottom and a few flowers and she was done!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hop on over to the Critter Crazy blog and check out the details and the rest of the projects from the Design Team.

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts CM438 cake set (I'm pretty sure it's discontinued); CAS-ual Fridays "Magical Unicorn" sentiment

Dies: Hero Arts cake set

Challenges:

Pattie's Creations #245--anything goes with hand colored sentiment

Creative Knockouts #577--favorite embellishments (I love using gems and these yellow ones I've had for a very long time)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #767--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #284--anything goes

Creative Fingers #328--anything goes

Sweet Stampin'--use a die cut

Hanging out

Hello, everyone!  It's time for the mid-month reminder for the challenge from the Creative Moments Challenge blog.  The theme is: Make It Cute.  I am using an image from our fabulous sponsor: Polkadoodles.

 Here is my card:

Oh, my goodness!!  The cuteness of this panda is just too much!  He looks a little bit sad, maybe because he's thinking about his friend whom he misses.  This was a very simple card all around.  I printed out the image, die cut it, colored it, added the sentiment and adhered it to the card base and, done!

You have all month to play along.  So, get inky and link up your creation; I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies:

Stamps: Polkadoodles "Noodle Panda Hang Out"; Cardz TV "Just Sayin'" sentiment

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle

Challenges:  

613 Avenue Create--anything goes with the optional twist: play time

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #284--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Creative Fingers #328--anything goes

Sweet Stampin'--use a die cut