Fancy Ornament

Happy Friday!  It's time for another challenge on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog and this time the challenge is to use one of the color combos used by the design team.  Our sponsor is Fred She Said and the prize is a $10 gift certificate to the store!

I would have to say that my favorite Christmas card scheme is blues and white (maybe with silver thrown in), but since a couple of the other DT ladies already chose those, I decided to use my all time favorite card color combo: pink and green.  I'm sorry that the green looks grey in the photo, but it is a nice mid tone soft green (ocean tides if anyone is familiar with PTI's cardstocks).  It's non-traditional I know, but is really quite gorgeous!

Hop on over to the CSAYL blog for all the details and to see the color combos you can choose from.  Then play along; I'd love to see your pink and green creations (hint, hint).

Challenges:

Jingle Belles--Home for the Holidays (I have the word "house" in my sentiment)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge--spread a little joy and love (from our house to yours)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra--anything Christmas goes

Beat the Christmas Rush July 25-August 24--anything Christmas goes

Christmas Cards All Year Round--Christmas Extravaganza (make it fussy and fancy)

Christmas Card Challenge #36--sketch

Supplies:

Stamps: Fred She Said "Christmas Ornament 2" digi; Verve "Ornamental Christmas" merry christmas and "Merry and Bright" sentiment

Dies: spellbinders fleur de lis squares die; Verve "Mini Classy Labels" die

CASE

Phew!  I am just getting in under the wire to enter Flourishes "CASE Maki" challenge!  I think it ends tomorrow.  This gorgeous lemon card is the one I chose to CASE.  Isn't it stunning!?

And here is my card:

I just love the whole entire layout, so I stuck right to it, except that I added pearls around my sentiment.  Whoever first thought of that idea was a genius!!  Also, I used a border die instead of ribbon under my main panel.  I even used two Flourishes stamp sets though I think they are quite old and maybe not even available anymore.

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations #226--something old & something new (the pearls and red cardstock are less than a month old and I have had these two stamp sets for 4 or 5 years)

Word Art Wednesdays #92--anything goes with an uplifting sentiment

Crafting by Designs--Celebrate Women (all though it isn't very frilly, this is definitely a feminine card)

Supplies:

Stamps: Flourishes "Herbs" geranium and "Line Lines" sentiment

Punch: Fiskars "Upper Crest" border punch

Snowflakes

 Another Christmas card for my stash.  The second picture is a close up to show the tiny pearls in the center of the three large red snowflakes.  It's hard to see in either photo so you might have to just trust me that they are there. : )

Challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra--anything Christmas goes
Beat the Christmas Rush July 25-August 24--anything Christmas Goes
Make it Monday #128--Stamping Random backgrounds
Tammy's Scrappin Corner #74--anything goes: music (I've got a musical score stamped in my background)
Timeless Tuesday #232--stamp your own background
Holly Jolly--sketch

DRS Designs #81--diamonds AND pearls
Winter Wonderland--red, white, kraft

Supplies:
Stamps: Verve "Merry and Bright" snowflakes and "Ornamental Christmas" sentiment; Skipping Stones Design "Timeless Texture" musical score; PTI "Mat Stack #2" frame
Dies: PTI "Mat Stack #2" and border die

CAS flowers

 Sorry for the dark photos!  Someday, I'm going to learn how to take really good ones.  This is a little gift I created for the women who led my oldest daughter's craft class at the storyhour we attended this year.  I made some note cards with her initials and stamped a coordinating image on the envelopes (sorry, didn't take a picture of that).  Then I bundled them together, with a sweet little belly band.  Very simple and very elegant, I thought

Challenges:

Card Mania Challenges #26--summer blooms

Eureka Stamps #51--CAS

Supplies:

Stamps: Flourishes "Summer Blossoms"; PTI "Fresh Alphabet"

Dies: spellbinders ovals, large (used to emboss the oval around the flowers); Verve "Mini Classy Labels" die

Two roads

There's a new challenge up and running over on the Lollipop Ladies blog.  The theme is Star Lollies with the optional challenge of sparkle and here is the inspiration photo:

And here is my project:

Do you know how hard it is to find a baptism image that is not for babies??!!!  A young lady at our church is getting baptized this Sunday (as Baptists, we don't practice infant baptism; instead we practice believer's baptism and it is a choice taken to show your willingness to follow Jesus Christ) and of course I needed to make a card.  After searching with Google (usually a life saver) to no avail, I discovered this sentiment in my stamp collection.  Though it is definitely NOT designed for baptism, it still fits, because choosing to follow Christ is not the popular road these days.  So, I found it to be very fitting.
To go with the star theme, you can see I chose papers with subtle star details and added a few die cut stars.  The aqua stars and covered with glitter and I detailed the red stars on the papers with glitter pen which you cannot see in the photo.  Come on over and play with the Lollipop Ladies.  We can only give out the prize if at least 7 people play and right now we have only 2 entries.
Challenges:
Desert Island Craft Challenge #59--choose at least 3 of the following (I chose 2, 4, 6, 10--ribbon, rhinestones, die cuts with glitter--lots of texture)
1. posted color scheme
2. bling
3. pearls
4. layers (at least 3)
5. ATC
6. sentiment
7. animals
8. wings
9. embossing
10. texture
Our Creative Corner--words, words, words
Mojo Monday #305--sketch

There She Goes #219--aqua and red
{Pin}spirational Challenge #69--inspiration photo--I went with the pops of red and blue in the photo

Delightful Challenges--add stars or sparkle

Supplies:
Stamps:
Verve" Beautiful You"
Dies: Verve "Classy Label" die; sizzix star die
Papers: Pink Paisley "Declaration Papers"

Operation Write Home

Last week, my family and my in-laws went to Word of Life Family Campground in upstate New York.  We had an awesome time camping (well, I was in a cabin with a real bed and a bathroom) and even had a little time to stamp.  My mother-in-law likes to make cards, too, so the two of us plus another lady from our church spent a bit of time creating some cards for Operation Write Home.  If you are not familiar with them, check out the blog, it's an awesome service that we, as card makers, can offer to our service men and women.  These are the cards I created and after I get the OWH stamp stamped on the back, I will be sending them out along with the cards made by the other two women.  I decided to stick with the same color scheme for 6 of them and managed to create all 6 using the same two patterned papers (only one sheet of each was used and I still have some good scraps left over)

Challenges:

Southern Girls--animal antics

Supplies:

Stamps: Meljen's monkey digi; PTI "Damask Designs" sentiment

Papers: DCWV

Punch: fiskars "apron" punch

Challenges:

One Crazy Stamper--birthdays

Seize the Birthday--month long anything goes: birthday

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! single stamp

Papers: DCWV

 Challenges:
Sister Act #18--anything goes
Just Add Ink--Just add Blokes (masculine)
Supplies:
Stamps: Clear Dollar Digi "Mr. Spike" digi (image and sentiment)
Papers: DCWV
Dies: Spellbinders Labels 5 die

Challenges:

Get Inky--Ribbons

Brown Sugar #53--friendship

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "Joyful Blooms" image and sentiment

Papers: DCWV

 Challenges:

Seize the birthday--month long anything birthday goes

One Crazy Stamper--birthdays

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "To the Moon" giraffe; PTI "Heart to Heart #1" sentiment; Flourishes "Happy Camper" banners

Papers: DCWV

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday--month long anything birthday goes

One Crazy Stamper--birthdays

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI "Heart to Heart #1"

Dies: PTI "Heart to Heart #1" die

Papers: DCWV

Challenges:

Stamping with Dragon--one color only

C.R.A.F.T. #218--monochromatic

Just Add Ink--Just add blokes (masculine)

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts French Script; PTI "Hands of Time" clock and sentiment

Dies: PTI "Hands of Time"; spellbinders "Charmed, I'm Sure"

Cupcake

Hi, Everyone!  It's Friday and that means it's time for another challenge from Clearly iStamp Challenges:  Lift a project from someone else.  (Now, I don't know exactly who you are supposed to lift, so hope on over to the CiC blog for all the details.  The person I was assigned to case is Indy, one of our other talented DT members.  She had so many fabulous projects that it was hard to pick just one.  But I finally did it. : )  Here is her original card: (You can click on the picture to be taken to her post)

Isn't it cute!?  And I love the CAS style to it.  So, here is my lift (or CASE):

I think you can see what inspired me: the layout and those super cute banners.  So come play along, it's lots of fun. : )

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Digi Stamps "Yummy Cupcakes"

Dies: Verve "Pennant Trim" die