ME4Y Gatefold Card

Welcome to another ME4Y challenge card. This week

we are making Gatefolded cards. I had never made one of

these before but I will again. I love them. 

For this card I used a 5 1/2 X 7 1/2. The standard A2 card

just wasn't big enough to use my Butterfly. The card stock

 I used was from my Citris collection with the matching striped

paper. I added some black swirly bling for that touch of POP.

As you can see, I cut my gate 4 1/2 X 4 1/2 from the same

Citris bundle in Blue then turned a coordinating striped blue

sideways. Layered that with a paper doily. My butterfly

is from Sizzix Butterfly die. After cutting it I ran it through

my Dotted Swiss embossing folder.

 I used silk flower for the center of the Butterfly 

and place a bow to hid the stem.

The sentiment was cut with a Martha Stewart flower

punch, centered with a scalloped edged circle with

"sending Smiles" as the sentiment.

I like to add a little something on the inside of my card

to bring it all together. In this case it's more bling.

Final look of my card for this challenge.

As always I hope you will join us for this weeks Gatefolded card challenge.

I'll be looking for you :)

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ME4Y 3 Balloon challenge

I love making fun challenges like this. I dug out 3 of my

Cricut Carts and away I went. Here is what I came up with.

For my background I dug this our of my scrap basket. Love that thing.

The side was made using my Martha Stewart Punch around the page.

I saw here use this on HSN yesterday and didn't know that you could make 

border strips with it. Learn something again.. The Bike was made using my

Stretch Your Imagination cart and my Celebrations cart for the balloons and

sentiment. I added pearls to the balloons and some trendy twine for the strings.

I truly don't use my Cricut enough. 

Hope you will join us on this fabulous challenge at

Made Especially For You.

Happy Craftin 

ME4Y Sktech challenge

This is our sketch week. I really enjoy doing these types of challenges and

our Sponsor this week for DIGI's is Bugaboo. Love their images. So for 

my sketch this week, I chose a fall them. September is the time when our leaves

begin to fall so here is my card.

I love this little gal popping out of the leaf bag. I used all scrap papers for

this one. My scrap bag of paper is slowly going down.  The scallop behind my photo

is a Sizzix die and I used two leaf brads to hold my sentiment on. 

I hope you will join us this week for another sketch challenge. We love

seeing your take on our sketches. 

Anything Goes Disney Challenge.

This week we could make anything as long as it was connected to Disney.

Loved doing this project and had the perfect paper to do it with. When our

youngest was 3 we took a trip to Disneyland (mistake with a 3 year old)

no matter, I had bought a packet back in the day of Disney papers and embellishments.

Well, once I was through digging through ALL my pattern papers 

I FOUNT IT. The background paper.

I found the Clown Fish on a free web site and colored them with my

Copics, cut them out and placed lift pads under the larger Clown fish for a little pop.. 

The star fish,  Nemo sign and bubbles, I found in the

Disney section at Joann's. We are also using stamps from Verve Stamps

which are wonderful. I decided to use this one on my card.

I thought it was the appropreiate saying. We all

know how hard Nemo's dad hunted for his son.

To me that makes him a hero.

 I really think that this looks so real.

This one was a fun one for me. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget

to check out the rest of the DT from Made Especially For you.

Have fun with this one.