PSC22: Christmas Trimmings

PERFECT SENTIMENTS CHALLENGE

CHRISTMAS TRIMMINGS.

This weeks challenge is to make a Christmas card. My first thought was, it's MARCH! But I actually had a great time making this card. It gave me lots of thoughts about making a few of these each month so I would be ready when Christmas really does come around. So here is what I came up with.

I used a standard 4A card in red. Then I cut a piece of white and ran it through my Snowflake embossing pouch. I love this pouch. Then to cut the edges I use4d one of my lacy Fiskars edge cutters. I found this small strip of braided lace ribbon and placed it along the edge.

I used my santa stamp, colour him in and put him in the bottom corner with 5 dot stickers to give him some lift off of the page.

I cut out the sentiment with my circle cutter and placed in on top of a red lace doily. I made my ribbon out of two colors. I placed a 1/4" red over top of a 1/2" white. I like the layered look to this.

For the inside I used the same Fiskers edge cutter and cut both sides of the strip to really give it a lacy look. I like to finish the inside in some way.

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Made Especially For You.... St. Patrick's Day card featuring twine

It's Monday and time for another Made Especially For You Challenge. This weeks challenge is

to make a card featuring St. Patricks Day. This was a fun one for me and I was able to use ALL scrap

papers from my stash. Didn't cut one new piece of paper at all.. I love these type of challenges. So, here is my take on this weeks challenge.

I have this great box of small pieces of papers from other projects that I have done that I keep close at hand just for projects like this. I used a light green for the upper part of my card that I ran through one of my embossing folders to add texture. Then I found this really cute St. Patricts  paper with the strip that says "Leprechauns" running acros the top of the striped bottom paper.

You can see that alittle better here. Then I found these cute Pots of Gold on  another scrap piece and fussy cut them out and put them on the striped paper. They make a nice touch.

I cut a Doily with my Sizzix cutter and make the Four Leaf Clover really pop. Along the side I place a piece of ribbon and ran three strands of Green and White twine done the edge.

I kept the inside simple by just adding a simple Green journaling paper and another fussy cut pot of gold.

Just another look at my Lucky card.

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Feelin' Lucky Challenge #2

This week's card is for  http://www.kraftygirls.com/2012/02/feelin-lucky-challenge-2.htmlrom and http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/search/label/challenges. I make a card using stitching with a St. Patricks day theme. This one was so much fun to do. I'll let you be the judge.

I love the two color theme on this card. So to begin with I cute a 3" square out of the top of the inner white card, ran it through my Sizzix and the small dots embossing folder. Then I cut 1/4" strips of my green to make the lattis work over the cut out. Then I replaced the square cut out over that on the back to make it really stand out. The back ground was sewn on  using a machine blanket stitch.

You get a better look at the lattis work here. I really like this look.You also get a good look at the stitching. I cut the flower from two different dies, ran it through my small dots embossing folder and put a pearl in the center.

I ran a piece of scrappy ribbon across the bottom and placed the St. Patricks Day sentiment that our sponsor donated over the top at an angle. I think the card has a real classic look to it.

For the  inside I used my Creative Memories stitch cutter to finish off the bottom and ran a 1/2 strip of white through it to give it that stitched look. The journaling box is just a white square. Must say, I love this card.

UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES #147

This weeks challenge over at UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES is from this sketch.



This is my take on that sketch.

Here is the challenge sketch.

I really like this sketch. I sewed that green back ground on using a blanket stitch with my sewing machine. Then I took dark green and framed in the white square and retangle after running it through my dots embossing folder by Sizzix.

For the flower I cut out the stem and leaves from my smaller leaf maker and to make the flowers I used Tim Holtzs rosette maker. I just love, love, love that tool. I topped off the flower with a green button and green embroidery thread.

I placed the smaller rosette on the bottom just above my Sentiment.

For the inside I framed a piece of white journaling paper with the same plaid paper from the front and then cut a fancy floral corner piece to add interest. I love this card. Here's one last look at my finished card. Hope you enjoy it.

PSC20: Get Well Sketch

It's time for another Perfect Sentiments Challenge. This week challenge is a Get Well card using a sketch. I will show you the sketch in must a minute, but first for my card.

And now for the Challege Sketch.

This is how I used the sketch to make my card.

For the center circle I used the large Floral Doily Motif cutter by Spellbinders. I then ran it through my BigKicks in the small dots folder by Sizzix.. For the sentiment I used my "Cricut Phrases Cartridge to cut out the Get Well Soon sentiment and layered it on top of the Doily.

In the corner I made a yellow polka dot bow to add more of  a spring touch.

For the bottom lace look, I cut 4 corner pieces from the same Floral Doily Motif, the glued two of them together and placed them ontop of the polka dot ribbon that I used for the bow. Very elegant look for this card.

For the inside, (which is upside down and I don't know why, but my computer WILL NOT KEEP IT UP RIGHT) anyway, I placed the same yellow ribbon and cut two of the corner pieces out of yellow, this time to match the front. I think this card SHOUTS OUT Get Well.



Made Especially For You's weekly card challenge!

This weeks challenge was to use only Three Papers. This is what I did.

I had this great travel paper that I had wanted to use and I thought this challenge would be perfect for it, It has dimention, different textures and had that wonderful rose, lavendar color tone that I was looking for. It also looks like many papers put together.

This flower, although you can't really see it has a very light lavender color to it and it's all paper.  I had found it in the bottom of my tub where I keep all my flowers. It was just perfect.

The darker lavender paper that I used for the side and the sentiment was just in my paper scraps. Just love using up little pieces of scraps that are really not of much use for anything else. It looked alittle bare so I added some self sticking pearls to give it that elegant feel. I hope that this card gives you inspiration for you own card.

The Play Date Cafe Challenge:PDCC119

My card today is for the Play Date Cafe Challenge: PDCC119. Their challenge this week was

Color Splash. The challenge was to make a Black and White card with a Slash of hot pink. I chose to make a Pink and Black card using the White in the Pink Sorbet Twinery thread. Here is my card.

My scallop is cut out from my Cricket card  Accent Essentials pattern #31. For the half circle I used my Creative Memories circle cutter. I removed a portion of the scallop and circle to give it this dementional layering. For the smaller circles I used my Creative memories circle cutter. I ran the Pink Sorbet thread around the card three times, placing it about a 1/4" apart.

The flower was cute from my Sizzix. I layered it with pink and black, with a black button threaded with the Pink Sorbet thread.

I had a stash of these great metal sentiments and thought that the Loving one said it all about

this card.

To finish the inside off, I placed a smaller #31 cut out with three strands of the Pink Sorbet thread tied in a knot.

One more look at my finished card. Now for the inspiration card.