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.

ME4Y Three Pearl Challenge

This week challenge is to make a card using 

3 pearls.

Had allot of fun with this one. To start with I most all the time

use the 5 1/4 X 7 1/4" cards. I think you can do so much more with

this size. So today, I used a dark pink back ground that I ran

through my dotted swiss embossing folder for texture.

Then my border around the picture I did a new technique that I

just learned off of YouTube. I have to say that I Love this.

Here is a close up.

This is called Embossed Stamping and it is the coolest thing.

You ink up the positive side of your embossing folder and

run it through you Bigkicks and it transfer the ink to the

card as it is embossing. I really mean this is the coolest

thing I have learned in awhile.

My Digi is from Bugaboo. I colored it with my Copic Markers,

cut out some swirls and  finished it off with a Martha Stewart

butterfly.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is 

3GJ Challenge #1 ~ Butterflies and Bows

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I am very excited to be entering into this challenge. So
here is my card.

I love this challenge and I love butterflies. For this  card I  have

used a 5 1/2" x 6 1/2" card. I opened it out and then scored each side mid

way and folded the scored sides in. I used a piece of my Citris Stack

DCWM paper for the front. Then I cute a Solid blue 4 x 4 square for the 

center and again used a piece of my Citris paper. I placed a  round

doily on top and cute my Large Sizzix Butterfly out of a scrap piece

paper from my stash,

As you can see this is a gate fold card. I have never

made this type of a card, but I must say,I love this style. 

For the center of my

butterfly I place a white silk flower topped with a white

bow. I used a little black bling swirl to add more texture to

this card. For my sentiment I used my Martha Stewart flower

punch and my Creative memories circle punch and layered 

the two.I used my sending smiles stamp to finish it off.

I took this side view to give you alittle better look at 

the layers of this card. and now for the inside.

I like to add a little something to the inside. I think

it ties it all together. Here's one more look at my

finished card.

ME4Y Sketch Challenge

I love sketch week. Really gets the creative juices flowing

First of all I will show you the card that I made for the

sketch challenge.

For the black scallops I used my Cricut cart "Elegant 

Edges" to cut a 4 1/2" circle. I have had this cart for sometime

now and hadn't used it until now. I LOVE it. Then I used my

Creative Memories circle cutter to cut a 4" inner circle, then ran

it through my large circle embossing folding..

The flowers I cut out of my original digi. Then I took

my friends Scribbles Swirls die cutter to add a fun

 touch to my card. And to finish it up, I used my

Spellbinders Nested Lacey Pennants to make my 

Get Well sign.

Now for the Sketch

I hope you will join us over at ME4Y this week for our sketch challenge.

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