CCEE1245

Life has settled down a little bit for me, and I am getting back to some of my favorite challenges to do. This is for the CCEE1245 challenge this week to use partial embossing on a card. I really need to start hitting my Christmas card making pretty hard, so here's one I can add to my collection. There was so stamping involved on this one, just embossing and my poinsettia diecut from Spellbinders. I sponged pink ink on the petals and bamboo  and some green ink on the leaves. I also added a strip of ribbon. I wanted to see how glossy white paper would do in the cuttlebug, and it did great. For the center of the poinsettia I added gold half beads.

ODBDSLC139

Winter white was the theme of the challenge. I pulled out the first stamp I ever purchased from ODBD. I used versamark ink and gold embossing powder to emboss it onto this oval. I dry embossed the cardbase cardstock. Cut out one of my diecuts 4 times to add behind the oval. Added flowers and leaves and pearls.

Customer Card Carnival

This is for the Customer Card Carnival going on over at Verve for their big anniversary celebration.
This cross and cross diecut and the sentiment are from Verve. This is a sympathy card for a friend who lost her mother in law last week. The little rose embellishments are from Reflections and the other diecuts are from Spellbinderand the design paper is Basic Grey.

MOJO Monday 243

I used the sketch for the MOJO Monday challenge today for my card. Most of the stamps are from Verve. The sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up. I embossed the base cardstock and then added the gingham and plaid panels. I paper pieced the elephant with the gingham. I always have a good time making baby cards. There is just a sweetness about them. I should see about getting some more Verve stamps. I love doing the MOJO challenges, and I like using the stamps from the companies that sponsor the challenge.

Sensational Saturday #13

The Sensational Saturday sketch challenge was to use vintage fashions and shabby chic. I love this blog site:
Freevintagedigistamps@blogspot.com
They have such wonderful vintage images and seemed perfect for this challenge. I added some diecut  pieces up the side, added buttons and taffeta ribbon. My perfect little bow is a result of my fabulous Becca's Bowmaker which is  a great tool for any stamproom. I colored the image with copic markers.

FTTC170

Beate asked us to use flowers for the Flourishes Tuesday Technique Challenge this week.  My  floral stamps from Flourishes are my favorite of floral stamps. I have the wisteria, the poppies, the tulips, the rose, the violets, the sunflowers, the daisies, the sweetpeas, and a few others. I still have a wish list of the magnolias and the orchids. Marcella Hawley is just one of the masters at floral images and I'd love to own them all some day. Since my roses are the prettiest flowers I have growing now in my yard, I pulled out this rose that I have not used in quite some time. I love orange, so I did this like a tropicana rose.

Masculine Valentine

I just love doing all those frilly, lacy Valentines with flowers and gems, but I have to admit making a masculine one is a real challenge for me. But I needed a few so here is what I came up with for the Basic Grey Challenge #61. I used  Basic Grey papers from my Oxford pad, which is full of fabulous papers so fitting for some classic men cards. I loved this diagonal plaid and always think those large grommets have a manly look too. I used 3 papers from that BG pad. I diecut the hearts with my spellbinder hearts, and made the zigzag border with a Martha Stewart punch. I tried using black ink first on the hearts, but it is not so easily seen, so I added the white inked "I love you!"