CAS on Sunday #25

Here is my CAS card for the CAS on Sunday challenge this week to do a love card.
I embossed the white cardstock base then added a puffy heart sticker and ribbon to it. Pretty clean and simple yet the embossing and puffy heart added a little dimension to it. I love making Valentines and hope to spend the week making and designing many more.

Doodle Dishes

Zentangling on plates

MOJO 253 and PP177

This card is for the MOJO #253 challenge for Verve and the Paper Players challenge #177. I am counting it as my #9 card for my committment to the 100 cards in 100 days challenge as well. The Paper Players challenge was to use the chalkboard technique. I used a Verve stamp, and scraps of cardstock and design papers from my scrap pile.

ODBDSLC184

Finally getting back into doing some of my favorite challenges. I had too many personal little projects going getting ready for Christmas that I had to let some of them go by the wayside until Christmas was over. Setting into the new year now trying to accomplish some of my stamping resolutions that I have in place to reduce the paper piles in my stamp room. Also I hope to use up some of the stash piles, to make use of some older stamps I haven't used in a while, and to make use of at least one tool and punch on every card I make. I have all this stuff, and I need to be able to justify all the money I have spent. I use to rationalize by saying just think of the hundreds of things I can do with this stamp, this punch, or this tool, and too often I may have used them only about a half dozen times!!!

This card is for the ODBDSL challenge 184 which you can find here.

CCEE1401

I guess hearing that Charlene Merrick lost her physical battle to cancer today led me to want to do the CCEE challenge this week. Charlene, although I never got to meet her in person, crossed my path back in my earlier days on Splitcoaststampers and became an instant cyber friend. I loved coming to do the challenge over at CCEE because of the friendly design team they had. I also loved Charlene's work she did for Rubbernecker stamps. She will be missed greatly.

The challenge was to use bears, something old, and something new on the card. The bear stamp is my old thing as is some of the old scraps of design paper I used on this. The new thing is the sentiment stamp which I received yesterday as my prize from the Hope You Can Cling To challenges back in October over on SCS. Ironic, that this challenge was for making cards for those who are suffering with cancer and how fitting to use this for this card I have done because of the sweet memories I will always have of Charlene. I never got to meet her in this life, but I know I will find her at the great Reunion when I too "go home." Hugs to the design team over at CCEE. Find comfort in knowing many of us feel the same loss you do.

MOJO 326

I have made a stamping resolution for myself this year. I am going to participate in the 100 cards in 100 days challenge over on Splitcoaststampers. I am using these as my goals: the cards included in this group will be made from supplies  in my paper stashes, especially my scrap piles that I have so spent the evening sorting into some sort of organized system.  I will use design paper scraps that were left from previous cards, and I will use some of my older stamps. I do like to use my Verve stamps on the Mojo challenge, so this is one of my oldest in my Verve collection.