January Penny Black challenge

January Blues is the theme for this month's challenge over at Penny Black's challenge blog. I used this flower stamp from Peny Black and put it together with some light blue cardstock and a soft blue and green plaid design paper.

WAW63

This is the scripture featured this week at Wordart Wednesday. Valentines are my favorite cards to make and seeking from God the help of creating a clean heart and a renewed spirit is wonderful little prayer for everyday. It is my resolution this year to abide in the Lord. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background, nestabilities to diecut the hearts, and diecuts for the flower (I am still trying to attempt to make those successfully). The leaf punch is from Martha Stewart.

Less is More 101 and C4C 167

The Less is More challenge was to use black and white and a splash of color. The stamps are from Flourishes, Stampin' Up, and Verve. The rose was stamped on red and white gingham paper and then the shadows were shaded with a red copic marker. I also am working to keep a new year's resolution to use up scraps from my scrap pile. That is the same resolution for my stamproom that I had last year, and I did a good job, it's only that I have 5 years of scraps to use up!!LOL I also am using this card for the C4C challenge #167 to use ribbon and bows.

JUGS 170 and F4A150

I used this sketch from the JUGS challenge this week:

I also used this card for the Free for All challenge on Splitcoaststampers. I used stamps from Stampin' Up, and a Martha Stewart snowflake punch. Added a few rhinestones, and had a great thank you card for my Christmas thank you notes that I need to get done this week.

FTTC202

 The challenge I choice to repeat is one that I didn't have time to do the week it was going: THINK PINK
#189. I used this lace stamp from Flourishes to stamp in ladybug red ink and Flourishes beautiful rose stamp that I colored with copic markers. The design paper is from Basic Grey. FTTC is one of my favorite of my weekly challenges and this year I plan to take part in more of them. I just love all of my Flourish stamps, especially my floral one designed by Marcella Hawley.

CBC160

Got out an old stamp set for this one and some stashed  rhinestones. Stamped in 4 different shades of blue ink: Baja Breeze, taken with teal, pacific point, and not quite navy. I punched some MS large and small snowflakes from scraps and designed paper. A quick and easy thank you card, so I made a few more to take care of some Christmas thank yous. The snowflake stamps are from Stampin' Up as is the sentiment.

CTD223

One of my new year's resolutions is to take part in more challenges this year. Last year I did not get to take part in as many, but hopefully this year I can. This one today is for this week's Color Throw Down challenge #223. I love the work of that Design team over there, and they always put such inspiring samples up for the week. This week's colors are soft suede, kiwi kiss, cake crumb, and ivory. I embossed my soft suede and then rubbed my ivory ink pad over it. I used soft suede ink and kiwi kiss. The stamps I used are from Verve. This is a window card with the images on the circle inside the card. I have a few get well cards to get sent this week, so making this one of them. Happy 2013 to all of my blog followers. I am always so excited about your visits to my blog.