2 Challenges, 1 Card

I combined the Papertake Challenge and the new challenge blog ABC Challenge.
At Papertake it is a two-fold challenge. First you are to make a Thank you card and for an optional extra is to use coffee and cream colors.
And the ABC blog is "A for Animal". Use an animal in your creation.


So I dug thru my brown/tan cardstock and found a dark "coffee" and a "cream" cardstock. It seemed to blah so used a brown/cream/red design paper for a layer. I also added a creamy, glittery flowers with red brads. And to fulfill the animal part I used a few PB hedgies.




I have been busy posting the last few days and appreciate everyone who drops by and leaves me a comment. I try to return all comments so I can check out all the fab blogs out there!

Papertake Weekly Challenge Sketch

At Papertake Weekly Challenge blog is another great Katharina sketch. I love her sketches. They really challenge me to think outside my comfort zone.

Below is my card. I think it needs something more but not sure what that would be!

Stamps are Stampin Up- Lovely Buckles.

Thanks for visiting.

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Luscious Lime & Lilac

At Papertake Weekly Challenge this week is to use Luscious Lime and Lilac! Or any shade of green and purple.

Thanks for looking!

Papertake Challenge-Accordian Card

This week at Papertake Challenge is a tutorial for an Accordian card. Great tutorial and it is a unusual card style(for me atleast). But it was kinda fun to make!

Since the panels are kinda skinny I had to pick a narrow stamp. I happen to have "Cool Cat" from Stampin Up on my table. I had bought them from Jennifer-Glitter in My Hair and hadn't used them yet so I grabbed them! I didn't want to do the usual black cat so I did a blue cat. The ink I used is called Moonstruck from Close to my Heart. I dotted her collar with silver stickles glitter glue. Attached a ribbon with brads to keep the card closed.

I didn't really want to do cardstock on each of the panels so I just used a similar flower stamp and stamped it with the flowers all thru the middle. I didn't do anything else to them...I am thinking about coloring them in with the same colors as the design paper. Not sure and didn't want to mess it up. What do you think..color or no color?!

Materials Used: Stamps-Stampin Up, Studio G. Ink-Close to my Heart. Cardstock-DCWV.

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Elegant Embossing

The Papertake Weekly Challenge this week was to do some Elegant Embossing(wet or dry). Now I haven't done ANY embossing in years. So I had to go and dust off the embossing stuff and see if I still could do it!

And those of you that are not a fan of pink you might want to divert your eyes...it is going to get "pink" in here!

I dry embossed the dress in lite pink. I wasn't sure if I should color the dress in but I wanted it to look light and airy so I decided against the coloring. And I went against the norm and chose grey as my other color. I also have a fine lite pink print with hearts on it.

I added some ribbon-pink of course! and a pretty flower with brad.



Materials Used: Dress Stamp-The Rubbernecker Stamp Co, Sentiment-Studio G. Ribbon-Bobbin Ribbon. Cardstock-Misc(not really sure. .sorry)

Papertake Weekly Challenge-Katharina Sketch #2

This week on Papertake Weekly Challenge was to use a sketch from Katharina. I just love the layers!

I used mostly scrap papers. And an image I got from a PIF. The sentiment "Dream" is from Studio G. I added some Shimmerz Glitter Paint to the stars on the image.

I colored the image with colored pencil and added some star embellishments.

Beate's Weekend Sketch #43 and Papertake Weekly Challenge

I know I am too late for the Beate challenge but I really liked the sketch she used! So I used her sketch and applied it to the Papertake Weekly challenge which was to use GLITTER.

Glitter is new medium for me. I don't know what everyone else uses but I found some glitter paint I really liked. Its called Shimmerz. And I decided that the cupcake frosting was the perfect place for me to start!





Material:DCWV cardstock, Stamps:Stampabilities-Sentiment, Inkadinkado-cupcakes, Glitter:Shimmerz Glitter Paint-Turquoise, Embellishments:Jewel brads

Papertake Weekly Challenge-Making Waves

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is to use "Waves".

This weeks challenge is nice and easy! 'Making Waves' - the challenge is to use scallops or zig-zags (or both if your really keen lol!) on your project!

I just bought a new toy! And it happened to be a scalloped square punch! Perfect for this challenge. I also had stamped some images from a crop I was at this past weekend. The stamp set was from SU-(dont remember the name, it was the one that has the VW bug and groovy 60's stamps). I used the same sketch from the challenge over at Talored Expressions-Cupcake Challenge. Check out her site it has some great ideas.

Thanks for looking!

Papertake Weekly Sketch Challenge

This week is a great sketch from Katharina.

Its a great sketch. The ones with different layering is always a challenge for me.

My card ended up landscape instead of portrait. For some reason I didnt like it the other way. Hope it still works for the challenge!

Thanks for looking!

Papertake Challenge - Squares!

The Papertake challenge this week was to use Squares in your design. So I used my square punch and punched out a bunch of squares and arranged them around the boarder of the card. Then used square adhesive dots as embellishments on the happy birthday stamp. Kinda simple but kinda cute...IMHO...lol!

Cardstock was a 12x12 sheet from Stacy Claire Boyd Design from EK Success called Mango Tango.

It was double sided so used the flip side for the pink center. Used Pink Passion SU ink.

Square dots are from Colorbok.