Got my turkey in the oven this morning and decided to sit down and get another

card done.  I really like the current sketch at The Deconstructed Sketch and thought 

it would work well for a new stamp and die set I have.

This is the sketch...

and what I came up with.

So, I think it came out okay.  The stamp and die set is the Tim Holtz Alterations

collection called "Retro Christmas".  The papers I used are from My Mind's Eye

called "Lost & Found Christmas.  Thanks for taking a look and have a great

Thanksgiving!

I've been so busy making Christmas cards recently that I decided I needed a change of pace

and would do a birthday card when I saw the Freshly Made Sketches challenge for this
week. I will also enter this card in the Dynamic Duos "Triple Threat Challenge" and the
Seize the Birthday challenge as well.

I wanted to get one more card done today that I think will work for a couple of

challenges.  I used the sketch from retrosketches and the color combo from

Dynamic Duos, which is actually using 3 colors this week instead of the normal 2.
I think this will work for the Just Us Girls challenge as well.

using this sketch...

 this color combo...


and this photo as inspiration.

Oh the ladies at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown are really challenging me.  I am

learning so many new techniques playing along with them.  The technique challenge

for November is acrylic block background.  So, once again this is my first attempt at

something!  

Here's my card.

How appropriate that when I took my card outside to photograph it was starting to snow! I

didn't even know it was supposed to do that today.  Anyway, I inked my acrylic block with

pearlescent sky blue ink, spritzed it with water and stamped on a heavyweight card stock.

I used the Lacy Labels Cricut Lite cartridge for the die cutting and added the large snowflake

brad to the center of the label.  I stamped the greeting with the same ink I used for the

background, cut it into a banner and adhered to another piece of the background paper and

added a little more bling to the 4 small snowflakes.  Thanks for taking a look! 

I was able to get to get yet another Christmas card made with inspiration from 2

challenges.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday and the theme from CAS-ual Fridays
which is to create with 8.

I made a card using the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches to share.

Yay! I'm so happy to be on vacation now until December 2nd.  That means I get

to spend extra time crafting.  I can't ever seem to get enough.  Although, I'm sure

my husband would beg to differ!  Anyway, we've got snow on the ground here 

in Colorado and it's about 20 degrees so when I saw the current sketch at retrosketches
I thought a cute little snowman would be a good choice for this project.

Here's the sketch...

and my card.

I pulled out my Cricut Snow Friends cartridge to create the snowman or should I say

snow person?  Embossed the white panel with a Paper Studio embossing folder and

border punched the pink vellum with a Fiskars punch.  Stamped and heat embossed the

 greeting, although I'm not really happy with the way it turned out.  And there you

have it. 'Tis the Season!  Thanks for taking a look.

I had some cute little gingerbread papier tole pieces that were just screaming out

to be put on a card, so when I saw the color challenge at Just Us Girls I knew they

would be perfect.  And I thought the sketch at Mojo Monday would work as well.

and what I ended up with.

Managed to get one more card done today.  This one is for 3 challenges.  I used the

sketch from Seize the Sketch, the colors from the Dynamic Duos challenge and

the cue from CASology. I'll also enter this one in the CAS-ual Fridays challenge.

Here is the card I came up with...

using this sketch...


this color combo...

I've been thinking and thinking since I saw this week's sketch over at

Freshly Made Sketches of what I could do with it and finally came up with

something.  I'm also going to enter the Seize the Birthday challenge, since I
made a birthday card and there is a "toppings" option of texture.

and my take on it.

I needed to make a birthday card for a co-worker and I seem to have at theme going

when it comes to making this co-worker's card every year.  It's red and black.  She

simply loves red and I like using black with red. I embossed the white panel with a
Cuttlebug folder and used a favorite Fiskars border punch for the 3 strips, which

broke just before I finished all my punching but managed to get it done anyway. I hate
when that happens, but I guess I've gotten my money's worth, as much as I've used it.
I added the paper roses, some red jewels and a greeting. Now I think I'm gonna have to go
out and see if I can find another border punch I like as well as this one. Thanks for taking a look!

Ok, so I'm not one that really makes one layer cards but the theme/recipe challenge
 over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown this week is to do so with only a hint of
 color, ribbon or bling.  I had to give it a try and this is what I came up with. I'm
thinking I'll enter this card in the CAS-ual Fridays challenge as well.

I've got a card for the Freshly Made Sketches #111 challenge.

Here's what I did...

with this sketch for inspiration.

I only wish my picture of the card was brighter.  I took it outside and the sun had already

started to go down.  The pictures I took inside weren't any better.  Oh well.  I embossed the

white panel with one of my Sizzix texturz plates and die cut the snowflake with

Spellbinders Create -a -Flake Four dies and layered with foam tape. I added some bling

throughout.  Thanks for taking a look!

Just a quick post with the card I created for the challenge over at Mojo Monday.  I really
like this sketch and struggled to come up with something I thought would be worthy of
entering.

I actually got a second card made today in spite of the fact that I think I may have
carpal tunnel syndrome and it's not easy to work with a brace on my hand. I  saw the
color combo over at Dynamic Duos and found a sketch I wanted to try at
The Deconstructed Sketch. So I decided to combine the two challenges.

Got started a little late with my crafting for the weekend.  I had to go in to work
 for a little while this morning to do an interview for a position I need to fill.  So, now
with that done I was able to get down to business creating a card for the color challenge
at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.

I'm managing to get one last post in this weekend.  I wanted to get a birthday card

made for a co-worker whose favorite color is green.  So I saw the sketch for this

week over at The Deconstructed Sketch and thought I'd use it for this project.

This is the sketch...

and my interpretation.

This morning I was checking out some challenge blogs I've never participated with

before and decided to try my hand at a few.  I actually was able to create a card that

I think fulfills the requirements for 4 challenges.

Here is the card I made.

So, I first saw the challenge at CASology where the cue word is black and the

challenge at Cas-ual Fridays where the theme is embossing, either dry or heat.
Now I've never considered any of my designs to be clean and simple, but I'm
finding that the more I do along those lines the more I like it.  Hope this card qualifies
as clean and simple for those 2 challenges.  I saw the sketch at Seize the Sketch...

and decided that would be the one to use.  I also thought, that since this is a birthday
card that I would enter it in the Seize the Birthday challenge as well, as anything goes
for that one.

The Dynamic Duos color challenge this week has a bold and cheery theme.  So in

continuing my quest to get a whole bunch of Christmas cards done that's what I

did.  Another Christmas card.

Here's the color combination...

and my card.

Oh, just realized my little penguin has a big ole shadow.  One day, maybe, I'll get

a little better at photography.  Anyway, I did some stamping, heat embossing, dry

embossing, punching and die cutting to create this fun little card.

Thanks for taking a look! 

The challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown this week is a sketch challenge.

This is one of my favorite challenges to take part in.  It really helps to have such

motivation to get those holiday cards done.

I just have a quick post this morning to share a card I made to enter in the challenge over

at Freshly Made Sketches.  I've done another Christmas card as I think I need about 25

more.  We'll see if I get that accomplished!

Here 's the sketch...

and my version.

I used classic Christmas colors this time, red and green.  I embossed the main white card
stock panel with a Sizzix Texturz plate and the white squares with a Paper Studio
embossing folder.  I stamped the tree and heat embossed it with rainbow sparkle
embossing powder, although it's hard to tell in the picture.  The tree was fussy cut and
popped with foam tape. Thanks for taking a look!