Be Thankful

I am back this morning to share a "thank you" card using one of my favorite stamps (Hydrangea Justrite) & my favorite flower too!  

Here is a pic of the gorgeous flower from my own garden - 

Here is how the pic inspired me!

I embossed the cardstock with a frame die from Avery Elle & splattered run down gesso in the background. Added the fussy cut bloom over the panel & finished off the card with a die cut sentiment & some clear drops. Colored the image with Chameleon pens.

Sharing this at - 

Stamplorations - Giving-thanks-blog-hop - 30.11

The Flower Challenge#2 - 25.11

CAS-ual Fridays#161 - 29.11

Crafty Friends Challenge#45 - 2.12 - TOP 3

Pile it On Challenge#121 - 26.11 - TOP 3

Colour Crazy Challenge#26 - 

DLart - November-linky - 30.11

Happy Little Stampers - 29.11

Die-cut-divas - 30.11

Freshly Made Sketches#264 - 30.11

The Paper Shelter#274  (flowers, sentiment, clear drops - gems) - 1.12

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Best Wishes!

Hello Crafty peeps!

I missed making cards & here's a quick post sharing one I made just like that! A simple one in which the focal image is a large gold heat embossed butterfly colored with pencils!

Sharing this at - 

Addicted to Stamps#214 - 11.10

Fantasy Stampers#73 - 21.10

Pile it on Challenge#118 - 16.10

Cardmania Challenges#85 - 29.10

Thats Crafty Challenges - 13.10

Sparkle n Sprinkle Creative Challenges - 25.10 - WINNER

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Craft Your Passion#268

Good morning & welcome to another short post from me!

We have Craft Your Passion#268 live, you can find all the details here. 

Sharing the card I made using the image sponsored by 

http://adayfordaisies.com/stamps/

Colored the image with Faber Castell color pencils, fussy cut it & mounted on Simon Says Stamp stitched circle die cut. This was the placed on a stencilled (Prima wood grain & Deco Art sand texture paste) kraft panel.

This card plays along at the following challenges - 

Simply Papercraft#7 - 2.7

Crafts Galore Encore - 30.6

Paper Creators Crafts#39 - 30.6

Pennys Paper Craft#233 - 30.6

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Craft Your Passion#260

Hello & welcome here again!

There's a new challenge on Craft your Passion Challenge blog and our theme is 'Anything Goes'.  For all the details about the challenge, hop over to the challenge blog.

Our sponsor this week is:

http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop/

I selected the digi - butterfly scent (colored with Chameleon pens) to make my card.

Sharing this at - 

Cute Card Thursday#371 - 6.5

Crafty Chicks Challenge#244 - 5.5

Brown Sugar Challenge#144 - 6.5

Sister Act Card  Challenge#104 - 6.5

Creative fingers Challenge#78 - 8.5

Catch the bug - 8.5

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge#135 - 8.5

That's Crafty - 7.5

Artistic Inspirations - 8.5

Memas Crafts - 31.5

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Craft Your Passion#258

Hello Friends!

There's a new challenge on Craft your Passion Challenge blog and our theme is 'Anything Goes'.  For all the details about the challenge, hop over to the challenge blog.

Our sponsor this week is:

The card I made is very similar to the one I posted here.

The stenciled background was done with embossing paste. 

Once the paste dried I used Wink of Stella to add shimmer to the texture & also on the stamped & fussy cut image.

Sharing this at - 

Crafting from the Heart#56 - 26.4

Love to Scrap#52 - 3.5

Stamp and Create - 3.5

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Creative Colors Challenge # 29

Welcome to Creative Colors Challenge#29. For this challenge we have a pastel color palette which I sure you all will love! we challenge you to use design patterns from the inspirational picture along with Pastel Blue * Pastel * Yellow * Pastel Pink 

The DT has been generously provided with digi by the sponsors  drsdesigns.com. 

Hop over to the challenge blog for some more inspiration by the DT

I have used polka dot trio colored using Cretacolors..............used liquid pearls to doodle around to make swirls around the digi (placed on the die cut with foam dots to pop it up)

Playing this at -

Through the Purple Haze#76 - 7.2 

Get Creative#7 - 8.2 - ribbon, pink, pearls, digi stamp (& blue), flowers

Addicted to stamps#97  - 14.2

Glitter n Sparkle#122 - 6.2

Scribble & Scrap - 7.2
Party Time Tuesdays  - 28.2

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Craft Your Passion#241

Hi everyone!  I'm back with my weekly DT project for Craft Your Passion.  

This challenge theme is "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

For my card I have used this beautiful winter landscape digi by the sponsors "Delicious Doodles" used Faber Castell color pencils to subtly highlight the Christmas trees, the robin & the houses. The snowy scene suddenly came to life, perfect just as I wanted!!!

My card base is red over which I have overlaid vellum which had a green Christmas print. I like the red popping in the green background. Matted the digi over the same red card stock & popped it with foam tape on the vellum base. A red shimmery bow added to the festive feel!

Also added shimmer to all the trees with my favorite Wink of Stella & some distress stickles to the baubles to finish my card. The star

Playing this at the following challenges -

Crafty calendar (5/12)

We do doobadoo#19

Less is more#199

Doodle pantry#52 (24/11)

Crafty hazelnut spatterned paper 

Bearlymine challenges

Picture and scrap#86

Animal friends challenge

Brown sugar challeng#121

Crafty catz weekly challenge#256

Simply create too#75

The east wind#19

Christmas card challenge#52 

Sir stamp a lot challenge

 Bunny zoes crafts

Addicted to stamps#92

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Creative Colors Challenge#3

Hello!!!

Its Tuesday & time for another challenge at Creative Colors & awesome Archana has selected this beautiful color palette for this round. Do hop over to the challenge blog here to see the beauties created by my team & read the rules to participate.

Now let me show you my center step card / funky fold card using these colors.

Here's another view............

These are the challenges I am entering - 

Sister Act #42

Crafty Girls#10

Challenges & Candies#26

Crafty Catz#216

In the Pink#36

IIC#144

The Shabby Tea Room#204

Crafty Desert Divas#24

Crafting from the Heart#6

QKR Stampede#73

4Crafty Chicks#179

Miriams Crafty Blog

Squigglefly#5

Eureka Stamps#75 (Top 5)

Crafty Boots - Bingo (diagonal - pink, stamp, die cuts)

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Creative Colors Challenge #1

Its time for the first challenge by Creative Colors hosted by adorable Archana. This is a new bimonthly cards only challenge & am sure you will love it. Please visit the challenge blog for details & rules. This is a color challenge & this time color palette is -

Well, pretty isn't it? 

Here is my inspiration - a box card. The image is a digi by Sherri Baldy, our sponsor for this month

This is my first attempt using a digi & coloring with distress inks too (spun sugar, picked rasberry, salty ocean, black soot, vintage photo, walnut stain, mowed lawn)

The front of the card is a band held together with a velcro dot & hold a box - 

This is the inside of the box. The base is a white card stock stamped & heated embossed in white & then distressed all over with spun sugar, worn lipstick & salty ocean). The colors & design co-ordinated perfectly with the pattern paper I used. The sentiment (Technique Tuesday - Incredible) too is heat embossed.

 

Another view of the lily (Cheery Lynn Build a flower 3) -

So hop over to the challenge blog to see the wonderful creations by my fellow teamies.

Playing along in the following challenges -

Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge

Shabby Tea Room#200

Make My Monday

Imagination Crafts Challenge

Scribble& Scrap#9

LTSB#21

Crafting from the heart

Challenges for Everybody

Squirrel & Fox #60

Avenue 613#53

Besties Challenge#1

Polkadoodles Challenge

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