Craft's Meow 1st Birthday Bash - Day #3 Challenge

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 

 The challenge for day #3 is to use the colors shown below. 

To join the challenges you must use The Craft's Meow stamps or the free digital ones they are giving to those of us that don't own any. If you have read earlier blog entries of mine, you know I am trying to use the supplies I have before going out to get more. The pattern paper is from Basic Grey and called 'Lilykate'. The pad reads 2006! Yes, I keep things a long time. 

I let the pattern paper take center stage along with the flower embellishment. I did not want to cover up that beautiful looking goose. It kind of reminded me of cloisonne art. 

The sentiment is one of the free digital stamps The Craft's Meow is giving away.

It reads: Happy Birthday from the heart. (Because that is where all great wishes start)

Now tomorrow I will be at work. I might be able to get day #2 challenge made up and we shall see what day #4 brings with it. At least I have two of them accomplished!

Thanks for stopping by!  

Craft's Meow 1st Birthday Bash

 The Craft's Meow stamp company is One Year Old! To celebrate they are having challenges w/prizes along with peeks for this months stamp sets. If you want to join in, they are having a different challenge each day through Tuesday March 20th that you can enter for a chance to win, but you must use stamps by The Craft's Meow in order to qualify for a prize. (It all started on March 17th.) Only one entry per challenge, please, and no combining of challenges. You must make a separate card/project for each challenge in order to qualify for a prize. :)

Above was day one challenge. Follow the sketch and use one of their stamps on it. 

Well, I do not own any of their stamps. BUT they are giving away two digital stamp images. 

The digital image I used was the birthday sentiment that reads - 

Happy Birthday From The Heart 

(Because that is where all great wishes start)

I do not own any banner dies and did my best to follow the sketch with my version of the banner. If I had made that sentiment any smaller, you would not be able to read the smallest print at all. The cardstock is from Papertrey Ink. The doily is from Martha Stewart. The pattern paper is from Basic Grey 2009 Lemonade. The crocheted flower is from Sherry Wade's esty shop. And I must mention the tea set I photographed the card with. It was a gift from my neighbor who just moved away. Zoann is an artist and loves to paint on ceramics but also does beautiful portraits in oils.  The pattern on it seems to match the pattern on the tea set. Lovely.  I'll be posting one more card for this site using their color challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by to have a look! 

Simple Note Cards

Happy Saturday to you all! It is sunny out and temps are above freezing. We are seeing the snow and ice melting away. With the forecast showing high temps for 50 degrees this entire week where I live we just might, just maybe, see spring arrive early this year. 

My cards today are super simple. I received a call yesterday evening to help celebrate a belated birthday. The young lady's husband was in the hospital on her birthday and with all the concerns for him, her birthday was sort of forgotten! So we are headed to a brunch in a bit and I wanted to give her something besides just a birthday card and came up with these quick note cards. 

I made two sets of note cards. Both use PTI Love Lives Here dies and the stamp set for the envelopes.

You can see in the photos that I die cut the butterfly and house. Then mixed and matched the cut-outs and glued them inside the negative space onto the inside of the card. I left sentiments off so these could be used for just about any type of correspondence. I hope she likes them. 

Hope spring like weather is around where you live this weekend. 

Thankful Thursday #10

Sending A Big Thank You

Did you ever have a pattern paper that you could not cut up?

I seem to have many such like papers. But what is the point of keeping them on your shelf? 

No one gets to appreciate them except you when you pull them out to look at. 

I am on a mission to use what I have and that means all the beautiful pattern papers I've been hanging onto for years!

This card was made using pattern papers from Basic Grey's Urban Prairie. 

It says 'Spring Time' to me with the butterflies, bees and flowers on it. 

I also followed the color challenge from MTME #50 shown above. The pattern paper has all the colors in it so all I had to do is add some embellishments and a sentiment to finish it. This card also qualifies for Rhonda Hampton's 'Thankful Thursdays' challenge found on her blog Stamp n Piece. The card was made specially for a friend that gave me the Food Network magazine all about Chocolate for my birthday.

Oh do I LOVE this copy! 

Here is a peek at the inside. That is the strip I had to cut off the front panel. It just fits so nicely inside. BTW-the size of this square card is 5.25 x 5.25. 

The sentiment is from PTI Limited Edition set 'A Big Thank You'. It fit perfectly inside the Fancy Tag die from Spellbinders. The little yellow butterfly is also a Spellbinder die. I was able to weave this pretty velvet ribbon through some lace. Using the Bow Easy, I made the bow and added roses, and posies and pearls for the finishing touches. I'll present it to her along with some Brownie Bits made from one of the many recipes inside that wonderful chocolate magazine! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Welcome to The Peddler's Gallery: Are You Ready for the Challenge?

Welcome to The Peddler's Gallery: Are You Ready for the Challenge?

Here is my link to the Christmas Card challenge. http://carolsinkspot.blogspot.com/2012/03/holiday-wishes-march-challenge.html

Holiday Wishes - March Challenge

Turn away if you don't want to see Christmas cards. I am joining in the Christmas card challenge Lorie from The Peddler's Gallery has started this month, March through to the end of this year.

Click HERE for all the complete details. 

Basically, we are to create five identical cards for each month. 

Each month being a different design, etc. I've started out simple. 

I used a Martha Stewart snowflake punch and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink Tree Trimming Trio stamp set. The sentiment was stamped with Fresh Snow pigment ink. The snowflake design is glittered. Easy to do. Just place some postal tape behind the punched image. Lay the mat down into fine glitter and it will adhere nicely to the sticky side of the tape showing through the punched design on the front of the mat. Now just place the smaller mat over another mat of colored cardstock (I used white) and you are finished. 

I like this challenge because we get to do our own design, sketch and color theme. I have so much paper to use up this will help me to go through it all. Or at least that is my plan! I also feel I have more time in getting my thoughts together on what I'd like to make and not the usual week.  This simple challenge should help me create 45 cards by November 15th. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

CR84FN46 Color Challenge

Sending Prayers

Have you noticed in Blogland that cards are starting to show spring colors and themes? Cabin fever has definitely set in for most of us wanting this winter to be over with! Yellow is one of those spring colors that puts a smile on my face. I needed to make a card for a family going through a particularly hard time and sending a card with a yellow flower might brighten the moment. 

I just rec'd my Papertrey Ink release order and one of the sentiments from Beautiful Butterflies is just what is needed for my card. The flower is another new stamp image from Papertrey Ink's exclusive 2012 Anniversary set-Pretty Peonies. I LOVE this set! (It is not for sale, you had to earn it from the previous year) The flower was fussy cut and inked up with Lemon Tart and Summer Sunshine inks using the Rock n' Roll technique. Used some micro-beads to add to the center of the peony. The color combo is from CR84FN49 - yellow, kraft and gray. 

The layout or sketch used to make this was taken from a card Susan Raihala made shown here. I love how she can make clean and simple look so elegant. This color challenge will be around for two weeks and I hope to play again with a different theme and layout. Thanks for stopping by for a peek!