Luxurious Birthday

This card speaks to my girlish fantasies of  vintage lace, pink, sparkle, and feminine glamor.

I kind of love it.

I was really inspired by the colors and the color board at CR84FN. Just look at this...If I had an extra house I might decorate it only in this color scheme. So elegant and feminine.

***Please use the 3 named colors as your MAIN colors.*

I used the sketch from Get Sketchy for my layout. 

I layered different sizes and types of doilies on top of each other for the layered circles of the sketch.

Live Laugh Love

Here's a card I managed to make yeserday.... I made it with a few challenges in mind.

The colors are straight from The Color Throwdown 

The layout of the card is from the sketch at Card Patterns 

I also entered this card in the 'Live Laugh Love' challenge at Wee Memories.

Embellished cards

It all started with this Mother card. I made the Mother card for a challenge at Embellish Magazine.

I mean, how could you not be inspired by that color board?

After creating the Mother card, I had all these wonderful papers and embellies out... and then came the Baby cards. 

baby 1

baby 2

baby 3

So now I have this family of retro kitschy vintage-y cards. 

Weird.

Another clean and simple card, from me?!

Sorry for the less than optimal picture, i'll see if I can spiff it up a bit soon.

Hey There!

I made this card for a couple of challenges. The color inspiration was from ColourQ challenge #68

The sketch is from Mojo Monday's  sketch challenge. 

 I love how bright and cheerful this card is. We've had nothing but gray skies and snow...yuk!

Retro kitsch chic

I'm having a hard time coming up with new post titles...eh. 

Anyhow, this funky patterned card was created with a couple of challenges in mind. 

The sketch is a Mojo Monday sketch.

And honestly it was a challenge for me.. I'm not sure why.

The colors were inspired by the Curtain Call color challenge.

The papers are Cosmo Cricket's Early Bird line...yum!

Birthday Cards + 1 Thank You

I used some paper and embellies that have been sitting around needing some love.... I don't like having paper scraps so when I cut into my patterned paper I want to use it all... I almost never look in my scrap drawer anymore...there's too much beautiful paper in the rest of my stash to use scraps! So here are some quick cards with all the same papers, but with different embellishments.

Can I just say that I have a soft spot in my heart for chickies...

This last one is my favorite I think. I love that little radish. 

Shabby Christmas

Here is a card I created for a couple of challenges. 

The color scheme is from the CR84FN4 challenge 

(I couldn't get the picture to show the silver music lines going vertically across the card, try squinting...lol)

I followed this sketch from the 2S4Y challenge

I just LOVE love love those itty bitty snowflake stamps from Waltzingmouse, they are soo teeny and cute. (Why does tiny always =cute?)

Supplies: Stamps: Waltzingmouse stamps Nutcracker Sweet and Music background

Cardstock: both purples are DCWV, cream colored cardstock is PTI.

Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket mitten weather

Ink: Lavender and Dune colorbox ink, Pumice Stone Ranger Distress Ink,

 Starlight silver brilliance ink. 

Die Cuts: spellbinders nestabilities

Embellies: Cream frame is Tattered Angels, 

sparkle button and pearls are from recollections(Michaels brand)

Seam binding wrinkle ribbon is made by me, lace is from walmart.

This is my first time entering a card in a challenge (my blog is still a baby). 

I actually created this card all in one go too!