I created this card for the For Your Information challenge (fyi21).

I woke up with mojo today! I actually die cut the lattice last night, but it was bedtime, and I didn’t really know what I was going to do – only that the shape of the lattice reminded me of the shape of the alcoves in the inspiration picture.

So this morning I woke up and it all came together for me. Once I got the lattice die cut back into the kraft layer, I decided to add the four white diamond die-cuts (to mimic the bright light coming in from the far back window in the photo). As a final touch I added the rhinestones (to mimic the light refractions).

And since I love this card so much, I’m submitting it for the Moxie Fab die cut challenge

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Day 2 was all about totally flat cards. One concept presented was using masking to make it seem like there were layers. Honestly, I just felt to lazy to try that. The other concept was a good layout balanced by heaviness of the images.

My first card attempted that. I used both the solid and outlined images to differ the weight.

While this is a mistletoe image, I made sure my colors and sentiment allowed that the card could be a Valentine or a Christmas card.

his next card attempts the weighted layout by varying the color. I also trimmed the card square because my images were small. I used a lighter color at the top and a darker one on the left. The sentiment feels like a good anchor to me (love the vertical flow of the sentiment).

Hopefully I can get caught up this weekend!

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What happened to Day 2, you ask? Don’t worry, I’ll post it – I have ideas for the cards, just not enough time!

Today’s class was about inspiration – and as I have a pinterest board full of it, I thought no time like the present to pull from it.

One of my first pins there was a cute grey/yellow hand bag (source). I really loved the yellow/grey color combo, ruffle ribbon, and Damask pattern. So those are the parts I used in my card.

I still wanted some white space on the card, so I didn’t stamp the damask over the entire white panel, and I think I really like it this way! I also think that the pattern and flowers being just on the left help give a vertical flow to a mostly horizontal card.

I need some more grey thread though. The only one I had on hand has a definitely blue-cast which is more obvious than I would like!

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I’m already a day behind! BUT I was able to do all 3 sketches today – yay! So maybe I’ll stay only a day behind

This is my first card. I did cheat a bit. I stamped the background over the entire card base – no masking. Then after I punched out the flowers, I backed that corner with some plain card stock. I had to add the bling – the card just didn’t feel done without it.

The second card is my favorite of the three. One day I’ll figure out how to take better pictures!

I started by picking the colors. I knew I needed a good poppin’ combo with this simple layout.

I like to keep my cards somewhat flat – since 95% of my cards go in the mail – so instead of a real button, I die-cut the button.

I’m actually pretty happy with how this final card turned out. I’m normally not really good at picking out a color scheme that involves more than a couple colors, lol. I picked out paper first and then just did my best to match it.

I bought this stamp set just for this image – it is my favorite cupcake image. It was actually quite fun piecing it all together.

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I created this card for the Clean & Simple Cards challenge at SCS (cas151). The theme for this challenge was “beverages”.

For some reason the champagne glasses image came to my mind first, but I wanted a birthday card. I decided that if I kept the layout fun and the colors bright it would work. And besides we can “cheers” for a birthday!

I’m not sure my final card is quite simple enough, but I’m happy with it all the same!

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I created this card for two challenges. First, the colors are from the Play Date Cafe – a challenge blog I’ve been stalking for awhile but this is my first entrance (pdcc113). The layout is a Fall-to-Layout from Clean & Simple Stamping (ftl172).

I really loved the soothing colors and felt that the birdie could only be relaxed if free from the cage.

The scallop border is done by overlapping a couple square die cuts.

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I created this card for the Runway Inspiration Challenge (ric3).

This one was a tough one for me – all black & white. I wasn’t sure what to do at first, so I searched through my stamp index. When I saw the ties I knew that would be perfect!

I stamped the ties and cut them out so they would be popped-up (to give dimension – since I didn’t have any color for pop). Also, I added the line next to the sentiment to help balance out the card.

As a final touch I added little gold bead gems as tie pins.

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I was pretty stumped about the latest sketch challenge (wmsc78). I didn’t want to do a Christmas card (so done with those), but I don’t have a star in my WMS stash. But finally (just 12 hours before the deadline) I finally figured out what to do!

Teeny Trees to the rescue! I used one of the tree foliage images to create flower petals – and the center is from that set too! I must say it took a very long time to figure out how to arrange the silly petals, but I finally figured that out too.

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I created this card for the Less is More challenge – Just One Word (challenge #47). The idea being to use only 1 word on the card.

Once I saw this stamp with the word as part of the image, I knew I wanted to use it. I decided to incorporate a Fall-to-Layout as well (ftl171).

I picked the DSP first and then looked for a flower color to compliment. I settled on Calypso – a very pretty melonish color (and I had coordinating ribbon – always a bonus!).

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I created this card for the CAS-ual Friday challenge and I used the free digi stamp from Market Street Stamps. The challenge (cfc33) was to use Kraft and Twine.

I don’t do it often because I’m lazy (my printer is downstairs from my craft area), but I do like using digi stamps – you can size them however you want!

I really wanted the mug to to take all the focus, so the card is very simple. The sentiment is popped over the heart and the mug is popped from the card base.

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