Many Thanks! CQC#232, FabFri37

I played along with the challenges at ColourQ and FabFriday today!  I loved the sketch at FabFriday, it was different... and different is good!  And the colours at Colour Q were a challenge to say the least.... not because of the combo, but rather because I had about 6 square inches of Lucky Limeade left!  I very carefully fit my Word Bubbles Framelits on it, and then used my SAMJ to stamp on them!  Perfect!

You may be wondering where I got that small framelit on the bottom right, well, it's really the same as the one above it, I just ran it through twice to make it a bit shorter!  Finicky... but it worked!

Well... I would say that was a great use of the very last little bit of my Lucky Limeade.... lucky indeed, wouldn't you say!

See you soon for another card!

xo Anita

Merry Hello! - JUGS207, Merry Monday #76

Hello Everybody!  Happy sunshine-y day to you all!  It's a beautiful sunny fall day here in Chilliwack!  Love it!

I'm back with a card I made for the JUGS challenge!  I combined it with the Merry Monday challenge because I really wanted to use the Snow Much Fun stamp set, as it is severely underused over here, and I thought the JUGS colors were perfect for a sweet Christmas card!  One of my girls' teachers will probably get this at Christmas time!  Isn't it sweet?

I started with Naturals White CS as my card base, then layered Early Espresso and Red Glimmer Paper.  For the focal panel I stamped the tall snowman from the Snow Much Fun set in Black StazOn on watercolour paper and distressed the edges.  I stamped another snowman on a scrap of watercolour paper, coloured him in here and there using Early Espresso, Real Red and Crumb Cake (Kraft) ink for some shading.  I cut him out, skipping his arms and the birdies and popped him with some dimensionals.  He looks soooo cute in real.  I'm sure when my girls see this card, they will both want to be the one giving this to their teacher!  I'll probably have to make another!  I finished the card off with some hanging flag banners made of Summer Smooches DSP and frayed Natural Cotton Ribbon (Cream), Early Espresso Grosgrain and Crumb Cake (Kraft) Seam Binding.  I stamped two tiny sentiments, punched them out with the jewelry tag punch and clipped them with a library clip and a knotted linen thread!

Click the links to go and check out the Just Us Girls challenge blog and the Merry Monday challenge at Always Playing With Paper.  There's some great inspiration to be found!

Let me know what you think of my Christmas card!  I love to hear from you and love to check out your blogs too!  Hope you are having a fabulous week so far!

xo Anita

Thinking of You

Hello everyone!

 

I've still got a few cards that I haven't shown you yet.  Some of the supplies may be retired supplies, but that's just the way it is with me!  So let's not waste any time getting to today's card!  Shall we?

OK, so it's been something like more than a year since I made this card.  I'm pretty sure this card was from one of my Artistic Avenger DT challenges.  By the looks of things here, I was definitely in the "distressed zone"!!!  I colored this beautiful little guy in with inks and a blender pen.  After tearing the edges, I sponged around with Soft Suede to soften up the edges a bit.  To give my Little Leaves die cut some depth I made a line down the center with my fingernail.  No fancy tools there!

Have a great day!

Supplies:

Paper:  Sahara Sand CS, Marina Mist CS, Bravo Burgundy CS, Very Vanilla CS

Ink:  Soft Suede, Marina Mist, Bravo Burgundy

Stamps:  Young Vermillion, Three Little Words

Tools:  Distressing Tool, Big Shot, Little Leaves Sizzlits Die, Perfect Polka Dots EF, blender pens, sponges

Celebrate The Little One!

Good morning!  I have another baby card for you today!  This one uses a variety of different stamp sets and has alot of little details.  Sponging, paper piercing and distressed edges all combined with the colour combo to create a sweet card to welcome a new baby!  I stamped the greeting  and punched it out with my oval punch and layered it on a stamp from a totally un-baby related stamp set!  Cool, huh?

My colours for this card are Sahara Sand, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue and So Saffron.  I love them together, although the Blue and Celery are now retired!

Stop by tomorrow for another card!

Worm Wishes On Your Bug Day!

Hello!  

 OK... this card is seriously one of my very first cards that I made a few years ago.  I used the Seeing Spots stamp set to create the background.  It WAS the very first stamp set I ever ordered!  I used it alot to make backgrounds on my scrapbook pages.  Those were my pre-MDS days!  And how could I not LOVE the Bugs and Kisses stamp set?  Adorable, no?

This card is pretty self explanatory.  My colour combo is Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise and Certainly Celery.  I used my square punch to speed the process up even more.  Easy peasy!

See you tomorrow!