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New Sketch #608 from 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 

It's a busy week or two ahead here with lots of holiday meet-upevents with friends, some wrapping, and baking still to be done. My cards are finished and mailed, and only tag-making is holiday related.  I'm ready and excited to move my crafty time into the next season.

My card uses Gina K Designs Dazzling Dahlia stencil inked with the Carnation and Spruce trios. The sentiment and postage detail were inked in Christmas Pine to match the card base.  I cut the stenciled image with a tiny postage die.  It's brutal cutting up a pretty piece like that! But I love this look.  Hope you will join the challenge this week!

Love & Joy

 December is a busy month and I should be shopping or decorating, but I am 'procrafternating' ( Tom K @ Gina K Designs).  It is much more fun to do a little crafting and there were some great challenges out there for inspiration.

My card is embossed with Spellbinder's Hexi Snowflake folder, and uses dies cuts from Pretty Pink Posh - Stitched Hexagons to make a frame popped up with foam tape, and snowflakes both white and silver from Simon Says Stamp.  I foiled a sentiment in silver and added it to the frame.

 Inspired by and linking to:

Can You Handle the Pressure  Anything Goes/Winter Fun

Cut It Up    #318 Sparkle and Shine

Tic Tac Toe  #262   White on White + Frame + Metallic

Jolly Christmas

 

One more Christmas card for the new sketch #660 at

Try A Sketch On Tuesday

I used a gel print background and adhered it to a Christmas Pine card.  The image and sentiment are Gina K Designs stamp and die set, Under the Mistletoe.  I colored with Copic markers, and put some Glossy Accents on the berries.  Now I just realized that mistletoe berries are white... hmm. Well, it's festive at any rate. lol

Hope you will check out he blog and join us in this challenge!

AHSC 606

This week's new sketch #606 at 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

offers a great opportunity to use some pretty scraps.  I tried two cards.

This was not my day ...made some poor decisions about color and spacing.  Do you have days like that?  What's in my mind sometimes just doesn't always work out the way you hoped. But I had fun trying. Hope you will too, and share on the AHSC blog.  :-)

Happy Holidays

 

Welcome to the new challenge sketch #659 at Try A Sketch On Tuesday

My design team card uses some gold matt paper and the Corbel ornament die from Simon Says Stamp, a stitched square die from MFT, and pine bough cut from a Flora and Fauna die.  The sentiment was foiled.

Thankful

 What a marvelous weekend I had at a craft retreat!  Twice a year we rent a big house and spend three days laughing, eating, and sharing. Ten of us this year all doing different things - there are quilters, cross-stitch, knitters, wood burning, and me with paper and ink.  

My card was inspired by the new sketch challenge this week at Atlantic Hearts, and we are collaborating with the Double Trouble challenge to "Stitch It Up."  Well, mine comes by using stitched dies, but that counts :-)  Check out their post and get into some crafty trouble.

WELCOME to Challenge #180 - Let the Troubles Begin!

This Challenge runs from

Monday, November 18th thru Sunday, December 1st

"Stitch It Up"

THING 1: Trouble Maker

says, "Our requirement for this challenge is simple... use stitching somewhere in your project. There are many possibilities for using paper scraps, stencils, and even embossing folders to create patchwork, quilting, and/or knit designs. Consider using punch- or die-cutting, hand or machine sewing, piercing, hand-drawn stitching, needlework or cross-stitching, etc... so, keep calm and stitch on. 'Stitch It Up' and show us your creativity

I stenciled a gate fold card base and used Gina K Designs stitched dies for the label, circles, and sentiment.

Sunflowers

 Finding my crafting mojo again after being away for almost two months traveling in East Asia.  It was very hot there and coming back to the PNW to the cool, gray rain has been a shock :-)   So as I reached for things warm yellow felt quite comforting. 

The new sketch #658 at Try A Sketch On Tuesday is my inspiration today. The My Favorite Things gingham pad for the background and Gina K Designs Breath of Sunshine kit for flowers and sentiment. 

It will be fun to be able to visit blogs and comment once again, so I hope you will join the challenge!

Linking also to our sister challenge Double Trouble - "Lots of Layers"  

Always lots of fun to be had there.  Check out their challenge #179 and have some fun.