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Celebrate You...My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge 32: Card

We celebrated our oldest son's birthday last night, but because of the weather, we decided to postpone our traditional family birthday dinner out with everyone to tonight. So, before we dash out, I wanted to share this card I created to celebrate the blessing of birthdays...

I was inspired by the following card sketch for challenge #32 over at My Mind's Eye:

I started with a 6x6 sheet of My Mind's Eye patterned paper from the Lost and Found Portobello Road collection and layered a piece of text paper from the same collection that I stitched and inked along the border on top of the background paper.

Next, I cut out the "celebrate" and label images from a couple of sheets in the same collection as part of the sentiment and layered them on top of a ribbon and trim border. I took the liberty of using three Prima flowers rather than the two in the sketch and embellished the flowers and the corner of the card with pearls from Recollections to complete it.

We are looking foward to a wonderful dinner with our family tonight, and I hope you have the blessing of enjoying one another's company with your families as well!

Pink Galore...and CPS sketches, too!

Today's post is full of pretty pink goodness! Now, I have to confess that pink wasn't my favorite color until after I was blessed with a girly-girl for a daughter. Yes, she has helped influence my taste in colors, and I now delight in pink things! :D

For the first card, I used CPS 5th Anniversary Day 2 Sketch #54:

I layered a white heart-shaped doily onto pink glittered paper from My Mind's Eye and stitched the patterned paper along the edges. Tan grosgrain ribbon is topped with a length of Creative Imaginations printed ribbon.

A Tattered Angels chipboard butterfly is embellished with a Prima flower and a single lace leaf to complete this card.

For the next card, I used CPS 5th Anniversary Day 3 Sketch #54:

I used a Spellbinders scalloped square die to create the card base. Next, I stitched a piece of pink My Mind's Eye patterned paper and adhered it to the front of the card. Layered on top of the patterned paper is a die cut label from K & Company.

A stitched seam binding ribbon borders the bottom of the image, and is topped with a Creative Imaginations epoxy sticker, a bow, and a Prima flower.

Next is a card inspired by CPS 5th Anniversary Day 5 Sketch #38:

This time I chose a brighter color palette from My Mind's Eye, and picked the striped, green polka dot, peach damask, and blue damask patterned paper from the same collection. The blue damask paper was hand cut to create a border and a length of ribbon is layered on top of it.

A sentiment rubon from Marcella by K is placed inside of the embossed Pink Paislee frame, and Prima flowers, seam binding ribbon, and pink Prima swirls complete this card.

Finally, the following card was inspired by CPS 5th Anniversary Day 6 Sketch #37:

The same My Mind's Eye collection is used for this card, and I used two pieces of a doily to create a scalloped border under the aqua ribbon. The different pieces of patterned paper are arranged like the sketch and then stitched into place with straight and zigzag stitches.

Finally, the card is embellished with Prima flowers, a stitched and glittered chipboard heart, and a Pink Paislee frame with a sentiment sticker.

Thank you for stopping by today! May you have a wonderful day and..

I LoveYou Forever...Mojo Monday 227

Happy Monday to you all! :)

I have a few projects to share with you today inspired by the following challenges:

John 3:16 Challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ

Pink challenge  #134 at the Pink Elephant

 

For the first card I used this week's sketch at Mojo Monday 227:

Here's my take on the sketch:

I used the color combination from the Love is in the Air recipe challenge at Our Creative Corner. 

The grey floral and pink patterned paper are from My Mind's Eye and the journaling card and tag are from Daisy D's.

The Tattered Angels chipboard frame was painted with Shimmerz Poinsettia Pink Blingz and embellished with Prima flowers and pink seam binding ribbon. Layered under the frame is a white doily and Making Memories metal border. I used Prima rhinestone swirls to complete the card.

Next is a card inspired by the Love is in the Air recipe challenge at Our Creative Corner and the following CPS 5th Anniversary Day 8  sketch #102:

The pink MyMind's Eye patterned paper is layered on top of grey shimmery DCWV cardstock. I layered a pink Melissa Frances glittered heart on top of a heart shaped doily. Using a EK Success border punch, I created a short border using silver glittered paper from The Paper Studio.

To complete the card, I embellished the heart with Prima flowers, a Creative Imaginations epoxy sticker and Prima rhinestone swirls.

 

For the next card I used CPS 5th Anniversary Day 7 Sketch #242:

 

 

Starting with a cream card base, I mounted kraft colored cardstock that was embossed along the edges using my Scor-It tool. Layered on top of the kraft cardstock are patterned papers from My Mind's Eye and DCWV shimmery grey cardstock.

A length of lace is used as a border as well as a length of pink seam binding ribbon and a piece of Making Memories metal border. An embossed and stitched mini tag is tucked under the ribbon border.

Under the Tattered Angels chipboard frame is a piece of text patterned paper from My Mind's Eye. The sentiment is made up of Making Memories mini alpha stickers and a K & Company epoxy sticker. To complete the card, a glittered heart from Prima is combined with a Prima flower and a seam binding bow, and pink Prima rhinestone swirls are added to finish it off.

 

The last card I'll be sharing today was created by using the Moxie Fab Fancy Schmancy color combination and  CPS 5th Anniversary Day 4 Sketch #220:

My Mind's Eye patterned papers are stitched and layered on top of a white card base for this card. The label was cut from a piece of My Mind's Eye patterned paper and adhered on top of a lace border.

The Tim Holtz name plate frames a sentiment cut from a piece of Creative Imaginations ribbon, and dark pink seam binding was threaded through the sides of the name plate. Finally, the "yours" rub on is placed above the name plate and a Prima flower and pink rhinestone swirls complete the card.

If you've gotten this far in this post, I thank you!!! I had a productive weekend and Monday morning and just wanted to share the projects I created with all of you today. I hope and pray that you enjoyed seeing them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Love...CardPatterns Sketch 151

Good morning!

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! Our family will be busy working on small projects around our house today that have become neglected so we will be playing catch-up this weekend! :)  Before I start on my part around the house, I'd like to take a moment to share a new project with you!

Today I have the pleasure of sharing a card that I created as a Guest Designer at CardPatterns and inspired by the Get in Shape challenge at PaperPlay Challenges. This is Sketch 151 for this week:

This is my interpretation of the sketch:

I used a white cardstock base and layered a Prima journaling card which was stitched along the edges on the card front. Then I cut along the bottom of the card following the shape of the journaling card to create the scalloped border.

To put together the card, I simply added the Prima crystal swirls to the bottom border of the card and a length of white lace and light blue trim along the top of the card.

To complete it, I attached a mini tag  from Daisy D's that I embellished with a Melissa Frances glittered heart, a Prima flower, and a Making Memories metal word charm on a white piece of twine.

I hope you take a moment this week to give the sketch a try! It was a lot of fun creating this for CardPatterns, and I look forward to using more of their sketches for my future projects!

Evidence of Love...and I Adore You...

Good morning!

I don't know about you, but I happen to love this time of year! The days leading up to Valentine's Day really keeps me thinking about how thankful I am to God to have a house full of children and a wonderful husband to love! They are my life, and it is a great blessing to be able to share so many moments together with them.

In fact, our family will be headed to the beach later this afternoon to visit Naomi, our exchange student from China, who has been camping at the Southern California coast enjoying the beach and our beautiful weather. We are looking forward to the fellowship with the other exchange students and their host families and the chance to have a barbeque dinner and a campfire in the evening with them. But before we head out, I wanted to share a new project with you...

This first project is a gift box that was inspired by the colors of the Moxie Fab Fancy Schmancy Tuesday Trigger, the You've Got Mail challenge at the City Crafter Challeng blog and the So Romantic theme challenge at the Kraft Journal blog. After creating the card I shared with you the other day, I couldn't get over the lovely color combination of the the inspiration photo:

Isn't that the yummiest and sweetest piece of dessert you've ever seen? I hope you'll forgive me for sharing it with you again! I just couldn't resist, and thankfully, it's only a photo so I don't get tempted to indulge myself in eating a few pieces! :D

Here are a few more views of the gift box:

I started with a paper mache box that I painted with cream acrylic paint. I used sketch #64 at Paper Take Weekly for the layout of the box top.  For the background, I adhered a piece of  My Mind's Eye patterned paper which I stitched along the edges. Layered on top of it is a Maya Road kraft colored envelope which holds a journaling card that can be used to send a message of love to someone special.

On top of the envelope is a Daisy D's tag which has been stamped with "Feb 14" from Making Memories and an epoxy sticker from K & Company. The top of box is also embellished with a Tim Holtz hinge die (cut from grunge paper, painted white, and roughed up and crackled for textured for Try it on Tuesday's altered art and textured themed challenge this week ), a gold foil bird from Making Memories (inspired by the Animal Antics challenge at Simon Says Stamps), a Melissa Frances glittered chipboard heart, Prima flowers, Creative Imaginations pearl brads, Recollections rhinestone swirls, cream lace, and pink seam binding ribbon.

Finally, along the edge of the lid, I used a Martha Stewart border punch to create a scalloped border from chocolate brown cardstock, and embellished it with a length of pink and tan vintage trim.

The next project is a card that somewhat took me out of my comfort zone...it's a masculine card! If you know me, masculine cards are a rare creation for me! Hehe! :) I have to confess that other than clean and simple cards, masculine themed projects are a challenge for me to create. :D

As I was thinking about my dear hubby, I decided to try my hand at creating a card that he would like...with no flowers, pearls, or rhinestone swirls as embellishments. Let me tell you, I really missed having those embellishments for this card... ;D

However, I did have the benefit of using the CPS Sketch #136, which is the first of the sketches they posted for their 5th anniversary celebration, as the inspiration for this card:

I started with a Bazzil chocolate brown card base, and chose a piece of Martha Stewart cream and grey text patterned paper which I stitched along the edges and then adhered to the card front.

Next, I adhered a Creative Imaginations journaling card on top of the patterned paper and then layered a Maya Road chipboard label on top of the journaling card which was embossed with the script Cuttlebug embossing folder, painted cream, and inked with creamy brown Colorbox stamping ink along the edges. I punched two holes on the chipboard label and threaded a length of wide brown satin ribbon.

Finally, inspired again by the Animal Antics challenge at Simon Says Stamps, I cut a label from a piece of My Mind's Eye patterned paper which included two sweet little birds. I used some Making Memories mini alpha stamps and a K & Company epoxy sticker for the sentiment to complete the card.

Well, that's all from me for today! I hope you all enjoy your Friday evening, and are looking forward to the weekend ahead of us!

 

Lucky in Love...Mojo Monday 226 | True Love Always...CardPatterns 150

Happy Wednesday to you all! I can't believe it's the first day of February already! A month has gone by, and this year has been filled with so many blessings already! Thank the Lord for His wonderful grace! :)

Today I'd like to share a couple of projects. The first one is inspired by the love and hearts challenge at Truly Scrumptious and this week's color challenge #47 at CR84FN:

and the Mojo Monday Sketch #226:

My card didn't turn out to be either round or square, but a shaped card based on the Prima journaling card I used for the background. Take a look at what I created:

I layered some lace, a Jenni Bowlin bingo card, ribbon, flower trim, a Tattered Angels chipboard frame, mini alpha and sentiment stickers, and a Melissa Frances glittered heart on top of the background paper.

I love this color combination! It's one of my favorite combinations for Valentine's Day!

Next, is a card inspired by the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger - Fancy Schmancy challenge, the So Romantic challenge at the Kraft Journal and this week's CardPatterns Sketch 150:

Here's the inspiration photo from the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger:

This is my take on the challenges:

Inspired by the colors from the Moxie Fab inspiration photo, I started with a chocolate brown cardstock base for the card, My Mind's Eye striped patterned paper and tan ledger paper, layered with a length of embroidered lace with a zig zag stitched border.

The card is embellished with a Tattered Angels chipboard frame, Recollections pearls, a Daisy D's journaling tag, and a Creative Imaginations sentiment. 

Finally, a Melissa Frances glittered heart, Prima flowers, a vintage silk flower, and pink seam binding ribbon are added to the card to finish it off!

I have to say that I truly enjoy participating in challenges because they provide the spark of inspiration that I need to get a project started. Here are a few more challenges that you may want to try this week as they have been a source of inspiration for the projects shown above:

Show Us Your Style at Stampin' Sisters in Christ

Ribbon Challenge at the Secret Crafters Saturday Challenges

Lovely Lace Challenge at Paper Play Challenges

Diamonds or Pearls Challenge at Stamptacular Sunday

I also wanted to thank CardPatterns for the honor of having this card for Sketch 149  chosen as one of the Super 6 for the week. I am so blessed to be able to display this on my blog:

Please check the CardPatterns challenge blog this Saturday for a new sketch! I have the blessing of being a guest designer there for the upcoming Sketch 151 so you'll also see the project I created with it!

So...are many of you creating handmade cards for your loved ones this coming Valentine's Day? If so, I would love to see your creations! Post a link here so I can see what you've made for your special someone, and I'll visit your blog and take a peek!

I hope you all have a wonderful day today!

 

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