Butterflies and flowers

It has been awhile since I have had time to play with challenges, but have a completed card for today. This card is for the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and Pile It On. The Secret Crafters challenged us to use anything with wings on it (my butterflies). Pile it on challenged us to add lots of dots (circle) - the general shape of my flowers and center of my butterflies. I used SU cardstock, Barely Banana and Night of Navy. Flowers are SU Eastern Blooms, stamped with Night of Navy ink, then cut out and attached to Night Of Navy card stock strip trimmed with deckle scissors. Butterflies were punched from an old SU punch. I rubbed my Night of Navy ink pad on the Barely Banana paper, then punched out the butterflies. I folded the wings forward and attached just the center of the butterfly body to the card. I added "sparkle" with 3 clear rhinestones. Thanks for stopping by to visit. Sorry the posts have been so few, but life has been super busy in our household. Tomorrow my husband and I both go back to work - this week is teacher workshop. In another week, the students (including my son who will be a high school senior this year) return for another year of learning. Blessings to you.

Two cards

I have two challenge cards today. Here's the first:

This one is for The Sweet Stop Challenge and also for the challenge at Winter Wonderland. At the Sweet Stop, the challenge was a sketch with a spin. The spin for this sketch is that you must use a Christmas image. Winter Wonderland had the challenge : Santa Claus is coming to town! I picked up this Santa stamp last season at Archiver's in their Hot Spot (sorry, don't know the manufacturer) and it had yet to see ink. The sentiment is a rub on from Creative Imaginations. I trimmed the matte for Santa with a decorative scissor, pen "stitched" on the green rectangle and pierced along the dark green wavy edge. The green circle was punched with a Martha Stewart punch, the snowflake brad was in my stash. The red striped paper was Reminisce Snowfall Stripe and the green rectangle was The Paper Company Green Diamond Brocade.

Here's the second card:
At Pile it on the challenge was to use mostly ORANGE on the project. At their site, the idea is to incorporate the Pile It On challenge with at least one other CURRENT challenge. The other challenge I chose was All Sorts Challenge. Here we were to use only 1 of anything you put on your card. Here's what I used: one Spellbinder's (Lattice Pendant) die cut (orange), one Special Moments rub on image, one Cuttlebug folder, one stamp (PTI everyday blessings) and one ink (SU Close to Cocoa). The background cardstock is a light orange (it looks more yellow in the photo) and then I sponged the ink on it to soften the look, add highlights and make the Cuttlebug image pop.

Thanks to all who stop by and check out my blog. Blessings to you!

Another Pile It On Challenge this Week!!

I like the challenge that Pile It On gives me - combining more than one challenge to create a card. The first challenge at Pile It On was to us a non-stamped sentiment. I had a Heidi Grace rub-on that I have really been wanting to use, so it fit perfectly. I combined this challenge with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge layout and came up with this result. I like the "earthy" feel of this card.

Sentiment: Heidi Grace rub-on
Stamp: SU Fresh Fillers (stamped with Close to Cocoa ink)
Background Paper: Debbie Mumm (Baby Noah)
All the other paper/ribbon was in my "stash" (Torn edges of Green paper were inked with Color Box Chestnut Roan)