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.

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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)