Challeng card for Expressively Me

This is my card for Jen's challenge on her blog expressivelyme.blogspot.com. (I really need to learn how to hyperlink websites) I really like her website. She has really great tutorials and lots of card designs.

I made the card with acrylic paint and foam stamps from Michaels. I wrote the sentiment with a brush pen used for writing kanji.

The card was another contender for my co-worker's babies 1st birthday. I was going for the three basic colors, but the blue was too light. And the white behind the lamb didn't show up well. If I repeat this card I'll use a darker blue behind the seal and red behind the lamb.

I ended up liking this card the best, so it's the one she got.

A Trio of Butterflies for Caardvarks Challenge

Here is a trio of butterfly cards for the sewing challenge.

The butterflies are made of velveteen ribbon (found in the floral and craft section). They were tied with coordinating ribbon on sale at Michaels this week 5 spools for $1. What a deal! The butterfly trails were stitched using 2-ply DMC embroidery thread. I tried a few different trails, and I don't know which one I like best. Maybe tomorrow I'll try a double trail with 2 butterflies.

There Thanks was hand written using a black brush pen. The For You sentiment is a $1 stamp from Michaels. And the last card has no sentiment yet. This will go in my any occasion file.

Basket full of flowers

This is for the caardvarks challenge to use stitching. I can't take any credit for this card - I case'd it from a Martha Stewart card idea booklet. Worse yet, I didn't even buy the book. How bad is that? At least I gave her credit.

If I do this again, I will use a darker color green, and a heavier weight thread (or even yarn). Though it's not shown, Thank You is stamped on the inside.

The basket was stitched freehand using light weight crochet thread. The flowers are EK Success paper punches.

Card for WSC27 Challenge

Here's my card for Beate's weekend challenge. I thought I'd do several cards - I really like this layout. But the weekend's been way too busy. So this is my first card. I'll probably post several more cards this week, just to get the ideas out of my head. The flowers are EK success paper punches. The saying is from a Fiskars stamp set (I think it's called paisley). The paper is from Provo Crafts slab.

Way to Go Card for Captain Crafter's Challenge

The flower paper and the silver paper are origami paper. This is a great value for card makers. I paid $1.50 for 150 silver 2.5inch square paper, and $1.25 for 200 patterned origami paper. The paper is thin, but when used like this it almost doesn't matter. The sentiment is by Cuttlebug. I added the same size card stock to the back after embossing. Otherwise, the silver paper would bend when put in the envelope. The ribbon is Trim It Up from Michaels.

Christmas card for Captain Crafter's challenge

This Christmas card was made for Captain Crafter's challenge (http://captain-crafter.blogspot.com/). The Challenge was to make a Christmas card without Christmas stamps. Really tough! All my stamps are Christmas, Halloween, flowers, or animals.
This was my only idea. I made several different types of trees (using different flowers) and I tried to make a mistletoe, but the flourishes didn't look right.
I hope this card fits the Challenge. The flourish kinda looks like a bird, but I added the eye and beak with a pen.

The paper is Provo Craft, the stamps are Mini Make a Flower and Family/Scroll by Autumn Leaves. Sentiment is hand written.

PS: Autumn Leaves are $1.99 clear stamps from Target. What a deal!

Challenge card for WSC24

Here's my entry for the SCS24 weekend challenge. I found it on Beata's blog fresh n fun.

http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ (wish I could figure out how to add links)

The paper is from an old Provo crafts Slab, red cardstock from BigLots, snowflakes are Snow Burst SU!, I handwrote the sentiment with a Jelly pen, and I made the 3-D tree.