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Today SCS challenge was so fun. Dawn has us going green.....

Recycle--Reuse--Reduce!!

Recycle--red twill band came off the blanket that my son got at his youth group Christmas gift exchange

Reuse--My large pearl at the center is one that the adhesive had come off of and was sitting in the pile of scraps--added a glue dot and it was back in working order

Reduce--I reduced the amount of wasted paper by cutting the center out of my large Choc. Chip layerand using it to mount my main image panel. I know alot of people do this all the time but to be honest this is my first time--I think I will do this again--saves me money too and thant means more stamps!!I used the I WISH simple scrappin set from Stampin Up to create my card. The main image panel was sponges with Mellow Moss ink all around the edges. Don't you just love this Christmas ribbon from Stampin Up!?? It is so pretty and it ties up so nicely. My sentimen was stamped in CHoc. CHip and accented with mini pearls.

Seasons of Joy

Here a card that I made for today "half baked" challenge on Spiltcoast Stampers. The challenge was to use half of an image in creating our card.

I used half of each of the ornaments from Stampin Up's Simply Scrappin I WISH set. I filled in the blank side with greenery I punched out with the Martha Stewart Fern punch. The topper was a strip from this same Simply Scrappin set and I decorated the center of the snowflakes with green gemstones. I hung the ornament with hemp knotted in the wholes. I added a sentiment stamped in Choc. Chip on Piroutte Pink and accented it with another green gemstone.

This card also completes the Color Throwdown Challege #23 to use Choc. Chip, Ridinghood Red, Pink Piroutte, and Green. I love this color combo and I am planning to use it on several more card this afternoon.

I hope you all are enjoying the joys of this season!!

Here is my card for today's SCS color challenge: Taken with Teal, Riding Hood Red, and Baja Breeze.

When I first read the challenge I thought--wow what a challenge!! But as I set to work with wintery scene unfurled before and I am quite pleased with how it turned out!!

The hard part for me was adding in the Taken With Teal--I decided to make that my ink color. So I stamped my trees and my sentiment with Taken With Teal and sponged it all over the edges of both the tree panel and the sentiment. The moon and snow were stamped with my craft white pad and then I added glitter to it. The back ground was run through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder and then sponged as well with the Taken With Teal. My sentiment panel was finished off using the ticket punch in all four corners. I chose this sheer white ribbon to complete the card. And there you have my winter wonderland. I love how it turned out. I hope you do too.

Warm Winter Wishes to all!!

Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow!!

Snowflakes!! Yeah!! Although I will say that I like snowflakes much better on paper than in the air. I do love to watch it snow and the way it slows everyone down it so cool but I don't like the cold so much!! So snowflakes on paper are much better in my mind. Here is the card I made for the SCS challenge to use only snowflakes, add some glitter or blind, and stay with monochromatic color scheme. I thought it turned out pretty good. I used snowflakes dp and added a felt snowflake, layered with a puched out snowflake. I also used an idea that I saw on another stampers card--take a pucnched out snowflake and add the top pieces from the MS fern punch to each of the ends--cool huh?? It makes the snowflakes bigger and more wintery looking I think. Thanks Joanne for the inspiration. You can see her card here:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...50449?si=WT195

Well it is Friday and I am ready for the weekend!! I hope you all have a great weekend.

I love these envelope cards! I have had this templete for many years but it has been tucked away and I kinda forgot about it until SCS had this challenge to use envelopes in some way.

The card is the envelope~~the triangles fold in and create a envelope that surrounds your card. If you would like to have a pattern just let me know and I can email a scanned copy to you.

I made two of them today for birthdays that are coming up. I hope you like them.

Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge #250

It has taken me a while today to get back infront of the computer--staff meeting, haircut, and a doctors appointment. I thought I would have time in between all of that but, everything was running over!! Anyway here I am to tell you all about my card today. Unfortunately it is a sympathy card!! One of my friends lost her father this past weekend--heart attack at a young age! The need for the card aside, I love how it turned out.

I use today sketch challenge from SCS. The card was created using Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, and More Mustard. I usually do not like how my watercoloring turns out but I love it today. I stamped the flower from Organic Grace by Stampin Up in Basic Brown and then watercolored it using my Aqua Painter and More Mustard ink. I added a million dots to the center of the flower with my Choc. Chip marker and then brushed over it--I like how it still looks like little beads. Next I cut them out and arranged them with several pieces of greenery that I punched out with my Martha Stewart fern punch. I finished it off with my sentiment stamped in Always Artichoke.

Thanks for looking!! I was so thrilled with how it turned out--I hope you like it too!! DEB