Christmas Cutie card

I love the whimsical look of traditional holiday cards paired with cute elements, and I knew I had to create something cute when I saw the Crafty Catz "Too Cute" challenge.

Paired with some other challenges to get my creativity mojo going, I started off with a Kraft base and then layered up elements. I embossed the Kraft base with a woodgrain embossing folder for some extra interest.

This sketch made it easier for me to figure out the look I was going for- thank goodness for sketches!

The sweet little deer is a leftover embellishment from an old White Pines kit, and I used the new Stitched Circles thin cuts to frame my sentiment, which I stamped in New England Ivy ink.



Of course I needed to added some sparkle, so the last layer was created with some gold glitter paper.

I am linking up to the following challenges:
Color My Heart- Color Dare #320
Paper Players- Theme Challenge PP421
Crafty Catz Challenge- Too Cute
Just Add Ink #436- Sketch

Thanks and Giving

I wanted to use the October Stamp of the Month a bit more since I had only used it on scrapbook layouts, and so I recreated a card layout I do quite often.



I stamped the leaf image in White Daisy on the dark purple cardstock, and then stamped the matching leaves in Fern in the centre panel. I also stamped the title in Eggplant and layered it with some Sugarplum glitter paper.

This is such a fun and easy technique to do with any image and I love the colours together.

Thanks for stopping by today!

I used the leaf image to play along with The Paper Players theme this week  and I loved the colour combo that came up with this week's Color Dare.

Products used:
Cardstock: Eggplant, White Daisy, Sugarplum Glitter Paper
Ink: Eggplant, Fern, White Daisy
Stamp set: Thanks and Giving

A Hedgehog Hello

I've rediscovered my love for embossing powders this week, and it's been awesome to have some time in my craft room to play with all the pretty new paper packets!

This cute little hedgehog sticker caught my eye and I wanted to use him on a card. I also wanted to try out my new leaf frame stamp set so this card came together in my head really easily.



I used gold embossing powder to do the leaf frame, and then kept it really simple with just the hedgehog as the sentiment and some more of the patterned paper in a dovetailed strip. The only embellishment was some green triangles that I added for dimension.

I'm linking this card up with a few themed challenges today:
Use Your Stuff Forest Frolic
Craft Rocket Autumn
The Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe challenge (leaves, patterned paper, green, embossing and glitter)


Products used
Cardstock: White Daisy
Paper: Grateful Heart
Ink: VersaMark
Embellishments: Grateful Heart Complements, Enamel & Glitter Duos Green Triangles, Princess Gold Embossing Powder
Stamp set: Grateful Heart-Scrapbooking

Birthday Giggles with Let's Party

Once again, I have come up with a card inspired by various challenges to celebrate the upcoming birthday of my partner. We don't take life too seriously and always have a good laugh together, so I knew that I wanted to make a light-hearted card for him.

This sentiment always makes me giggle and is rather apt!

I kept the colour and the layout quite simple, using black and white with a touch of copper accents and just a tiny amount of bling with the black enamel gems. I sponged the notepaper die cut with black ink to make it stand out more as well.



I was inspired by the following challenges:
Addicted to CAS: Masculine
Color Throwdown: Black, White and Copper
Heart 2 Heart Challenges: Duly Noted
The Paper Players: Humorous

Witchy Well Wishes

For those of you who know me, you will know that musical theatre is a huge passion in my life. I am currently involved in The Witches of Eastwick, which opens tomorrow night (eeek!)

My best friend is in one of the lead roles as the music teacher Jane, so I wanted to make her a card to tell her how proud I am of her and also wish her well for opening night.

I combined three challenges to inspire me to make my card.

I firstly got inspired by this sketch from The Paper Players.

I then used the colour combination of the bottom two rows of this week's Color Dare Tic-Tac-Toe Board.

And lastly, following Just Add Ink's challenge I added a Twist by using birthday paper and a Halloween Cricut cut to create a good luck card.

And here is the finished result!



I used my new Music Speaks stamp set to create the stamped music note border as well as the sentiment, but I wanted the witches hat to be the main focus with an underlying music theme. I am pretty happy with the balance of themes and colours in this card and I hope my friend likes it!