Botanic

Hello all!

It's my turn to set the challenge over at Crazy Card Party, a botanic challenge.

 I used one of my favourite stamp sets to create this card:

Please check out what the other party-ers created over at Crazy Card Party  and play along if you can!

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Case a Girlfriend

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This week over at Crazy Card Party, Regan wants to see those cards we cased from one of our friends.

I actually made two but I gave away one before I took a picture of it, sorry about that Patricia!

But here is the one I made based on Sharon's card:

Check out what the other ladies came up with here.

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Crazy Card Party - White on White

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This week at Crazy Card Party it's all about white.

I layered die cut flowers on an embossed background to  create this card:

I added some pearls and you can just see the stickles on some of the buds.

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Crazy Card Party - Favourite Stamp

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This week at Crazy Card Party Patrica wants to see our cards using our favourite stamp set.

My favourite stamp set right now is Papertrey Ink's Meadow Greens, such lovely botanic images:

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Crazy Card Party Catch Up!

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Long time no post eh?

I have to confess that my mojo  seemed to have deserted me early into the new year and I just wasn't feeling like making cards.

But my mojo returned this weekend and I was able to catch up on the card posts I missed and work ahead too. Yea!

So without further ado, here's my cards.

For Kathryn's wedding theme, a card using two colours of embossing:

Then for Sharon's bokeh theme, I attempted the bokeh look with this card:

The white ink wasn't covering the watercolours very well so then I tried white paint which just wasn't the subtle look of bokeh. I still think it's kind of an interesting card though.  

So here's round two on the bokeh challenge, I'm much happier with this card:

And finally here's my card for Avril's Valentine theme:

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Something New!

Hi all!

It's my challenge over at Crazy Card Party and it's an easy one, just use something new!

New paper, new embellishments, new stamps, new dies, anything new.

I recently purchased a new Papertrey Ink stamp set with a gorgeous fern image that I just love and used to create this card:

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Celebrate!

Happy New Year!

This week at Crazy Card Party Regan wants to see those celebration cards.

I decided to feature a few cards I made to celebrate the season.

All these cards use a stamp set designed by Simon Says and Clearly Besotted.

This stamp set can be used to create lots of different card designs just by changing colours, the number of branches and the orientation of the branches.

This card also uses a falling snow stencil, my new favourite stencil.

And finally a very simple but effective card.

Pop over to Crazy Card Party to see more celebration cards.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the first day of the new year!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

This week at Crazy Card  Party Deanna is taking it easy on us, we can link up anything.

I'm posting some of the Christmas cards I made this year.

Several use items I have had for several years combined with relatively new embellishments or papers.

On these cards, the paper and bows are new while the tabs are very old.

For these the bingo cards are older while the doilies and papers are new.

These cards feature a new Memory Box die.

These cards feature new papers and stamps.

These cards also feature a new stamp set from Papertrey Ink and I don't think you can tell in the photo but each card has a different colour of embossed gold. I was experimenting to see which one I liked best. The Ranger brand  embossed with the most detail followed by the Filigree I borrowed from Patricia.

More featuring relatively new papers.

The next two I 'cardlifted' from Sharon and feature a new Papertrey ink stamp set and die.

And the last feature stamped images I made last year using a stamp borrowed from Regan.

I hope you enjoyed this peak at my Christmas cards most made with a little help from my friends.

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Christmas Tags

This week at Crazy Card Party Patricia wants to see those Christmas tags.

I'm featuring a couple of tags, the first I made for my tag swap a couple of weeks ago:

It features three Memory Box dies, American Crafts glitter paper and Stampin' Up gold foil paper on a rustic cream tag base.

The second I created at a scrapbook event in early November.

I borrowed the tag die(Mama Elephant) from Patricia and the ornament die(Memory Box I think) from LeeAnne, thanks ladies! It features Stampin' Up silver glitter paper combined with Papertrey Ink kraft cardstock.

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Non-traditional Christmas Card

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This week at Crazy Card Party, Avril wants to see Christmas cards using a non-traditional colour scheme.

While this is definitely a Christmas card, the brown, kraft and white cardstock is not a usual Christmas colour combination.

I especially like the ornament embossing.

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Supplies used - Papertrey Ink - cardstock, stamp; Embossing folder - cuttlebug; Ink - Momento

Snowflakes

Hello again!

Time for another Crazy Card Party challenge and this week Sharon wants to see our cards using snowflakes.

I created these two cards at a scrapbooking event with all my fellow "party-ers" a few weeks ago.

I always like the mix of blue and silver.

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Coffee Break

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This week at Crazy Card Party Kathryn wants to see our coffee break inspired cards.

I took my card in a bit of a different direction as it is 'tea' inspired.

Tea is the first cousin to coffee right?

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Supplies used - Cardstock - Papertrey Ink; Stamp - Stampin' Up; Patterned Paper - Lilybee; Ink - moemnto, copics; Enamel Dots - My Minds Eye

Framed!

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This week over at Crazy Card Party we are sharing cards with frames.

Here's my card:

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Something Rustic!

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This week I'm sharing a rustic inspired card for Crazy Card Party. Love this challenge Regan!

And what is more rustic than burlap?

Some twine and  a wood inspired embossed background also contribute to the rustic feel.

And I finally broke into a new stamp set to create the leaves!

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Supplies used - Cardstock - Papertrey Ink; Dies - Papertrey Ink; Stamps - Papertrey Ink; Twine - Papertrey Ink; Ink - Stampin' Up; Embossing folder - Sizzix; Burlap paper - DCWV; Enamel Dots - Studio Calico

Christmas Cards!!

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This week at Crazy Card Party, Dee wants to see those Christmas cards.

When  handmaking your cards, it's never to early to start them.

I used a new to me Papertrey Ink stamp set to create this card;

I embellished it with rhinestones but were I to mail this card I would likely use Stickles to bling it up.

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Supplies used - Papertrey Ink - stamps, cardstock, ink

Crazy Card Party - Autumn

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This week over at Crazy Card Party, Patricia wants to see our autumn inspired cards.

I used some autumn inspired mahogany watercolour to create a base for a collection of embellishments;

Pop over to Crazy Card Party to see what the other partiers created and link up  your own!

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Supplies used - Cardstock - Papertrey Ink; Stamp - Papertrey Ink; Dies - Papertrey Ink, Spellbinders; Watercolour - Peerless; Ink - Momento

Crazy Card Party - Halloween

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This week at Crazy Card Party Avril wants to see our Halloween inspired cards.

I used some Halloween papers to create this card:

Pop over to Crazy Card Party to see what the other party-ers created and link up your Halloween card!

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Supplies used: Cardstock - Papertrey Ink; Dies - Papertrey Ink, Simon Says; Patterned Paper - Authentique

Crazy Card Party - Ombre!

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This week at Crazy Card Party, Sharon wants to see cards featuring ombre.

Earlier this summer Brianne decided on an ombre card as her engagement party invitation.

It is perfect for this challenge!

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