365 Cards: #92 Paper Take Sketch & Basic Grey

Today on 365 Cards the challenge was to use your favorite ice cream flavor as inspiration for your card. One of my favorites is mint chocolate chip, but I also really love Rasberry Chip Royale: 

Very yummy! so with that in mind I used this week's sketch #56 from Papertake and combined it with the basicgrey challenge, to make this sweet greeting that's "From the Heart"  The brown cardstock  is by Stampin Up, and the patterned heart paper is called bittersweet by Basic Grey.  I added ribbon and a heart charm to complete this handmade card.  Both the card and the stamp are available to purchase in my Etsy shop.

Less is More #17 pick a square

This week on Less is more the idea was to pick a portion of a square to use your image or words, and leave the rest as white space.  I really like how this sentiment has the rose image twined through it.  I embossed this stamp using versamark and cranberry powder by Stampendous.  I colored in the flower with sharpie markers and glaze gel pens.    This card and stamp are available in my Etsy Shop:

                                                                                              

365 Cards: #91 Color scheme

Today on 365 cards the challenge is to use these three colors:

I used Stampin Up paper and ribbon to create this cute "Congratulations" on your new home or sold home themed card.  I cut out one of the houses and used a pop dot to make it a focal point too.   This is my 100th post!! so it's also a congrats to meeee :) 

365 Cards #87 Cool

Today's word prompt on 365 cards is "Cool".  The other day it was soooo hot and humid outside, then the rain came and it cooled the air almost instantly! I love listening to the rain and watching children splash in puddles :)
  I used a fiskars texture plate for the background of this card, and added sizzix splashes to the bottom to make it look like rain puddles.   I used this wonderful sentiment "May Happiness Rain Down On You" by Stampabilities.  To make the word Rain appear 3D, I used Royal Coat Dimensional Magic by Plaid.    

365 Cards: #83 Sketchy Sunday

Here is sketch  #83 on 365 cards:
I made this "Hello" greeting using stampin up Alphadots and a circle punch.  I put a few rhinestones and a cute telephone sticker on  to add to the fun.  The patterned paper is from The Angel Company Fruiti Fusion  pack.

365 Cards: #85 Steam

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Today's word prompt on 365 cards is "Steam" so I thought of coffee and a hot bath ~ ahhhh -then I thought of this hot air balloon....steam - hot air...?!  I thought this "Happy Birthday" sentiment stamp went with the hot air balloon very nicely.   I stamped on glossy photo paper with a black palette ink pad.  I colored in the image using glaze gel pens and added some rhinestones for sparkle.  A very fast and fun unisex birthday card. 

365 cards: #85 Hat

Today on 365 cards the word prompt is "Hat".  I thought of this terrific "we three cat's" stamp by Stampendous.  I think these felines look fabulous with their colored rhinestone hats.  I stamped on glossy photo paper with a black palette ink pad, and then colored in the hats with sharpies and added a glaze marker to the one hat to make it puff a little. 

Less is More #16 Butterfly & 365 Cards #84 Ruffles

On the Less is More blog the theme this week is butterflies.  I combined challenges with today's 365 cards which is to think "ruffles".  I thought this image had a vintage feel to it, so in keeping with the collage theme I added a lace ruffle to the side and a wonderful charm that reads "Love".  I used Kraft cardstock and colorbox burnt sienna chalk inkpad for color.  This stamp and card are available to purchase from my Etsy shop.  I'm also including a yard of this lace ruffle trim with purchase. 

Less is More #15 Embossing

I made this card for the Less is more challenge which was to make a one layer card using embossing powder.  I chose this vintage looking image  with the violets and the birthday greeting sentiment.  I pulled out the twinkling H20's and the Luminarte to color in the flowers with my water brush.  Everytime I play with this powder I think ""why don't I use this more often?" I love the shimmer.  I thought it needed something more across the top so I added a ribbon, but kept it flat by not tying a bow.  I think it turned out very simple and pretty.

365 Cards #79 Fabulous Finge

Today on 365 cards the challenge is to create a fringe on your card.  I found two other challenges: Anita Be Stampin which is to use lace and pearls and another challenge on Anything Goes that requested lace, pearls and embossing.  So with all that in mind, I created this card.  I have containers that I keep my ribbon scraps  in sorted by color.  I made my fringe out of loops of ribbon and then added lace and another piece of white ribbon to run across the front.  The embellishment on the corner was actually part of an infant headband that I repurposed.  I embossed the "Congratulations" sentiment in blue powder.  I think this would make a pretty wedding or baby shower card.  The two greetings and stamp are available to purchase from my Etsy shop.