ODBD Tent Card

It's been awhile since I've joined in with the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge. One of my fave images is this snowy scene which is fun to color and glitter up, so I knew I wanted to play along this week!  Their challenge is to create an alternate fold card or 3D project, so I went to the SCS tutorial pages and found Beate's directions HERE to create a tent card.  It was so easy and it's a fun way to easily display your card as part of your home decor.

Here is a front view of the card...

What did I use?
STAMPS: Warm Wishes (ODBD)
PAPER: Winter Fun 6x6 pad by Carta Bella, Impress It Blending Card, White by PTI
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Chocolate Chip
ACCESSORIES: Snowflake punch by Martha Stewart, Coarse and extra fine glitter, Fishtail Flags Die-Namics by MFT, Rhinestones by SU, Copics, Circle and Scallop circle Nesties.

Color Throwdown

Don't you just LOVE this delightful color combo that Broni has thrown down for us this week?! I embraced them for another Christmas card and was in love with the non-traditional color combo!

This is the last Color Throwdown challenge for 2013, but be assured we will be back in 2014 with more awesome colors and a new guest designer!  I want to thank Cindy Lawrence for her gorgeous card samples the past two months!  She totally rocks!

This card is all about favorites for me.  Anyone following my blog knows I love this SU Gorgeous Grunge set for fun backgrounds.  The snowflake die is another favorite winter element that is so fun to layer.  I also love the funky fonts in Julee's Joyous Noel stamp set (Verve), so couldn't resist using a sentiment from that set.  I'm a big fan of Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday Challenge and the current one really jumped out at me.  What a great layout!

Remember...to play along with the Color Throwdown challenge, you don't have to use exact colors - just something that's close.  If you upload to a public gallery, please use the keyword CTD 272 and also link up your card on the Color Throwdown blog using the linky tool.

For more inspiration, you'll want to check out the rest of the design team's creations, along with our  talented guest designer, Cindy Lawrence:                                                 
                                                      Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits
                                              Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor 
                                                   Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud
Melody Rupple - A Paper Melody

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Vickie Zimmer -  Smitten

                                    Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations (you are here)

Cindy Lawrence - Nov./Dec. Guest Designer - The Creative Closet

STAMPS: Gorgeous Grunge (SU), Joyous Noel (Verve)

PAPER: Smoky Slate, Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Silver glitter CS (SU); White by PTI.

INK: Smoky Slate, Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Black

ACCESSORIES: Rhinestones by SU, Bigz Snow Flurry die by Sizzix (SU), Button by SU, Silver cording. 

Peace Birds

 

I'm using a flipped version of Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge along with Peggy's Color Challenge on SCS to use Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe and Crumb Cake with the dessert option to repeat something. In my case, I die cut two sentiments and layered them for a shadow effect. I used two different embossing folders for the background and added some Groovy Guava grosgrain ribbon which is a slight shade darker than Crisp Cantaloupe.  The entire card is 5 1/2" square.  The image was colored with Copics and highlighted with a clear Wink of Stella glitter brush pen. 

STAMPS: Snow Wonderful (Flourishes)
PAPER: Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, X-Press It Blending Card, White (PTI)
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black
ACCESSORIES: Classic Keyhole Template die by Flourishes, Peace sentiment die by PTI, Grosgrain ribbon by SU, Brads by Recollections, Basket weave EF by Lifestyle Crafts, Holly EF by Cuttlebug.

Diva Dare: Playing Favorites

There's a fun Diva Dare theme on the Verve blog this month! We have the option of choosing a favorite 2013 Verve creation or creating a new card!  Since I'm needing to stay in Christmas mode for new creations, I'm going with the first option to choose a previous card that is a favorite of mine.  Well...that was no easy task, because there are so many fave Verve sets, but I went with this card from a Mojo Monday sketch challenge on July 29.

This is one of my favorite Verve flowers (from the Hope Blooms set) to fussy cut, ruffle up and layer with foam dots!  I also love when Julie combines different fonts within the same sentiment and you will note that I almost always turn to Verve to choose my card sentiments!  I may have gravitated to this card today because of the cold and gloomy weather we are facing in VA.  This brings a welcomed breath of spring to my posts! :-)

STAMPS: Hope Blooms (Verve)

PAPER: True Friends 6x6 pad (Carta Bella), White, Raspberry Fizz (PTI)

INK: Versafine Onyx Black

ACCESSORIES: Melon Mambo ribbon (SU), Brad, MS tag, Hexagon Die-Namics (MFT), Large leafy flourish Die-Namics (MFT).

CAS Christmas

It's an icy and cold Monday morning and I'm content to be in my jammies without having to go in to work today! Last evening was a stressful drive home from work and even more stressful was the walk getting to my car in the parking lot! Ice everywhere! I'm thankful for no falls and no loss of power!
I'm determined to get my Christmas cards addressed today and decided to play with two different challenges to add another masculine card to my stash. This is for the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge to feature a tree or trees and it's also using the layout for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.  I already had this tree die cut and sponged from a previous project, so it was a quick decision to add it as the focal point.  The rusty jingle bells and twine seemed fitting for the masculine papers.  Thanks for stopping by...as always, I appreciate your comments!

STAMPS: Peace on Earth (Verve)
PAPER: Norlard paper pack by Farm House Paper Co., Vintage Cream by PTI
INK: Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake
ACCESSORIES: Christmas Tree #2 by Sizzix, Rusty jingle bells, Jute twine, Postage border Die-Namics by MFT.

Mojo Monday

The month is movin' on out and it's already time for another sketch challenge on the Mojo Monday blog! I'll have to admit, my mojo was in a slump with this layout, but I soon decided to create my own patterned paper by using 4 different sized snowflakes from Verve's "Christmas in the Air" set.  I only used two ink colors - Lucky Limeade and Regal Rose - and stamped off once with two of the snowflake images.  I layered up some die cut snowflakes (SU), silver embossed the sentiment from "Bright Spirits" and added some bling. 

If you need some more inspiration, be sure and swing by the blogs of the rest of the mojo makers below...or...you can check out the first few thumbnails on the Mojo Monday blog to see what they've created!

Carole Burrage

Debbie Carriere

 Julee Tilman (Owner)

 Marisa Ritzen 

  Mary Fish

  Sarah Bigelow

  Teresa Kline

Sure hope you can take some time out of your busy schedule and play along with us!

Sketch For You To Try

This is a late night creation after getting home from work last night and it's for Jen's December Sketch For You To Try challenge. I wanted to do a subway art style grouping of sentiments from Reverse Confetti's two Christmas sets: Bring on the Merry and Tinsel 'N Trim.  I used Garden Green, Cranberry Crisp and Crumb Cake ink then embellished with wood veneer snowflakes for the circle elements.  I thought the jute twine and rusty jingle bells would fit well with the wooden snowflakes.  A quick and easy card to create!  So glad you stopped by...always appreciate your kind comments!