Monochromatic birthday for Caardvarks challenge

Good Monday morning! Hope everyone had a fun weekend and the weather in your part of the world is treating you good;)

I love creating cards with a monochromatic theme, so when I saw this challenge on the Caardvarks blog, well I just had to play along! I don't have any Core'dinations card stock, but I am on the hunt for it! Click onto the Caardvarks link above and you will see some amazing cards that the crew over there created. They are TRULY amazing!

For my simple card, I used PaperTrey Ink Ocean tides for the front double edged twig border, Bazzil textured Hazel card stock for the card front and the double edged hydrangea border panel, a strip of this perfectly colour co-ordinated Memory box paper from the Poppyfinch collection, Spellbinder petite oval dies, CuttleBug fancy filigree square dies that I layered under the ovals, a SU bird punch and some pretty Prima paper roses that compliment this colour theme quite well (imho) as an embellishment. The sentiment is from the SU set Well Scripted. I sponged the edges of the card, Memory box paper strip and the birdie with PTI Ocean Tides ink for a little dimension. Thanks for taking a peek today. Hope you have a great creating week!

cheers!

chriss

Peachy Keen and lacy!

Hello everyone! What a great Friday this will be, it's sunny and they are promising warmer weather! That's good for me because I dug a new flower bed a couple of days ago and need to finish it before a dear friend of mine from Toronto arrives on Sunday for a week long visit. I am very anxious for her to get here! We will have other things to keep busy with ;)

So onto my card...

I created this for the Caarvarks Lacy Days challenge. Well, things are peachy keen with this card, delicate lace around the peaches and all edges of the Graphic 45 papers used are sponged with a marigold ink for a homey feel. I love this Lockhart peaches in the leafy lettuce bowl stamp. Love all of the Lockharts for the size of the image and detail. These are great to colour and shade with Copic markers.

I used some Spellbinder Nestabilities dies and all stamped images are popped up on dimensional foam.
Have a great Friday!

I will take pictures of the garden bed and post if I get to finish it today or tomorrow!

Cheers!

Chriss

Simple and Romantic Wedding Bouquet

1 card, 2 challenges...

I am still organizing my craft room, but really wanted to make this card for a couple of challenges that are nearing deadline.

The 1st challenge is to "make your very best wedding card" and have a chance at being published over on the Caardvarks blog here. I have only ever submitted for a publication 2 times...and no luck. Maybe third time is a charm? I know that I have read to keep submitting and it could take a long time to ever get selected, so I guess I have to be a little more persistent and patient ;)

The second challenge is a sketch challenge, # 153, over on the CardPositioning site here being sponsored by Papertrey Ink!!!

For my card I decided to use a beautiful JustRite image, newly released from the Breath of Spring collection. I am using them as Hydrangeas. (even though I know that they are violets! they have the same shaped petal so...let's just pretend) I started my card by stamping the image twice onto Papertrey Vintage Cream card stock in SU Always Artichoke. I then coloured with my Copic markers and cut out with the Spellbinder Label one die and I also embossed it. I used a chiffon Copic (one of the new lights from Copic that I just bought from Ellen Hutson)to colour the cream spaces on the embossed panel, taking care to follow along the edges.

I also coloured some extra flowers and cut them out and added dimensional foam to the backs and placed these in the bouquet adding some "Buttermilk" sparkle from a newly puchased Spica pen. I added some sparkle to the bouquet's ribbon too. The card base is made with Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream card stock and to the front of this I added a brown Bazzil textured layer and then a cream Bazzil textured layer. The designer paper front is a double sided sheet from K and Co. from a new (and gorgeous collection)designer mat pad from Tim Coffey. I cut the front panels to suit the square size I was making (5 1/4 square) and adhered to the front. Over that is a strip of the same Bazzil card stock

that I used the new SU punch on. I wrapped some lace around the strip and adhered to the card front. The rhinestones are a flower cluster that I cut up from a Say it in Crystals pack that I have been hoarding. I used these because they were a complimentary colour and a good size for the scale of the punched scallop. The edges of the main image was sponged in Ranger tea dye ink (as were the other designer paper edges)and placed onto a larger size Label one panel that I cut from another piece of the same K and Co. paper.

Hope you like the card, I had a lot of fun making it! I may have another post today...Have a great day! Thanks for visiting.

Challenged just RITE

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend and were warm and cozy. It is starting to warm up a little here, and that is a very good thing;)

Here is another sketch challenge, this time from the Caardvarks site AND there is a wonderful JustRite prize associated with winning this one! Oh my, in my dreams...but here is what I came up with.

I used Bazzil and Basic Grey Bittersweet (yes, again) to make a simple, but elegant Valentine/Love/Anniversary card. The colours are soft and the little pink rhinestones add a nice amount of bling, without being too gaudy?

The sentiment is a JR as is the beautiful border. I stamped both of these in close to cocoa craft ink and clear embossed. The scallop in the beige?taupe card stock is a SU border punch and the pink one is a Martha Stewart one.

The little pink hearts are also MS and they took a little time to apply...I first used mini pop dots, but they proved to be too bulky and the hearts were not sitting just right (oops ~ no pun intended! ;) so I carefully removed and used about 1/4 of each pop dot for each heart.

Thanks for peeking in today, I surely do appreciate the visit ,

chriss