Friend to Friend

Last night I was reminded that I have not cut paper in awhile.  I do know that cutting and creating is good for the spirit and attitude so here is one I really had fun making. 

I cut the gears out of thin cardboard with the Big Kick and painted them with craft paint.  I liked them so much I cut out a bunch to have for making more cards in the future.

Seongsook's Stampers Fall Card Swap

Here is my card for the Fall Card Swap hosted by Cora Jean on Seongsook's Stampers page on FB.  I have to admit that I don't normally do card swaps because I tend to panic and have brain freeze.  But I am attempting to stretch and try something new.  I tried to get lots of textures on this and have to say I did enjoy making this.  Thank you Cora and Seongsook.

OWH Midweek Throwdown - So Sentimental

This challenge is to make the sentiment the focal point of the card.  I also tried to incorporate the lesson from May's Design Bootcamp in using 2 shapes of frames, the brads and the velvet ribbon. 

More love for this week's box

Here are some of the cards going postal to Sandy on Monday.  Look I used yellow!  That and pink are the hardest colors for me to use for some reason.

 

 

These first 6 cards have heavy cardstock embellishments and the paper is K&Co.

 

 

And now of something a little different...... Pink!

 

 

This looks so cool IRL with the gold mesh under the black ribbon.  There are 6 of these in the box.

 

Friendly Cricut Love

I don't want my tools feel unloved so here is a Cricut cut for the day.  The background texture came from a RAK I had received quite a while ago.  Sadly, I can't get that folder up here.  :( 

Midweek Throwdown Spring Flowers

The first challenge of the new year at OWH Stars and Stamps blog is to make a card with spring flowers.  On the heels of such a fun Top 10 event there should be lots of mo-jo flowing.  There were tons of great ideas worth CASEing or stirring the idea pot. 

Keep it Clean (CAS) Challenge

More of the VCMP challenges!  This one is hosted by Jen at The Sparkle Within.  It is for a CAS (clean and simple) card.  I like making these as a break from all the ones that take so much mo-jo.  Plus I can make several of these at one time without a whole lot of fuss.

Friend

I just love this purple shimmery paper!

Forever Friends

This is one of my favorites. The challenge was to make something with pumpkins that didn't look like pumpkins. Here they are the background. The gals were from a ranching ad the sentiment I made on the computer and the black horse was a stamped image that I cut out.

Suzy's Friends

These are Suzy's Zoo stickers plus some bling for the flowers.