Another Challenge Card

The base is a 6x6 CTMH Lovely Leaves paper pack, a second piece from the pack is cut at 2.5x6.  Used CTMH clear embossing powder on mulberry paper using CTMH Dragonfly wood mounted stamp, then used dauber to apply CTMH Tropical Blue stamp pad. I cut a 6x1.5 piece of dark blue cardstock and used a Martha Stewart Doily Punch to make the scallop edge.  I cut a piece of ivory cs into a 1.5" circle, crumpled it up and applied CTMH cocoa sp ink with a sponge around the edges and the creases. Then cut a 2.5" circle and used the MS Doily punch around the edges, crumpled it up, applied white embossing powder to the creases and edges, then applied the cocoa ink over the embossed lines.  I cut 2 7" pieces of old lace bought from Wal-Mart years ago, taped them back to back, applied cocoa ink to the edges to darken them
a little more. Next I cut a piece of CTMH Star Spangled Blue Grosgrain ribbon that I taped to cover where the lace was joined.  I placed two misc. buttons in the corner and the sentiment is in the Porcelain font from Dafont.com , sponging it again with cocoa ink.
I am entering this into the challenges:

            Just Us Girls Challenge - sketch   Was an hour too late to enter this :(
            365 Cards - Day 129-aged look

Let the Challenges Begin!!

I am finally working on challenges again!  I was out of town for 3 days, brought my granddaughter back with me and she stayed a week at the same time I was taking a
class from Jessica Sprague.  Left me no time or energy to work on cards!!  So my card today
starts with a base of CTMH Sunflower cs, used a Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder on it. Used a 1.25" McGill circle punch on CTMH Birthday Bash dp and used a circle cutter from Creative Memories to cut the other circles at around 2" also on the Birthday Bash paper. Cut a 1.5" strip from Colorbok Paper Pack in green.  Used the Martha Stewart Doily Punch on both sides of the strip to make my ribbon.  I used CTMH Simple Stitches acrylic stamp set with CTMH Evergreen embossing powder and Super Emboss Stamp Pad from Personal Stamp Exchange to make my faux stitching on my ribbon. Next I stamped a butterfly from CTMH Bold Butterflies wood mounted stamp set with Kaleidacolor Pastel stamp pad, and finally used embellies from Bead Design gemstones. I made my button out of the 1.25 circle, punched two holes in it and threaded CTMH Sunflower and Holiday Red Ribbon through it.
I am entering this card in the following challenges:

        Annabelle Stamps Blog - sketch
        Cooking it up with Katie - sketch from another blog, add yellow and real or faux stitching
        Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge - scallops and embellies      
        Crafty Creations Challenges - make your own button
        Craft Your Passion - real or faux stitching
        Flutterby Wednesdays - have a butterfly, fairy or angel on card
        Incy Wincy Designs - use punches

Paper Playtime Challenge #4

Bugs, Bees, Ants and Ladybugs...the Challenge for Paper Playtime. To meet the requirements of this challenge I used a CTMH Container Jar and CTMH bees and a ladybug from one of their mega sets of 36, wood mounted. CTMH foil paper was used for the jar lid and CTMH vellum for the jar. CTMH markers were used to color the insects.  A Martha Stewart doily punch was used to make the tablecloth.

Paper Cutz, Secret Crafter Saturday, & Crafty Creations Challenge

Its a wedding! The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge was to make a wedding project. This entry is also for the Paper Cutz Challenge that required a wedding card using white, brown, pink and green only!!  The background is CTMH Garden Tapestry stamped with CTMH topiary green stamp pad.  The next layer is CTMH Watermelon cs embossed with the dots folder with the Cuttlebug.  The heart is a CTMH Blossom Blast stamped with CTMH watermelon stamp pad.  The sentiment is cut at 2" with the Cricut Stamping cart. in dark brown.  The ribbons are from Martha Stewart.The faux stitching is done with a green pen.  I am also able to enter this in the Crafty Creations Challenge #72 that requires real or faux stitching and is called "It's a Stitch Up"

CAS71 -Things that fly

I am trying the challenge at SCS - CAS71. CAS stands for Clean and Simple with the theme of Things that fly, so my card was just that.  I used CTMH grey wool stamp pad to stamp the CTMH Swirl Frame wood mounted stamp. Kaleidocolor rainbow stamp pad was used to stamp the CTMH large butterfly and the small butterfly stamp I bought from ABC Distributing.  The pink gold trimmed ribbon is from Martha Stewart, and my jewels are from Bead Design.