GAB Challenge week 2
This week our team is challenging you with a sketch. Please feel free to flip the sketch if you would like or add more layers as long as your card/project still resembles our layout! Our challenge this week is sponsored by:
 STITCHY BEAR STAMPS

Stitch Bear Stamps has given us a $10 gift certificate to their digital stamp store for one lucky winner this week! If you would like to play along using Stitchy Bear designs we would love to see them, although this is not required to participate.

The stamp I used here is Power of  Love by Stitchy Bear Stamps.
I just love using digi stamps, they are so versatile. You can make them from itty bitty up to what ever your printer will print out. The size I used on my card is 2.79 x 2.65. I thought about going smaller, but I had to color it and my coloring little things leaves a bit to be desired.

Now its your turn, make your card then go to GAB Challenges to enter it. 

GAB Challenge #1

Here is my card. I have four layers, the fourth being vellum on which I stamped the sentiment. The third layer is white CS stamped  with Pretty in Pink ink to make the background. The corners were punched using a Fiskars punch.

Also don't forget to check out Blog Candy post to make sure you qualify for a chance to win a $25 SU! Gift Certificate valid through Courtney! Go on over to GAB Challenges and submit your card.

It has been a while since I posted. I have gotten lazy, January is  gone and I wasn't very productive only made about five or six cards and a set of 19 ATCs. I must do better on the cards this month.
Here is a card I made using Cricut cartridge Birthday Bash. I had to make a card designed around a coin. I spent weeks trying to figure out how to use a coin on a card. I looked through all of my cartridges and saw this kangaroo. She has a pocket. (Putting coin(s) in a pocket had been on my mind for several weeks.) Here was the pocket for my coin! As you can see, Mom kangaroo is not only  carrying the penny in her pocket but she also her baby .


This card has a "homemade" background. I was to use Saran Wrap to make the background and I had so much fun making it that I used it on several cards.  I really like the look that the wrap produces. The image, Bunny Love, is designed by Melissa Jenkins, and offered as a freebee at OWH!

Both cards were made for January swaps that I participated in.
Thank you for coming by. 

I went over to the OWH Stars & Stamps site last night and saw this  Shippers Choice challenge.
The challenge is to make cards for our heroes to send home to their wives, husbands, kids, etc., which say “THINKING OF YOU” somewhere on the front. 
I couldn't decide which one I wanted to enter into the challenge or to post here, so here are two. As you can see, I'm color challenged, but hope that the cards will be liked for the thought behind them.
I inked the tag on the right using saran wrap and my ColorBox ink pad. The sentiment is a Hampton Art stamp. The butterfly stamp on the other card is from Hero Arts.
If you are interested in finding out what OWH is all about, hop on over there and take a look-see.
Thank you for stopping by. 

I just couldn't end the year without a challenge. My e-mail in box had the following challenge from Operation Write Home tonight.

 Holiday Vacation Challenge #11: Goodbye 2010!

Today's final holiday challenge is to say a fond (or not so fond?) farewell to 2010! You need to use TEN things or TWENTY things on your card. You pick which. Now we don't want a card slathered with sticker sneeze....still make it as nice and clean a card as you can. But the things that count in your TEN or TWENTY are the physical stuff attached (not the adhesives or card base)...things like:

• layers  
• paper (sentiments or stamped images on them don't count as a separate item)
• ribbon
• buttons, bling, etc count individually  

Here is my card for the Holiday Vacation Challenge #11. I have ten items on my card.
They are: five layers, 2 snowflakes, 3starburst jewels. The fifth layer is the square of vellum with the words on it.
This card is also going to be used for a sketch challenge in January 2011


I wish you all much happiness and prosperity in 2011.


Thank you for stopping by

 I finally got all of my Christmas cards completed and have mailed out the ones that were made for a Christmas Card swap. Whew, that is a fair sized project done and I feel less stressed since its completion.

All of the cards you see here have cuts from my Cricut. The two wreaths were cut using the Joys of the Season cartridge. The red "berries" are gell half baubles that I bought at the last Expo I attended. I don't know the real name of them, the manufacturer or what outlet I bought them from. But they are so pretty and they shine so nicely. The scalloped circles were cut using the nestabilities. 

The cuts on the card on the right and the one below are from the Christmas Cheer cartridge. I guess I got carried away using this cartridge because it is no longer any good. The last time I put it in the slot on my Cricut to make more cuts, it froze my Cricut. I had to remove the cartridge and turn off the machine. I put the cartridge in my Juke Box and it did the same thing, even tho I didn't have its button depressed. Again I had to turn my Cricut off and remove the cartridge. We tried it on two other machines and it did the same thing to them. Unfortunately, I didn't get it loaded into my Gypsy before it died.


 I absolutely love this card. The stocking is from the Christmas Cheer cartridge. The printed paper that I used has the "Night before Christmas" poem printed on it.
I had originally wanted to put a Santa on the card, but couldn't find my "believe" stamp, so I used the stocking which goes very nicely with the poem.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like my cards as much as I enjoyed making them.
Take care

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
I can't believe its been nearly a month since I have posted. Guess I had better start minding my "p"s & "q"s, I have just let things slip this past month. I did however, get my cards sent to my OWH shipper. Since I am new to this, I didn't have many Christmas cards to send, but did add some generic cards.
It is now time to start making cards for Valentine's day. I have five done. Lots more to do and only a few weeks left. All Valentine cards must be to the shipper by January 7. Since there are no swaps in my groups next month, I can concentrate on making some cards for OWH. I can also enter some of their challenges. Challenges are so much fun and they help me think "outside the box".
If you like to make cards; Valentine cards, Christmas cards, cards for all occasions, go here to find out about Operation Write Home. Its fun, its doing for others and can be very rewarding.
Hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving. 
Take care