365 Cards Day 64 - the Three Fs

Today you had to make a card using the three Fs:
Favourite colour - pink of course
Fringe
Fairy Tale
I actually made two cards for today because I was doing the 'Princess' card and I found a 'happily ever after' rubon in my sentiments collection.

365 Cards Day 62 - Look Whos Talking

I just snuck in under the wire with this one... here's yesterday's challenge to use a speech balloon on your card. I dug one out of my diecut box, and a cute little teddybear to go along with it. It's too late to do today's card now (11pm and I'm tired after my weekend away!) but I'll get to it tomorrow.

365 Cards Day 61

We're heading out of town for the weekend so I'll have to do the weekend cards when we get back... but I whipped up today's card this morning. Good thing it was a fairly simple challenge. :)
Today's Challenge is to use circles (at least) three ways... my card has six!
A lot of people made a circular card today but I didn't have time to mess around with templates so I made a regular card and used the following:

• printed card with circles
• Punched border with a circular pattern in it (and more printed circles but they don't count seperately)
• Fabric sentiment
• Ribbon with circles on it
• Jumbo circle brads
• and lastly, tiny circular diamantes.

Don't forget to get your cards in for the Operation Write Home 'Make Someone's Day' Challenge - the deadline is May 10, so there's not much time left... they have five great prizes to give away, and of course the cards are for a great cause. Just follow the link for directions and the all-important mailing addresses.

365 Cards Days 57/58/60

I posted day 59 yesterday, so here are the other challenges...

Day 57 - Ad-inspired

Make a card inspired by this adorable baby quilt/s... I didn't really want to make another baby card because I just made one of them yesterday, but I've got a cute turtle on my Cricut Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, so I made a romantic card with that. The little bow was on the cartridge as well, I just had to figure out what size to make it... and I cut the mini bow tie by hand.

Day 58 - Crazy Eights. Make a card with at least three multiples of eight on it .
My card has eight colours striped on the background (there were seven colours on the printed paper and I added a strip of yellow to make eight), eight petals on the flower, and eight golden gems in the center of the flower. I didn't want to over-complicate the design with that many colours in it, so I kept the flower very simple.

Day 60 - All that Glitters. It's another glitter challenge - use three colours of glitter on your card. I can't use loose glitter for Operation Write Home, so rather than skip this challenge I've fallen back on paper with the glitter safely embedded in acrylic where it can't flake off and be a danger to anyone.

My card was inspired by the gorgeous glittery giraffe in the 'Nana's Nursery' Baby Boy stack. It had blue glitter and creamy-coloured glitter, so I added a sheet of orangey-yellow glitter cardstock, and then to make sure I had enough glitter, I finished it with a little silver sticker flower with glitter embedded right in the foil. Isn't the giraffe sweet? This card does double duty - it also fits the Wednesday Challenge over on Stars and Stamps - do the Wild Thing... and so for that matter does my kissing turtles card above!

Speaking of Challenges, Operation Write Home is holding a 'Make Someone's Day Challenge' and they have five prizes to give away...  simply send in an envelope of general purpose cards (love you, miss you, thinking of you etc.) and include two Any Hero cards with a brief note of encouragement in them. The deadline for this challenge is May 10th, so if you're interested, get hopping! There's no minimum number of cards  to send... so anything over four would count. :) I'm going to Orlando for the weekend, and I've got a bunch of cards made... hopefully I'll be able to make it to the post office tomorrow.

365 Cards Day 59 - Moving Parts

Today's challenge was to make a card with moving parts on it... that was a bit of a doozy for me! I don't have any stamps suitable for moving arms or legs... I rummaged through my sticker collection and came up with a baby buggy. I punched new wheels for it from cardstock and mounted them on little stubs of folded up cardstock with brads. You'll have to take my word for it becuase they look the same both ways up, but the wheels turn if you push them. I have another idea I want to try involving a flag, string, and a flagpole, but it's way too late at night to attempt that just now.

365 Cards Day 55/56

Day 55 - On Pins and Needles.
Incorporate a decorative pin/s and use a needle to stitch on your card. I used a sewing notion of some kind for my pin (I have no idea what it's meant for but it's been lurking in my sewing box for years and it's cute!) and I emboidered the flower stem for my silk daisy. I also used an embroidered ribbon to finish the card.

Day 56 - Super Sketchy Sunday

Sunday already? Yep! And for once I'm doing Sunday's card actually ON Sunday. I used some bits and pieces from my diecut box, and a recycled picture from an old art book.

Way-back-machine Week 2

Day 35 - Super Sketchy Sunday (Easter Sunday)

Day 36 - I quilt sketch challenge
The middle part of this design reminded me of an envelope... so that's what I used! I finished it with stickers...

Day 37 - Terrific Taggies (ribbon tags)

When you have lots of ribbon the card doesn't really need much else... I may add something else to the border.

Day 38 - Acrostic poem

Day 39 - Totally Transferred (rubon card)

I actually made this one at the correct time but never got it uploaded. I don't use rubons much because I always have troubles getting them to stick! The flower rubons were a pleasant exception. They stuck like a charm. Everything on the card except the patterned paper is a rubon.

Day 40 - Friday Five.
Use the following ingredients:

• 5 colours (pink, purple, green, yellow, white)
• 5 buttons
• 5 patterned papers
• 5 stamps (4 leaves and 1 sentiment)
• 5 blossoms

Day 41 - DIY glittered blossoms/Day 42 - Super Sketchy Sunday
You're not allowed to use loose glitter on cards for Operation Write Home because it's a safety hazard, so I cut my blossoms from glittery cardstock instead. There's plenty of glimmer, but it's safely embedded under acrylic. I combined this challenge with the next day's sketch.