101st blog post=best year birthday card

Here's another combined challenges creation. I'm using Paper Wishes message board June 27 guest host challenge to incorporate slide mount and Ribbon Carousel's #10 Challenge to incorporate paper piecing.

The slide mount had purple string woven around the top half as well as Jillibean Soup's Atomic cardstock stickers spelling "best year". Behind the slide mount is a pre-printed card cut in small rectangle shape so that some of the happy birthday print shows through the slide mount opening as well as around it. The pre-printed card is from HOTP's Paper Pizzaz/PW. I also used the part of the same card to create the flourish shown on the inside of the card. Also from PW/HOTP are all the brads and flowers (Earth Palette's creative brad kit)and the basic white card form. And the inside view's flourish was created by enlarging part of a stencil in Pebble's stencils accent set purchased from PW.

Paper pieced are the paper pieces that if you look at the cover in a certain way you should be able to see the elements as a stacked cake. (That was actually a happy accident of the process.) Ribbon Carousel's spool required supplies include the purple string used around the slide mount and also between the two brads that was tied into a bow.

It's certainly a different styling for me but I like the combination of colors, patterns, the overall look of both the cover and the inside.

(From Jillibean Soup's Atomic Cardstock Sticker set is also the border sticker used on the inside. I also used papers from Colorbok's pattern set.)

I don't have an image to input for the guest host challenge but it can be found on the Paper Wishes message board's guest host challenge thread under the category of Swaps and Challenges.

100th blog posting= lucky me thank you card

For this card creation, I'm combining forces to meet requirements for Ribbon Carousel's #10 challenge for cut and paste (old term) or paper piecing (new term) and for Paper Wishes message board's mid-June sketch challenge (no time limits).

For Ribbon Carousel's Challenge #10, I cut out 3 hearts from one pattern paper for the leaf parts of the clover and a smaller heart from a different pattern paper for the center. I also used a coordinating pattern behind the main cardstock clover. The center of the stem also has a lighter tone cardstock. Ribbon Carousel also required that you use something from a spool which for me is the yellow sheer ribbon.

For Paper Wishes sketch challenge, I tweaked the layout a bit with the oval cut-outs being used as the punched holes with ribbon bows. I also tweaked the focal/greeting area and had the "lucky me" hand-written on the clover stem as a secondary greeting. To me the main greeting is the extra stamped "thanks so much". The inside view, features more heart cut-outs. PW also requires that you use a majority of their products. I used their 4 pattern papers and yellow heart brad.

I'm very pleased with the results! I like the repeating colors, several coordinating swirly papers, and clean design.

RCC9 happy birthday america and Paper Wishes mb mid June sketch

Combining the sketch layout challenge from Paper Wishes message board and from Ribbon Carousal's happy birthday America challenge, this is what I came up with for one of my husband's buddies whose birthday was yesterday/July 3rd.

Paper Wishes sketch was turned on its side. I thought the horizontal layout would be better for using the "celebrate" sticker sentiment. PW or HOTP products used include the basic red card form, the mini ruby red brads, and the scalloped circle punch from Tonic Studio that was used for the half circles.

Ribbon Carousal encouraged the use of red, white, and/or blue as well as always using something from a spool. Spool products used include the striped satin ribbon across the top and the ribbon embellishment from Making Memories.

The Making Memories design embellishment set purchased at Hobby Lobby included the rockets, blue and red stars, the celebrate sticker along with the ribbon embellishment.

DCWV adhesive-backed textured cardstock mounts provided the dark blue background paper.

The plaid cardstock was purchased in a scrapbooking set about 4-5 years ago.

Inside there was also a happy birthday stamp, blue ink stamp pad, and light blue cardstock used from my stash.

I'm very pleased with the results. Hope you all like it too! Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!

new blog and challenge undertaking

Ribbon Carousel's latest challenge, RCC7, is to include music along with an item that comes from a spool (thread, twine, ribbon, etc).

For a teacher thank you card, I used the chorus portion of the hymn "Count Your Blessings" that I copied onto a light blue linen parchment paper. It's mounted onto light blue cardstock and then placed onto the background pattern paper (DCWV or Colorbok, not sure, since I deconstructed the paper pack).

I used blue satin ribbon in one corner and white string bow in opposite corner. There's also white thread tied on the button.

The layout design is simple and clean. On the inside there's another button with white thread.

Here's what the card looks like outside and inside: