9 November 2018 birthday card for young man using Sketchy Sat and CKC and HIMCR challenges

Happy Birthday to my best friend's son's #23

#1: CKC blog (Counterfeit Kit Challenges)
a. cardstock and papers shown are leftovers from my October kit that I'm rolling over into my November kit in order to get them used.
b. link= https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/11/november-2018-just-gist-of-it.html

#2: HIMCR blog (Hiding In My Craft Room)
a. this week's theme is fall colors= I've got different shades of browns (including that maple leaf ribbon), russets, and yellows to give this card a crisp bold autumn look
b. link= http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2018/11/himcr-377-fall-colors.html

#3: Sketchy Saturday from Laurel Seabrook Designs
a. this week's prompt will be shown below; since I chose to use the leaf shaped ribbon to separate each diagonal band, I didn't use an accent shape as a focal.
b. link= https://laurelseabrookdesigns.blogspot.com/2018/11/sketchy-saturday-with-tis-season.html

More to come either later tonight or tomorrow as I finally reveal my November kit (kits within kit)! :)

Becca S

9 Nov 2018 great niece bday card using SS by LSD and HIMCR and CKC

#8...wow!...can you remember those years or should I say quarters and halves of years to being thought of as older?

I'm using that type of pent-up joy to create a birthday card for one of our youngest great nieces.

Here are my challenges and criteria to meet:

a. Sketchy Saturday by Laurel Seabrook Designs current sketch challenge design

b. HIMCR for its current challenge with fall colors

c. CKC for its current copy cat kit challenge using Citrus Twist's curated kit "Little Things" to inspire our November kits for layouts and other paper-crafting

HB, Graci!!!!

I reversed the paper sections for this birthday card and used leaves instead of a star. Link for Sketchy Saturday challenge:https://laurelseabrookdesigns.blogspot.com/2018/11/sketchy-saturday-with-tis-season.html

Colors of mauve pinks, soft baby pinks, yellows, and sage greens are part of the color palette used in the inspirational kit from Citrus Twist that is showcased for November 2018 at CKC blog. 
Link for the color palette reveal photo for the CKC blog can be found here:
https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/11/november-2018-just-gist-of-it.html

The browns, greens, and yellows along with the burlap texture leaf and the cardstock patterned leaf shape reinforce the fall colors theme for this week at HIMCR blog. Link for the current HIMCR challenge week post is here: http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2018/11/himcr-377-fall-colors.html

More color craziness to come from my part of the USA heartland, Becca S

7 Nov 2018 masculine bday card for CCMWF and CKC and PI and LRW and PPCC

Georgia Boy meets Illinois girl in Texas many years ago...

and that's how the story started for my sister and her husband who is celebrating his birthday tomorrow and with a party on Saturday! So I've got to get this mailed a.s.a.p.!

Travel theme was a good prompt and thanks to Paper Issues having a travel/globe/As the World Turns challenge this was a convenient for me to do for my b-in-l.

You can find the prompt on both the blog site and the Facebook community. The link for the site can be found here for Paper Issues: https://paperissues.blogspot.com/2018/11/as-world-turns.html

Another challenge to link to is Little Red Wagon's new prompt that started today about sentiments. Imke wants everyone to have the card focus be on the message/text, so that's why I stamped and stenciled in the center of the banner section on my card front. The link for this site can be found here: https://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2018/11/challenge-471-just-sentiment.html

CKC blog has a delightful inspirational curated kit from Citrus Twist called Little Things for its November counterfeiting challenge. This card has darker tones of the blues and creams found in the kit and with the PI travel theme I'm thinking about having a broad travel theme for my copy cat kit that I'm still shopping through my stuff for. [think weather shapes like clouds, stars, and rainbows along with travel shapes like circles/spheres/globes, cameras, maps, trains, and more] I had set aside these papers last night but not necessarily for my b-in-l. But with PI's Nov 5 announced As The World Turns and the CCMWF sketch plus the LRW focus on sentiments, the puzzle/card pieces just seem to fall into place for a masculine birthday card. CKC has had several posts already this month, so I'll use the 2nd one for November titled "Just the Gist" for the link:
https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/11/november-2018-just-gist-of-it.html

And the inside panel was kept simple using more of the globe patterned CS:

This sketch is from CCMWF (Christian Card-Makers~ Women's Fellowship) a secret group through Facebook. Instead of stars I used buttons. Banner placement went up to the top edge due to using a A2 size card; this also affected the gray portion seen in my card as a map/atlas print. Otherwise I'm pretty accurate to the sketch for my interpretation:
Another view of the front panel and link to another challenge that is open to paper-crafted creations (Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges): http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2018/11/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-405.html

Isn't it great when a plan comes together that you didn't even plan!?!!! Must be a God thing!!!

Becca S