Happy Birthday to Me

This birthday card is freshly made for

Freshly Made Sketches #70 with colourQ challenge $173

 

Finally making use of Cuttlebug's Happy Birthday embossing folder.

The flower and leaves are from the evergreen Spellbinders Carnation Creation.

It was my birthday yesterday.

So, Have a blessed Happy Birthday to me!!

This card is also submitted for Daring Cardmakers Embossability.

Strawberry Chocolate and Mint Card

This CAS card is made for two lovely challenges

Make My Monday CAS Sketch and The Pink Elephant Challenge TPE183 Inspiration Photo

 

Chocolate dipped strawberries look so good and yummy.

Used Sizzix and Cuttlebug dies to cut some chocolate and strawberry cookies

and added the button to complete the card.

I think it is a sweet card for Valentine's Day.

Nautical Happy Birthday Card

This card is inspired by two wonderful challenges

Unscripted Sketches #194 + Piggyback and These Inspired Challenges Inspired By #58.

 

While the inspiration photo is rather feminine, I took a masculine look

~ a nautical touch to the card ~

The fishbone paper is from DCWV Tradewinds Stack.

The Spellbinders die cut birds are from my stash cut out of a shoebox.

Used Sizzix Framelits Tickets for the frame.

Twine is Maya Road and grosgrain ribbon from my stash.

Piggyback for Unscripted is Happy Birthday sticker by Mrs Grossman's.

The initial card looked like a boat in the ocean but not quite it.

So I modified the look with the brown grosgrain ribbon and the birds

and the result is fantastic, me thinks!

So Happy Birthday to the Birthday Boy!!

Bird walking out of the frame...

St Valentine's Hugs and Kisses

This card is made with love for The Paper Players PP129 and Dynamic Duos DD#36.

 

I found my last card too red for Dynamic Duos

so I decided to have a second take on the colors using this lovely CAS sketch

which also fulfills the challenge by Sentimental Sundays 138 ~ Negative Space.

The white card is embossed with Sizzix Flowers Folder,

then cut and embossed with Sizzix Square die

(see the embossed square?)

The black square is cut into a frame and embossed as well.

Finally the white die cut is cut down to size to fit the black frame.

The butterflies are placed to look like they are flying into the frame.

XOXO sentiment from Hero Arts Everyday Messages completes the card.

Hugs and Kisses from me this St Valentine's Day.

CAS Valentine's Card

This card is made for Inkspirational Challenge #3 with colors from Dynamic Duos DD#36

and Sentimental Sundays Challenge #138 ~ Negative Space

 

The photo does not do this card justice.

The red came out not as red as the actual card.

I used Spellbinders Classic Heart and Butterfly on the red card

and used both the positive and negative of the card,

except for the largest heart,

and embossed the whole thing to get the frame.

With Love from me to you on St Valentine's Day.

Layered Birthday Card

Combined these two challenges for this card

Stampin' Royalty #159 and Color Throwdown #225.

 

This is one of the toughest card I have ever made, by choice of combination.

It took the longest time!!!

Perhaps because I found the orange too contrasting.

But in any case, it is done with a lot of trial and error.

Papers are a mixture of Echo Park and plain card stock.

Die cuts using Spellbinders and Sizzix.

It's a layered Birthday card!

Hello Friend Freshly Made

This card is freshly made for Freshly Made Sketches FMS69

I tipped the card to portrait and kept it clean,

blue and white with a contrast of yellow ribbons on white buttons.

Patterned papers are from DCWV Citrus Stack

along with plain blue and white card stocks.

Die cuts from Spellbinders Classic and Scalloped Circles.

Sentiment die cut from Cuttlebug.

This card may be suitable for CASology Week #27 BLUE.

Key to Life is to Enjoy Life

It was fun mashing these two challenges

Deconstructed Sketch no DS84 and Friday Mashup FM92

 

The key to life is to have fun and enjoy life, no matter what.

So I will stick to it, God help me!

Papers in background from DCWV Tradewinds and yellow dotted Citrus stacks

plus orange-yellow circled paper from Cosmo Cricket's Salt Air.

Chinese New Year Cupboard MOJO276

This card is made for Mojo Monday's MOJO276.

Rotated the card portrait and made this oriental mahogany cupboard

for the Chinese Lunar New Year 2013.

A red door welcoming the Year of the Snake.

The patterned paper of the lotuses are from DCWV Tradewinds stack.

All die cuts using Spellbinders dies.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!

Seize the Birthday Card for a Girl

Another lovely new card challenge blog for me!!

Seize the Birthday Card Challenge!!

A birthday card for a lovely bird (girl) perched on a sakura tree.

Papers from Echo Park and Spring Jubilee.

With Spellbinders classic and scalloped circles.

Happy Birthday Girl!

Happy Birthday Card Freshly Made for Color Throwdown

This card was made with 

Freshly Made Sketches FMS68 for Color Throwdown CTD224.

  

I made this card as a second attempt on the sketch with pastel colors

using pinkpaislee designer paper stack from Spring Jubilee

with Sizzix Oval and Spellbinders Butterfly dies.

Have a Happy Birthday Friend!!

Freshly Made for FMS68

This card is made for these two wonderful challenges

Freshly Made Sketches and colourQ Challenge.

 

Love the colours but struggled a while in perfecting the card.

At first, I followed the sketch to a T.  It did not look right.

So I toyed with the same papers and took a different root.

I cut a window in the patterned paper with Sizzix Ticket die

and ran the outer paper with the die on Spellbinders Magnetic Spacer Plate

to make a fine embossed frame.

The flowers are made with Spellbinders Carnation Creation

and set in place with brads.

Look, no buttons!!

What a stunning card.

Thank You Mojo Monday and Stampin' Royalty

This card is made for two amazing challenges

Mojo Monday MOJO275 Contest and Stampin' Royalty Challenge #158

 

The inspiration I got from the photo is its colors ~

orange, light blue, kraft, brown and white.

Used embossing folders from Sizzix on plain white and orange papers.

Patterned papers are DCWV Citrus stack.

The sentiment is a China stamp from my stash.

Two new items used are the checkered bias tape and button.

Thank you for all you have done for me.

Best Wishes or Happy Birthday?

Made two versions of this card for two challenges

Unscripted Sketches

and Less is more #101 with

BLACK and WHITE 

with a touch or a splash, a hint or suggestion, a dab or a  patch of 

a colour of your choice!

Which do you like?

 

Retro LOVE Card with Play Date Cafe

This card is made for these two challenges

retro sketches #45 and The Play Date Cafe

 

Lovely colors for a sweet sketch.

Tied the two ribbons in place of paper labels to make it charming.

Embossed the white card with Sizzix Polka Dots

and the orange Sizzix ticket label with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots.

LOVE in alphabet beads.

Thanks! You're the best

This card is made in a second attempt for two lovely challenges.

Fab Friday 09 and Dynamic Duos #34

 

This card is also submitted for CAS-ual Fridays

This time I have used Spellbinders Butterfly die

on plain cards with a simple message

in a CAS card, completed with pearls.

The butterflies are actually cut out of a card box for extra dimension.

Thanks! you're the best

Just Because... Card Freshly Made

This card is made for two of my favourite challenges.

Freshly Made Sketches and Dynamic Duos and their latest...

 

I just love Spellbinders which helped with this card.

The flowers stand out really well.

I used just ordinary plain coloured papers

and a remnant chequered wrapper for this card.

A button and two jewels complete the flowers.

Sentiment is from Hero Arts Everyday Messages.

Just because... you are you.

Thinking of You Card

This card is made for Fab Friday's FabFri09 and Stampin' Royalty Challenge #157

 

Instead of stamping or die cutting images,

I chose this stencil like paper from DCWV

as a border on a navy cardbase.

The oval labels are die cuts from Sizzix.

Thinking of you, Friend.