Holiday Fun + Coffee!

Made another tree card for the latest challenge at Paper Smooches, "Christmas in July." I used one of their sweet free digis to create an ornament. I used an eXacto blade to cut two small slits along one pine branch on scrapbook paper and wove a strip of red ribbon through it to make a pretty hanger for the ornament. Colored the candy cane heart with Spectrum Noir markers adhered it onto the card with mounting foam.  A red bow and computer generated sentiments finish off the simple card.

Entered into: 

Paper Smootches- Christmas in July                                  (http://www.papersmoochesstamps.com)

Kitty Bee Designs-#122 Christmas in July                        (alohafridaychallenges.blogspot.com)

Christmas Crafts All Year Round- Include a Tree            (christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk)

The Paper Shelter- #348 Ribbon, Lace and/or twine     (thepapershelter.blogspot.com.ar)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge                  (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com)

Another entry for the Power Poppy challenge called "Inspire Me" that involves CASEing a card made by one of the DTs. Once again I was drawn to a happy card created by Allison Cope. Instead of polar bears, I used a Power Poppy Digi stamp set and computer generated sentiments on my card.

  Inspiration Card- 

Entered into: 

Power Poppy- Inspire Me                    (powerpoppy.blogspot.com/2018/07/go-ahead-inspire-me.html)

Di’s Digi Stamps- Christmas in July                                (disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.co.uk)

Happy Little Stamper- Christmas-Anything Goes        (happylittlestampers.blogspot.com)

Word Art Wed Challenge- #344-345 Anything Goes   (wordartwednesday.blogspot.com)

Just discovered another group of fun challenges at The Happy Little Stamper. Was fun to create a few designs for the July ATC challenge that features coffee. For this ATC I used a paint chip strip because the colors and names of the paint colors made me crave a cup of coffee. I think I need a Glazed Summer Pecan Latte and  Pronto! (PS The sentiment is from lovesvg.co).

Entered into: 

Happy Little Stamper- ATC-Coffee                  (happylittlestampers.blogspot.com)

Penny's Challenge- #389 Anything Goes        (pennyschallenges.blogspot.com.au)

QKR Stampede- #304 Anything Goes            (qkrstampede.blogspot.com)

Double D’s Challenge- Tea and/or Coffee     (daranddiane.blogspot.com)

                

I needed a Valentine card for a wedding gift packet and decided to use a vintage PSX wood mounted stamp (sweet little cupid) and the row of posies is an unmounted stamp but I think it might be an old one from Art Impressions.. I added a smidge of sparkly Stickles in the center of the posies, and… of course… I used some of my beloved vellum to add a special elegance to the card. So lovely!

        Entered into: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Add a Little Sparkle   (simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge)

Artistic Inspirations Challenge-Challenge #204            (artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.com.au)