CASEing ME for Playdate Cafe

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I was soooo SHOCKED to be chosen as the "I Wanna Be Just Like" card at Club Anya this week. It was one of my simplest, plainest cards that Jessica chose...so you just never know what's going to catch someone's eye! So, I decided to play along and case MYSELF Lol... but I also used this week's color challenge from the Playdate Cafe which was Red, Black and White. If you haven't played along with Club Anya's "I Wanna Be Just Like" challenge, you have until 7pm CST tonite to get your card uploaded in the TGF Galleria...and I get to choose the winner!

GASP! A Scrapbook Page!

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Are you totally stunned? I KNOW! It's a real, finished scrapbook page. I can hardly believe it myself. I haven't finished a scrapbook page (finished as in, with photos) in MONTHS! I don't normally put my scrapbooking on my blog (not that I have a lot to show), but the challenge this week at Corrosive Challenges was NO CARDS... and since I did actually do this page this week, it qualifies! I got all gooey looking at these photos of Samantha (they're 3 years old!). She has changed soooo much!

Note to my scrapbook club ladies: Sorry for the spoiler, but this is one of the pages we're doing this month :)

OK...tomorrow I will return to your regularly scheduled cards Tee Hee.

Sympathy Cards

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Whooo Hooo! My first "commission" :) My SIL asked me to make a sympathy card for her to use. This is one of her two choices. I can't show you the other one yet. I love playing with this Iris...there are so many color combo possibilities. I colored this one with So Saffron, a bit of Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie. I did this card with the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge in mind...the challenge was to use neutrals, texture and a pop of color. I showed this to my DH to see what he thought and he said the bow was "gaudy"... guess he doesn't understand the card making world at all! LOL

Trio of Tildas

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This started out as the MOJO Monday challenge...but I ended up doing three cards. They're all my favorite 5x7 size again...gotta use up those envies! The top two in the pic follow this week's MOJO Monday sketch and the bottom one is a bit different. they're all very plain... gotta keep 'em flat for mailing or I'll still have them all next year! LOL I am on a mission to use up all the Christmas images I swapped for over the past year... I've still got a bunch of this Tilda, the Christmas cats, Christmas Owls and some you haven't even seen yet! Happily, or NOT, it's beginning to look like Christmas here...we had our first storm the other day...so I'm gettin' in the mood!

A little experiment

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Today's experiment began with this card...a case of one I saw in a magazine recently. Soooo simple and such great way to use up some scraps! I love how the colors "POP" on the black base. I am thinking about adding some random bling or pearls to a few of the butterflies, but for this experiment, I wanted to keep them plain. After I made this card, I wondered how it would look on other base colors...thus my little experiment was born :)


So, next I tried the same color scheme on a Kiwi Kiss base (the kiwi prints didn't show up very well, so I kept them all pinky). Hmmmm.....wasn't reall thrilled with this one...so I thought I'd try white.


Ooooh...now isn't this a nice spring-y card? It's a totally different feel from the black one, isn't it? Funny how that is...it's the same basic card. But I couldn't stop there. I wondered if Cameo Coral would be better than the Kiwi version.



In the end, I decided I like the black one the best LOL with the white a close second. And wouldn't this make a great boxed set to give as a gift? I mean think about it...all the scraps you could use up? One little tip for this card...I used my Xyron to adhere all the butterflies...gives them a nice even coverage of adhesive and makes it super quick to do. Oh...and if you load up a repositionable cartridge in the X then it also makes it REALLY easy to move the butterflies around if you don't get them straight the first time (tee hee).

Another Mugga Inktegrity

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Here's one more take on the Freebie mug image that Joni is giving away at Inktegrity this month! I love the versatility of being able to place other Inktegrity images on the mug to create a mug for any theme. I dont' really know why, but I thought a mug for a teacher would be a great idea... I found this ruled paper in a K&Co stack and added some "doodles" so it would look like a child's school book.

This mug is one of the "accessory" images Joni created for Helpful Bizzy to carry on his serving platter. There are nine images to go with Bizzy, and they can all be used on their own for more great options! Wanna see more? The Inktegrity Divas will be using all of the platter images this week, so go check 'em out!

Pretty Picture of Patterned Pines and Pendants For Color Dare 41

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Ok...I know that title was a bit of a mouthful...but it made you come look, didn't it? LOL I've been wanting to make one of these hanging ornament cards I saw in an old issue of Cardmaker and the other day I finally found the MOJO to do it! I can't seem to get a pic of the card that really shows the dimension of it...but I'll try to explain...There's a Bermuda Bay "V" at the top in the middle, that folds OUT from the middle...kind of like an overhang. From that overhang there are three die cut & layered snowflakes hanging.


And this is the outside of the card. This one is gonna be a double-stamper LOL...it's HEAVY! The pics just don't do it justice...it's much prettier in person when you can see the snowflakes hanging on the cords.

I had a psychic moment making this card...I actually made it, photographed it and had it scheduled to post all the day before Riley sent me the Color Dare for this week! Whoo Hoo! a Freebie LOL This is one of my fav color combos now...please join us so I can get some more ideas what to do with Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede and White!

Now please check out the post below as well, for more Spellbinders Pendant "play" :)