angelic christmas

Another Christmas card, this time using an angel print on one of the old patterned papers. I'm entering this in Papercraft Star - Challenge 63 Sketch. This is also entered in Flutter By Wednesday's weekly challenge. I've used butterflies and now angels... maybe next time I'll do fairies. This also fits this week's challenge at City Crafter, Week 75 - Let's Face the Music.

And this is also a last-minute entry (since I just discovered the site today) at PaperPlay Challenges - Week 37 Punches and Dies. Most everything is punched or die-cut.

All papers from Craft Express, gold twine pieces are leftovers from a gift.

Here is the original sketch from Papercraft Star:

What do you think?

paperclip happiness

Continuing with the clean lines and white backgrounds these past few cards. I also scrounged around our catch-all/junk drawer and came up with two paper clips, which I included in the card, to comply with 365 Cards' Day 200 - The Utility Drawer challenge.

The quote from Jim Rohn says, "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." I tend to agree, what about you?

Papers are from DCWV again (I used the same papers here), paperclips from the drawer, ribbon from AAS. Again, I used my MM Slice machine for the tab folder die-cut.

I got the sketch for this from CPS 236, I've entered this there as well:

two friends

A simple card for 365 Cards' cute Day 201 - 1+1 + 1 Beautiful Card challenge, which stated, "Pick two of your dearest friends and choose something about them to contribute to your card. It can be anything you want that makes you think of them."

In this case, whenever I think of my good friends Maita, Angela, and Denise, I remember the color blue, we are all quite partial to it (for Maita, Angela and myself, it was our motif color during our respective weddings). It is also the color of our alma mater. And then I added a Scorpio, because Denise and I are both Scorpios. So here this is:

Blue patterned paper and blue cardstock from AAS. Pink patterned paper from DCWV. Bling from Divisoria.

I think this needs a little something more but I can't put my finger on it right now. This might be edited in the near future.

divide-and-conquer birthday

I think this is my favorite card for the week. This is for 365 Cards' Day 196 - Divide and Conquer challenge. I was also supposed to enter it into another challenge but I forgot to link up and missed the deadline. Heehee.

Green and blue papers and the sentiment are from DCWV, striped paper free from PaperCrafts UK. Practiced using the MM Slice machine once more. I'm scared to use it for more complex and smaller cuts for now, but this one turned out pretty good.

so much love

I loved the challenge from 365 Cards, Day 199 - A Year to Remember. I picked 2005, the year when my ex-boyfriend and I got back together and decided to make a lifetime commitment to each other, hence "So Much Love". And the butterflies signify new beginnings and lightness of being.

This is also entered in Party Time Tuesday's PTT#33 Ribbon, Fiber & Trim Oh My challenge, and Papertake Weekly Challenge's Things with Wings challenge.

Sentiment sticker from AAS, papers from DCWV, ribbon from Carolina's, flower bling from Papemelroti.

I didn't notice that the sentiment sticker from AAS was cut until I posted this, bad bad! I will have to redo this before I give it to my sister with their wedding gift.

from our family to yours

This is a very simple card but I like it very much. I guess it encapsulates my style, really, even for scrapbooking. I don't like piling on the embellishments so much, but I guess sometimes I really have to give that a try.

Red A3 card from DCWV, patterned papers from Crafts Express, copper wrapping paper from Hallmark and sentiment stamp from Inkadinkadoo.

This is entered for 365 Cards' Day 198 - Standout Sentiment challenge, as well as for Totally Papercrafts' Challenge #84 - Clean and Simples.

warm holiday wishes

Sentiment stamp is from Inkadinkadoo, all patterned papers from Crafts Express, buttons from AAS, ribbon from Carolina's.
This is based on 365 Cards' Day 195 sketch:

I've also entered this in Lili of the Valley's Challenge 112 - Red, Green & White, even if I rarely see simple cards like mine there, hee. I also just recently discovered the Bearly Mine challenge blog, and Challenge 19 has to do with buttons, what fun!