enjoy the dots

365 Cards challenged us to see spots (Day 235 - Seeing Spots). Here's my take on the challenge, it was fun being able to find coordinating papers in my stash.

All papers from DCWV. Stamp by Kimberley Poloson for Fiskars.

The sketch is CPS's Sketch #241:


Also entered for Anything Goes' Challenge 52 - To the Letter. The lettering is done with my handy MM Slice.

happy halloween

I tried my hand at making a Halloween card. This is going to go to Agnes, who has a Halloween birthday.

Black glittery cardstock from Prestige Paper, orange paper from Star Paper, white cardstock from Rouge de Garance, hand-colored twine from Cannon crochet thread. The Jack O'Lantern is a free digistamp from about.com, while the font used is Buffied.

The sketch is from The Sweetest Thing Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 140:

Also entered for:
Allsorts Challenge Blog Week 126 - Halloween
The Crazy Challenge CCH# 89 Halloween
PaperCrafting Journey PCJ Challenge 21 - Colour Challenge!
2 Sister Challenge Blog Challenge 62 ~ Pumpkin Patch
PaperPlay Challenges '11 - Week 42 - Use Black

365 cards spotlight designer

It's way cool that I was selected as one of 365 Cards' Spotlight Designers for last week, considering that I crammed these in Sunday night and Monday night (while recuperating from a 75-hour work week which seemed to cause fever and headache).

Best of all, my friend Wifey Cookie's card is there right beside mine!

home-made baker's twine

I tried to make handmade baker's twine in line with 365 Cards' Day 227 - Fun With Floss:

Patterned papers are from DCWV, while the blue metallic paper is from Star Paper.

A closer look at my DIY baker's twine. This is made with Cannon crochet thread and blue marker.

What do you think?

Also entered for Lollipop Crafts' Challenge #53 -- No sentiments allowed.

sophisticated wedding

The challenge at 365 Cards' Day 229 - So Sophisticated was to make a "sophisticated" card. This is a wedding card for my sister.

I used some pretty papers from Rouge de Garance. "Emerald" brads were from Memory Lane (a generic package, I don't know the brand). The pearl heart buckle was from a bunch I got from an outlet store. Die-cut of course was done with my MM Slice.

pink bulb

365 Cards' Day 226 - Ad Inspired challenge involved getting inspired by this:

Here's my take on it:

The die-cut (from my MM Slice) reminds me of the pink pumpkins and the colors are there as well. I love the pink patterned paper from DCWV.

I based the sketch on The Sweetest Thing's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 139--I turned it on its side:

autumn love

This card is for our mailing list card exchange, the topic being weddings and marriage. My "penpal" had a yellow and champagne motif for her wedding years back so I decided to use these colors. This is for 365 Cards' Day 218 - Beautiful Bouquet, it does seem like I went all out with the flowers, eh?

Patterned papers from K&Co., love stamp from Inkadinkadoo. I used punches from Carl and my MM Slice to create the flowers from assorted scrap papers/cardstock.

The sketch is from The Crazy Challenge, CCH # 88 - A Sketch with Optional Autumn colours:

Also entered for:
Fussy and Fancy Challenge--Fall or Halloween!
PaperPlay Challenges' '11 - Week 40 - Autumnal Colours
Anything Goes Challenge 51 - Die cuts/ Punches or both