Color Challenge

Hello,

Happy Wednesday! What better way to celebrate being half way through the week than with a color challenge! I made this card for Dawn Mcvey's  Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #21. This is the first time I’ve participated in a color challenge and it was great to have a color palette to work with as a starting point. I always think of baby cards when I see blue, yellow, and cream so I tried to come up with a card that wasn’t baby related.

I’m really loving butterflies right now so I used the Big Shot and the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die from Stampin’ UP! This die includes a variety of sizes which allows you to make a layered butterfly. I used So Saffron cardsock for the bottom butterfly layer, textured Baja Breeze for the middle layer and Sweet Slumber Designer Series paper for the top layer. I also added a cream paper flower from Hero Arts and a Chocolate Chip flower button from Stampin’ UP! to finish it off.  I'm starting to use my sewing machine again so I did a zig zag detail above the sentiment where the background and Baja Breeze cardstock meet.  Ther rest of supplies are listed below.

Supplies (All supplies SU unless otherwise noted)

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip; Cream Grid - My Mind's Eye

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Ribbon: Organza Whisper White, hemp twine

Stamp: Inkadinkadoo

Hope you have a great day. Thanks for visiting my blog.

St. Jude's Valentines

Hello,

Happy New Year! I was reading some of my favorite blogs this week and I came upon a card drive that Winter Sims is doing. She's collecting Valentine cards to give to St. Jude patients.  So these little bear cards are what I ended up making. Of course I have a hard time doing "simple" so they took me a little longer to make than expected (I made 6) but it's toally worth it if it brightens someone's day!