Freshly Made Valentine Card with Less is More Color Scheme

There's another great sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I just had to play along!

Close to My Heart produts used:

     Art Philosophy cartridge to cut hearts

     White Daisy CS

     Watermelon Ink (retired)

     Mad About You stamp set (retired)

Other products:

     Animal Prints CS by Recollections

     Silver and Gold CS by Recollections

     Twine by American Crafts

Here is the Freshly Made Sketch that inspired me:

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

   Cards in  Envy--2 or more hearts

   Less is More--pink and grey

   Pile it on--use a bow

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Pretty Pinks for Sunday Stamps Challenge #81

Welcome back to another Sunday Stamps Challenge blog post.  This fortnight we are offering you a color challenge.  Please use all three of these colors in your papercrafted creation.  (You may also use neutrals such as white, black, tans and greys).  Here is the color graphic to inspire you:

SU Colors: Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla & Strawberry Slush

CTMH Colors: Blush, Colonial White, Cotton Candy

Close To My Heart products used:

      Colonial White CS

      White Daisy CS

      Black CS

      Mad About You stamp set (retired)

      Love This border stamp 

      Hollyhock Zipper Lace (retiring July 31st--order it now before it's too late!

      Cotton Candy Ink

      Blush Ink (second generation)  This is also retiring July 31!

      Clear Sparkles

      3D Foam Tape

Now it's your turn to combine these three colors and link up to the Sunday Stamps Challenge blog.

We can't wait to see what you create using these colors!   Please use a direct link to join us here and include a link back to us in your blog post.  (Feel free to post our color graphic too to let your readers know about our challenge.)  You have until Friday, August 8 at 6PM EST to enter this challenge.

Please take the time to visit the rest of the Design Team's blogs and leave them some appreciation.  Holly, Joan, Brenda, Steph, Angel and Kathya.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity! 

:) Marie

Hearts Galore with a Freshly Made Sketch #123

The Heart 2 Heart challenge this week is to feature hearts and the current Freshly Made Sketches #123 sketch makes it easy to do!

Close To My Heart Products used:

      Ruby CS

      Ruby Ink

      Black Ink

      Baker's Twine Neutral Assortment

      3D Foam Tape

      Mad About You stamp set (retired)

      Sweetheart Paper (retired)

Here is the Freshly Made Sketch #123 that inspired me:

     

I'm also entering this card into The Pink Elephant Challenge #237 with a Valentine theme.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

My Rock the Block Challenge--Day 7

Well I'm meeting my challenge with this post (and I still have more Rock the Block ideas to share!) I love this set and the stamps in it can be found here. Today's card is a Valentine's Day card suitable for anyone--a friend, parent, sibling or sweetheart. This card features the corner floral stamp as the background frame for a cricut cut window card. To achieve this effect I stamped the widest edge of the stamp on each of the 4 sides of the card. I used the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge to cut out the card, the window overlay and the hearts. The colors are White Daisy, Cotton Candy and Tulip. The greeting is from "Mad About You" and is stamped on the inside of the card. A trio of small hearts were stamped, matted and popped up with 3D Foam Tape. Clear sparkles were added to accent each heart.

Thanks for viewing my cards and have a great day filled with creativity and fun!