Atlantic Hearts Sketch #269 With Punny Pals Frog

This week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch features a small tag and a greeting.  My card features a waving frog from Close to My Heart Operation Smile Punny Pals stamp set and Thin Cut Basic Tag and Hello Dies.  The background color is Peacock and the patterned paper is from the retired Olivia paper pack.  The frog was colored with Shin Han Touch Sap Green and Vivid Green Markers.

Here is this week's Atlantic Heart Sketch #269:

Doesn't this look like a fun sketch?  You have until Sunday evening June 24 to link up your project here.  We can't wait to see what you create!

I'm also linking this card up to the following challenges:

      Three Amigos Blog Hop--Die Cutting Challenge

      International Art and Soul--Sentiment as Main                   Focus

      Inkspirational--Use Small Stamps

      Happy Little Stampers--Anything Goes with Dies

      

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

:) Marie

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Thanksgiving Card for Several Challenges

The Thanksgiving holiday in the United States is next week so I'm making cards to send to special people I won't have a chance to see.  I used the Classroom--October and November Cricut cartridge to make this card. 

Close to My Heart products used:
     Champagne CS
     Olivia patterned paper (retired)
     Barn Red CS (retired)
     Goldrush CS

Other products:
     Cricut cartridge:  Classroom--October and November
     Wink of Stella Gold (applied to turkey--closeup below)

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

     Bitten by the Bug--Anything Goes Thanksgiving

     Simply Create Too--Gobble, Gobble

     Simon Says Monday--Thanksgiving 

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

:) Marie

Fall Colors for Color Dare #110

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge post.  This week we invite you to create something using the following Close To My Heart colors: Sunset, Honey and Barn Red.

I couldn't resist making a card with an autumn theme with these fabulous colors!

Close To My Heart products used:

      Barn Red CS

      White Daisy CS

      Olivia paper (retired)

      Bamboo Ink--sponged onto the White Daisy CS

      Barn Red Ink

      Honey CS

      Sunset Ink

      Flourished Blessings leaf stamp (retired)

      Pathfinding Cardmaking kit stamps--thanks and woodgrain stamps

      Bronze shimmer trim--cut with a 1/4" hole punch for embellishments

I followed the Freshly Made Sketch #152 to make this card.

This card is also being entered into the Friday Mashup FM177 Leaf Theme.

There is a photo inspiration for Add a Little Dazzle that I'm sharing my card with:

We would love to have you play along with our challenge!  You may substitute similar colors if you don't have these Close To My Heart colors yet and you may combine them with neutrals such as black, white, beige, greys and tans.  

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

:) Marie

      

H2H Challenge--Photo Inspired Card

This week's Heart 2 Heart Challenge is to create a card based on a photo. There are so many possibilities! I liked the branch in the photo best so I featured that image in my card. I used CTMH Brown Bag, Chocolate, Bliss and Olivia papers. The leaves were cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge and were dotted with bronze glitter gel. The greeting is from D1444 A Little Thanks. Here is what I came up with:

The photo that inspired my card is here:

What kind of card will you make based on the photo? Go on over to http://www.heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/01/photo-inspired-challenge.html to join us!