Blue Toned Thank You Card with Atlantic Hearts Sketch #591

Welcome back to another Atlantic HeartsSketch Challenge blog post!  This week our sketch features a vertical layout with an off center panel with a round element and 2 round elements behind it. My card uses 3 shades of blue from Close to my Heart--Journey, Capri and Heavenly Blue.  The thread wrapped elements behind the sentiment circle are very old Heavenly Blue "Sassy Strands" from my stash.  The sentiment was hand written with a metallic gold pen.

Here is our fabulous sketch that inspired my card layout and for you to try.  Our challenge is open until Sunday evening, August 25 and you can link up your project here.  We look forward to visiting your blogs and leaving some bloggy comment love. Please stop by our blog on Wednesday to see what the rest of the talented Design Team has to inspire you.

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

     Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge--optional theme--Summertime

      Simply Clean and Simple Challenge--Off Center

     Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday--Anything Goes

      Simon Says Wednesday--Add a Sentiment

      Lil' Red Wagon--Sparkle and Shine

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

:) Marie

 

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Golf League Winner Congratulations Card with Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch #577

 Our ladies golf league big award is named after Patty Berg, a founding member and first president of the LPGA.  My friend, Joyce, will be receiving this lovely card based on Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch #577.  The golf themed paper is from SU Clubhouse DSP and the laurel wreath and frame are from the coordinating Clubhouse Dies.  A Metallic Gold Pen was used to personalize the card.

Here is the fabulous Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch that inspired my card layout:

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

     Ellibelle's Corner--Anything goes with option of monochromatic

     Through the Craft Room Door--Anything Goes

     Lil Patch of Crafty Friends--Anything Goes

     

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

:) Marie 

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Uptown Fundamentals Graduation Card with Try Stampin' on Tuesday Sketch

Hooray for my nephew who just graduated from Scranton University!  This is the card I made for him:

Close to My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Uptown Fundamentals Paper (retired)

     Pansy CS

     Pewter CS

     Gold embossing powder

     Gold Metallic Marker

     Black and White Enamel Dots

     Congratulations Graduate stamp set (retired)

     Smarty Pants stamp set (retired)

     Thin Cuts--Basic Tags

Here is the fabulous Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch that inspired my card layout:

   

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

     Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge--                    Patterned Paper

     Paru's Cardmaking Challenge--Masculine Card

     Simply Create Too--For a Male

     Give a Crafter a Cookie--Graduation

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

:) Marie

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Tis the Season to Sparkle with Freshly Made Sketch

There is a great sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and I was happy to find some time to create another Christmas card with this fabulous sketch. 

Products used:
     Bazzill Regal Red paper
     New England Ivy CS
     New England Ivy Ink
     Versamark Ink
     Polysparkle Tinsel Embossing Powder (retired CTMH)
     Holiday Wishes stamp set
     A Timber stamp set (retired CTMH)
     Gold Metallic Marker
     Crafters' Companion Regency Swirls Embossing Folder
     Recollections Black Cardstock  

Here is the fabulous Freshly Made Sketch that inspired my card layout:

 I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:
       AAA Cards--Sparkle
       Come and Get It--Christmas
       Addicted to Stamps and More--Sparkle 

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

P.S.  If you are looking to enter a cardmaking challenge with the possiblity of winning prizes come check out this month long challenge details at Color My Heart Color Dare.
      

 

Color Throwdown #434 Meets Case This Sketch #212

Being part Irish I do send out some St. Patrick's Day cards to certain family members and this is the fourth St. Patrick's Day card I've posted so far.  My card started with the Case This Sketch #212 and the colors from the Color Throwdown--green, gold, black with neutrals.  I started with the basic card and then kept adding embellishments:

Added some shamrocks:

Added some gold sequins:

Added some tiny pearls for the sequin centers:

Which one do you like best?

Close to My Heart products used:

     Flower Market Cricut cartridge (shamrock wreath)

     Gold Glitter Paper

     Emerald CS

     Adventure Fundamentals paper

     White Daisy CS

     Create Kindness--Special stamp (retired)

     Emerald Ink

     Black Shimmer Trim

     Black and Gold Ribbon

     Gold Sequins

     Bitty Pearls (retired)

     Gold Metallic Marker

This sketch inspired my card layout:

Here is the color palette I used:

I'm also entering this card into the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge--Bit O' Green, Inspiration Destination--Anything Goes #124 challenge, Cut it Up--Think Green, Shopping our Stash--Luck of the Irish and Glitter and Sparkle--Use Some Green challenge.

Something really nice happened to me last week and I'm offering some blog candy (craft supplies) to a lucky winner.  Please go to this blog post to read more.

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

:) Marie

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Color Dare #234 Meets Try Stampin' on Tuesday #312

Welcome back to another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog post!  This week we are challenging you to "Pick Your Greens" from this assortment of Close to My Heart greens:  New England Ivy, Sweet Leaf, Fern, Willow, Emerald.  You can also use White Daisy and add Gold as an option.  Of course if you don't have these exact CTMH colors yet you may substitute so you can still play along.  My "greens" are Willow, Emerald and Fern.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Adventure Paper Fundamentals

     Way to Go stamps

     Emerald Ink

     Willow Ink

     Fern CS

     Gold Metallic Marker

Here is the Color Dare graphic--please click on it to get to see what the rest of the fabulous Design Team has to inspire you.

My card layout was inspired by this Try Stampin' on Tuesdays sketch:

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

:) Marie

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Frog Birthday for Addicted To Stamps and More #202

I'm happy to announce that I have become a Design Team member for the wonderfully talented Addicted to Stamps and More team!  Thanks, Kylie, for this wonderful opportunity to share my passion for stamping and papercrafting.  

This week's challenge is to "Make Your Mark" and we are being sponsored by Sami's Stamps.  My card features the following two digital images from Sami's Stamps: Frog Birthday and Bird on a Branch. 

Products used:

     Black CS

     Sky Ink (sponged background)

     Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

     I Frogot your Birthday from Rubbernecker stamp

     Shin Han Touch Markers:  Leaf Green, Sap Green, Cerulean Blue

           Golden Yellow, Mahogany

     Gold Metallic Marker

     Glitter Glue

We would love for you to stop by and play along with us if you can. 

  

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

:) Marie

       

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #144 Meets Cardz4Guys #104

This card is for a good friend of mine who is undergoing 30 days of radiation treatments.  My goal is to send him a card a week and this is card #2.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Kraft CS

     Zoe paper

     Gold Metallic Marker--to make dots inside the circles, color the wood bird

         and color some gold leaves in tree)

     Keep Your Chin Up stamps

     Chocolate Ink

     Versamark Ink

     Clear Embossing powder

     3D Foam Tape

     Buttercup spiral clip (retired)

     Wood Trinkets (retired)

Here is the Atlantic Hearts Sketch #144 that inspired me to make this card:

I was also influenced to make this card by the Spots and or Stripes challenge over at Cardz 4 Guys.

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

:) Marie

p.s. There is a new color challenge over at Color My Heart Color Dare:

Challenge ends on Thursday evening, February 4 at 9PM CST.

Final Post as a Sunday Stamps Designer

It has been my great pleasure to serve on the Sunday Stamps Design Team since June of 2013. Thank you, Holly, for inviting me to join you and thanks to all the other wonderful Sunday Stamps designers who inspired me so often.  I will miss being a part of this creative team.  Our last challenge for the year will last for 3 weeks:  Yellow, Teal and Brown.  

Feather cards are quite popular now so my card is following the trend.

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Chocolate CS

     Canary CS

     Lagoon CS

     Lagoon Ink

     Sponge Dauber

     Gold Metallic Writer

     Artiste Cricut cartridge to cut feathers

     Say it in Style stamp (retired)

     Paradise Assortment Baker's Twine

Other products:

    Ranger Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls spray

My inspiration came from Case This Sketch #103:

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, January 2 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, Alyson, Brenda, Steph, Angel, Leena and Kathya.

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

:) Marie

Tealight Snowman Ornament Placecard for FCCB# 140

Karen Day, a fellow Close To My Heart consultant, posted tealight snowman ornaments on her blog last week and that's where I got the inspiration to make these adorable tealight snowman ornament placecards for my holiday table. (According to her blog post her inspiration came from Pinterest).  I just thought that these snowman tealight ornaments were so cute and envisioned personalizing them and using them to assign seats at my holiday table and for my guests to keep.  The theme for Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Board #140 involves snow or snowflakes and this project qualifies.  I used various 3/8' ribbons, 1/8' ribbons, an orange alcohol marker to color the flame tip for the snowman's nose, black CS, a black sharpie marker, a CTMH gold metallic marker, white uniball signo pen and glue dots to adhere the hat and ribbon hanger. The placecard ornaments sit on top of a cap from an old 35 mm film canister with some polyfil stuffing on top of them to look like snow.  (I think that other bottle caps would work just as well).  I used the hat from the Bonus 3 Home Decor & Vinyl overlay from the Ultimate Creative Sampler Cricut cartridge cut at 1.25" to cut out the hats.

Thank you, Karen Day, for inspiring me to create these cute little gifts!

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