Pear and Partridge for Freshly Made Sketch #55

This holiday card was made with the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge, papers and glitter gels. I cut 4 trees from page 52 at 1.75",  folded 3 of them in half and glued them together on the 4th tree as a base. This was mounted over a 2" Bamboo CS circle. The vertical stripe is Cranberry CS and the green horizontal stripe is the reverse side of the Pear and Partridge paper. The red ornaments on the tree were made with Red Glitter Gel and the base paper was dotted with Stardust Glitter Gel. All of these supplies can be obtained through my website.

 

 

Here is the sketch:

 

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Freshly Made Sketch #50 and Cas-ual Fridays 67--Use a Banner

Here is a birthday card made with holiday paper! It is new CTMH Pear and Partridge with Desert Sand and Cranberry CS.  (The green stripe is the reverse side of the patterned paper).  It was made using the Freshly Made Sketch #50 rotated 90 degrees.  Cas-ual Fridays 67 challenge is to use a banner or flag.  It was easy to cut this flag using the new CTMH Artiste cricut cartridge which comes with 3 coordinating stamp sets! I am having so much fun making cards and 3D items with this new cartridge!  The flag is popped up with mounting tape. and I used Stardust Glitter Gel on the red/pink elements on the patterned paper and the top of the flag to add some sparkle.  I really like how it turned out and hope you do too!

 My card:

 

 The sketch:

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to all the artists who provide these wonderful challenges!

Freshly Made Sketch #47 and Color My Heart Dare #11

Happy Birthday to nephew Brendan! I followed the sketch that I found here for this card using the colors from here. The Color My Heart Dare #11 is to use any or all of these exclusive Close To My Heart colors: Ruby, Goldrush, Honey, Sweet Leaf, Indian Corn Blue and Cocoa. This card uses all of them except Sweet Leaf or Cocoa. I also used my new CTMH Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut the numbers, gear shaped label and banner that matches the Hip-Hip-Hooray stamp that comes in this collection. A little bit of stardust glitter gel was applied to the gear label and numbers. I enjoyed working with this sketch:

Here is my card:

I really like how nicely these colors have come together--especially the Ruby and Indian Corn Blue colors. Thanks to the talented ladies that sponsor these challenges and for stopping by to look at my artwork.

Color My Heart Color Dare #5-- Rainbow Colors

This was a really fun challenge to do! You can find the details here. The Close To My Heart ink colors that I used are Honey, Sunset, Cranberry, Gypsy, Moonstruck, Topiary and Black. The stamps are from A Blossom and 4 My Friend stamp sets. I also used White Daisy Paper, Black cardstock and Grey Wool cardstock. To add some texture I placed a 2" strip of construction wall tape over the Grey Wool cardstock. For a little extra sparkle I added CTMH Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel to the flower centers. Why don't you join in on this fun challenge?

FTL 186 Clean and Simple Sketch Challenge

I love this sketch provided by Clean and Simple Stamping. The pink paper is from the Close To My Heart paper pack "Lucy" and the bluish green paper is from the CTMH paper pack called Florentine. The dragonflies were cut with the CTMH Art Philosophy cricut cartridge at 1.5" and 1". The dragonfly bodies were glittered with CTMH Silver glitz gel and the wings were glittered with CTMH Stardust glitz gel. The greeting was embossed with white EP and is from CTMH D1941 Hooray Bouquet.

You still have a few days to enter this challenge. Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my card. If you like it please feel free to leave a comment. Have a great week filled with fun and inspiration!

My Rock the Block Challenge--Day 5

I'm using 2 new stamps from the Rock the Block special January promotion. You can view the rest of the stamps in the set here. I love the two background stamps that come in this set! I used Blush ink for the fishnet background and swirl and Chocolate ink on the greeting. The swirls are accented with CTMH Stardust Glitter Gel. "Thinking of you" is from D1476 Card Chatter--Sympathy which is a very versatile set. The accent stripe was made with Cranberry and Blush CS. This was an easy way to stamp without having to line up the pattern!