10 MInute Craft Dash #18

I'm here today to share my cards for the 10 Minute Craft Dash #18.

I went really simple on this one...

This took 7 minutes, 58 seconds.

This challenge is sponsored by Precious Remembrance Shop and there's a cute stamp set up for grabs for the winner of The 10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge!   So head on over to Pretty Pink Posh and enter to win with your 10 minute card!

Clean and Simple FTL239 and Simon's May card kit 2013

Today I used a card sketch from this site and the May card kit from Simon Says Stamp.  Everything I used for this card is from the kit except I added Stampin' Up! Summer Starfruit ink - a perfect match to the patterned paper in this kit.

Here's the sketch:

and here's my card:

10 Minute Craft Dash #17

Hello!  I'm love love loving the color scheme Paulina has selected for this round of the 10 Minute Craft Dash.

Isn't it awesome?  For my colors I used Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Crumb Cake and Tangerine Tango as well as my new favorite stamp and die set combo from Stampin' Up! called Secret Garden.

I squeeked it in with less than 3 seconds to spare!

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Color

Simon Says Stamp's new challenge is Color - yay!  I love color :)

I was playing around with a new Simon Says Stamp stamp set from the April card kit and came up with this for the challenge.  I love the line of dots stamp from that kit although mine aren't all that straight, but I like it that way.

10 Minute Craft Dash # 16

Hello.  I'm here again with another 10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge.  This one is sponsored by Avery Elle and you can have a chance to win a $20 gift card to Avery Elle by participating in this challenge.

For this card I took out one of the very first stamp sets I ever bought.  I can't even remember who the manufacturer is, but I still love it because it's so graphic with all the dotted circles.  I created my own background paper with the stamps using the colors in the challenge.  I also used one of my newest stamp sets for the greeting.  It's an exclusive from Simon Says Stamp.
I used Melon Mambo and Gumball Green ink from Stampin' Up! and a colorbox in for the purple.
Ribbon is Melon Mambo from Stampin' Up! and the Striped patterned paper is also Gumball Green from Stampin' Up!

Simon Says Stamp - April Showers and or Spring Flowers

Well, my colors aren't all that springy, but the card is flowery!   Here's my entry for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge using one of the past Simon Says Stamp card kits.

CARDS magazine April 2013

I just wanted to share a card I have published in the April issue of CARDS magazine. This was for the style challenge. The colors: navy, pink and green.  The theme: bicycles

10 Minute Craft Dash #15

Well, I messed up my blog post scheduling and thought this posted yesterday - oops!

Today I'm sharing another card for the 10 Minute Craft Dash.  If you haven't tried one of these 10 minute challenges you should - it's so much fun to try and beat the clock!  I've been coming so close to 10 minutes lately I think I need to simplify my ideas.  For this card I used strips of card stock for the background and then stamped and embossed with white embossing powder.  The problem I ran into for this was that my card stock has different thicknesses so it didn't stamp well and I smeared it a little.  Normally I would redo it, but knew I wouldn't make it in time so I had to accept it and move on. 

Head on over to the 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge and give it a try.  There's a prize!

Pattern Play - Day 4

For day 4's class I combined a few of the techniques shared.  I altered my pattern the striped patterned paper with stripes of stickles.  I also added stickles to some of the other papers, including vintage photo distress stickles on the brown polka dots which you can't see in the photos.  The other technique I used is the scoring/sanding on my background paper.  I did this on card stock instead of on patterned paper for more contrast to the circles of patterned paper.

Pattern Play - Day 3

Day 3 of the Pattern Play class over at Online Card Classes was about using large scale bold patterns.  I dug through my stash of older papers and found this one that I never used because the pattern was much too large for my typical style of card making.  It's not that bold as far as colors go, but the pattern is so I went with it.  I also cut the circle embellishment out of another sheet of coordinating paper from the same paper stack (from another day's class topic).

Pattern Play - Day 5 (I think)

I'm getting my homework days mixed up so I hope I'm correct in saying this is day 5.

Pattern Play - Day 2

I'm really behind on the class.  Here's one of the techniques from day 2.  I kept my card super simple to focus on the technique.