Freshly Made Scarecrow

Although the  Freshly Made Sketches sample sketch is a square, I chose to make a standard 4.25x5.5 card.   I had this cute little scarecrow from Divinity Designs who fit just perfectly on the card face. 

 

A Group of Three

For this Sunday Stamps challenge, I "de-constructed" an old card for the pieces I used for this card. I dry-embossed the card front and popped up the leaves with foam dots. 

Circles and Stars for Freshly Made

I was initially challenged by this Freshly Made sketch but ended up creating two cards.  Silver and green attracted me when I was digging through my many papers; actually, the green was the attraction, and I had already chosen the die for the "wreath" shape. It would have worked with black as the accent, but I wanted to keep the look "light"....and silver was a natural.  

From the card for the blog post, I moved to a Halloween card for my granddaughter; it will accompany some "Halloweeny" items in a package going into tomorrow's mail.   This card features an image from Divinity Designs card front.  Because of the size of the image, I converted this particular card to a square shape that is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 

A Birthday Stencil

 Seize the Birthday  features a stencil ....I have so many stencils and so rarely use them.  As I told my husband, I think this is the quickest card I've made in a long time.  Fall inspired the colors of Distress Ink and then there was a spare piece of coordinating DSP just begging to be used.  The stamp set is a new purchase from Unity.

 

Time for Leaves in a Color Throwdown

Color Throwdown 841 features great fall colors, but my pale blue almost faded into white when I photographed it.  In fact, all the colors seemed to fade a bit.  But it's fun to start on some fall cards for  change.   

  

 

Playing Music in Black and White

 Hello Double D fans,

it's time for a new challenge theme and it is 

Musical!

When I was shuffling through my huge stash of patterned papers, I found one sheet with a music theme...just one sheet.  Starting there, I worked to design a music-themed card that can be used for anyone.  

      

  

Black and White Birthday

I love making black and white cards, and this week I have two challenges asking for black and white. 

Seize the Birthday  is the first.  I kept this one fairly simple:  one large die with a background and the small written "happy."  Dotted black and white cardstock makes the perfect background.