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. 

Color Throwdown 839

 

This is a great color combination for Color Throwdown.  I relied on Pinterest for the design idea. 

Sunflower Elegance

With this creation for Sunday Stamps, I have started down a new path:  working with a vivid background of cardstock, emphasizing something in the pattern by embossing or fussy-cutting.  Lisa Somerville who designs for Divinity Designs, created a sunflower card recently from the company's "Vintage Sunflowers A2 Card fronts."  It was so striking and then I learned that the card fronts are available in packs.  (I bought 2 packs!)  Dry embossing the image and emphasizing a pattern feature by fussy cutting is a new technique for me, but I am going to work with it for awhile. Deciding on the next one will require some thinking.