Old Fashion Cherry Blossoms- JCI46 and SoShelli.com

I had a little time to create a card, besides the ones that will be going to convention with me, today and decided to combine two challenges. I combined Stacey's Jewelery Color Inspiration #46 and the SoShelli.com Creative Challenge. The colors for Stacey's challenge were Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel and Very Vanilla and Shelli's challenge was to create a Birthday card (you can never have enough Birthday cards on hand)!

Here is what I came up with. I stamped the cherry blossom stamp from the Embrace Life stamp set on Water Color paper in Creamy Caramel ink. Then I used my Aqua painter and painted the flowers with Ruby Red and Not Quite Navy ink. I then used a toothbrush with watered down Creamy Carmel ink and "spattered" the image a bit. The "Happy Birthday" is from the Fundamental Phrases stamp set.
I used a Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware (Deal of the week this week!!) Designer holder to dress up the sentiment. The fibers on the side of the card are the Linen Thread and the Hemp Twine.

Here is a closer look at the tooth brush "spattering" on the Water Color paper.

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

Heart U

Here is my entry for the soshelli.com creative challenge for January, "A Loving Challenge".

This card uses the Parisian Summer DSP and the coordinating colors for that paper pack (Bravo Burgundy, Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla). The card base is Sahara Sand and then layered with Bravo Burgundy and then the DSP. The big scallop circle and the chipboard "U" covered in Sahara Sand card stock are made using the Big Shot. The heart is a chip board heart that came from one of SU!'s On Board Chipboard alphabet packs that I covered with Pink Pirouette card stock. The ribbon is the 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette grosgrain ribbon.

This second picture shows the chipboard layers better.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Thankful

I made this card for the SoShelli.com Creative Challenge. It was to make something that you are thankful for. This card is going to be sent out to friends and family (what I am thankful for) for Thanksgiving.

The card stock I used was Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron. I used Chocolate Chip ink to stamp the sentiment (from the stamp sets Celebrate Everything and Fundamental Phrases) and the background (Canvas stamp). I used Pumpkin Pie ink to sponge around the pumpkin to give it some depth.

Other materials I used were the Wide Oval punch (punched five times to make the pumpkin), 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon in Chocolate Chip (for the pumpkins stem), the 1/2" and 3/4" circle punch cut into a spiral shape to make the vines on the pumpkin and a paper cutter to cut the So Saffron card stock into "hay" pieces.

Thanks for looking!