OWH Mid Week Throw Down - Easter!!!

OWH Mid Week Thrown Down - Easter.  I have been a little absent from my creative endeavors.  Life gets in the way.  Been working more.  Basketball season for my son is in full swing.  Had to travel this past weekend to work on cleaning out my mother's house.  I am struggling to accomplish anything.  I wander around my house a lot.

Case in point - how hard can it be to make an Easter card?!?  I had some embellishments that I bought after Easter last year, and wanted to use them.  OK, but no Happy Easter stamp.  Found a "Blessings" stamp from Above Rubies Studio that worked.  Found an ink to match the embellishment - also from Above Rubies Studio.  This took 2 hours?  Really?!?

Here is my Easter card. I still want to make a light box - I think it would improve my pictures a LOT. 

OWH Mid-Week Throwdown - Get Your Kraft On!

The challenge this week over at Operation Write Home is Get Your Kraft On.  Use a kraft paper card base, and then add one or two other colors.  Well, they didn't say the colors had to be bright!!!  I mean, shades of white, cream, and grey are colors, right?!?

Here is my card:

I used a Wilton doily and ran it through my Xyron.  I accented the doily center with a circle cut from K and Company paper. The large butterflies was die cut with a Spellbinder die.  I cut the silver layer first (I know, it looks grey in the photo), and left the cut out swirls in the die.  Then I cut the bottom white layer.  The swirls didn't cut all of the way through the white paper, since there were already pieces of the grey paper in the die.  The smaller, white butterfly was cut from the smaller die, and glued onto the silver layer.  Stamp is from Fiskars. 

OWH Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge

Operation Write Home's Midweek Throwdown this week is a color challenge to create a card using two or more complimentary colors.  Sounds easy, right?  Then why did it take me 2 hours to make this card?!?!

 Guess I have to work on my color combinations...

Sentiment is from Fiskars, flower stamp is from Inkadinkado, pearl flower centers are from Want2Scrap.