Snowy Greetings

 The Paper Girls have a snowflake challenge going on.  Here are my flakes:

The patterned paper is from my hoarded stash of DCWV Winter Wonder,  The silver snowflakes were cut with Lawn Fawn Mini Snowflakes die.  I'm also linking up with the Jingle Belles.  Thanks to their challenges throughout the year, I have plenty of cards to use this Christmas!

A Very Special Birthday

 A gentleman from my hometown is having a special birthday -his 102nd!!  Not only is he one of the last remaining Tuskegee Airman, he is the last of his immediate family.  His care facility asked for 102 cards, and I was lucky enough to be able to contribute.  

I used the Stampin' Up Sky is the Limit stamps.  I cut a circle and a small flower out of mylar and secured them to the propeller with a brad.  The background was embossed with a Dotted Line folder.  

Sharing with The Paper Girls Around the World challenge.  Not sure that it fits with their partner challenge from Double Trouble to create a scene.  

Mirrored Circles

I was gifted a bag of circles die cut from silver metallic paper.  Perfect to use for The Paper Girls Circles Challenge.  

Quite a challenge to photograph!  Came out looking like the circles are white :(.  I added a medallion stamped with an old Just Rite stamp and die dut with the coordinating Spellbinder die.  

Hello

Playing along with a couple of challenges today.  The Paper Girls have an inspiration challenge:

I love cards that use a bunch of tiny stamps, but I have never been able to duplicate the look.  Until I realized that I could use really tiny dies! 

I used a variety of neon adhesive paper and dies from the Sizzix Lace Heart set, the "Hello" is one of the Ranger Letter It sentiments.  I liked this one enough to try again, using this week's Color Throwdown combo:

I used Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, and metallic gold paper surrounding the "Hello" stamped in Basic Grey. 

Pinterest Inspired

The Paper Girl have a Pinterest inspired challenge:

Don't you love the geometric shapes and jewel tones?!?

Here is my first attempt:

Meh.  I liked the concept, but it seems that the background, but something was missing.  And I think that the dark grey base and layer didn't work quite right.  I tried again, and was much happier:

I trimmed the Spellbinder cover up die a little smaller, and layered it onto a navy card base.  I also layered the Sizzix round sentiment onto just navy.  I used DCWV adhesive paper for all of the colors to make adding the dots cleaner. 

Paper Girls Stampin' Fun!!

I am THRILLED to be the guest designer for The Paper Girls Challenge Blog for Stampin' Fun!!  I chose to make a waterfall card.  I love interactive cards.  Bonus - I can include MORE stamping!

Stephanie Barnard flowered paper, CTMH brads, Offray ribbon for the pull.  Images older SU! heat embossed in black and colored with Derwent watercolor pencils.

A frustrating day in the craft room...

I had such high hopes for the day.  DH had to work, my son was occupied, and my chores were finished early in the day.  Play time!!!  I had a stack of challenges and sketches that I planned to address.  Failure after failure. 

My first failure was my attempt at OWH Sketch 247. 

I tried to add the horizontal piece, ribbon, another cork strip, a paper strip - just didn't like covering up the shells printed on the cork.  The border punch on the left really bothered me too.  So, on to my second failure. 

Another piece of printed cork for the Shopping Our Stash - Not Your Normal Paper and The Paper Girls Challenge #72 - Cork.  This time more layers, punched borders on the right, horizontal element.  Nope, still not feeling it.  Acceptable, but I think I will try again tomorrow.  Yes, tomorrow is another day...