DT 209 - CAS Thinking of You

 Welcome to Double Trouble Challenge 209!

The small graphic is below - please visit the Double Trouble Challenge blog for detailed information. 

I wouldn't usually consider a coloured card to be clean and simple, BUT Thing 3 wants a colourful background... I chose a purple and mint colour scheme and die cut ribbon strands from light purple cardstock, Those were adhered to the mint piece and I added the dark purple circle flourish on top. I glued in the light purple centre pieces and added a stamped sentiment across the middle. No embellishments - just clean and simple. 

Come and join us at Double Trouble and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

HQ for Shaped Cards and Tags - Thankful for You

 Welcome to Heart'sQuest for Shaped Cards and Tags and our February challenge! 

This challenge is always about tags or shaped cards. 

I used a set of dies from The Stamps of Life to create this thankful card. 

The dies honestly do all the work for this - I just chose the papers. Since the sentiment is all about thankfulness, I decided to add some hearts along the sides. I didn't have a lot of choice of colours as the papers were blue, cinnamon and peach so I stayed with those colours. I added a smaller heart to the centre of the larger ones and I placed a gold gem in the centre of the smallest hearts. There is a panel inside the card to write a message. 

Come and join us at HQFSCAT and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have until the end of the month to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy,

Alyson

DD February - Hello Fun Fold Card

Welcome to Dragonfly Dreams and our February challenge!

The theme for this challenge is shaped cards or fun fold cards. 

I love fun folds - they are my favourite kind of cards to make. This is a style I have made a few times but it creates so much of an impact when it is opened. 

I chose a black, white and turquoise colour scheme. The papers were layered and the base of the card was assembled. I die cut two large flowers and a bunch of greenery from white cardstock and inked the pieces. They were splattered with water and assembled. I placed the flowers in the opposite corners with appropriate greenery. The sentiment was originally silver glitter paper on vellum but it didn't show up very well so I cut another piece from turquoise cardstock and offset it on top of the glitter word. The cards fold flat to 6x6 for mailing and there is a place on the back to write a message. 

Come and join us at Dragonfly Dreams and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have until February 27 to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy,

Alyson

PS February - Heart Vine

Welcome to Pearly Sparkles and our February challenge! 

The theme this month is hearts. 

I used a vine die but I altered it to accommodate all the hearts. This is a picture of the die cut in its original form. 

I cut off the edges of all the small images. The word "you" was die cut (I also cut the shadow but didn't use that). I was down to my last piece of dark green cardstock so I cut everything from the centre of that piece. That piece was used for the border of my card - shown below.

I added the hearts to the vine. The backgound was lightly inked with Tattered Rose Distress Oxide ink and I added water to some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink to splatter the card. The vine image was placed on the left side and I stamped the bottom of the sentiment before adding the word "you" on top. A few scattered hearts were placed around the sentiment and I used a clear shimmer brush to add some sparkle to the hearts. 

Come and join us at Pearly Sparkles and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have until February 28 to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson