A Neutral Christmas...

Last week I shared a Christmas card that I made at a new challenge

site for me, Festive Friday - this week their Challenge #24 is inspired by this beautiful photo:  

The pine cone silver ornaments just jumped out at me, love the vintage silver color!

I also loved the rustic elements, twine, wood and the textures.

As soon, as I saw the new inspiration card (this week created by new

team member, Vicki Dutcher) at Muse Challenge #53  it all started to come together.

Vicki's Card:

I love Vicki's color palette, I am a neutral gal myself and loved these tones.

I used silver metallic paper from DCWV, design paper from Creative Imaginations "Bird Songs"
Papertrey Ink white card stock and Gina K Designs Gray.
Looks like I didn't want to leave anyone out, {grin}
For texture, there is burlap ribbon, embossing (with the script folder as an ode
to Vicki's text paper)
and my layered snowflake punch.
I love my ornament which is by Justrite, I stamped it using a silver ink dauber,
I have had those for some time and I am just getting around to using
them, can you relate?
Adding the clear gems gives it that touch of bling in Festive Friday's
inspiration photo, don't you love those snowflake ornaments?

So happy I could play with both challenges again this week,
won't you join me?

What a Muse!

Can you believe I am playing again at Muse this week?

I couldn't resist this beautiful card by

Marion Vagg:

Isn't it gorgeous?????

I bet you can see what inspired me on this one,

I had this great cut file from Silhouette called Always and Forever Frame . I actually turned the tab and mounted it a bit differently from the original so that it would work with my lovely image from Magic Moonlight , be sure to sign up for the newsletter so that you won't miss any of her beautiful free images.

I changed the cut file into a print and cut using the color eye dropper to perfectly

match the colors to the flowers and blues in his outfit.

I used a chevron border also from Silhouette to do a direct print and cut on my 

background layer, then started layering all of my 

pieces using foam dots to give it dimension.

I sponged Worn Lipstick around my heart and cut this out twice, you

can never have too many hearts, right?

I did a slight offset around the sentiment and the flourish, which is also from 

the Silhouette store. Here is a side view so you can see the layers.

I trimmed the flourish to make it fit on my frame and was able

to use the leftover piece to accent the inside of my card.

So looking forward to giving this to my hubby on Valentine's Day!

As I said this is for Challenge #52 at Muse . 

Also for Sentimental Sunday Theme "Lovey Dovey" with a sentiment 

Hope you can check out these sites and maybe play along.

Have a wonderful weekend, it is suppose to be in the mid 50's 

for us, can you say heat wave???????????

Muse + Sketch

Hello all!

What do you get when you cross these Muse inspiration cards with this sketch

 from Stamplorations? 

My Card.....

I loved the text background and the colors red, blue and green on Jackie's cards

and the sketches are always so much fun at Stamplorations.

I stamped my text background using "Vintage Backgrounds" from Gina K Designs.

By placing a piece of paper to mask the bottom  when stamping a second time I had a happy

accident with the unevenness of the text, Love this.

I used a flower cut file along with the butterfly from Silhouette.

I really like the way using different scraps of card stock I was able

to make the butterfly wings and leaves pop.

My flower is from MME's Lost and Found pad.

I sponged these with Fired Brick, then using foam dots

to give each layer dimension.

The Thank You is a rub on from Making Memories.

Hope you like this one as much as I do, had

so much fun creating this!

Happy Day, I am off to brave the cold this afternoon as

Rick and I and some friends are shooting in

a Sporting Clays tournament today.

Thank goodness for insulated underwear and

hot hands, brrrrrr!

Muse Challenge #3

I am excited to again be playing at the Muse Card Club for their Challenge #3 using this beautiful card by Laurie Willison as our inspiration point!


                                           

If you haven't seen this new take on challenges, please stop by and take a look!

Here are the simple rules:

Use the Muse card as inspiration, explain your interpretation and link back to Muse
Provide supportive comments to at least 3 of your fellow member's submissions
Vote for 3 of your fellow member's submissions that you find inspiring.

I was inspired by the beautiful vines and flowers  and the two background panels as well as the large flower and gorgeous orange color.

I  switched the floral paper to my background letting it peek through my cut vines

which were cut with the Cameo. I sponged Tim Holtz distress inks in rusty hinge

and spiced marmalade on a dictionary page afterward die cutting it with 

Spellbinders carnation collection dies.

Hope you take time to check this out, I know you will love it!

2 New Challenges

I love finding new challenges and these are usually found through my visits with you!

So I hope that if these are two new places for you as well as for me, that you will enjoy finding

them as much as I have.

The first is Muse where the challenges just started last week. The focus is on a Muse inspiration card that allows you to interpret it in your own way, listing your interpretation and a link back to Muse. They

call themselves a card making club because they ask all of the participants to join in by commenting on  

at least 3 of the entries and then voting for the top 3.

Here is the Muse card:

For my inspiration I took the hearts, scalloped border and the pinks to fashion my card.

I am also using  sketch #173 at Tuesday Morning Sketches .  

Lol, I just can't seem to get away from all of the great sketches lately! So much fun....

Last week in my reader I saw a hop going on at DayDream Designs Have you seen their images? Gorgeous. I had a blast doing the hop and seeing all of the inspiring projects by the girls! 

Imagine my surprise and delight when I learned that I had won the $20 gift certificate being given as a prize. I had a difficult time deciding on just what to buy.

I picked up papers, sentiment sets and images and can't wait to show you some

of these in the next few weeks.

Today's card uses the Sweet Warm Ups Papers and Color Digi set . 

I used the Cameo to trace the mug, create a mat for the mug and cut the snowflakes and border.

Love that machine! It is so wonderful to able to integrate it 

with all of the wonderful digital things that I own as well as the Silhouette files.

I was able to use the color picker to match the color for my mat and center

panel perfectly from the digital paper.

I had so much fun playing with the images and designing this card. 

Now, I have given you three places to check out, so what are you waiting for?

Thanks for stopping by to visit with me!