By the Sea

Flourishes posted a fun challenge over the past weekend. The challenge is to incorporate the "feel" of the sea in a creation. It could be with a fun embellishment, a photo, or even a color theme.

When I thought of sea, the first thing that came to mind was water. Well what lives in or near the water besides fish, turtles, and frog... a mermaid of course.

I took out all of my Stickles and had fun adding sparkle to her fin, hair, and the flowers in the background pattern paper. Isn't she cute?

Oodabug Alley Challenge

This week's challenge at Oodabug Alley was to take the following fantastic sketch and create a card.

I just purchased a few new Color Box Chalk inks in Lime and Blue that I wanted to try out. After going through my paper stash I found some coordinating pattern paper and was able to create this card using Stampin' Up stamps & some gems.

I am going to give it to a co-worker that has been going through a rough time. I think she needs a pick me up to know that all the hard work and struggles she is experiencing will eventually help her achieve her career goals.

Birthday Card

Nikki at Smells Like Homemade celebrated her birthday yesterday and asked everyone to make a birthday card. I used the challenge posted at Prairie Paper and Ink to create this cute card.

Hope you had a wonderful birthday Nikki!

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge 11

I absolutely loved the colors for this week's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge and knew I had to do the challenge.

After going through all of my papers, I found the most perfect pattern paper from DCWV. The problem is that I didn't want to cover it up with an image since it was so pretty. Outcame my buttons, charms, ribbons, and glitter. This time I even remember to take some close ups so you can see all the sparkles.

So, what do you think?

Jacksonbelle Embellishments Challenge

This week at Jacksonbelle Embellishments was a challenge to make a card using the following sketch.

My sister and her husband's anniversary is coming up, so I decided to use the challenge sketch to make them a card. The card looks soo much better in person. You really can't see the sparkles from the Stickles on the hearts. Guess I need to take a photography class to learn how to take better pictures and how to use my digital camera.

I still think it turned out really cute! What do you think?

Paper Take Weekly Challenge

After seeing this week's challenge over at Paper Take Weekly I knew that I had to use the stamped frog that my friend Heather gave me.

I wanted to add googlie eyes to the frog but couldn't find any in my stash (they must be buried somewhere). Instead I took two tiny green buttons and added aqua/green Stickles to the center. I think this card turned out great and am really liking the color combo. Will have to try that again!

TCPTUES65

Every week at The Cats Pajamas the Design Team posts a new challenge. This weeks challenge was to create a card using the following colors and posting to the I Heart 2 Stamp blog.

I knew that I didn't have any pattern paper with just those three colors, so I decided to create my own and add some butterflies.

The picture doesn't show it very well, but the butterflies have sparkles from colored Stickles. What do you think?