The Card Concept One Year Anniversary Challenge

The Card Concept is celebrating their one year anniversary this challenge!
I am also happy to report that I am back from my leave to designing with them again.
Thank you Laurie Willison for filling in my spot as Clean & Simple designer in my absence.

We are back with a special anniversary challenge and a new design team for 2015 made up of some of the original design team and some new faces. See all the details on the Card Concept blog as well as their inspiration to get you started with the new challenge.

Check out the beautiful inspiration graphic:

Here is how I was inspired by the graphic...

I am also submitting this to Darnell's NBUS Challenge #3, believe it or not this is the first time I inked up Papertrey Ink's The Sweet Life! I have to say I was a bit intimidated by the layered stamping but it only took two tries to line them up. The first one I tried out on scratch paper was actually the best one--LOL.

I really hope to see you play over at The Card Concept.

Have a great day!

Tuesday Trigger: Honoring Ombre and Seize the Birthday

A card for the Tuesday Trigger challenge over at Moxie Fab World.

The Trigger:

The card:

I am also submitting this card to the current Anything Goes challenge over at Seize the Birthday.

Cardstock:  White, Lavender Moon(Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Bonjour, Fanfare (Avery Elle)

Ink: Smokey Shadow, Winter Wisteria, Lavender Moon, Sweet Blush (Papertrey Ink) Memnto Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko) 

CASE Study Challenge Guest Designer

I was so excited when I received an email from Chupa, the owner of CASE Study Challenge, asking me if I would like to be the Guest Designer for the month of July! Of course I said yes! I have been playing CASE Study for some time now and there is such a fantastic Design Team over there. I have to just pinch myself that I am really playing along with them.

Jocelyn Olson is this month's super talented Muse. Have a look at this week's Inspiration Photo below.

I was drawn to the butterflies, the colours and the movement of Jocelyn's card. Being a more CAS designer I still wanted to capture all of those elements. So I scaled it down a bit and created a tag using all the things I loved the most and adhered it to my white card base.

I would love to see how Jocelyn's card inspires you. Join us over at the CASE Study Challenge Blog and play along with us too.  Happy Independence Day to my American friends! Have a wonderful day!

Cardstock:  White (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies (Papertery Ink) Fanfare (Avery Elle)

Ink: Real Red (Stampin' Up) Memento Angel Pink (Tsukineko) 

Harvest Gold, Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf, Spring Rain (Papertrey Ink)

Dies: Tag Sale #7 (Papertrey Ink) Sentiment Flag (Lil' Inkers)

other: foam tape, FRaspberry Fizz button, button twine

Muse #23

A card for this week's Muse challenge. When I saw that Anita was this week's Muse I couldn't resist playing along.  I love Anita's style and her card this week is fantastic.

I drew from her colours, the three elements and the sequins.

A birthday card for my Mom, in colours she loves.

Cardstock:  Sweet Blush, White (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Fanfare (Avery Elle) Stylish Sentiments Birthday (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Sweet Blush, Spring Rain, Lavender Moon, True Black (Papertrey Ink)

other: sequins (Neat &Tangled)