What I've been up to...Wednesday

Good Wednesday to you all. Haha! I sound British. Cheerio!

Here are a couple of cards that I've done recently.

For my Tilda card I designed it for 4 different challenges. Is that tacky? I would love to know your thoughts on it as I just started to do these challenges. To be honest, I made sure that I was pleased with the outcome and that the end result was respectful to the 4 different sites.

For the layout: Kazan's Sketch 20 at 2sketches4you is so pretty. Her card is amazing as are the rest of her DT. I love this layout! I rotated it to the left but still met the requirements. I am hooked on this site.

For the color combo (and the base is actually CB'd but it is so hard to tell with the layers): Cuttlebug Challenge's Mellow Yellow Rendezvous Monday challenge to use as much yellow as possible. What a fun color, I felt like I got my dosage of Vitamin D while working on this!

For the image and sentiment requirement:

Roses on Paper's Lim's Love and Friendship Challenge. ROP requires the use of a stamp from either The Greeting Farm, Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Alota, Sarah Kay or Rachelle Anne Miller line. I used a Tilda from the Magnolia line and made her a more tan color for three reasons: I didn't want her to get washed out in a sea of yellow, this is more of my own skin color, and mainly because my one skin copic color has gone to copic heaven. ;)

And finally, for the razzle and dazzle of it all: Lori Boyd and her talented crew at The Pink Elephant's All That Glitters challenge. You could use any kind of bling, as long as it was sparkly. :D
If anything, at least my mom will be getting some fancy shmancy cards in her box this month! I send her cards so she doesn't have to go out and buy them, these are way different than my normal 2 layer-sentiment-image-ribbon ho hum ones that she's been getting!

And finally, my new Anyas arrived this afternoon! Woohoo! I love getting new stamps in the mail, it makes me do all the housework and cooking done in 5 minutes so I can play. haha! Who cares if the socks are in the oven, right? ;) I inked up the middle Anya in the set because she reminds me so much of my DD. Hair and everything! I paper pieced the shopping bags for more texture and opted to do DD's fave color combo of b/w and baby blue. My craft space just so happens to be on the other half of the girls' playroom and lookey what I found while tidying up their area - play money from their cash register! So I took 3 (they didn't even notice) and used it as DP for my shopping card. :D The first thing DD asked when she got home from school was, "Is that ME?" I knew I did okay then. haha!

Have a wonderful Wednesday - smile, it makes the day go by faster!

*Love and Aloha*

My newest addiction...

...is to join challenges. I haven't done any in a long time, and I felt like my cards were getting stale. And predictable. And boring.
One of the challenges I worked on this morning was for Lori Boyd's Cuttlebug Weave Sketch Hour:
This is a really fun challenge, she makes use of all those scraps that are leftover from projects. I happened to have shades of grays and browns and the more I weaved, the more it turned into a basket idea.
The tutorial is on the Cuttlebug Challenge site (click on link above). I ran the woven area through my CB with my dots folder, then cut out a 'frame' in white cs with my nesties label folder. I raised it off of the card base with dimensionals, then added the primas, handcut leaves and the tag.

And speaking of this site, I also made this card for the Cuttlebug Be Inspired #15 challenge that had a beautiful layout by the one and only Becky Fleck:
I envisioned a little caterpillar when I saw the sketch with all of the pretty cascading circles. I am a warm weather type of person and cannot wait for spring to arrive. All the circles were punched out and run through with my dots folder (I seem to use this one quite often). I added beads for his antennae and googly eyes to add character. Every other dot is raised on dimensionals for depth.

And finally, here is a card I made for Anki's sketch on the Roses on Paper site:

The layout was really pretty and full of layers, something that I had to try really hard to put together. Her requirement was to use a stamp from a select group of companies, one of them being The Greeting Farm (oh yeah, you've heard me say those 3 words quite a lot here!!!). I chose to use Lily, one of TGF's latest digital image. The challenge also requested spring colors so I made her into a pastel Valentine's day card. I also used a Fiskars heart edge punch and really fun DP that I bought on clearance at M's. I hope you are enjoying your weekend and working on some fun project. Have a great day!
*Love and Aloha*