All that Glitters...

Hi again,
I am playing in the Moxie Fab World's 
"All that glitters is Gold" challenge and I created this 50th birthday card.  I used the fabulous gold dotted velum from Crate, die cut the PTI birthday sentiment  with a lined gold card stock and die cut the 5 and 0.  I gave the numbers a chipboard base and then outlined them with a gold pen (can you see on the edges?) and adhered all to the velum covered white card front.  I finished off the card by adding tiny sparkly alpha stickers for the t and h.  Really a simple card, but with gold, I don't think that you need much.  Thanks for taking a look today.  
My 50th birthday has past...several years ago :)

Hugs-Chriss

Romantic in Mint

I have a little card to share tonight for the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger "A Little Romance".
I created a birthday card using the CTS 37 sketch as a starting point and this patterned paper that is a soft mint green with a delicate doily pattern. I created 5 little flowers from mint green mohair that I have in my knitting stash and placed a pearl on a paper center on each of them.  The twig is a Memory Box die and the sentiment is a SU. 
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great start to your week!
Chriss

Hi there! Hope your weekend is off to a fabulous start, mine is with this card that I made for the Moxie Fab World challenge "Cure for the Winter Blues Challenge in the Moxie Fab World ".  Not a colour pallette that I use often...if ever, but I wanted to play along and I was inspired by this little piece of fabric that I had on my desk.  The fabric was a little bag that I got with an Anthropologie purchase a while back when I joined a shopper club (of some sorts) and the tracker card was presented to me in the fabric bag.  I cut it into two and used one of the halves for today's card.  I stitched it onto a punched frame of sorts and layered onto a curry yellow layer and then backed it all onto the teal blue linen texture card front.  The challenge is to use navy and the two main flowers on the fabric panel are a true navy.  I used a SU punch on the canvas flowers, stamped the letters in navy ink, edged them in PTI Ocean Tides and placed foam behind each flower for some dimension.  The canvas shape at the bottom of the card was made with one of my Nestability label dies and I stamped a SU sentiment in black ink.  I added the K and Co. bird and some feathers from my stash of feathers.
I hope your winter weather is being kind to you today, the weather here in Austin is sunny!
Thanks for stopping by,
Chriss  

Moxie Fab World Paper Piecing

Happy Thursday all,


Here is a card that I made for the MoxieFabWorld paper piecing challenge going on for the Stamp It! Techniques Week.  I love using this little owl image for paper piecing, lots and lots of possibilities and because the little sign that he is holding is blank, you can stamp any sentiment or write your own, as I have done today.  Please note...I am not a beer drinker..(love my red wine, 'ritas and Cosmos) but have had probably 5 beers in my life!  Just never got a hankering or appreciated the taste.  Now, having grown up in Montreal, where there were a lot of Irish folk, a big St. Patrick's Day parade (St. Catherine's Street, a main street where a green stripe was painted down the center in honour of the celebration) and lots of green beer flowing, I can tell you that a lot of beer drinking was going on.  That's my inspiration for the handwritten sentiment and I am sticking with it! 
I paper pieced the little guy's wings and made a special little hat for him.
I like my little Irish owl and his custom hat...he reminds me of a parade goer lining the streets for the parade! ;)
I used three patterned papers (Flourishes  Timeless Tuesday 105 challenge) and the card is loosely based on the WMSC #34 that I used for yesterday's card.
Let me know what your take on St. Patrick's celebrations you may have experienced.
Thanks for taking a peek, Cheers!
Chriss


Seeds in my Cup
stamps ~ owl from Studio G (Michael's) feelin' green sentiment and hat Hampton Arts
paper   ~ Bazzill green, Reminisce Lucky Stripe/Micro Clover and a scrap from my stash
ink       ~ PTI True Black
access. ~ ribbon from Ellen Hutson, Spica sparkly black for eyes, micron black marker

MoxieFab button cupcakes

MoxieFabWorld Color Inspiration for Card Makers Week Day 1 Bold and Bright

So here is my try at the colours above.  A very easy card to put together and another to add to my birthday stash!  I am trying to use some papers that I have had in my "collection" and I was pleased to see that I had this versatile polka dotted black and white, 2 colours down, 2 to go.  The pink is from a stack that I had, not sure what brand, maybe Bazzill and the Jenni Bowlin buttons were the last colour for the equation, yay!  I decided to make it very simple, stamped a Lockhart cupcake bottom(cupcake liner) on some polka papers, cut out and used the JB buttons for the "cake".  The thread I used on the buttons is a silk thread, very rich and lustrous.  The sentiment is PaperTreyInk from the Big and Bold Wishes set.  Hope you are having a great day and are cozy warm.  It is quite cold here today, unusually so and I have to go to work shortly..
Until next time,
Chriss

I got Sketchy and went to pieces

Good Morning all! Hope that you had a great weekend and are ready for a good week ahead!

I have been trying to participate in a few challenges and made this card for three challenges, The Color Throw Down #87 (ETA I have missed the deadline for this challenge)using the Get Sketchy #33 layout and my final entry for Moxie Fab World "Picking up the Pieces" challenge. I have so enjoyed participating in the challenges and without further ado...

I knew that I have the perfect paper from K and CO. for the Color challenge and really, there is hardly any stamping in this one, just the PTI sentiment from Delightful Dahlia. I did a fair bit of cutting out the lacy doilies and a leafy branch, all of
which I arranged according to the sketch on a card front that I made with a line textured piece of Bazzil that I embossed with the PTI Giga Guide Lines texture plate.

I placed the cut out flower with Mom in the center of one of the doilies on a piece of dimensional foam.

Such an easy card with these great colours and fun sketch. Thanks for taking a peek!

Hope that you have a great Monday!

Chriss

"Beeting" Heart

Hi there!


everyone getting some challenges done? There are so, so many good ones to get in on this week! I am combining two on this card. I have used a piece of chipboard (under the heart on flower shape on chipboard) and that counts for one of the Verve challenges (VSJAN10C) to use a piece of chipboard. The other challenge is another that I really, really wanted to participate in when I saw it yesterday morning on the MoxieFabWorld blog. Cath has challenged us to create a "complete" card or inside and out. I must admit, I do not finish the insides of my cards, but boy oh boy, this was fun! My idea came from this great DCWD Farmer's Market paper I had with beautiful, richly textured and coloured beets and beet greens. I thought of making a valentine showing a heart on the front with "my" beside it, and then the sentiment inside reads Beets For You with a cute Lockhart stamp (it's actually a radish stamp, but let's please pretend it to be beets) The strip of paper on the front of the card is the Farmer's Market paper and the card base is SU Always Artichoke. The border punch is MS and these ivory seed beads were purchased at Hobby Lobby some time last year. The scored straight lines on the front and inside were made with my scoring blade and the rounded zig zag is a CB EF strip. I shaded the beets using Copics and cut them out and placed on a pop dot. A little goofy for my style...but that's the great thing with challenges isn't it? Gets you thinking differently and a little out of your comfort zone.

Thanks for peeking in today.

cheers ~ chriss