In My thoughts with Hope

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 570 - Honey and Cherry Meadows, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 573 - Revisiting Emboss Resist, and Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 435.
I have been MIA all week last week sick with sinus junk and just not feeling well enough to play and I think it is coming back for round 2 but I wanted to make something today. It started as a sympathy card and turning into encouragement for a co-worker who has worked hard all of her life and just at the peak of her career she goes and has a major stroke leaving her child-like in mentality. Such a sad situation as she was the breadwinner for her family. There is still hope that her faculties might return but not back where they were. The white embossed trees are a sign of winter when the leaves die off and the branches are bare. The mossy meadow tree popped up is the hope of the future that ins the spring the leaves and branches come back to life again. 
Off to work I go.

I stamped the single tree on the inside after stamping off 2 times then the sentiment on top of the tree.  I hope she likes it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: In My Thoughts, Lovely as a Tree, Word on Word 
Paper: White, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Bo Bunny-Forever Fall dp 
Ink: Hello Honey, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow 
Accessories: dimensionals, Cottage Cutz Tree 
Techniques: 3D, emboss Resist, 2nd generation stamping

Every Blessing Christmas Nativity

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 560 - Feeling the Night Breeze. That's right ladies, just 1 challenge today. GASP!!! I cut the nativity scene out of baja breeze and adhered it to night of navy then added some stickles to the star. On the inside

I stamped the image in baja breeze then the sentiment in night of navy. I also stamped a sentiment on the envelope in night of navy. Hope you like it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Every Blessing 
Paper: White, Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Ink: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Accessories: cottage cutz Nativity border, stickles 
Techniques: die cuts

More Itty Bitty Merry Christmas Messages

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 559 - A CASE in point where we were to make a selection from the lists. I chose to REDO last Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 558 - White Silhouettes while CASing my LOVELY DECORATING SNOWMAN CARD. I left off the snowman. After loading last week I thought duh, why not have a snowbank with white trees so today I accomplished that. Whoo Hoo. I used a different stamp set today as well. I sponged the ink onto white cs then stamped the background stamp with versamark and added some white detail embossing powder and heat set it to simulate falling snow. EEK I may have to CASE this one since I left off the stickles on the curvy snow banks that I wanted to add. I was only 4 when my Grandmother passed away but 2 things I remember and have pictures of where a lot of trees in the yard so this is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 350 - Memories of Grandmother's House.

I stamped the sentiment on the front, inside and envelope with Island Indigo ink from More Merry Messages SU Stamp Set. I hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages, Itty Bitty Backgrounds 
Paper: white, indigo island, versa mark
Ink: Indigo Island 
Accessories: Cottage Cutz - Tree die, white detail EP 
Techniques: heat embossing, white silhouettes

Come To Bethlehem for Christmas

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon with dessert of Christmas. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 416. I used my Maurvy Circle punches and adhered in pieces the nativity border scene. Stamped all sentiments in lost lagoon.

On the inside I stamped the image over the sentiment after stamping it on the envelope. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlemen
Paper: white, smokey slate gray, lost lagoon 
Ink: Lost Lagoon 
Accessories: Mauvry Circle Punches, Cottage Cutz Nativity Border 
Techniques: die cuts, stamping off

Recycled More Merry Christmas Messages

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 541, and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 405. I have always saved images from cards we receive especially Christmas cards. This gorgeous bird image was a full size frontage and I trimmed it to fit what I needed then matted it on summer sun cs. I embossed the snowflake EF on wild wasabi and cut and adhered the cottage cutz sentiment in wild wasabi then attached it on white. The snowflake was stamped in marina mist on white then punched and matted on marina mist then popped it up.

I stamped the sentiment from More Merry Messages on the inside of the card in marina mist then stamped off the snowflake for the inside. The front of the envelope and the back side were stamped with the snowflake in marina mist for another completed card and my 1st Christmas card of the year.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Merry, More Merry Messages 
Paper: white, marina mist, wild wasabi, summer sun 
Ink: Marina Mist 
Accessories: dimensionals, Snowflake EF, Cottage Cutz Season's Greetings 
Techniques: dry embossing, recycling

Positive and Negative Dies for Mother's Day

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 529 - I get a crush on you when we tango or mambo, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 532 - Use Negatives and Positives and Mondays CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 323 - Happy May.
M - Mother's Day, Melon Mambo CS
A - Alcohol markers - Copics
Y - Yellow color
I have got to get a new computer for my Craft room. I took my about 10 minutes to make this card and 45 minutes to load it. gggrrrr. My negative is Mother's Day, I stamped Happy from All Year Cheer in Tangerine Tango above and matted the white top layer on melon mambo. I cut the flower out with my cuttlebug then colored it with copics. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Year Cheer III 
Paper: white, Melon Mambo 
Ink: Tangerine Tango 
Accessories: Cottage Cutz-Mother's Day, Spellbinders-Bluebells, Copics 
Techniques: Positive and Negative Dies

Kitty in the Window say's Happy Mother's Day

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 537, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 527 - Wild Pirouettes on the Sahara, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 530 - Line Up - Line Up and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENG E# 321 - April Showers.... Well it took me almost all day to complete this but a dentist appointment and dinner date with my darling hubby couldn't wait. I used some new dies to me from Cottage Cuts and Dies R Us. I had a yellow stripped cat and I tried to simulate that on this cat cut in white cs and colored with copics. Not even close but I hope you get the idea. I punched out some pink flowers for the cat to be playing with and used my grass border punch to plant the flowers in. Hope you like this
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Holidays 
Paper: white, pink pirouette, Sahara Sand, wild wasabi, KI Doilies dp 
Ink: Pink Pirouette 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, copics, flower punch, CC Window Die, DRU Cat die 
Techniques: Doodle Lines, 3D, copic coloring

Negative Glittered Diamond Rose

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENG E# 526 - Tempting Red Island with flowers as dessert, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 529 - Negative Glitter, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 320 - Stencil It. I am not sure I am happy with this but the more I tried to make changes the less I liked it so I finally just stopped and said it is what it is. I sponged some Island Indigo on tempting turquoise cs with the MB Diamond stencil in place. I cut the Cottage Cutz Rose trying to just get the flower, sorta worked the 3rd time. I had to use some green for the stem and leaves :( hope the challenge patrol don't get me. I cut the IO Happy Birthday in white and tempting turquoise and adhered the white under the popped up tt layer then the tt on the inside and added some glitter in the open areas for some color.

I used a white and turquoise rose for the envelope.
 Gotta work the next 2 days and then Beach Time. YEAH!! See yall next Wednesday.
RECIPE:
Stamps: None 
Paper: white, tempting turquoise, real red, pear pizzazz 
Ink: Island Indigo 
Accessories: Glitter, IO - Happy Birthday, Cottage Cutz - Rose, Memory Box - Diamond Stencil, Techniques: 3D, Negative Glitter, Die Cuts