I was able to spend the WHOLE day in my craft room today. I purposefully made meals in the last couple of days that could be reheated. Yippee! As much as I love to cook, I really like days in my craft room. Jerry was out muskie fishing for a part of the day, so all was okay.
I've got Netflix, so I was able to stream movies over my laptop and just work away while I crafted. This first card is my husband's favorite. This is new paper coming out from CTMH, and it will be available on September 1st. It is called Grace, and it is warm and wonderful. I love paper packets that have a sheet with strips. It's so versatile for adding to artwork. That's simply all this card is - two matching sheets of paper, a matching stickease, some random ribbon, and a Martha Stewart daisy. It's a very nice pattern from
CPS.
The second card I created today was a really fun pattern from
Inspirational Card Sketches. Oh, that was a fun pattern to work with! I flipped this pattern, and I brought the sentiment to one of the boxes. it allowed me use this beautiful gold organdy that I purchased from Paper Source. Again, I chose to work with more Grace paper. The flowers are Prima, and the brown sparkles are from the dollar bin at Michael's. I used a sentiment from the Faith, Hope, and Charity stamp set from CTMH.
The last card is my favorite. It's simple and very understated. I didn't use a pattern yet brought things together fore
Penny's Challenges. She wanted us to create with flourishes so I grabbed my Playful Petals stamp set with lovely flourish. I added some pearls to it along with a Prima Natural flower. The sentiment stamp is one of the favorite that I own. It is from a discontinued set from CTMH. More pearls along the bottom and some CTMH chocolate organdy. This card can be used for just about any occasion!
Now that I've explained the cards, I wanted to share a little about one of the movies I watched today. Have you seen "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"? It is about 2 young boys that become friends through a concentration camp fence. It was heart-wrenching to watch this movie, and I found myself watching more movie than making cards. I cannot fathom how or why Our Jewish culture was persecuted in this way. What I will say is that I am proud to be American, and I am blessed to be free. If you have a chance to see this movie, I highly recommend it. I know it will move you.
Over at Penny's, she has challenged us to use chalks. I pull out my chalks for several things, but my very favorite way to use them is "chalk popping." It is really very simple to do! Just stamp your images in versamark and color over them with chalk. The chalk pulls out the image. Onthis particular card, I stamped just a few things at a time so that I could mix in all the colors. So much fun - try it!!
Today I wanted to create a card with clean lines. I do love distressing, but every once in awhile, I just love the look of a card that's simple and clean.
CTMH Cardstock - Twilight, Bamboo, Chocolate, Colonial White, CTMH Gracious Greetings stamp set, Prima Flowers, CTMH Chocolate Waxy Flax, Fancy Pants All Fall buttons
This sketch at Penny's Challenges was so easy to work with! If you are looking for fun challenges, check her blog! 
I was planning on scrapping our 19th Anniversary pictures right away. That was such a special evening, and we had such a wonderful time at the new restaurant Shane serves at along with his friend Ashley. I knew exactly what materials I was going to use, and it fit in wonderfully with Penny's challenge! Her challenge this week is pearls. You should hop over to her blog. She creates digital stamps, and this week she is giving one away FREE for everyone that enters her challenge!
I wanted to show you some of the layout up close. When I cut out the large flower from Silhouette paper, I covered it with Liquid Glass. That is such a wonderful element on artwork. After it was dry (about 3 hours for this project), I added pearls.
The second card I created today was a really fun pattern from Inspirational Card Sketches. Oh, that was a fun pattern to work with! I flipped this pattern, and I brought the sentiment to one of the boxes. it allowed me use this beautiful gold organdy that I purchased from Paper Source. Again, I chose to work with more Grace paper. The flowers are Prima, and the brown sparkles are from the dollar bin at Michael's. I used a sentiment from the Faith, Hope, and Charity stamp set from CTMH.
The last card is my favorite. It's simple and very understated. I didn't use a pattern yet brought things together fore Penny's Challenges. She wanted us to create with flourishes so I grabbed my Playful Petals stamp set with lovely flourish. I added some pearls to it along with a Prima Natural flower. The sentiment stamp is one of the favorite that I own. It is from a discontinued set from CTMH. More pearls along the bottom and some CTMH chocolate organdy. This card can be used for just about any occasion!
Now that I've explained the cards, I wanted to share a little about one of the movies I watched today. Have you seen "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"? It is about 2 young boys that become friends through a concentration camp fence. It was heart-wrenching to watch this movie, and I found myself watching more movie than making cards. I cannot fathom how or why Our Jewish culture was persecuted in this way. What I will say is that I am proud to be American, and I am blessed to be free. If you have a chance to see this movie, I highly recommend it. I know it will move you.
Over at Penny's blog, she is having a very fun challenge - photo hangers! I love photo hangers, but I don't always use them traditionally. In this card, you'll see that I used it as an embellishment to hang off of my ribbon. Sometimes there need to be a "little something" in a spot, and a phot hanger can work can work perfectly like this! All products used are CTMH.
