Follow Your Dreams

I wanted to use the sketch over at Get Creative, so I put together a masculine card this morning.

I used two background stamps to create the squares within this card.  I matted the map stamp from the Tommy Workshop on the Go with the grid stamped pieces from Universal Backgrounds.  The center tag was cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge, and I used a sentiment from the Tommy WOTG set.  I embellished this card with chevron ribbon and epoxy bubbles.  This would make a good Graduation card, don't you think?

Thanks for stopping by today, and have a great day!

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Wishing You Peace

It has been snowing here the last couple of days, so it's a good opportunity to sit in my craft room and create.  It looks like we've got about 9" of fresh snow so far, and it's still snowing.  I can't deny that it's awfully pretty!

It seems as though the Mojo Monday sketch always make me want to sit down and create something pretty.

I pulled out my creme brulee ink and realized that if CTMH ever discontinued this color I'd have to make a personal plea.  This shade of yellow really is so versatile and speaks to me in a way like no other color.  It matches almost every color, and it's just so plain beautiful!

There is no patterned paper on this card.  I've used Lovely Lily (B1401) and Universal Background (D1477) stamps to create the pattern.  The embellishments I've used are hemp baker's twine (Z1837), garden wooden shapes (Z1718), and pearl opaque gems (Z1336).

I'm also including this card in the following challenges:

• Dynamic Duos (color challenge)
• Heck of a Challenge (spring, butterflies, and pearls)
• Addicted to Stamps (bring on spring/flowers)
• Heart 2 Heart (Spring forward)

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4 U

I saw some scraps of Pear cardstock sitting in my bin, and I realized that I hadn't worked with that color in a long time.  So I put together a simple card mixing it with Gypsy and White Daisy.

I love making 4x4 cards.  I can get four cards from a 12x12 sheet, and they fit in a standard envelope, so I can usually get by with one stamp.  It was fun to make a card completely using cardstock and stamping as I don't do that very often.  I also like clean lines, so the white daisy is very crisp.  I used only two stamp sets - Universal Background (to make the grid pattern) and Happy Clusters (star and sentiment).

I saw a couple of challenges where I will enter this challenge.  The first is Lily Pad Cards as they are looking for stars.  The second is CR84FN Color Challenge, and this is the palette: