More Untraditional Christmas Buttons

Even with practice, my night time photography doesn't do justice to the colors in my cards. Especially this time. The card is for Taylored Expressions sketch # 90 and the color challenge at The Playdate Cafe.It's a shame too because this sketch is sooooo usable and these colors are always going to be stunning.

See? The sketch has tons of possibilities any way you turn it and the colors are classic. At any rate, here's my card:

The stamps are from Papertrey Ink's Holiday Button Bits and the sentiment is from their Take A Bough. The papers are from the stash. If you look close, I took the lesson at Nichole's blog and layered the snowman's head up to give dimension. This stamp set is pretty much idiot proof though. I don't think you can wrong using it anyway you like!

Once again, sorry about the photo. This card is much better in real light but had to be submitted by midnight. Timing in life is everything! Thanks so much for stopping in!

Think Pink!

Combining Pals Paper Arts PPA14, In the Pink, and Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #89 made this a fun challenge! Here's Taylor's sketch this week:

 And here's what I did with it. It's a 4x4 inch card, done in pink to support Breast Cancer research:

I know, I used Papertrey Ink's Holiday Button Bits again. But honestly, they're so much fun, they're my newest stamps and they make you look great! The buttons are from PTI as well, the Vintage collection and the paper - it would be fair to say I hoarded. I don't know who made this pretty pattern.

Thanks for looking - As always, if you have a "She shoulda done this or that", please leave me a comment! 

A Cupcake for the Raspberry Suite Challenge 17

It's getting late on Sunday night and I have way too many cards and projects started and not finished. I can't be the only one out there with wreckage from World Card Making Day! This card is supposed to cover two challenges, Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Challenge and the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #84. I'm late for that one but did at least finish the card. Here are the inspirations from both:

And here's the card:

Knowing I combined two challenges helps make some sense of this card doesn't it? The Cherry and Chocolate papers are from Die Cuts With A View. Sorry, I have no idea where the other papers are from. I had a very ugly habit of collecting subscription scrapbooking kits for a while. And that's just what I did - collected them - didn't use them. The stamps are Inkadinkadoo and the ribbon and grommets are FTS (from the stash). I embossed the stamping so the ink wouldn't smear and reverse masked to fill - I'm pretty inept in coloring. Possibly a left-handed issue!

Hope you're getting lots accomplished with your World Card Making Day plans.