Thank You for your Friendship

I decided to challenge myself again with the 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge.  I had a lot of fun creating last week's card with my niece and I wanted to see if it was possible to do this on my own.  The colors for this week's card was a bit of a challenge for me but I decided with only 10 minutes, this card would have to be super simple.  I used the sketch from last week's Clean and Simple Stamping challenge and this card took me 9:01 minutes to create.

   Sentiment if from Hero Arts.

Congrats, CFC70

Here is a card that I made to play along with this week's CAS-USUAL Fridays challenge.  This is for a friend's engagement party this weekend and I kept it simple yet bold.  I love the boldness of this stamp and it's becoming my go to stamp for weddings and engagements.  

Sentiment is from PTI, Think Big Favorite #5 stamp set which is stamped and embossed on to vellum. 

10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge

So I decided to try this week's 10 minute craft dash challenge from the Pretty Pink Posh blog.  Instead of doing homework my niece Neena decided she wanted to help me.  Before you know it, she was looking through my craft area, she chose to use washi tape and was holding them up to the computer screen to make sure she had the right colors.  She also decided that it would be cool to create a banner like Paulina did on her challenge image.  Even though that's a popular design, I decided to humor her and went along for the ride.

9:58 minutes later, here is what we ended up with:

Sentiment is from Close to My Heart, Birthday Chatter.  To save time we adhered the washi tape to paper, added a fish tail and then used dimensional adhesive to pop them up.  That was faster for me than wrapping the washi tape around the floss...go figure.

Thank you Neena for helping with this card!  You are pretty creative but now you have to get back to homework!  

Happy Birthday, Mojo258

Here is a birthday card that I made using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch.  I rarely make a card without a sentiment on the front, so it took me a while to convince myself that it was perfectly ok without one.  I tried, but this card just looked better without it.  I did stamp a birthday greeting on the inside of the card.  

Here is a photo of the sketch from Mojo Monday:

Happy Birthday, CFC69

This week's CAS-USUAL Fridays challenge is to create a CAS project using embossing.  I am always out of birthday cards (more like I wait till the last minute to make them) so I thought I'd play along in hopes of slowly building a stash of "go-to" cards.  Here is a simple birthday card I created for this challenge...

Sentiment is from PTI; Signature Greetings II stamp set.

Happy Birthday Sumitra!

Happy Birthday Sumitra!  I still can't comprehend how this happened so fast, but my daughter is now 14 and in High School!  To say that I am having a hard time with this is an understatement.

Here is the card that I made for her birthday.  I kept it simple while using her favorite colors, green and black!

Die cut and Happy Birthday sentiment are from PTI's Shutterbug Special collection and definition sentiment is from Hero Arts.