Classy & Elegant Pink and Grey Dresses

I'm trying to break out of my normal style, in honor of the Moxie Fab World style week. Kim's Off the Wall Craftiness just oozed classy and elegant. I don't normally do pink, I don't normally do grey either.. so I figured if I'm moving out of my comfort zone why not go classy & elegant. I tried to dress up the dresses with the ribbon, twine and button & vellum. I keep using these adorable Stampin Up Dress forms, click here, here, here, here for some of the other fun color combinations I've done. I keep saying I have to return the stamp set to its rightful owner, but she keeps rescheduling our card date, so I'm going to keep playing with them till I have to return them. Lucy's Cards and Crazy 4 Challenges are celebrating buttons and I was convinced that I had none (it's not my normal embellishment), but then I found one at the bottom of the pen cup-- and lucky me it's pink. I'm not sure I'm a classy and elegant gal, but at least I can say I tried. Now I'll go back to my clean and graphic style.

Materials: Stampin Up dress form stamp, Stampin Up black ink, vellum, white ribbon, pink twine, pink button, Fiskars rotary scallop cutter, Stampin Up pink card stock, white art paper scrap, grey paper from Spotlight, white gel pen

Tricycle thank you

I made these CAS little thank you note cards for my son's preschool teachers as a goodbye present. Being me they're all just slightly different (I was having fun with the corner rounder). Thank you Susan at Simplicity for showing me that one layer cards can do the trick. I was inspired to make these based on this card. Critter Challenge is celebrating thank you cards this week. Crazy 4 Challenges is doing black/white and red. Crafty Ho's is doing black and white and one color.

Materials: Paper Source tricycle stamp, Hero Arts sentiment, Versacolor red & blue ink, Stampin Up black ink, corner rounder

A Warm Hello

This card uses the Mojo Monday sketch, love taking a sketch and making it my own. I punched out the circles with a Stampin Up punch, so I'll yet another card at Mark's Finest Papers Speedy Cat challenge (are you ladies sick of me yet?). The black circle with the white writing really does remind me of a chalk board (365 Cards) and the sentiment is Hero Arts, so I'll enter this in their July food challenge. Pile It On challenged us to use something Christmas related for a non-Christmas card, so I've used some Anna Griffin Christmas paper (for the circles). La-La Land Crafts & Crafty Ho's are doing B&W and one color. Crazy 4 Challenges is doing Black/White and red.

Materials: Cream card stock, Black card stock (both generic NZ brands), Anna Griffin patterned paper, Stampin Up Circle punch, Paper Salon coffee stamp, Stampin Up black ink, VersaColor white ink, white gel pen, Fiskars free hand cuter, ribbon from my messy stash

Friend, card #2

Okay, here's the second card... fairly easy to connect the dots from the previous card. It's another take on the Everything But the Kitchen Sink Sketch. It also uses words so I'll enter it in the Res Q "medical report" challenge and it also has black and white, plus one color for the Corrosive Challenge. Crazy 4 Challenges is having a paper flower challenge and I'm going to enter it too, even though my flower is only one layer. That CAS girl in me has a hard time with too many layers.

Materials: White card stock, black paper, vellum, Hero Arts Digital Friends sentiment, Two Peas in a Bucket freebie daisy, Fiskars circle cutter

Butterfly Card

I'm trying to make some butterfly cards for a friend and I thought I'd give this week's Crazy 4 Challenges sketch a go. This wasn't the first version I made and I'm not 100% sure I like this one much better. But I'm enjoying the process of trying different layouts and stretching my brain to work outside of my normal boxes.

Crazy 4 Challenges- Snails

I keep finding more and more cool card competitions and this week's one on Crazy 4 Challenges caught my eye because I had recently made a series of cards with a friend's snail stamp. So, I whipped out my scraps and got to work. So this challenge is suppose to do something with the nursery rhyme:

What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails
And puppy-dogs' tails,
That's what little boys are made of.

but it also includes my love of mail.. What more could you ask for in a card?