Happy Birthday LeAnne

Happy Birthday LeAnne! Here's a CAS birthday card for you with this week's ColourQ colors.

While we're celebrating birthdays, might as well share the love with a few more challenges, Terrifically Thrilling Thursdays, Party Time Tuesdays, Totally Stampalicious, The Crazy Challenge.

Materials: Paper Source birthday cake punch, PTI sentiment, Hero Arts dot swirl stamp, Stampin Up black ink, Stampin Up Chocolate Chip card stock, Stampin Up Kiwi Bliss card stock, other scarps from my stash

Card Patterns Friend

While hunting around for patterned paper over the weekend I rediscovered this lovely piece of K & Co Wild Saffron Wild Flowers paper and thought I had to use it. I really like how it looks in lots of little pieces. The gluing process made me think I was doing a jig saw puzzle. The sketch is from Card Patterns. The stamped image is Hero Arts. Shelly's Images Terrifically Thrilling Thursday is celebrating the any day and anything and this card is just perfect for that.

Materials: Hero Arts stamp, K & Co Wild Saffron Wild Flowers paper, Stampin Up card stock, Misc. card stock scraps, twine, Stampin Up black ink

for you- tangerine & teal

I am a very literal person, sometimes I have to remind myself to take a chill pill. I was feeling bad that I made my other two cards for Kim's Off the Wall Craftiness with the "wrong" color. So I made a third! And since I'm trying to win Courtney's stamp set I might as well use her sketch from her Practicing Creativity blog (double my chances?). Now if I had your stamps Courtney I would've used them, but obviously I've got Dawn's W Plus 9 set out, and I figured I'd just keep playing with them. But this time I've used Versacolor Marigold instead of Canary and picked an orange piece of card stock out of the summer card stock pack that I used the last time. Terrifically Thrilling Thursday is celebrating anytime cards and I think this card works well for that theme.

Materials: W Plus Woodgrains silhouette stamps (flower, sentiment and woodgrain), Versacolor Marigold ink, Stampin Up black ink, Versmark, teal card stock from Ben Franklin, orange card stock from Spotlight

Celebrating Erin's birthday

It's my birthday! And I've decided that I should jump on board with all these lovely blog candy giveaways... so I've decided that I shall draw a random number from the comments of this post. The prize, an envelope packed full of birthday scraps. I recently cleaned and organized my craft desk and I've got a whole packet full of cupcakes and ice cream cones and other fun birthday stamped images. I wish I had fun real blog to give away, but considering how much I love sending mail, I figured this was the next best thing. Who knows what sort of birthday card you'll be inspired to make with my scraps?

So, in an effort to attract as many of you to this post I've made a birthday card that I can enter in a number of challenges. The sketch for this card is from The Sweetest Thing's Sunday Sketch. The colors are from Curtain Call- it's all Stacey's fault that I made the cake these colors, b/c she suggested it on her challenge (and now that I look at it, I'm thinking these are not my colors at all!). The pendants are from this week's Etsy Inspired challenge. Birthday challenges include: Everybody Art Challenge, Terrifically Thrilling Thursdays (celebrations), Crafty Creations (ice cream & cakes). Anything goes: Wee Memories. and Pile it On (favorite things- I can't say I love these colors, but I do love my Fiskars rotary cutter with the scallop blade, I use it all the time- so easy to spruce up a piece of paper with one little cut).

I used the digital image I won from the Character Cafe from their challenge last week, thanks guys! (It was a wedding cake, I just adapted it for my needs.)

Materials: The Character Cafe digital image, card stock from my stash, white gel pen, Paper Source circle punch, Fiskars rotary cutter with scallop blade

3 dresses, Color Throwdown colors

Well I liked the card I made for The Play Date Cafe so much that I decided to make another one for the Color Throwdown colors. Might as well enter it in the Terrifically Thrilling Thursday challenge of three in a row! Sweet Stamping Challenge is for a clean and simple card.

Materials: Stampin Up Dress form stamp, Stampin Up Chocolate Chip card stock, pink and green card stock from my stash and white gel pen.

3 dresses

Another week at The Play Date Cafe. I have to say that turquoise is not my color, and yet again, I love the card. I liked it so much that I made three versions! Thanks ladies for once again pushing me to work outside my color range and create. I've been wanting to play with a dress form stamp for awhile- I just love the Lawn Fawn one I've seen on a number of talented ladies playing with. So I was tickled when my card making date showed up last night with the Stampin Up set with these three dress forms. I thought it worked well with an color inspiration photo of three chairs. The three in a row also works for the Terrifically Thrilling Thursday Challenge. Creative Craft Challenge is for anything stamped.

Materials: Stampin Up Dress Form stamp, Stampin Up Chocolate Chip card stock, Stampin Up Red Card Stock, Stampin Up Orange card stock, Turquoise card stock from my Ben Franklin general stash, white gel pen