Warm Thoughts

This card is much brighter in person. I'm not sure why the picture is so dark. But anyway...I made 17 of these for OWH. It was originally going to be a birthday card, but Sandy said she already has plenty of those! The idea for the layout can be found here.

I used two different Fiskars Dot Flourishes stamps to create the background and mounted it on black card stock which was then mounted on some teal Bazzill. The butterfly is done with a Marvy punch and edges with a black marker. The pearls on the butterfly were cannibalized from a very ugly leaf embellishment I got on clearance. The sentiment is Paper Smooches.

 

Have you ever looked an embellishment and thought, "I can cut it apart and use it for this and that and plenty of the other thing?"

 

Cherie

 

 

OWH MWT and sketch 173

Today I have a card for you that covers two challenges over at the Stars & Stamps blog. My goal was to finish sketch 173, but as I looked at the finished card, I realized it also fits with the Midweek Throwdown. How great is that!

The MWT is "So Sentimental" meaning the focal point of the card needs to be a sentiment.  This particular sentiment is by Stampendous and I've cut it so it's two lines instead of one long line. I then heat embossed it with black. The patterned papers are Creative Memories that I won in a blog hop awhile ago. The butterfly is a Marvy punch. All of the other papers are Bazzill.

 

Have a wonderful week!

 

Cherie

Oh no! Monsters!

I simply adore these cards I made. I'll probably never make them again because they took so long, but I'm glad I got 6 of each done. I found the idea here from some cute treat bags.

There's a lot to these so bear with me...but here's the picture first.

First, I scored the card base at 2" and 6". Then I cut some Bazzill to fit both ends. The smile part was done free hand then copied each time. The teeth are an oval and circle punch adhered to the card base then the Bazzill goes on top of them. The eyes are two circle punches and a hole punch. Isn't the nose cute? Those are from a heart punch. The eyelashes are simply cut free hand out of black paper. The small flowers are a punch and the big flower is kind of shiny...Prima maybe? The flowers all have lavender bling in the center. The tie on the boy monster is simply black ribbon.

I hope the kids who receive these think they're as awesome as I do!

Have a fabulous rest of the week!

Cherie