Friends!

Thanks to Nubia for introducing me to Lilly Pad Cards, I am participating in the Card Chain Challenge. Every month there is a different theme, color pallete, and sketch. You make a card that follows at least one of the guidelines and post it on your blog and/or their site. The card then gets sent to someone else participating. Of course, you also receive one from someone else!

This month I decided to use both the color pallete and friendship them in my card. I can not wait to find out where it is going!!

Check out the page for more info!!

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: Use two or more flowers

Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally arrived at the final post for the Tic Tac Toe Challenge!! It has been fun. It also allowed me to use techniques and tools that I probably would not have tried yet. 

This card turned out really elegant.

Lovely flowers and  a sophisticated stamp make this card super sweet!

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: Incorporate a Tag

For this challenge, I decided to use my distress inks in a way that I had yet to use them in. I applied two colors to each tag, spritzed the tags, and then applied heat. Simple enough, I like how they came out!

I attached a vellum quote with some bright star brads, and also incorporated some stitching.

I am a REALLY big fan of embossing. I still have to perfect my technique though. It comes out really bumpy.



My favorite Holiday

Halloween wasn't always my favorite holiday growing up. It began to go up on my list of favorite holidays as I became a young adult. Aside from the candy and the awesome costumes, I realized that it was the one holiday that didn't stir up family drama and BS. Woot Woot!!

Valentines in October!

I can see myself replicating this card plenty come next February. It is cute and was very simple to make. The stitching didnt take that long', and I absolutely adore the embossed XOXO!!

Cheer me up, Scotty!

I have been a bit down in the dumps lately, and so I decided to make a pretty card to cheer me up a bit. This card has a plethora of different techniques in it. I stamped, embossed, stitched, used distress ink, and even colored in with Copics (not well I may add) The card was effective, if only for a little while. I think this card is very pretty.

I have been wanting to use this hearts stamp for a few days now. With more practice, I am sure my Copic skills will get better!!

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: Use a muted or monochromatic color scheme

This is one of the projects for this challenge that I thought would be the most difficult to complete. Surprisingly enough, I didn't have that hard of a time with it. That can only mean two things. Either I did it wrong, or I am a better card maker than I thought.

I wanted to include the paper quilled sun that I made over the weekend. That obviously meant that I would be making a monochromatic yellow card. I began with pulling out the paper that I had in different shades of yellow. I realized I didn't really have that much assortment, but I made due with what I had.

The card is a bit bright, but hopefully not hard on the eyes.

Tic Tac Toe Challenge : Make a layout

For this particular challenge, I decided to make a layout using a picture of my god-daughter/niece, Anayhi. I absolutely LOVE this picture of her. She is such a mini ham.

For most of the photography section, she chose her poses and always had a smile on her face.

Gorgeous!

TicTac Toe Challenge : Not a card or layout

I have been wanting to make a bookmark for quite some time now. My ideas were just not transfering onto paper like I would like them to. However, I really like this particular one that I made.

Making this bookmark gave me the perfect opportunity to practice my embossing, use my paper distresser, and some Copic markers.