A Cute and Simple 'Get Well'.

The challenge at The Play Date Cafe this week includes some yummy
colors.








Here is my take on the colors.  Mine are perhaps a little more on the pastel side, but I just used what I had on hand to create this card.  I used my silhouette cameo to cut out the doily and the get well sentiment, added some flowers and ribbon and some cute little pearls. 

I want to enter this into:

 The Play Date Cafe challenge #124.

Creative Inspirations anything goes challenge #155

Cute Card Thursday anything goes challenge #209

Blue and White

Ever since I cut out this sweet little tree on my Silhouette Cameo, I have been looking for a way to use it in a project.  Late last night this  idea began to form.  So I glued the tree to a dark blue card base and added some bling.  The little fence and the scalloped frame were also cut by my Silhouette.  The frame was hand stamped with SU Brocade Blue ink and SU Wild Hearts background stamp.  I have not yet put a sentiment on it, but almost any sentiment would work on this card.

I would like to enter this card into the Cute Card Thursday challenge and the Creative Inspirations challenge this week which are both 'anything goes', my cue to do whatever I want!  ;-)

'Thanks' to my Silhouette...

The Perfect Sentiments challenge this week is to create a card with 'Thank You' as the sentiment.  The twist?..distress some edges.  Well, I had to do some research to find out about distressing.  I had heard of it,  used it at times, but didn't know know exactly what I was doing.  After researching I decided to  distress the edges of some of my components with my scissors.  In the video I watched the card stock showed a nice light colored center after distressing.  My card stock is evidently colored all the way through, so all I ended up with were roughed up edges.

I cut the sentiment out with my silhouette and attached it with ribbon and dimensional adhesives, added some pale lavender and yellow flowers, some scalloped trim with pearls and a bow.  I used brads as my flower centers and also to hold my double bow together.  The blue panel is embossed with dots and the base of the card is craft card stock.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.

Simon Says bingo challenge (brads, tags, ribbon/twine)
Creative Inspirations anything goes challenge #155
Perfect Sentiments PSC#24 distressed thank you
Cute Card Thursday challenge 209 anything goes

Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations and Simon Says challenges this week are entitled 'Anything Goes'.  So, OK.  That's my cue to design something different.  Something that is kind of  'out of the box' so to speak.  I wanted a card that would be unique, so I ransacked my stash for several items that I have been wanting to experiment with.  First I pulled out some craft card stock to use as the base of the card.  Something different?  OK, I'll make it a gate-fold card.  Next my eyes fell on some adhesive paper stacks in oranges and turquoises.    I then began looking through a new stack of scrapbook papers called 'Lady Couture' that had some awesome images of ladies that I wanted to cut out and use on something.  As I looked through these papers I also came across some flower images that looked like they may have some potential, so I cut out some of them as well.  Yes, it was kind of tedious cutting these out by hand, but the end result was very satisfying to me.  I had some small orange silk flowers that I had been saving for something special and I pulled them out now.

The silk flowers were mounted to the left front of the card with a card stock banner placed beneath them that reads 'Lovely'.  My cut out lady was put on the right front.  The cut out flowers were mounted on the inside of the card and a simple sentiment 'Be Yourself' was computer generated on adhesive paper and added to the right inside flap.  All of the card stock cut outs are mounted with dimensional adhesive.  A little bling in the way of adhesive jewels was added to the silk flower centers and to my lady's neckline.  I also gave her a satin belt and added a satin ribbon to tie the card closed.

The front of the card.

 The inside.
















This card will be perfect to encourage a friend who might be a bit down on themselves.    Bright, cheery and different.  Mission accomplished!