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