Christmas card

 The challenge this week at Christmas Card Challenge was to use wood grain on the card.  This turned out very non-traditional  as far as color is concerned because I ran with the wood theme. It's pretty cute, though.  I cut a window in the card base using a Spellbinder nestability die and then cut a hole in the wood grained paper (DCWV) with the next larger die.  You can see below that there is a hole in the top layer.  I stamped the deer through the window so it would be centered.  I used Versamark ink and embossed it with black Martha Stewart embossing powder.  I bought the stamps 2 or 3 Christmases ago at Michael's and I don't have the information about them anymore.  The buttons are some I picked up at Tuesday Morning and the twine is Martha Stewart baking twine that was in my stash.

I used my Corner Chomper to round 2 of the edges and inked around some of the edges with Distress ink (vintage photo).

Mucha style flower

This card was created for the Mucha style flower challenge at A Day For Daisies. I stink at trying to combine challenges, so each card usually ends up being for a single challenge. The image was provided for the challenge and there was a sketch to follow as well. Check it out, it was fun to do. I colored the image with Promarkers. The majority of the paper on the card is Pink Paisley (gorgeous, btw). The green was stash paper. The edges were dabbed with Tim Holtz peeled paint distress ink. Every piece was an odd size, but since it was a sketch the cards were similar. I used some yarn I had in place of ribbon and the green pearls are from Michael's.

Retro Daddy card

This card was made for the Retro Daddy Simply Sunday challenge at 'Getting Cricky' with KAndrew. She said we could use anything, so I did. I found the image on a blog that has vintage images. Naturally I didn't write down the blog address, sorry about that. The card is 5 1/2" x 4". I printed the image (about 3"x4") on white cardstock and inked the edges with Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink. The circle was the center from a card I cut on my Cricut (from the Wildcard cartridge, I think). The background paper is from the DCWV Natural matstack. I love that stack and will probably end up getting another one next time I go to JoAnn's. The brads are from my stash, most likely from JoAnn's. (Our local store closed about 5 years ago and I got tons of that type of stuff during their sale.) The corners of the picture were rounded with my Corner Chomper. I printed the sentiment on my computer and inked as well. I should have added "shape and" in the top part but it was too late by the time I thought about it. Oh well, oops... I actually put a little paper on the inside with the printed sentiment.

NSD #2 - Kraft paper

This challenge was to use kraft paper. The card, base of the buffalo are Recollections kraft paper. The sentiment is stamped on the same paper. The background is grunge board inked with Peeled Paint and Vintage Photo distress ink. The wood is from the potpourri section at Walmart. The top layer of the buffalo (bison if you want to be technical) is DCWV paper that was embossed with the Divine Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder. I used Scotch quick dry glue to put the card together. The bison is on the My World cartridge and was cut at 2.5".

Clock challenge

The Cricut Cardz Challenge this week is to use the image of a clock from any cartridge. I used the Heritage cartridge. I love the clock, the only downside is there are no layers, it is what it is. Most of the cardstock was from the DCWV At Home stack. The clock was made with a piece from my stash. I cut it at 3.5" My tag turned out a little too large but I wanted to use the Fiskars corner punch and I had trouble getting it to look right when I made it smaller. The sentiment is stamped with Staz-on ink. The paint is Viva Decor pearl paint and the edge punch is MS. The ribbon is a stash piece. I inked around the lighter paper with Vintage Photo distress ink. Pretty basic but it turned out ok. The clock and the sentiment are popped with pieces of foam tape.