DCWV February Card Sketch Challenge

     Thanks for stopping in! Hope you are having a fun day.
     Today, I have a card for DCWV's February Card Sketch Challenge.

     I used DCWV's The Painted Petals Stack to make this card. I just love the colors in the stack like these beautiful watercolored teals and purples - a kind of boysenberry. Actually, I used ColorBox's boysenberry pigment, which matches perfectly, to heat emboss the sentiment. And, don't you just love the sentiment!?! It's from Fiskars' Friends Forever Quotes collection.

     I love the vertical and horizontal strips in this month's sketch. The sketch gave us lots of room to play around and make it our own. To begin, I picked one of the lighter shades of the watercolored stock and trimmed it to fit my card base. I heat-embossed the sentiment on the panel then cut various size and shaped strips from coordinating sheets from the stack and adhered them to the panel. I punched a few fronds (Martha Stewart) and added pearls and flowers. Then, I mounted the panel to my card with foam tape.

     Here's our inspiration sketch. 

     This was a fun sketch to work with. Does it spark an idea for you? There's still time to get a card in. The deadline this month is 2/26/13. Here's the URL with all the details. http://dcwvinc.blogspot.com/2013/02/february-stack-holic-template-challenge.html
I will be looking forward to seeing your creations!

CAS-ual Fridays' Love Letters Challenge CFC88

     Thanks so much for stopping by! I so enjoy having you pop in and look around.
     Today, I have a card that I made for CAS-ual Fridays' Love Letters Challenge. We had to make cards using letters - stickers, stamps, die-cuts, etc.

     I used some rub-on letters and words for my card. I punched a circle through the front of the card letting the punch just go off the edge. I punched two small hearts and glued them to the back of the opening. I added a strip of patterned paper on the the inside of the card to show through the opening.

 

     Here's a close up of the opening.

     There's still plenty of time if you want to play along. You have until Thursday at noon to submit a project. You can find all the details here: http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2013/02/cfc88.html

    Update  02-04-13

     I am planning to enter this card in the Make a Window Challenge in the Moxie Fab World as well. Here's the link if you want to join the fun. But, hurry - the deadline is tonight. http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/01/75-creative-card-challenges-week_8.html