Peace on earth

Wouldn't it be great if we could all live together peacefully just like the cute couple on this CuddlyBuddly digital image that is so aptly named Peace on Earth?

I took inspiration from this older sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches:

Materials used:

Red cardstock of an unknown brand

Echo Park papers (blog win)

Cuddly Buddly digital stamp, Peace on Earth

Spectrum Noir alcohol markers (Crafter's Companion)

Lifestyle Crafts dies

Glossy accents

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - Red and green

Crafter's Companion - #27 Best friends

A Gem of a Challenge - #53 Animals/teddies

Christmas Card Challenges - #39 Sketch (theme always optional)

Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes

Charisma Cardz - #34 No embellishments

CHNC - #87 For a couple

One Stitch at a Time - #128 Use a digi

Make It Monday - #105 Anything goes

Vintage Santa

Since I've already missed a couple of challenges over at Tuesday Morning Sketches, I was determined to enter one this week. Fortunately, we had 4 sketches to choose from, including the sketch I used for today's card. Having also missed several Jingle Belles challenges because I left things until the last minute, I decided to enter a card early for a change LOL. I couldn't make up my mind which bingo chart row to take, so I worked around the corner, taking the first row horizonal (santa, stamping, bling) as well as the first row vertical (santa, lace - nobody said it had to be real lace - and embossing).

And these were the sketches to choose from:

The card came together fairly quickly (unlike most of my cards LOL).  I used a digital image from Create with TLC (one of the many December 2011 freebies Paulette offered) and embellished the printed string of beads and crystals with my Sakura gel roller and rhinestones from a Dutch bargain store (Action). The background was made by adhering a strip of blue parchment on a piece of off-white cardstock (Papicolor "anjerwit") and running this through the Cuttlebug in a Sizzix folder that I had inked on the inside with Antique linen distress ink. The Christmas sentiment is from the Verve stamp set Glad Tidings and was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa. The pearls in the top right corner are from Kaisercraft.

I'm also entering this into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - #231 Bling it up

Craft Your Days Away - #52 Anything goes [Farewell challenge]

Crafty Ann's - #72 Christmas in August

Dutch Dare - #179 Bling it on

Make It Monday - #105 Anything goes



Birthday cupcakes

Last week I received my very first Verve stamps from the Verve store, just in time to join the fun of the anniversary festivities. For this card I used the great sketch from the Anni-VERVE-sary 2012 Challenges Day 3 at Splitcoaststampers.

The image comes from the Birthday Bash set. I stamped the image with Memento rich cocoa and coloured it with Derwent coloursoft pencils. The circle and scallopped circle mat were cut with a Lifestyle Crafts die. The papers are from my new BasicGrey 6x6 pb&j paper pad. Don't you love the fresh colours of this PP? I inked all the edges with Antique Linen distress ink and finished the card off with a few buttons from my stash and a ribbon from Artemio.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

BasicGrey - #75 Anything goes

Bunny Zoe's Craft - #27 Summer

CYDA - #52 Anything goes [farewell challenge]

The Crafty Pad - #184 To die for [use dies/punches]

Craft Your Passion - #124 The power of three [use 3 of something - cupcakes & buttons]

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