Wishing you a Joyful Christmas...

Needed a special Christmas card for an owl aficionado...and used Christmas Card Challenge's photo theme for inspiration...hence the grouping of the 4 owls in a tree shape..than for the WOW factor inside the card...used a window with the reindeer owl peeking out..Love the sparkly red glitter used to emboss the inside sentiment...stamped the snowflakes from one of my fave snowflake sets with Pool Party Ink..Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for the silver wood snowflake, the googly eyes and the pattern papers on the front layer and the inside background layer.

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Seasons' Greetings.

Peek a Boo Happy Birthday....Honourable Mention..

Another great challenge over at Watercooler Wednesdays'...this time around..Marsha's Anything Goes Masculine. I've been wanting to try the new to me peek a boo technique and needed a manly card for an upcoming Birthday! While a little intimidating...the cutting, the scoring and assembling was not as difficult as I thought it would be. Love my bestie's bear set...might have to add this one to the list...huge sigh...such an enabler she is..LOL.. Here it is...a manly card and a technique crossed off the bucket list! Voila!

Inside of card

Back of card

Deets: All Stampin Up

EDIT: Just discovered that I made the Watercooler Wednesday's Honorable Mention for my card. Great way to start a Tuesday. Thank you to the Watercooler peeps for a great challenge and for choosing my card. Smiles. :)

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Happy Halloween and a safe trick & treating to all.
:)

Soft Sky Christmas....it's a WINNER!!

Colour challenges normally take me awhile to figure out; however, this time around with Penny's colour challenge over at Watercooler Wednesdays': Tip Top Taupe, Soft Sky, White and Silver....totally worked for me and this card came together pretty quick for me. I wanted to try this gatefold with the frame and matted image attached to the left and right card panels. Stamped and embossed the ornaments hanging from the branch with silver embossing powder and finished with the ice rhinestones. Just had to add googly eyes to the owl perched on the Tip Top Taupe branch and leaves....stamped snowflakes with Soft Sky from the Serene Snowflakes set..couldn't decide on which Christmas sentiment so I left it blank..Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for googly eyes.

EDIT: Just found out that I won the Watercooler Wednesday's colour challenge. Woot woot...happy dance and high fives. Thanks to the Watercooler Wednesday peeps for a great challenge and for choosing my card as the winner. What a GREAT Tuesday. ;)

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FaBOOlous....

With this card, a double challenge on the plate: ~ The Paper Players' Claire's theme challenge of Hallowe'en & Watercooler Wednesday's Heidi's sketch challenge...excellent timing as I needed a Hallowe'en card to send to a couple special peeps.
Loved the skeletons from the Hallowe'en Cookie Cutter stamp set..used the cobweb from the retired Bite Me stamp set as my splotch behind the dry embossed and sponged pumpkin...stamped with Elegant Eggplant, the sentiment onto a piece of vanilla cardstock...Finished the card with the matted googly eyes trio in the top left hand corner...Voila!!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for the googly eyes

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Smiles. :)

Goodbye & Good Luck

Masculine cards....one of the hardest cards to design in my humble opinion...so I thought I would combine a couple more challenges to make it more interesting ...and went with the following hat trick challenge:
Fab Friday's colour challenge: Emerald Envy, Delightful Dijon & Vanilla
Watercooler Wednesday's Kath's theme challenge: Anything Goes Masculine, and
last, but not least...Sunday Stamps' sketch challenge...
Also add to that mix.... a farewell card for a coworker ...so 4 stamp sets later: Traveller, Banners for You, retired sets ~ Going Global and Dictionary...
Voila another card off my to make list!

Deets: All Stampin Up

 

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Christmas Wishes...it's a Winner!!!

Over at the Can You Case It blog...they have a shaker challenge and anyone who knows me...knows that I am slightly addicted to shakers....So as soon as I saw the challenge...I was all over it...so not only do I have a shaker card...I have one more Christmas card made to add to the stash. Pulled out the retired Ornamental Pines and Serene Snowflake stamp sets for this card. Tried out the new foam adhesive strips. While I like the height of the shaker box with the foam strips...I think I prefer the fun foam  for shaped shakers as there's no gaps between the card and the shaker box..if that makes sense. If you're making a square or rectangle shaker, than the foam adhesive strips are the way to go, for sure. Sprinkled sequins and seed beads in the shaker and Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for seed beads.

EDIT: Just found out that Jeanne chose my card as one of the six CYCI winners!! OMG..totally may my day. Thank you for choosing my card and for the great challenge.
Looking forward to the next CYCI challenge. :)

 
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Happy Birthday...

A double challenge for this Birthday Card: Create with Connie and Mary's colour challenge of Emerald Envy, Delightful Dijon & Soft Suede with Pals Paper Arts' sketch challenge.
Love the new Seaside embossing folder for the soft suede layer on the white card base. Sponged the Birthday Bloom with Delightful Dijon, than masked the Birthday Bloom and stamped the Dictionary background over on top. Made my faux ribbon by stamping one of the Birthday cake layers from the Build A Birthday set with Emerald Envy..notched the end to complete the ribbon. The Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped and layered onto the Vintage Label circle layers and finished the card..Voila!! 

Deets: All Stampin Up 

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Happy Birthday to you....it's a WINNER!!!

Watercooler Wednesday's weekly challenge this week is Jean's colour challenge: Black, white and copper. I struggled with the colour combo as they're totally out of my comfort zone...Pulled out some retired sets: Four Feathers, Dictionary background and Tag Talk ...embossed the feathers with copper embossing powder..layered a couple of the feathers and stamped the Dictionary background over the dry embossed large polka dots and the copper feathers..Stamped and layered the Happy Birthday..Voila!! Challenge completed and another card off my to make list! Bonus! :)

Deets: All Stampin Up except for beaded window die

EDIT: OMG...Just discovered that I won the Watercooler Wednesday challenge!!! A great way to end my Monday and off to bed I go shortly. Thank you Jean for picking my card as the winner!!! Loved your challenge and all of the DT's inspiration. :)

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A Great Big THANKS for Being YOU Box...Honorable Mention it is...

I was asked to make a special WOW card to house several gift cards as a Thank You... so instead of a plain flat card...I made an exploding box...started with Just Add Ink's colour challenge: Calypso Coral, Soft Sky & Dapper Denim..Gave my punches a good work out, embossed and stamped card stocks and threw in some retired designer series paper and ribbon for good measure....Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up

EDIT: Just found out that I made Just Add Ink's Honorable Mention for the colour challenge! Sweet, great way to start the morning. Thank you to the JAI peeps for choosing my card. :)

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It's a boy....

For this baby card's inspiration....another duo challenge: Sunday Stamps' sketch challenge with Watercooler Wednesday's Penny's Tic Tac Toe challenge: Dry Embossing, Die Cut & Any Shade of Green. Plus one  needed to add a shaker box to show off the die cut window frame with the punched owl and his googly eyes. Used Lost Lagoon and Coastal Cabana for the shades of green and love the wood-grain embossing folder! Voila! one baby card completed....

Deets: All Stampin Up except for seed beads in mini shaker box.

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Smiles. :)

Happy Birthday....Honorable Mention it is...

On my card to make list..a guy Birthday card...a double challenge for inspiration: Watercooler Wednesday's Libby's trees' theme and Create with Connie and Mary's sketch challenge. I don't own alot of guy stamp sets..so went with my Lovely as a Tree stamp set and Happy Birthday sentiment from the retired Engraved Greetings set. Had to add a mini shaker and added some silver glimmer paper...which I'm not too sure is very *manly*...oh well.. Coloured the rhinestones with a sharpie and Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for beads in shaker box

EDIT: Sweet....my card was chosen by the Watercooler Wednesday peeps for the Honorable Mention for last week's theme challenge. Totally made my day. THANK YOU!!!

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Smiles,
Sheri :)

Happy 4th Birthday

Another card...wowsers..2 in a month...this one's for my niece's next Birthday..just need to remember to get it in the mail on time! LOL. Worked with Watercooler Wednesday Gail's colour challenge: Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Watermelon and Peekaboo Peach. Of course, had to throw in a shaker box for good measure..tried the thin foam strips from Stampin Up and they did the trick. Added some retired designer paper and Voila!!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for beads in shaker box

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Have a great day!!
Smiles.

*Hydrangea Anyone??

The card making has been pretty sparse lately..just crazy BUSY this Summer for me...or maybe it's just way too warm for me to think about putting a card together! Over at my cardmaking bestie's and she had the new August featured stamp bundle ~ Thoughtful Branches, to play with..So I chose to work with Can You Case It's sketch challenge and went from there..Used some retired designer paper... sponged the Hydrangea topper with Coastal Cabana and Pool Party inks, than stamped onto Coastal Cabana cardstock and die cut a couple toppers. Stamped and punched about a dozen tiny flowers and accented with tiny pearls. Cut the stem from Old Olive and stamped the leaf over the die cut. Added some yummy daffodil delight seam binding ribbon. To finish, stamped and punched a couple butterflies for the butterfly embellie. Couldn't decide on the sentiment, so I left the card blank. Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up 

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*Been awhile....

Hello all...been awhile since I've made a card..and to get back into the swing of things..I chose Watercooler Wednesdays' current sketch challenge to tackle.. just the one challenge to get me going. Enjoyed working with Deborah's sketch and getting ready for my Christmas in the Summer card party...so I pulled out some retired sets to work with: Warmth& Wonder and Festival of Trees. My colour combo: CrumbCake, Baked Brown Sugar, Pool Party, Soft Sky and Cucumber Crush with some Silver Glimmer paper..Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up except for embossing folder

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Happy Father's Day....it's a WINNER!!!

Was chillin at my cardmaking bestie's and decided to be productive and make a card...so I'm back with a double challenge combo: Create with Connie and Mary's colour challenge ~ Night of Navy, Calypso Coral and Smoky Slate and Can You Case It's sketch challenge...
Wanted to try 3D effect with the layered elements..stamped the ship in Night of Navy on whisper white cardstock and layered the 3 framelits over the image and die cut out..not sure whether we can see the World Traveller background embossed on the Night of Navy layer..
Embossed the Happy Father's Day sentiment with the Calypso Coral embossing powder..Voila!

Deets: All Stampin Up

EDIT: Long day today but finding out that my card was chosen as one of the top three for Create with Connie and Mary's colour challenge...a WONDERFUL way to end the evening. THANK YOU to the CCMC Design Team peeps. Looking forward to the next challenge!!! :)

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