Christmas Card Challenges - Challenge #13

Good Sunday morning. I got spend a little time in the scrap room this weekend. I didn't get to at all last weekend, so it's been nice getting some creating done.

It's time for my final card as a guest designer at Christmas Card Challenges. I have truly enjoyed working on these cards and working with Stephanie and the design team. This week's challenge is another great one too. The challenge is Music. So many ways that this can inspire.

To create my card, I used the current sketch from Seems A Little Sketchy. Such a neat one this week.


I found that the scraps from my Merry Christmas Echo Park collection were perfect to create a card with a music theme. I should have gotten 2 of these collections. It's one of my favorites.


I am also entering this card into this months challenge at Whimsie Doodles - O Scrap. You are to use only scraps of patterned paper for your card. I only have very small pieces of this set left, so it's definitely all scraps.

Be sure to check out the wonderful cards the design team created. I hope you will create a Christmas card this week. Remember, the challenge is optional at CCC, the card must be new and have a Christmas, holiday or winter theme.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #41

Good Sunday morning. We continue to enjoy a very unusual winter here in the northeast. It is so unlike January, almost February around here. I took a picture about 3 weeks ago of some daffodils coming up by the front door. They are still coming up, and haven't died off. Unbelievable.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And this challenge is a fun and challenging one. The challenge is to create an easel card. I was very nervous about doing this. I have made one once before, but I wanted to try a different kind.

But, before I get to my card, we have a sponsor - Twendy Twine. Check out the blog here, and the store here.


And here is the cool prize one lucky participant will win.


Trendy Twine ValenTwine Mini Pack {Valentine's Day Bakers Twine}

This little pack includes 40 yards:
20 yd of Valentine Cherry Cupcake
10 Berry Red
10 Posy Pink

Kristie has a few tutorial on the at Birthday Sundaes for some assistance with getting started with your easel card. I had made a regular, straight easel card last year. This time I wanted to create a sideways one. This is the tutorial I used.

I was really nervous about getting this done. I had a horrible week at work and was just having a hard time getting anything done in the evenings. I finally decided what I wanted to do and studied the tutorial. I thought I would have a problem with getting the folds right, but I understood how it was supposed to work, so I was able to improvise when it didn't look like the one in the tutorial. Here it is:

I used the DCWV Celebrations stack. Just perfect for birthday cards. The image and sentiment are from the Paws I Care set from Whimsie Doodles. The card in the tutorial was 8 x 8. I thought that was a little large, so I reduced mine to 5 3/4 x 5 3/4. I made a 6 x 6 envelope to go with it.


I hope you will give an easel card a try. I look forward to seeing all of the wonderful creations submitted this week.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #38

Good Sunday morning. It was nice to have a little break from the routine during December, but it's also nice to get back to normal.

It's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. I was so excited to see that Whimsie Doodles is our sponsor this week. I love their images. I have a whole list of images I want to get.


One lucky winner who participates in this week's challenge will win a $10 gift certificate to Whimisie Doodles' online store. They also have a special offer for Birthday Sundae fans. To receive 10% of your Whimsie Doodles order, use the code Birthday10. How cool is that? This code will expire 30 days from today, January 8th.

So I bet you would like to know about our challenge. Well, it's an easy one. Create a Birthday card with sentiment on the front, with the option of using something new. Make sure to include in your post what new item(s) you used.

To create my card, I wanted to use a sketch. I don't use a sketch all that often any more for cards. I found a sketch that I fell in love with at Seems A Little Sketchy.


Whimsie Doodles gave the design team several images to choose from to use on our cards this week. I chose Gift Leah.


I also used a new item on this card. I used my new collection of Nikki Sivils Something for Everyone papers. I really love the blues in this paper for this week's challenge.

I hope you will give our challenge a go this week. And be sure to check out Whimsie Doodles.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #25

Good Sunday morning. I hope everyone is safe and sound this weekend. Things are starting to get back to normal in my world. Our basement flooded, along with my scraproom, thanks to Hurricane Irene. I will probably not be able to get my room back into working order for about a month. But the dehumidifier is working well, and I didn't loose any scrapping stuff.

So, it's time to reveal the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. This week's challenge is to create a birthday card with a birthday sentiment. Nice and easy, right? We are being sponsored this week by Whimsie Doodles. Our lucky winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to the WD store. Make sure you check out all of the cool images they have. And their blog has so much inspiration.Whimsie Doodles provided the design team with a couple of images to choose from to create our cards this week. I used Party Fish and Birthday Sentiment. I think he is so cute. I used Echo Park's Splash as the background paper. I love the colors, and think it went well with the little fishy.


Make sure to check out the adorable cards the other members of the design team created with the images we were provided.

I hope you will show us your creation this week....