Card Challenge #3

My challenge today was:

Basic Grey paper and a tree.

I was having a hard time with the papers my paper-holic mom had for me to choose from, not to mention trying to match that with one of two tree stamps I knew of in the house. So I decided I could make a tree.. heh..

Card Challenge #2

Since Timby is working from home Tuesday, I'll be lucky if I actually get my challenge met.

My challenge:


Piece finished so far (Monday night):



My finished card:

I am Jack's Poetry and a Pattern Cake.

Last night Mumsy and I decided on a challenge to get us out of our creative ruts. Since I got into the card movement this weekend, while waiting to take a trip to Shipwreck Beads, and she's in desperate need to write some poems, the challenge is as follows: I will provide her with a prompt that she will use to write a poem, and she will find a design/paper/stamp set/etc for me to create a card. Hopefully this will last more than a day or two, and actually have good things come of it. My first challenge is to create a card similar to this, but closer to our style/color scheme/stamp sets.



My Card:



The pink that the owl is on doesn't quite match, but right now I don't have the pink that does. Until I get the other pink, it'll just have to be a little off.

I am Jack's Costumed Animals.

So while I was cleaning up the craft table today I found some scraps from the card I made yesterday and decided another Halloween card needed to be made. I used the same papers, same concept to an extent, and my other Halloween stamp set.

I feel like it still needs something but I don't know what..

I am Jack's Glittery Mess.

Today I embarked on a journey to make a card. I thought about making Thank You cards in advance for the two baby showers I'm having. But, I needed Mumsy for help to bounce ideas off of for that venture.

After organizing Mumsy's craft blocks, with emphasis on the punch drawer I raided our clear stamp drawer and chose a few sets that I could brainstorm with. Two Halloween, one Christmas, and one with a really cute owl.

I decided on my favorite little Skull Girl. Then I went with the new "in" Halloween colors. Black, olive green, orange, and a bold but light purple. Earlier in the day I was crusing some crafty sites looking for some inspiration and I found a card layout I really liked at KWerner Design Blog. So I decided to use that for my card layout.

Once I assembled the layers, and cut my circles, I decided the front needed something more. So I drew some spiderwebs by hand using my Martha Stewart glue pen, and added some glitter. After the glitter was applied and my layers were glued together, I was happy with the final product.



This was a little spidy friend I came up with after the card was finished. I decided not to add him to this card because I didn't want TOO much going on. But he might make his way onto another card..