Adore

I love making cards just to make cards!!  I am sure I will find some challenges to enter this into but it was just fun to make!!   No coloring, just sewing, die cutting and some amazing paper.

This amazing paper is from K&Co.  I just loved the black and white with butterflies and decided to add a die cut from Tim Holtz with a background of kraft paper.  I inked the edges with CTMH creme brulee ink. I added some of that gorgeous white lace from Wild Orchid Crafts and some sheer gold scrunched ribbon on top. 

I then added a little metal tag that says adore, a charm and some pearls to finish it off.   

Don't forget to enter my blog candy.   I will be picking a winner soon.

I am going to add this to these challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Designs has punches and die cuts. I used a Tim Holtz butterfly die. 

Delightful Challenges has things with wings.

Pals Paper Arts has a recipe challenge: 1 DP, 1 punch and 1 sentiment.

Southern Girl's has black and white with a pop of color.

Flutter By Wednesdays  of course has a butterfly, angel, fairy on it.

The Paper Shelter has stitching. I have mine on the ribbon.

As always, thanks for stopping by my blog. I love visitors!!

Ippity Clean and Simple

Over at the Outlawz we have some pretty talented designers that do Clean and Simple so well.  I mean, these ladies are seriously talented!!  One of them, Rona is my very own Ippity Chick.  I had not even heard of Ippity until Rona introduced it to me.  Ippity is part of the Unity Stamp company.  The stamps are deeply etched rubber that you mount on a clear block. I love that.  Anyways, here is my attempt at CAS with a new set that I just received this week.  The set is called Thankful for you.  And I just love when my packages come all neatly wrapped in tissue paper with free papers and a handmade flower.  Lovely customer service! You should check it out!!

The paper is from K&Company.  Isn't it elegant?  I bought an 8X8 pad last week when all the paper packs were 40% off at M's.  

I really like the look of gathered lace in case you haven't noticed on my projects lately!  I also broke down and bought a Tim Holtz distress Ink.  I have a gazillion colors of CTMH inks so have not gone down the distress ink path yet, or just didn't think it was necessary but finally gave in and this one is walnut.

Well, there you have it, my entry into the CAS challenge at Ippity Opportunity Challenge blog.

God Understands

Last week as I was blog hopping I came across this weeks challenge over at Stampin' Sisters in Christ.  The challenge is to create a card or project that depicts the sharp contrast of black and white or ivory. I chose to do black and ivory with this gorgeous new paper I got from K&Company.  I also fell in love with the stamp set the design team used and ordered it to play with.  I would still like to win it. I have lots of uses for a second set!!  It is from Layers of Color. 

I used some ivory lace and then sewed some sheer ivory over top of that.   I used the Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio Two for the sentiment.

I used my sewing machine for two steps with this card. Both around the designer paper as well as to gather the sheer ribbon over the lace.  I used Tim Holtz distress ink in Walnut stain to edge the ribbon tag.  The challenge was black and white so I kept it that way for the front of the card but added a little pop of color to the inside with Spellbinders butterfly.  The ivory paper was cut out with a Martha Stewart around the edge punch.

Thanks as always for stopping by, I love company!!

Now to add some challenges.

The Stamp man challenge blog has stitching.

Crafts and Me challenge is to use ribbon.

Deep Ocean Challenge blog is to use ribbon.