House Mouse challenge #25 card

Here's yet another card that I've made this week from a sketch. This time I used the Challenge #25 sketch designed by Jami over at the House Mouse Monday Challenge blog.


The patterned card stock is by Me and My Big Ideas. The image was stamped using Memento dye ink then colored with Prismacolor colored pencils. The circle and scalloped circle were cut using Spellbinders Nestabilities dies.

Penny Black week 36 challenge card

Lately I've been finding my card-making inspiration on challenge blogs. This is a card that I made using the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for this week, the week 36 sketch by Nat.


This card was made using designer card stock by Me and My Big Ideas. The Penny Black images were colored using Memento markers. I love making cards from sketches because they help get me out of my comfort zone.

"tweet" - Patterned Paper Passion - DCM

It's been ages since I've participated in the daring cardmakers challenge. I decided it was time to get back into it. This week's challenge is patterned paper passion, and the details are as follows: I want to see 3 different patterned papers on your card. And to be extra daring, why not see if you can use 3 different lines of paper!

Okay! Here's my card:


The patterned papers that I used are by Me and My Big Ideas--the big background, Basic Grey Boxer--the green swirly layer, and Die Cuts with a View Green Stack--birds and branches. The stamped images are by Hero Arts and stamped using Memento dye inks. The decorative border of the green layer was made using the Fiskars Effervescence border punch, and I used the plain and scalloped circles Nestabilities dies by Spellbinders to make the top of the card. The partial Nesties technique let me cut out just part of the circle at the top fold so that it would stick out.

I wouldn't have tried this dare on my own, but it was fun to find out that three patterned papers, all by different companies, can really come together and look nice on one card.

inspired by the cold

It isn't cold here today. Actually, it's mild and a perfect day to be out raking leaves. I did that earlier. But a couple of days ago it was cold here, and the cold had me thinking about wintry things, like penguins, ice, snow, holidays....

So, here's a card that I made along those lines.


The stamped images are all by Hero Arts and stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the penguin with a white Inkssentials pen and the scarf with a Spica glitter pen. The blue layer is a shimmer-finish paper (from Target) that I embossed using the Snow Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder and the creative Cuttling technique.


This is a close up view. I think you might just be able to appreciate the glitter of the paper. You also get a good look at the faux snow, or ice. :-) Kinda looks more like ice here. I'd bought it a while back from Cornish Heritage Farms. The patterned cardstock is by Me and My Big Ideas.

Sticking with the bird theme

I just love this stamp image and this Fiskars border punch.


The stamp image is by Stampendous. The border punch is the new Lacy Days of Summer. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. The patterned cardstock is by Me & My Big Ideas.