Three Challenges in One

Happy Saturday everyone!  I bookmarked quite a few card challenges that I wanted to do this week and I managed to combine three of them on this one card.

Here are the challenges I joined:

I am so happy that I finally got to play along with Paulina's 10 Minute Craft Dash.  Since Simon Says Stamp's theme was Patriotic I knew that my color scheme would be red, white and blue.  I decided to use Laurie's card for the Muse challenge as my sketch.  That made it much easier to decide on what supplies to pull out.

Here's what I laid out to use:

 Yes, I already had some stars die cut so that certainly saved time.  For my base I thought I'd use either of the Guidelines papers or just plain white.  As you can see I decided on Guide Lines II grid paper.  I liked the look of the circles with the stars.

  Here's my time.  I swear I thought I'd run out of time just trying to pull the backing off of the glitter tape!  I really need to play the 10 minute challenge all the time.  It forces me to just create a card and not spend too much time over-thinking it.

 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Star Prints, 2012 Birthday Tags
Paper:   Guide Lines II grid, white
Ink:   Pure Poppy, Blue Breeze (kaleidacolor)
Other:  glitter tape (american crafts), Seeing Stars dies

For Your Inspiration #39

Happy Thursday!  I have a fun card for you today based on an amazing photo.

When I saw the photo for this week I knew I wanted to create a graphic, clean card.  I thought of Shapes By Design from Papertrey right away.  After looking at the photo again I noticed that the lights look like stars, voila I added stars.  After stamping the block image in blue I cut along the left side of the blocks.  I thought it would look better when I layered it over the yellow panel.

The smaller stars and sentiment are from a new stamp company based in the UK called Clearly Besotted.  You must check them out!  These stamps are wonderful.  They stamp great and are high quality.  I was blessed enough to win FOUR sets from a giveaway on Stephanie Wincott's blog.  Jackpot!


Here's the photo:

I hope you'll join us at For Your Inspiration for this challenge.  You have until Wednesday, February 13 to create a project based on the photo above.

The layout from this card was inspired by Dawn McVey's card HERE.  I'm submitting this for Papertrey's anniversary contest.





 

Stamps:  Shapes By Design and Star Prints (PTI), Full of Surprise (Clearly Besotted)
Paper:   white, harvest gold (PTI)
Ink:   Dutch Blue, Buttercup, Sunflower (CTMH)
Other:  star die (PTI), blue glitter gel pen

Laurie - Our Gallery Idol

My fellow Papertrey Paper Doll Laurie Willison is one amazing papercrafter!  She made it all the way to the Top 10 Gallery Idol competition for Papercrafts Connection.  What a fantastic accomplishment.  I am so proud of her.  I was a big fan of Laurie's work even before I became a Paper Doll.  When I met her in person last year at CHA I was so excited to tell her how much I loved her cards.

Today a few of us Paper Dolls are doing a special blog hop in honor of Laurie.  I had so many choices when trying to decide which card of hers to gain inspiration from.  Seriously, I could browse her blog for days.  I finally chose to CASE THIS card of Laurie's.

Here is what I made:

Don't you love this layout?  I needed to make a birthday card for my BIL so I thought this was perfect.  I used my Sunshine IP and Star Prints dies and stamps for this one.

I'm also making this card for Michelle's Paper Dolls challenge to make a masculine card.  I'm so behind on the Dolls challenges:(  Sorry ladies.  I'll try to do better.


Here is the list of the other Paper Dolls in this blog hop.  Please feel free to play along with us.

Amy (kolling143)

Christy (christea)

Kristin (jcmom04)

Suzanne (*suzanne*)

Katie (choc0holic)

Lee Anne (Lee Anne)

Renee (Renee L.)

Tanna (tfiskers)

All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated

Stamps:  Star Prints
Paper:  Kraft, white, Enchanted Evening, 2008 bitty dots pp, textured yellow (unknown)
Ink:  black (memento), dutch blue (CTMH)
Other:  Sunshine Impression plate, Seeing Stars dies, corner rounder (fiskars), circle nestabilities, 1 3/4" circle punch & star punch (ek success)