Merry Everything

 We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesdays we reveal all the DT members examples and announce the winner from the previous week. I hope you'll come play along with us! Today's sketch is for a slimline card!

Here's the sketch

I thought I would get a jump on my Christmas cards and as soon as I saw this sketch I knew it would be perfect for some snowflakes. And an added bonus for me is that it was all made using scraps....I love it when I can do that!

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Ahoy

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is It's a Pirates Life For Me. All challenges will be pirate themed yet broad enough for many interpretations. So, in keeping with the Pirate theme, pirates use metal swords, right? So use some metal on your layout!

On my page, my title is metal but I wanted to try to use even more metal. I took some regular

 aluminum foil, wrapped it around some cardstock and then embossed it. I love how it came out! As for the rest of page, I kept the embellishments to a minimum so as not to take away from the embossed foil.

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Peace

 We've got a new card sketch up today at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal all the DT members examples and announce the winners from the week before. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's my example for this week

Here's the sketch

I decided to make a Christmas card, mostly because I wanted to play with my new snowfall stencil from MFT. I used some Distress Oxide Inks, Wilted Violet and Stormy Sky, to create the background. The star is from a stamp and die framelits set from Sizzix and Peace was cut using my Cricut.

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VACA

 We've got a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. This week's sketch is by Brenda Ragsdale. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

This came together so quickly for me. I very seldom do multi-pic layouts and I couldn't find 4 pics that went together so I settled on just 3. But that's the beauty of  following a sketch....it can take you anywhere. Other than the number of photos I pretty much stuck to the sketch.

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Quaranteen Birthday

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is It's a Pirates Life for Me. Challenges this month will be "Pirate" themed, but broad enough for interpretation on so many levels. Batten Down the Hatches, it's gonna be a fun month! So for my challenge you must use only the colors of the Pirate flag which are black and white. You can use color photos.

I started with black cardstock for the background and then added texture using white Modeling Paste and a stencil. I added some black and white floral paper, some little white flower gems, a big white heart and some Pop Drops also in white.

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Halloween Card

 We've got a new card sketch challenge up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal all the Design Team members examples and pick a winner from the previous week's entries.

Here's the sketch

I thought this sketch would be a great one for a Halloween card.  I've had these stamps for years and never used them but as soon as I saw the sketch I knew they would be perfect.  I stamped them all in black and then heat embossed them to really make them pop.  The purple background was made by sponging some Distress Oxide Inks, Hickory Smoke and Wilted Violet. onto white cardstock to give 

the card a bit of a spooky feel.

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