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Monday, October 3, 2011

Challenge Fun

Oh, I'm so bad today not pre-posting but we had a busy weekend and I wasn't feeling so hot this morning.  It was my day off so I ended up staying in bed WAY too LONG this morning and am just getting around to editing and posting.

I had a blast this weekend with my friend Libby Hickson stamping for WCMD.  I got a few things completed, but more importantly got to spend some time with a friend having fun.  And her studio is to die for!  So nice and big and organized.  Loved being able to explore in her studio and use some things I didn't have.  Thanks for having me over!

So onto my creations (which were not from this weekend).  First up I wanted to create something for the October MFT Guest Designer Contest which was to create Get Gifty and create a Perfect Package.  With 3 kids I am always looking for some fun packaging for a kiddo.

I chose to use Maria's Treat Box with some of the GCD Studios Material Girl for the treat box.  My daughter loves the leopard print papers and the Little Loveosaurus set.  I packaged up some of her favorite treats, fruit snacks, in the treat box.

My little loveosaraus was paper pieced with the patterned paper, love how it turned out!



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 My next one is for the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge which was to use this photo as inspiration:






This was EASY as I needed a baby card for my friend...she just had twins (girl/boy) last week.  So, for my first card I used one of my all time favorite sets, Baby Love from The Kim Hughes Collection at Cornish Heritage Farms.  I used this set to make her baby shower invites almost 3 years ago for her son which are here.



I used the color scheme on the inspiration photo as my starting point.  The sketch is the Unscripted Sketches #125 from last week for this.

Card details:
Stamps: Baby Love from Cornish Heritage Farms and Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches
Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Neenah White
Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Copics RV11, VR17, G12, W1, 0
Embellishments: Webster's Pages Designer Trims, Square and Scalloped Square spellbinders nestabilities, Janome sewing, Cuttlebug Stylized Flowers folder

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And because she had twins, I couldn't go without making a cute little baby boy card as well.  This uses the FTL158 sketch.



Card details:
Stamps: Rock-a-Bye from Clear & Simple Stamps
Cardstock: Simple Stories Baby Steps, Certainly Celery, So Saffron
Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown
Embellishments: Janome Sewing, Corner Rounder punch

2 comments:

Greetings By Chera said...

OH I LOVE THE LITTLE TREAT HOLDER!! I agree, the paper is just too cute! I cannot personally image twins.. wowser! Congrats to your friend!

Get well soon!

Chera

Suzanne C said...

The treat holder is fantastic. Elephant is adorable! Lovely elegant baby card! Glad you had fun on WMCD and Libby is such a sweetheart!

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