and in case you need a little inspiration....here's my card.

These are the last of my WCMD challenge cards. I didn't win the Unity prize, but that's okay, it was just the incentive I needed to jump in and do all seven challenges. This first one was the Limited Supplies challenge-No P's please. We couldn't use designer paper or pastels! No pattern paper was definitely a challenge for me, especially when told not to use it, it made me want to use it more. I decided to make my own. I used the funky, Hullabaloo stamp. Inked it up in white and stamped it on Kraft cs. I also kept it simple with just the two colors, tied it up with some Riding Hood Taffeta ribbon and added a choc. chip felt flower. The last challenge card I have for you turned out to be my favorite for the fact that I really tried something new. It was the technique challenge and we had to create our own layered flowers. If you use different sized circles and layer the on top of each other, ruff up their edges and hold them together with a button or brad you can make some pretty cool flowers as an accent for your card. I really wanted to try one of those ribbon flowers like we did at Convention. So I did. I actually made three of them and used them as a layer on my flowers. I really struggled with the stitching at Convention when we did these, but this weekend I was able to make them rather quickly. Yeah, me! This is a big, bulky card, one I would never mail ( at least not without special packaging) but someone someday is going to get this beautiful, card for their Birthday! Happy Wednesday! Hugs,

I finished all seven challenges over on SCS for World Card Making Day. The other day I showed you a couple of the cards I did. Here are two more of the ones I finished up on Sunday. This is the color combo challenge card. Lemon Lime twist was the name for the challenge. We needed to use a a lime green, a yellowish-orange, black, dark gray and vanilla. It sounded a bit weird to me at first, the lime green was really scaring me (I am not a big fan of the bright colors, green galore makes me cringe). Then I remembered a little tip, if you don't like the color, use it sparingly. That's what I did and actually REALLY like this card (plus I got to use a retired favorite, marigold morning). The Ways to Use it challenge was called, Tree-mendous and required the use of a tree stamp or anything to do with a tree. I used this beautiful tree image from Unity (Growing in Unity). I must have been on a square card kick, because most of the cards I did on Saturday were a 4 1/4 square. I paired this up with some of the Autumn Vine dsp and my rectangle nestabilites for the scallops. Rectangles you ask, those are squares. Well, if you cut out two of the same size rectangles and overlap them on each other, lining up the scallops you can create squares (probably wasn't the best explanation of that, but I tried). That was one reason I ordered the rectangles first, because I could get some more mileage out of them. The ribbon is white taffeta dyed sage shadow.
I do have two more cards to share with you from WCMD, but I'll stretch it out one more day since I haven't really stamped much since then. As always, thanks for stopping by! Hugs,