Stempel Spass

Here is  Merry Monday 's inspiration photo: I love Cardinals - with their bright red feathers they always stand out.  So I put little cardinals on my Christmas card. I used a background that I had already left over from a prior challenge, which I did not like - I spritzed ti with Mr. Huey, but fits this card very well. The birch trees are by Impression Obsession and the sentiment is Martha Stewart. I popped it up on foam dots. I am also submitting this to  Christmas card challenges CHNC extra challenge   - anything Christmas Die Cut Divas  -  Animals/ Fall Simon Says - use rubber or clear  stamp

Boy, did I have FUN making this card! I wanted to play in the Less is More challenge , but there were already soooo many beautiful entries and I wanted to do something different - kind of hard with a simple sketch like that, but today I had an idea...... Here it is: I used that cute little TAWS stamp set called Change and a Sizzix embossing folder. I fuzzy cut the piggy and the coins, mounted the piggy on an action wobbler and added a paper candy.  Here you can see it in action: This card will also go into the TAWS challenge  and into the  Snippets Playground - since I used a little snippet of turquoise paper for the coins and sentiment. Animals/ Fall is the challenge at  the Die Cut Divas  - orange is a fall color and a pig is an animal... And lastly it will go into the Simon Says Challenge  - We're going dotty! Lots of dots on this card... And here are the inspiration pics:           ...

This week we have to use layered die cuts on the Make it Monday feature by Papertrey. The talented Dawn McVey  explains in a tutorial how to do that. She has some valuable tips on how to make this as easy as possible! I used a paper swatches from Home Depot  for this card. Since it was kind of drizzly and cloudy yesterday, I opted for a sunny yellow.  Supplies: Papertrey Rickrack border dies and Filigree Border Die, Papertrey Think Big Favorites, gems.  I frequently use paper swatches for my cards. They have great colors and you immediately get matching colors in the same color group. On Operation Write Home  Nancy talks about those swatches and you can link up your card. Hm - I am wondering if this could be put into the Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground , because of my use of paint swatches??? I'll let Diane decide that.... And lastly I am linking this up with the Die Cut Divas - Let's celebrate challenge

Here are the two challenges - one  sketch , one color challenge                   By pure change on one of my latest Michaels visits I bought this Washi tape and they had cork Stickers - both were on sale, of course.... I mounted the Washi tape on cardstock and cut out the bottom triangle to make it into a banner. The birthday die cut is from Papertrey and the little happy stamp is from Stampendous. I will also submit this to the Die-cut Divas April challenge - Washi or Birthday challenge. I am not sure which background I like better, so I kept both photos. What do you think? Fro now I am going back into my garden - there is weeding to be done......