Lady of Fashion in White on Black WT216

This card is for Splitcoaststampers' Ways to Use It Challenge #WT216#, which was to use black cs. This was perfect for my silhouette stamps! But instead of doing black on white for the silhouette, I wanted to do white on black. Used detail white emobossing powder and heat embossed the silhouette. The rest is pretty much explains itself. tfl

Vintage Thanks SC226

Sorry the card is sideways again, but here is my entry for Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge (SC226). Lovin' these wallpaper sample books! And the gold ribbon is my favorite ribbon! tfl

Daisy Doggie Thoughts, CC216, FTTC13

This card is for Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge (CC216) and Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge (FTTC13) found here: http://www.flourishesnewsletter.blogspot.com/.

Lots of recycling here: wallpaper samples, little bit of ribbon, fundraising sticker for sentiment. tfl

Little Miss Daisy May Friends CAS12

This is my card for SCS Clean and Simple Challenge (CAS12), using bits of ribbon. I used a very short piece of lavender satin ribbon for a little pillow for little Miss Daisy May and her little doggie to sit on. The dp's are wallpaper samples. The embossed strip is leftover from one of my favorite pre-embossed papers.

The Birds WT215

OMG! I've titled this card "The Birds", because the end result is probably about 50% composed of things to fix my bright ideas that went wrong!!! What a nightmare!!! lol

Anyway, the card is for SCS Ways to Use It Challenge #WT215#, using only white cardstock. First, I debossed the white cs with the flower cuttlebug folder and then embossed it with the birds folder. Didn't come out as well as I thought it might, so to add color and emphasize the debossed images, I decided to paint some of the leaves and flowers. Well, made a little mess of that...so...cut out the rectangle with my coluzzle. Then the inside looked too plain white for my sentiment, so...used blue shimmers to watercolor inside...that was VERY slow work with my little paint brush!! Then...ok, this doesn't look that bad...now, here's the good part...stamped my sentiment UPSIDE DOWN!!! So...then I had to cut the card in half and tape it together right, cause I didn't want to have to do the whole window cutting thing again...so on and so on! LOL

Hope you like it anyway, and that I didn't bore you to death! But thanks for letting me vent! Jeesh!

Cute Daisy May SC225

This card is my entry for SCS Sketch Challenge (SC225). I used a digital stamp which was a hand-drawn "cute daisy may designs" image done by Linnie Carter, which you can find here: http://www.helpinghandstemplates.co.uk/products.php?category_id#35. I just love these little images, and think they go wonderfully with my favorite Basic Gray porcelain papers! I colored her with watercolor pencils and blended, then cut her and her little friend out and popped them up on pop-dots. The cuttlebugged panels were done with coredinations paper and sanded. I love how this came out. Hope you like it too. tfl

Spring Thoughts CC215, Caardvarks

Today, I combined challenges: SCS CC215 color challenge, and Caardvarks "Trees A Crowd" challenge. I cut multiple tree branch images with my Cricut using the Storybook cartridge, piled them up to make a tree. Then I stamped a tree trunk from a SeeD's set and paper-pieced it all together, using markers to make it all come together. I also did some chalking around the tree with gray chalk. I then used pink stickles to make little pink blossoms on the tree. On the side, I placed a brad in the middle of that section and wrapped silver cording around it. The background paper and the tree trunk are made of recycled wallpaper samples. Hope you like it. tfl