TPE Challenge #40 Thankful

This week's theme challenge at The Pink Elephant is "thankful". I decided to make garland/a banner to hang from our fireplace mantle. I used a paper pack I got from SU last year to cover my chipboard letters. I also used the Wildflower Kids Tom the Turkey which I colored with my Copics. I love my Copics but I so need more practice with them. I just attached the letters to twine with small clothesline clips which will make storage minimal.

I had a hard time photographing this because the lighting in our house isn't good so I tried a shot outside too.
Be sure you check out what the rest of the Design Team made this week.



I also have a card to share today that I made for the Wisconsin Scrappers challenge this week. Our challenge was to use primary colors. I also used a Wildflower Kids digital stamp for my card too, I used some delphinium blue flower soft for his hat and scarf.

TPE Challenge #39

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a color challenge; brown, yellow, neutral and a color of your choice (I chose orange). I stamped my image with the Hero Arts Three Winter Trees and colored them with my Copics then embellished them with the autumn flower soft.

Be sure to head on over to The Pink Elephant to see what the other designers did this week.

CCAYL: One Layer Card Challenge

Last month I had the opportunity to be on a guest designer on the Christmas Cards All Year Long blog. Well Deanne was in need for a designer for the rest of the year and asked me if I would like to join the team!

Our challenge for Novemeber is to make a one layer card. At first I really had a hard time with this and really didn't know what I was going to create. Well after browsing around the internet my creative juices started flowing and I had a great time with these. They're simple but elegant, sometimes I get so carried away with adding more and more to the card I forget about simplicity. I have 5 cards to share with you today. This first one I used the Hero Arts Bare Winter Trees stamp and heat embossed them. Unfortunately the picture doesn't show off the shimmer of the embossing or the paper.

For this card I took a piece of chipboard and ran it through my cuttlebug to get the embossed framed image. I stamped the little Hero Arts Holly Bird image and colored him with my Copics.

I think this one is my favorite probably because it has snowflakes on it. I used the Cuttlebug and Sizzix snowflake embossing folders for this one and added a little jewel to the center of each snowflake.


I used the Hero Arts Holly Bird on this card too and just scored a frame around him with my scor-pal.

And lastly, this card was made with a sizzix embossing folder with some polar white flower soft and embellished with some Hero Arts and punched snowflakes.

Be sure to head on over to the Christmas Cards All Year Round blog to see what the rest of the design team made.

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a recipe challenge. Our recipe to use this week is black, hardware and distressing. I found an image online of an old gas station and printed it off. My dad is into the old gas stations and corvettes so I thought this card would be great to give him. I embossed some mirror card paper with the diamond plate cuttlebug embossing folder for the background which I distressed the edges on. My hardware that I used is the Making Memories screws and Hero Arts nail heads.

Be sure to head on over to see what the rest of the team did this week.

TPE Sketch Challenge #37

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a sketch challenge. I had some fun with this sketch and made 3 cards. I just bought some new Christmas stamps and a halloween stamp that I had to play with. Here's my cards.




I also have a card from the Wisconsin Scrappers Blog challenge to share today. We also had a card sketch this week.

Be sure to head on over to The Pink Elephant and Wisconsin Scrappers to see what the rest of the design teams created.

TPE Challenge

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a fall theme challenge. Our challenge this week is sponsored by Wild Flower Kids and we had a chance to work with some of the digital stamps this week! I used the turkey for my card.

Be sure to head on over to The Pink Elephant to see what the rest of the Design Team made this week.

TPE Challenge

We have a color challenge this week at The Pink Elephant. The colors we used are orange, black, white and purple. I chose to make some trick or treat containers this week for any trick or treaters that come to visit this year. I used some core'dinations cardstock on these with some sizzix halloween embossing folders.

Be sure to stop over at The Pink Elephant to see what the rest of the team made.

Guest Designer

This month I had the opportunity to be a guest designer for the Christmas Cards All Year Round Blog. Their challenge for this month, in honor of breast cancer awareness, is to make a pink Christmas card with some ribbon. I was so excited to be a part of the team this month, even though I don't diligently enter the monthly challenges I definitely follow the blog and get lots of ideas as I am making my Christmas cards throughout the year. You can check out their blog HERE and get lots of ideas for your Christmas cards wish Im sure is very helpful this time of year.

I actually created 4 cards for the October challenge but one I had already shown on my blog a couple posts down as I had used it for the Wisconsin Scrappers challenge this week too. Here are my other three cards.

This first one I embossed some core'dinations paper with the sizzix snowflakes folder, punched out 3 squares with my SU curly label punch, punched out some snowflakes and used my EK success border punch for the edge on the front of the card.

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I think this one is my favorite, I used some glitter bright pink paper for the base added a patterned paper from my stash which I stamped and embossed "Merry Christmas" on which I believe is an Inkadinkadoo stamp. I cut out the big snowflake from my cuttlebug snowflake diecut and used a chipboard snowflake on top of that then a punched snowflake and finally a snowflake jewel. The big pink ribbon is from my stash.

And lastly for this card I dug out some patterned paper and cardstock from my stash, cut out scallop and the circle, which I embossed with the sizzix folder & sanded, from my nestabilities sets. The ribbon is also from my stash. So basically this one was all scrap paper

I hope you enjoyed my pink Christmas cards, now head over to see all the other great cards this month!

TPE Challenge #34

This week at The Pink Elephant we have a recipe challenge for you all. The recipe is to use dots, punch(es) and a tag. We also got to play with Your Next Stamp stamps for our challenge. I got to use the Bubbly Fun Fhiona stamp set for my card.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Teams cards at The Pink Elephant and check out all the fun Fhiona stamps over at Your Next Stamp.

Check back later this week as I have some cards to share with you for a Design Team I will be a guest on.

Wisconsin Scrappers Product Challenge

This week's challenge at Wisconsin Scrappers is a product challenge and we had to create something using stickers. I opted for a Christmas card since Im still way behind on my cards. I had some snowman stickers from last year that I dug out and used for my card, just the outside snowman is a sticker. Here's my card