CAS Challenge #1

At Split Coast Stampers, I was browsing the forums and found a new challenge for "clean and simple" cards. The challenge was to find a fabric sample to be your inspiration and then make a clean and simple card. As I was looking for some fabric samples, I found this. The colors made me dream of a warmer place to be, and the pineapples just made me smile. How fun would it be to sit on the beach eating fresh pineapple right now!?! And these are the cards I came up with based on that inspiration. No pineapple involved, though. After making the first card, I decided it would be really easy to make another, and just changed the sentiment for fun.

Another Baby Card

I looked at the Mojo Monday sketch this morning and loved it, but was going to wait until tomorrow to play, since Mondays are my busiest day of the week. Then I quickly checked Nichole's blog to see what goodies Paper Trey is introducing today. They have a new stamp set that looks awesome and they will be releasing "quick kits" that contain ribbon, cardstock, and ink all together. And the challenge of the day is to make a card for one of your best friends. Well, that almost got me convinced to hurry and play along and not wait until tomorrow. Then, my friend called to tell me that she is expecting! Well, if that's not a sign, what is?!? She is the one that introduced me to stamping in the first place. And you've got to make a card for your friend when she gives you that kind of news! So I used the Mojo Monday sketch to make a card for her. I realize the card's a little busy with all the colors and pattern, but since she's pregnant with her 5th, I figured we didn't need any toned-down, soft and fluffy card. We can go for crazy and busy when you're expecting your fifth child!

For The Ribbon

The challenge at Nichole's blog today is to use her card sketch, and one lucky winner will be getting a whole lot of ribbon! What a great prize would that be. Yesterday I didn't have all the PTI colors that were being used in the color challenge. Since today we were given a basic sketch to follow, I decided I could use all the yummy PTI cardstock I wanted. And I found this dp in my stash that I bought a few months ago that I was excited to see goes well with a lot of the Paper Trey colors I have. In addition, I used my nestabilites labels one dies. I was having a fun card-making morning!

Just Because

Okay, I had to post twice today. You might want to know why. Here's why: PTI is celebrating their 2nd anniversary this month. And they've got all kinds of goodies and giveaways going on. Today's contest enters participants in a chance to win a really cool Papertrey Tote and a gift card for $100. Oh, the supplies I could buy with that!!! For a chance to win all you have to do is "create, alter or decorate a bag of any kind." Then link back to Nichole's blog here. Now, the reason that I had to post this today, is because the contest is ending at 3am EST February 6. So grab some supplies and play along for a chance to win. And if you missed my earlier post from today, just scroll down a little.

PTI Sympathy

After reading about what great cardstock Papertry Ink has, I finally took the plunge and ordered some. I was just going to go with cardstock to try it out, but before my order was complete I found their new sympathy set in my shopping cart. I am really glad I decided to try their stuff. I will definitely buy from them again as well as recommend them to anyone looking for great stuff, with good deals (read: free) on shipping with a certain purchase amount. This was a simple and quick card I made using all of my new goodies.