CCMC578 Thanks

Hello and welcome to another Create with Connie & Mary sketch challenge.  Ok, I cheated!  I’ll be the first to admit it.  I sat and looked at this sketch all day.  COULD NOT come up with anything I liked.  Threw stuff in the trash, wasted paper and got super frustrated!  I also have a daughter getting married in a few weeks and pretty much have mush for brains!  I decided to take a break and do something different for a bit to clear my head.  I pulled out the Notes of Kindness Card kit that I had purchased and began putting together the cards when it hit me…one of the cards in the kit was exactly the sketch I was assigned!  So while it isn’t my original design, I wanted to showcase this beautiful card kit!  If you haven’t ordered it…you need to!  All of the cards are just gorgeous!  So, cheater or not, this card fits the sketch!

 

Stamp Set:  Notes of Kindness

Ink:  Memento Black

Paper:  Notes of Kindness Card Kit

Accessories:  Copper thread, Dimensionals

Enjoy!  And put this card kit on your next order!  Now I’m going to head over to Create with Connie & Mary and see what you did and find some inspiration!

CCMC577 Yuletide Cheer

Hello and welcome to a Create with Connie & Mary color challenge!  I knew right away what I was doing with this one!  I had all this gorgeous stuff sitting on my desk from the Holiday Mini catalog preorder and just had to use it!

 

 

Stamp Set:  Frosted Foliage

Ink:  Pretty Peacock

Paper:  Pretty Peacock, Whisper White, Gorgeous Grape, Purple Posy, Feels Like Frost DSP, In Color DSP

Accessories:  Frosted Frames dies, Dimensionals, corner rounder

 

LOVE this!  The papers are so pretty and this is such a fabulous color combo for winter!  And since it was a yucky, hot, humid day…this was just enough to cool me off!  Now you head to Create with Connie & Mary and try your luck!  (One thing I have found out is that Purple Posy is extremely hard to photograph…It seems to change the other colors around it, so I apologize for the “off color”.)

CCMC576 Good Things

Hello and welcome to a Create with Connie & Mary sketch challenge.  I love the sample in the catalog on pg. 11 using the same dies I have used.  It rather matched the sketch for today, so I tweaked it.  Not overly happy with my results, but I’m going with it for today.  If you like the card, give me a shout out to boost my feelings about it!

 

 

 

Stamp Set:  Tasteful Textures

Ink:  Early Espresso

Paper:  Mint Macaron, Early Espresso, Garden Lane DSP

Accessories:  Tasteful Backgrounds dies, Bird Ballad Trinkets, Scalloped Lace trim,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you go try this sketch.  Can’t wait to see what you do!

CCMC575 Inspiring Iris Thanks

Hello and welcome to a Create with Connie & Mary color challenge!  I LOVE the Inspiring Iris stamp set!  My grandmother had a whole garden FULL of iris when I was growing up…all colors, all sizes and all beautiful!  This is a tribute to her!

 

 

 

Stamp Set:  Inspiring Iris

Ink:  Memento Black, Terracotta Tile, So Saffron, Garden Green

Paper:  Terracotta Tile, Very Vanilla, 6×6 DSP Garden Green

Accessories:  Stitched Lace die, Magnolia Lane Linen thread, Dimensionals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed my card.  Has sort of a country feel and I can remember my grandmother’s rust colored iris just like it was yesterday!  At that time, I remember thinking rust colored flowers were weird, but today I remember their beauty.  Now you head over to Create with Connie & Mary and try your luck at the combo!  Can’t wait to see what you do!

CCMC574 Celebrating You

Hello and welcome to a Create with Connie & Mary sketch challenge!  I hope you’ll enjoy today’s card.  I saw a card using these colors and it was so pretty that I decided to copy the color scheme for this sketch.

Stamp Sets:  Beautiful Friendship, Itty Bitty Birthdays

Ink:  Blushing Bride, Rococo Rose, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive

Paper:  Rococo Rose, Whisper White, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Pressed Petals Specialty DSP

Accessories:  Stitched Shapes framelits, Basic Adhesive Backed sequins, Dimensionals

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Busy, busy, busy so keeping it short and sweet!  Now head over the Create with Connie & Mary and try your luck at the sketch!  Can’t wait to see what you do!

CCMC573 Relax

Hello and welcome to a Create with Connie & Mary color challenge.  I needed a summer birthday card for one of our good friends, so decided to use this combo for a masculine card.  I had fun with this!

 

 

 

Stamp set:  A Good Man

Paper:  Whisper White, Grapefruit Grove, Pretty Peacock, Sahara Sand

Ink:  Sahara Sand, Pretty Peacock, Grapefruit Grove (ink pads, blends and markers), Memento Black

Accessories:  Banner Triple punch, Dimensionals, Blender pens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love this!  Can’t wait to send it off!  Now you go have some fun with this combo over at Create with Connie & Mary!

CCMC572 Mosaic Thinking of You

Hello!  Welcome to a Create with Connie & Mary sketch challenge.  This one stumped me for a bit!  I like to work ahead with my assignments and this one got right down to the wire!  I would have liked to come up with something a little more original, but this will do!  It’s a cute 4×4″ card that will be fun to hand out to let someone know I am thinking of them.

 

 

 

 

Stamp Set:  Beautiful Day (greeting)

Paper:  Terracotta Tile, Very Vanilla, Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP

Ink:  Memento Black

Accessories:  Dimensionals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was a very quick card and one that can be duplicated easily.  Hope you enjoyed it!  Now you head over to Create with Connie & Mary and try your luck at this sketch!