Specialty Challenge Time

Don't cry over spilled cookies

This week Picture Perfect Creations has a special challenge for you.... Use 2 Ribbons & 3 Buttons on your project, nothing could be easier :-)

I took this opportunity to give this adorable Chinese take-out container & fortune cookies a whirl:

You can find the Artist, Karen Hanson, from Crop Chocolate on The Crop complete with a printable pattern and video instructions, how sweet is that?!

I took liberties with the "ribbon" and used two colors of twine instead, my twine is from The Twinery.  Paper is Echo Park's For The Record (a favorite of mine!) and funky flowers/buttons are from Sassafras, cute large brads used on side of container are from Making Memories... all of which I purchased from Crop Chocolate.

Don't forget to upload your project & go check-out all the Design Team members creations at Picture Perfect Creation!

Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays

This morning I asked my mom if she needed me to make anything (paper wise) for her. She requested 3 birthday cards for various nieces that have either just had or are getting ready to have birthdays.

My first banner card. Obviously I have a spacing problem which I thought I'd pre-planned to avoid but apparently you should use repositionable glue dots when doing this. I don't think Brooklyn will have a problem with it. Mom mentioned turquoise & orange. This is her 11th birday card from my mom:

My step-sister, Rita, has a step-daughter that just turned 15. Mom said she likes blue & purple, so here's Ashley's card:

And last but not least is Rita's baby girl, ok so she's not really a baby any more. Mom said pink & girly. I hope Laura likes this one:

I had a lot of fun with these girls all being so very different.

Brooklyn's banner card is made from the Making Memories Whimsy Paper kit along with some Creative Memories alpha stickers and sequin flowers from Portafolia and Crystal Stickles.

Ashley's Cake card is made from Basic Grey Euphoria 6x6 paper pad; White cardstock from CTMH; Piece of Cake stamp set & all ink-CTMH; Crystal Stickles.

Laura's Flower Card is made from CTMH cardstocks, ribbon, ink, rhinestone flowers, green brads & Tickled Pink Paper; felt pink brad & bee brad from Sassafras; Crystal Stickles.

All three of these are a part of the No Paper Buying Challenge. For more details on the challenge, please see my blog post from Aug. 1

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Our Creative Corner Sketch:

My Creation:
The Details:

Products Used: Basic Grey Euphoria; Blue Ink-Technique Tuesday Topaz Ink; Pink Ink & Cardstock-CTMH Baby Pink; Blue Cardstock-CTMH Textured Twilight; Elephant-Sassafras Freedom; "Happy" Stamp-CTMH Tickled Pink; "Birthday"Stamp-CTMH It's Your Day

I did a 3-in-1 card!

I see people do it all the time, but this is a first for me... three challenges jammed into one card! I know, I know... it's kind of like cheating but it also makes the challenge much more or a challenge to me. The challenges included are:

Tuesday Trigger - Poppin

Penny's Challenge - use 7 of the same thing

and Finally the Sketch from Twisted Sketches - #57 with a Twist of Sunshine

so I'll be the first to admit, I didn't actually use the sketch from Twisted Sketches but the Sunshine part, I got that! So I'm not even going to post the Sketch, but here's my design:

7 Monkies:

The Sunshine, Popped!

The overacheiver (LOL)

Products Used: Monkes & Bike-Sassafras Stamp Freedom; Small letters-CTMH Atomic Lower Case; FUN letters-CTMH Felicity; Red Ink-CTMH Cranberry; Blue Ink-Technique Tuesday Topaz Ink; Cardstock-CTMH; Yellow Ink-Portafolia