Congrats

As part of an unfinished card swap I received a red, black and orange hot air balloon,  stamped sentiment 'Congratulations' and a piece of designer paper with blue clouds.   I also wanted to make a card for the Tuesday Morning Challenge.   I thought and thought and thought.  no ideas.... 

Then   💡   I came up with the following card -   a graduation card in black, red and white!  The base card is black with a white card stock background and a layer of diplomas and hats paper.  I attached the hot air balloon on vellum with a different 'congrats' under the vellum.

I attached the vellum to the graduation paper with small dots of glue, yet those dots were visible.  So I added some bling to cover these spots. 

In case you are wondering, the unfinished card swap requires us to send another player 3-4 card elements.  Then we are to make a card using any of the elements we received from a player.  Sometimes I use all 3 or 4 pieces or, as in this case, I used just one.

I'll be posting this card to the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #400:




Happy Weekend!
Kathy

Happy Mother's Day

Challenges are wonderful.  I simply love the challenge of creating something from an idea.  Today's challenge is from PaperTrey Ink: Make It Monday #281: Patterns Behind Die-cut Windows.

I'm also participating in an unfinished card swap.  So using the elements from Lila (white ribbon, pink flowers and pink patterned paper) and the Happy Mother's Day die from PaperTrey Ink, I came up with this card.  I think my MIL will like it.  Pink and green are so feminine and pretty.  The sentiment and edges of the circle are sparkly with Wink of Stella and the whole circle is raised with dimensions.   Cute!

The pink and green are sooooo much prettier in person.


Happy Weekend, even if it is raining!
Kathy

Woof!

Woof!  Love this dog stamp.  He looks kind of old and pitiful and full of love.  I made this tag for the Tag You're It! Challenge.  

All the samples on the blog are terrific and very inspiring.  The dog in the featured artist's tag stood out looking so friendly and the others so cheerful and my forlorn doggie stamp said to me, "Please use me."   aahhhh, how sweet!  Really, I took one look at it and said, "that's the one."

Then I remembered a crocheted dog rug in the shape of a bone - do you know that Milkbone dog treats were first created as a cookie for humans, but it tasted so bad the creator gave it to his dog and the dog loved it!  Anyhow, I don't know if that story is true, but it is what someone told me just the other day.

So I cut out a couple bone shapes, stamped the dog and sentiment and added Washi tape and a ribbon.

 

Have a great day!
Kathy