Congratulations

Welcome to a new challenge from Addicted to Clean and Simple.

 

Jaydee picked the perfect code word for our  

4th Birthday Celebration!!! 

Here's my card in honor of this special occasion:

The gold sparkle flowers are a little hard to get a good  picture.

Here's a closer look:

 

 I really love the  gold sparkle . 

I think you can tell from this picture, that I die cut the 

word Congratulations four times and glued them together to get a rich dimension.

 

Here's the supplies I used:

cream cardstock 

black cardstock

MFT Blueprints #13 Die-namics

"Halo" embossing powder from  Sparkle & Sprinkle

rubber flower stamp ( sorry I don't know the source, it's so old that

 I just have it filed under miscellaneous!)

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

I hope you can link up your own celebration card

because we have lots of great gifts from our wonderful sponsors up for grabs.

'till next time'

Doni

Christmas Critter

Today I'm playing along with the Simon Says Stamp

Wednesday Challenge 

 

This week the challenge is "Christmas Critters".

 

I used Rubbernecker stamp- freehand frame and dog with big eyes.

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn - merry messages.

And the cute Santa hat is from Tim Holtz - crazy birds and things.

I was also going to enter it in this weeks Less is more challenge.

It's a one layer card challenge, however the theme is books/literature...

duh, this dog is cute  but not very literary !

Oh well, I am not very good at combining challenges.

'till next time,

Doni

Ombre'

Welcome to a new challenge from Addicted to Clean and Simple.

Barb chose the word Ombre' for us to use.

Here's my card:

I chose to use a monotone ombre' look.

The color is called ripe persimmon....isn't it yummy!...

It's a distress ink by Tim Holtz.

I started by heat embossing the happy birthday (source unknown for this stamp)

and the balloon (W plus 9- unforgettable stamp set).

Then I masked the balloon and sponged away ...starting at the bottom and

 getting lighter on the way up. Then I masked off everything BUT the balloon and did the same thing.

To finish the card I attatched the sponged panel to some black and white stripe paper,

and centered it on a matching solid color card base. and just for the heck of it I tossed in some persimmon pearls.

This is going to a good friend whose birthday is at the end of the week.

Here's what I did on the inside:

Thanks for looking.
'till next time,
Doni