Transportation Challenge Over at Pile It On!

Today's card is a square 4 1/2 x 4 1/2.

The card base is Kraft paper by Close to my Heart.

The layers are retired diagonal stripes, Glacier cardstock, Toffee cardstock, and Almond cardstock,  all from Close to my Heart.

The stack of suitcases digital stamp "Luggage" is from Dr. Digi's House of Stamps.
Since the theme is Transportation and/or Vacation, the luggage was perfect.

The sentiment is a sneak peek of an up and coming Stamp of the Month from Close to my Heart.
You will see several cards from me over the next few weeks using this one.

I distressed the edges of the paper and cardstock with Vintage Photo ink from Tim Holtz.

I also entered my card into the following challenges:

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog-  #434 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge Blog- #466 Anything Goes

I hope you enjoyed my card, please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Cute Little Fox Thank You Card Made With Cricut Design Space

I've always been a huge Cricut fan, and over time the types of projects I've created has vastly improved. 

I've morphed from just a few shapes, page elements, titles, etc. to full blown scrapbooking layouts and cards. 

Here is one of those cards:

Of course I did make a few modifications to the original Design Space File by Cricut from the exclusive
Close to my Heart Cartridge Artiste.

Here is my shared and modified version of the Design Space File.

The Close to my Heart cardstock colors I used were Almond, Toffee, Mint, White Daisy and Espresso.

The sentiment "Thanks" is from the January 2019 Stamp of the Month stamp set "Card Captions". 

This stamp set is only $5 when you purchase $50 or more from my online store. 

I love that there is still space on the inside for a handwritten message. 

I chose to embellish the inside top corner of the card with a few stamped images for some added flare. 

The entire card is distressed with Toffee ink for some added dimension.

I submitted my card to the following challenges:

Pile It On Challenge Blog - #150 Land Animals and/or Sea/Water Animals

Simon Says Stamp-Wednesday Challenge Clean And Simple

Kat Scrappiness Blog-January Card Challenge Anything Goes

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog- #117 Anything Goes

Crafters Castle- January Challenge #13 Anything Goes with Optional Fun Technique (Distressing)

Vintage Butterfly Card...

This morning's card uses a combination of the digital image 
Butterflies Are Free 
by Pickled Potpourri 

and Close to my Heart products. 

I was going for a vintage look. 

I love butterflies, and this image is simply beautiful. 

The base of the card is White Daisy cardstock by Close to my Heart, I added a layer of Tangerine cardstock, then a piece of retired patterned paper from last fall's seasonal expressions. 

The image is colored in with Copic markers, and distressed with both Toffee and Almond ink.

The sentiment "Missing You" is from the "Shell Sentiments" Stamp Set by Close to my Heart and distressed with Toffee ink. 

Then mounted on a piece of tangerine cardstock as well.

I finished off the card with a few gold pearls as embellishments. 

I entered this card into the following challenges:

Pile It On! Challenge Blog - #144 Vintage/Retro

Jo's Scrap Shack Fun-day Friday Challenge- #242 Anything Goes

Color Crazy Craft Challenge- Week 28 Anything Goes 

Artistic Inspirations Challenge - # 204 Anything Goes

The Sketchy Challenge - # 144 Anything Goes

Polkadoodles challenge- #28 Anything goes