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Perfect for any level of paper papercrafter!

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A Cute Card For Pile It On! Challenge #149 Shaped Cards and/or Add a Charm

Today's card was created for this month's Pile It On! Challenge Shaped Cards.

Pile It On! is sponsored by Crafty Sentiments Designs for this challenge.

I used their Bundle of Hearts Digital Stamp.

I colored the image with Copic Sketch markers.

I kept the card relatively simple this time, with just a few layers. 

The card base was cut with the Cricut Explore Air 2.

The base is Kraft paper from Close to my Heart.

The circle layer behind the image is the lighter shade of Ruby cardstock.

I added a strip of Red Shimmer Trim, for a little sparkle.

The "Grateful" sentiment is from the Grateful Heart Stamp Set by Close to my Heart 

and is stamped in Pewter Ink. 

I entered the card into the following challenges:

Creative Moments- #158 Anything Goes 

Through The Craft Room Door- Challenge for the Week of December 11

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog- #410 Anything Goes

Dragonfly Dreams- Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge- #442 Anything Goes 

Aud Sentiments- #218 Anything Goes and a Sentiment

Love of Color - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to the December 

Close to my Heart Technique Blog Hop!

There are 13 other amazingly talented Close to my Heart Consultants sharing their artwork with you for this month's Blog Hop. 

Should you get lost along the way, all participant's links can be found here. 

If you are coming from Michelle's Blog, you are on the right track.

As mentioned in a post a couple weeks back, I love to use our new 

Love of Color How-to-Book to inspire my cards and layouts. 

This month's Blog Hop showcases how useful this book really is.

The book has several awesome features:

It fits inside our Everyday Life™ albums for easy and convenient transportation. 

It includes breathtaking artwork that illustrates how to create perfectly balanced color combinations, and has tons of patterns for cards and layouts.

This book is perfect for both new and seasoned crafters. 

It would make an awesome Christmas or Birthday gift!

I created this card, to showcase the color combination on page 10 of the book. 

The three featured colors are Saffron, Smoothie and Lagoon.

The card base and second layer of the circle is Saffron cardstock. 

The torn strip is Lagoon.

The layer of cardstock behind the strip is Smoothie. 

One of my favorite Stamp Sets in our current catalog is the Grateful Heart Stamp Set. 

It is perfect for Thank you, Birthday, even Wedding cards!

I used Versamark Ink with the butterfly from the Grateful Heart Stamp Set, to create a very subtle tone on tone background on the Smoothie cardstock.

I used Lagoon ink to stamp the "Thank You" from our Grateful Heart Cardmaking Stamp Set.

For a bit of dimension, I used Saffron Ink to distress the edges of the White Daisy circle. 

Thank you so much for stopping by, before heading over to Darlys's Blog, please consider leaving a comment and enjoy the rest of the creative talents in this month's Blog Hop! 

Christmas Shaped Card

For the Challenge over at Pile It On! we needed to create a shaped card. 

With a lack of resources on hand, I decided to try something a bit different. 

The back the card is a square, the front is a triangle. 

I created a Christmas card in a 6 x 6 size. 

The cardstock layers, I kept simple, but did add some cute stamping with our 

December Candy Cane Alphabet stamp set. 

This stamp set is the Stamp of the Month for December for only $5 with a $50 Purchase. 

The only embellishment for this card is the Red Shimmer Trim. 

I also entered the card into the following challenges:

Creative Moments-#157 Anything Goes

Crafting By Designs- Get Ready For Christmas 

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge Blog-#198 Fails All About Holidays