Alphabet Challenge "T is for Thank You"

 It is time for another challenge over at The Alphabet Challenge Blog.  We're moving right along in the alphabet and the letter this time around is T.  The theme is "T is for Thank You."  I've been needing to make an ocean themed thank you card for a friend so this was great timing!  I thought this floral whale stamp from The Rabbit Hole Designs was perfect for this challenge.  I used pencils to color it and fussy cut around the image.  I stamped some of the flowers and leaves included in the stamp set in a line across the middle of a white card base and colored them with pencils.  Then I used a border die to create borders across the middle of the card.  Lastly, I popped the sentiment and the whale up for some dimension.  

I hope you'll join the challenge at The Alphabet Challenge Blog!  Challenge details and design team inspiration can be found on the blog.  

Alphabet Challenge "S"

It is time for the next challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog.  The letter for the challenge is S and the theme is S is for snow.

For my card, I used white embossing powder to make a background full of snowflakes.  I used my Misti and did all the snowflakes at once so the stamping part was pretty quick.  Then I did some ink blending over the whole background using blue and purple ink.  I love how ink blending looks over embossed images!  Then I added a sentiment, a sheer but shimmery ribbon, and a dark blue layer behind the background.  A few rhinestones for some sparkle and that's it.  Easy peasy.  This would be a great card to reproduce because it came together so quickly.  

I hope you'll join us for the challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog!  Challenge details and design team inspiration can be found on the blog.  

Alphabet Challenge "R"

 It is time for another challenge over at The Alphabet Challenge Blog!  The letter this week is "R" and the theme is Reduce (make it CAS).  The fun thing about this challenge blog is making cards outside of my normal.  I very rarely make CAS cards but I had fun making this one.  I used alcohol markers to color a reindeer stamp from The Stamps of Life and I think the sentiment is really cute!  

I hope you'll join us at The Alphabet Challenge Blog!  Details and design team inspiration can be found on The Alphabet Challenge Blog.

Alphabet Challenge: Quilt

Welcome back to my blog! I feel like it has been forever since I've posted. We had some sickness roll through the family then I was traveling with a group of international high school students. If you are wondering how traveling with 24 kids was, it was pretty fabulous.  They were all much better behaved then my own kids are when traveling. 😂 And a group of the boys were so hilarious that they kept me laughing a lot of the time.  Being with a big group of kids from all over the world  (I think we had 9 countries) and seeing them bond with each other and show real interest in their cultural differences is one of the reasons I choose to work with them and makes all the paperwork worth it!  

So now I'm home and back to crafting so life is good!  I am also really excited to announce that I am joining the design team at The Alphabet Challenge Blog.  This is such a fun blog to be a part of because the theme rotates every two weeks by the letter of the alphabet.  This week's challenge letter is Q and the theme is Quilt.  I was a little stumped by this theme at first but then decided to use a hexagon die to make some quilt pieces.  Except it turns out that I don't have a hexagon die so I used what I do have which is an octagon die. I'm no quilting expert (or a quilter at all!) but I do think eight sides would be much more complicated than six on an actual quilt but it was fine for what I needed.  I paired that up with some floral and striped patterned paper and an embossed background that looks kind of quilty to me.  Then I added a thank you sentiment to finish it off.

 All of the challenge details and design team inspiration can be found on The Alphabet Challenge Blog.  I hope to see you there!