Step Up

I had a little more time in my craft room today and came up with this card for the Wplus9 challenge…as I've mentioned before I love this letter press look so I did it again but on velum to add another texture to the card!! 

I'm also a little obsessed with splatter today too! Everything I've made has had some on it!!!
Anyway thanks so much for stopping by!
Chera~

Supplies:
Stamps: fanciful feathers
paper: kraft, velum, gold shimmer, black
ink: black
accessories: gold and bronze shimmer mist, twine, sequins

beautiful goodbye!

Where to start….I must say I really like this card!! I went over to the CAS-ual Friday blog looked at the challenge and wasn't to sure what I should do. So I dug through my stamps and saw this flower one, one of my favs for sure, then I saw the sentiment that is with this set as well!! I knew it was meant to be. Was still lacking a little inspiration so I went on over to the Colour Me…! blog to see what their challenge was this week. After that this card came together beautifully! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Chera~

Supplies:

Card size is 3x6

Stamps: take 3 summer

Ink: rich razzleberry, pool party

Paper: white

Accessories: take 3 die

Wplus9 Challenges!

Happy weekend everyone! I've had a busy couple of weeks with my son having some major surgery so today is the first day in a while I've been able to get back at it. And I figured why not pull out my Wplus9 goodies and attempt the challenges on the blog!!! 

The first challenge is the "step it up" challenge where the focus is adding dimension. So for this card I heat embossed the background in white to keep it clean and simple then bumped up the banner and of course added some sequins…how could it not have some sequins! And I finished it off by adding some shimmer mist which is pretty heard to see in the picture!!

The next challenge is the "spotlight challenge" which I'm not 100% sure I did correctly!! But I wanted to do the letter press background and keep with my anniversary themed cards!  So for the background I used the xoxo die. Can I just say how much I LOVE the letter press look!!! A fun and easy way to add some dimension to the card with using other tools in my drawer!! 

Well that is all for today!! Hope everyone is doing great!!! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Chera~

past invitations

I want to share some wedding invitations I've done in the past…I don't have many on here and its one of my fav things to do!!!!

This was the last wedding I did before we moved west!! I love the fall colours and its simple with a touch of elegance!!!!

This one had a lot of small details that were hard to fully capture in the pic!! The white embossed trees have a spot of glitter on them too!! This wedding i actually attended and was so happy that I was able to make the invitations be the first view of her beautiful winter wedding!

 I had so much help from the bride and groom when I made these invites!! I had a blast with them! And it was fun to have so much leeway with a design for her!!

 This was a fun style for me!! Having it open up twice!! Each time you opened it up there was a new little surprise for you!

I love sitting down with brides and creating their perfect invitation!!! Thanks to these lovely ladies for letting me a part of their special day!!!!

Chera~

Love

This card is very self explanatory. But I love the simplicity of it!!! Clean and Simple to the point!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Chera~

Supplies:

Paper: kraft

Stamps: love songs PTI

Ink: black, real red

accessories: circle punch 

Love you forever

I love the paper that came in this months Simon Says Card Kit!!! This woodgrain one is so pretty and I knew it needs some hearts!!!! Another quick easy card just in time for valentines day!

Thanks so  much for stopping by!!
Chera~


Supplies
Paper: black, fancy pants DP
Ink: black
Stamps: heart prints (PT I)
Accessories: memory box die, SU rhinestones

Quite like you

I was trying to come up with a card that was valentiney, but also not so lovey dovey valentiney….here is what I came up with! 

I LOVE the paint swooshes…Could use them all day long!!!! This card was super easy to make. White embossed the words then add the paint stamp overtop…added some sequins a heart and called er good!!!

Hope you are having a great week!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Chera~

Supplies:

Paper: white, regal rose

Ink: real red, baked brown sugar, regal rose, versa mark

Stamps: water colour wonder, quite like you, hearts a flutter

Accessories: white embossing powder, red sequins

I only have eyes for you

I've been working on a bunch of valentines cards as of late…sure many of you out there are!! And when I got my kit from Simon Says Stamp I knew that I had to pair it with eye glasses!!!

I tried out a new challenge for making this card!! Love finding new ones,  brings so much inspiration!!! This one is brought to you by Sketch Saturday!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!!

Chera~

Thankful

When I saw the challenge for CAS-ual Friday the first word that came to mind was thankful!! So many things to be thankful for and not enough space to write it in!! I know the new year has just started but its always a good reminder to be thankful for all thats around us good bad and everything in-between!!!

So thankful you stopped by ;)
Chera~

Supplies:
Paper: smokey slate, summer starfruit, DS from fancy pants
Ink: black
Stamps: counting my blessings mini stamp set
Accessories: counting my blessings die collection, gold sequins

Thanks a latte

I LOVE making coffee cards!! Probably because how much I love coffee!!!! I saw the sketch for CAS(E) this sketch  and knew exactly the card I was going to make!!!

This is day 3! Thanks for stopping by!!

Chera~

Supplies:

Paper: all from october simon says card kit

Ink: moment black

Stamps: hot hot hot (fresh squeezed)

Accessories: also from october simon says card kit

FTL 273 & CTD273

After the week almost coming to a close I was finally able to put together a card for this weeks Clean and Simple sketch. 

Here are a couple of variations I made for it…

The first card I needed some colour inspiration and came across Color Throwdown, haven't done this challenge before and thought it would be a good way to start the new year!! And the second card I realized I had bought the purple paper a couple months ago and hadn't opened it yet…a good excuse for both creations I think!! 

Day 2 of a card a day in January! Thanks so much for stopping by

Chera~

Supplies:

Card one:

Paper: white, basic grey, smokey slate

Ink: basic grey, tempting turquoise

Stamps: hot hot hot, heart to heart

Accessories: heart to heart #1 die, SU washi tape

Card two:

Paper: elegant eggplant, so saffron

Ink: elegant eggplant

Stamps: morning meadow

Accessories: chevron stencil, gold shimmer mist spray, SU washi tape

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!!

So for the past couple of years in January I've done a card a day series…just to keep me busy doing something after the hussel and bussel of the holiday season! 

I thought I would start the new year off right by doing a card challenge from Retro Sketches! For this card I pulled out some SU washi tape, then drew the cut lines on the back of the paper to give it the sunbeam shape (don't have a fancy die for that…yet…). And if I'm being honest it did take me a while to to put the puzzle pieces back together again! :) 

I love the sunny nature of the card! Was a fun one to make!!!

Hope you all have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Chera~

Supplies:

Paper: midnight muse

Stamps: i quite like you

Ink: versa mark

Accessories: white embossing powder, SU washi tape, Su ribbon

love you still

Its been a while since I've taken part in a challenge so I went on over to ColourQ and went with it!!! Pulled out my new Wplus9 set and had some fun!!!! Decided that i wanted to make the circle in the middle of the wreath instead of using the wreath die, just to give it some depth!!  It was an interesting colour combo to work with but I like how it turned out!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Chera~

Supplies:

Paper: white, coastal cabana

Ink: baked brown sugar, baja breeze, midnight muse

Stamps: valentine wishes (wplus9)

Accessories: shimmer mist, twine, circle framelit, banner die

Ho! Ho! Ho!

I know that deer are all the rage this year…but I haven't been 100% sold on it all yet. I did however make this card for a friend of mine…we have this on going joke about it and are constantly sending pins of deer cards (among other deer things)  to each other!

A few months ago she made me a card with this deer on the inside and out side of a card…So I pealed this one off from the inside and decided to reuse it and send it back to her!  I do actually like this card! I also used a lot of things from the Simon Says Stamp exclusive card kit to keep it fun!

Hope you are all having a great holiday so far!!! I know we sure are!!!
Happy crafting and thanks for stopping by!
Chera

Merry Christmas!

Well its been a long while since I posted. Have been busy with my Simon Says card kit I received a while back! It was so much fun to work with I made a good amount of cards with it!
Here are a fewof my favs I want to share with you!

Few extra supplies beyond what was in the kit..but I did my best to use as much as I could! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!