ODBD April Challenge: Insects

When I realized that a butterfly is an insect, I was happy to enter this challenge at Operation Write Home.
When I completed creating my daughter-in-law's card for her first Mother's Day, I made this simple card with the leftover patterned paper. The wings are raised with dimensionals.
DSP: Perfect Petals from the Sweet Sentiments collection by Graphic 45
Die: Darla Butterfly by Memory Box

Challenges:
Our Daily Bread Designs: Insects
Bearly Mine Designs: Spring

One Sheet Wonder

Thank you, Seongsook, for sharing this tutorial with Operation Write Home!! I couldn't wait to try it and here is the result. First, I located one of my all-time favorite double-sided patterned 12x12 papers that I had "saved" in my special place for at least a couple of years. I made a small mistake cutting it out, but was still able to make 8 cards. I found coordinating paper at my LSS, Of the Heart, and put everything together today. What fun!

DP: "Hibiscus Heaven" from the Tropical Travelogue Collection by Graphic 45

CS: Bazzill ("Parakeet" Green and "Burning Ember" Dark Red)

Bold Scroll Die: Sizzix

Fine Scroll Die: "Macarena Corner" by Memory Box

Border Die: "Savannah Border" by Memory Box

Pre-colored Flower Digital Stamp: September Blue

Unscripted Sketches # 210

These sketches are different and fresh and I enjoy creating with them. My first attempt was a dud. Then I remembered all the odd pieces of the Graphic 45 "Place in Time" collection that I have saved and decided to use those.
The small circle punch is of unknown origin. The wavy line cutting guide is by Creative Memories.

SOS Challenge #101: Scrap Attack

This week our challenge is to "shop our stash" for scraps to use on a card. No problem! It took a while to find scraps that actually went together, though.

Butterfly Paper: Graphic 45
Background DP: unknown
Sentiment: The Stamps of Life
Butterfly Die: Memory Box
Ribbon and Brad: my stash

Entered in these Challenges:

Shopping our Stash: Scraps
Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge # 97: Super Scraps Saturday!
Through the Craftroom Door: Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody #20: Anything Goes

SOS Challenge #99: All About Numbers

When I saw this challenge I knew exactly what patterned paper to use. I am slowly retiring my stash of 12x12 paper and moving to 6x6 pads. I purchased this 'numbers' paper a couple of years ago and am delighted to use some. The center area is lifted with dimensional adhesive.
Full disclaimer: this card design was CASE'd from my last SOS challenge entry. oops!

'Numbers' DP: Recollections at Michaels
Brown Layering CS: my stash
Gold DP: Graphic 45
Stamps: Stampendous
Square Punch: Family Treasures
Brown Ink: 'Early Espresso' by Stampin' Up

Challenges entered:

Shopping Our Stash #99: Numbers
Party Time Tuesdays 118: Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge #4: Anything Goes

S & S Midweek Challenge: Your Favorite Color Combo

It is difficult to choose my very favorite colors, but one of my favorite designer paper lines is Graphic 45 and their color combinations are wondrous!
Here is my card for this challenge using DSP from the "Place in Time" collection by Graphic 45.

This card is entered into the following challenges:

OWH Stars and Stamps: Favorite Color Combo
Cat's Creations Scrapbook: WOW Wednesday Anything Goes (Blog candy here for random entries!)

Stars & Stamps Midweek Challenge: Birthday Card

Last evening I boldly CASE'd this CAS card from the awesome gallery at The Stamps of Life (thanks Lauralooloo!). The cake stamp is from the "cake2build" set, sentiment from the "birthday2celebrate" set, the cake is paper pieced using Graphic 45 DP. The border punch is by ek success and the ribbon is by Recollections. I plan to make a few more in different colors.

S&S Midweek Challenge

Our challenge today is to make a Card for Kids. I used the Graphic 45 DP called "An ABC Primer". Gotta love how these substantial, beautiful, two-sided papers come together ;)

S & S Midweek Challenge

This time the challenge is to use tropical colors on a card.
The salmon DP is from the "Tropical Travelogue" collection by Graphic45,
the blue CS is Bazzill. I also used a corner rounder, corner punch, and heart  punch. The "Spread Your Wings" sentiment card with butterfly is from my stash.

OWH Stars & Stamps Sketch # 113

This looks like an easy sketch. However, it wasn't that easy for me. I decided right away to use some of my Graphic 45 designer paper ("Once Upon a Springtime" Collection) and I like the result.

Fun with Graphic 45

http://www.g45papers.com/

I tend to keep some of the cards I make at card classes as inspiration. Here are two I really like.