Thanks, SPRING

'THANKS' that 'SPRING' is just around the corner....is the theme for the challenge at The Paper Players.  So while playing with papers..ha, ha..I twirled up some quilling papers and made this card for their challenge.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Spring Flowers

Only about 16 days till 'Spring' officially arrives, at least that's what the calendar says. Let the countdown begin. The temperatures should be in the low 20's today, which will feel like a heat wave after a wind chill factor of -2 yesterday.

This card using the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch was created with 'SPRING' in the back of my mind. I have had enough of that 'white color'!! Or is white the 'presence of all colors'?

This is the sketch that I used to create this card.

Back to creating "SPRING" cards in my Butterfly Garden.

SPRING PLEASE

Okay enough of this global warming stuff! The temperatures hovering in the teens with the wind chill factors into the negative numbers is waaaay to warm for me! Yeah, right! If this is global warming I would hate to see global cooling.....lol.

There is a great challenge at Less is More...use YELLOW and GREEN. Now those are great Spring colors! So I sequestered myself in the Butterfly Garden, imagined it was "SPRING" and started creating. I still had some of those 'positive' die cut pieces left from HERE, so I figured this was a good starting point!

FYI...I have only 7 of those die cuts left. I have completed 15 cards so far. I can definitely see the light at the end of the'die cut' tunnel.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

CAS(E) this Sketch #55

Brrrr...it's cold. Hopefully the predicted storm will leave before Thanksgiving Day. A large number of people will be on the roads traveling to see their loved ones and I wish them all a safe journey.

With the holidays swiftly approaching it is more difficult to find time to play in my Butterfly Garden. I pondered over the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch since it was first posted. Last night during my "crop night" class...the light bulb finally lit up   :-) Kudos to the DT for such marvelous samples! some sketches are more difficult than others and the DT definitely outdid themselves with this sketch.

CAS is hard because there is no way to hide those little pesky smudges that suddenly appear on white paper. After 4 failed attempts to create a smudge free piece of card stock I finally was able to complete this card. I love white backgrounds on CAS cards but they don't necessarily love me. Perhaps it is time to pick a different background color! lol

Back to creating cards in  my Butterfly Garden.

CAS Leaves

This week Nance is challenging everyone to make a CAS card with leaves at The Paper Players. The leaves are all off of our trees and because of the wind, some have been blown into our neighbors yard. Gottta love it when the wind blows the right way. lol

Thank goodness the wind was no where near as violent as it was in Illinois. My heart goes out to all of those people who have lost their homes and to the people who have lost their loved ones. This makes the holiday season especially difficult for everyone who was effected by this storm. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Just minimal layers on this CAS card, a bit of ribbon and a button. Wood grain embossing plate from PTI. Easy Peasy!

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Oh Christmas Tree

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in 'blog-land'. This card is for a few different challenges CAS-ual Friday  and Curtain Call have combined there challenges with a great inspirational photo and CASology challenge is the cue word 'triangle'.

After many years of adding embellishments to my cards, I am really enjoying the CAS style. There is beauty in simplicity! Memory box and Sizzix dies and red glaze pen were used to create this card.

This is the FAB inspirational photo for both challenges.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

CAS(E) this Sketch #54

Another great sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.

The leaf embellishment on the front of this card was made with my long forgotten quilling tools. The dies are from Memory Box.

I really enjoy making "window cards" where the sentiment inside shows through on the front of the card.

The verse inside was place below the 'window'. The verse and sentiment are from Inky Antics.

This is the sketch that was used for the inspiration for my card.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Trio of Fall Colors

The Paper Players challenge this week is to use a Trio of Fall colors.

The image is an Inky Antics stamp that has been colored with Copic markers.

Great color combo to match the lovely autumn leaves.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

CAS(E) this Sketch #53

Woo Hoo...Got some time to play with a "new-to-me" sketch challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch.

Here is a close up of the sentiment:

Stamps from PTI were stamped using Adirondack Espresso ink.

Hope you'll play along with this CAS challenge....

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

OLC Thanks

Time for another great challenge at Less is More. This challenge is to make a "one layer card" that includes a "thanks" sentiment.

One layer cards are definitely challenging! You need a sterile environment free of anything that might touch the card front, this of course includes 'fingers'. Good luck with that one. There is no way to hide these smudges with embellishments or extra layers.  Please don't ask how many times I had to stamp this before a got a 'smudge-free' image. Grrrr

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.