Joan's Floral Patterned Paper and Punch Challenge

Thank goodness for Joan's challenges! They keep me uploading to my blog at least weekly! Joan's challenges can be found here: http://www.atjoansgardens.com/

This week the challenge is to use floral patterned paper and Martha Stewart corner and border punches. I love the look of black and white and couldn't resist this paper by imaginisce called To Love & Cherish. I've not mastered punching around the whole page so I punched the corners and a border using the traditional eyelet punches. I colored in a few of the flowers on the paper using chalk pastels. The pearl flourish is Zva self adhesive pearls; they kind of get lost in the floral pattern! The butterfly is the Stampin Up Beautiful Wings embosslit. Cardstock is SU Basic Black and Basic Grey; butterfly is Whisper White and layered 4 times and adhered with a dimensional.

Joan's Vintage Challenge

Challenge #2 at http://www.atjoansgardens.com/ is to create a vintage card using patterned paper and nesties. I used Webster Pages 6x6 sheet of patterned paper and the deckle nesties. The sentiment is from the stampin up set called Very Versatile. Lace is from PaperStudio and I darkened it using tea dye distress ink; butterflies are Martha Stewart punches and MS branch punch. The button is from Webster Pages vintage sparkler buttons. A fun card to make using the gorgeous Webster Pages paper. After assembling the card I gave it a dose of Pearl Glimmer Mist all over!

Joan's JustRite Challenge

I created this card for Joan's JustRite stamp challenge. The challenge is to create a card using any JustRite floral stamp. I used a floral stamp from the Thinking of You set. The challenge is to also use pink, yellow, and green in the card. Image colored using Kohi-Nor colored pencils and gamsol. To join in the challenge, visit Joan at www.atjoansgardens.com

Cat Humor

Card created for blusky's Sense of Humor card swap. Image is a pre-colored digi from winkwinkink called Kitty Temptation.