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I used my new October Afternoon The Thrift Shop papers to create a "vintage" card. It's my first attempt at creating a vintage card. I am not so happy with the end result, since its not really vintage to me. So I guess I have to keep trying to make it better. Supplies: white cardstock, October Afternoon The Thrift Shop papers, Prima Marketing flowers, Paper Mania pearl brads, Zva Creative bling bling swirl, ribbon, lace, digi stamp from Scrapaddictive, digistamp from Digital 2 4 Tuesday.

And here is my card for this weeks sketch from Card Patterns & the challenge from Dutch Card Lovers. A recipe this time, a round card, stitching & flowers.
And it was a hard challenge for me this round. Creating a round card. I search the whole house for suitable moulds to trace circles to use for my card..... Stitching was also a struggle, I don't have a sewing machine and by hand it was really bad... so I redid and make faux stitches by punching holes and tracing a black line. Of course it isn't the real thing, so I wonder if it's sufficient for the challenge.. I added the text in the heart of the digistamp.
On the photo it isn't visable, it's way too dark, but I used purple & pink on the dot papers of Bo Bunny, but on the photo, the purple almost looks black.

The card is also for the following challenges:

Meljens: challenge 5 shapes

Sentimental sundays: challenge 2 for someone special

Cupcake craft challenges: challenge 88 don't be square

Creative Cottage Challenge: Challenge 8 Circles

Allsorts Challenges: Challenge 50 animals

Craft Challenge: Challenge 48 Shaped card

Tiddly Inks: Challenge 2 Mothersday

Fun with Shapes: Mothersday

Lilly Boo Too: May challenge Shapes

Quixotic Paperie: Challenge 23 Distressing

Supplies: white cardstock, purple & pink on the dot cardstock Bo Bunny, Bo Bunny Jazmyne papers, Zva Creative bling bling swirl, scalloped scissors, Martha Stewart doily lace punch, McGill punch, EK succes punch, jewel flower, digi stamp Cuddly Buddly

* Another one with a digi stamp *

I am totally in to coloring digistamps at the moment. They are so easy to use and the "stamping" never goes wrong - like happens a lot to me with normal stamps - plus you can make it in every size you need.
Today I used a digi from Pollycraft to create a Happy B-Day card. (sorry for the bad photo, but it's too dark to do without flash now) The card it based on different challenges, first the pollycraft challenge in use of colors. I have picked green as extra color besides pink and brown. (love the color combo, I used some older Basic Grey Sultry papers to fit the colors. Plus I used puffy paint, which was one of my favorites to use a while back, but I realized I haven't used it a lot lately)

Plus the new sketch of DCL. ( I have never finished a challenge so soon, today the sketch is posted and today I finished my card :) )

Other challenges:

Creative Cottage - Challenge 6 things with wings

Stamp Something - Something layering

The Pixie Cottage - Challenge 14 Buttons

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 108 Touchy Feely

Paper take Weekly - Cuteness

Creatalicious Challenges - Challenge 9 Create something with flowers & wings

Flutter by Wednesday - Challenge 105 Fairy

One stop craft - Challenge 76 Things with wings

Incy Wincy - Challenge 38 something magical

sir Stampalot - Fantasy

Materials: Basic Grey Sultry papers, crafts too corner punch, Pollycraft digistamp, my own digi text stamp, Prima Markteting flowers, Kaisercraft Flowers, puffy paint white, buttons, organza ribbon.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.