Merry and Bright

As I was thinking about what kind of card I wanted to make for my Christmas cards this year, my mind was still on the glamour and glitz challenge. 

 So I whipped out my Lifestyle Crafts Letterpress equipment and using silver ink and silver rhinestones I played around until I found my christmas muse and it became merry and bright!

I love the debossed look of the dots from the letterpress plate on heavy weight, high cotton paper. I used my trusty silhouette cameo to make the sentiment and it's shadow and bada bling, bada boom the angels began to sing.

I will enter this card into the challenges for bling and texture.

A big thank you to Cissy for helping me find these challenges. Everyone must have a crafting girlfriend to share every craft idea that comes along!!!

simplylessismoore, allsortschallenge,  brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

Give them a hand

SHAME ALERT : I waited 4 years before I had my recent mammogram.
Two of my dear friends are surviving breast cancer and they have shared their stories of multiple surgeries both for tumor removal and reconstruction, about the exhaustion that comes with the treatments, buying wigs and what size their new breasts should be. They got me thinking that I haven't checked my breast in a long, long time.
I waited because I was mad that I had to pay the full amount for 2 mammograms (the original and a call back) just because I used my own doctor and he was out of the network for my employer's insurance.
This time I had to go back again for more views of my left breast. I can't tell you how scared I was.
I was so UPSET with myself for not having yearly checkups and now I could have had CANCER all this time.
Well to make a long story short, this time was normal too but whoa I went through all kinds of scenarios from writing a will to who was going to get which of my possessions.

Here is my card for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
I found this free bra digi here http://beccysplace.blogspot.ca/2012/10/breast-cancer-awareness.html
and entered it into the 2nd Annual Linky Party at Link Up for Pink a Breast Cancer Awareness Blog http://www.linkupforpink.com/, this Linky Party closes on October 14th.

I used the Lifestyle Letterpress Celebrations Printing Plate to make my background in hot pink ink.

The Royal Arrival

I made this card for my cousin's daughter's newborn daughter Sophia aka my third cousin. I am on a right royal roll these days since my last card also had a royal motif.

 I got out my L Letterpress machine and letterpress plates and used hot pink ink to make the trellis background. The carriage is an SVG  I made in SCAL and cut on the Silhouette Cameo cutting machine using white paper and then inked with angel pink dye ink. I also used  Michael's silver glitter ribbon and ivory satin ribbon, pearl, rhinestones, and a fabric rose. The banner was designed in Photoshop using a banner brush and the font used was Some Weatz Swashes, it was then printed and fussy cut and elevated on foam dots.

 I must find some challenges for this card too.
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-pretties-monday-challenge.html
http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-sundaes-challenge-116-anything.html

Tent style card

Hi there everybody in the blogosphere- it's Fran here- it seems like I fell off the planet but I am back with a card I made for my sister's birthday. Hope it inspires you to make one because it is so easy.

To make the card I used 3 pieces of cardstock- I made my card A2 size (4 1/4 X 5 1/2) landscape orientation and one piece of decorative paper.

1. To make the bottom tent piece cut one piece of cardstock to 4 x 5 1/2 and score every one inch on the shorter side so you end up with 4 one inch scores- then make a mountain fold- the two ends will be where you attach the front and back of the card.
2. Cut 2 pieces of cardstock to A2 size and one A2 size decorative paper piece.
3. Glue the decorative paper to one of the pieces-that will be the front of your card. I cut a 2 1/2" circle in my decorative paper and cardstock so I could dangle my sentiment.
4. Glue the 2 pieces to the tent piece.
5. The top of the card is now open so to secure the two pieces together I used brads but you could just as easily glue it shut.
6. Next I stamped a 2" circle with a birthday sentiment and attached it to the card with jump rings. 

I  hope this idea is one you can use too.
This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion Challenge # 102 - Just Sentiments
Tuesday Alchemy Challenge # 6 - Anything Goes
Unique Crafters Challenge # 1 - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday Challenge # 209 - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays Challenge # 94 - Metal