Clean and Simple Cardmaking - week 1, card 2

I'm off to a quick start with this class - already onto card 2!   (I'm going away next week, so have to make the most of it this week!)

I've used Kristina's 2nd sketch, and some of my favourite Cristina Re paper - which I think is now discontinued - almost makes me want to cry! :'(

Clean and Simple Cardmaking - week 1, card 1

Another online card class has begun!  Woo hoo!   I absolutely love cards done by Kristina Werner, so I did a fairly faithful CASE of her first card for the class - the only differences are that I changed the colour and the sentiment, and I made the hearts diffferent colours :)

You're 1!

My cousin's son is turning 1 soon, and when I saw the current Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger "By the Numbers", I knew it was the perfect idea for a card for the occasion!  I also used the layout from this week's Card Positioning Systems' CPS 250.

I embossed each of the panels with Quickutz embossing folder called "diamonds and dots" to try to mimic the quilting in the photo.  

CPS card sketch - a lifetime of Happiness

 I've had this flocked SU paper since well before Christmas (from the Mocha Morning set), but I just opened the package this morning!  I'm trying very hard not to be as much of a paper hoarder as I have been in the past - and this paper is (was) a prime example of the type of paper I hoard - so gorgeous, it's almost too good to cut!   But cut it I did, and this is the result. 

The sentiment is a Penny Black Stamp, "Happiness", and the flourishes around the sentiment are bits of a Hero Arts Stamp, "Elegant Brocade".  I followed this week's CPS Card Sketch (below) - well, I tweaked it a little bit :)  I've also shared this card on Make it Monday - thanks for the reminder, Lisa ;)

Chip off the ol' Block - CASual Fridays & Lily Pad

This week's CASual Fridays Challenge is to use chipboard on a card - it is also the challenge at Lily Pad Cards!!   I don't use chipboard much at all, but I did have a sheet from Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love collection stashed away, so out it came, and this is what I came up with.