Card Challenges and More

My friend, Mary, came over yesterday before we headed out to hear Robert Mankoff at Arts & Lectures. We spent a couple of hours chatting and making cards. I finished cards for two challenges and have a couple more to share.

First for CPS 111:

I used Lisa Johnson’s Life set from Papertrey again. I love how versatile this set is. The paper is from the new Basic Grey Marrakech paper pad I picked up a week or so ago.

Then for card*a*licious–19:

This weeks challenge–make a thank you card using stripes, polka dots and pink. This was all done with scraps from my scrap drawer. Where’s the pink? In the striped paper!

I made this card for my son-in-law. The tree from Papertrey’s Father Knows Best set reminded me of a tree Adam designed for Sarah’s blog. The card is a lift of Allison M. that I found on a World Cardmaking Day post. I can’t find a current link to it.

This stamp has to be one of the first I ever purchased. I’ve sold a lot of those stamps, so I’m finding I don’t have a lot of stamps with which to practice using the Copic markers. (I’ve now straightened the buttons which I didn’t notice weren’t even until I saw the photo!)