This is my second post today, for the Team-up Thursday and Kim Klassen’s texture photography challenges, scroll down.

I’m on a roll this week with card challenges and enjoying it! For my Mother’s Day card, I used a sketch from Card Patterns . . .

and the Just Rite Color Challenge.

Here’s my take:

I used two Just Rite stamp sets, “Breath of Spring” and “Happy Everything.” The two yellows and the blue in the challenge show up on the tulip image which I colored with Copic markers. The green became the card base and scallop. The dies were from Papertrey (medium scallop) and Spellbinders (tag), the ribbon from my stash, and the pearls are Hero Arts. We’ll be away for Mother’s Day so I’m happy to have this ready to put in the mail to my MIL.

The next card is for the Less is More challenge, “a touch of red.” I had a red butterfly left from a previous card this week, so this card came together quickly. I’m very happy with it, and think it’s a design I’ll use again.

The cardstock is Select White from Papertrey, and a green textured cardstock from American Craft. The brand of leaves is a Sizzix die, and the stamp are Hero Arts (butterfly) and Papertrey (sentiment.)

It’s not often that there are two challenges looking for the same kind of project. But the Waltzing Mouse Stamps challenge this week is to create a card set.

And yesterday Moxie Fab World posted a similar challenge for a card set. Today Cath posted a second challenge for Gift Card Holders, and as it happens, my card set is a set of gift card holders!

These 3X4 inch cards were designed as tiny packages that open to reveal another gift:

I recently got the new Crate Paper “Emma’s Shoppe” paper pad, and all the patterned papers are from there. The cardstock is Neeah Solar White, and the bright pink came out of my scrap folder. I used a Sizzix embossing folder, the Papertrey Ink rickrack die, and some twine from Paper Source (silver) and The Twinery. The sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse Rescue Remedies Additions. I couldn’t find a tag die the right size so I cut them myself and used an old decorative corner punch from Carl.

I wanted to make a thinking of you card to send to Deb’s mom, and thought I’d combine it with the current Embellish challenge. Here’s the Embellish color  inspiration:

In addition to the color challenge, decorative trim also needed to be added to the card. Here’s my take on the challenge:

Once again, the green seems much duller looking on Type Pad than IRL or on my monitor (which is color calibrated, to boot!). So frustrating! The card base is PTI’s Ripe Avocado and the sentiment panel is PTI’s Spring Moss. The patterned paper is from the Gertie pad (Stella and Rose by My Mind’s Eye). I’m loving these paper pads for card making! The stamp is Sending You by PTI. The first time I saw it, I didn’t think I’d add it to my collection, but I’m so happy I did. The sentiments and “frame” are so versatile, I know I’ll be using this again and again. The ribbon is from Paper Source and the pins came with a scrapbook kit, but I think they might be Maya Road. I also added some sage Flower Soft to the middle of the flower.

I need a few birthday cards for guys so thought I’d participate in Embellish’s latest challenge.

I must admit I would never put these colors together, and it was a bit of a challenge. I cased this card by Nicole Heady, and I’m pretty happy with the end result.

The green is showing up here on Typepad as much more muted that it is IRL (despite two efforts to correct it. It looks exactly right on my monitor). I used Pure Poppy, Spring Rain, Simply Chartreuse, & Vintage Cream cardstock from Papertrey Ink along with Light Morning Mist from Worldwin. I embossed the background paper with By the Numbers impression plate and distressed the edges with Peeled Paint distress ink. I used three different stamp sets (all Papertrey): “Simple Sentiments,” “Just the Ticket,” and “Star Prints.” This was an easy card to duplicate, so I made three of them.

It’s time for the Papertrey Ink monthly blog hop. How did it get to be the 25th already? I must admit, however, March is one of my least favorite months. I’m so ready for Spring by now, and we are once again buried under in several inches of new snow. Once April comes, I always feel like Spring has a chance!

This month’s challenge was to use embroidery floss in a creative way. I decided to make some small tassels to attach to some pennant flags. I used the Pearl Cotton floss which is a little heavier, but can be found right along side the regular floss at Michaels. To create the tassels,  I used a tutorial I found here. It was very easy to follow.

This turned out to be a very difficult card to photograph so the embossing would show.  I used the partial embossing technique again which I’m liking a lot, and scored two lines at the bottom of the embossed portion of the card. The pennants and banner die for the sentiment are from the Spellbinder’s Nested Pennant set. The banner line is cut from Quickutz Pennants set, and the embossed portion of the card was made with Papertrey’s Tintype Impression plate. I used Papertrey’s Royal Velvet cardstock and two designs from their Pacific Vineyard pad of papers. The sentiment is from the Papertrey “Round & Round” set. Finally, the pears are my faves: A Muse Creative Candy.

This is the first time I’ve participated in a Just Rite challenge although I’ve long been a fan of their stamps. This challenge comes at a perfect time since I depleted the entire stash of thank you notes on Monday after writing all the friends who have helped us out since my surgery.

I combined two Just Rite sets for the focal point: the square frame come from the “Hope” set which I then cut and embossed with a Nestabilities Label One die (Spellbinders). The circle and border come from “Just a Note” which I cut with a Nestabilities Circle die. The bow is made from my favorite ribbon from The Paper Source. It’s two-sided satin which makes it so much easier to tie. The tiny pearls (which match more accurately IRL) are A Muse Creative Candy and the two stick pins came from a Scrapbook Circle kit. The beautiful papers are more My Mind’s Eye; this time from the Hattie paper pad. The card base is Aqua Mist from Papertrey.