Exciting News!!!

Yep that's right, I've got some exciting news to share!  If you've visited my blog any time in the last 6 months then you know that I love the stamps and products from Concord & 9th and enjoy creating with them.  So imagine how excited I was when Jessica contacted me and asked if I would like to join her new challenge team, Where Creativity Meets C9 using Concord & 9th products?  I said YES of course!  And so I can't wait to share with you all of the fun we're going to have in the upcoming months!

 To help kick off the celebrations we’re giving away one $25 gift certificate to a lucky commenter during our introduction week so be sure to hop over to the Where Creativity Meets C9 site for a chance to win!
Below I'm sharing a few of my favorite cards that I've created using Concord & 9th products.

Thank you so much for stopping by and for all of your sweet comments and support!

Lawn Fawn Thank You - (CTD408)

Hello there!  It's my turn to host over at the Color Throwdown Challenge for this week and since it's back to school time I thought I would go with some fun primary colors.

For my card I used the fun Lawn Fawn stamp sets Love You a Latte and Scripty Sayings to create a teacher thank you card that I can slip a Starbucks gift card into.

I kept my card fairly clean and simple with the focus on the colorful coffee cups.  I die cut my stitched white panel for the front of my card, then stamped my thank you sentiment along the bottom. Next I added a strip of black and white polka dotted designer paper and a piece of black cardstock.  After that I stamped and die cut each of the coffee cups and colored them with Prisma colored pencils and arranged them into the black strip of cardstock and adhered them down popping up the yellow mustache cup.  To add a splash of color to the top of my card, I added three banners from scrap designer paper. For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Wanda Guess - August Guest Designer

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Hello Friend - (CTD407)

Hello there!  It's Wednesday and time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card, I used the My Favorite Things stamp sets Pretty Posies and Label Maker Sentiments along with a MFT Hello die and designer paper.  I started out with a white card base then die cut a smaller stitched panel of white cardstock adding that to my card base with foam tape.  Then I cut a strip of yellow striped designer paper and adhered that down the middle and added a horizontal strip of tropical teal cardstock across the top portion of my card.  I die cut two of the Hello out of black cardstock and glued them together and adhered that across the top of the strip of teal then added three watercolored roses with leaves tucking the top rose underneath the strip of teal cardstock.  I then added the stamped Friend sentiment along the bottom and glued on three silver sequins.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Wanda Guess - August Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget, you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest to see what I'm up to.

Sweet Birthday Wishes - (CTD406)

Hi there, crafty friends!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!

I'm using the fun My Favorite Things Celebrate with Cake stamp set again (I'm loving this set for birthday cards and so much more) and made another birthday card.  I used some orange Doodlebug Designs paper for my background, then created a shadowbox affect by die cutting a scalloped frame, one from white cardstock and another from fun foam and glued them together.  Next I used the die cut rectangle from my scalloped frame and used some spiced marmalade distress ink and sponged on some color.  Then I die cut the cake, cake stand, flowers w/leaves and candles and stamped them.  For the layers of cake, I inked them up with hibiscus burst ink and then just along the top of each cake layer I dabbed them into raspberry fizz ink for an ombre effect.  Once all of my pieces were stamped, I adhered them into the window of my frame and added my sentiment banner and tiny pearls to the centers of the flowers.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Wanda Guess - August Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget, you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest to see what I'm up to.