Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #44

Happy Tuesday and welcome to the last CTO challenge for the year! CTO is having a design team call that ends today, so if you haven’t applied yet, get busy! With that said, while I have enjoyed my time on the CTO Design Team I decided not to reapply. I wanted to give others a chance to be on a DT. And, the second reason was because I made it to the 2nd round of the Spellbinders Design Team Competition. Which brings me back to reason number one, had I not been on the CTO Design Team, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have had the confidence to try for My Creative Time or Spellbinders. So, everyone needs a chance and I’ve learned that you really never know unless you try. I’ve been making cards for only one year, so I feel really blessed and thankful to have come this far.

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Now, the challenge for this week is to make a shaped Christmas card. I’ve had this card planned since the summer! Can you believe that? I think this is my third card with a snowflake, so I guess that means I have a things for them. This is a Gypsy designed card. The snowflake is on the Christmas/Noel Cartridge. The base of the card and the top layer are Aqua Mist from Papertrey Ink. The second layer is Kraft from PTI as well.

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Now, here is the deal, I have a stamp that says. “Seasons Greetings.” It’s not a photopolymer stamp – it’s acrylic and I think when I pulled it off of the acetate, it stretched. Long story short, it doesn’t stamp straight and since I really wanted to use that sentiment, I decided I would just write it myself. I highly doubt that you will see me writing my sentiments like you see here. I got a new computer and I haven’t purchased the newest version of Microsoft Word, or transferred the files from my old computer, so I have a serious lack of fonts.

The card itself is simple. I will say that just so it wouldn’t look flat, I adhered the top cut with dimensional adhesive. When I want a little dimension, I highly prefer the Stampin’ Dimensionals, when I want more, I used the Sticky Doos from Hobby Lobby. To finish my card, I took some adhesive gems and adhered them to the points of the snowflake. Really simple to make.

That is it for me. I am so thankful you took the time to visit my blog. I hope everyone has a super blessed day and just incase I don’t post again before Sunday, a very Merry Christmas. I work retail and I’ve been super busy lately.

10 comments :

  1. Beautiful, great handwriting, thanks for being a part of CTO!

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  2. Absolutely gorgeous! I love the colors, and your handwriting is beautiful!!!

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  3. This is simply beautiful! I am highly impressed with the handwriting I could never get mine looking do good! You are very creative and I love the feel of your work. You inspire me to push myself. I have enjoyed being on the DT with you.
    Judy

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  4. Look at you being all hard on yourself when you made another perfect card! I am so excited you made second round for Spellbinder's. I love snowflakes too. I am making snowflakes in July just because I can. :) I love your handwriting. Keep making those beautiful sentiments. OpenOffice.org has a great replacement for Word. I love it better than Word & it's free. DaFont.com will help you start a new font collection. I love FontFreak too. Merry Christmas sweetie. I hope it's a beautiful and blessed day for you and your family. Hugs, DeeAnn (lylacfey Cricut MB)

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  5. Wow!!! Beautiful card and your handwriting is gorgeous!! I would never be able to write on mine. It has been fun creating with you on the DT here and I wish you luck with Spellbinders and MCT!! Merry Christmas to you and yours and may your New Year be the happiest ever!
    Laurie
    scrapsbysissy.blogspot.com

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  6. Beautiful Card. I love the snowflake. I wish I had your handwriting! Merry Christmas to you also.

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  7. This is beautiful!! I have that cart and need to go find that snowflake!
    You don't need Microsoft or stamps... your handwriting is beautiful!!

    http://debbiesdashofthisandthat.blogspot.com/

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  8. Trell your card is beautiful! I hope to see you @Joann before Christmas! I need your email so I can show you my cards! surfnfroggie at aol dot com

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  9. absolutely beautiful. The color choice is gorgeous and using kraft to back the aqua is unexpected and therefore, even more impressive. good luck on the spellbinders dt search.

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  10. Hi there, Cute card. I think you did a darn good job writing that sentiment by hand.
    SewSweetNCrafty.blogspot.com

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