This weeks Make It Monday Challenge at Papertrey Ink was a hard one for me. You were to use a die as an embossing tool. Every time I tried I couldn't see the embossed part. I finally decided to use some core creation paper and then sand around my image and you could see it better. I hope you can see it in the photo. I also struggled with getting a good photo. The card turned out okay but definitely not my favorite. The stamps are from their mini valentine set that I just love.
Today I'm trying a new challenge from Card Patterns. It was a sketch and it worked perfect for inspiration for this masculine birthday card I needed to make. I just got this embossing folder yesterday and it has also inspired me. My head is going in circles! I can't wait to use it again. It was really fun to use it on the coordinations paper to give this card a little color. It's hard to see but yellow is showing through. 
Today I have a card that I made for the Papertrey Ink "Make It Monday Challenge #10". This is my first challenge with them and I am really excited because I love their stamps and all their inspiration. The challenge was masking with die cuts so I used my mason jar die and sprayed glimmer mist on the card then stamped inside the jar. I hope I did it right. I know this card is a little out of season but I only have two of their dies and I wanted to use their products for the challenge. 
Inspired by the Project Life I am going to do my own version. Since I became inspired now instead of in January when most people start I decided to start on my birthday. My birthday was last Friday and I turned 46 so I'm calling it the "slide towards 50 year". This page is a sketch from Sketch Inspiration and worked out perfect for my first page. My husband and son got a kit and put this chair together for my birthday. I just love it and them. 
This is another card that I lifted from the cards magazine. Now I'm up to 8 cards from one magazine. If I make it to ten I think I will have to buy next months. Ha Ha funny the little games we play with ourselves. This card was fun because I used stamps from three old sets and some scraps of paper left over from a layout. I didn't need to buy anything! Woo Hoo I should get extra credit for that. As I was looking for something to stamp on the chipboard butterfly I realized I need more background stamps. So much for this card not costing me anything. Now I'm off to put it in the mail. 
My husbands Grandma K is in a nursing home. I write her a letter every week just telling her what's going on with our lives. Some weeks it isn't a very good letter but I think she likes to get the mail. I occasionally send her cards I make too and during a visit she asked if I could put together something they could make at the home. So now every month I challenge myself to make them a card kit. It can't be very complicated so sometimes it is a real challenge. So this is my Easter card kit that I am sending them. I love my new Quikutz egg dies and the basket was just a template I found on line that I reduced. Of course I had to texturize it to look like a real basket. Hope you like my challenge card. 
Okay I'm starting back with challenges and the first one was an easy one with Make It Monday from Paper Tray Ink. All you had to do was us one of their stamps and heat emboss. I love this ticket set they have and so I used it on a page and a card. Our first little league game was last night (we lost) and I needed a baseball card to send to a mom that couldn't be there. I used distress embossing powder to go with the rest of the distressed look on the card. I didn't emboss on my page, but just wanted to show it. The stamp set is really cool as it has lots of words you can put on the inside of the ticket so is very versatile. I have made some cute birthday cards with the set as well. 