3x3 card holder

This is a little gift bag that will soon hold some 3x3 gift cards for a teacher thank you gift. The colors pink & brown work for both the Pink Elephant and Charisma Cardz challenge blogs.
I plan on working on the cards this evening and will post soon.

Lazy Days

Another quick layout today.
I used this sketch from If the Shoe Fits.....Scrap it, a new-to-me challenge blog, this week's challenge at Scrapping Out Loud to use rub-ons directly on your photo, and a new challenge blog Pile-it-On who challenges you to use their weekly challenge combined with at least one other challenge blog. This week they challenged you to use a non-stamped sentiment or title (mine is a sticker).

Inspector

A very simple layout of my son at Halloween when he was 6 (3 yrs ago). He LOVED the Pink Panther movie and was very insistant this is who he wanted to be for Halloween. Not much of a costume, but he was super happy. For months after watching the movie, he'd ask to go for a hamburger just so he could have the honor of ordering it as Steve Martin did. The serving staff thought he was awfully cute (and a bit crazy).

For this layout I used Jennifer Buck's Clean & Simple sketch # 9 and also used the current a la Carte challenge, a new challenge blog which presents a menu, and you choose three of the courses to create your layout. The current menu includes:
1. Use something French.
2. Use six embellishments in a row.
3. Use blue, yellow, and white.
4. Use zig zag (doodling, stitching, etc.).
5. Use three patterned papers.
6. Use one photo
I chose #1, 4, 5 & 6.
Sorry the photo is so crooked.

Sympathy cards

Unfortunately, I needed to make sympathy cards for a neighbor who lost her brief battle with cancer, at the age of 50. Not only did we know her husband well, but I am also friends with her sister, so I needed two cards. The first one uses the Sketch For You To Try at I Heart 2 Stamp and the second, this week's Card Patterns sketch.

Butterfly dream

Another of today's cards using a sketch at stamps & smiles.

Card #2 Thanks

I doubt if DS's 30 yr old guitar instructor cares if he gets a card at the end of the year, so didn't put a ton of time into this one. Used a color combo from SCS and some new to me Unity stamps.

simple card with a better picture!

Here's one of the 4 cards I made this afternoon. This one works for quite a few challenges:
- Fun Frilled - make a card for a teacher
- KJ's color combo - Black, White, Honey & Cranberry
- Used the sketch at Stamp something
- simple & clean card for Ann's Creative Nook
AND, finally I used this card to take part in Lisa's challenge/tutorial at Sideoats & Scribbles. She has a terrific tutorial on how to set the white balance on your camera and use this to make your colors pop on a card. This photo was taken after I had set the white balance, the next was what it looked like without making this change. Doesn't it look a LOT better. I definitely will be doing this in the future. Thanks Lisa!