Partridge and pear

 

 I don't know how many millions of times I've heard "a partridge in a pear tree," but I had no idea what a partridge looked like until starting this card. They are an interesting and colorful bird, based on the photos in Google image. I took cues from a couple of photos when coloring this partridge, but they tend to be brown and a blueish-gray, sometimes have a black and white band around the neck, and sometimes have colorful feathers on their head.

The image I used is a digi from The Alley Way Stamps.  The sentiment came with it, but I cut it into two sections for a more interesting layout. The images are colored with pencils, with a little wink of Stella on the pears. The image and sentiment were stamped on a white snippet, cut with a Sizzix die, and mounted on a red snippet. The sentiment panels are mounted on more of that same red snippet. The tiny die-cut pear on the sentiment (from the Frantic Stamper) was cut from a ridiculously small snippet, that was essentially a bit I of paper that I had left on my desk rather than cleaning up.

 

This card is for these challenges:

ABC Christmas -- A is for anything Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round -- a partridge in a pear tree

Christmas Craft Creations -- January theme Snippets

Rudolph Days for January -- Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #230 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #579 -- anything goes

 

LIght up my life

 When I hear "You Light Up My Life" I think of my college roommate who absolutely loved that song. She played it SO MUCH...I couldn't stand hearing it for a while.

I'm calling today's card a masculine valentine -- no girly hearts and lace. Instead, it's got electronics!

It features a Bugaboo image, which I divided into thirds and mounted on black card stock. The image is colored with pencils, yellow highlighter marker, and silver gel pen. 

This card is entered in these challenges:

CRAFT #664 -- Song

Time Out #230 -- inspired by quote

Word ARt Wednesday #579 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #202 -- anything featuring an image

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2302-- anything goes

Birthday flowers

 

I remember when this flower pot design was all the rage, and I'm revisiting it. It's basically a simple fold to create a pocket to hold a tag decorated with flowers. When the tag is fully in the pocket, all you see is the flowers, so it looks like a pot of flowers.

My flower pot has a birthday theme, with a sparkly tag that says "Celebrate" and a Happy Birthday sentiment on the tag.Aside from the pocket itself I used a lot of snippets for this card, including an assortments of blues and prints for the flowers. For added texture, I embossed a matching piece  of card stock with a baskety-looking pattern to put over the body of the pot.  I also embossed all the flowers with a Sizzix EF to make them look more interesting.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Double D -- Birthday

Can you Handle the Pressure -- use an EF folder

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2301 -- aything goes

Word Art Wednesday #577 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #107 --  anything goes

Vellum and stitching

 

I haven't been feeling very inspired recently, so I'm trying to get back in the groove. For this card, I used am image a friend sent me and added a little faux stitching, a sentiment and some sequins. The sentiment is stamped on a pale pink vellum, and since it's so hard to discreetly attach vellum, the right hand side of the sentiment is wrapped around and taped to the back of the panel. I used a brad on the left side to hold the strip down. 

This card is entered in these chales:

Word Art Wednesday #575 -- anything goes

Double Trouble #128 -- something, anything

Use Your Stuff #474 -- stitching faux or real