Heart 2 Heart - Two faced challenge

Happy Monday! It is time for another great challenge from Heart 2 Heart Challenges. This week we are being Two Faced! Ok ok it is not as bad as it sounds, by being two faced, we were asked to use both sides of our patterned paper. Laughing lola is perfect or this challenge. 

This was actually a card that I had started and was struggling with it and walked away from it for a few days and came back to it today and it suddenly all came together. I need to learn more when to walk away and not force it. 

If your looking for some more creativity, jump on over to Heart 2 Heart Challenges and join us being two faced!

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi

Thank You - AHSC # 38

This week I have a card rather than a layout for you all. My goal is to scrapbook more and more of my design team work so that I am always working on the pictures of my girls and our family but I also have some card workshops to do and so I decided to use this weeks sketch as the foundation for one of my workshop cards. 

This month we will be working with Laughing Lola and thanks to a great sketch this card came really easily to me with one exception…the sentiment. 

I really wanted to stay to true to sketch and have the sentiment in the upper right corner of the card but due to the busyness of the paper anything I tried got lost up there when stamped directly onto the card. So I got out the white paper and matted it and it just felt lost up there hanging out by itself. But not a 100% sure of where I wanted it, I surveyed the family (yes, I am that indecisive at times) I first asked my daughters, my oldest (6 years old) voted with me for where it is in the picture. My youngest two (ages 4 and 5) said nope, they did not like it there, they wanted it in the right hand corner. Uh oh….a dead tie. So to break the tie and end the great debate and let me tell you, it was a debate…kids can be brutally honest and they were debating where it should go and why.  I have to admit it was all kind of humorous that they were so invested in this decision, because it was for a class and class is so important….he he he!  Anyways, I digress…we enlisted the help of my husband to break the tie and he sided with my oldest and I, much to the chagrin of my younger two, who I will add tried to persuade him to where they wanted, it was a great debate over a small detail!

Products Used:

Paper:

- Laughing Lola

- Black card stock

- White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- A True Thank you

Ink:

- Gypsy

-Twilight

Misc.

- Purple Glitter Gems (from the pink package)

- Water blending pen

Non CTMH:

- Memento Black stamp pad

Thanks for stopping by! To check out more of the great designs from the design team and challenge participants, be sure to check out The Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

Brandi

Ho Ho Happy Birthday!

Tis the season of holiday magic and around our family…Birthdays. We have a whopping 18 birthdays this month to celebrate in the month of December. Now one would think I would prepare ahead knowing this is coming but as organized as I try to be, I am not that organized…lol So while working on my Christmas cards, I am mixing in the odd birthday cards too!

Here is one I did that I designed using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for Challenge #33. I really liked this sketch but wanted to do something a bit different so I cut out one of the paisleys from the Laughing Lola papers from Close to My Heart.  This card will really speak to my sister in law, whose birthday is tomorrow!

Sorry the photography is not that great tonight, I have 2 of my 3 little ones sick today with the flu and did not have as much time in my scrap room as I would have liked to get a better picture. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Laughing Lola

- Gypsy and Black card stock

Ink:

- Black

Stamp:

- Perfect Fit - Holidays

Other:

- Black Shimmer Trim

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi