After my last extra vaganza post, I'm keeping the gabbing limited to my card, the challenges, and then ~ whee ~ more introductions of new friends!
Most of you are familiar with the stamp company "My Favorite Things," (MFT) right?! They have outstanding products and they've started the new year by making new blogs for their sketch challenge and color challenge and I made a card that will work for both.
Here is the Sketch Challenge sketch:
And here are the Color Challenge colors:
Ingredients
Papertrey Ink (PTI) vintage cream card base. · A mat of teal vellum under a snippet of patterned butterfly vellum. · The NBUS butterfly is die cut from my very last piece of rust colored (persimmonish) vellum using the MFT butterfly die. · After cutting, I stamped the matching MFT butterfly in Staz-On ink. · Once dry, I used gold and black WOS to add some sparkle. · The flag banner is one layer of yellow using an MFT DieNamics fishtail die and one layer of lime using a PTI die. · The NBUS sediment was stamped in Versafine ink. Two black gems for eyes and three turkoise body gems were added for punctuation.
Other Challenges
A lot of my bloggie friends are playing in and supporting my NBUS Challenge and they have challenges of their own, so it's my absolute pleasure to play in and support their challenges.
- First up is Words 2 Scrap By. The challenge this month allows YOU to pick the word you want prefaced by a # as a nod to today's social media. I knew immediately that my word would be grateful.
- Diana of DLART joined in my NBUS Challenge and invited me to join in her January Linky Party, where the theme is "Anything Goes," so I'm happy to do that.
- And with so many snippets used in my card, I am thrilled to hop into a lorry (I like truckers) and buzz by Pixie's Snippets Playground to show my card to my mates there.
- And what do you know, one of my playmates at Pixie's is Mrs. A., who runs her own monthly challenge showcasing butterflies! It's like it was meant to be! The current brief at Mrs. A.'s Butterfly Challenge is to make a thank you card with at least one butter fly! Shazambam!
Just click on the links to any of these fabulous challenges for the details on rules, sponsors, and prizes!
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New Friends Corner
Here are five more talented new friends for you to meet!
Here are five more talented new friends for you to meet!
Annie of Nann's Craftinest. Annie has only been blogging since July 2014, so I hope you will make a special effort to visit and welcome her to Blogland! I'd love to have some company in Annie's follower box! I met Annie through WOYWW and I think she is a hoot. I love her creativity and her beautiful photographs of local Canadian flora and fauna!
Stef of Skylark's Snippets. Stef has been blogging now and then since 2009. I think she would love to have a visit and encouragement from you. Stef has a passion for card-making, loves to play in challenges, and has won many awards. She also loves lots of other crafty hobbies, so I'm pretty sure you'll have more than one thing in common with Stef!
Vijaylaxmi Siyal (Shalu) of All By Heart Creating...!! Shalu has been blogging since 2012. She enjoys challenges and has received honors for her works of art. She is a Junior Engineer who loves to craft and upcycle products as a way of relaxing. Shalu makes beautiful cards and outstanding 3D altered art!
Natalie of Incognito ~ Cards by Natalie. Natalie is from Germany and she has been blogging since 2011. She is a teacher who loves doing arts and crafts with her students. She is an excellent artist and card maker who prefers to experiment with different styles, rather than just limiting herself to one. Natalie is on several design teams where she is able to inspire others with her outstanding creations!
Angela Walters of Life with a Wiener Dog. I love wiener dogs and I love that Angela named her blog that! She has been blogging since 2010 and you may have seen her awesome cards in challenge galleries. Angela is in need of back surgery and making cards helps to take her mind off the pain. In spite of her pain, her cards are happy and her blog is upbeat and enthusiastic!Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!
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#grateful
Thank you again for all your support of my NBUS Challenge #3! If I haven't been to visit lately, it's because I am slowly making my way through the gallery to visit and comment on all the extraordinary works of art that have been linked. As I write this, there are 243 cards in the gallery and there are still ten more days to play! You guys are the best and so is your talent!! Mwah!
BTW, to make it easy for you to have forever access to all that awesome inspiration, I have made a Pinterest Board.
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