CCEE1617 Baseball

Anne here with my last challenge for April.  It's baseball season again.  Promote your favorite team, their colors, or just a baseball theme.

My team is the Boston RED Sox, but I chose to use the theme of baseball, as I had this wonderful saying.  It has been languishing in a drawer!!  About time to get it inky.

Thanks for joining me this month.  I hope you will create something, and link it to our blog HERE.  We have a new challenge every Thursday, and love to have you join us!!

CCEE1616 Spring Landscape and RED

Spring brings lots of changes to our landscapes.  Your challenge today is to make a scenic card, and be sure to add some RED (I Love RED!).

I love this tree....in green it's so pretty!  I colored the branches and trunk in brown, tore the bg, and added some RED birds.

Please join us, and link your card HERE.

CCEE1615 One Layer and....

Anne Harmon back again with my second challenge for the month of April.  One layer cards are always easy to mail.  Create a one layer card with a water color panel or background.

Don't you just love these crazy birds?  My card uses only Tim Holtz stuff.......distress inks, image, sentiment and stars.  I added some sequins just because.

Please join us, linking your card HERE.

CCEE1614 Masculine with Plaid

I'm your hostess for the month of April.  My challenge to you is to make a masculine card using plaid paper or stamp).

Be sure to link your card to our blog HERE.  See you next week!

CCEE1613 Vintage Paris

According to the Days of the Year web site, today is Eiffel Tower Day.  So for our challenge this week, let's celebrate all things Parisian...It could be the Eiffel tower, French poodles, Berets, Champagne, RED/white/blue color combo.  You get the idea!

I made a vintage card.  Here's what I used:

Small Circle Burst (Memory Box)

French stamps and Cancellation

Eiffel Towel with postmark over

Key image with bow on top

Merci (Stampin' Up) in corner

Please join us, and link your card HERE

From Sandy and Laura for Easter!

What a nice surprise!  This morning my friends Sandy and Laura gave me flowers for Easter!  Here they are:

Aren't they the most beautiful hydrangeas you've ever seen???

I had to make them thank-you cards immediately, and since these pink hydrangeas were so gorgeous, that determined the theme of the card:

I used the tole technique (cut out layers and popped), and the card will please them, I know.  What nice friends they are !!  Thanks, Sandy and Laura!

Corner Fold Card for Mom

I just had to share a card I made for my mother for Easter.  It's called a Corner Fold,
and it's just the cutest thing.  Here are the pictures so you can see all the parts:

This is the way it looks as it comes out of the envelope.

Here is the inside, left and right as it opens up.

This is the base that folds up as it closes, and down as it opens.

  The reason it says "hoppy eggster" is because our oldest son, David, has called it that for years.

I used lots of die cuts (bunnies, chicks, clouds, sun, eggs, banner, letters), and painted the bunny on the front.  The lace on the front is a punch border, and the grass inside is a punch as well.

When I gave it to Mom her eyes really lit up.  It sure was worth all the work!!  Thanks for looking, and have a great Easter!

CCEE1612 Happy Birthday Frances!

Today is our hostess Frances's birthday.  She challenged us to create a card that includes the things she loves.......owls, and cards that pop up, flip or pull open, accordian style, etc.

Here's my flip owl card (outside)

And here's what it looks like when it flips.  Cool, huh????

Happy happy birthday dear friend!!

Please help us celebrate, linking your card HERE.

CCEE1611 Poultry

Saturday is Poultry Day.  Let's be inspired by poultry when creating our cards this week ........ chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, emus, ostriches, etc. or eggs.  As Easter is just over a week away, you could create an Easter card, but this is optional.  Bonus point if you include Green on your card to celebrate St. Patrick's Day today.

This little duck is a spinner card, and a fun cheery hello or recovery card.

Please join us, linking your card HERE.

CCEE1610 Apples

Tomorrow is National Johnny Appleseed Day,  Frances asks us to feature apples on our card creations.

Frances always enables us when it comes to accordian cards, and I finally stopped resisting!!  Here's the card I made for the challenge with  the Accordian Fancy Label die from Elizabeth Creations!!

Please join us, adding your card to our blog HERE

CCEE1609 Blue Dress and Happy

Today is "I want to Be Happy Day"......who doesn't want to be happy:) and tomorrow is Dress in Blue Day (our hostess Frances' favorite color).  So for our cards this week, Frances has challenged us to include the word "Happy" somewhere on our cards and also to include the color blue.

I used a Stampendous image, water coloring the dress caribbean and turquoise blue..

Please join us, linking your card HERE.

CCEE1608 Floral Design

In 1995 Massachusetts Governor William Weld declared February 28 Floral Design Day to honor Carl Rittner, the founder of the Rittner School of Floral Design.  Let's take this week in the dead opf winter to do some paper and ink floral designs.

Thanks Lynn for a fun month of challenges!

Please join us, and link your card HERE.

CCEE1607 Drink Wine!

Who knew?  In America, February 18 is National Drink Wine Day.  Our challenge is to include a wine glass or bottle on today's card in honor of this weird day!

Here's the outside

And the rest of the quote on the inside.

Please join us, being sure to link your card to our blog HERE.

CCEE1606 Heart Shape Animals

From Lynn:

Way back when I was in grade school, every Valentine's Day my classmates and I had such fun creating Valentine Critters to decorate our Valentine boxes.  The task for today is to create an animal of any kind on your card in which you use heart shapes for some of its body parts.

Using my owl punch and a heart punch, I made this Valentine Owl.

Please join us, and be sure to link your card HERE.

CCEE1605 Skating Snowman

Our new hostess for the month of February is Lynn McAuley.  Her first challenge to us:

Many of us are having icy or snowy weather (or are dreaming that we do) now that February has arrived.   My challenge to you is to create a project which features some activity unique to the cold months of Winter.

My snowman from Sassy Cheryl (via Vicky Gould....thanks!) is having the time of his life skating on the pond.  Thank goodness he can do it.  I am such a klutz that the few times I went skating were a disaster!!

Please join us, and be sure to link to our blog HERE.

CCEE1604, Chocolate Cake

Who doesn't love chocolate cake!  Did  you know they even have a special day to celebrate this yummy treat!  Chocolate Cake Day was the 27th of January.  Your cards this week should feature cake, bonus points if it is chocolate cake.

My chocolate cake has a top layer of mocha on this gatefold card.

My DGD Erin is in culinary school, preparing to be a pastry chef.  I thought I'd include a pic of one of her creations for you to drool over:

Please join us, adding your card HERE.

Always Playing With Paper Challenge

 

this is the challenge..........to make a masculine card using this picture for inspiration.  Here's the card I made:

Now, here's the really weird part.......the image I chose is the EXACT SAME image Lesley used.  Either we were on the same wavelength, or I'm a dunce!  You can decide!!

Here's the site if you would like to play along....and please!  be smarter than I was!

CCEE1603 Opposites

Did you know that the 25th of January is National Opposite Day?  For our challenge this week, make a card/project that has opposites on it.  Think opposite colors  on the color wheel, stripes and polka dots, black and white, mirror image, etc.

I chose opposite dots..........black with white, and white with black.

Please join us, and link to our blog HERE.

CCEE1602 Hats!

Tomorrow (January 15th) is Hat Day.  The challenge is to include a hat in our card creations this week.

I love these hat images from Stampendous!  I think this will be a fab masculine birthday card, and we have two in January and one in February.

Please jooin us, linking your card to our blog HERE.

CCEE1601 Tea

Welcome back to the CCEE Challenges!  Frances is our hostess for the month of January.  She says apparently this is HOT TEA Month.  Her challenge was to make TEA themed cards.

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Here's my card using an oatmeal bg, and cream (tea needs a little cream), and a blue bird on the lid beside the tea leaves.

Please join us, linking to our blog HERE