I got my idea from this awesome card by Jessica Witty.  She blows my mind with every ingenious card she makes!  The heart dies and stamps are by Clear & Simple and the sentiment is from the Love Cupid set.

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I liked the colorful background pattern that you could create with modern basics, so I tried recreating it here:

After all this, I still really wanted something even simpler, so I ended up going this direction:

And now I’m truly, truly satisfied.  Quite a bit different from the original, but it’s most important to make mama bear happy:)

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Hi all!  Playing along with a couple of new challenges today.  I saw the Finally Friday challenge over at Two Peas.  The challenge was to use only papers from your stash.  The next challenge is over at the create blog.  The challenge over there was to use a square punch.  So I combined the two with this graphic striped design.  I used my square punch on some striped patterned paper and then cut the center square into quarters to give a better focal point.  The sentiment is from the Clear & Simple.  This is a great masculine b-day card, don’t you think?  Thanks for looking!

Hi all!  Today I’m sharing a card I made for the Map to Your Heart Challenge over at the Moxie Fab World.  Italy is the first thing that came to mind.  I’ve been so fortunate to travel through there a couple of times while living overseas.  It’s a country that stays with you.  The people, the culture, and of course the food is completely contagious.  I think I went home and tried to speak like an Italian for months, like the men would say to the women on the street, “Bella, Bella! Ciao, Bella!” which means “hello, beautiful”.  So I printed out some small vintage maps of Italy and die cut them with the smallest heart die from Clear & Simple.  I try not to use that heart die on every card, but it’s just so hard not to.  And then I also printed out the perfect sentiment.  Now there’s an idea for a stamp set; common phrases that you hear on the streets of Europe.  Thanks for stopping by today, Bellas!

It’s time for the next Runway Inspired Challenge!

I’m a fool for anything rainbow, so no doubt I absolutely loved this inspiration photo.  I cut thin strips of paper, adhered them together and then die cut a small heart at the bottom.  The heart die is by Clear & Simple Stamps, which is also this week’s sponsor for the challenge.  The sentiment is also from the newly released set called Lucky Charm.

Hope you’ll play along!  Check out what the rest of the fabulous design team came up with.

 Jen

Here are two cards for the latest Make it Monday Challenge-using border dies to create backgrounds.  I used the large scallop border die on some tissue paper to create a background.  Kinda fishy festive pinata-ish, don’t you thing?  Thanks for stopping by!