Embrace:

Alphabet or number stickers! There's loads of styles, textures, and fonts out there. We all seem to have them, let's use them on a clean and simple card!

This card actually fulfills several challenges. I wanted to do something here, something that fit as a birthday card, and something that fit into this month's DDA challenge (Make a birthday card using numbers and don't use the word birthday)

These stickers are what I like to call "no-name thickers". They are foam stickers from the dollar store. They are decent quality and sometimes there is even a decent selection available! Underneath the numbers the phrase "it's your day!" is stamped.

Fall-To Layout 9

Another great sketch layout, easy peasy! I took my color combo from SU's In Color Combination Chart. Makes picking colors simple! I glued a chipboard piece to red paper, then cut off the excess. The button is attached with a dimensional, added a few strips of colored paper, and a sentiment finishes it off! Supplies: stamps - Hugs & Wishes paper - ww, kiwi kiss, baja breeze, riding hood red ink - black acc - chipboard, mustard button

Fall-To-Layout 9

What a great simple and easy sketch! I picked out the ribbon and made the card around it. The ribbon and stamps were from the $1 bin at Michaels! The card size is 3x6. This definitely can be done in under 10 minutes! Supplies: Stamps - Studio G; Paper - Bazzil, PaperTrey stampers Select; Ink - Versafine Black Onyx; Misc - Ribbon, Circle punch, SU! Markers

FTL9

This week's sketch is intended to be for a longer style card, something along the lines of 3.5x7 or 3x6. It's pretty straight forward. For once, the strip in the middle is not necessarily knotted ribbon! Feel free to change the shape or dimension of the circle and the sentiment placement.

I recently went to Michaels and was inspired by all the fun Halloween product. I went into my Stampin' Up! paper stash and pulled out this paper from last year. I still really love it, so I have been using it sparingly. Whenever I make long style cards I find that I like to use my corner rounder on at least 2 of the corners. It just seems to add a nice finished touch to this style of card.

Some more blue and orange

Here's another card featuring my favorite complimentary colour combination. I was in the the mood for glittery flowers, so I inked up some chipboard, covered them with Mod Podge, then sprinkled on the glitter and went from there.

Supplies: Stamps: Stampin' Up! Chipboard: Stampin' Up!, Colorbok Ribbon: American Crafts Patterned Paper: Scenic Route Ink: Bahama Blue, Tangelo by Memento ,Accessories, etc.: Glitter (some Michaels brand)