January SOTC challenge

Hello my friends,

today I am showing you the card made for the SOTC January's challenge.

Judy (known in the stamping SCS' world as JAM123) was our hostess with the mostest

and encouraged us to create the following....

In her own words:
" ....It’s the ending of an old year and the beginning of a new year. It’s a time of reflection, a time of celebration and a time when many look forward to new beginnings. So in the spirit of the season, the theme for December/January cards is INSPIRATION!
Create a card that reflects YOU…your dreams, aspirations, and/or accomplishments. Include your favorite colors, embellishments, images and sentiments. Create something that will lift the spirit of your Sistahs! As an added challenge I would love to see you incorporate a picture of yourself......"

There are so many possibilities and interpretations for this latest challenge...and, as such, I found myself to be at a standstill as what to create.However, I remember thinking that, IF I had a hot air balloon stamp, I would have used it for sure...

you see one of my many dreams has always been to try and go up in the sky

in a hot air balloon....♥

On the inside, I kept it simple
by using a pretty glittered
designer paper panel and
punched out a string of heart with
my MS punch ,added another punched
out heart and a scalloped nestie heart
to use for a sentiment of choice...

                                                                    Stamp: 'Forget Me Not' M4723                                   

            by Stampington & Co.

Sentiment: 'Warm Words' by SU

Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Rose Romance,

         Onix Black

Card Stock: Bravo Burgundy

             &  wine red dotted c/s)

Designer Paper: 'Think Pink' by Making Memories,

            'Eskimo Kisses' by Basic Grey

Accessories: burgundy lace, 'Allegro' EF, brads,

dimentionals, Lily white glitter, Gelli roll Sakura pen,

blings, pearls by Kaiser Kraft

Tecnique: Paper Tearing, sponging, antiquing

This card is ment to be a reflections of some of the things that are important to me, in my life...Love for family, love for music, love for glitter and blings -some of my favorite embellishments- (btw oh yes I also like REAL glittery BLINGS too!), love for lacey things that remind me of a long ago era....You can say that I also love shabby schick...it's totally me...sometimes casual, sometimes elegant....but overall....under all those layers...there is 'just' ME!

                     ♥ Can you tell which is my MOST favorite color yet? ♥

    

Thank YOU Judy for a wonderful challenge...admittedly it was not an easy one...lol

Oh...and  no, there is no  mug shot included , didn't want to scare anyone! *wink* LOL

I sure hope that whomever receives these cards will feel uplifted with L♥VE!

                            Thanks for stopping by, please come again soon.

                                 ♥ ♥ ♥ BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL ♥ ♥ ♥

Vintage Valentine ATC

Hello friends,
my first project of 2012 it's an ATC (Artist Trading Card)
What are ATC one may ask? Here's the perfect visual explanation of such, compliments of SCS
aka  Split Coast Stampers :
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/artist_trading_cards_atc/

Here's a close up....

Specifically,  the theme for these cards was Vintage Valentines.....

Yikess!!...I sure got a bit intimidated by the whole thing as I don't do ATC well...

I believe this is only ,perhaps, my third ATC I ever made as I definetly much prefer

working on  regular size cards , if not larger ones  even....

Having said that, I hope that the wonderful and witty swap hostess whose swap I joined,

likes the end results , as well as the swappers who,ultimatly will end up receiving these.

 

Not sure why in the 'group photos' the lil heart brad appears black...they are certainly not black, although I did smear a bit of black Staz-On on them, to make the brads less shiny and appear more vintage, and it worked well. Unfortunatly though, my pictures turned out not as well as I hoped, this time around...arghhhhh me...  :o(
 Please let me know what YOU think...YOUR comments are ALWAYS apreciated! :o)

♥ G'NIGHT and Special Blessings to you!!! ♥

Deets:  Ink: Versafine Onix Black, Cranberry Crisp,Sahara Sands, Black Staz On  Stamp: Great Impressions #F424 C/S: from SU D/P : 'Lovely' from K&C (cut out sentiment), 'Red Valentine' from K&C Accessories: Adhesive gems or pearls, doily, sm paper flowers (smudged w/cranberry crisp and glittered),heart brads, Glamour Dust glitter,plain and scalloped nesties, dimentionals, ribbons                   Tecnique: sponging,antiquing