Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Several more challenges

Hey everyone:

I hope you all are well. Me, I'm struggling with math problems today - Patrick is learning how to turn fractions into decimals and I have always had difficulty in math without the use of a calculator :) Also, it is taught so differently than when I went to school as well as our older kids, so I'm going to do the next best thing, wait until daddy gets home. Jim is so good at math, it boggles my mind. I will become not only mother tonight but student as well when he gets home :)
I have actually done several challenges over the past few days and I have a few more I want to do before the week is over. The first one is from The Pink Elephant - we are to use the colors pink, green & brown, which is one of my favorite color combos and came up with this birthday card. I used BasicGrey papers (LOVE THEM) and my MS border bunch. The label was made by using my cricut machine and the accent essentials cartridge my good friend Jennifer let me borrow (thanks Jennifer) and even though you can't really see it, the sentiment is stamped in brown Memento ink and edged with pink colorbox ink.

The second one is for the CPS sketch challenge (this was a fun sketch) and Penny Black Saturday Challenge, which was to use 3 brads, 2 ribbons and one flower. Can you tell I am loving the BasicGrey sultry paper? I don't really like how it turned out, but couldn't figure out what I needed to do to fix it, so I'm leaving it alone for now. Give me your thoughts.

Thanks and I hope you all have a great evening.

Janet

15 comments:

  1. Both beautiful cards - don't think there is anything that needs fixing at all.
    Ann xxx (from the Pink Elephant Challenge )

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  2. Very pretty cards...love those papers! Great job with sketch 106...thanks for playing at CPS this week!

    ~Lea

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  3. Amazing cards! Great Job!

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  4. I love the colors on this card. Brown is really IN this year. I use it a lot too. I appreciate you Following my blog. Thanks for your kind comments.

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  5. Pretty cards and pretty paper Janet!!

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  6. Hi Janet....beautiful card...but you need to use at least one Penny Black Image on your card...but thanks for joining in the fun this week.
    If you e-mail me (you will find it on the PB blog) I will send you easy instructions for doing the comment link)
    Hugs Kath xxxxx

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  7. Such pretty cards :) you did a great job on both!
    Thanks for playing with us at TPE this week :)

    Hugs
    Carol x

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  8. Both of your cards are beautiful. I love the Happy Birthday stamp. I am always on the lookout for different fonts for that sentiment. Thanks for joining us at TPE this week!
    Robin
    http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com

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  9. Hiya Janet!

    Love the papers you've used here - they really make for a lovely cards!

    Karen

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  10. Gorgeous, gorgeous cards. I love BG too. I think I've got about 300 sheets and counting. Is that too much?!!

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  11. what a beautiful card, luv TPE challenge, great job! *~*

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  12. oh Janet, your cards are beautiful. how funny about homework with your little one, my husbands name is also Jim and he is usually the one who helps grace with her homework LOL. math is not my thing, but somehow i get stuck with paying the bills and balancing the check book!! teehee

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  13. These are really pretty cards, lovely colours - Basic Grey is such a lovely paper range.

    Great job.

    Linda x

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  14. ooh - pretty cards. love the "pop" of green on the bottom card, really sets it off nicely.

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