Mojo Monday #222

New year... new Mojo!  I had fun making a bright card with this week's sketch, mixing up a couple of different Echo Park papers.  I tried Debbie Carriere's method of stitching the buttons right onto my card with some navy thread, and I do like the results.  You can't really tell in the picture, but the zigzag stitching is bright red.

Here was our sketch:

Patterned papers are Sunny Days & Little Boy by Echo Park; Cardstock is Outdoor Denim, Ocean & White Daisy, CTMH; Stamp set is Buttoned Together, CTMH; Ink is Holiday Red; Buttons, CTMH.

April Showers bring May Flowers at Heart2Heart!

I love this as a challenge idea!  This week's Heart2Heart challenge lets you decide how to incorporate rain/showers/flowers any way you like... maybe a rainbow?  I love my card!  It looks deceptively simple - and was more time consuming and finicky than anything I've made in a long time.  Can you tell that there are 14 different papers, 10 inks and 3 stamp sets used?  I hand cut all the buttons and leaves, used my Coluzzle for the button 'mats', and sanded all the edges to smooth them out nicely.  And my little polka dot background is supposed to be the April showers (get it?) coming down on my May flowers.  We would love to have you join us by playing along this week - just link up your project on the Heart2Heart blog (remember that your project should use mostly CTMH products - just list what else you've used).  We have two new sponsors for April: LeAnne Dudley and Michelle Zimmerman who are providing wonderful prizes that will be given to two randomly chosen players at the end of the month.  Come and see what the rest of the design team has come up with this week!

Finished size is 4"x9".  All products are CTMH: stamp sets are Buttoned Together, Grown with Love and Argyle Backgrounds; Olivia patterned paper; Cardstock is Sky, Pacifica, White Daisy, Cotton Candy, Hollyhock, Amethyst, Gypsy, Pear, Lagoon, Creme Brulee, Sorbet, Tulip & Vineyard Berry.  Inks are Sky, Cotton Candy, Gypsy, Pacifica, Lagoon, Sorbet, Creme Brulee, Tulip, Pear & Black.  Embroidery floss, Bamboo brad.  Flower stems are machine stitched.

Mojo Monday #158

My 3rd post of the day!  I won't be able to keep the pace up for long... but the challenges have been great today.  I chose Mojo's square sketch today, and grabbed some regular old newsprint to make a little paper flower to go on my card.  I love this look, so I'm going to keep my eyes open for some nicely yellowed old paperbacks to cut up in the future:

Patterned papers - Cosmo Cricket, Girl Friday; Kraft paper - Michael's; Newsprint - The Toronto Star!; Stamp Set is Buttoned Together; Ink is Chocolate; Natural Hemp; Basic Buttons - all CTMH.

Color Throwdown Challenge

This week's Color Throwdown Challenge uses colours close to Twilight/Crystal Blue/Sweet Leaf... so I added in a bit of Desert Sand and pulled out a stamp set that I LOVE but have never used: Buttoned Together.  There was a fair bit of cutting involved, but I love the end result, so I think I'll come up with a few different coloured versions in the future.
 

All supplies are CTMH: Stamp set is Buttoned Together; Cardstock is Desert Sand, Colonial White, Twilight, Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf; Inks are Twilight, Desert Sand, Bamboo, Crystal Blue & Sweet Leaf;   Autumn Chalks; Martha Stewart Button punch.