Let Love Grow

It's February 1st already! I just can't believe how fast the days are going. Maybe it's because I have to work a full time regular job and don't have as much time to craft as I would like. This month I am a guest designer for Joy of Sets and they have fun tic tac toe challenges. For my card, I used an image from Mo Manning, Let Love Grow with a computer generated sentiment. I couldn't decide which elements to use in the challenge so I went for a full black out of all 9!  I pulled out my Derwent Watercolor pencils which I haven't used in some time so I used Copics on the face ad hair and pencils on the rest. I embossed the vellum and put it on a gold metallic paper. The background purple paper also has streaks of gold.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio; Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Paper Studio; Recollections

Vellum:  Recollections

Stamp:  Mo Manning - Let Love Grow (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  Computer generated

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Petite Ovals

Embossing Folder:  Darice

Hearts:  Prima

Watercolor Pencils:  Derwent

Challenges

Crafty Friends - Ch. 128 Love/ Romance

Crafty Sentiments - Hearts / Valentine
Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes with optional twist Love
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 619 Valentines
Creatalicious - Ch. 180 Anything Goes with optional hearts
Aud Sentiments - Ch. 243 Anything Goes with a sentiment

First Friend Best Friend Forever

My Mother's Birthday is in the beginning of May and I made this birthday card for her using a stamp that I got from Unity.  I had several of there stamps from years ago, but when the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop came out and when a fellow blogger and a past DT member that I worked with Cynthia had a Unity posting I saw some of the newer stamps and fell in love with them.  I picked up this set called, First Friend, Best Friend Forever which is not listed on the site and they recently had it as a freebie if you ordered a certain amount of stamps so I'm not sure if it is still available.  I just love the sentiment, which I put on the inside of the card.  My Mom doesn't come on my blog so she won't see it.  I added some white butterflies and pearly accents to the card besides I used Derwent Watercolor pencils instead of Copics.  I put green bling on the card since her birthday is in May and the birthstone is Emerald and to match the leaves.

inside of card

Cardstock:  Recollections; Bazzil

Watercolor Paper:  Artist's Loft

Stamp:  Unity - First Friend, Best Friend, Forever

Sentiment:  Verve - Simply Amazing

Ink:  Distress - Black Soot; Seedless preserves

Embossing Folder:  We Are Memory Keepers

Ribbon:  Michael's

Bling:  Paper Studio

Punch:  Martha Stewart

Dermont Watercolor Pencils

Tim Holtz Water color brush

Pearly Accents

Challenges

Allsorts - Wk 412 I spy something with "B" (Birthday, Bouquet, butterflies, bling, bow, blue, buds)

RRR - Ch. 162 Put a bow on it

Aud sentiment - Ch. 178 Use a stamp for your sentiment

4CC - Ch. 347 Butterflies

DDD - Birthday (Happy 50th to Lisa)

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 474 Birthdays

Creatalicious - Ch. 113 Birthday

The Card Concept - Ch. 71 Fresh Flutters (Clean and Layered)