Take 3 Challenge - Pointsettia Flower - Take 3

Before I get to my Take 3 card, I am excited to announce that I made it onto the Crafty Creations Challege blog Design Team!  So excited to be on another team.  Can't wait to get going with them.  Drop over to the blog and check out this week's inspiration photo, it's awesome!!

Finally, the last day of this Take 3 Challenge ... and here is my Take 3 on using this lovely flower stamp from Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Blooms set.  Notice it is not a Christmas card!

These flowers were inked up with distress inks and cut out.  Check out the centers ... they are lovely brads that I have received from one of my secret sisters (thanks so much)!!

This card is actually created based on the card created by Julia Stainton shown on page 48 of the Nov./Dec. issue of Paper Crafts magazine.  It was so lovely I was totally inspired by it!  Julia's card is a Christmas card with stars on it, but I wanted to change that into a birthday card so used flowers.

Thanks so much for dropping by for my Take 3 Challenge this week.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Pointsettia Flower - Take 2

My Take 2 card for this week's Take 3 Challenge is also a Christmas card.

And another clean and simple card.  I used one of my home-made die cuts (based on Papertrey Ink's), added some thin black ribbon and a black button.  The designer paper is so beautiful - from My Minds Eye. 

Okay, that is 2 Christmas cards made using this lovely little flower image.  Will tomorrow's card be a Christmas card as well??  Guess you'll have to come back tomorrow and see.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Pointsettia Flower - Take 1

Hello!  It is always nice to see you!  Today is the first day of my Take 3 Challenge.  Here is my Take 1 card. 

I don't own many Christmas stamps so I have to be creative at this time of year.  See this lovely pointsettia, it is actually the large flower from the Beautiful Blooms set (Papertrey Ink). 

Stamped it with Ruby Red ink and then added some gold micro beads to the center.

A true Clean and Simple card!!  Susan R. would be proud!! 

Drop back in tomorrow to see what I did with this flower on tomorrow's Take 2 card.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Large Butterfly BEauty - Take 3

Hello and welcome back to the last day and my Take 3 card for this week's Take 3 Challenge.  Today my butterfly was stamped onto some yummy purple designer paper.  The gold glitter was part of the paper and ended up adding so much to this image.  Then, I added some distress ink sponging to intensify the colour!

Kept the rest of the card clean and simple so the butterfly would be sure to take center stage!

That was a fun Take 3 challenge.  Thanks for enjoying it with me :-)

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Large Butterfly Beauty - Take 2

Welcome back to the second day of my Take 3 Challenge.  I introduce to you my Take 2 card:

This time, I decided to try a monochromatic card ... in purple of all colours.  If you drop by at all you will know that I rarely use purple!  What an impact, that bright white butterfly on all that purple!!

Well, one more card to go for this week's Take 3 challenge.  Like always, I've saved my favourite for last. 

See you all tomorrow!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Large Butterfly Beauty - Take 1

Welcome to a new week of Take 3.  This week's image is a beautiful swirly butterfly from Studio g.  It was given to me by a friend and came out of a larget "stamping kit".  It is rather large ... so I decided to start out by just using bits of it on this tag.  Coloured the leaves with my Stampin' Up! pastel chalks. 

I never use my crimper enough .. thought it would add some great texture. 

I had planned to enter it into the CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use tags ... but I ended up scheduling this post for the wrong week and totally missed that challenge!  How did I do that??  Sheesh!! Oh well.

Drop back in tomorrow to see what I did for Take 2 using this same image.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Snowflake - Take 3

Hello and welcome back to my final card this week from my Take 3 Challenge. 

Here is my Take 3 card:

Here is a close up of that embellishment ... it is the snowflake stamp that I am using this week.  To make it, I stamped the flake with white craft ink onto a transparency, then heat embossed with a mix of white and kelidascope embossing powder.  It turned out great in the end. I think I will make a bunch of these to help with my Christmas card creating.

Well, I am sad to say that this week's Take 3 Challenge is done!  But not to worry, there will

always be another one around the corner!!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Snowflake - Take 2

Hello and welcome back to my latest Take 3 Challenge. 

This week it is actually a double challenge - I am using that snowflake image from an old Stampin' Up! set called All Through the Year and papers from Holly Jolly pack by My Minds Eye.  Here is my Take 2 card:

The snowflakes are embossed this time.  See that red polka dot border ... it is actually from the

die cut page from the My Minds Eye package ... and I've been dying to use it.  Not sure

why, but I am totally in LOVE with it!!! 

So there is my Take 2 card.  Just one more card to go ... which you can only see if

you come back tomorrow!!   Of course, you will be dying with anticipation

so you will need to come back!!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Snowflake - Take 1

This week's Take 3 Challenge is a double Take 3 Challenge.  It centers around the snowflake from an old Stampin' Up! set called All Through the Year.  It was one of those sets I just HAD to have ... but have rarely used.  A Take 3 Challenge is a good way to get it out and use it!  Incidently, all 3 cards in this Take 3 Challenge also use paper from the Holly Jolly paper pack from My Minds Eye (last year's paper).  It is a stunning collection of papers!!

And here is Take 1.  A fairly Clean and Simple card, showing off those prancing reindeer.  I love when I see crafters doing this tied off the edge ribbon technique but I rarely think to do it myself. 

The frame is from Borders & Corners: Squares (Papertrey Ink) and the sentiment is from Take a Bough (also Papertrey Ink).

Another variation using this snowflake stamp tomorrow which means a few more Christmas cards have been made.

See you tomorrow.
Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Pumpkins - Take 3

And, finally, the Take 3 card for my Take 3 Challenge this week using this aweosme pumpkin stamp.

Today's card is all about paper piecing!  Love it, never do it enough!

Polka dot madness!! 

Well, thanks for dropping by for a visit.  Hope you have enjoyed this week's Take 3 Challenge! 

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Pumpkins - Take 2

Welcome back to my Take 2 card this week using this great pumpkin stamp.  Today's card is a thank your card and so very Clean and Simple!!  and oh so different from yesterdays!!

The pumpkin was coloured with some Orange stickles (thanks Secret Sister!!) and the leaves are colored with Diamond stickles.  The effect is amazing in real life.  I tried to capture it here ...

I'd also like to say that this is my entry for Susan R's Gratitude Challenge.  This card will be heading off to someone whom needs to hear that I am thankful for them!! 

Okay, that's 2 takes down and just one left, which will be here on the ole blogo tomorrow!  Hope you pop back in to check it out!!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Pumpkins - Take 1

Hello again and welcome back to another installment of one of my Take 3 Challenges.  This is where I use 1 stamp (or item) on 3 different cards, showcasing each on Mon, Tue, and Wed of the week. 

Today's Take 1 card is a Halloween card, of course!  Happy Halloween!! Typically I'm not a real halloween card maker but this year I did create a few (3 to be exact) using this pumpkin from Craftsmart. 

This panel started off white ... believe it or not!  Gotta love distress inks!!  And that soft ribbon is an oldie from Stampin' Up!  Loved it so much back then I bought 2 spools ... still love it and have decided I'd better start using it!!  LOL!!

Drop back in tomorrow to see a TOTALLY different card for my Take 2 card.  Can't wait till you see it!! All you clean and simple (CAS) gals out there, you are gonna loooove it!!! 

Till tomorrow,

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Foxy - Take 3

Hello and welcome to my Take 3 card using this adorable fox from Imaginisce.  I made the

 focal point of this card based on THIS card from Kristina Werner.  I'm not sure why I love

that so much but I do and had to recreate it. 

I tried to capture the circle designer paper (that I received from one of my Secret Sisters in the past, Banu) because it has soft fuzzy circles on it ... perfect for the sentiment (from Hero Arts)!

Cute!!  I love this little Foxy and I know you will see him lots in the future!! 

Well, another Take 3 Challenge success.  If you decide to try doing your own Take 3 Challenge, I'd love to see.  Just leave me a comment  so I can drop by your corner of the www!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Foxy - Take 2

Hi and welcome back.   Today I bring you Take 2 using this great Imaginisce image ... I like to call him Foxy!  This time, I colored in the image with my Copics and added a bit of designer paper and buttons. 

I adore giraffe's and foxes!  This guy is so cute with his shifty little eyes.  A bit different than my Take 1 card in that you can actually find him ... but still made using orange.  A fox has to be orange, right??!!  Well, maybe not.  To see, you will have to come back tomorrow and see my Take 3 card ... it is totally different from either of these cards.  Like usual, I've saved my favourite for last!!

See  you tomorrow.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Foxy - Take 1

Hello and welcome to yet another Take 3 Challenge!  This week I wanted to use this awesome fox stamp from Imaginisce (one of their Snag 'em Stamps).  Here is Take 1 using the stamp.  I'd love to take credit for this brilliant idea but I can't ... it belongs to Lisa Spangler as seen here on THIS post.  Brilliant, which is why I had to try it too!! 

Talk about Clean and Simple!!   LOL!! 

So make sure you drop back by tomorrow to see my Take 2 card using this cute little fox.  Similar and yet different!!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Color Challenge - Take 3

And finally ... here is my Take 3 card using this demask home-made paper and this awesome color combo.

I had spent many nights dreaming of this card ... the colors, the pop of red, the stripes, the demask, the shape.  Gotta love when a card turns out close to what you originally invision!  And this is an example of how you can use partial images/sentiments.  The strawberry actually comes from a house mouse image ... my favourite ... sleeping with strawberries.  I only used one of the berries, obviously.  The sentiments are also from bigger sentiments (both from Mixed Messages).  The "you're" is from the 'you're too kind' and the "Sweet" is from the 'Sweet baby' sentiment. 

That was a FUN Take 3 Challenge.  I might have to do that again.  I know I will be using this colour combo again sometime soon!  Yummy!!

Hope you have a great rest of your week.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Color Challenge - Take 2

Welcome back!  Today I am sharing my 2nd Take on this challenge - using the same color combo and home-made demask patterned paper (trying to stay on top of my scraps since tossing everything a few weeks ago).

This card is just a mini card.  Oh how I love to create mini cards!!

 This card is fairly clean and simple.  I adore the sentiment over the light leaf image (Turning a New Leaf, Papertrey Ink). 

Now you MUST come back tomorrow, becuase like usual, I have saved the best for last!  My Take 3 card was acutally the one that started it all off .......

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Color Challenge - Take 1

Welcome to one of my Take 3 Challenges.  If you don't know about them, a number of months ago I decided to make better use of my stamps when I have them pulled out.  So instead of simply making 1 card wtih an image and then putting it away, I decided to always make 3 cards and then post them on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  I have to tell you, this has become so much fun!!  If you are intersted in seeing my other Take 3 Challenges, you can always just click on the "Take 3" keyword and it will bring up all of my previous posts.

Today's Take 3 Challenge is a bit different.  This time, I started out making 1 card but then I decided that I really liked the color combo and wanted to use up the scraps ... and, hence, a Take 3 Challenge was born.  So, this week uses the same home-made demask patterned paper (Demask Designs, Papertrey Ink) as well as the same color combo. 

Here is Take 1:

Arn't those colours gorgeous together??!!  See why I couldn't stop!  

Make sure you drop back tomorrow to see Take 2 ... it is a mini card .. oh how I love to create mini cards!!

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Thankful Wheat - Take 3

And finally, here is my Take 3 card using this wheat stamp (First Fruits, Papertrey Ink)

This one ended up being my favorite.  I really like this layout ... with the sentiment seperating the bottom image from the rest!!

Very Clean and Simple and uses 'inchies' which I love.

Well, that is it for another Take 3 Challenge.  I have some AWESOME cards for my Take 3 Challenge next week so make sure you come back on Monday!!  See you then.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Thankful Wheat - Take 2

Welcome back to my Take 3 Challenge.  Here is my Take 2 using this wheat image

from First Fruits (Papertrey Ink)

Decided to try adding some patterned paper (from my wonderful Secret Sister!!).  I also wanted to try this layout ... not sure I am totally in love with this card ... mmmmm

Okay, a better card tomorrow .... very cas and a great new layout!!

Donelda