SFYTT and Cardvaarks Challenges

When I saw tonight's SFYTT I was a bit puzzled as to what I would do with the circle in the center. Once I settled on my sentiment from the Simple Thoughts - Boy Stamp set pairing it with a cute sticker from K and Co seemed obvious!

This card also fits the Cardvaarks challenge for this week to use a verse or quote! Love that!

Hope you like my submission!

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Base DCWV, Plaid Daisy D's

Cardstock: Wausau (White), Navy (Archiver's)

Felt Ribbon: Stampin Up

Stamp: Cloud Nine

Sticker: K and Company

Ink: Memento and Distress Ink

Caardvarks Sketch and many cards

It started innocently enough...with the Caardvarks challenge for this week which was a sketch. Then I decided I liked the paper and wanted to make another card. And then I made another and another. Eleven cards later I was out of patterned paper. It is so much fun to take a piece of 12 x 12 paper and make cards until there is no more paper. (My best was 25 cards from one sheet; see this post and this post. It was one of my paper challenge's.) My goal is to keep moving, and not get stuck on thinking if I like a card or not. Simple is also key.

Let me know which you like best!

Common Supplies for the cards: Cardstock: White Wausau paper, Really Rust Stampin Up, Kraft Stampin Up; Patterned Paper: Umm...no idea It was from a pack of clearance paper from Michaels, Ink: Really Rust Stampin Up


The one that started it all...The Caardvarks Sketch. Stamp: Kolette Hall, Ribbon (May Arts)

Card #2: Thoughts of You (on loan from Tiffany, also by Kolette Hall)

Card #3: Thank you very much (Rub on by American Crafts), Ribbon (Daisy D's)

Card #4: Thinking of you (Stamp by Hero Arts), Ribbon (May Arts)

Card #5: Thanks (American Crafts Thickers), Ribbon (May Arts)

Card #6: Many Thanks (Stamp: Stampin Up)

Card #7: Road to Friend's House (Amuse), Ribbon (Amuse)

Card #8: Just Saying Hello (Hero Arts), Image (Big Lots), Brads (Making Memories)

Card #9: Just a Note (Stampin Up), Ribbon (Offray)

Card #10: Hi (American Crafts Thickers), Ribbon (May Arts)

Card #11: Fabulous Birthday (also on loan from Tiffany, Hero Arts), Ribbon Unknown

Card #12: Hugs Scrapling (Stampin Up), Bling (Kaiser), Ribbon (May Arts)

I put the last one next to the battery so you could see how small it was. It's called a scrapling. I didn't coin the phrase (I wish I had). It is the leftover scrap of white paper you have when you make a 4 x 4 card.

So those are my cards. Hope you like them. Hope they inspire you!

Caardvarks Critter Challenge- Heard you caught a bug

I have had the idea of this card for awhile. Since I got the Stampin Up set actually. It was a fun card to make, but the inside of the card is what makes me smile....

There are so many people getting sick lately (me included!) that I was inspired to make this card.

Supplies

Stamps: Stampin Up (bug and bug spray), Feel better (Amuse), Heard you caught a bug (Stampendous)

Cardstock: Stampin Up

Patterned Paper: Die Cuts with a View

Markers: Copics

Get Well Doggie

I have been wanting to stamp this little guy for awhile, especially since I have started "collecting" Copic Markers. The sketch that Jen posted today for the SFYTT just fit this image. I am totally in a Kraft paper mode lately as well (which works nicely in with the Caardvarks challenge). So technically this is my first card for two challenges! (Go me!) I thought about doing something with the background on the kraft, but then the analytical side of my brain took over and said "No Katie, less is more for this one". I did use my Scor-it to score the navy-ish paper at the bottom. Here is a close up of that:

I really like this card. Clean and simple. It didn't take me that long to conceptualize, although the coloring and such took longer then expected because I was playing. Oh, and for those of you who are using Copics, if you have not tried Neehah cardstock you are totally missing out! Sooo much easier to blend and shade colors.
Supplies
Cardstock: White (Neehah Cardstock), Kraft (Stampin Up), Navy (American Crafts), Red (Archiver's)
Stamps: Doggie (Whipper Snapper), Sentiment (Papertrey Ink)
Markers: Copics
Ribbon: Amuse (did you know amuse made ribbons? I do now, and I may be in trouble)