Card Of The Week – Thinking Of You
Happy WOYWW to you dear friends! What’s on your desk this week? What were you inspired to create?
I began the long-term project of de-cluttering my craft room. In the process, I came across a few forgotten scraps and embellishments which formed the starting point for today’s card:
- A luscious layer of cardstock in deep, royal purple
- A strip of patterned paper from a previous project
- A package of Making Memories Woven Labels
Since the Thinking Of You label coordinated so beautifully, color-wise, with the first two elements of the card, I decided to pull them out and started to make a CAS card. Then, upon further thought, I decided, why not dress the card up a bit more and make it really special for the recipient? Adding lots of luscious layers and pretty feminine details is more in keeping with my style anyway!
So, I went digging through my ribbon boxes and found two strips of organza ribbon – one solid, one polka-dotted – to overlay over the striped paper. If you look closely, you can see new colors and patterns forming as the underlying paper peeks through!
I broke into a new package of black doilies to make it extra fancy! I’ve really become hooked on these!
Next came a romp through the garden to pick the perfect flowers!
- A pretty white flower to coordinate with the card’s backdrop.
- A black flower with white polka dots to coordinate with the doily and the ribbon.
- And a royal purple pansy to pick up the purple backdrop!
Finishing touches include adding icy sparkles in the form of bright diamond and silver metallic bling and distressing with Close To My Heart Pansy Purple Ink!
Now it’s your turn to share your creations with us! What have you created or acquired this week? Whether you’re showing off your desk, sharing your latest acquisitions, or spotlighting your latest creation – be sure to share it with our creative community at our weekly parties as well!
Have an inspiring week and thanks for stopping by!
Creative Art Challenges
Need to jump-start your creativity? Wondering what inspired me this week? Check out this week’s list of Creative Art Challenges! They are organized alphabetically under Theme or Anything Goes!
Theme Challenges
- Alphabet Challenge Blog – K Is For Kind Thoughts
- Brown Sugar #155 – Girly
- Bunny Zoe’s Crafts July Challenge – Summer Breeze (Summer Flowers)
- Clear It Out – Summer Break / Ribbon
- Craft For The Craic – Summertime (Flowers)
- Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge – July 2015
- Digi Choosday #29 – All About That Girl
- Dragonfly Dreams Challenge – Midsummer Delights
- Dragon Lair – Shabby Chic
- Fairytale Challenges #122 – Bling Bling
- Hiding In My Craft Room #208 – Lots Of Layers
- Inky Chicks – Use A Metal Embellishment (upper right corner)
- Moo Mania – In The Garden
- Natalie And Amy’s Challenge #34 – Summertime (Flowers)
- Noor Design #8 – Something Old (Flowers), Something New (Doily)
- Our Daily Bread Designs #247 – Floral Inspirations
- Pink Saturday
- Simon Says Monday Challenge – I Scream For (Icy Elements)
- Stamp And Create July Challenge – Patterns
- That Craft Place – Words
- Top Tip Tuesday – Bingo Challenge (Middle Row Across: Gems, Sentiment, Flowers)
- Unstampabelles Challenge #48 – Grab A Bunch Of Flowers
- Whoopsi Daisy – Bling It On Challenge
Be Creative – Anything Goes Challenges
- 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes Challenge #133
- Amusing Challenge – Anything Goes (All Month)
- Art By Mirian Challenge #36 – Anything Goes
- Artistic Inspirations #136 – Anything Goes
- Card And Scrap Challenge #100 – Anything Goes
- Card Mania Challenges #70 – Anything Goes
- CCI Digi Creations # 29 – Anything Goes
- Crafting From The Heart Challenge 69 – Anything Goes
- Crafting Musketeers Challenge #27 – Anything Goes
- Crafting With An Attitude #5 – Anything Goes
- Crafting With Friends Challenge 2 – Anything Goes
- Craft Your Passion Challenges #271 – Almost Anything Goes
- Creative Craft Challenge #44 – Anything Goes
- Creative Every Day – Anything Goes
- Creative Fingers Challenge #87 – Almost Anything Goes
- Crop Stop Linky Party 6 – Anything Goes
- Digi Stamps 4 Joy #114 – Anything Goes
- DL Art July Linky Challenge
- Images By CW – Saturday Linky Party
- Inspiration Destination #43 – Anything Goes
- Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends Challenge #14 – Anything Goes
- Not Just Cards Challenges #22 – July Anything Goes
- Papertake Weekly – Build It Up
- Petal Lu Challenge – Anything Goes
- Retarte #56 – Anything Goes
- Scrapper’s Delight #46 July Challenge – Anything Goes
- Simply Papercrafts Challenge 9 – Anything Goes
- Sister Act – Challenge 115
- Sisters Of Craft – July Anything Goes Challenge
- Sugar And Betty’s July Challenge – Anything Goes
- The Paper Nest Dolls July Challenge #7 – Anything Goes
- Through The Craftroom Door – Week Of July 21 – Anything Goes
- Use Your Stuff Challenge #200 – Anything Goes
- Wonderful Wednesday – Anything Goes
- Word Art Wednesday 193 – Anything Goes
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Great card, and happy finds – the best kind of tidying that results in creativity. Helen 2
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Thanks Helen – just popped by – your room made me feel not so alone! 🙂
Love this card! You make me want to get out my supplies and try to make something beautiful. 🙂
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Thank you so much Donna! I encourage you to follow that creative impulse – make something beautiful – and share it with us at Inspire Me Monday (with a comment so I’m sure to stop by!)
Have a lovely week!
Wonderful card, thanks for joining us at Moo Mania and More, Valerie
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Thanks Val – have a lovely day!
A lovely card, and great that you are using up your stash – it’s much easier to add to it I find! I do love the purple and black together – they really look good, very rich. Hope you have a great week and find loads more lovely bits of stash while de-cluttering!
Diana #25
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Thanks so much Diana – I can’t remember the last time I used this color combo together and I really love how it turned out!
Hopefully I’ll find some more treasures I can put to good use as I dig through my stuff!
I love the black doily – ooh la la I need to get me some! Good luck with the de clutter, I know you’ll be really good and see it through. I lose heart too soon and allow myself to be distracted!!
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Thanks Julia – hoping to have more than a “tunnel” on my desk by the end of summer – lol!
Lovely card and sentiment. Thanks for playing along with us at Unstampabelles.
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Thanks Susan – hope you are having a fabulous summer!
Hi Joy, lovely card – I am too tidying my craft room and finding some long forgotten treasures – have fun this week Cheers RobynO#9
Beautiful Card , very interesting color pallet too! Sometimes I think I enjoy tidying up my room as much as card making! Thanks for entering in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge # 193, Have a great day! Ginny M DT WAW
How thoughtful and creative.
The rich colors and vibrant flowers just make that card amazing. Like a little piece of art. Happy WOYWW! Sandy Leigh #38
Not got or indeed seen black doileys. Your looks very effective. I love your choice of coordinating colours too. Thank you for joining us this month at Unstampabelles. Wynn DT
What a lovely card. Always nice to discover new things amongst the tidying.
Catherine x (42)
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Thanks Catherine and you are SO right – I love new – but it’s just as much fun to discover “new” treasures among the old!
Great card, love the colours. thanks for joining our challenge at Whoopsi Daisy and we hope you will join us again. Jennifer DT member xx
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Thanks Jennifer – I always smile when I hear the name Whoopsi Daisy by the way!
A very pretty card, I do like the dark, stong colours. Thanks for joining us at Alphabet Challenges. Caz
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Thanks Caz – for whatever reason, I don’t delve into the dark side of the color box very often, so this is somewhat of a departure for me – but I love how it came out!
Cards like these encourage me to be adventurous more often! 🙂
Joy, your card is beautiful – love the flower layers and everything. Thank you for joining us in the Through The Craft Room Door challenge this week.
Hugz,
Linda
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Thank you so much Linda – it’s always fun to stroll through the flower garden and layer up some blooms!
fabulous card!
thank you so much for playing along with us at alphabet challenge!
hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi xoxo
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Thanks, Silvi, for visiting from Germany – I love the Alphabet Challenge!
Lovely make. Thanks for joining in the fun with us at Digi Choosday Challenge and our theme of ‘All About the Girl’. Yvonne
Can I ask that you link your entry on our challenge to your link not your blog. Thank you.
A really pretty card. Thanks so much for playing this time at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends. Good luck and hope to see you again soon. Andree {DT Lil Patch of Crafty Friends}
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Thanks Andree – it is my pleasure to join you this week!
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Craft Your Passion, good luck!!! Amy DT
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Clear It Out, good luck!!! Amy DT
Very pretty card, wonderful color combo and layers. Thank you for joining us this week at HIMCR.
Sue – HIMCR DT
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GORGEOUS ! Thank you very much for joining Moo Mania & More!
xxx
Susi
Gorgeous card. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at CCC Digi Creations. We would love to see you again. Anet DT
Beautiful card. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Creative Craft Cottage. We would love to see you again … Anet DTx
Such a pretty card! Thanks for joining us at Top Tip Tuesday. Lisa DT
Great card and the flower pops! Thanks for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge. Cheers Nicole
Stunning looking card. Thank you for sharing with us at Dragonfly Dreams, hope we see you again soon…
Love and Hugs ~ Lady Anne
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Lady Anne Milnes-Howard of Glencairn, Caithness Scotland.
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Thank you Lady Anne – you can count on it! 🙂
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Such a pretty card! =)
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Thank you so much Melissa! Miss chatting with you by email! How is your summer going?
I like the new card with the purple tones 🙂 Thanks for sharing at What Are You Doing? Blog Hop!!!
I love that you also shared this great post at Homeschool Memo Blog Hop 🙂
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Thanks Lisa – and thanks for sharing your parties with us! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful! It looks so elaborate and chic, how very talented you are! Thanks for sharing on #SocialButterflySunday this week! Hope to see you link up again this Sunday 🙂
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Thank you so much Kelly for always taking the time to encourage.
Have a wonderful weekend with your family! 🙂
I will leave the creation of these cads to you. You do an excellent job. I know a friend that this one would suit perfectly.
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Thank you LaVoice – I really appreciate the time you take to visit and leave a sweet comment on my cards each week, particularly since you don’t consider yourself to be a cardmaker! 🙂
A great card – thanks for joining us at Crafting from the Heart.
Helen x
It’s a beautiful card. Oh, I don’t have anything for this week. Didn’t know about this party, will come out with something next week 🙂
Beautiful card. Love the colour sckeme. Thanks for sharing with us at 613 Avenue Create. Hope to see you back soon.
Cheers,
Aurora
This is just lovely and shows what you can do with all your bits and bobs. This would make a super Sympathy card too. Good to see you at Natalie and Amy’s this month. Good luck. Hugs Sheryl xx
A lovely card. Thank you for sharing this with us over at Simply Papercraft. Sue DT xx
Lovely card. Thanks for entering the Digi Choosday All About The Girl challenge (DT)
That is so beautiful I love it so much and wish I was talented enough to make it but that is not going to happen.
Love the layers, great card.
Thank you for joining us for this months challenge, Sylvie, Craft for the Craic DT
wawwww så super flot ♥
10000 tak for at du deltager på Card and scraps udfordring.
knuzzzz ♥
I hope you know by now how much I love your art, and how very blessed I feel when you link your sweet creations to our weekly challenges. I’m so grateful for you, and I appreciate your friendship, your art, and your encouragement. God bless you my friend.
With a grateful heart,
Karen
Word Art Wednesday
This is a beautiful project with wonderful attention to detail and perfect for our 14th ‘ANYTHING GOES’ challenge. Thanks for sharing your talent with us. Good luck.
Hugs
Desíre
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I love the eggplant and lavender combination, this card is stunning! Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday linkup. Pinned to our linkup board.
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Thanks Tanya and I esp appreciate the pin! 🙂
Really nice layering and colours. Thanks for taking part in the CropStop Linky Party.
Beautiful:) Thanks for sharing it with us for Card Mania Challenge.
Good Luck!
Marzena DT
Way to rock the Bingo Card Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday! Brenda
This is a fabulous card, such a wonderful design.
Thank you for joining us at Crafty Hazelnuts’s Patterned Paper Challenge this month.
Pauline
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Lovely creation! I love design and flower!
Thanks for playing at Card Mania Challenge.
Ileanaxx