My First Ever Card Challenge Submission!

Hi, Everyone!

Today is a banner day because, with this post, I am entering my first ever card challenge! As many of you know, I am completely card-phobic and it takes me longer to make one card than to literally do anything else. For an example of what I mean, check out the UStream recording of the time I tried to make an easel card: Starts Here at two hours and fifteen minutes into the recording and Ends Here. I think the whole thing took over three hours & I cried more than a few times during the process.

Anyways, my good buddy Dawn from Crafting on the Prairie called me a few days ago to share some very exciting news with me. She has been asked to be on the design team for the Midnight Madness card sketch challenge blog. Getting accepted on a design team is always exciting, but this was especially cool for Dawn because Midnight Madness is her very favorite card sketch blog in the whole world AND some of her very favorite card makers in the whole world are on their design team with her.

For some reason {why exactly still remains a mystery} I told her that I was proud of her accomplishment and that in honor of her achievement I would make a card for her first challenge as a design team member. And not only would I make a dreaded card {which is sacrifice enough in my opinion} but I would make it live on UStream {which is typically a very humiliating process}. Normally this is something that I would say to be nice and then try to weasel out of later. Unfortunately for me, Dawn knows me pretty well by this point, so to prevent me from doing that, she immediately emailed the blog owner AND THE WHOLE DESIGN TEAM and told them what I had agreed to do.

Dawn is such a jurkweasel sometimes.

So here are my submissions for the Midnight Madness Card Sketch Challenge #85. There were actually two sketches this month and I chose to create one card for each sketch. Mostly because I actually needed to send two cards this week.

The first sketch is the "fancy" sketch:



Here is my take on the "fancy" sketch:



I used Graphic 45's "Once Upon a Springtime" and Pink Paislee's "Parisian Anthology" collections to create this card. The main image is a stamp from the Cavendish Ladies' "Putting on the Ritz" collection. I stamped it several times on different patterns of paper from the "Once Upon a Springtime" collection, cut them out & layered them together to create her outfit. I then accented her outfit with Ranger Distress Stickles to make her hat, belt and shoes pop. I covered her fur collar and pearl necklace with Ranger Liquid Pearls in "White Opal" for some subtle shimmer. I'll be enclosing this card with my sister's coffee cup mini.

The second sketch is the "simple" sketch:



Here is my take on the "simple" sketch:



First, I turned the sketch on it's side. Then I used the Fancy Pants Designs "Happy Together" paper collection to create this card. The main image is a stamp from the Inkadinkado "Humorous Birthday" set. I stamped it on cream cardstock and colored it in with my EK Success Zig markers. Last, I added the Thickers as this one is for my brother's upcoming 23rd birthday.

I hope you enjoyed these cards! I actually had fun making them & unlike usual they came together pretty easily for me. Congratulations to Dawn or making the Midnight Madness design team!

~Kathryn
Life's a beach. As long as you don't have to make any cards.