My Hero Ribbon card Vicki's take

This is a Jeannie/Vicki challenge card. Jeannie and I wanted to do something really special this time. She came up with the Hero ribbon idea. We were either going to do a yellow ribbon or a pink ribbon. I chose the pink ribbon because it is a little closer home to me. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and thank the good Lord above she is cancer free. If I think of anyone as being a hero in fighting this terrible disease I think it is her. She battled it very hard and very courageously and never not once gave up. The hope on the front of the card is for all the hope that she had, the faith is for the faith that she never lost and gave up, the miracle is her and that she is living proof that it can be beat, and the inspire is for all the inspiration that she gives everyone around her everyday. I put a lot of heart into this card. I actually made two just alike. One to keep for another day and one to send to her. I can't explain the feeling I had while making this card. It was a very emotional card to make. I guess I could really feel what each word stood for. On the inside of the card I put anothe pink ribbon on the card first. Then I printed my sentiment on vellum and layed it over top of the ribbon. I wasn't for sure it was going to work out, needless to say I was so happy that it did. This actually is an A-7 card because I couldn't make it work right being an A-4 card. Here are the directions and thank you so much for looking and leaving a comment, they mean so much to me.

George- pink ribbon - this is actually the & sign cut at 3" and using the shadow feature

the ribbon on the inside of the card is cut at 5" shadow feature- stickled around the edge of the ribbon

Hope- home decor- cut at 1 1/2" on regular and shadow cut

Miracle- home decor- cut at 3/4" on regular and shadow cut

Faith- Home Accents- cut at 1" on regular and shadow cut

Inspire- Home Accents- cut at 1" on regular and shadow cut

corners are Jasmine and are cut at 3 1/2", 4" and 4 1/2"- added stickles

scalloped circles are from Mini Monograms and are cut at 3", 3 1/4" and 3 1/2", I added stickles to the scalloped circles to give it a little glitz.

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Dragonfly - Vicki's take

Yeah! Jeannie and I found time to do another challenge. I have so much fun with these challenges.It really is hard to make a card without her. Well, Jeannie has been really busy this week with all the birthdays and getting Madison moved and I have been really busy making all these thank you cards but we still wanted to get at least one card challenge in this week. It really was nice to make a card other than a thank you card. When we were trying to decide what our challenge would be, I told Jeannie that I loved the dragon fly from home decor and she came up with the "Good Luck" sentiment since that is a sign of the dragonfly. I was excited about it because I needed to make a good luck card so it worked great for me. This card is for one of the ladies that I work for. The assistant principal of the elementary school is leaving and going to another school, she said that she wanted something really special on the inside because this lady has been great with her kids and that she would be greatly missed. this is what I came up with. I have to tell you, I struggled really hard with this card, It actually started out a different color, different papers, different idea...I couldn't get it to come together the way I wanted to so I left and came back and had a whole knew idea to try to work with. I like how this one came out better. It definitely is not how I pictured it in my head. I hope you like it and please leave me a comment, they mean so much!

Home Decor- dragonfly cut at 2"- twice in gold and once on shadow in purple, stickled with purple

Walk in my garden- daisy cut at 1"- each flower is 4 cuts, I took my hole puncher and put a hole in the center and hooked them together with brads. I love how they came out. this could be my favorite flower now.

Jasmine- front corners cut at 4" and back corners cut at 4 1/2"- stickled with gold

lots of glue dots and lots of stickles.

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many thanks

Any yet here is another thank you card. My friend asked for a bunch of thank you cards and a bunch is what she is going to get. For this one I used the flower form Home Decor, I used clear and red stickles and lots and lots of pop dots. The flower is cut at 4" and the leaves are from plantin schoolbook and are cut at 2 1/2". Many thanks is from wild card and is cut at 5". Jeannie you will be so proud of me, I inked the entire card. I was so nervous about doing that but I figured the worse would happen is that I would have to throw it away. Kinda liked how it turned out. I hope you like it too. Thanks for looking and thank you so much for commenting. I love reading each and every one.

Birthday Cupcake

This is also a Jeannie/Vicki card challenge, little did Jeannie know that this was also her birthday card from me. I hope she was surprised when she got it in the mail. Jeannie actually picked the cupcake cut. We had both just gotten the new Home Decor carts and we were just dying to make something with it so the cupcake was first. I knew right away what paper I wanted to use, I was really pleased that I was able to make the cupcake match the paper. I cut the cupcake at 3" and cut out 4 different layers. I knew this card was going to Jeannie so I really wanted to make it Pop! I used lots and lots and lots of glue dots and stickles. It actually turned out to be one of my favorite cards after it was said and done. I hope you enjoy it and much as I enjoyed making it.

Chick Chat over coffee

Jeannie and I are having way too much fun doing these challenges. I get so excited each and every time that we do one. I think I could do one every day. I had several cards to make for a lady that I know that is in what is called the Pink Ladies, this is like the red hat society only the ladies are "too young" to wear read. Anyway, she wanted some "pink chics" because that is what they refer to themselves as. Jeannie thought it would be fun to make it a challenge so we both could see how we both interpreted the choice. We knew what bird we was going to use and we knew we were going to use the "let's chick chat over coffee" but that was it. It was so wild because we thought so much alike on this one and we both decided to put our "chicks" over the coffee. My coffee was actually on the paper that I chose and her coffee was in a cup that she put on the front of her card. We both had a ball doing this one. I hope you enjoy it as much. the bird is from Home Decor and the circles are from mini monograms.