heart 2 heart challenges...sketch challenge

Today is my last post as a guest design team member for Heart 2 Heart Challenges.  I had so much fun playing along with the challenges this month and I am honored to have been asked to join these amazingly creative women.

This week the challenge is a sketch.  As soon as I saw it, my wheels started spinning and my card came together so easily.

Here is the sketch:

and here is what I came up with (originally):

I actually intended to send the card with a gift to a bride to be whose wedding shower I was invited to, but couldn't attend.  Unfortuneatly my puppy liked the card too and ate the button and the corner of the patterned paper off of the card before I could send it (and it was on my desk too!)  I was heart broken, mainly because I loved the card, but also because we were leaving on vacation the next morning and I knew I wouldn't have time to make another.  My sweet son looked at me and said "Mom, you always think of ways to fix things...I know you can fix this"  So, I did...

this is version 2 (post puppy attack):

and a close up of my band aid...I layered 2 big pinks, added a courdery button and trimed flush with the edge of the card...with some really good adhesive to keep it down, no one would ever suspect this card was once Sara's chew toy.

I am not too sure which version I like best!

{love gives us a fairytale} products: (all CTMH unless noted)

cardstock:  Olive

patterned paper:  Mayberry

stamps:  bracket - On This Day; sentiment by Unity Stamp Co.

flowers:  by prima (version 1); Big Pinks (version 2)

brads:  mini medley autumn garden



Be sure to head over to the H2H blog to see what the DT came up with and to play along.

Tracy

a cause for a little "extra" celebrating on the 4th!

Happy 4th of July!

I have my own little celebration going because I am so super excited to announce that I was invited to be a guest DT member over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges for the month of July!  This is a wonderful website focusing on the use of CTMH products that posts a new challenge each Monday. 

This week we were given an inspiration photo to create with:

I absolutely loved the crispiness of this photo and all the white...eventhough I am often afraid of white space on my layouts!  I decided to create a layout using the white, grey, pink and pop of green (although I went more with a shade of blue).

For this layout I used (all products CTMH unless indicated):

cardstock:  White Daisy, Grey Wool, Ocean (retired)

patterned paper:  Hello Luscious (Basic Grey)

ink:  black, ocean (retired)

stamps:  Today's Date (retired)

accessories:  Bliss Level 2 Assortment, Designer Ribbon Pink Collection, button
the title was cut using my Silhouette

I have been on a roll scrapping older pictures of my kiddos lately.  I decided to stop trying to catch up and just scrap what inspires me at the time...the result tons of layouts I love!

Thanks for stopping by!  I will be back later in the month with another challenge to share. Be sure to check out what the DT members created using the inspiration picture by stopping by the H2H blog.    And don't forget to play along with the challenge and link up your creation from the inspiration photo for a chance to win a great prize (all the details are on the H2H blog).