Welcome to CAS-ual Friday!

At CAS-ual Friday this week the challenge is to mix black with pastels.

I'm finding that keeping my cards clean and simple is a GOOD challenge for me.  I need to SIMPLIFY!

Thanks for visiting and here is my card below:

Paper from Recollections & K & Company; stamps from Hero Arts; I honestly can't remember where I got the shaped 'billboard'...

Play Date Cafe!

 The Play Date Cafe Thursday Challenge



I wanted to make a cheerful card for this challenge.  I also love to mix those patterns!! Sometimes I think I go overboard!  Here's my card:

The flowers are from Prima, stamps are Hero Arts, inks: Staz On & Distress Linen, some papers are from Stamping Up &  Recollections; pearls are from Recollections; ribbon & pin from Dollar Tree.  I used my Cricut to make the bird and flourish. Thanks for visiting!

Play Date Cafe!

 This is my card entry for this week's Play Date Cafe Card Challenge.  I needed a card for my young nephew and thought these colors would be perfect for a "boy" card... Although I worked on it for quite a while, it's still not what I had envisioned. I might make another one...

I'm getting my feet wet at the Play Date Cafe and CAS-ual Fridays and entering a card in their weekly challenges.  I've never participated in any challenge before, but I LOVE the color palette from the Play Date Cafe this week of charcoal, ash & butter. Plus, "Hope" took center stage which is perfect for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge of making the sentiment the focus of a card. Thanks for looking.

I know I have a long way to go, but it was fun anyway!

I made this for the card challenge at CAS-ual Friday, but I'm afraid it isn't good enough for the competition.  All that creativitiy is daunting and humbling.