Final Day of the 10 Day Challenge

This challenge was a lot of fun. It is called the 10-10-10 Challenge. List 10 cards over 10 days and offer 10% in your Etsy Shop. I enjoyed pushing myself to list something everyday while getting to meet and promote some of my other EtsyGreetings Team members.

Yesterday I featured four of the other participants of our little group and today I'd like to highlight another four.

1 Card Creator has designed this beautiful butterfly card. The card has so much beautiful detail - and at 10% off what a steal!




Jemily's Shop has this cute It's A Boy card - just perfect to announce a new member of the family.

For my final listing during this challenge I've chosen this "You're Sweet" Card





Lavender Greetings listed this glittery Happy Birthday card. These are great colors together and the prima flowers pick up the colors nicely.



Mini Cards are always a nice way to send a little greeting and The Paper Flower Shop has this cute set of 6. The perfect little card to tuck into a gift bag or lunch box.



For my final listing in this challenge I have chosen this "You're Sweet" Card.

Day 9 of the 10 Day Challenge

With only two days left of the 10 Day Challenge that I am participating in - I have decided to highlight 4 of my fellow participants.

The first is Pinky Creations. I've chosen these cute elephant tags. They are so bright and cheerful with just the right touch of bling. You get 8 and they each measure 2.5". The back is white for your message.



L7Designs has designed this beautiful sympathy card. This card is simple, yet says everything you need it to. The inside is blank for your special thoughts.



Crickleberry Cottage has just added this pretty autumn themed card to her shop. It's a nice 5 x 7 size and blank inside with plenty of room to let someone know how your summer went!




And AJK Artistry has this striking Black flowers card. The card measures 4.5 x 5.75": and is blank inside for your message. Very pretty!

10 Day Challenge - Day 8

Due to some internet problems due to storms in our area I am a day late posting about Day 8 of the Challenge since today is Day 9 already! I be doing day nine a little later today.


On Day 8 of our Challenge I present to you the work of AJKArtistry. I love this detailed Chapel Card perfect for so many occasions. As part of this 10 day challenge Allison is offering 10% off making this card only $3.60!




For the 8th day of the Challenge I have designed and listed this sweet "It's a Girl" card. Some of the little details include silver dots around the sentiment, the pink flower brad and little sparkle stickers on the edges of the moon. This set of 6 cards is available in my Etsy Shop. The normal price would be $10.00, but with the 10% off for this challenge get them now for only $9.00.





Take a look at all the shops listed on the sidebar who are participating in the 10 Day Challenge for some great cards - see individual shop announcement for their 10% off specials.

It's Day 7!

For Day 7 I am featuring the work of Carrie from L7 Designs. If you're looking for a bright, happy card - here it is! A hand cut big yellow sun with an adorable little owl and bird pop off the card. Embossed in red is "helloo!" in fun "doodle" letter stamps. To the left is a strip of red ribbon tied in a knot. The flowers up in the corner have also been hand cut. Head over to Carrie's shop ... L7Designs to see her other fun cards and her blog to read more about the 10 Day Challenge.




I've so much got babies on my mind while I await the birth of my first grandchild in August, that I made these cards last night. The gender of my grandchild is yet unknown - so today I made "It's A Boy" cards and later I'll be working on "Girl" cards.

These are the cards I've listed in my Etsy store today for Day 7 of the 10 Day Challenge. The card is cream cardstock layered with pretty striped decorative paper. The cute baby rattle has been hand stamped and colored. The sentiment "It's A Boy" has been punched with a tag punch and accented with a ribbon at the top. The are blank inside making them versatile to use as announcements or thank you's.

Day 6 of the Ten Day Challenge

On Day 6 I would like to share with you the work of Shelia from The Paper Flower Shop

I love, love, love the colors in this card. They are so bright and cheerful. What a nice sentiment too - Celebrate You! While this card is blank inside, if you see a sentiment on another card Shelia will stamp the inside of this card for you. Please take a look at The Paper Flower Shop



This is the card that I have relisted today in my NYPapercrafter shop. The whimsical flower is rubber stamped on white and mounted onto a piece of scalloped blue cardstock. All items in my shop are 10% off during this challenge.

Day 5 - Ten Day Challenge

I'm a little late today with my blogging and listing for the Challenge. It's been a day of adjustments.....happy ones though! Three years ago, after retiring from his 36 year military career my husband started a small consulting company and for the most part has been working out of state commuting home on week-ends. He has decided to scale back and will be working more from home and doing less traveling so today was his first full day home during the week!

So, among other adjustments I find that I have to "share" computer time! He does have a laptop which I know will come in handy.

Enough of my excuses (LOL) back the the challenge.

Today I am featuring the lovely work of Laurie of Jemily. My favorite pallet of colors are earthtones so I was drawn to this card set right away. I love the mustard color and rust and blues in this card. These custom order monogrammed cards would make a great gift. This set has 5 cards each measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/4". Laurie uses rubber stamps on each item in her shop. Please take a look at her shop Jemily and her blog.




Going along with the earthtone theme of Jemily's cards I have listed - or relisted - a Just A Note Card featuring a scarecrow and pumpkins. The pumpkins are diecuts and I've inked the edges. The scarecrow has been dry embossed and chalks used to highlight the raised areas.

Day 4 - 10-Day Challenge

The card I listed for the Challenge today is this bright and shimmery pattern card. I've cut out one of the designs from the background paper and added it along the coordinating paper for some dimension.

This card is available in my NYPapercrafter Etsy Shop




Today I am featuring Lavender Greetings' lovely set of 3 cards. I like the bold red with the flowered background paper. Please take a look at her shop for other great cards and paper items.

Day 3 - 10-10-10 Challenge

It's already Day 3 of the 10-10-10 Challenge. See the sidebar for the other EtsyGreetings Etsy Shops that are participating.

You can definetely tell the "mood" I'm in while making my cards. The first two cards that I listed for this challenge were done in browns, greens, cream and aqua. My thoughts while making these cards ran to nature and a bit nostalgic. After what seemed like weeks of rain I had been able to get outside and garden which means mostly weeding at that point! Maybe that's where the flowers came into my head for those cards.

When I made the card that I've listed today the sun had been shining for several days, I was in a happy mood just being able to be and enjoy outside and I think that shows in my card. I hope you feel happy and sunny when you look at it!



Today I am featuring Diane at 1 Card Creator . This card is just so cute. From the background to the coloring of those cute little fish you can tell all the work that she put into it.

Day 2 - 10/10/10 Challenge

Today is Day 2 of the Challenge and I've listed this card below. The flower has been stamped and layered onto a thin piece of cork scrapbook paper. During this challenge everything in my shop is 10% off!




Lisa of Pinky Creations has these beautiful baby shower invitations in her shop. These are just so pretty and feminine. I love them! Check out her shop for other great cards, tags and great stickers!

Day 1 - 10/10/10 July Challenge

Ten cardmakers from The EtsyGreetings team have gotten together to participate in a 10/10/10 Challenge. We will list a card every day for 10 days - for a total of 10 cards. Each participant will also offer a 10% discount in some way in their shop. See their shop announcements for details. The Etsy Shops that are participating are listed on the sidebar. Each day we are to blog about the card that we've listed and also feature a card from one of the other participants.

This is the card that I've listed today in my Etsy Shop. I really like the sentiment on the front.



I have chosen this cute card to feature from Wendy at Crickleberry Cottage My favorite flowers are daisy's so this caught my eye right away along with it's bright summery colors. Take the time to look around Wendy's shop for this card and many others.

While Waiting For Creativity

As I mentioned in my last post, when I hit a creativity block I sometimes make embellishments to use at a later time. Here are a few of the things I have "waiting in the wings".

I Found Some Creativity!

I've been finding it hard to get myself motivated lately. Maybe it's all the rain - maybe it's trying to fit everything into one day. Whatever the reason, I did see a glimmer of creativity when I came up with these four cards recently.

The first, a patriotic card, had great inspiration really. . . our great country. With July 4th coming I put this card together to send to a friend.

I needed a birthday card with a more masculine theme. I looked through my stamps and when I saw the sailboat thought of my father-in-law. He loved boats and sailing. Though not for him, but using him for inspiration, I came up with this card.

I was able to find this pretty gingham green ribbon at a great deal. I liked the contrast of the pretty and feminine flower and "birthday wishes" stamp with the country look of the ribbon.

Sometimes, when I have no inspiration, I make embellishments. Later I'll look through them along with what paper I have available and something comes to mind. That's how the card below was made. Layers of punched cardstock accented with a tiny button make up the flower accent. The last punched rust layer is actually a snowflake punch.

Thanks for taking a look at my work - I'd love to think that some of it has inspired YOU in some way.

Starting off July, I was happy to be nominated for the Craft Diva Award by Jan at Expressive Papers. Her Artfire and Etsy shops show off her beautiful and "expressive" talent!

When you are nominated you are, in turn, asked to pass this award on to others. So, here are the blogs that I would like to nominate for The Craft Diva Award. I hope that you will take a look at and enjoy reading their blogs.

AdoreByNat

Katydiddys

Modern Card

Artful Whimseys

Life With Terri

Take a look at Craft Diva @ http://craftdiva.ning.com. It's a free networking site, where you can get to know and share information and ideas with other crafters.