Living in Paradise: 365 Cards - Day 86 & D2D Challenge Reminder

Aloha and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday with 365 Cards and Designed2Delight!

Up first is my creation for today's "prompt word" inspiration challenge at 365 Cards, which is "steam." I immediately thought of vellum and swirls so that's where I went with this one! I love this Cafe Lucy image from Sparkle Creations...she was so much fun to color with my Copics! I finished the inside on this one and wanted to show you how I made the flaps..so here's a picture of that...

Here's the other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. Bearly Mine Challenges - diecuts and lace: I'm counting my doily as my lace and the vellum circles were cut out with nesties.
2. CardPatterns - sketch
3. Colour Create Challenge Blog - white, cream, and brown; plus optional extras of one other color (pink for me!) and flowers and buttons...got a bit of all of it on here!
4. Fairy Fun Friday - more than one fold
5. Crazy 4 Challenges - humor to the world: my sentiment cracks me up!
6. Cute Card Thursday - let's get krafty: my card base is kraft (crumb cake)
7. I Did it Creations Challenge - anything goes
8. Digi’s with attitude! Challenge #27 - use brown, beige, and one other color
9. My Partner in Crafting Crime - twine, jute, or string
10. Paper Sundaes - pop it up: my image is popped up on the doily

Next up is my creation for this week's Saturday DT challenge at Delightful Inspirations/D2D, which is White + one other color (the image can be colored). I went CAS (clean and simple) with this one and gotta say I love how it turned out!

I colored this image ("Hope" from the Hope and Dream set) with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS. Did some fun embossing and used my super cool new bow tie-er that my dad made or me! FABULOUS! Thanks Pops (and Mom for giving him the idea!)!! Also I got the sentiment idea from the image set, but I reworked it in Word with a different font and size to get it in a circle. Here's the other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. 2 Sisters Challenge Blog - digital stamp
2. Alphabet Challenge Blog - C for CAS
3. clean&simple - sketch
4. Craft Your Days Away Challenge - White + one
5. Crafty Cardmakers - embossing *10*
6. Digi Doodle Shop's Best - embossing
7. Digital Tuesday Challenge - texture+digi
8. Do you Stack up - celery, white, and sea glass: I used these colors in coloring the image
9. If The Shoe fits... Scrap It! - CAS
10. Totally Gorjuss - water or anything wet

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful week and fun and safe holiday weekend!!
Aloha,

26 comments:

Sudha said...: Wow adorable creations.; May 24, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Sylvia said...: What a beautiful creation. Fabulous design and
lovley use of our colours:-))
Thanks for joining in with us over at Colour Create.
Sylvia; May 24, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Janna Werner said...: Hi Kim! Thanks so much for sharing your celery-white-sea glass blue creativity with us at DYSU Challenge Blog this week :) Janna; May 24, 2011 at 11:26 PM
STAMPING SAM said...: Whoa! What a great day to wake up to 2 of the most gorgeous cards on the planet! I'm not just saying that because I'm your mother - I'm saying it coz they are simply stunning!

Of course I love the first card - coffee is my thing ya know! And it so looks like me at 3:30 in the morning when I can't sleep - well - the cup of coffee fits in, but not that beautiful lady that you have magnificantly colored with your new copics :)

And you CAS card is so serene and peaceful. Now if the hair was blond it could be you in the paradise that you live in. My favorite color combo and again your coloring is so stunning. WOW!

Guess I better drag myself away and get ready for a day of work
(1.5 days BTW!) You have a great day too! Love, SAM aka MOM; May 25, 2011 at 12:24 AM
WencheP said...: Fabulous card, thank you for joining us at Do You Stack Up.

-Wenche; May 25, 2011 at 1:42 AM
ahlers5 said...: This is really beautiful. Love the color combo and the embossing. Thanks for joining us at DDSB.
Diane; May 25, 2011 at 1:52 AM
Miranda said...: gorgeous card Kim, love them both
thanks for joining DYSU challenge again this week
hugs
Miranda; May 25, 2011 at 5:14 AM
Doreen said...: Two gorgeous creations.Thanks for sharing with us at Bearly Mine.xxx; May 25, 2011 at 8:21 AM
dstandard said...: Kim both your cards are gorgeous - what embossing folder is that? I'm a Core'dinations girl and when you speak embossing you have my attention (especially if you have something I don't - lol!); May 25, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Judie said...: Kim,
Your cards are wonderful, such great colors. and the embossing sets it off. Happy crafting
Hugs,
Judie; May 25, 2011 at 4:09 PM
*Alison* said...: This is such a beautiful card.. Congrats on winning over at DYSU.. this card is AMAZING.. anyone would LOVE to have this.. :) Can't wait to see what you create next week.. HUGS

Alison
DYSU Owner; May 25, 2011 at 4:54 PM
KraftyKoolKat said...: Gorgeous. Thank you for joining us at DDSB and CYDA this week.

Hugs
Cathy
xxxxx; May 25, 2011 at 11:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Beautiful card.

Thanks for joining us at AC an CYDA.

Huggies Angel; May 26, 2011 at 3:05 AM
Tiny Paper Blossom said...: Love ALL your cards! The steam one is divine and so creative. Thanks for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge Blog.; May 26, 2011 at 5:37 AM
Unknown said...: A wonderful White +1 card Kim, love the image.

Thanks for joining us at CYDA.

Hugs

Joanne xxx; May 26, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Cor* said...: Well done with the circles and semicircles on the first card there! Great job! Thanks for showing off all your fantastic creation folds at FFF this week!; May 26, 2011 at 4:22 PM
Margreet said...: beautiful card Kim....lovely details....thanks for joing FFF's challenge More than one fold....your other card is fab too!
xxx Margreet; May 27, 2011 at 4:01 AM
Lesley said...: 2 lovely cards! Thanks for taking part in the CYDA and Alphabet challenges xx; May 27, 2011 at 4:31 AM
Lisa M. (aka. Lisa @ Farm Fresh) said...: Both of these cards are just amazing! Gorgeous! i really love the first one though. It's my cup of tea! ;)

Thank you for joining us at Paper Sundaes!
♥ Lisa M. PSDT; May 27, 2011 at 7:31 AM
Shelley said...: Wow these both look amazing. Thanks for joining in the Craft Your Days Away Challenge. Hugs Shelley xx; May 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Annette said...: Two wonderful cards here, love them both. Annette xx (2 Sisters DT); May 27, 2011 at 10:12 PM
Faye said...: Oh what a fab card. I love your Pop it Up element. Thanks for playing at Paper Sundaes this week. x; May 28, 2011 at 1:02 AM
NinaB said...: Gorgeous coloring. I'm glad you got to play with Card Patterns this week.; May 28, 2011 at 1:05 AM
Robin said...: Thanks so much for playing in My Partner in Crafting Crime's twine, jute or string challenge! Robin; May 28, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Bella´s Bastelecke said...: Beautiful cards...such cute images...thanks for joining us at Bearly Mine ……..
Hugs Judith; May 28, 2011 at 10:03 PM
BrossArtAddiction said...: Amazing cards! Love the fold you used on the first one and the shape! Great job!

Thanks for joining us at PFD for the "More Than One Fold" challenge and good luck! :D

Hugz,
xx Tracey xx; May 31, 2011 at 9:26 AM