Card Challenges: no stamps and shapes

Card Challenge: No Stamps

This weeks challenge was to create a card without using stamps. Wow this was harder than I thought it would be! The sentiments I printed off with my printer. I really need to do that more! I usually limit myself with just the sentiments that I have in my stamp collection, but printing them opens things up to unlimited possibilities! I'm making it my personal goal to use my printer more! 

To make the pinwheel on this card I used the small pinwheel die from Lil inker designs, in my big shot. I also used Echo park paper for this card.

Card Challenge: Shaped Cards

This weeks challenge was to do a shape card. The only rule is that it couldn't be a square or rectangle. For this card I used the shape Hexagonal geometric background, Shape #19760, in the silhouette store.  

I colored some of the cells with markers and then used an embossing pen and clear embossing powder to make it shiny and more like honey. I also clear embossed the bees' wings.

The inside is embossed with a darice embossing folder border and the sentiment is a old retired stamp from stampin up

Pardon the wonky colors on this one! I took a phone pic on my bathroom vanity table before I left the house to deliver it, and the lighting seems to be kinda weird in there for photos. lol! I used "fish in bowl, # 38438" for the bowl, and "fish in bowl, #39243" both in the silhoutte store. I glued cute little googly eyes on the the little fishy :) I had chosen the sentiment "best fishes" for this card.