I'm on a roll for doubling up challenges. I really hope that the challenges I'm doubling up on aren't mad at me for doing so. I don't know if there's a faux pau thing about combining challenges or not. I did go by one challenge blog and it specifically requested that cardmakers did NOT combine challenges and that kinda turned me off at bit so needless to say, I didn't add them to my favorites. Anyways today's doubling includes 365 Cards "Leaf it up to me" challenge to include a leaf or two on my card and Card Patterns Sketch 12. Now I started off trying to use scalloped circles but then realized after I cut up all my base that the scalloped circles are too big!!! I wonder if anyone else had the same problem... Or maybe they just have more supplies can were able to make smaller scalloped circles! Anyways I changed them over to squares and for some reason I had a scalloped edge strip in my mind when I kept looking back at the sketch. It was never there but in my mind, it totally was!! All the scalloped-ness is throwing me off my game! Anyways, the stamp set that includes some leafy-ness is Pocket Silouettes and the sentiment on the front is from Happiness Always. Both sets are from Stampin' Up. The inside sentiment is from Hero Arts. Hope you enjoy!
So those two were my recycled items. I just covered the tag with some patterned paper from K&Company and got to use my Basic Grey Precision File Set. I LOVE it!! Works way way better than a regular nail file. You can't really see the sentiment in the picture but it's from SU's Elegant Cheer. The white also has a clear embossed background that you absolutely cannot see in the picture.
Let me know what you think. Too tacky of a card??? I have no idea why but I actually cut slits in the Riding Hood Red and slid the Whisper White in. You totally can't tell and it was extra work so I'm not really sure why I did it. Then I felt the need to add something to the red strip but I already glued it down so the only thing I could think of was sparkly bling or 1/2 pearls. I figured the sparkly bling might make it more tacky than it already is! And those flowers were actually watercolored this time rather than blender pen'ed and let me tell you. Cutting those babies out on 140lb paper is TOUGH. Anyways time for bed!! 
Boy it's once again, REALLY late!!! I was really hoping to get into bed by 11:00 but as I was about to post quickly, Jamie went and played around with the internet connection and we lost it for a good while. Now this will be a quick post because I know Arlie is going to scold me for not getting into bed early!! I'm 8 for 8 so far on the 365 Card challenges!! Today's (well technically yesterday) challenge is 
Their comments have been awesome and I haven't made a card every single day for a week straight EVER! Hopefully I can keep going because I'm really loving it! But as I mentioned earlier, I'm exhausted so off to bed I go! 
Today's (well really yesterday's but it took me way longer than I thought to make the darn thing) challenge was to score a pattern and there are some amazing cards done on their blog. I wanted to do a card by just scoring a framed border. I really wanted to have better sentiment but realized that I don't make birthday cards very often. You can't tell from the picture but the sentiment is embossed with Basic Gray and Iridescent Ice from SU.
I'm not sure if anyone would notice but I colored the cup and pill red and blue to do a play on the "red pill blue pill" scenario that is super cliche! I also got to use my newest favorite DSP A Walk In The Park from SU. That's enough writing though, I gotta get me some sleep!! TGIF!! 
I combined it with the 
I'm super impressed with myself!! I've been 3 for 3 so far since I started making cards for 
My oh my, I thought I was a night owl but the team at 
first 365 Card creation, I am very excited that I found a blog that has a different challenge EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! Where they come up with ideas, I have no clue but I definitely find this blog different than many of the others. The main difference for myself is most challenge blogs host a challenge once a week or once every other week. This gives procrastinators like myself a load of time to push it back and keep pushing until the time limit is up and Mister Linky is closed. The difference with 365 Cards is I don't have slack time to play around with!! If I don't muster up a card for that days challenge, I'll fall behind because there'll be a new one up the very next day!! And in this case, within the next 12 hours or so!! I feel like I'm in school where I can't miss a day because I'll fall behind and never be able to catch up! So that's why I'm up till the wee hours of 1 am just so I could finish my money holder! If you can't actually read what the sentiment says, here it is. The front says "
