seventh heaven*

well, it is not without a certain sadness that i type the last post of CardMapsWeek. i will miss waking up each morning knowing i have a cool card to show, and an even cooler becky fleck sketch to unveil. and then i get to surf around to everyone's blogs and see what amazing creations they have made using the previous day's sketch.

but not to worry, i have a feeling we will be seeing ms. becky in the caardvarks' vicinity again before toooooo very much time has passed... that's just a feeling mind you. it's not like i know about something which i can't tell yet but i'm alluding mysteriously to it just to be obnoxious. because you know i would never do anything like that!!! (place diabolical laughter here)

and now... (place trumpetty fanfare noise here) ...the sketch for day seven:

and now...my card! (place rapturous applause here):

(dcwv patterned paper, creative imaginations scalloppy paper, sandylion stickers & sticky gems, making memories credit card tag, you can't see it on the scan, but i used a silvery sakura glitter pen to outline around the edges of the tree paper and around the scallops, so that there is a very soft shimmer of sparkle there...you know...so as not to distract from the very LOUD sparkle of the 30+ round & snowflake shaped rhinestones!!!)

even though we've concluded with the sketch challenges, you might like to check for a bit of news on the caardvarks' site over the weekend. you know...just in case there is something interesting to be revealed? oh yeah, and who can say if there won't even be another little challengey type event posting on monday, as well??

happy weekend, darlings!

*see, i told you that today i would be back to makin' with the excellent numerically punny titles! ...you did believe me...right?!

six

...just six...

today i am skipping over the title* in order to get right to the cool sketch:

and here is my card of which i am moderately proud...but in a humble sort of way, o'course:

(dcwv patterned paper, doodlebug cardstock, faux stitching & paper frill, making memories brads & plastic sticker, paper source puffy felt flowers, dmc embroidery floss)

of course by now you will have realized that the sketch is from becky fleck's new set of december CardMaps, and that design team have also made lovely cards which follow the same basic design, and that by checking out the comments sections of this week's caardvarks' posts you can follow links to see additional awesome cards from talented folks around the world. woohoo. so i think my work here is done.

ciao, darlings!

*this is not because i couldn't think of anything cool that revolved around the number six. nooooooo sirree bob! by golly when it comes to six-based puns i was SPOILT for choice,i tell ya. oh yes indeedy, i could have wowed you with any number of sixly hilariousnesses. i merely chose not to**

**just to be clear: by "chose not to" i mean, of course, "i could not think of anything immediately and couldn't be bothered to keep trying". yes, i am lame. but honest. (eventually.) also, children, pets and old people love me. (well, some of them do.) anyhow, just you wait until tomorrow!*** hoooooooooo doagie i will have some good titleage for ya then, by golly!

***probably.

ladies and gentlemen: the jackson five!

who, oddly enough, have not made any cool cards for day five of CardMaps Week. go figure. on the other hand, to the best of my knowledge, none of the caardvarks can moonwalk, so suppose that's fair enough. but now let us leave the precociously funky lads from gary, indiana, and instead feast our eyes on today's sketch:

and now shall we gaze upon the card i made for this challenge?

(basic grey rub-ons & patterned papers, sei velvet paper, k&co & sandylion stickers, colorbox ink)

oh and the other day when i said that becky fleck's fantastic website was devoted to cards instead of layouts for the month of december? turns out...i was only half right. in fact, the brand new CardMaps set is in addition to the regularly scheduled PageMaps. plus there are sketches made especially for half-sized pages, tags, round pages, & minibooks. so basically, it's a place well worth checking out whether you are a beginner or seasoned papercrafter.

which means that next time, jackson five, you have no excuse for not participating!

CardMaps Week: DAY FOUR!*

(*some days i am rockin' the snappy titles...other days...not so much)

(clearly, this was an "other" day)

:)

but snappily titled or not, in fact today *is* day four of CAARDVARKS' CardMaps week and we do happen to have yet another lovely sketch by becky fleck to inspire and amaze you!

(yet another lovely sketch by becky fleck to inspire and amaze you!)

once again the design team have whipped up some cardish goodness. here is mine:

(basic grey & daisy d's patterned paper, ki chipboard, best creation foil sticker, colorbox inks, misc. ribbon)

if you need more, check the comments on the caardvarks' posts to find links to more cards from the same sketches we've been using, or you could head over to PageMaps for more sketches!

(the PageMaps logo; in fact this didn't really need a caption, but as a matter of fact lori does look particularly cute in her reading glasses!)

in other news, i stumbled on some very disturbing photographs yesterday, and feel that as a responsible blogger i must point them out to you in order that you may take steps to avoid the horror i experienced. first, the esteemed and generally lovely monkee maker went mad yesterday and posted this. (not to worry the rspcka* are on the case!) then VC apparently decided to be a little more vicious and a little less chicken...and linked us to this.

just for the record, the snorting and sputtering noises i was making whilst i viewed these abominations were that of indignation and outrage, and absolutely not the sounds of helpless & paralysing hysterical laughter. honest.

(*royal society for the prevention of cruelty to knitted animals) (ps: hi lori! xoxo) :)

third time's the charm!

...now that's just WRONG...

because clearly the first two becky fleck sketches for CAARDVARKS' CardMaps Week were already pretty darn charming! ...but then again...this one is, as well:

and my card is not too shabby, i feel:

(basic grey patterened papers, doodlebug sparkly white glitter paper, hambly snowflake transparency...you can only *vaguely* see the glitteryness & the transparency in the pic, but trust me, irl, it looks goooood...sei fuzzy iron-on [ironed on to SCRAP i hasten to say...my heart has been broken by recalcitrant iron-ons too many times, my friends!] colorbox ink, dmc embroidery floss--clearly i am still in the grips of the "hand-sewing bug", eh?!)

...and certainly the design team's work is...as always...exemplary!

perhaps we should change the saying to "third time's ALSO the charm"? yeah, that's better. can someone call barlett's familiar quotations and let 'em know we've revised that??! :)

on the second day of CardMaps...

...the caardvarks sent to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

a sketch, actually, that looked very much like this one by becky fleck:

...and i made a card that looked very much like this one:

("merry merry merry" from an old xmas card, basic grey patterned paper & cardstock, making memories glittery letter stickers, colorbox ink)

...and we lived happily ever after!

(oh yeah...and in the meantime the design team all made cool cards, too...and then everyone waited to see what YOU would make!)

happy CardMaps week!!!

what??!

you don't celebrate CardMaps week by making a card using a unique and different becky fleck sketch each day??! ...how unusual... :)

ok, seriously, for the month of december, to help us get ready for the winter holiday of our choice, becky fleck's wonderful PageMaps sketch site features a whole brand new awesome set of CardMaps, and caardvarks will be spotlighting seven of those designs--one per day--over the course of the next week!!!

for example the first sketch looks like this:


and the card i made using the sketch looks like this:

(basic grey patterned paper; making memories flourish rub-ons, creative imaginations "peace" rub-on; jewelcraft gem; colorbox ink; feathers)

if you'd like to see what the rest of the caardvarks design team did with the same sketch, you can look here, and hopefully, as the day goes on, there will be lots of links in the comments section leading you to more lovely cards made by caardvarks from all around the world!