Black and White CAS and NASCAR with Destinations

Today I am sharing with you my last two Tea Party cards. This first is for today's challenge which involved BLACK and WHITE.....my fav combo!!!

I was thrilled to particpate this week as the recipients of this card are Traci's parents.  Her mom suffers from MS and her dad just had knee replacement surgery, so both are residing in a rehabilitation/senior center at the moment.  Traci recently visited them, but thought cards from the Tea Partiers would brighten their life now that she has crossed the mountains and gone home.  Traci was my hostess with the mostest when I visited Colorado in May of 2009, along with a couple other stampers AND Mothermark too!!!  What a fabulous time we had in Steamboat Springs!!!!

To create this card, no stamps were 'harmed' (or used, other than a Penny Black 'hugs' sentiment).  Instead I finally used this fabulous extra long Spellbinder's border die that I purchased a long time ago.  My original intentions for this die was to add various colors to the embossed areas, but for this card the pure white was perfect.  I then added some random pearls on the embossed vine and also some larger pearls to the upper left.  I heat embossed the sentiment.

I LOVE the results....a truly dramatic CAS card.....what do you think?????

Now the next card was last week's Tea Party card.......

We were making cards for Charlene's stepson, Jesse, who is suffering the results of an unexpected and vicious dog bite near his eye.  Jess happens to be a NASCAR fan, so that was our theme for the week.  However, there is a hole in my collection.....I do not have anything NASCAR related in my collection......not even after visiting my very first Hobby Lobby in North Carolina......which actually had a big race going on that very day near Charlotte.  So I went at it with a sense of humor and figured even Dale Earnhardt probably started with a play car.......the sentiment was computer generated as was the checkered bkgd.

Thanks for stopping in today.  If you have a chance, join us at the Tea Party each Tuesday.....a good time is had by all AND we do make a difference in the lives of our card reciipients.  That is one of the joys in my retired life....to try to bring joy to others, both near and far.

Stampin B's and CCEE Challenges

Stampin B's #75
Hostess -- Lois
Challenge -- A color challenge of blue, green and pink

How could this image and sentiment not give you a smile??? This is a digital image from Bugaboo Stamps. I think you can pretty much see what I did. I used border punches, did some piercing, dry embossing, and colored with Copics. A rather simple card, but it just makes me smile.


Lois was our hostess and she picked the great color combo of blue, green, and pink. They are some of my favs, so that was easy enough. Now....let's see what YOU can do!!!!  Visit the Stampin B's Blog for details AND to see the fab creations of the rest of the team.

This card was also entered into Papercraft Star Challenge which was an inspiration photo -- with coffee!!!

CCEE Challenge -- CCEE1036
Hostess -- Frances
Challenge -- Teddy Bears

Frances was our CCEE hostess this week.  She challenged us to use our teddy bear stamps.  Even though I have been a teddy bear fan my whole life, I do not have too many stamps with that image.  However, this on is my fav....it is an old retired "Button Bear" from SU.  Isn't he just darling???  The sentiment was taken from another set....I think it was a Penny Black acrylic set.

Now this is going to be one cute and cuddly gallery, so head over to the CCEE Blog for some dazzling cuteness.

Remember -- both of these fabulous teams would love for you to play right along with us.  Just go to the team blogs for information.  We really do all play well with others!!!