World Card Making Day (or Weekend)

Yesterday was officially World Card Making Day.  I was completely unaware of this, though I did have plans to play in the nearly completely unpacked and organized art room, until My Favorite Things Challenge 1 hit my inbox.  Their first challenge was to include a rainbow in some form or fashion and while the interpretation was open I went really straight forward.  My rainbow:

This rainbow die and the clouds were the very first dies I ever bought from MFT.  I remember searching for a rainbow die like this for what seemed like forever for a rainbow themed birthday invitation.  

The second challenge from MFT was to make a card using only die cuts.  Honestly, I'm not sure I have ever done this, but I do have a Blueprint set or two in my tool box so it was super easy.  Many thanks to MFT for having this particular freebie with $60 at some point.  

MFT's third challenge of the day was to use a number.  I still don't have a lot of their stamps so I felt pretty limited in my choices with this one, but as I had already colored the jolly fellow it made sense to use him.

The final challenge was to get a card in the mail.  This was the kick in the butt I needed to finally make this card that that had been floating in my head.  I dear friend of mine is a big animal vet who has just moved to a new location much closer to farm land than where she had been.  She loves cows and we have a gift waiting to be mailed because we needed the card.  So here is the card that will finally get this on its way.

The inside of this "z" card has a sheep and some trees too.  My oldest got super excited when I opened the card to show it off so it must be a winner.  

And since I was on a roll, I also finished up a card for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday this week.  

My butterflies are my fake epoxy embellishments as you may be able to tell from the shine.  

Thanks for looking!  I hope you found time to play this weekend too. 

Amanda