Pile it On - Welcome 2010

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This week I had the great good fortune to be asked to join the Pile It On Challenge Blog design team and I'm excited to pariticipate in my first challenge with the team. It's a weekly challenge, but the DT is split into two teams and each team does a challenge every other Sunday. I'm starting this week and the challenge is Welcome 2010. That didn't really excite me at first. I'm so over New Year's and thought most of the New Year's challenges have run their course and thus wouldn't find many challenges to join. And I've never been into sending New Year's cards so I just wasn't red hot about the theme. But I decided to make the best of it and dove in wholeheartedly. And I'm glad I did because I am really thrilled with the way this card came out. An you know what? Now I'm sold on New Year's cards - LOL. It was fun!

I think it's the color combo that really makes the card. Charisma Cardz has a color challenge - pink, brown, cream and toffee that I thought matched up great with the vintage image I selected. I started with the image and this beautiful DP Bella Birds from SU. I thought it looked great with silver accents and found a challenge calling for metal. There were several other challenges calling for bling or glitter - hey, that's not a hardship, right? I didn't have any flowers the right color so I made my own out of the same sheet of DP so they all match. So what do you think of this one?

I hope you will stop by Pile It On this week to see what they rest of the DT girls have going on. And while you are at it, grab some other challenges and Pile It On!!

Card Receipe

Stamps/Images: Clock from SU's It's About Time, calendar from Designer Digitals, vintage image from Shabby Chic Papirskatter

Paper: SU Bella Birds, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel

Ink: Versamark, Close to Cocoa, some images printed on printer

Accessories: Spellbinder Fancy Tags and Circles dies, Martha Stewart border bunch, Creative Memories heart maker to make flowers, Silver EP, chunky glitter from Jo-An's, silver bead caps, clear rhinestones, silver cord, pinking shears, sewing machine, Cuttlebug

Challenges Piled On

• Incy Wincy - Bling it Up
• Kitchen Sink - A Stitch in Time
• Papertake Weekly - New Beginnings
• TCP Tuesday - Glitter
• ABC Challenge - L is for Layering
• Belli Challenge #82 - Glitter or rhinestones
• Your Next Stamp #7 - Embossing
• Charisma Cardz Challenge #1 - Color combo - pink, brown, cream, toffee
• Cute Card Thursday - New Beginnings
• PaperPlay Challenges Week #1 - Precious Metals
• Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog #5 - New Beginnings, New Inspirations
• If The Shoe Fits #17 - Chipboard
• Flutter By Wednesdays - New with butterflies, fairies or angels
• Stampin' for the Weekend - New Beginnings
• Corrosive - Distressing
• Just Us Girls - Add stitching to your project
• Fussy and Fancy - New