I am participating in lots of swaps on Split Coast Stampers. It's fun to create using a theme or common element and see the variety of things that other people can do. I am working to get all of the swaps that I have committed to finished as soon as I can so I can concentrate on the projects that I need to do for a gathering that Ina and I are going to in October in Rochester NY.
The first set of cards are for a My Favorite Things swap. We had to use images and/or products from MFT. The Christmas card used a Who's That Girl image from the "Santa Baby" set and two Pure Innocence images. I am going to have to get some more of the PIs...they are totally adorable!
The next set of cards are for a monochrome swap. The challenge was to create a card or cards using one color. I found that the blue one was easy, I based it on a card that I made at Margaret's open house a couple of weeks ago. I discovered that working with green and yellow is a bit more of a challenge, but I think I did alright. :) I don't normally work with yellow, so I considered it an additional challenge to my creativity.
The final image is for a ribbon flower swap. The cards had to have some sort of ribbon flower on them somewhere. I was quite pleased with my results. I love the Petals A Plenty folder and was so thrilled when I won it as a door prize at the Buffalo gathering I went to with Ina in the spring.
Let me know what you all think!
The next two are from a Bundle of Cards swap. I did a Christmas card for the first group and a Thanksgiving card for the second. The image of the Christmas card is from Lovely as a Tree from SU! To me it is the "go to" set that can be used for any and all occasions. I wanted to catch the feel of a winter's night with the moon bleaching out all the color down to shadows and the glitter of the light off the snow. 
