My 10 Favorites of 2009

Last year I had fun taking a walk down memory lane and picking my 10 favorite cards of the year ... so much fun, I thought I'd do it again this year (in chronological order).

1 - This Think Happy Thoughts card won the Sketch Challenge to celebrate the 100th Sketch at CPS and was subsequently published in CardMaker Magazine.

2 - This krafty creation was for the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese challenge with the 'Varks crew.  I was thrilled when it won third place in the Hero Arts Friendship Challenge.

3 - This card for the Caardvarks Critter Challenge featured a fabulous vintage illustration that was highlighted with Shimmerz glitter paint.  I continued to fall in love with using vintage book pages in my designs.

4 - This was another Caardvarks Challenge card.  I love the effect of the glimmer mist mask on the vintage text.

5 - I love the bold graphic statement of this card for Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #4.  The Hero Arts Bold Flourish was one of my favorite stamps of the year.

6 - While I didn't finish the challenge, I did enjoy the weeks I participated in Emily's 52Q Challenge.  I also enjoyed working on my digi-skills.

 7 - I loved the colors and dimension of this design for a Hero Arts challenge (note the Bold Flourish again) ... and fell in love with detail cutting this year.

8 - This card was for a SplitCoast Stampers Inspiration Challenge.  I love the combination of visual interest with a single layer design ... and I also love being able to host that Challenge each week to push my own creative boundaries.

 9 - I really loved how all of these colors from Dawn's Color Challenge worked together in this bold design.

10 - And although not the best photograph, this was my favorite holiday card of the year.  I loved the texture of the felt tree, blinged simplicity, and all-over glimmer.

Thanks for sharing this year with me ... I look forward to lots more creative fun in 2010. 

 

Comments

[~amy~]

love them all...such a fun post!

[Carly]

WOW! Fabulous top 10!!

[Pam Speidel]

AWESOME! I had missed some of these so glad you shared them again! GREAT idea and one I may have to use myself! Happy New Year Stef! :)

[Bev]

Thanks for showing the neat cards-some I hadn't seen. Thanks for having such an interesting blog and hosting the challenge although I don't get to play much.

Hope your 2010 is Wonderful.

[Bee]

I love the umbrella card it is so cute

[Nicole Maki]

Wow. Your cards are beautiful and I feel like I learned a little bit when I looked at each of them

I really liked Lars and the Real Girl too. The towns people were so generous to his needs. It was really touching.

[laurenb]

well to me the most amazing thing is that you could narrow down to JUST TEN favorites!!! having said that...you have hit BIG TIME on ones i especially adored last year!

(i may need the bold flourish stamp...just sayin...also MASKING AND SPRAYING on text paper...? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!! and ditto for vintage illustrations incorporated into cards!)