This week’s dare is to create something Simple AND Elegant, all in one… this one should be fairly easy, but sometimes I think that when we want something elegant we go all out and spend a ton of time on our cards, forgetting that simplicity can also be elegant. I hope you will join me in this challenge and that you end up with a lovely card that will truly bless someone in your life!

Here are my cards and oh how I love elegance and simplicity all rolled into one! Today was a rough day for me at work, so when I got home my handsome hubby encouraged me to scrap :) I love him so much for this! I decided that I wanted to play with a Close To My Heart stamp set that I purchased in August and never even used yet! This set is called Childhood Portrait and includes six precious silhouettes. I also decided to use two of my new favorites from Papertrey Ink… Fancy Flourishes and Vintage Labels. Both of these sets are very elegant to me and I just had to have them as soon as I saw them! They will be very versatile for some time to come.

As for the cards, I really just wanted something simplistic, no words and just pretty. I paired up the CTMH Sorbet cardstock with PTI’s In Bloom paper in Berry Sorbet… they work very well together! I used this week’s 2 Sketches 4 You sketch (even the second card is a variation of the sketch, just turned to the side and the center is not so centered). They also qualify for the challenge over at Whimsy Stamp Challenges where they challenged us to use a girl or boy theme and at Timeless Tuesday Challenge where the challenge is to create card for a woman in your life with pink as the main color AND over at 3 Clovers Designs another challenge to use Pink…. PERFECT!

Thank you so much for visiting and hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week!