Flashback Friday 20.0! Black and White Cards!

They are celebrating big time over at

Flashback Friday Challenge!

The prizes are big and the fun is huge!  This week, the challenge is to find and enter your first black and white card! WOW, I realized halfway through my old posts that I didn't get up the nerve to make and post a card that was primarily all black and white until late 2010! 

This one I made for a male freind who's birthday is September 18th!

You can bet I will never miss that birthday again!

I still have to say that I like the simple monochrome colors. (or lack thereof)

Do yourself a favor and checkout the challenge!

I have yet to win anything, but it's just too much fun!

It is so eye-opening to go through your old projects and see again what you were doing then verses what you are doing now! 

Some cards, I just shake my head; others like this one, I still like.



Flashback Friday's - It's a Banner Day!

This week, the challenge at Flashback Friday's is to post your old first "banner" project. Well, like everyone else, I jumped on the banner bandwagon about two years ago. But before I started using the typical triangle and various shaped paper flags, I found this Christmas card that I had made using the ornaments as my "banner" hanging from a gold chain.  I still look back on it and think it was pretty nice...

Christmas 2009

 Since it IS the holiday season once again, I figured this old project would fit in nicely with the challenge.
I know you've heard me say it before, but really...these challenges are so much fun! Every time I go back into my archives of old cards and projects, I find myself laughing and sometimes crying over the memories they bring back.  Join in the fun and you will not regret it!