Love the color challenge today as these are some of my favorites along with the Sweet Sorbet Paper. Wanted to also use two need stamp sets so combined them with this sketch SC464 and today's color challenge CC489. I am also working on packing up my first box of 100 cards to be sent to Operation Write Home on Friday. The I Like You stamp is a little hard to see as it is also on the Pool Party Party under the Trust God stamp.

Keywords: CC489 SC464 I Like You Trust God

Stamps: I Like You, Trust God

Paper: Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Sweet Sorbet DSP

Ink: Pool Party, Calypso Coral

Accessories: 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Ruffled Calypso Coral Ribbon

Techniques: Sketch & Color Challenges

Thanks for taking the time to look and leave a comment if you will, they are always appreciated.

One More Today - Miss You

It is semester break day from our school district where I work; therefore, I have been able to play all day and make a few more cards. 4 more of these that use the Color challenge CC462 and also the Sketch SC472.The sketch fit very beautifully with the color challenge, which are two of my favorite challenges each week. There are so many out there to choose from and I always fall back to these when in doubt.

Paper: Blushing Bride, Primrose Petals and Wild Wasabi, 

Just Add Cake DSP and Patterns In Color 2012-14 Paper

Ink: Primrose Petals and Wild Wasabi

Stamps: Peaceful Petals, Hero Arts Miss You

Accessories: Primrose Petals 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon, 

Blender Pens and Stampin' Dimensionals, Oval Punch

Thanks for any and all comments, they are really appreciated by this Stampin' Up demonstrator.

FS340 Morning Meadow BD

The featured Stamper today was This weeks Featured Stamper is Ashjoy! Joyce aka Ashjoy has a wonderful gallery HERE with creations from cards, scrapbook pages to 3d creations. A little something for everyone. Congrats and enjoy your week!

I used her card: FEB10VSNE as my inspiration.  Changed the colors and the stamps but used the sketch idea. Had fun with this card and needed to follow this color challenge for a swap group. Joyce had used a stamp to make a background on the white piece so I used a sponge dauber and added color to my background.  

I made this card early this am but my scanner was not working and my dear hubby just fixed it 8 hours later after church, a church picnic and my moaning and groaning about my scanner printer all in one.

Stamps: Morning Meadow (hostess)

Paper: Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, Sycamore DSP (Sale-A-Bration), Bashful Blue DSP in Monochromatic

Ink: Calypso Coral, Marina Mist

Accessories: Flower Punch

Thank you for taking the time to look and leave comments or ask questions. I love what I do and appreciate feedback very much.

Bright Simply Soft & Cards for a Cause

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Getting a chance to play today as I have been running a fever with this stupid cold and tired of staying in bed. DH is at church and my kids will be here later today on their way to Seattle from Montana. 

 The above card is today's featured stamper. Here is the card I cased http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6465759251752564977#editor/target=post;postID=353782608203584889. I like her card a lot abut wanted to do it in the color challenge Bashful Raspberry Petals for my swap group. Not sure I like the card as it is rather bright. Also really hard to tell the raspberry ripply from the primrose petals. 

Stamps: Simply Soft (hostess), Elements of Style, Love Blossoms Wheel

Paper: Bashful Blue, Raspberry Ripple 

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals. RR stampin' write

Accessories - Raspberry Ripple Stitched Ribbon, Stripes EF, Stampin' around, 

The bottom card is one of 12 I made for St. Baldricks Foundation Cards for a Cause for the month of April. They will go in tomorrow's mail. I made 12 different cards 4 different color themes and using the 3 different semtiments from the stamp set.

Stamp: Upsy Daisy

Paper: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Riding Hood Red, DSP from the Festival of Prints Stack - other cards: DSP from the Print Poetry and Festival of Print Pack, Primrose Petals, Gumball Green, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Early Espresso.

Ink: Cherry Cobbler - other; Island Indigo, Early Espresso, Primrose Petals

Accessories; Cherry Cobbler Taffeta Ribbon - others; Early Espresso Taffeta, Gumball Green Stitched Robbin, & Early Espresso Square embossed looking.

Thanks for taking the time to look and leave any comments or questions. I do what I do because I love it.

Breezy Suede Plums for Sketch Frenzy Friday

I am so excited about the amount of cards I am getting done. I am supposed to be at the Oregon coast but my DH had a huge kidney stone remove a couple days ago and is not in the traveling mood. Oh well, I just hide out in my scrap room and work my fingers to the bone. I really should do some yard work but now it is raining. Darn, did I ever time that just right since it is supposed to rain the rest of this week. Oh Linda, Linda.

I will be sending this to my sister for Mother's day. She loves purple and also butterflies are in her house everywhere therefore; I think she will like this card very much. I also made one for my mother and a swap.

Used the color challenge #CC324 and Sketch Frenzy Friday 032913.

Stamps: Collage Curios (the butterfly), Amazing Family

Paper: Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Perfect Plum, Whisper White, Plum DSP, 

scraps of  some Soft Suede DSP out of an older Christmas package.

Inks: Perfect Plum, Soft Suede

Accessories: 2 1/2 ", 1" circles punches, 1 1/4", 7/8" Scallop Circle punches, 

Blossom Punch, 3/16" corner punch, Tulips Border EF, Bitty Butterfly punch, 

the smallest white pearls, dimensionals

Red & Saffron Party

This card is for the SCS Color Challenge - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2354179?&cat=24178 and the Sketch is Freshly Made Sketches - http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/. I am loving this new set that is a Spring Surprise Promotion for sale until May 30, 2013. I usually do not like little stamps but this one is just the most adorable.

Stamps: A Round Array

Ink: Real Red

Paper: Real Red, Pool Party, So Saffron, Whisper White

Accessories: 7/8" Scallop circle punch, Dimensionals, Stitched 1/4" White Ribbon, Lacy Brocade EF

Happy St. Patty's Day

For the Irish in me and for my latest little stamping group we  made this card and four other to me posted later

Keywords: SC374 CC364 It's a Wrap Holidays

Stamps: It's a Wrap Holidays

Paper: Garden Green CS, River Rock CS, Lucky Limeade DSP

Ink: Garden Green

Accessories: SAB Lucky Limeade Ribbon, Rhinestones

I really like the little It's a Wrap Occasions and Holidays because they are so simple and easy to create something with in very little time.

Just for you

 

This is the first valentine card I made today. Pretty plain and simple.

Recipe: CC305 Stamps: Mixed Bunch

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Melon Mambo and Pretty in Pink, DSP Pretty in  Pink and Melon Mambo

Ink: Melon Mambo

Accessories: Blossoms punch, circle punch and rhinestones.

Made another card below after receiving my Stampin' Up Magazine today and reading the "Step It Up" article enclosed. Like the 2nd card much better and decided to enter it in the MOJO228 blog.

Used the same papers but embossed the Pretty in Pink layered on the Cherry Cobbler base.Tilted on an angel the Melon  Mambo DSP. Used only one circle and highlighted all of the pieces with different sized rhinestone and drops of Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Delights. Used some dimensional on the large flower and ran some Certainly Celery lines over the leaf also cut with the blossoms punch. I added Cherry Cobbler Dazzling delights also to the large flower on the v-shapes of each petal and in the center of my small circle.

Let me know what you think of the "stepped up" version.

Single Tulip

The SCS color challenge this week was called Basically Limeade Parade using the following:
Paper: Lucky Limeade, Poppy Parade, Basic Black, Whisper White. I used two embossing folders that were requested for the desert on the card. The white square was daubed with basic black and smeared over the swirls for some depth. I then used the Build a Flower Punch and the Bird Punch to make my tulips using the scraps I trimmed from the green background for the greenery. Added some white pearls and the Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon. Did not add a sentiment yet because I am not sure what I will use the card for yet.

My Christmas Gift!!

To 4 of my scrapbookking friends was a card making day.  Every year 5 of us exchange birthday/Christmas gifts in De4c and was at a loss as to what to give this year so I made little gift card holders (which I did not scan and keep one) with a certificate in them for a 10 cards/project day at my house.  We met this past Monday on MLK as I had a day off school. We made the following projects: I will detail any card anyone want me to but they were mostly all cased from card makers at Splitcoatstampers.com, my favorite scrap booking outlet.

This card is my January Christmas cards all Year entry so still have 8 more to make.

 

Had a little bit of a problem getting this die to cut all the way through the paper. Used scissors to cut lots of the spots out. Any ideas??

Quick and simple but very elegants

One gal does not like pink so loved this in the Calypso Coral color

The sketch and color challenge for the week of Jan 9th

Love this vintage set and the colors used here.

My version of the Framelits cut out before I had the die to use.

Love this triple punch and the punch flowers. Was a favorite of all

A little treat for my sweetheart that had to put up with all 5 of us

Another favorite of all the gals.  I think this one will get cased again for some birthdays.

I tried to do a variety of stamps, cards and techniques in order to keep it interesting. Most of these cards used stamp sets, etc from the newest Occasions Mini Catalog and a few from the Sale-A-Bration flyer.  They were all really pleased with the cards. I even have one gal that does not like to stamp a lot but she enjoyed herself doing this.  Said she would come again but she really does not like to order stamp.  She scrapbooks all the time with us and loves cards I make for her.

Lucky Island Basics Get Well

Did not get to play last night with the color challenge so waited til tonight and used both the sketch and the color challenges from Splitcoast Stamper. Was very happy with how my card turned out. What do you think?

Make for SCS366 and CC356 Lucky Island Basics

Keywords: SCS366 CC356,

Stamps: Four Frames

Paper: Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Basic Black, DSP In Color 11-13

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: Everyday Enchantment and In Color Brads, Triple Flower Punch, Label Punch

Techniques: Computer words

Vintage Top Note

Decided I needed a shape card for my personal swap group and thought Top Note is so easy to do.  Wanted to use one of the new stamps sets so this is what I came up with. Was very easy to do. Love bows and bling.

Keywords: CC351 Top Note Very Vintage

Stamps: Very Vintage

Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Basic Black

Accessories: Crumb Cake Ribbon Seam Binding, Everyday Brad, Rhinestones, Cutting System from CM

From the Heart Rich Pacific Delight

This card was quite easy to do. I used the color challenge from SCS for the week of June1 CC325 and a Sketch from quite awhile ago SC209.  The colors to use were Rich Razzleberry, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight:

         

I started with a Daffodil background.  Then mounted the pieced I marbled onto a Pacific. To marble paper is quite easy. I took three marbles and placed in a tiny jar with 3-4 drops of refill ink starting with the lightest color. I then dumped them onto White paper that was in a shallow box and rolled thee marbles around a few times. then clean jar and marbles until water is clear and repeat with next color. I repeated this technique twice with each color. You do not usually need to add anymore ink the second time. Then I cut the paper to size I wanted and using the better patterned pieces. Then used a scrap of Razzleberry with a Yellow corduroy button attached through with a small piece of burgundy ribbon.  Then stamped my flower and sentiment with Daffodil and mounted on Pacific. 

Stamps: Watercolor Trio

Paper; Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Pacific Point & Daffodil Delight

Ink: Same colors as above

Accessories: Yellow Corduroy Button from SU and a small piece of Offray burgundy ribbon

Thanks for looking and sharing any comments you may have, they are greatly appreciated.

Cute by the Inch Friends

Keywords: CC287 Cute by the Inch

Stamps: Cute by the Inch

Paper: Concord Crush, Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz

Ink: Concord Crush

Accessories: Organza ribbon white, SU Flower brads, SU Scallop square punch, SU small label punch, Dimensional

This was for a Color Challenge CC287 titled Concord Parfait Pizzazz.  I love using the color challenges for inspiration. I had not used this stamp set yet so decided I needed to get it worked in a bit and came up with this. The center is a label and some organza ribbon and a large flower SU brad used .  I also used dimensionals under each squared that was adhered to the scallop punched squares.

Thanks for looking and any comments are greatly appreciated.

The Earth Laughs

Looking through the SCS gallery last night I found a card done by sleepyinseattle that I really liked there fore I decided to case it.  I then found the CC324 and decided to case this card in the same colors and also used the MOJO192.  Thanks sleepy. She is one of my favorites to get inspiration from.

Keywords: CC324 Mojo192 Fabulous Florets

Stamps: Fabulous Florets

Paper: Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla

Ink: same as paper

Accessories: Border and Label punches, Marina Mist Gross grain ribbon, Dimensionals, Square Lattice Embossing folder

I used the soft suede as my card base, layered on that perfect plum and baja breeze each using the scallop punch from SU.  Stamped the foliage from Fabulous Florets with Soft Suede and the smaller flowers on Very Vanilla and Perfect plum using the plum ink. I dabbed some perfect plum onto the vanilla flower to give it some color. I then stamped the sentiment onto very vanilla and cut into an oval with a SU punch and used other  label punches to make the background for it using the baja, plum and suede. Tied a Marina mist ribbon around the layers and added a bow.  I also used dimensionals behind the plum florets and the oval sentiment.

Thanks for sharing your comments as they are very much appreciated.

Rich Vanilla Rose

This is the SCS Sketch #333for May 18


 
 and the CC323 for May 17

        Rich Vanilla Rose


I combined the two challenges and came up with the card above. I really like the color combo and the new triple punches from Stampin' Up.


Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla, Regal Rose
Ink: Rich Razzleberry and Regal Rose
Stamp: Occasional Quotes
Accessories: SU Triple Flower punch, Polka Dot Grossgrain Ribbon in Rich Razzleberry, Pink Buttons from Ice cream Parlor, MS Butterfly punch, and purple Rhinestones.


Thanks for looking and greatly any comments about the card.