*GASP* A "For Fun" Card???

Morning everyone!  Are you as glad as I am that it's Friday?  I have really been enjoying this week - DS1 & DS2 have both been home for most of the week since it is Finals Week at school and we've been doing some house stuff and playing around in the kitchen.  It's so nice to have a kid that enjoys cooking. :)

So, yesterday morning I had the chance to sit down, in my craft room and create something that WASN'T for someone else...ONLY me.  It has been far too long since I've been able to do that.  (Actually, the truth is I've been in a crafting funk and haven't really wanted to be anywhere *near* my craft room...anyone else ever go through this?)  I was also able to browse through my blog challenge list and play along with a couple I haven't in a LONG time.

Over at the Ribbon Carousel Challenge, Suzanne is challenging us to use NON-Traditional colors for our creations. Making a valentine card? How about NOT using red or pink, or not too much of it anyways? Creating a gorgeous winter scene? Try it with creams instead of whites. Whatever you’re making….try a non-traditional palate as a challenge!  In addition, they have partnered up with the gals over at Paper and Such to give us *twice* as many chances to win.  How's that for fun?  Now...how many of you have seen a turquoise and brown Valentine's card?

Then for my sketch, I popped over to see Tracy's sketch over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp and here's what she has for us this week - miraculously, I worked perfectly for what I wanted to do!  I didn't have to go all over Blogland searching for a sketch - it was right here for me.  Serendipity, I tell ya.

Paper: "Journey" Paper Pad (Authentique), Tempting Turquoise, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla  Accessories: Sewing machine, button, twine, Square Lattice embossing folder, I Heart U die (Verve)

So, there you have it - my Friday "For Fun" card.  Have a great weekend, peeps!

PPC #45

Happy Monday, everyone!  Wow - have we ever got a LOT of snow this weekend...I stayed home all warm and toasty but my DH wasn't so lucky.  He *had* to go out but getting *out* wasn't the problem... it was trying to get back IN after MORE snow and wind made some pretty horrendous drifts on our LONG country driveway.  He ended up getting stuck on his way back in - no WAY would I even be attempting to go anywhere!  LOL  It gave me the perfect excuse to stay inside and CRAFT!

This week Megan has given us an interesting combination over at the Picture Perfect Creations Color Challenge - what do you think?

I started out following Tracy's sketch over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp *to-the-letter* but as it evolved, it didn't end up *exactly* like the sketch - my white panel is not centered, my image isn't centered and I rotated it 180 degrees:

The girlies over at Stampin' Royalty are celebrating their first birthday this week (has it really been a year already?) so they have asked us to make a birthday card so that's exactly what I did:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy (SU!)  Ink: Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgundy  Paper: Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White, Wild Wasabi  Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Square Lattice embossing folder, River Rock grosgrain ribbon, twine, scallop oval punch, oval punch

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope the weather is better than ours wherever you are.  If you're snowed in, look on the bright side...it's PERFECT for crafting.  :)  We'd love to have you join us over at PPC. 

Enjoy your week!

PPC #42

Hi everyone!  I have to make this post a short one as I have lots of things on the go this weekend and being on the computer is not one of them!  LOL

Here we are at Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo #42 and I started off by trying to make a Christmas card with these colors but failed MISERABLY!  So, off I went in another direction entirely...

Stamps: Love's Flower (Verve)  Ink: Basic Grey  Paper: Whisper White, Basic Grey, SU! DSP  Accessories: Kassie's Brocade embossing folder, baker's twine, dimensionals, adhesive pearls, Cherish border punch (MS), button

The sketch is a great one from Tracy over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp - I rotated it to make it fit my image.  I also want to thank Tracy for choosing my PPC card last week making me her featured Sketch Artist!  Thank you!!

Please take a few minutes to pop over to the rest of the PPC creators blogs to see what they created with these colors - I know they'd love to see you!  I'll be back on Wednesday for a new Color Dare!

Eat, Sleep, Stamp & Picture Perfect Creations

Happy Monday, everyone!  Welcome back for another week and a brand-new Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo.  This week's combination has a distinctly "fall" feeling to it:

Guess what I did next?  Ahhhh...You all know me so well...*grin*  I found a delightful sketch over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp and a-crafting I went:

Stamps: Vintage Labels  Paper: Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Cajun Craze DSP  Ink: Cherry Cobbler  Accessories: Oval punch, paper piercer, Birds and Swirls embossing folder, Square Lattice embossing folder, Sizzlits Lots of Tags Label 1, adhesive pearls, Sizzlits Little Leaves, Flower Buttons Die, buttons, baker's twine

I hope you can take some time to play with us this week - we all love popping in and checking out your blogs.  I'll see you back here on Wednesday for another Color Dare!

*sigh* Here it is again...

... yep.   Another card with Pacific Point.  Megan's newest combination over at Picture Perfect Creations is a doozy:

How'd you like them apples?  I have such a creative mental block when I see this color, it takes me forever to figure out what I am going to do.  I figured that the simpler I kept it, the better so when I found this sketch over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp I knew it was perfect:

I found one of my new Whiff of Joy stamps and colored my heart out:

Stamps: Wee and reindeer (WOJ), Poinsettia Christmas (Verve)  Ink: Real Red  Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, Real Red, SU! DSP  Accessories: Real Red polka dot ribbon, adhesive pearls, paper piercer, Pacific Point corduroy button, baker's twine, Copics, Labels Four Nestabilities, sponge dauber

Thanks for stopping by today - please take a few minutes to check out what the rest of the PPC Creators made with these colors...I'm sure they are not as *against* Pacific Point as I am!!  LOL  I'll be back on Wednesday with a brand new Color Dare!  See you then!

Totally Stampalicious Goes Monochromatic

Are you ready for a challenge?  When I saw this week's challenge at Totally Stampalicious, I was a little bit scared.  I admit it ~ I like colors.  Lots of colors.  But blue isn't one of my favorites... not sure why but I will go to almost any other color before I go to blue if given the choice.  So, when asked to make a monochromatic, BLUE card, I paused.  But, not one to give up before getting started, I set to work.

I blog surfed for a bit and found a sketch that would fit my image perfectly over at Eat Sleep Stamp:

Recipe - Stamps: Let it Snow Stella (Totally Stampalicious)  Ink: Not Quite Navy  Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, SU! DSP  Accessories: Paper piercer, Nesties, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Bashful Blue satin ribbon, adhesive pearls, dimensionals, Copics

Thanks for stopping by this morning - have fun creating a monochromatic blue card.  Enjoy your Monday!