Picture Perfect Creations #31 & Our Creative Corner

Well...talk about a challenge!  Megan is giving us a very, shall we say, interesting, color combination over at the Picture Perfect Creations Color Combination challenge:

I love all of these colors but the two that gave me the most trouble were the Rose Red and the Riding Hood Red.  I went in search of a sketch that might help me make sense of this combo and found that Our Creative Corner has a nice one for us this week:

So- off I went... I filed two cards under "G" before I finally settled on this one:

Recipe - Stamps: Thankful Accents (Verve)  Ink: Rose Red  Paper: Whisper White, Perfect Plum, River Rock, Riding Hood Red, unknown pattern paper  Accessories: Satin Ribbon, sewing machine, paper piercer, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Seeing Spots EF, circle and scallop punch, adhesive pearls

And, again, I used stitching to attach the ribbon so it qualifies for Stampin' Royalty's "Stitching" challenge this week.

I hope you will take some time to stop and see what the rest of the PPC Creators did with these colors - their links are to the left in the sidebar.  Have fun and good luck!  LOL

Here's a Monday Quickie...

Hey everyone!

I hope you are enjoying Monday wherever you are - it is sunny and breezy here but I'm not complaining!  At least it's not snowing...  :)

I had a few minutes to play before getting supper ready so I thought I'd sit down and finish the card I started the other night.  I actually only glittered the letters the other night and finished the rest today.

I used Dawn's wonderful color combo over at Color Cue:

And OCC's sketch (rotated, of course...):

For this (to me) CAS card:

Thanks for stopping by - I'm counting down the days to my weekend Jasper retreat... I get to meet Joycelyn and Becky of Totally Stampalicious fame!  Can we say EXCITED?  I have a few DT cards to get done before I leave so I may be scarce this week but I'll do my best to pop back in at least once.   See you soon!

8-in-1 Monday!

Wow...I sometimes shock even myself!  I don't think I've ever done a card that incorporated eight challenges at the same time.  Of course it helps when so many challenges have the same theme the same week.  :)

So, here are the challenges this card qualifies for:

• Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog gave us the theme "Spring is in the Air" and told us to interpret it however we wanted to.
• Crazy 4 Challenges also asked us to think "Spring."
• One more... Our Creative Corner Challenge's theme is "Spring/Easter."
• Paper Sundaes challenged us to use paper piecing somewhere on our project.
• Pile It On's theme: "Furry Friends."
• Wags 'n Whiskers is challenging us to "pop it up" and use dimension somewhere on our card.
• My sketch comes courtesy of Pals Paper Arts:

• And last, but not least, my colours are thanks to Just Us Girls:

I just received this cute image from Wags 'n Whiskers as part of my Sketch Saturday win a few weeks ago and thought it would be perfect for all of these challenges:

Recipe - Stamps: Some Bunny Loves You (Wags 'n Whiskers)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black  Paper: Close to Cocoa, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Bashful Blue, Assorted SU! DP, Whisper White  Accessories: Clear embossing powder, Argyle embossing folder, Copics, Bashful Blue satin ribbon, buttons, hemp twine, slot punch, paper piercer, dimensionals

I paper pieced her dress and hair bow, the flower and his shirt and tie.  I used dimensionals to pop up the flower as well as the entire image panel.  I will admit that this image is a bit more "cutesy" than I normally use but I think it makes a really nice spring-y card.  :)

Don't forget to stop and check out The Shabby Tea Room's new challenge as well as The Curtain Call's Color Challenge!  See you tomorrow!

The Shabby Tea Room - Challenge #2

Welcome to another Monday and another Shabby Tea Room challenge!  This week's challenge is brought to you by Audrey.  She's asking us to create a spring-inspired card with stitching of some kind on it.  Hmmm....

I found this sketch over at Our Creative Corner a few weeks ago and thought it would fit my image perfectly:

My good friend, Lori, and I went shopping at our LSS a couple weeks ago (shhhh...we were supposed to be at the gym....) and discovered a BRAND-spankin' new shipment of Nesties and Flourishes stamps they had just received but hadn't put out on the floor yet.  Lori and I got very excited, very quickly...:)

After digging through the stash, we each picked some and Lori was kind enough to let me take this one (there was only one of these sets and she wanted it too...) Thanks again, girlie!  I LOVE this image:

 

Recipe - Stamps: Strawberries (Flourishes), Faux Stitching stamps (unknown)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Garden Green  Paper: Pink Pirouette, Garden Green, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White  Accessories: Nestabilities, paper piercer, hodgepodge hardware, Copics, adhesive pearls, scallop edge border punch

HA!  I realize now that I used the Bella Rose paper AGAIN this week for my STR project!  LOL  The gingham has always spoken "spring" to me and the strawberries are spring/summer perfect.  :)  Shhhh...my stitching is totally FAUX!  I have stamps that work well for this kind of thing so I just stamped them with Versafine and then clear embossed to give them some dimension.  

Now it's your turn - you've seen what I created so your next task should be to visit the rest of the Shabby Tea Room Special Friend Blend Gourmet Designers to see what they came up with!

• Debbie Marcinkiewicz - TSTR Creator http://debssimpletreasures.blogspot.com/
• Audrey Pettit - http://audreypettit.wordpress.com/
• Nicole Segnere - http://fabric-paper-scissors.blogspot.com/
• Jill Hillard - http://jill031070.blogspot.com/  

Thanks for stopping by - I can't wait to see what springy-stitchy projects you create!

Curtain Call - Act #20

 

It's time for my FIRST Curtain Call as part of the Curtain Call Crew!!!

Let me tell you all how excited and honored I feel to be part of such a wonderful group of talented ladies - Stacey really knows how to pick 'em!  *giggle*  Stacey has been coming up with some super-amazing color combinations and this week's colors are no exception. Don't those roses make you wish spring was here already?

 

For awhile now I have been admiring all the cute cards made using the Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things and I finally broke down and bought some of these cutie-patootie girlie-girls!  I decided to use "Flower Girl" and went in search of a sketch that would *fit*.  Luckily, Our Creative Corner had the perfect sketch:

Aren't these just *the* cutest stamps you've evah' seen?

Recipe - Stamps: Flower Girl (MFT)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Copics  Paper: Real red, Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery  Accessories: Rectangle Nestabilities, paper piercer, CB Embossing folders (candy cane stripe, floral fantasy & spots/dots), clear embossing powder, paper flower, button, twine, Real Red grosgrain ribbon, white taffeta ribbon, adhesive pearls

The rest of the Curtain Call Crew has samples to show you today, so make sure you stop by to see:

Amy White at Devlinwhite Designs
Andrea Roose at Andrea's Scrap- und Stampel Blog
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa) at Random Acts of Creativity
Julie Smith at Paper and Such
Lea Lawson at Lea's Cupcakes & Sunshine
Marisa Ritzen at Rosemary Reflections
Shelley Germann at Stampin' Garden
Sue Kohler at My Inner Reflection

then play along with us and post your Curtain Call Color Challenge creation using Mr. Linky over at Stacey's Stamping Stage.

Have fun and I can't wait to see what amazing creations you all come up with!

HaPpY NeW yEaR!!!

Welcome to 2010!  I have a feeling it's going to be a good year.  :)

I spent yesterday chillin' out and I didn't get a chance to craft so I woke up this morning and got right to it.  I was able to combine 3 challenges with this card:

1. Viva la Verve - The first sketch of the year is a great one and Amber has added a {twist} this year: "Every month this year we'll walk through a different room and every week I'll bring you some inspiration pictures of different rooms."  She gave us some pictures for inspiration but you could use inspiration from your own home if you wanted to.  I was drawn to the clean, crisp lines of this picture:

 

Surprised?  This picture is SO not my house, nor is it how I would decorate if given a bazillion dollars but I LOVE the colors and look - for someone else.  ;)  Here's the sketch:

2.  Crazy 4 Challenges - This week's challenge: "Let's have some Polka Dot Fun! Design a card/project using polka dots."  Easy.  :)

3. Our Creative Corner Challenge - "A new month brings a NEW hostess, Joycelyn will start off the new year with a new year's resolution "Clean and Simple". We will leave it to all of you to decide what clean and simple means to you...whether you go with less layers, or maybe no embellishments... whatever you decide."  I think this card is about as clean and simple as I've done for awhile...no bow, no buttons, no adhesive pearls (GASP!)  Yes, I do still have layers but, for me, if a card can fit in an envelope and NOT need extra postage, it's "clean and simple."  *grin*

Without further ado:

Recipe - Stamps: Give Thanks Plain Jane (Verve), Flower Lines (SU!)  Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red, Night and Day DP  Ink: Real Red, Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Nestabilities, paper piercer, Swiss Dots embossing folder, clear embossing powder, circle punches, ribbon

I really like how this turned out.  And for all you "sketch purists" out there: yes, I turned the sketch and yes, I realize it is supposed to be a square and yes, I know the sketch doesn't call for ribbon but I was really struggling with the "space" at the bottom and thought the ribbon was perfect for the "feel" of this card: clean, classic and a bit retro.  It's a girl's creative license to change it up a bit, right?

It's another chilly one here today so I'm guessing we will be sticking close to home today - which means more crafting!  YAY!  I need a coffee or something - my fingers are chilly.  :)

Catch ya in a bit!

Color Throwdown - Thursday Sketch Trio

Happy Thursday everyone!

What a great week it has been. We only had school 3 days due to "Professional Development" days for the teachers so I'm spending today and tomorrow getting crafty!

I haven't been over to the Color Throwdown challenge lately so I was curious to see what this week's color combination was:

My initial reaction was, "Ummmmm . . .what?"  I would NOT have ever in a bazillion years thought to put Brocade Blue with red and black but I was up for the challenge.  

The first card I did is for Julee's Mojo Monday sketch:

Julee seems to come up with one amazing sketch after another, week after week. . . I think her sketches are my favorites to do.  I started out by picking my stamp image for this card.  I am VERY short on birthday cards so I chose SU!'s "Crazy For Cupcakes" set and stamped the tray of cupcakes on Whisper White.  I colored the image with my Copics and cut it out with my Labels One Nesties.  I layered it on the Brocade Blue also cut out with my Nesties, paper pierced the left side and added some pearls.  The right-hand side of the background is some Basic Black I ran through my CB in the Swiss Dots folder and the left side is some printed vellum I found in my stash.  Some gingham ribbon, a sentiment from the "Best Yet" set and I was done:

Card number two was inspired by Our Creative Corner's weekly sketch:

I admit I was puzzled for quite some time with this one.  I don't have many stamps that are circle-oriented so I had to dig through ALL of my sets.  I found the heart image in the "Doodle That" set from SU! and the sentiment is from the "Best Yet" set - again.  The ribbon is from a box of ribbons I got at Costco a LONG time ago - at the time I thought they'd get SO much use but, unfortunately, this is the first time I've ever used this particular roll!  I Cuttlebugged the Brocade Blue background, added a filigree brad to the heart image, used my Nesties to cut the circle shapes and voila:

Today's final card for this week's Splitcoast Stampers' Sketch #213:

This one came together pretty quickly.  I stamped the "Upsy Daisy" image with my Onyx Black Versafine ink and then clear embossed it.  I sponged some Bashful Blue over top and then cut it out with my Nesties.  I layered it on Real Red and Whisper White and went to work on the background.  I used some more of the printed vellum on a Basic Black layer, ticket corner punched the corners and added some pearls.  The vertical panel is a piece of black I edged both side of with my Martha Stewart border punch and added a strip of blue down the middle.  The horizontal panel is some more of the gingham ribbon on top of Basic Black.  A couple of bows were added just because I thought they needed to be there!  LOL  Some flowers in the bottom right complete the card:

So - that's it!  I'm hoping to spend tomorrow with my peep, Lori.  We haven't crafted together for awhile and Josh had been asking for WEEKS to go over to their house so tomorrow just might be the day!  

Gotta run and get supper started - enjoy the rest of your Thursday!