Color Dare Meets PWCO

Happy Hump Day everyone!  How's your week been going?  I've been rather busy trying to stay WARM - the thermometer has been hovering around the -30*C mark the past couple of days... today is supposed to warm up considerably but I'll believe it when I see it!

This week's Color Dare challenge is a fun one that screamed BABY card (even though I don't know anyone having a baby...)  What do you think?  Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and Basic Black.  I think I went that way because either of the colors would work for a boy or a girl and the black is, well, neutral.  :)

I have been playing along with Peg and the girls over at the Paperworks Co. Sketch challenge for the last few weeks and this week's sketch is super-fun:

Don't you love all the scallop-y layers at the top?  I bought some fun baby stamps in the clearance bin at my LSS a couple of weeks ago and they were PERFECT for this sketch and color combo:

Stamps: Party My Crib, On the Line (Darcie's Stamps)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight  Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, SU! DSP, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist  Accessories: Labels Fifteen Nesties, adhesive pearls, sponge dauber, black satin ribbon, jumbo eyelet, paper piercer, scallop border punch (EK Success), clear embossing powder

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope you will find some time this week to play along with us at the Color Dare...these colors are a lot of fun.  See you tomorrow for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!

Color Throwdown 126 & Paperworks Co #66

Are you ready?  T.G.I.F.!!!!!  I am extra-excited this Friday because I don't have to go anywhere or do anything while the kids are at school - normally I have to go *somewhere* or do *something* on my day off but...not today.  :)  I took the boys to school, came home and talked to my mom for a bit and then got down to business.  I made a card for one of my DTs and then decided to make a "for fun" card. 

When I saw this week's Color Throwdown combination and read what paper inspired it (Marjolaine by Basic Grey), I knew I HAD to use it sometime this week:

I wanted a nice, clean and simple sketch to go with this wonderful color combo and found a perfect one over at the Paperworks Co. blog:

Stamps: Psalm 46:10 Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Early Espresso, Old Olive  Paper: Marjolaine (Basic Grey), Early Espresso, Old Olive  Accessories: Marina Mist satin ribbon, MS border punch, Nesties, paper piercer, sponge dauber

What are you doing this afternoon?  I think I might try to get one more card done - or maybe I'll do some baking...the snow is starting to fall again.  *sigh*  Thanks for taking a peek today - enjoy your weekend!

I'm a Paperworks Co. Guest Designer!!!

Howdy crafty peeps!  How are things going where you are?  We keep getting snow, snow and more snow... perfect crafting weather, right?   All of this snow totally helped to inspire me while making my card for this week's Sentimental Sundays' theme: "Winter..." and don't forget your sentiment!

This week is an extra-special one for me because I was also asked to be the Guest Designer over at Paperworks Co. and of course I said YES!!!  I totally {heart} Peg and the gals and those RAM stamps they have...ADORABLE!  They just released some of the cutest Valentine's Day stamps so make sure to stop over at the Paperworks Co. store to check them out.  Without further ado, here's this week's awesome sketch:

When I saw Arielle's Colour Q combo, I nearly fell over because the colors were PERFECT for me to use that awesome "Colorful Christmas" DSP from My Mind's Eye I have and LOVE... absolutely perfect:

Stamps: Oh Christmas Tree (Paperworks Co.), Snow Wonderful (Verve)  Ink: Melon Mambo, Taken With Teal  Paper: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Taken With Teal, Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Colorful Christmas DSP (MME)  Accessories: Corner rounder, MS border punch, Melon Mambo grosgrain ribbon, snowflake brad, adhesive rhinestone, Copics, oval punch, scalloped oval punch, paper piercer, sponge dauber

And a pic of the Copics I used:

Copic Ciao markers used: Y15, E11, E31, E33, E35, E51, YG00, RV23, RV29

I hope you will join me for any or all of these amazing challenges - have fun!  See you tomorrow for a new Picture Perfect Creations color combo!

4 Crafty Chicks and a Bit of Metal

Welcome back everyone!  How's your week going so far?  We are still trying to dig out from under all the snow we got last weekend...so much fun!  It's been nice because it means I get to stay HOME and do stuff around here (like craft...shhhhhhhh.  :) 

This week's 4 Crafty Chicks challenge is brought to you by ME and I'm looking for you to use some metal on your card.  You can think "outside of the box" for this one, though...you could use metallic paper, embossing powder, ink, charms, brads...the possibilities are endless. 

When I saw Stacey's inspiration picture over at the Curtain Call Color Challenge, I knew I had to use it for *something* this week since we had so much of the white stuff (even if it *does* have the dreaded Pacific Point...)

I love this week's Paperworks Co. sketch - clean and simple lines should make for a quick card:

Wow - this card was hard to photograph with all the white.  You'll see my little bit of metal up in the top right part of the corner - a Hodgepodge Hardware swirly clip:

Stamps: Tiny Tags (SU!)  Paper: Pacific Point, Whisper White, Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke  Ink: Cherry Cobbler  Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder, paper piercer, Scor-It, Nesties, Cherry Cobbler seam binding, twine, Jewelry Tag punch, 3-D Flowers Die (Sizzix), Sweetest Stem embosslit, Hodgepodge Hardware

I also made a coordinating envelope for the Just Us Girls challenge this week:

I hope you will take a few minutes to play along with us this week - we'd love to see what you create for our metal challenge.  If you need a little bit of inspiration, please visit the other Chicks' blogs and see what goodies they've got goin' on...

Enjoy your day!

Traveling WIth the 4 Crafty Chicks

Welcome back everyone!  I'm so glad you had a few minutes to stop by and take a peek at this week's 4 Crafty Chicks challenge.  Our hostess with the mostest this week is Leanne and she is asking us to make a project with a travel theme.

I must admit that I don't own many stamps that would help me out with this challenge.  I know there are many ways to interpret this theme but I had a hard time figuring out where to begin.  I thought I might as well start with the paper since I didn't have a color challenge to use and found a wonderful paper pack (Joy Ride by Cosmo Cricket) in my stash that had never been opened...do I hear a collective *gasp* from the peanut gallery???  :)  It was absolutely PERFECT for this theme.

I knew I had a few travel-themed rub-ons and embellishments *somewhere* that I bought a few years ago...I just had to find them.  Fortunately, I found them quite easily and set off in search of a sketch.  Peggy and the gals over at Paperworks Co. have a fun one this week:

How's this for a card with NO INK and NO STAMPING?

Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Tangerine Tango, Sage Shadow, Joy Ride DSP (Cosmo Cricket)  Accessories: Paper piercer, Nestabilities, Tangerine Tango striped grosgrain ribbon, twine, metal suitcase charm, rub-on (sentiment), Square Lattice embossing folder, Seeing Spots embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by today - please pop over to check out the rest of the Chicks' creations and leave them some love.  We'd love to have you join us this week and remember that you don't *have* to make a card.  You could do a scrapbook page, an altered item ... the possibilities are endless.  :)  Have fun! 

Sentimental Sundays' Meets the Colour Q!

Welcome back for another Sentimental Sundays' challenge.  This week's challenge is a sketch challenge created by our very own Dorcas: 

Feel free to rotate it, flip it, or use a different shape...as long as we can see the basic sketch, you are good to go!  And don't forget to use a sentiment!  :)

I decided to combine this fabulous sketch with Arielle's Colour Q combination - there's that darned Cajun Craze again...

I just got some new goodies in the mail from Peg at Paperworks Co. and *had* to play with them.  I have been admiring these Rachelle Ann Miller stamps for a LONG time but haven't taken the plunge...until now:

Recipe - Stamps: Puddles of Fun (Paperworks Co.)  Ink: Cajun Craze, Versafine Onyx Black  Paper: Very Vanilla, Taken With Teal, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, SU! DSP  Accessories: Copics, scallop circle punch, circle punches, clear embossing powder, buttons, twine, Cherry Cobbler seam binding (SU!), Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

I hope you will play along with this fun sketch - it's a great one open to interpretation.  I can't wait to see what you all come up with!  See you tomorrow!

Totally Stampalicious - Pregnant JJ with a Splash of Red. . .

 . . . but as you may be able to guess, my card has a *bit* more than a splash!  LOL  Red is one of my favorite colors and to ask me to just use a splash of it is like asking a kid not to eat the cookies!  :)  SO, this week's challenge over at Totally Stampalicious is to make a card with whatever colors you want but make sure there's a *splash* of red on your card.  Easy peasy, right??  Lucky for me, the challenge over at Crazy 4 Challenges this week is to use black, white and red on your card so I was able to kill two birds with one stone!

Peggy's sketch challenge over at the Paperworks Co. blog is to make a circle card.  Again, sounds easy, right?  Let me tell you, not as easy as it sounds!

So, after figuring out how big of a card I could make, and then sizing and resizing my digi image, I came up with this:

Recipe - Stamps: Pregnant JJ (Totally Stampalicious)  Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Basic Black, SU! DP  Accessories: Nesties, Hodgepodge Hardware, paper piercer, Copics, taffeta ribbon, button, silver cord

Have fun with this challenge - red is a fabulous color and you can make so many great color combinations with it!  Enjoy!

Curtain Call - Act #36 and Guest Designer for Paperworks Co.!!!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Welcome back for another fabulous installment of Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge.  This week's colors are some of my favorites - you can't go wrong with Real Red or Kraft:

I also have the great pleasure and honor of being the guest designer for Peggy and the gals over at Paperworks Co. this week - I am so excited!  I think this week's sketch is very versatile and could be used for almost any image - I had to rotate it to make the stamp fit!

Stamps: A Surprise Cheer (Paperworks Co./Rachelle Ann Miller), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)   
Ink: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue   
Paper: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Kraft, assorted SU! DSP   
Accessories: Paper piercer, Nestabilities, sponge dauber, dimensionals, Copics, grosgrain ribbon, oval punch, Divine Swirls embossing folder

The rest of the Curtain Call Crew has samples to show you today, too, 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 and 

our fabulous Guest Designer for June...Christina Maclaren at Seaglass & Sentiments

 ...then play along with us and post your Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 36 creation using Mr. Linky at Stacey's Stamping Stage.


I know Peg and the girls at Paperworks Co. would love to have you join them for this week's sketch - all participants have the chance to be a Guest Designer just like me!  All you have to do is play along.  :)


Thanks for stopping - enjoy the last Sunday of June!  Can you believe that???  The year is half over already... *sigh*

TSJune14, CIC 63 & PWCO SS37 for Father's Day

Hello again everyone!

I thought I'd better get my butt in gear and do a card for Totally Stampalicious's challenge this week to make a Father's Day card ... before the week gets away from me.  I went in search of some inspirational colors and sketches and came across a couple of good ones. 

The first challenge is from {Cupcake Inspirations} - a pretty yummy-looking inspiration picture, don't you think?  I decided to use this picture as the basis for my color palette... Cool Caribbean, Gable Green, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, and Rose Red.

Then I popped over to the Paperworks Co. blog to see what Peg and the girls came up with for us this week and discovered this fab sketch:

I decided to use the Bugaboo Sean stamp from Totally Stampalicious so I had to rotate the sketch to accomodate him:

That'll be it for me tonight... I've got a little boy with a VERY sore sunburn on his shoulders and I'm thinking he needs some mommy time (even if he *is* twelve...).  I hate when kids hurt - makes me feel just as terrible as they do.  Have a great night and if you have time this week, try to stop over at Totally Stampalicious and play along with us... we'd love to see what you make for dad! 

Friday Night Fun - Take Two!

OK - So I didn't think I'd be back tonight...a girl's allowed to change her mind, right?  I spent a fun couple of hours chatting during Paperworks Co.'s new release party and then went back a few days on the blog to see what I might have missed.  To my surprise, Peggy had posted her Sunday Sketch Challenge #23 on Sunday and here's what she had to say: "This week’s sketch was inspired by a sunrise I woke up to one.  Normally, I would try to sleep in on the weekends, but one saturday, I woke up to this BRIGHT hue of PINK, so I couldnt resist doing it as a sketch."

As soon as I saw the sketch I KNEW what I *had* to do.  I have been looking at Arielle's Colour Q challenge since Tuesday and have been STUMPED as to what to do with her colors...bright and tricky:

Seeing Peggy's sketch and Arielle's colors made it all very clear for me...  Even though Peggy said her sunrise was pink, I made mine yellow and orange against the grass and sky:

This was so much fun to make!  I started by inking my Medallion stamp first with Crushed Curry and then with Tangerine Tango lightly on top and stamping it on Whisper White.  My next task was to figure out HOW I was going to cut out that circle since none of my Nesties are big enough (do they even make them that big???).  I dug out my Coluzzle which was *just* big enough to cut the medallion part but not big enough to do a layer of Tangerine underneath.  Hmmmm... what to do... and the search began!  I finally found a little flowerpot that was just the right size adn used my Coluzzle knife to cut around it.  It wasn't totally even so I thought maybe if I distressed the edges no one would notice!!  It's still not perfect but I digress!  LOL

The rest came together very quickly - some paper piercing, some pearls, a hodgepodge hardware frame and an orange rhinestone for sparkle and this one is in the books.  :)

Thanks for stopping by tonight.  If you have a chance, stop by Paperworks Co. and check out their new release, "The Tinheart Family" collection.  I'll see you all tomorrow!