Totally Stampalicious Monday!

Hey everyone!

This will be short and sweet - I thought I had scheduled a post for this card but I *obviously* forgot!  DUH - blonde moment...

So anyways, this week's challenge over at Totally Stampalicious is to use fabric somewhere on your creation.  I think I took the easy way out and fell victim to my felt ribbon.  I was going to use my Cuttlebug and Nesties to cut some fabric flowers but just couldn't find any fabric in colors I was excited about. 

I used this yummilicious photo inspiration from {Cupcake Inspirations} to give me my color scheme - Taken With Teal, Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip:

Paired it with a fabulous sketch from Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge:

Flipped the sketch 90* and voila:

I think she turned out super-duper cut, don't you?  I hope you'll take sometime to join us over at Totally Stampalicious - as usual, there is a prize up for grabs!!!  :)  Have fun!

Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo #18

Welcome everyone!

Are you ready for this week's Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo challenge?  Megan has chosen colors that, to me, scream "DAD!!!" which is fitting since yesterday was Father's Day.

I made this card while I was in Jasper a few weeks ago - can you believe this stamp set had NEVER seen ink?  I bought it over a year ago thinking I would use it "a lot" for masculine cards since it is so hard to find nice, manly stamp sets but lo, and behold... that obviously didn't happen!  ;)  I had fun coloring these images with my Copics - I NEED more, though...  :)

Recipe - Stamps: Road Trip (Inkadikado)  Paper: Wild Wasabi, Bravo Burgundy, Night of Navy, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White  Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Bravo Burgundy  Accessories: Paper piercer, grosgrain ribbons, hemp twine, clear embossing powder, Copics

Make sure to stop and see what the rest of the PPC Creators created with these colors:

Allison Barroll

Lori Turner

Nicole Anderson

Sandy Tran

Trish Radacs

Jackie Weeks

Tamie Camp

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Paula McClane

Don't forget about our Blog Hop starting at 10:00 a.m. this morning ~ there will be lots of fun and even PRIZES so make sure to start at the Picture Perfect Creations Color Challenge Blog and start your hopping from there! 

Cottage Comfort at The Shabby Tea Room

Happy Monday everyone!

Y'all know how busy Mondays are for me and this one is no exception!  This week's theme over at The Shabby Tea Room is "Cottage Comfort" - inspired by this warm and cozy picture:

Nicole is asking us to use warm colors and/or stripes in our creations so I did just that.  I LOVE the colors in the comforter and picked four that I thought went well together ~ Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Riding Hood Red and Groovy Guava.  I found Amy R's new sketch , dug out my new Cherry Blossoms stamp set from Flourishes and got to work:

Recipe - Stamps: Cherry Blossoms (Flourishes)  Ink: Groovy Guava, Chocolate Chip, Fired Brick Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)  Paper: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Groovy Guava, SU! DP, Kraft  Accessories: Paper piercer, Nestabilities, Perfect Polka Dots EF (SU!/Sizzix), corduroy buttons (SU!), stitched grosgrain ribbon

Our sponsor this week in the Tea Room is:

Make sure you stop by and see what the rest of the Shabby Girls created:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark - Papier Girl

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations 

Thanks for stopping by - don't forget to come back in a bit for the PPC Summer Kick-Off Blog Hop!  See you then!

Curtain Call. . . Act 35???

Act 35 already?  How on earth did that happen?  This week Stacey has given us another bright and cheery combination to inspire us over at the Curtain Call Color Challenge:

This is another card I worked on while I was in Jasper a few weeks ago - let me tell you, though, I am not totally thrilled with the result.  I love the colors but I found it difficult - I think the Green Galore threw me off... I am not a Bold Brights kind of girl.  :)  I'm not sure if it is the layout, the card size, or what but I wish I had had time to do another one.  I used Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #70 to help me out:

 

Recipe - Stamps: Petals and Stems (Verve), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)  Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Garden Greeen, Green Galore, SU! DP, Whisper White  Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Cameo Coral, Garden Green  Accessories: Paper Piercer, square punches, adhesive pearls, adhesive rhinestone swirl

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 35 creation using Mr. Linky at Stacey's Stamping Stage.

I hope you will take some time to show us what you can do with these summery colors - the creativity out there amazes us week after week!  Have fun - enjoy your Sunday!

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! 

Daisyboardabella at Picture Perfect Creations

Well, here we are again...  :)

I AM LOVING this week's color combination at Picture Perfect Creations Color Challenge and cannot WAIT for these two new colors to be available for purchase!  Unfortunately, since I am not a SU! demonstrator, I do not yet *have* these fabulous colors so I had to substitute Chocolate Chip and Riding Hood Red for the Espresso and Cherry:

Stamps: Daisyboardabella (Stamping Bella), sentiment from Little Paper Shop  Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Elegant Eggplant, SU! DP  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Chocolate Chip  Accessories: Clear embossing powder, Riding Hood Red ribbon, Copics, paper piercer, hodgepodge hardware, mat pack

Make sure to stop and see what the rest of the PPC Creators did with these colors:

Allison Barroll

Lori Turner

Nicole Anderson

Sandy Tran

Trish Radacs

Jackie Weeks

Tamie Camp

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Paula McClane

 

That's it for me today, everyone - I've given you lots to do so skedaddle and get busy!  :)  Later, gators!

Summer Fun the Shabby Tea Room!

Are you ready to play with us again in The Shabby Tea Room?  I am the hostess for this week's Theme Challenge: "Summer Fun."  We want to see YOUR interpretation of this theme... will the colors of summer inspire you or will the summer activities you and your family enjoy be your inspiration?  I can't wait to see what you all create.  :)

Here in Alberta, we've been "enjoying" rain, rain and more rain so summer fun has been the last thing on my mind lately!  But, not one to let a bit of rain get in my way of creating a fun summer card, I sat down to create this adorable card with (yet) another new Pure Innocence girlie...isn't she the CUTEST?? 

Debbie very graciously sent us all some of her fabulous vintage seam binding to play with  - what great stuff it is - I used Oatmeal Cream.  If you are interested in purchasing some of this beautiful embellishment, please visit her Etsy store: Simple Treasures.  This week's winner will WIN some of this fabulousness so make sure to play with us!

I also used this week's sketch from the OCC Sketch Blog:

Make sure you stop by and see what the rest of the design team created:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

See you in a bit for another Picture Perfect Creations color challenge!