PPC #21 & SSSC #77

Hello again!

This week's challenge over at Picture Perfect Creations gives us three of the new SU! color renovation colors - and, sadly, I don't have any of them yet.  BUT - lucky for me - I have a SUPERFABULOUS friend who DOES have these colors and she gave me a sheet of each to work with.  I really only needed two of the colors since the Crumb Cake is very close to Kraft so I just used some of that...

Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge is a bit of a different shape this week - start with a 6.5" square piece of cardstock and fold it in half... that's your card base.  It didn't really leave me much room for a huge image so I decided to pull out my Elegant Trio Stencil Set from SU!'s Definitely Decorative line...

Recipe - Stamps: Celebrate You (Verve)  Paper: Kraft, Pretty in Pink, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Whisper White, SU! DSP (Tea Party)  Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink, Riding Hood Red  Accessories: Paper piercer, sponge dauber, Elegant Trio Stencil Set, Pretty in Pink striped grosgrain ribbon, buttons, EK Success border punch (Parisian)

I used a clear button on my bow so this card also qualifies for Sentimental Sundays' challenge to use a clear element on our creation. 

I hope you give this week's color combo a try - don't worry if you don't have the exact colors!  Just use whatever you have on hand that is close and if you need some more inspiration, please visit the rest of the PPC Creators' blogs to see what they did:

Allison Barroll

Lori Turner

Nicole Anderson

Sandy Tran

Trish Radacs

Jackie Weeks

Tamie Camp

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Paula McClane

 

Have a great Monday - see you soon!  

Christmas in July at The Shabby Tea Room

Christmas?  In July?  I have to admit, the day I made this card the weather was a rainy, cold and windy and it sure felt like winter was just around the corner!  If you are one of "those" people that have already started your Christmas shopping, then this week's challenge will be right up your alley.  :)  The Shabby Tea Room challenge theme is "Christmas in July" and we'd like you to make a card or project with a holiday theme.

I wanted to ink up one of my Pure Innocence girlies that I hadn't been able to use yet and found a fabulous sketch from Julee and the gals over at Mojo Monday - it fit my image perfectly!

Recipe - Stamps: Presents for You (Pure Innocence, MFT)  Paper: Soft Suede, Real Red, Whisper White, SU! DSP  Ink: Soft Suede  Accessories: Hemp twine, paper piercer, Nestabilities, Copics, square punches, adhesie rhinestones, Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder

This week's sponsor in the TR is Frost it Pink and the lucky winner will receive a prize package filled with fabulous goodies so I hope you will join us!

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

Have fun thinking about snow...snow...snow...  ;)  See you later!

Curtain Call Meets Mojo Monday!

What a week it's been!  I know I keep saying this over and over but between work and trying to keep on top of house *stuff*, I haven't had much time at all for creating ... and it's really starting to bug me!  LOL  I NEED my "me" time and it just seems like everything else has been taking priority lately.  *sigh*  Ok, enough of my whining - let's get to the reason you are here today!

Today Stacey has given us another FABULOUS combination over at the Curtain Call Color Challenge - I SOOO love the splash of pumpkin pie in this lovely bouquet:

I've been using Julee's Mojo Monday sketch all week and it is so fabulous that I have made two cards with it - the other one you will see tomorrow for the new Shabby Tea Room challenge:

Here's my take on the sketch using Stacey's awesome colors:

Recipe: Stamp - Hebrews 11:1 (Verve)  Ink: Regal Rose  Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry Prints paper  Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Birds and Vines embossing folder, Nesties, hemp twine, felt flowers, button, Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon, paper piercer

I have to admit, I kind of copped out by using so much white (which should have been vanilla - but I realized it MUCH too late! OOPS) but when I tried to put more of the *colors* together, it ended up looking too gaudy.  I love how this turned out...  :) 

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 July...Silke Ledlow at My Life.

...then play along with us and post your Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 38 creation using Mr. Linky over at Stacey's Stamping Stage.

Enjoy your Sunday - see you back here tomorrow!

Color Throwdown Celebrates 100 ~~ Holy Smokes!!!

WOW - it's hard to believe that the gals over at The Color Throwdown have been at this for almost 2 years of weekly challenges!!!  They manage to inspire us week after week - sometimes requiring *me* to step out of my box... WAYYYY out of my box!  LOL  I was so excited when I read that they were going to have a HUGE celebration to mark this milestone - can we say INCREDIBLE fun and prizes??  If you check out this post you will find the HUGE list of companies that have graciously donated prizes to help the CTD crew celebrate!

So, without further ado - here's the one hundredth color combination:

Don'tcha just LOVE those colors???  SO much fun!  I used Julee's Mojo Monday sketch:

Here ya' go. . .

I know it's REALLY hard to see the three strips behind the main image because the oval layers got so big and the square covers them up at the bottom but I PROMISE you that they are there!  LOL  I love this stamp set from Verve - one can never have too many Verves, right?  :)

I hope you will take some time to play with the girls at CTD and then check out their creations for this week - making a card and then leaving comments for the girls is the only way you're going to be able to qualify for those amazing prizes!  Have fun!

A Little Bitta' PPC and a Little Bitta' JUGS...

Here we are again...  :)

This week's combo over at Picture Perfect Creations gave me a bit of trouble - I just couldn't wrap my brain around the pink and red.  I don't have any Cherry Cobbler yet so I had to use Riding Hood Red instead.  :)

I haven't played along with the gals at Just Us Girls for awhile so I thought I'd give this week's sketch a whirl:

In addition to the fabulous sketch, they have an additional "challenge" for us: use stamps from Just Rite Stampers if you've got them... and lucky for me, I've got them!  The center is from the Girl Time Borders and Centers set and the border is from the Just a Little Caffeine Borders and Centers set:

Recipe - Stamps: Just Rite Stampers (info above), sentiment from Verve  Paper: Whisper White, Rose Red, Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, SU! DSP  Ink: Riding Hood Red, Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Parisian border punch (EK Success), Nestabilities, buttons, twine, Whisper White taffeta ribbon, paper piercer, Paisley embossing folder, clear embossing powder, pop dots

This card also fits this week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room to use embossing and I used both dry and heat embossing on this card.  :)

Don't you just LOVE the bling on the purse?  Gives it just a little bitta' sparkle.  :)  I had a bit of trouble with my new border punch but I wasn't about to start all over.  ;)

I hope you give this week's color combo a try and if you need some more inspiration, please visit the rest of the PPC Creators' blogs to see what they did:

Allison Barroll

Lori Turner

Nicole Anderson

Sandy Tran

Trish Radacs

Jackie Weeks

Tamie Camp

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Paula McClane

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy the rest of your Monday!

Let's Make an Impression at The Shabby Tea Room

Welcome to another new week - the first Monday of July. . . time sure flies!  This week's challenge in The Shabby Tea Room is to use embossing somewhere on your project.  It can be heat embossing, dry embossing or a combination of the two techniques.  This week's winner will win a prize package from our sponsor:

I love the goodies Pixiepetals sent me and used the colors from the fabric flower as my color inspiration.  I used Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch from last week:

Et voila!

Recipe - Stamp: Thankful Accents (Verve)  Ink: Bravo Burgundy  Paper: Bravo Burgundy, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, SU! DSP  Accessories: Nestabilities, paper piercer, Bravo Burgundy grosgrain ribbon, Square Lattice embossing folder (SU!), fabric flower (Pixiepetals)

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

I hope you will join us for this week's challenge - embossing is one of my favorite techniques (as my regular readers will already know!).  Have fun and enjoy creating!

Curtain Call - Act #37...

Hey everyone!

I hope you are enjoying your summer holidays as much as I am. . . the weather has been VERY cooperative lately and we have been able to get a fair bit of work done in the yard that has been, shall I say, neglected the last few weeks.

Between working and playing outside, running errands to town, looking for a new vehicle, my crafting time has been little to none BUT I managed to sit down on Friday night and get my card for Stacey's Curtain Call - Act 37 and what a great color combo she gave us this week:

Don't the cupcakes look YUMMY?  I always love the sketches over at Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge and this week's sketch is no exception:

I quickly stopped in at the Paper Makeup Stamps challenge to see hat they had for us this week and discovered a fun one: they want us to make a window card, and I must admit, I have NEVER done one of these so I thought I'd give it a try.

I still had some turquoise and melon mambo out in my desk from my STR card last week so it wasn't hard to put this beauty together - actually it *was* kind of hard but only because I forgot the you can't cut through lots of layers with Nestabilities so I was almost done and then had to start from scratch in order to cut one layer at a time!  Oh well, live and learn, right? 

Recipe - Stamps: Proverbs 3:5 Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Chocolate Chip  Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Barely Banana, Melon Mambo, SU DSP, unknown DSP  Accessories: Velvet flowers, buttons, twine, Nestabilities, pop-up glue dots

Here are a couple more views of the card:

And the inside:

I used my new Embossed Curve border punch (EK Success) for the inside sentiment layer but made a bit of a boo-boo with one of the scallops so I stuck on a couple of adhesive pearls to cover it up.  :)

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 

 ...then play along with us and post your Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 37 creation using Mr. Linky at Stacey's Stamping Stage.


Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have fun with these colors - I know I did!  See you tomorrow!