Color Dare #77 & 2 Sketches 4 You

Welcome back for another fabulous Color Dare!  Riley has combined four fabulous colors this week - a little bit of the old and a bit of the new:  Tempting Turquoise, Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie and Not Quite Navy.  Have I told you all how much I enjoy the Poppy Parade?  It is such a pretty shade of red...

I clicked over to 2 Sketches 4 You to see what the girls had for us this week - it's been a LONG time since I've played with Laura and Kazan's sketches.  This week's sketch has such a CAS feel to it so I thought I'd give it a try... I'm *so* trying to embrace the idea of CAS:

I couldn't decide if the sketch was more rectangle or square so I made the *executive* decision to make a square card:

Recipe - Stamp: Small Script (SU!)  Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Poppy Parade  Ink: Not Quite Navy  Accessories: Paper piercer, twine, eyelet, Modern Label punch, adhesive pearls, Elegant Bouquet embossing folder (SU!)

I hope you will take a few minutes to stop and see what the rest of the Color Dare design team (their links are to the left) has created with these colors and then give it a try yourself!  Don't forget to link back so we can come and see what yumminess you come up with!

Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday - see you tomorrow for a new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!

Wanna See Scarlette and her JUGS?

Well, OK... I'm stretching it a little.  No one's going to see anything they shouldn't on this-here blog...no siree.  Yes, there's a bathtub and yes, there are a few bubbles but...  What I *was* referring to (not very eloquently, I might add) is the fact that the Scarlette stamp I used for this card was combined with the Just Us Girls color challenge.  I also used the Crazy 4 Challenges sketch and this week's Totally Stampalicious challenge to use three different ribbons on our project.

Recipe - Stamps: Bubble Bath Scarlette (Totally Stampalicious)  Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red, Wild Wasabi  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Silver brads, various ribbons, oval punch, Nesties, clear embossing powder, Copics, Twizzle embossing folder (Sizzix), twine

Thanks for stopping by today - can you believe we are almost at the end of September?  ACK!  I really need to see the sunshine for a *few* more days...enough of this rainy stuff.  See you again soon!

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

Diva Coffee Break Designs Meets The Sweet Sunday Sketch

Hello again!

It is C-O-L-D and rainy here in Central Alberta today - the perfect combination for staying inside and CRAFTING!!  I knew you'd agree...  :)  So, I combined the Diva Coffee Break Designs color challenge with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch.

At first, the colors screamed fall, but when I looked through my stamps, I didn't find anything that screamed "Use ME!" so I went in a completely different direction and made a boy-ish card:

Recipe: Stamps - Dog-Gone Cute (MFT)  Paper: Kraft, Cajun Craze, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla,
Wild Wasabi, Woodland Garden DSP  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Nesties, Seeing Spots EF, Gridlock EF, clear embossing powder, twine, Copics
 

I had so much fun paper-piecing his clothes - isn't he cute?  The colors are very fall-ish so this card also qualifies for Paper Sundaes' challenge this week to use fall or Halloween colors.

Thanks for stopping by - I hope the weather is much nicer wherever you are!  Send some this way if you can.  :)  See you tomorrow!

Another 3-in-One Quickie. . .

Hey again, crafty friends!

Here I am again . . . still recovering from a nasty tummy bug.  At least I have been able to eat a bit today which is a good sign, right?  I thought I'd work on a little something this morning and immediately put this week's fabulous Color Throwdown together with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch:

Recipe - Stamps: Beautiful Kindness (Verve)  Paper: Pink Pirouette, Basic Grey, Rich Razzleberry, SU! DSP  Ink: Pink Pirouette, Rich Razzleberry  Accessories: Paper piercer, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, Basic Grey satin ribbon, Nesties, Scallop Edge border punch, sewing machine, adhesive pearls

I also stitched the ribbon so this card qualifies for Stampin' Royalty's "Stitching" Challenge #37.

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you have plans to enjoy the weekend.  I'm hoping to feel good enough to get out in the yard to start putting stuff away and get ready for, shhhhhh.... {winter}.  See you soon!

Unscripted Sketches #72 & Colour Q #50

Hi everyone!

I'm going to make this post short and sweet - I've been home sick all day but wanted to get this card posted before I forgot about it.  I used Arielle's Colour Q challenge (can you believe she's at #50 already??) and the sketch from Unscripted Sketches (rotated):

 

 

Recipe - Stamps: Forever in Our Hearts (Verve), Vintage Labels (SU!)  Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler  Paper: SU! DSP, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait  Accessories: Paper piercer, sewing machine, taffeta ribbon, SU! border punch, adhesive pearls, hodgepodge hardware frame, oval punches

This card also qualifies for Stampin' Royalty #37 Challenge to use stitching.

Thanks for stopping by - don't forget to check out the new challenge over at the 4 Crafty Chicks!  We'd love to have you join us!  See you soon!

Challenge #3 at the 4 Crafty Chicks!

Hello everyone!  What a week I've had so far - my supposedly indestructible Mac cratered on Sunday morning - it would turn on but refused to boot past the lovely Apple/spinning gear screen.  *sigh*  It's scary to realize how much info is on there that I depend on for day to day stuff - not to mention the iTunes library my son is worried about!  And now I'm having trouble with the photo-editing software I have to make-do with so if my pictures look wonky, I apologize.  :)  LOL

But enough moaning and groaning....  We've got another fun and fabulous 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge - this week's hostess with the mostess is Tamie and she is challenging us to use embossing on our projects.  You all know how much I {love} embossing so this was an easy challenge for me.

I totally love that I get to play with Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge for FUN now - not that it wasn't fun before but, well, you know what I mean!  The colors she picked this week are rather subdued compared to some of the recent combos, but I think they're fabulous:

I combined it with this week's Mojo Monday sketch created by the super-awesome Teresa Kline:

And here ya go:

Recipe - Paper: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Kraft, To the Nines DSP (SU!)  Ink: Early Espresso, Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke  Accessories: Paper piercer, MS Optic Dot border punch, adhesive pearls, SU stencil, sponge daubers, Kraft taffeta ribbon, button, hemp twine, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Paisley embossing folder, sentiment rub-on

I hope you will join us at the 4 Crafty Chicks for our embossing challenge - we will award three "Golden Egg" awards for our top three picks.  You have until Tuesday, September 21 at 11:59 MST to submit your project - have fun with embossing