Color Dare #81 & Regina's 2S4Y Bonus Sketch

It's Wednesday and that means....WAIT!!  Before I get to the "real" reason for today's post I want to say "Happy Birthday!" to my littlest man who turns eleven today!  Eleven???  How did that happen?  He's requested a Chocolate Cake with Mint Cream Cheese frosting and Fettucine Alfredo for supper so that's what I'll be doing today when I get home from work and the gym.  :)

All-righty then - - - back to your regularly scheduled programming!  It's Wednesday and that means it's time for another Color Dare from Riley.  I really like this week's colors together: Sahara Sand, Rich Razzleberry and Peach Parfait.  When I first sat down to make my card, I wasn't sure what I was going to do.  I went through all of my stamps and NONE were jumping out at me.  I hadn't picked a sketch yet so I thought I'd see if that would give me a push in the right direction.  I hit the jackpot when I got to 2 Sketches 4 You!  Not only did they have their "regular" weekly sketch but they had two "bonus" sketches!  I fell in love with Regina's bonus sketch:

Once I had the layout in my head, I went back to my stamps and found a Stampin' Up! set I hadn't even put together...*hanging head*... and off I went:

Supplies - Stamps: Kind and Caring Thoughts, Well Scripted  Ink: Rich Razzleberry  Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Sahara Sand, SU! DSP  Accessories: Paper piercer, Divine Swirls embossing folder, Peach Parfait twill ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today.  Make sure you stop and see what the rest of the Color Dare design team created with this fab combo - their links are to the left.  See you tomorrow with a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!

PPC #35 & Unscripted Sketches #77

Welcome to another week, everyone!  It's Monday and that can only mean one thing - a brand new Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo from Megan.  This week's combination is quite lovely, if I do say so myself:

I spent most of the weekend reading the Percy Jackson series so I didn't have much time for crafting.  Yes, I read the entire series in a weekend -- I read until the wee hours of the morning and neglected my family for two and a half days.  Was it worth it?  Definitely.  Now I can't wait to read the first book in Rick Riordan's newest series, The Lost Hero.  So, anyways... I needed to make my card quickly so I popped over to Unscripted Sketches to see if theirs would work and, thank goodness, it did:

Recipe - Stamps: Proverbs 3:5 (Verve)  Ink: Chocolate Chip  Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, SU! DSP  Accessories: Scallop Circle punch, Square Lattice embossing folder, brad, paper piercer, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Little Leaves Sizzlit, circle punches

I hope you can join us this week at PPC - if you need more inspiration, please stop by the rest of the PPC Creators blogs to see what they created for us...their links are to the left.  :)  See you soon!

Friday Fun - Take Two!

I'm ba-ack.  :)  I got my Pumpkin Cinnamon Buns done but the Caramel Apple Muffins are going to have to wait.  {Someone} got distracted by a color challenge.  I'm sure that doesn't happen to anyone else, right?

You want to see what prevented me from baking cupcakes?  Well, here's the Play Date Cafe's color challenge for this week ... aren't the colors fabulously calm and soothing?

You all know that I can't let an awesome color combo be without an equally awesome sketch so off to clean&simple stamping I went to find this beauty:

I decided to use Crumb Cake/Kraft, Baja Breeze and Sage Shadow for my colors and stuck with the leaf/nature theme to create this bit of loveliness:

Stamp: Lemons, Life and Love (Flourishes)  Paper: Woodland Walk DSP, Baja Breeze, Sage Shadow, Kraft, Very Vanilla  Ink: Crumb Cake  Accessories: Paper piercer, corner rounder, Leafy Branch embossing folder, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Kraft taffeta ribbon, Daisies Die (Sizzix), button, hemp twine

Okie dokie - that's going to be it for today.  DH is bringing home "How to Train Your Dragon" so we'll be popping some popcorn and hunkering down in front of the TV tonight.  Enjoy your Friday night - see you back here on Monday for a new Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo! 

Friday Morning Fun

YIPPEE!!!  It's Friday!!  I am VERY ready for the weekend.  Not too sure yet what it will bring but I'm sure crafting will be involved at some point... :)

I didn't have to go in to work today so I had the whole morning free to do whatever my little heart desired and, well, wouldn't you know it?  Making a card was the winner!  I saw the Color Throwdown's combination a couple of days ago and knew I had to create {something} since my fave Poppy Parade is one of the colors:

I picked out my new CC Designs Baby Trick or Treat Dragon Stamp for the image and off I went to find a sketch.  Unscripted Sketches #76 fit the bill:

Isn't he cute? I had a hard time figuring out how to color the little dude, but eventually came up with something I am OK with. 

Have a great Friday - I am off to do some baking since it is cloudy and cool here today {and it's been a LONG time since I've had time to bake...}  Right now I've got dough for Pumpkin Cinnamon Buns rising and then I'm going to make some Caramel Apple Cupcakes.  Both are new-to-me recipes so I'll let you know how it goes.  :)  See you later!

Think Pink Blog Hop at the Cat's Pajamas

Did you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month?  Of course you did!!  I'm sure most of us have had our lives touched by this disease in some way or another.  Over at The Cat's Pajamas, it's a "Think Pink Customer Blog Hop" and Alma's given us a challenge ~ in honor of World Card Making day AND Breast Cancer Awareness Month, she and the Cat Pack are challenging us to use PINK.  Now, I must admit, pink isn't my "go-to"color and I {certainly} don't make cards consisting of ONLY pink...but I thought I'd make an exception this time.  *grin*


I decided to use Birthday Bunny along with Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose and the TCP Tuesday 129 Sketch was a perfect match for the stamp:

I also used TCP Flower Buttons and Wave dies - I love those things!  I need to pull them out more often.  :)  I colored the image with my Copics... I just got 38 new colors in the mail today and *had* to try some of them out...right???  *grin*  I bit of ribbon scrunching and paper poking to finish it off and VOILA!  A pretty cute card, if I do say so myself.  :)

If you'd like to play along with the TCP Customer Blog Hop, you have until October 18 to get it done.  Thanks for stopping by tonight - it's almost time for Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.  :)  Hopefully I'll have more to share with you tomorrow - see you then!

An Inspiration Challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks

Welcome back, everyone!  I have an inspiration challenge for you this week at the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge.  Take a peek at this fabulous photo from Better Homes and Gardens:

Now, you can use whatever you want from the picture as your inspiration...it could be the colors, the shapes, the theme, the textures ...whatever!  Pretty much anything goes (within reason, of course!  LOL)

When I first saw this picture, I was immediately struck by the light fixture and the hanging "mobile"  and the very modern feel of this dining area.  Of course, as my card evolved, it ended up being NOTHING like I envisioned it would!  LOL  I thought the colors reminded me of So Saffron (for the rectangle on the wall), Pumpkin Pie (for the place mats on the table) and then Kraft and Espresso (for the wood).  The table looks like it could be set for a celebration of some kind so I went with a birthday card.  I found one of my Pure Innocence girlies and discovered that Taylor's Sketch would be perfect for it:

 

Recipe - Stamps: Birthday Princess (MFT)  Ink: So Saffron, Early Espresso  Paper: Early Espresso, Whisper White, Kraft, SU! DSP  Accessories: Adhesive pearls, Scallop Edge border punch, Kassie's Brocade embossing folder, paper piercer, Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon, staples, Nesties, Copics

Over at Crazy 4 Challenges, it is Silke's birthday this month so she's asking us to make a birthday card - how perfect!  :)

So let's see what you can create using this picture for inspiration - I know we will ALL take different things from it and that's the beauty of an inspiration challenge...  :)  Make sure you go back to the 4 Crafty Chicks blog when you are done to link us up so we can come and see how clever you are.  Have fun!

Oh, How I LOVE Kraftin' Kimmie...

I absolutely ADORE the Moonlight Whispers stamps.  Annie Rodrigue is a freakin' GENIUS and so is Kimmie for turning the art into stamps!  I recently acquired the Batty Princess stamp and knew I HAD to use it for this week's Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge to make a "spooky" card.  Perfect.  And to kill two birds with one stone, it's a spooky card challenge over at Stampin' Royalty too!

I knew I'd likely have to make a square card because the image is almost too big for a regular card so I was THRILLED when I found Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch - it is a square AND the main image panel is rather large.  Unfortunately, the image is *still* a bit too big so I had to improvise and have it hang over the edge a bit:

Recipe - Stamps: Batty Princess (Kraftin' Kimmie)  Ink: Onyx Black Versafine  Paper: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, polka dot paper (Daisy D's), black bat paper (Cosmo Cricket)  Accessories: Black satin ribbon, paper piercer, Spiral Edge punch, Modern Label punch, twine, Copics, dimensionals, Scor-Tape

I wish I had a better camera because I don't think this picture really does the card justice - the colors are so much more vivid in real life.  I had a TON of fun coloring this girl... and she has wings so I have accomplished the City Crafter Challenge Blog to create a card that has wings on it.

That's it for me tonight - don't forget to check back tomorrow morning for a new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!  Later peeps!