A Color Challenge at Sentimental Sundays

Welcome to another Sentimental Sundays' challenge!  This week's challenge is a color challenge but please don't worry if you don't have these exact colors - just use whatever you have on hand that is close. :)

I have decided that I am going to try and complete ALL of the Viva la Verve sketches this year over at Splitcoast.  I kind of forgot about them last year but with the chance to win some new Verve-a-liciousness each month, how could I NOT play?  So, here is the January Week #2 sketch from Charmaine:

And my card:

Stamps: Floral Symphony (Verve)  Ink: Handsome Hunter  Paper: Handsome Hunter, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla, Garden Variety (Cosmo Cricket)  Accessories: Paper piercer, Oval Nesties, jumbo eyelet, button, baker's twine, Crushed Curry ribbon, Old Olive twill ribbon, scallop circle nesties

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope you will be able to play along with us!  See you tomorrow.  :)

A Recipe Challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks

Hello again, everyone!  How's the week been treating you?  First of all, I want to thank everyone that played along with my metal challenge last week at the 4 Crafty Chicks - you guys knocked it outta the park!  We posted the winners yesterday so if you want to check out our Golden Egg winners please do and then while you are there, take a peek at our new challenge.  Tamie is the hostess-with-the-mostest this week and she has given us a recipe to follow while making this week's cards:  3 patterned papers, 2 brads and 1 ribbon. 

I spent the other evening over at The Cat's Pajamas Pajama Party at SCS and had some great fun with Alma and the girls - the new release is awesome!  If you missed it, please check it out over at the TCP store and then pop over to the TCP Blog for some FABULOUS creations using the new stamps.  Did I order some?  Ummm...what do you think?  :)   This week's TCP Tuesday Challenge is a color challenge and I really like the colors Sony chose:

And, since TCP is this month's sponsor over at Jen's Sketch For You to Try and the sketch is REALLY awesome, I thought I'd use it again for my card:

Once I had the colors and sketch out of the way, I had to find some patterned paper that would work for these colors and came across another paper pad from Cosmo Cricket that I had never used.*sigh*  I am so addicted to paper...  Anyhoo, this one is called Material Girl and it has some really fun patterns in it.  Here ya go - my card with 3 patterned papers, 2 black brads and 1 ribbon - some black satin...LOVE IT!

Stamps: Ship Happens (TCP)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black  Paper: Material Girl DSP (Cosmo Cricket), SU! DSP, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Poppy Parade, Whisper White  Accessories: Black brads,black satin ribbon, sewing machine, corner punch, scor-tape, Copics, red metallic cord, halfback pearl (Pretties Kit), circle punch, clear embossing powder

I hope you will play along with the 4 Crafty Chicks this week - you know we love it when you do.  :)  Enjoy the rest of your week.  It is FINALLY starting to warm up around here so I am looking forward to enjoying the sun.  See you soon!

A Couple of Verve Challenges and a Color Throwdown

Hello everyone!  While I was enjoying The Cat's Pajama Release party the other night, I took a few minutes to browse around the Splitcoast Stampers website because I hadn't been there for quite awhile...I know, bad me.  As many of you know, Verve stamps are some of my favorite stamps in the whole world and LOVE to use them whenever I can.  I regularly play in Julee's Mojo Monday challenge but completely forgot about the Viva la Verve weekly challenges and the Verve Stamps Blog challenges... *head hung*  I had to rectify *that* little faux pas and speedy-quick so I sat down this afternoon and whipped a little something up.  :)

This month's Verve Diva Dare challenge is "Baby Love" and this week's Color Throwdown has the PERFECT color combination for a baby card.  For my sketch, I popped back over to the Viva la Verve forum at Splitcoast and found the Week #1 sketch from Amber  & let me tell you, this was a VERY hard sketch for me.  I find that long, skinny cards are more difficult because I feel like I need to *fill* all the space instead of just letting it be... anyone else do this?  I'm probably the only one.  :) 

Stamps: Hello Pumpkin (Verve)  Paper: Very Vanilla, Kraft, SU! DSP, Cappella paper pad (Basic Grey)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake  Accessories: Sewing machine, clear embossing powder, buttons, Kraft tag die cut, adhesive pearls, Labels Five Nesties, Kraft taffeta ribbon, sponge dauber

So, there it is - too bad I don't know anyone having a baby.  :( I will see you all back here tomorrow morning for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks challenge - it's a fun one, you won't want to miss it!  See you then!

Another Color Dare & My Nemesis...Pacific Point

Happy Hump Day!  Can you believe that we are already halfway through January?  We have had nothing but snow, snow and more snow over the last week and a half or so and, I'll be honest, I'm tired of it.  I know it *is* winter and I *do* live in Canada and snow *is* part and parcel for winter but, gosh-darn-it-anyways...  :)

I suppose there is a bright side to the snow and cold - it's perfect stay-in-the-house-and-bake-and-craft weather.  Maybe if I keep telling myself that, I'll start to believe it...do you think?  Enough about the weather, though, you came for a challenge and this week's Color Dare is a doozy... Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette, and Regal Rose.  It is very similar to one combo Riley had before Christmas and I struggled with that one too.  I found Julee's new Mojo Monday sketch and its simple layout convinced me to give 'er a whirl...

Stamps: Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette  Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, SU! DSP (Bella Rose, I think...)  Accessories: Sponge dauber, Labels Nine Nestabilities, Pink Pirouette & Regal Rose grosgrain ribbon, halfback pearls (Pretties Kit), Square Lattice embossing folder, paper piercer

As always, thanks for popping by today.  If you don't have an aversion to Pacific Point like I do (or even if you do and are looking for a *real* challenge...), we'd love to see your creations over at the Color Dare blog.  You've got until next Tuesday at midnight to submit your entry.  Have fun!

A Specialty Challenge at Picture Perfect Creations

Hello everyone!  Welcome back for a fun challenge at Picture Perfect Creations.  As many of you know, we usually have a color challenge for you all but this week, being the third Monday of the month, we've got a specialty challenge and it's one that ANYONE can participate in.  :)  We want to see your embossing - and you can decide if you want to use heat or dry or both!

I love this week's color combo over at The Play Date Cafe - so calming...  I decided to use Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, a bit of Kraft and Basic Grey:

The sketch is from Friday Sketchers:

Stamps: Accent Notes (Verve)  Paper: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, SU! DSP  Ink: Soft Suede, Baja Breeze  Accessories: Perfect Polkas Dots embossing folder, Plum Blossom #1 embossing folder, twine, hat pin and beads & flowers (Pretties kit), paper piercer, Kraft tag die cut, Basic Grey satin ribbon, circle punch

I found this awesome rolled flower tutorial awhile ago and LOVE how the flowers turn out but I don't use hot glue for mine.  I use a little square of double sided sticky paper (Sookwang/Be Creative) and stick it to a piece of cardstock and then use my circle punch to punch out the base of the flower.

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you will have time to play along with us this week at Picture Perfect Creations.  Be sure to stop and see how the other PPC Creators integrated the embossing challenge into their cards.  See you again soon!

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!