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!

Another Color Dare Wednesday

Morning everyone! You'll have to excuse my frantic post this morning - I forgot to come back and finish it after I uploaded the pics so when I woke up this morning I PANICKED!  I have a few minutes now before the kids get up for school, so here I am!

This week's color combo over at the Color Dare is Poppy Parade, So Saffron and Very Vanilla.  I decided to use the Unscripted Sketches newest sketch as well as the Paper Players' challenge to make a Valentine's card:

OH - I also decorated a coordinating envelope for this week's challenge at Just Us Girls.  :)

I will try to come back later to post the deets on my card - time to get the monsters up!  Later gators!

A Monday "For Fun" Card

Hi again, everyone!  I am staying warm and cozy inside today - the snow and wind and cold don't seem to want to stop and the kids have a Snow Day so I figured what better to do than make a card???  I know you're all in agreement, right?

So, I've been looking at the Color Throwdown's combo since I caught the sneak peek last week on Facebook but just haven't had the chance to use it...until now...  :)

I'm sure glad I didn't throw away all my *old* colors.  I've also had Jen's Sketch For You To Try sitting on my desktop since she posted it but really wanted to be able to use my Cat's Pajamas stamps and *that* opportunity didn't present itself... until now.  I also want to say how much I LOVE that Jen has gone to a monthly sketch because it gives me more time to play along.

Stamps: Birthday Bunny (TCP)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Always Artichoke, Baja Breeze, Cameo Coral  Paper: Whisper White, Always Artichoke, SU! DSP  Accessories: Seeing Spots embossing folder, paper piercer, twine, button, Modern Label punch, Labels Four Nestabilities, sponge dauber, Copics

Here's a pic of the Copics I used - the ones you can't read are BG93 and R22:

And, like my card earlier this morning, Stampin' Royalty is having a birthday so their theme is birthday cards and this one fits the bill perfectly.  :)  Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your Monday!

PPC #45

Happy Monday, everyone!  Wow - have we ever got a LOT of snow this weekend...I stayed home all warm and toasty but my DH wasn't so lucky.  He *had* to go out but getting *out* wasn't the problem... it was trying to get back IN after MORE snow and wind made some pretty horrendous drifts on our LONG country driveway.  He ended up getting stuck on his way back in - no WAY would I even be attempting to go anywhere!  LOL  It gave me the perfect excuse to stay inside and CRAFT!

This week Megan has given us an interesting combination over at the Picture Perfect Creations Color Challenge - what do you think?

I started out following Tracy's sketch over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp *to-the-letter* but as it evolved, it didn't end up *exactly* like the sketch - my white panel is not centered, my image isn't centered and I rotated it 180 degrees:

The girlies over at Stampin' Royalty are celebrating their first birthday this week (has it really been a year already?) so they have asked us to make a birthday card so that's exactly what I did:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy (SU!)  Ink: Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgundy  Paper: Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White, Wild Wasabi  Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Square Lattice embossing folder, River Rock grosgrain ribbon, twine, scallop oval punch, oval punch

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope the weather is better than ours wherever you are.  If you're snowed in, look on the bright side...it's PERFECT for crafting.  :)  We'd love to have you join us over at PPC. 

Enjoy your week!