Flowers Bouquet for CQC239 & FMS134

Good morning and thanks for stopping by to visit my blog.  Today I am playing along with two challenges.  The first is for the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and the second is the color challenge over at Colour Q.

Its funny how when you see a set of colors or a sketch you sometimes know exactly what you want to create, but on the other hand, its weird how someone else can also be thinking similar thoughts.  When I saw the sketch at freshly made sketches, I knew I wanted to arrange my flowers in a circular pattern to follow the sketch shape, but before I start a project card, I always go in and look at what has already been done and submitted to make sure my thought has not already been submitted.  Well that's sort of what happened with this card.  Design team member, Cindy Hall had created her card with flowers arranged for her circle too!  Great minds think a like right!?!  I went to work with my same idea and made sure to make my different as to not make it look like my was copied off of hers.

 

So my card base is pumpkin pie and my dsp layer is from the quatrefancy specialty pack.  I layered with a cut strip of burlap ribbon and wrapped with some gold bakers twine.  My flowers are punched out in old olive, pink pirouette, calypso coral and pumpkin pie.  The center of each flower is champagne glitter paper using the itty bitty punch pack. 

 

Every flower bouquet has to have some ribbon and a bow so I used the natural chevron ribbon for that.

 

For the inside (cause I never forget the inside), I punched one of each color flower and layered again the white with the same DSP as on the front.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, pumpkin pie, old olive, calypso coral, pink pirouette, champagne glitter

DSP ~ quatrefancy specialty

Ink ~ calypso coral

Stamp Set ~ Teeny tiny wishes

Misc. ~ burlap ribbon, gold bakers twine, petite petals punch, itty bitty punch pack, owl punch, natural chevron ribbon

 

Thank you again for stopping by to visit my blog.  Don't forget to leave some "love", as I always enjoy reading your comments.

For Baby! DD #100

Good morning!  Its hump day and we are half way thru the week!  Today's card is for the final color challenge over at The Dynamic Duo's.   When I saw the colors, I immediately thought "Baby"!  I love the softness of so saffron and pool party together. The layout for my card came from a sketch I found on Pinterest.  It worked perfect since I wanted to keep this card simple with layers and details.

 

So here is what I came up with.  I started with a base color of smoky slate and layered with a 5" x 3-3/4" piece of white.  I am known for not throwing away anything.  Especially when it comes to DSP scraps.  I keep all my small pieces inside the pack for future uses.  This came in handy with this card.  I had some 1/2" strips left over from a previous project.  All I had to do was cut them down to the lengths I needed for this card to have them stagger.  The so saffron strips came from the I Am Me DSP pack.  The other strips are just solid pool party strips.  I stamped the giraffe from the Zoo Babies stamp set in so saffron and added a little gold bakers twine around his neck to make him look all cute and stuff!!  The perfect little touch was adding the pool party and so saffron candy dots.  These are the perfect little things since sliced bread and I do love bread!!!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, smoky slate, pool party

DSP ~ I am me

Stamp Set ~ Zoo Babies

Ink ~ smoky slate

Misc. ~ subtle candy dots, gold bakers twine

 

I hope you have enjoyed my take on the color challenge!  Please remember to leave some "love" as I always value and look forward to reading your comments!

 

Say Cheese with MOJO343

Good morning!  Not such a great morning cause its pouring buckets of rain, but its still a good morning cause I can get cozy with a cup of coffee and listen to the rain!  Todays project is for the sketch over at MOJO Monday. 

As you know Stampin' Up! released its retired list last week and even though I am sad about some of the things leaving, I am at the same time happy to see all the new things we will be getting!!  I wanted to highlight one of my favorite DSP packs that is leaving us (I Am Me).  I like it cause its uses bright colors and its perfect for guys, gals, travel, or really any occasion cause it has some great patterns that can be used for a background.

 

 

I was excited to play along with this sketch cause of the different skinny size.  I embossed my top layer of real red with the arrow folder and added a few cut out camera from the peachy keen stamp set and the On Film framelit set.  I added one white candy dot to the lens of the camera for a 3-D affect.

A close up of the front when I added a banner with the smoky slate chevron ribbon and of the inside with a few banners streaming down the side.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, real red, smoky slate, pool party, so saffron

Ink ~ smoky slate

Stamp Sets ~ peachy keen

DSP ~ I Am Me

Misc. ~ candy dots, arrow folder, on film framelit set, real red stitched ribbon

 

Fish'n with Masculine Monday!

 

Good Monday morning!  I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  The weather here was wonderful for my Park to Park Half Marathon.  Now to get ready for the next one in November.  Today over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, it's Masculine Monday.  If you are like me, I struggle sometimes with the right card to create for a guy.  Its either not having the right DSP or the right stamp set.  Well with my card, I lucked out and had both. 

 

My masculine card using regal and neutral colors.  I decided to work with the Venetian Romance DSP pack and the By the Tide stamp set.  Together, they make the perfect masculine card.  I used the background stamp on my window frame shape.  Stamped, colored and cut out the fish.  Before attaching the fish with a foam dot, I wrapped the framelit layers with some twine.  I add some bling (yes, even a masculine card needs some kind of bling!), just a soft suede candy dot in each corner of my dsp layers.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ soft suede, very vanilla, island indigo

Ink ~ soft suede, island indigo, pistachio pudding

Stamp Sets ~ By the Tide, Itty Bitty Banners

Misc. ~ window frame framelit set, twine, neutral candy dots

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget to leave me some "love" and head over to our main blog, to see what the the design team members have created.  I hope we INKspire you to go create too!

Washi Tape Madness PP192

It's Friday, Friday, Friday!!!  Time to get this day over and done with to get this weekend started.  A lot of fun things on my plate.  First, I have a Park to Park Half Marathon that I'm running in Waynesboro, Va (wish me luck!), second I'm headed to Richmond to enjoy my Birthday dinner at non other than, Olive Garden!!!  Man I love that place!!  Chicken alfredo and cheesecake here I come!!!  My birthday was this past Monday, April 21!

Today's card is for the fun washi tape challenge over at The Paper Players.  I immediately went to town and decided to work with one my my favorite washi tape collections, Retro Fresh.  I just love the colors.  It reminds me of Spring!

 

I started out with coastal cabana as my card base.  I added a background layer of baked brown sugar and very vanilla.  I then just tore strips of washi tape and layered them down on top of the vanilla at different angles.  I cut out a film shape from the on film framelit set and added it as my final top layer using foam dots.  The final touches came in with white leaves from the secret garden framelit set and a coastal cabana stamped flower from the flower shop set.  I did add a strip of ruffled baked brown sugar ribbon along the bottom edge and a boutique button to the center of my flower.

As always, I can't forget the inside.  Remember, its just as important as the outside.  I kept it along the same lines as the outside, only using the smallest film frame.  I made my leaf and flower a little smaller but just cutting some off.  I always try to leave plenty of room for a handwritten message.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ baked brown sugar, coastal cabana, very vanilla

Ink ~ coastal cabana, so saffron, baked brown sugar

Stamp Sets ~  Express Yourself (retiring), flower shop

Misc. ~ retro fresh washi tape, word window punch, on film framelit set, boutique in color buttons (retiring), secret garden framelit set (retiring), baked brown sugar ruffled ribbon (retiring)

 

I hope you have enjoyed my washi tape creation.  Leave some "love", as I always enjoy reading your comments!  Now go pull your favorite washi tape and play along.

Runway Inspired CTS #73

Thanks for stopping by! Today I am sharing my take on the fun challenge over at CAS(e) this Sketch.  The challenge, if you choose to except it, is to get inspired by the runway challenge and mix it with the sketch challenge.  I did choose to except the challenge, and I'm ready to share what I came up with...

The challenge..

 

So WOW!  You know when you have a plan in your head, but then when you sit down to create that plan, how it never comes out the way you planned?!?  Well throw that thought out the window, cause my hands actually listened to my head and it came out just right!  Well, as far as my opinion goes!  Wink!  Wink!  I started with deciding on what flower set I wanted to use.  Of course, it was stippled blossoms.  Just perfect for layering.  My flowers were stamped with a rolling rub off technique (as I like to call it!)  I stamped the whole flower in real red, rolled the edges to remove some of the ink, then rolled the edge in tangerine tango ink.  I then stamped the layered stamp on top in basic black.  When you stamp this flower, it leaves a little white space, well I didn't want that, I wanted to add in some blue.  So I took my tempting turquoise pen and colored it in.

 

I also didn't want start white to be the background.  I used my mosaic embossing folder, inked it up in black and then ran my white paper thru my big shot.  I then, stamped in black the stripped mosaic stamp from the full set, punched and layered, added a black candy dot (you can never have to much candy!!) to the center of three and I my background was complete.

 

I really hope you have enjoyed my take on the Runway challenged mixed with the CASE(e) This Sketch.  I really had fun creating it!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ basic black, whisper white, real red, tempting turquoise

Ink ~ real red, tangerine tango, basic black, tempting turquoise

Stamp Sets ~ Mosaic Madness, Stippled Blossoms, Regarding Dahilas (sentiment)

Punches ~ artisan label, mosaic

Misc. ~ neutral and bright candy dots, modern mosaic folder, secret garden framelit set 

 

 

 

Case the Whole Catalog!

 

Good morning and thanks for stopping by!  Today over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, we are sharing projects "CASED" from a current Stampin' Up! catalog.

 

Well, since I couldn't for the life of me decide on one (its tough, you try to narrow it down to just one!!), I went with the whole catalog!  Well, I didn't create one of everything inside, but I went with the outside cover of the 2013-2014 catalog!  Boy did this inspire me!

 

 

Since I was able to attend Convention 2013 and was lucky enough to meet the one and only Shelli Gardner, I thought it perfect to insert the picture of her and myself together.  I had SOOO much fun last year, I'm ready to head back and do it all over again!  (that also includes eating all the yummy food I ate at The Cheesecake Factory!)

Of course this page was created using MDS!  Where would I be right now without MDS!?  See Breelin, you've created a monster!!

 

Supplies Used

MDS Software

Kits/Items: Spring Break II, Finest Simplicity, label punch, gold sequin trim, Sweet Details to name a few

 

Don't forget to head on over to our main blog to see what all the other design team members cased and created!  Don't forget to leave some "love".

Pinewood Derby April Layout Challenge w/ Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration

 

Good Monday morning!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend full of many blessings and fun time!  Today is a special day...not only is it our layout challenge here at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, it is also my BIRTHDAY!!!  So Happy Birthday to me!  I celebrated my birthday this past Saturday with a special dinner treat to my favorite place...Olive Garden.  Then as my gift from my husband, he let me go pick out a new bathing suite for this Summer!  Yay Me!! 

 

April's layout is such a fun one.  I hope by the time you seen all the design teams take on this sketch, we will have INKspired you to come create and share with us!

 

 

 

For my layout, I used some of the pictures from my sons last pinewood derby race.  He just earned his arrow of light and has completed his Cub Scout adventure.  I am having so much fun creating and playing with my MDS software, I'm gonna have to buy a longer lasting battery for my laptop at the rate I keep having to charge it!!

 

Supplies Used

Stampin' Up!'s MDS Software Program

Digital Downloads ~ Rev Up the Fun brush set, Seriously Teen DSP kit, Crushed Curry Distressed background DSP

 

I'm glad you stopped by.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before heading over to our main Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration page to see all the other pages our design team members have created.  I hope we have INKspired you to come create with us!

FREE SHIPPING on Orders!!

 

Yep, you read that picture right!  Starting Monday, April 21 thru 25, 2014, Stampin' Up! is offering everyone who places an order FREE Shipping! (regular shipping only)

 

This comes just in time for your orders ready to be places with any retired items starting Monday also when the retired list is released.

 

Don't forget to check back in first thing Monday morning to get your hands on the retired list!

 

Please use the following HOSTESS CODE:  ZDVV3AD9    when placing any orders all next week!!

 

First two people to place a $50 order will receive a mystery package of goodies from me!!

 

Just Because Non-Stamp Technique Card

 

Its Friday, Friday, Friday! And you know what that means....YEP....you guessed it.  Its eat out night for me and the boys and Mommy doesn't have to cook!  Its the BEST Day Ever!  Another reason its a good day, is because over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration we are showing you a fun technique.  How to stamp with no stamps.  Its true, it can be done.  I'll show you.

 

A pretty simple layout cause I wanted the detail of my non-stamping to really show and stand out.  I layered the Retro Fresh DSP with some coastal cabana and added a border of ruffled ribbon.  I added a couple of cute banners on the side and scattered some candy dots to fill my corners.  So are you ready to see how I created the background of the flower image?

I did a ink on block technique.  You need a block of your choice, markers and your piece of paper you want to stamp on.

I took my markers and colored directly on the block. 

I turned it over, gave it a huff and stamped it onto my piece of paper.

And this is what it looks like when you lift the block up.  I love how it leaves a watery, bubble look to it.  You could use all one color or as many others as you want.  I just went for three.  I then take a damp paper towel and wipe my block clean.

This is just an up close shot after I stamped the flower image on top.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ baked brown sugar, very vanilla, coastal cabana

DSP ~ retro fresh

Stamp Set ~ Serene Silhouette

Ink ~ tangerine tango, so saffron, coastal cabana, basic black

Misc. ~ long clear block I, candy dots, coastal cabana ruffled trim ribbon

 

I hope you have enjoyed my card and my non-stamp technique.  Leave some "love" and go see what the other design team members have used for their technique.

Serene Silhouettes at HSS183

Good morning and thanks for stopping by.  The sun is once again shinning bright and its put me in the mood to get crafty and join in the fun with a challenge.  Today's card is for the color challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  What a fun set of colors too!

 

I've been looking thru my stamp sets and trying to pull out those that either I haven't used yet or not very much.  I can't believe either option is possible, but I do have a lot of sets.  I'm just gonna leave it to your imagination as to which one this set falls under - cause I'm not gonna tell!?!  As I was looking, I came across Serene Silhouettes.  Its such a pretty set too.  I did keep the card pretty simple cause I really wanted the stamped images to be the main focal point.  I also added a little gorgeous grunge for a background affect.  Goodness me, I hope that set doesn't retire!

I hope you have enjoyed my card for the challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  You should head on over and play along, but before you do, leave me some "love"!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, gumball green

Ink ~ gumball green, crushed curry and coastal cabana, basic gray

Stamp Sets ~ serene silhouettes, gorgeous grunge, express yourself

Misc. ~ oval framelits, word window punch, modern label punch, gumball green stitched ribbon

A Flowered Picnic with FM155

Well its hump day and you know what that means?!  Only two more days til the weekend and boy am I ready for it.  Not that its been a long week, but I have good news and bad news.  I know, the bad news first.  I have been having some issues with my steering with my Traverse.  Yep, you guessed it.  My power steering pump is gone, dead, not working, adios!!  And as you may know it, its not the parts that's gonna cost me my arm and leg, toes, fingers, hair, etc...  yep, its the labor.  That good old expensive mechanic labor we all love to pay out the wazoo for!  YUCK!  Double YUCK!  So what's the good news? Well the good news, is that I have been feeling very upset, angry and just disappointed after getting this news this morning, that I wanted to make a card in hopes that it would cheer me up (a little) not $800 happier but a littler happier!!

 

I decided to play along with the fun challenge over at The Friday Mashup.  What a fun challenge in deed.  A lot of different colors with a combo of creating a shaped card.  So I went to town and here is what I came up with.  Even though it poured down rain all day here yesterday, the sun is out today and shining bright.  So it made me think of the pretty green grass and flowers we will be getting after all this rain. 

 

I created a picnic basket from soft suede, embossed it with my lattice folder, added a piece of DSP to represent a basket cloth liner and added some pretty flowers down the side.  Now this cheers me up and makes me happy!!

 

I made the basket so that it still opens up so you can write your greeting inside and also so that the handles swivel and fold down just like a real basket.

 

I used the spiral flower die to create my flowers in pool party, wisteria wonder and calypso coral.  To get my wild wasabi color in, I used the leaf framelit from the secret garden set.  I also added a lacey ribbon mixed with daffodil delight seam binding ribbon for the bow.

 

I sure do hope you have enjoyed my shaped basket card for my take on the challenge over at The Friday Mashup, and anyone wanting to contribute to my power steering pump fund is more than welcome too!!!  JUST PICKING!!

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ soft suede, pool party, wisteria wonder, calypso coral, whisper white

Ink ~ soft suede

DSP ~ gingham garden

Stamp set ~ Oh, Hello

Misc. ~ spiral flower die, lace ribbon, daffodil delight seam binding ribbon, neutral candy dots, chalk talk framelit, secret garden framelit set, lattice folder

Arrow of Light Scrapbook Page MDS Adventure Club

So the MDS Adventure Club that I am apart of started off this month with some great layouts and challenges for us to play around with.  Like I've said before, I am having so much fun playing around with my Stampin' Up! MDS software. I am learning all kinds of little tips and tricks to make my pages/projects better and better!

Our first project was to create a page that used a picture for your background and to play around with stamps behind your page title.

My youngest son earned his Arrow of Light in the Cub Scouting program last month and this challenge was perfect so that I could highlight the picture of the candle center piece as my background.  This is an honor to earn as its the highest rank a Cub Scout can earn before he crosses over to the Boy Scout trail.  I lowered the opacity to soften the background so that my title and other picture would stand out a little better.

I hope you have enjoyed my first project for April's MDS Adventure Club.  Stay tuned for another challenge page coming up later this week!

A Little Owl "Pin"spiration!!!

 

So today over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, we have a really fun project idea going on.  We are to pick a project from Pinterest that inspires us and recreate it to make it our own.  WOW!  Can I just say this was hard.  I have so many things that inspire me, so can you image how hard it was to narrow it down. I came across the card that I had pinned a while back, created by StampZone.  One of the things I liked about this card, was how cute but simple it was and that she had used the owl punch in a cute fun way, like he was poking out of the tree.  I wanted to recreate this card, but put my own twist on it for a kids birthday card. 

 I did change a few things from the sample above.  I used a circle shape in the tree instead of a heart.  Instead of the banner across the corner, I create a bunch of balloons.

 

And here is my final recreation of my "pin"spiration card.  One of the things I really enjoyed was breaking out my owl punch and putting it back to work.  I fogot how fun it was to use.  I had my owl peaking out of the tree a little more cause he is holding on to the bunch of balloons.

 

 

On the inside, I created a second bunch of balloons and placed them in the corner to leave room for my birthday greeting.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ early espresso, whisper white, melon mambo, Bermuda bay, crushed curry, soft suede, basic black

Ink ~ Bermuda bay

Punches ~ owl, 3/4" circle punch

Misc. ~ white bakers twine, woodgrain folder,

Stamp set ~ morning meadow

Core'dination Birthay April Card Sketch w/ SSINKspiration

 

Good Monday morning!  I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  I had a wonderful weekend.  I had a few ladies over for an all day crop here at my house. We played games, ate wonderful food and treats, talked and just lots of fun making paper crafts all day! I was sad when it was time for them to leave.  Today we are sharing a new card sketch for April.  I can't wait to see what you do with it!

 

 

I had bought the core'dination pack in the newest set of in colors.  Of course I hadn't tried it out yet, but once that sanding block hit that paper for the first time, I was hooked.  I had so much fun sanding and see the results right in front of me!  I first embossed my three strips with the alphabet press folder, then I used the sanding block to sand off a little on top the letters til I started to see the white come thru.  The other detail I like about this card, is the banner I have going across the front.  I used the artisan punch, folded them in half over gold bakers twine and attached with foam dots.  I stamped the "Happy Birthday" from the label of love set and placed it in the center.

 

 

The inside is simple with another short banner created using only two punches.

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ very vanilla, pistachio pudding, coastal cabana, crisp cantaloupe, soft suede

2013 In color core'dination paper

DSP ~ venetian romance

Ink ~ Soft suede

Stamp Set ~ Label Love

Misc. ~ gold bakers twine, artisan punch, alphabet press folder

Thank You Mom PPA199

So I was sitting on the warm sidewalk, soaking in the warmth from the sun, and browsing thru the newest challenges trying to decide which one to play along with.  I guess the warm sun helped me decide on the sun shiny colors over at Pals Paper Arts.  Below is the colors for us to play along with and I knew what kind of card I wanted to create...a Mother's Day card using flowers!  Nothing is more cheerful than springy flowers and these this combo is perfect!

 

I wanted a black chalkboard look for my background to help the flowers will pop.  I also used the hexagon hive thinlits die to add a bit of texture.  The flowers are stamped in so saffron and calypso coral on the coordinating color cardstock then cut out using the secret garden framelit set.  I also stamped a flower image from the petite petals set and punched each out in the same colors.  Added each to the center of the flower with a large pearl in the middle.  The leaves are in pear pizzazz and work perfectly behind the flowers.  Right at the very end, with the help of my friend as my decision maker, I decided to add half of a paper doily behind the flowers.

On the inside, I stamped another set of so saffron and calypso coral flowers with one more pear pizzazz leaf.  I always make sure to leave room for my hand written message.

Finishing up my post with a view looking down.

Now I am sure you are wondering why, if this is a mothers day card, that on the front, I don't say "Happy Mother's Day"?  Well its simple, I am saying "Thank You" because I am thankful for all my Mom does to help me when I need her.  Cause isn't that what Mother's Day is about?, saying "Thank You" for just being awesome!!

 

I hope you have enjoyed my card using this fun color challenge.  Don't forget to leave some "love", you know I "love" the read your comments!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ whisper white, basic black, crumb cake, pear pizzazz, so saffron and calypso coral

Ink ~ so saffron, basic black, calypso coral

Stamp sets ~ petite petals, secret garden, lacy and lovely

Framelits ~ secret garden, hexagon hive thinlit

Misc. ~ large basic pearls, paper doily, gold bakers twine