Wednesday Challenge

Here is today's sketch challenge, sorry it's been a while again, the hubby took all week off!! Yay!! So we are off to Disneyland tomorrow and Friday so you won't hear from me for a while again. But here are a couple posts that I have done. Again this was done with a Unity set that I got for free for being such a good customer!!! I didn't think I would like it much but now I think it is so cute to send to your girls friends!! Love it!!

Recipe:

Stamps- Shopaholics from Unity Stamp Co.

Paper- Real Red, Real Red DSP, Whisper White

Inks- Real Red

Accessories- Real Red Brads, Whisper White Grosgrain

Other- Swiss Dot Cuttlebug Embossing folder

Tuesday Challenge

I am on a roll, I have so much to post that I don't know what to do!!! So check back later for more creations.

Here is today's color challenge. I love these colors together, they are very refreshing. Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, and Certainly Celery. And of course I used my NEW Unity Stamps.




Recipe:
Stamp Set- Whimsy Flowers by Unity
Paper- Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Certainly Celery, SU DSP
Inks- Blue Bayou, Certainly Celery
Accessories- SU Buttons, Certainly Celery Grosgrain, Very Vanilla Grosgrain
Other- White Gel Pen, Sponges, Corner Rounder

Monday's Challenge

Can you believe it, I actually did a challenge today!!! My life feels like it is getting a little normal again!! So today's challenge was to make this fun two pouch card holder. I also made a matching card since I was feeling way crafty this morning. I made this for a very special friend!! She will soon know who she is!!





I also got to ink up my new favorite stamps from Unity Stamp Co. called Giggle Grove. They are the best!! I will be featuring them soon on my BLOG as my Feature Friday (a little late, but hey I am getting back into the swing of things).

Recipe:

Stamps- Giggle Grove from Unity

Paper- Kraft, Wild Wasabi, Sky Blue, DSP from SU (can't remember the name)

Inks- Basic Black, Wild Wasabi

Accessories- Build A Brad, Sky Blue Double stitched ribbon

Other- Stampin Dimensionals, sewing machine and thread

Wed. & Thurs. Challenge Combined

OK so here is Wednesday's Sketch challenge and Thurs. ways to use it challenge. So this is today's card, I LOVE these colors together they make me smile!! The way to use it part of the challenge was to use your scissors and cut out the details of images. I got new cuttlebug folders too which I used here they add so much texture to a card!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE these folders to add dimension.





Recipe:
Stamp Set- True Friend
Paper- Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, River Rock, Whisper White
Ink- Basic Black, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Purely Pomegranate
Accessories- Turquoise Gemstone, Black Gingham Ribbon
Other- Cuttlebug

Tuesday Challenge

I LOVE this color challenge. So we had to use the colors Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, and Chocolate Chip. Most of you can tell by browsing my BLOG that I use these colors a lot so I had no problem coming up with something. This was a lot of fun to make, I love all the ribbon!!




Recipe:
Stamp Set- So Many Scallops
Paper- Pretty in Pink, Pretty in Pink DSP, Certainly Celery, and Chocolate Chip
Inks- Chocolate Chip
Accessories- Pretty in Pink Wide Grosgrain, Chocolate Chip Grosgrain, Certainly Celery Grosgrain
Other- Scallop Punch, Lg. Circle punch, Med. Circle Punch, Cuttlebug

Monday's Challenge

Today's challenge was fun, we made a gift card holder card. It was a lot of fun to make and I had the perfect person to give it to. Andrea and I went just finished a Beth Moore bible study and one of the women that lead the group would pay for a babysitter for us every week, what a huge blessing that was to us since between the two of us we have 6 kids. The only way we can attend bible studies is if they provide child care so she has taken it upon herself to provide that for us so we can attend. What an amazing gift she is so we wanted to extend to her a gift as well. So this is what I made for her.

Recipe-
Stamp Set: Wonderful you, Define Life, Spring Solitude
Paper: Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, River Rock
Inks: Chocolate Chip, River Rock
Accessories: Sewing Thread
Other: Punches, Sewing Machine, Aqua Painter

Wednesday Challenge

Here is this weeks sketch challenge. They gave us this sketch to work with



and we had to come up with our own design. I have been wanting to do this faux silk technique for a loooonnngggg time and it was so easy and fun. The texture is amazing!! I love it!! Anyway this card took a long time to make so I don't recommend making this one in mass production. But it is gorgeous in person!!!




Recipe:
Stamp Set- Embrace Life
Paper- Old Olive, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Vellum, Tissue Paper
Inks- Elegant Eggplant, Chocolate Chip, Basic Black
Accessories- Hodgepodge Hardware, Rhinestone Brads, Dazzling Diamonds, Chocolate Chip taffeta
Other- Cricut, Lots of SU markers, 2 way glue pen, glue stick

Tuesday Challenge

Here is today's color challenge card that hurt my head!!! This weeks colors were Real Red, Glorious Green, and Night of Navy. So I thought on this all day and went into my room 3 times to try this one and couldn't do it so I went for simple and sweet and mostly white!!




Recipe:
Stamps- Merci SAB set
Paper- Whisper white, Real Red DSP, Glorious Green, and Night of Navy
Inks- Basic Black, Real Red, Glorious Green, and Night of Navy
Accessories- Whisper White wide grosgrain, Real Red brads, Rhinestone Brad
Other- Aqua Painter

Monday's Challenge

So here is today's challenge, it was all about layering your ribbon. I love the simplness of this challenge. You only had to have 2 ribbons layered ontop of each other. It was lots of fun to design this card. I have been wanting to use this stamp set for a while now, so I finally got to use it, YAY!!




Recipe:
Stamp set: Pick a Petal
Paper: Bashful Blue DSP, Pretty in Pink DSP, Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Inks: Basic Black, Apricot Appeal
Accessories: Blue Rhinestone Brad, Hodgepodge Hardware, Certainly Celery Brads, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Pretty In Pink Grosgrain ribbon, Retired Ribbon Originals
Other: Cricut Cutter, Paper Piercer, Hole Punch, Corner Rounder, 2 way glue pen

Sunday Challenge

So I have never done a challenge on Sunday before, so on Sunday's challenges they have a featured stamper and then you go browse their gallery and you case a card that they have made adding some of your own personal touches. So today's featured stamper was Kristi here is her BLOG. So her card is here and this is mine with a few differences:

Recipe:

Stamp set: Cowboy Kid
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust, Designer Series paper from a Simply Scrapping kit
Ink: Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Hemp Twine, Chocolate Chip Tafetta, Hodgepodge Hardware brads
Other: Cricut Cutter, Hole Punch, White Gel Pen, SU Watercolor Crayons

Monday Challenge

Ok so I know it's been a few days but here is today's challenge. I almost didn't do it because the challenge name had the word patience in it... I just didn't think that I had patience today but I found it. You had to make layers using dimensionals, the second picture shows the layers a little better but you just can't get the full cuteness from a photo.




Recipe:
Stamp Set: Boatloads of Love
Card Stock: Certainly Celery, Buckaroo Blue, Whisper White, Designer Series hostess pack
Inks: Basic Black
Accessories: White Wide Grosgrain, Certainly Celery Brads, Hodgepodge Hardware
Other: Cuttlebug, SU markers, Corner Rounder

I made this card for a dear friend of mine that I pray for daily, she is an amazing woman of God and I love her dearly. I just thought she might want to know that I am pulling for her to make her life goals. Luckily she will be surprised since I don't think she reads my BLOG. Andrea if you are reading this act surprised!!

Wednesday Sketch Challenge

Here is my card for today's challenge, which I love this layout!! Let me know what ya think.

Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Garden Silhouettes
Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Certainly Celery, Designer Series Paper Retired
Inks: Versa Mark, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Chocolate Chip Taffeta, Thread, White Gel Pen, Chocolate Chip Marker
Other: Sewing Machine

Here is a picture from last night at our Technique Tuesday class which was a blast!! I am always so blessed by every one's creativity, every one's books turned out amazing!!! Thank you for everyone who came, I can't wait to do it again!

Our next project will be a coaster pencil holder/ or card holder, a picture holder, and a little box with 3X3 cards all put together using the Simply Scrapping kits!! So reserve your spots early since space is limited.

Monday Challenge

So here is today's challenge and I felt like it's been so long since I have posted a project or challenge, you wanna know what happened... of course you do. I got yelled at on Split Coast!!!! Can you believe that? I received a personal message from someone saying that it's "frowned Upon" to not post the details of my card and have a link to my BLOG instead. That's all she said and I think that she could have been a little nicer about it and said "by the way in case you didn't know..." or something a little nicer I have only been doing the challenges for like a month now so I was a little hurt over that...

well not really I just didn't have the time last week to finish the challenges since I was doing Milk Bank cards, that my roof leaked on and ruined!!! That's another story!!

SO TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT FROM NOW ON I WILL POST ALL THE SUPPLIES ON MY BLOG AND ON MY GALLERY!!

Anyway, here it is:




Today's challenge was a Flap Fold card, I liked doing this a lot, since I do so many cards for my business it's nice to mix up the fold a little, I get kinda bored of the same old folds all the time.

Recipe-
Stamp Sets: Big Deal Alpha, Birthday Whimsy (SAB)
Card Stock: Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava, Retired Designer Series Paper (I forgot the name of it)
Inks: Wild Wasabi
Accessories: Double Stitched Groovy Guava, Silver thread
Other: Paper Piercer, Scallop Punch, Circle Punch, Crop O Dile, Cutter

Wednesday Sketch Challenge

Here is my card today!! I finally got my sewing machine going again, and it's perfect in my new craft room, easy access!! LOVE IT!! I am really happy with the way this card turned out. Love the sketch.


Recipe:

Stamp Set: So Many Scallop from Sale-A-Bration catty... side note if you didn't get this one, so sorry it's one of my favorite things to use... well I am a scallopaholic!!
Card Stock: Kraft (my other new favorite), Fall Flower Designer Series papers, Basic Black, Really Rust.
Accessories: Twill Tape, Staple, Sewing Thread
Other: SCALLOP PUNCH!!, Circle Punches, Stapler, Sewing Machine

Note: My paper piercing was done with my sewing machine... hence the crooked part on he bottom if you look close, my paper got caught on my IPOD and I forgot I could just take my foot off the gas... he he!!

Monday Challenge

Here is today's challenge it was to try a new technique, you use the cuttle bug and put an ink on one side of the folder and run it through. It was fun to use a technique I haven't tried before.

Here's what I did:

Stamp Set: Taggers Dozen
Paper: Designer Series Paper, River Rock, Groovy Guava, Purely pomegranate
Inks: Versa Mark, Purely pomegranate, Basic Black
Accessories: Chipboard, White Grosgrain
Other: Cuttlebug, Only Orange Marker, Tag Punch, Spiral Punch

How did I do that?
I ran my Purely pomegranate inked up embossing folder through my Cuttlebug with chipboard. I also ran groovy guava card stock through the cuttlebug with veramark on the folder then embossed with white embossing powder.

Friday Challenge

Today's challenge was to use NO TOOLS!! After I picked myself off the floor and thought how will I do this, it came to me and this is what I came up with. You were allowed to use the aqua painter and your cutter, but NO CROP-O-DILE!!!!

Recipe:

Stamp Sets: Embrace Life
Paper: Ivory Naturals (I think that's what it's called), River Rock, Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava
Inks: River Rock, Purely Pomegranate, Basic Black, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Twill Tape
Other: Paper Cutter, Aqua Painter AND THAT'S ALL!!!!

Now I am off to the Pineapple in 3.5 hours, gotta go pack, see some of you there.

Thursday Challenge

Today's challenge was to use all Designer Series paper and the only regular card stock allowed would be was the backing. I am VERY happy with the way it turned out,my hubby really likes the "dirty" look so I know he will like this one and yes ladies he really does act interested when I show him the cards I make. He also gives his opinion of things he likes and doesn't like which I don't always like but he cares because I care, and everyone said "ahhhhhh".
So here it is:


Here's the recipe:

Stamp Sets: Essence is Love
Card Stock: Really Rust, Designer Series Paper Fall Flowers
Inks: Basic Black
Accessories: Groovy Guava Double Stitched Ribbon, Eyelets
Other: Crop-O-Dile, Scallop Punch, Circle Punch

Wednesday Sketch Challenge

This is today's Splitcoast Sketch Challenge, here is the recipe:

Stamp Set: One of a Kind
Paper: Old Olive, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Designer Series Paper
Inks: Pixie Pink, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive
Accessories: Tempting Turquoise Brads, Dazzaling Diamonds, Pretty in Pink Grosgrain, Tempting Turquoise Grosgrain
Other: Aqua Painter

Tuesday Challenge

Today's challenge on Splitcoast was a color challenge to use Purely Pomegranete, Basic Gray, and Basic Black. I didn't have basic Gray so I cheated a little and used Going Gray. I liked the way this card turned out, it was inspired by Markies Mom she uses a lot of polka dots and layers and hodgepodge. I forgot to use my embossing buddie but I think it's ok with the little specks everyewhere, but not what I planned. Ok so here is the recipe:

Stamp Set: Baroque Motifs
Paper: Purely pomegranet, Going Gray, Basic Black
Inks: Versa Mark, Basic Black
Accessories: Purley Pomegranete Satin Ribbon, Hodgepaodge Hardware, Silver Brads
Other: Sharpie Marker, White Gel Pen, Black Embossing Powder

So how did I get my hodgepodge Black??
I used a sharpie and colored it in!! Another tip from Markies Mom!!

LOTS of new stuff to play with...

This is the largest order that I have ever placed!! I am so excited about all my new toys!!



And another card, I was trying this new technique of making the edges smudged with black and I am not sure how much I like it, if I even like it but the color combination is wonderful!! I really like the layout too!!

Here's the recipe:

Stamps: So Much, Happy Everything
Paper: Purely Pom., So Saffron, Wild Wasabi
Inks: Purely Pom., Basic Black
Accessories: So Saffron Brad, Silver Brad
Techniques: Water Coloring