Gingersnap Creations GC88: Coffee and Cream

Time for a yummy new color challenge over at Gingersnap Creations: GC88 Coffee and Cream!  I'm in the middle of a wonderful novel called The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, and it's got me thinking of bygone eras and turn of the century customs.  I decided to create a little packet of faux ephemera... a little pile of imagined sweet remembrances, of a best friend, a sister, a daughter who has fled the nest to experience the world.  A ribbon from her hair, a letter detailing all of her new experiences, a postcard from exciting places abroad, a rose petal carefully preserved.  And of course, a photo from her 18th birthday.  All a bit coffee stained, of course, from so much handling, re-reading.  Lying atop a pretty folder to keep it all in.  The vintage photo image is from Oxford Impressions, the postcard from Unity Stamp Co., and the coffee stains from Close To My Heart.  

My coffee table has a glass top, with a shadow box display case beneath it - this will go there, along with some vintage doilies and some Valentine's whatnots.  I had fun with this color scheme - so subtle that it becomes more about textures and shapes.  I hope you'll have time to play along!  You can post a link to your Coffee and Cream creation to share over at Gingersnap Creations.   

Show Us How You've Grown....

.....more precisely, how you can incorporate "Growth" into a project for the new Gingersnap Creations Random Redhead Challenge.  As always, Gingersnap challenges are wide open for interpretation!  Your piece could be inspired by Spring and new growth, personal growth, or growth in your family.  Anything grows.... I mean goes. (I can hear you groaning.... ugh.... again... make me stop!).  For my card, I used an image from Tin Can Mail (Inkadinkado), stamped in a sepia tone and colored with Copics to make it look like a faded old photo.  The sentiment is from Close To My Heart.  Hope you'll be able to join us and play along... you've got until April 25th to enter!!

Rainbow Happiness

The theme for the month of August over at Gingersnap Creations is "Happiness," and the most recent challenge is "Rainbow." I figured I can check them both off my list with this card, LOL!! It's simply stamping, nuthin' else. I tried to embellish with all manner of goodies, but the thing just wanted to stay clean and simple, so I left it.

Images and sentiment are from Close to My Heart. Papers are Cosmo Cricket and My Mind's Eye. Inks are from Stampin' Up!, Colorbox, and Memento.

Hope your day is happy!