Happy Monday!!!!

Hi everyone, I hope you had a fabulous weekend!

Today's card is one I made for a couple different challenges. First I wanted to participate in last week's SCS color challenge, I LOVE the color combination for this challenge. The other challenge is for Beate's WSC, I did change it up a bit, I made a square card instead of the tall card shown in the sketch. I LOVE square cards!!!!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Dreams Du Jour, Pocket Silhouette's, Stitched.

Paper~ Pink Pirouette, Basic Black, Whisper White.

Ink~ White Craft, Basic Black, Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose.

Accessories~ Blender pen, Designer label punch, oval punches, Scallop punch, paper piercer, Pink Taffeta ribbon, Non- SU! product - Cuttlebug 'Swiss Dots' folder, Nestibilities, decorative pearls.

BIC - Upsy Daisy

Where does the time go? This week has flew by! The kids & I had a three day week this past week and we have been enjoying this long weekend! I was able to sqeeze in some stamping time though!!

Today's card is my card for Beate's BIC #27. What a fun image to work with! I decided to work with the colors in the image to create my card.

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Upsy Daisy, Twill, Pocket Silhouette's,

Paper~ Basic Gray, Bravo Burgundy, Pink Pirouette, Parisian Summer DSP, Whisper White.

Ink~ Bravo Burgundy, Going Gray, Pink Pirouette.

Accessories~ Filigree brads, silver brads, oval punches, scallop punch, ticket punch, non-SU! products - Stickles star dust.

WSC61

Today's card was made using Beate's weekend sketch challenge #61. I also used the challenge from the OCC girls to use bling on your card. This card took a little more time then I hoped it would, I had a hard time getting all the elements to work together. I hope I finally got it to work! What do you think?

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Dreams Du Jour.

Paper~ Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Nave, Whisper White, Baja Breeze DSP.

Ink~ Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard.

Accessories~ Jumbo eyelets, Circle Ice Rhinestone brads, So Saffron brad, Chip Board, Scallop punch, paper piercer, Non-SU! product-Marvy jumbo punches, Cuttlebug folder.

I LOVE 'Inspired by Nature'....

Can you tell? It shouldn't be a surprise to me since I LOVE coneflowers!

Today's card is one I made the other day while I was on a roll using this stamp set. Now all I need to do is change up the color of the flowers, LOL!Hmmmm, I wonder what a blue flower would look like!!!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Inspired by Nature, Sanded.

Paper~ Old Olive, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Muirfield DSP.

Ink~ Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive.

Accessories~ Large Oval punch, Chocolate Grosgrain 5/8" ribbon, vintage brads, sponge.

WSC - Serene Spring

Hello everyone, I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Today's card is one I made for Beate's weekend sketch challenge #60. I was also able to use up some of my scraps on this card, you know how much I like to do that!!!

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Supplies Used: Stamps ~ Serene Spring, Upsy Daisy, Sanded.
Paper~ Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Muirfield DSP.
Accessories~ SU! Punches - Scallop Circle, Large oval, circle 1 3/8" & 1 1/4", blender pen, sponge.

BIC - Inspired by Nature

Today's card was inspired by Beate's 'Be inspired challenge' and this week's OCC challenge.

When I first saw this image I was drawn toward the layout and the colors of this image. The OCC challenge calls for colored stitching on your card. My favorite background stamp 'Stitched' falls into that catagory! This is what I came up with, I hope you enjoy!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Inspired by Nature, Stitched.

Paper~ Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Whisper White.

Ink~ Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, Old Olive.

Accessories~ Vintage brads, Chocolate grosgrain ribbon, sponge.

Live with Passion

I made this card last night while I was watching one of my favorite shows 'Dancing with the Stars' (I know you must think I'm a geek, but) I LOVE that show!


Can you believe that I have had this stamp set for awhile now and this is the first time it has seen ink!!!! What was I waiting for? LOL!
I used Julee's Mojo Monday #55 sketch for this card. I LOVE this sketch! I was so happy with the way this card turned out, I am going to make another card tonight (while I watch Dancing with the stars again)!


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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Inspired by Nature.
Paper~ Pink Pirouette, Old Olive, Whisper White, Georgia Peach DSP.
Ink~ Markers- Regal Rose, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip.
Accessories~ Olive brads, non SU! product - Green Dew drops.

Upsy Daisy

I made this card yesterday but had to wait until today to photograph it because the weather was so rainy and gloomy all weekend!

I love the new silhouette stamp sets that Stampin' Up! has came out with this year and this set is no exception! For some reason I have been adding stickles to the image everytime that I have stamped it. If you can't see the sparkle click on the photo for a better view.

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Upsy Daisy, Twill bg.

Paper~ Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White.

Ink~ Pink Pirouette, Old Olive, Pacific Point.

Accessories~ Large oval punch, silver hodgepodge hardware, flower brads, paper piercer, Non SU! product - star dust stickles, Marvy Scallop & circle punch.

ULAS - Challenge

I haven't been able to participate in the ULAS (Up Late and Stamping) challenge for a while. I was excited when I saw that a few of my stamping friends threw out this challenge the other night. I decided I just had to play along! Feel free to give the challenge a try too!

The challenge is a color/sketch challenge. Use the colors Buckaroo Blue, Cranberry Crisp & Close to Cocoa along with Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday sketch #27. At first I thought about a western themed card, then quickly changed my mind when I saw the 'Wonderful You' set still sitting on my desk.

Have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Wonderful You, Embrace Life, Sanded.

Paper~ Buckaroo Blue, Cranberry Crisp, Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla.

Ink~ Buckaroo Blue, Cranberry Crisp, Close to Cocoa, River Rock.

Accessories~ Cranberry Crisp stitch ribbon (retired), Ivory Organdy ribbon, Hodgepodge Hardware Aged Copper, sponge.

ULAS Challenge - Alter this or that ....

This week I am the host for the 'Up Late & Stamping' challenge and I am inviting all of you to play along!


My challenge for you this week is to alter something, weather it be a DVD holder, Tin Lunchbox or like mine, a Art Journal turned Photo album. The sky is the limit, so let's see what creative ideas you come up with. Everyone is invited to play along just remember to upload your creations to SCS using the keyword: ULAS so we can all see what you made!

Let's see what my other friends have been up too!



Jennifer

Cindy

Lynda

ULAS Gallery

ULAS Chipboard Challenge

As some of you may already know, a few of my SCS friends and myself have been doing challenges together. The latest challenge was hosted by Lynda at Stampact aka: lbenden at SCS. Lynda's challenge was to have us use Chipboard. This is the card I did using a chipboard snowflake on the front.

To create the sparkle on the snowflake I first covered the snowflake with three layers of white craft ink. Before the third layer dried I covered the snowflake with Dazzling Diamonds glitter and set with my heat tool.

If you would like to play along in our challenges, feel free, anyone can play! I will be posting the next challenge here on my blog on Monday. If you play remember to upload to SCS using the keyword - ULAS so we can all see your creation.

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Merry & Bright.

Paper~ Ballet Blue textured paper, Four Season's DP, Whisper White.

Ink~ Basic Black & Ballet Blue classic ink, White Craft Ink.

Accessories~Snowflake chipboard, Brocade Blue 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Diamond Stickles, Silver brads, small oval punch, 1" circle punch, Designer Label punch.

Featured Stamper Challenge

This is my card for this week's featured stamper challenge over at SCS. This week's featured stamper is 'StamperTammy', Tammy has a beautiful gallery, I chose this card of Tammy's to case.

The Challenge has us change at least two things from the original, I changed the colors, stamps & ribbon on my card.

This is also a two for one challenge for me. A few of my SCS friends, Jennifer , Cindy & Lynda have started a weekly challenge for the 'Up Late & Stamping' group that I am a part of. I chose 'Chocolate & Pink' as my main colors because that was the theme for the last ULAS Challenge.

If you would like to participate in the 'Up Late & Stamping' Challenges check out this week's challenge that Lynda has for us! Anyone can play along just remember to upload your entry to SCS using the keyword 'ULAS'.

Check out all the entries for the ULAS challenges HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Serene Sunflowers, Sanded background, Many Thanks.

Paper~ Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, White Glossy, Au Chocolat.

Ink~ Real Rose, Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss.

Accessories~ Pink Organdy 5/8" ribbon, Silver cord, corner punch, sponge.