Smackin' Essence of Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 584. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 574 - Crisp Sahara Cake. I used Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 577 - Smackin' Acetate for my left sided panel and heat embossed the image after stamping in versa mark. On the envelope and inside of the card I stamped the small butterfly in crisp cantaloupe both front and inside for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 368 - Spring Critters.

I also stamped in sahara sand on the inside a sentiment from Blessings from Heaven.
I am so having trouble with this computer or my internet connection as it took 30min just to edit the front view pic. I will keep working to edit the inside and load it as well. I hate time restrictions but that is what happens when you have to work to earn more money to buy more stuff. LOL
RECIPE:
Stamps: Essence of Love, Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, crisp cantaloupe, sahara sand 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versa mark, Crisp Canelope, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake 
Accessories: super fine black embossing powder 
Techniques: Smackin' Acetate, heat embossing

Trust in God for ALL things Book Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's Black and White and Red all over?. I had an Uncle that loved to pull that on kids. We probably all have someone in our path that is such a prankster. LOL Anyway all I could think of is books and when I first saw Nestie Label 7 that was all I could think of so guess what I picked up and used? You got it. It is small but the message is mighty and will work very well on a friend's desk that I give to. My odd shaped card is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 568 - Revisiting Shaped Cards which was a revisit from a previous TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 315 - That's Odd.
I cut the binder from Real red cs and stamped the praying hand image I got years ago at Michaels in black ink then cut the next to the largest from the stack in white cs and stamped the sentiment in black. Adhered a black ribbon and it was done. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Trust God, Praying Hands 
Paper: white, real red 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: ribbon, Nestie Label 7 
Techniques: Shaped card, CAS

Anchor of the Soul in the Bay

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 561 - A Slate Cabana on the Bay.  or dessert I used my white jel pen to accent some faux waves. I am NOT thrilled with this but it is what it is. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 428. I used a punched scalloped oval as a mask and sponged some smoky slate ink for a stormy sky illusions, I used a straight line to sponge Bermuda bay and then coastal cabana on the bottom for a lighter tone. 

I stamped the sentiments in Bermuda bay.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Anchor, Anchor of the Soul 
Paper: white, Coastal Cabana 
Ink: Smokey Slate, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay 
Accessories: ribbon, crop-a-dile, whie jel pen, scalloped oval 
Techniques: sponging, tags, masking

Come To Bethlehem Feeling the Night Breeze

This is for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 560 - Feeling the Night Breeze and gold for dessert. I was not exactly overly thrilled with my card for Tuesday and had this in mind after seeing Maura (aka beesmom)'s gorgeous creation and commenting that I saved it to favs for CASing rights. I CASEd her Silent Night card. I changed the orientation and used a scene rather than trees.
I stamped my image in night of navy then sponged above using a mask to simulate a snowbank, I used a small circle for the moon and sponged some baja breeze around the circle and then inked just the star and stamped it in the clear white area. I added stickles for bling. I dropped down and sponged with some baja breeze using a different mask. I stamped the Merry Christmas sentiment in night of navy on the front and envelope and the other sentiment on the inside in NON.

I stamped the image over the sentiment in baja breeze after stamping off once.  I took my daughter's advice and added some dimension to the navy background and I tied some gold cording and matted that on NON then on white cs base. I like this one much better and hope you do to. This is what happens at 1am when I can not sleep. I stamp. LOL.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come to Bethlehem 
Paper: white, night of navy 
Ink: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Accessories: stickles, cord cording, white jel pen 
Techniques: sponging, masking, reverse masking

Every Blessing Christmas Nativity

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 560 - Feeling the Night Breeze. That's right ladies, just 1 challenge today. GASP!!! I cut the nativity scene out of baja breeze and adhered it to night of navy then added some stickles to the star. On the inside

I stamped the image in baja breeze then the sentiment in night of navy. I also stamped a sentiment on the envelope in night of navy. Hope you like it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Every Blessing 
Paper: White, Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Ink: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy 
Accessories: cottage cutz Nativity border, stickles 
Techniques: die cuts

Watercolored All Holiday Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 552 - A Pistachio Party in the Sahara, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 555 - Watercolor Powders, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 346 - Use Your Words. So I went to my standby layout and standby SU sentiment. I heat embossed with white ep on watercolor paper then added all three colors of re-inkers on wax paper and misted (since I have no wc powders yet) then pressed my wc paper onto the colors. Love how it turned out. Matted on pool party then sahara sand and tied some ribbon across. I used white card base and layered with pistachio pudding cs.

On the inside and envelope I stamped the sentiment in pistachio pudding. Don't know what happened to the photo for the inside it is blurry and I did not change any settings on the camera.  My have to do a retake tomorrow when I get back upstairs by for now gotta head to work.  Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Holidays, Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, pistachio pudding, pool party, sahara sand 
Ink: pistachio pudding, pool party, sahara sand, versa mark 
Accessories: ribbon, white detail embossing powder 
Techniques: heat emboss, watercoloring

Sidekick Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 561, for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 551 - Blushing Saffron Pears, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 554 - Watercolor those Diecuts, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 3456 - CAS-ing HYCCT. Today I choose to do LEND A HAND and DON'T COLOR BETWEEN THE LINES. I water colored my rectangle panel using all three colors then cut with spellbinder rectangle die then stamped my sentiment in black ink and matted on blushing bride cd. I embossed the so saffron with cuttlebugs Leaves EF.

On the inside I stamped the praying hands in blushing bride then stamped the sentiment from Blessings from Heaven over that in pear pizzazz ink and then again on the envelope. Hope you like it. Now let's go earn some money. Hobby Lobby opens in Tifton next week and I plan on being there. We are just too excited to have one closer to us.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sidekick Sayings, Blessings from Heaven, Praying Hands 
Paper: white, so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Accessories: Spellbinders Rectangle Die, Cuttlebug Leaves EF 
Techniques: watercoloring, watercoloring dies, dry emboss

Trust God for Strength

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 551 - Blushing Saffron Pears, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 554 - Watercolor those Diecuts, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 3456 - CAS-ing HYCCT. Today I choose the I AM A WARRIOR from the list as I was my mother's support during her 9 year battle of breast cancer that spread throughout her body. This is a difficult month for me even though it is my birth month. Mom went to heaven on 10/29/90 but I know in my heart she was not suffering any longer once she took that final breath. I had to Trust that God had my back and would give me the strength needed to care for her as long as He allowed her to remain. Mom loved roses and so do I with yellow being my favorite. I used my SU watercolor crayons to color my watercolor paper then cut the rose and leaves.

I stamped on the front panel and inside with pear pizzazz and the envelope with so saffron. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Trust God 
Paper: white, so saffron, blushing bride 
Ink: so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Accessories: Cheery Lynn Rose Die, Twine 
Techniques: watercoloring, watercoloring dies

A Surprise Popped Up Anchor

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 543 - Poppin Up All Over. I went with a SURPRISE POP UP CARD and just to make sure I had the pop up covered I popped my fussy cut anchor up on dimensionals. This is also for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 542 - Elegant and delightful Cajun meadows and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 545 - Fussy Cutting. I have not made a surprise pop up card in such a long time I had to go with that, needing something quick and easy peasy. After I realized I wanted a sentiment on the pull out part I wished I had used delightful Dijon for that panel :( oh well, hope you can see that sentiment because it is soo true. I hope whomever I give this too truly is inspired by the words and not the work of this stamper who loves her Lord and this hobby dearly.
RECIPE:
Stamps: ODB - Anchor 
Paper: white, elegant eggplant, delightful dijon, ? dp, 
Ink: momento tuxedo black, Elegant Eggplant 
Accessories: dimensionals 
Techniques: fussy cut, surprise pop up card, 3D

Embrace Life All Wrapped Up with Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 538 - Island Melon Sand - dessert - Stripes and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 332 - Mason Jar. I stamped my jar then the flowers on the right and left then used mask to stamp the one in the middle. I colored the flowers, stems, and jar with copics and then cut the images out. I embossed the marina mist panel with Candy Cane Stripes EF and used white card base. I stamped the sentiment in marina mist and matted on melon mambo after punching with oval punches.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment in marina mist and the flower in melon mambo after stamping off once. I wish the thumbnail on collages showed full size like single photos do. Once you click on the thumbnail the view is much better. I love showing the inside as a reminder to myself that I am keeping with my goal. Oh well. Hope you like it as much as I do.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Embrace Life, All Wrapped Up, Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, Marina Mist, Mellon Mambo 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Marina Mist, Mellon Mambo 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, embossing folder, cuttlebug, copics, layered oval punch 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, masking

Wild Rose Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 516 - Beads, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 525, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 515 - A really crumby Espresso. Today I was in the mood for flowers and I think I pulled it off with the color challenge even if I couldn't add some green. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig for the roses 2 step stamping by stamping off the back stamp before stamping on crumb cake. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Wild Rose, Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: vanilla, crumb cake, real red, chocolate chip 
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Real Red A
Accessories: Martha Stewart Lacey Heart Border Punch,, gold beads, ribbon, stamp-a-ma-jig 
Techniques: make your own background, 2 step stamping

Our Daily Bread Anchor

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 517, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 517 - Triple the Possibilities, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 308 - New Years Resolution, and Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 381. I seldom make something that I really like but this may be an exception. One of my new years resolutions was to use new stuff bought and old stuff that I have not used in a long time. I have not used my Prismacolor pencils and gamsol in so long I almost forgot how. Another resolution was to complete the inside and outside, possibly the envelope as well. Today I did just that.
RECIPE:
Stamps: ODB - Ancho 
Paper: white, Pacific Point, Marina Mist 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Pacific Point 
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Gamsol Medium, Quickutz Anchor die, Ribbon, prismacolor pencils, 
Techniques: 3D, Dry Embossing, Gamsol Magic

His Child

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 435 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 425 - Basically Brides Pirouettes. This is also for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 428 - Happy Birthday Joan where I CASED her TAKE FLIGHT changing the colors, layout and theme. I love silhouettes and especially of little girls at play.
I used a brand new to me set from Sweet N Sassy stamps called "His Child". I stamped the image in basic gray and the sentiment in Pretty in Pink (needed a darker pink that would show up) then matted on basic gray cs. My dp is from My Minds Eye stack "Everyday Tango". One piece is matted on pink pirouette and the other on blushing bride. My base is white and I embossed the basic gray piece with Sizzix "Bricked" embossing folder.
Now let's go to work and earn some money for more stamps and supplies. LOL
RECIPE: 
Stamps: His Child - SNS
Paper: white, basic Gray, Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bride, MME Everyday Tango
Ink: Basic Gray, Pretty in Pink
Accessories: dimensionals, brads, Sizzix EF Bricked
Techniques: dry embossing, 3D

Blessings from Heaven in Hues of Blue

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 422 - Monochromatic Madness and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 418 - Midnight Muse Breeze was certainly the right color combo choice so how could I not use it?. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 213 - Limited Supplies where we were to use single line images (no silhouettes) and my layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 286.
I used some midnight muse ribbon across the top vertical panel, stamped my sentiment in midnight muse and doodled on the top and bottom with marina mist marker. I cut the cross and popped it up on dimensionals.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Blessings from Heaven
Paper: white, midnight muse, marina mist, baja breeze
Ink: midnight muse, marina mist
Accessories: dimensionals, Fiskars scallope border punch, ribbon, Cuttlebug Diamonds and Dots EF Techniques: dry embossing, 3D, doodling, CAS

Simply Trust God

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 420 - Light to Dark, CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 211 - Sketch and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 416 - Bashful Raspberry Petals.
I could not resist using the color from last week and a flower image. I started with Stampin Ups set Simpy Soft and stamped the stem image in momento tuxedo black then with my stamp-a-ma-jig TRIED to line up the petal images inking in pretty in pink (which did NOT work well) so I finished the coloring off with copics RV11, 14, 17 & 19 then added some shadding with B21.
My sentiment is from Trust God and is stamped in raspberry ripple on primrose petal cs.
I used pretty in pink, primrose petal and raspberry ripple cs for the 3 strips on the side.
Hope you like it. Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Simply Soft, Trust God - SU
Paper: white, pretty in pink, primrose petals, raspberry ripple
Ink: momento tuxedo black, raspberry ripple
Accessories: stamp-a-ma-jig, copics
Techniques: light to dark, copic coloring, 2 step stamping

Large Label with Trust God

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE #413 - Focus on the Dies.
My layout is from today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 204 - Sketch and my color combo is from last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 409 - Red Pirouette Wonder.
I used 2 sizes of the Nestability Large Label Die for my focus and to really focus I used a sentiment on the white smaller size die. Both were cut and embossed using my cuttlebug.
My dp is from Basic Grey's "Olivia" stack. I used a 3/4 inch circl punch and ruby red cs for my 3 scallops under my focal panel and popped my focal panel up on dimensionals.
Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Trust God - SU
Paper: whtie, Wisteria Wonder, Ruby Red, pink pirouette, BG Olivia
Ink: wisteria wonder
Accessories: dimensionals, circle punchs, Nestability Large Label
Techniques: 3D, Focus on the dies, faux scallop border

Trust God

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 405 - Soft Saffron Breeze and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 200 - Inspired by Fabric.
I embossed the Baja breeze panel left side only using an M-Bossability folder and can not remember the name of it. I cut embossed and sponged the leaves and pine cone using Nestability Fall Follage dies sponged with soft suede. The Baja breeze panel is divided with a strip of soft suede topped with some ribbon then I stamped the sentiment in soft suede.
Hope you like it. My stamping therapy time has been SO limited lately. I need a vacation so I can stamp, LOL.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Trust God
Paper: soft suede, so saffron, baja breeze
Ink: soft suede
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, sponges, Nestability Fall Folate, M-Bossability ?
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, stenciling, sponging

Thoughts of Praying For You

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 398 - A Very Pink Primrose with Lace for dessert.
Well as you can see it is 1am and where am I? Wide awake again. GGRRr so why not check out the CC I thought to myself. Then I just had to put my ideas on paper, then I just had to go ahead and upload. LOL.
So here it is. I stamped the hand and sentiment in primrose petals on vanilla cs then cut it 4 sections and matted on primrose petals and popped up on dimensionals for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 400 - Cut It Up.
I used vanilla for my base and a sheet of BoBunny dp from "crazy for love".
My layout is from last Wednesday's FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES # 57.
Now maybe I can get some sleep since I have to be up again in 4 hrs.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers - SU, Praying Hands ?
Paper: vanilla, primrose petals, BoBunny "Crazy for Love" dp
Ink: primrose petals
Accessories: dimensionals
Techniques: cut it up, 3D

Refuge and Strength

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 371 - Get Inky With Reinkers. I used this RIBBON DYEING TECHNIQUE since I did not have any ribbon that closely resembles sahara sand. I could not get a good photo of that ribbon, it really is NOT gray.
My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 381.My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 371 - Whispering Gray Sand.
I used some wide masking tape and inked it with basic gray then transfered it to the sahara sand cs for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 373 - Magical Masking then dry embossed with swiss dots EF.
I also used thinner strips of tape lightly inked with sahara sand, then transfered to white cs making a cross. I stamped the sentiment on top in basic gray then popped the white up on dimensionals above the scallop circle matt. I punched the large and a small butterfly from Martha Stewart punch and attached to the upper left.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Refuge & Strength - SU
Paper: white, sahara sand, basic gray
Ink: basic gray, sahara sand
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, swiss dots ef, masking tape, sahara sand reinker, cuttlebug, MS Butterfly punch
Techniques: magical masking, dry embossing, ribbon dyeing

You Light Up My Life

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 370 - Ruffles where I used some SU Ribbon that has ruffled edges.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 370 - Tangerine Olive Delight.
I cut some stips of daffodil delight, attached them to the DD panel for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 372 - Faux Dry Embossing.
I used my Fiskars Sunburst scalloped border punch and my scallop circle tangerine tango matt for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 165 - Scallops.
My layout is from Saturday's SWEET N SASSY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 153 where we were to choose a previous sketch. I chose WEEK # 136 November 26th.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Shining Light - SNS
Paper: white, tangerine tango, daffodil delight
Ink: tangeringe tango
Accessories: Fiskars Sunburst border, SU Scallop Circle, Fiskars Circle punch, ribbon, gem, dimensionals
Techniques: Faux dry embossing, 3D