A Basket Full of Fun Apples

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 560, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 550 - Soft Marina Daffodils, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 553 - Doodled Dry Embossing, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 344 - How about them apples?. Now how could I resist combining all of these together. I wanted a larger apple and do not have the Spellbinders Apple dies YET so I hand drew and cut out an apple from daffodil delight cs. My embossing folder is the Paper Studio Intricate Swirl doodled with white jel pen. I added some yellow ribbon on the left panel of soft sky.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment and apples in daffodil delight and the basket in marina mist. On the envelope I stamped the sentiment in marina mist. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Basket Full of Fun 
Paper: white, daffodil delight, soft sky, marina mist 
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist 
Accessories: ribbon, white jel pen, dimensionals, Integrate Swirl EF
Techniques: 3D, doodled dry embossing, doodling

Make A Wish at the Beach

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Under a Soft Sky our Blushing Bride eats Crumb Cake, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 531 - Stencil this or Stencil that, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 322 - Cupcakes, and my layout is from last Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 537. Well not sure this is very simple but not difficult either since I had the dies already cut out. The longest time taken was cleaning up after getting dazzling diamonds everywhere. LOL . I popped the focal panel up and then popped the cupcake up so that it was sitting in the chair. Can you tell my family is a beach loving family? Well we are. This will go to my niece later this year for her birthday. Hope she likes it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Die Versions - Make a Wish 
Paper: white, Soft Sky, Crumb Cake, The Paper Studio - A Day at the Beach 
Ink: Soft Sky 
Accessories: Die Versions - Make a Wish Die, Impression Obsession Flip Flops, Clouds & Adirondeck Chair, Dazzling Diamonds, Stickles, dimensionals, Plaid - Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, Glittered Stenciling, die cuts

A Bareback Yeehaw Father's Day

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 423 - Quite a River Breeze with dessert of Stripes/Plaids. My looped scraps of ribbon are for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 426 - Scrappy and Loopy. 
My layout is from Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 217 - Sketch Challenge.
I used a sheet of The Paper Studio "Yee-Haw" dp matted on Not quite Navy. The image was stamped in night of navy on river rock then matted on baja breeze and the sentiment stamped in night of navy on baja breeze matted on river rock.
Hope you like it,
RECIPE:
Stamps: Bareback, All Year Cheer II
Paper: not quite navy, river rock, baja breeze, TPS Yee-Haw
Ink: night of navy
Accessories: ribbon
Techniques: CAS

Flip Flop Gift Card Holder Sew What?

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 425 - Flip Flop Card and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 216 - Pinterest Inspiration Challenge. I loved all of those buttons and could not resist creating my own button using the DP from my Flip Flop gift card holder. I am always looking for new and exciting ways to give a gift card and this is one of them. Thanks for the tutorial too since I am a visual rather than a reader. I used bakers twine threaded through the botton that is popped up on dimensionals for closing the used my crop-a-dile to make holes on the side to tie the bow and complete the closing. My card stock is some WAY BACK retired Mauve Mist I bought from a retired SU demo way back. I use it every chance I get so hopefully they will bring it back one day. LOL. Such a pretty color. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sew What - MFP
Paper: Mauve Mist, TPS Persnickety
Ink: Glorious Green
Accessories: dimensionals ,bakers twine, crop-a-dile, Maurvy Giga Scallop Circle Punch
Techniques: Flip Flip Card, Gift Card Holder

Sanded Love and Sympathy

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 423, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 413 - White Lucky Tangerines and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 416 - Dry embossing with Sanded Pattern Paper where I used another sheet of The Paper Studio - a day at the Beach pattern paper dry embossed with The Paper Studio "Script" folder then sanded.
I stamped the long sentiment in basic black on white cs then inked the flower image using my stampin up markers and huffed then stamped over the sentiment.
I stamped the shorter sentiment using tangering tango on white, punched with oval punch then layered with tanger tango oval punched cs.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Love & Sympathy
Paper: white, tangerine tango, lucky limeade, TPS-a day at the Beach PP
Ink: basic black, tangerine tango, lucky limeade
Accessories: oval punches, cuttlebug, TPS - Script EF
Techniques: huffing, sanding, dry embossing

Short & Sweet Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 418, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 408 - Very Soft Ripple, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 411 - The Best of 2012. Today I chose one of my all time favs from last year. I had so much fun doing TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 372 - Faux Dry Embossing that I had to do this one again. I used my Martha Stewart heart and ribbon punches out of raspberry ripple cs then punched one and some holes to thread some twine thru for the top.
My dp is from The Paper Studio "Love You" stack and is matted on soft suede cs. My sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Short & Sweet.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Short & Sweet - SU
Paper: vanilla, soft suede, raspberry ripple, TPS Love You
Ink: soft suede, raspberry ripple
Accessories: heart punch, ribbon punch, twine, dimensionals
Techniques: faux dry embossing

Bootiful Christmas

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 394 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 384 - Vanilla Cherry Gumballs with a dessert of Christmas.
I just got this darling SU set and could not wait to get it dirty. Whoo Hoo. I love these darling boots in this set, especially this one. I stamped the image twice on vanilla and once on cherry cobbler. I cut the boot out from the cherry cobbler and the top and balls on the end of the ties from one of the vanilla stampings, popped them up on dimensionals, then paper pieced it all together. LOVIN' how it turned out.
I guess I was in a faux stitching mood huh? cause I did it on all layers. Oh well, hope that means it will stay together longer.
I used a piece of The Paper Studio "Persnickety" dp for the strip across and Marvy Scallop Mega Circle and Marvy Giga circle punches.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Bootiful Occasions - SU
Paper: vanilla, cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, TPS Persnickety dp
Ink: momento tuxedo black, cherry cobbler, Spica black Glitter pen, SU Basic Black & Cherry Cobbler Markers
Accessories: Marvy Mega & Giga Circle Punches, dimensionals.
Techniques: 3D, paper piecing

Fish Til Dark

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 386.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 386 - Farewell Blushing Peach Crush Pizzazz Parade. I used them all. Whoo Hoo
My pear pizzazz panel was dry embossed with my cuttlebug and The Paper Studio's Leaves Embossing Folder then I used my brayer to apply pear pizzazz ink to just the raised sections for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 378 - Brayered Paper Elements. Me and the brayer do NOT get along but I do like how that panel turned out after tossing 2 other attempts at a brayered skyline to stamp my image onto. ggrrrrr. One day I am going to find a class to teach me how to do that.
I sponged blushing bride ink all over then used a mask at the tree line to sponge peach parfait and poppy parade. I used a reverse mask to sponge the inside of a punched out circle for my fading sunset. The images were stamped in concord crush. My dp is so old I have no idea where I got it but it looked a lot like peach with some poppy sprayed on it so I used it. My base & matt for my focal image panel is concord crush.
I made this for my darling hubby who DOES and will continue to fish until dark 30.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Landscape, boat
Paper: white, concord crush, pear pizzazz, dp?
Ink: concord crush, pear pizzazz, peach parfait, blushing bride, poppy parade
Accessories: circle punch, sponges, brayer, stickles
Techniques: masking, reverse masking, brayered paper elements

Hello Cupcake

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 370 - Faux Patina. I am soo looking forward to seeing everyone else's samples as mine sorta took a wrong turn somewhere. Not so happy with end result but loading anyway.
I am also including today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 163 - Family Circle Inspiration even though my 1st attempt using the pastel colors failed and I ended up with a much brighter than desired end result, ggrrr.
My layout is from Sunday's CARD POSITIONING SYSTEM SKETCH CHALLENGE # 258.
My colors used are summer sun, kiwi kiss, pixie pink and lovely lavendar in that order.
I stamped the image in momento tuxedo black, then the icing images in the same colors used for the background using SU Markers and huffing.
I cut it out, popped it up and applied some stickles.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Hello Cupcake - MGT
Paper: white, summer sun
Ink: momento tuxedo black, summer sun, kiwi kiss, pixie pink, lovely lavendar
Accessories: markers, copics, cuttlebug, TPS Intricate Swirl EF
Techniques: Faux Patina