Our Creative Corner Resist Challenge

Hello, peeps!  I apologize for the lateness of this post.....I am away for a few days and you know how things go when you're not in your regular routine!  Anyway, I was asked by the sweet gals at OCC to be a guest designer for Our Creative Corner today---and what a fabulous challenge they have:  a resist challenge with a twist!  You can read all about it here!  The "resist" part is any type of resist stamping technique, and the "twist" is to use wings!  I used some pretty Pink Paislee stamps along with a musical background stamp, heat embossed on glossy white paper in clear EP and sponged in various shades of pink, as well as a beautiful butterfly stamped on vellum!  What do you think:

I used Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose and Raspberry Ripple for my colors, and my butterfly is embellished with some rhinestones.  The banners are also vellum and are attached to some sweet little ribbons!

I hope that you will find this challenge ir"resist"able and play along with us.  Be sure to check out what the other designers have created at Our Creative Corner as well!

Here's a little pic from last week of my DGD eating a "watermelon popsicle"....something I saw on Pinterest!

(I hope I haven't already posted this, LOL!!!)

Shabby Sympathy

Wow, we woke up to rain this morning---lots of nice, soft falling rain!  We needed it!  I actually got some housework done and found a little stamping time.  The Sugar Creek Hollow challenge #20 is to make a sympathy card; we always need them.  I pulled out Fan Fair DP (such vintage yumminess), Blessings from Heaven, and Papaya Collage:

  

I also used the Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge 264:

and the color challenge of pink, navy and my choice (rose) from Our Creative Corner:

I just used the elements from the Papaya collage set and stamped them in Primrose Petals and Midnight Muse on VV cardstock and cut them out, adding some pearls, glitter, seam binding and lace:

 

I realized (too late) that my seam binding doesn’t exactly match my DP…..oh well!  I included a Bible verse on the inside along with elements from the set, stamped off once:

I know this is mean…..but this is how Cassidy awoke this morning, and she HATES to have her hair combed or brushed:

She is feeling better, despite the look on her face!  Enjoy your day!

Summer Starfish

I was able to squeak in some stamping time yesterday, in between cleaning and working, and I made a card for three challenges:  Our Creative Corner’s Buttons ‘n Burlap or Bows; The Kraft Journal’s Good Ole Summertime Make It Monday Challenge; and the iSpy Sketches sketch #20.  Here’s the iSpy sketch:

and here’s my “good ole’ summertime” card:

I used a Crumb Cake base; some papers from Pink Paislee’s Indigo Bleu line; stamps are retired SU Beautiful Beach and Lizzie Anne’s Shore Thoughts.  I added a burlap panel and some buttons; the starfish is sparkly, but you can’t see it from here!  If you have any questions, please shoot me an email!  Have a great day—stay cool!  It’s HOT here today!

I’ve Been Framed with OCCC

  

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Those sweet girls over at Our Creative Corner have asked me to be a guest designer today!!

The challenge is “Embellished Frames”…..make it any shape, but the frame should be the first thing you see!   I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder to make my “wooden” frame from Chocolate Chip cardstock.  I am glad I never took wood shop; I would have gotten an “F” on making mitered corners!!  Here’s my square “framed” Father’s Day card:

I was totally inspired to use Lovely as a Tree after seeing Narelle’s beautiful card here.  I stamped and sponged the classic tree image, then added the letters from Timeless Type dies (which is retiring-----insert a BIG pouty face here), and popped them up a bit:

You need lots of little itty bitty bits of dimensionals for this, let me tell ya!  Teeny Tiny Wishes provided the sentiment, adhered over one of the Itty Bitty Banners images, then I added some jumbo eyelets with my Crop-a-dile, and it was done!  Since the card is square, the banner poking out on the side still allows it to fit into a standard-sized envelope.   I stamped a nice Verve sentiment on the inside:

This also qualifies for the Little Red Wagon challenge this week:  wood!  I hope you’ll meander over to the Our Creative Corner blog and play along with the Embellished Frame challenge too!

Doesn’t everybody chill out with their foot up on their trike, surveying the newly-mown lawn?!

CQC139 Meets RS13 Meets OCCC

 

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Back to the work week!  Arielle really challenged me today with this color/inspiration:

This looks exactly like a shirt my DD would wear; it’s her colors and style, but not really mine.  I wracked my brain trying to come up with a floral image in my collection that would work with this.  Alas, my vintage heart won over, and even though the girls at Retro Sketches really go for clean, modern lines, the little rebel in me chose their sketch:

to highlight my shabby collage-style creation:

And since it’s shabby, it also qualifies for this week’s Our Creative Corner challenge as well!  Woohoo!  I used a Crumb Cake base here, and my tag from Two Tags was cut from a page of Authentique’s Genuine Collection.  I added some stamped florals in Bashful Blue on the tag, a sentiment in Night of Navy, and some vintage images on the card in Crumb Cake.  All stamps are from Pink Paislee’s Spring Jubilee.

 

I dyed some seam binding in Rich Razzleberry for my shabby bow, corralled by an Antique Brad, and added a couple of little hearts:

This is going to a special friend as a sweet little thank you for something nice she did for me!  Now I hope that you can find some inspiration from this modern image and colors, and share your creation over at the ColourQ blog.  Your latest submissions have been fantastic, I’m telling you….it is getting harder to pick a winner each week!  While you’re there, be sure to check out what all the other fabulous designers have stamped!!

If you remember on Mother’s Day, Cassidy wanted a pickle, but after tasting it, gave it back to me!  She tried again, though:

Going,

 

going,

 

gone!!!

OCCC & LIM66

  

Just a quick little card today, for two challenges!  Less is More has a color challenge of yellow; and Our Creative Corner also has a yellow color challenge:

I pulled out one of my favorite retired sets, Garden Pleasures, to make a little square card:

After looking at this photo, I put a new ribbon on…..that one looked a little shabby!  I always tell my customers to give yourself plenty of ribbon so you don’t get frustrated when you tie your knot or bow…and I didn’t follow my own advice!    At any rate, the image was stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and colored with More Mustard, Crumb Cake and Daffodil Delight inks.  SU’s new Daffodil Delight seam binding is such a pretty spring embellishment!

Thanks for visiting today!

 

A little sleepyhead!

OCC and FMS33

I had a few extra stamping minutes yesterday and eagerly tackled a couple of challenges.  Unfortunately, what was in my brain and what came out on paper wasn’t quite the same….it looks a bit mousey to me, and rather bland.  I think my mojo got washed away with the rain!   Here’s my card:

The challenge from Our Creative Corner, hosted by my sweet friend Anne Marie, featured a recipe:  embossing, ribbon, brads or buttons and watercoloring.  The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches for this week:

I chose some softly-colored papers from My Minds Eye and an herb image from Herb Expressions to watercolor. I am not sure whether the colors were just too soft or what, but it sort of falls flat!  Another thing is that I rarely make Mother’s Day cards as my mother passed away in 2001 and my MIL passed away in 2010, so I really don’t have much reason to make one!  Anyway, I enjoyed both challenges and I kept at it.  In fact, I made this card, just using the sketch alone, as a simple “thank you” for one of my customers:

And Tuesday, before the sketch even came out, I had made this card….I had to chuckle when I saw the sketch, as it was so similar:

Both of these cards used some leftover cardstock that I had from another project; the card itself is about 3 1/2” wide, so it allowed me to hang the flower over the right edge and still fit in a standard-sized envelope!  If you have any questions about any of these cards, shoot me an email!

Pardon the extreme sunglare in the bathtub!  She seemed to think this was a fun place to play!!!

Paper Players #92 – Nance’s Sketch

Happy Sunday, everyone!  The Paper Players challenge is brought to you today by the lovely Nance, and she has a fabulous sketch that I just love!  Here it is:

I got some pretty new papers from My Mind’s Eye and I couldn’t wait to use them on my card today:

Another card where the paper does most of the work!  I did add some stitching to the scallops and the main panel, and diecut a pretty butterfly with the SU Butterflies die.  Some pearls, a little button & twine, and a sweet sentiment from Curly Cute and my card was done!  This also qualifies for the Our Creative Corner Challenge this week, which is butterflies! 

I can see so many possibilities with this sketch, I am sure you’ll be seeing more of it from me!  Now, let’s see what you can do with it!  Be sure to link your creation at the Paper Players blog and check out what the other designers have come up with while you’re there!  I can’t wait to see what you make!

How about some sidewalk art?

OCCC and SCH#5

 

I had a little bit of free time this afternoon, so I made a card for Our Creative Corner’s color challenge, which is “How Green is Your Spring”:

and for Sugar Creek Hollow’s challenge #5, which is to make a birthday card:

I snagged this free image from web, and added a leafy background and some embellishments.  I am not too sure about that M&M-looking button down there..but it’s on there now!  Thanks for visiting; be sure to come back tomorrow for the Paper Players’ new challenge!

CAS HB

Happy sunny Monday!  Woohoo!  I got my computer back and there was nothing wrong with it….go figure!  But that is good news, so I am pretty happy!  I have a real CAS card to share today, totally inspired by this card of Mary Brown’s—and it completes three challenges:

• SCS CAS160 – Monogram
• Less Is More – Neutrals
• Our Creative Corner – Making Melody

So “HB” is not really a monogram, but it does stand for Happy Birthday and since I needed a birthday card for my nephew’s upcoming big day, I thought this would a good masculine card:

I find it difficult to do cards for teenage boys, but he plays several instruments and is in jazz band, so I hope this somewhat appeals to him.  The flourish may be a little questionable but I imagine what’s inside is probably more important to him!!!  The card is glossy white (when was the last time you used that?) so it has a real contemporary flair.  The music wheel was stamped in Stazon; the flourish in Sahara Sand and the dots in Going Gray, stamped off once!  The Basic Black letters are die cut from the Timeless Type Alphabet.  Oh, and the music that inspired me was “Happy Birthday to You”!!! LOL!

One of the reasons I was worried about my computer crash were these pix of Cassidy a couple weeks ago as I was cleaning:

 

Ah, the imagination of a child….and no, it wasn’t running!  And hopefully I'll get her to USE it one of these days!!!