Sunsets

Hi everyone!  Today my card is for this weeks CAS challenge on SCS.  This week I have chosen the theme/technique challenge and we are filling the gallery with sunsets!  I used a piece of watercolor paper and water colored Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade and Wild Honey Distress inks.  I used this beautiful image from my Sweet n Sassy Landscape Silhouettes set, I heat embossed it with Zing Charcoal Embossing Powder.  My sentiment is an old Amuse stamp.  Love this little sentiment1

I hope you enjoy and thanks so much for stopping by today!

sending you sunshine

Hi everyone!!  I made it to round 2 of the CAS team tryouts!!  I'm pretty excited!!  The second challenge was a technique challenge, to make your own woodgrain.  I really like this technique and haven't done it for a while so it was a lot of fun for me!!  I got this idea right away last night so I decided to get to it, the cards are due Thursday at noon so not a lot of time to change my mind :)  I decided to make a frame for the woodgrain technique.  I started out with GKD Sandy Beach cardstock, used my Scor-Pal to score the lines and used Vivid Taupe, Tuscan Tan and Coffee Bean inks.  I then stamped and heat embossed this great image from Sweet 'n Sassy's Landscape Silhouettes set.  I had to go with this image since the theme for the CAS tryouts is Lobster Bake :)  I sponged Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress inks for the water and Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Fired Brick for the sky.  Finally I added an old sentiment stamp from AMuse, it seemed perfect!!

I hope you enjoy and thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Way Back Wednesday

Hi everyone!!  Quite a while ago I started a "series" of Way Back Wednesday.  I have a number of stamps I can't seem to let go but don't use them either!!  I want to start this again and my goal is to post a card made with these stamps every week!!  I have a few Amuse sentiment stamps from prior to them changing to a direct sales company that I just love, this being one of them.  I used this weeks CPS sketch which was perfect for this fun dp and sentiment.!!

I'd love if you decide to play along and dig out your old stamps, be sure to leave me a comment so I can stop by and see what you've created!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Amuse

Paper:  GKD Ivory, PTI Simply Chartreuse, October Afternoon 5 & Dime

Ink:  Versamark

Accessories:  Nestabilities Ribbon Die, The Cats Pajamas Pinking Border, Black Embossing Powder, Simply Chartreuse ribbon

i got you babe

Hi everyone!!  Today's card is for this weeks Clean & Simple Stampings sketch and Crazy for Challenges challenge.  The C4C challenge is to incorporate music into your card.  I don't have any musical paper or stamps but I remembered this fun sentiment stamp from Amuse!!  Remember Sonny & Cher singing this song?!  My Mom and I would watch their show when I was a little girl, fun times!!  I had to add the little elephants, they are too cute!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Amuse Ellie, Ellie with Bow & I got you babe  (I could not find Ellie & I got you babe on the Amuse site, I'm assuming they are retired)

Paper:  Gina K Pure Luxury White, Papertrey Smokey Shadown

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools/Accessories:  Martha Steart Heart Lace Punch, Pop Dots, Sweet Blush Satin Ribbon, Copics:  R20, R22, R24, T1, T4, T6

i got you babe

Hi everyone!! My card for today is for the featured stamper challenge on Splitcoast. Scoopy is this weeks lucky gal, congrats Emily!! I've always admired her work and had a tough time deciding which card to case! I did choose this card to case and changed the colors, image, sentiment, placement of the sentiment and used felt instead of ribbon.
Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Amuse Love Potion & I got you babe
Paper: Papertrey White & Raspberry Fizz
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Tools/Accessories: Oval & Scallop Oval Nestabilites, Liquid Glass, Rhinestones, Raspberry Fizz Felt, Ric Rak Die, Copics: E35, R00, RV19

Thinking of You

My final card for the Stamp a Sweet Impression challenges!! I have them all done, yea me!! This final challenge was issued by Jodi, a color challenge. I don't have the exact colors, I did a little research and came up with some alternates. I was really stumped with this color combo, not colors I typically use so I had a time thinking of what image to use. I decided to look through my stash of dp and ran across this paper that matches the colors about as close as you can get!!! Again, yea me!! I paper pieced the Couch from Amuse with the dp and cardstock and cut the couch out, it is up on pop dots. Simple, easy and I am fairly pleased with it!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Amuse Couch, unknown sentiment stamp

Paper: SU! Taken with Teal, Summer Sun & Pink Passion, unknown dp

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools/Accessories: Pop Dots

Polka Dot Birthday

As with the majority of my cards, this one took a life of it's own!! And it kind of makes me giggle too! I went downstairs to stamp, thinking I would like to make a CAS card, today's challenge is to make a birthday card, perfect, I can always use birthday cards!! I was also thinking about yesterday's High Hopes challenge, Crissy wanted us to use polka dots!!! Well that fits in great for a birthday card and what the heck, how about the color challenge on Stamp TV, nothing specific this week, get your color inspiration from flowers blooming in your yard! Initially of course my thoughts went to a cupcake until I ran into this little beauty, Three Candle Cake from High Hopes, perfect!!! And the wheels started turning!! I remembered I had these fun brads that I bought a long time ago but don't seem to have the right card for them very often, same with the ribbon. I wanted to use bright fun colors for the color challenge and took them from the ribbon and brads. And just because it is fun, I added stickles to the candles, Crystal Effects to the chocolate icing and the plate!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: High Hopes Three Candle Cake, Amuse Happy Birthday to You

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury 120#

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools/Accessories: Orange & Yellow Stickles, American Crafts Ribbon, Crystal Effects, Accent Depot Birthday Dots Brads, Copics: E49, R46, YG09, YR04, YR07

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge 11

Dawn said we could do it!!! And I had my doubts at first! I have been thinking for the last couple of days and then I found the Weekend Sketch challenge on Charmaine's blog and knew Dawn was right!!! The colors that she challenged us to this week are Light Gray, Black, Grass Green, Bright Red and Bright Pink.

Fast simple card which also fits in with Lynn's challenge on Stamp TV to use punches, how is that for luck!! I used my SU! circle punch and Martha Stewart Butterfly punch. The butterflies were punched twice and I raised the wings a little on the second layer. I was rummaging through my individual stamps and ran across this Oh What Fun stamp from Amuse and thought it would be a neat and different sentiment!! The green layer was too plain so as long as my Scor Bug was still sitting out from my last card I went with it!!

Thanks for stopping by again!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Amuse Oh What Fun

Paper: Sahara Sand, Papertrey New Leaf, Pure Poppy, True Black and Raspberry Fizz

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools/Accessories: Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, SU! Circle Punch, Scor Bug, Papertrey True Black Satin Ribbon

Relaxing Rory

Hi everyone!!! I had no real purpose for this card, IE not made for a challenge of any kind. My good buddy Denise purchased some of the Home Grown Collection from Sugar Nellie and sent me some images, lucky me!!! Thanks Pea!!! I thought they were cute on the website, but in person, oh my, I am in love!! LOL!!!! This cutie is Rory and was he ever fun to color!!! I colored him using my Copic markers. I then cut the image out using my Large Labels Nestabilities, which are now on sale at Treehouse Stamps!!! I then cut a piece of Basic Gray cardstock and used my Ticket Corner punch in all the corners. Finally I cut a piece of black cardstock. I used my Pebbles Dark Brown Candy Dots in the corners. I dug through my stash of papers and found this fun pattern from Basic Gray, Infuse pack. I used Dark Chocolate Twill from Papertrey around the dp and tied in a knot. I attached the image panel with pop dots and added Liquid Glass to Rory's nose and the water. I was looking to add just a little something more to the top but not take away from the image. I decided to use the relax...it's your day sentiment stamp from A Muse. I think this card could serve many purposes with this sentiment!! My final detail was to sponge around the edges and on the Very Vanilla base card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

High Hopes and Dirty Dozen Challenges

Hello!!! I hope you had a great weekend!!! On Saturday we went to Stillwater and enjoyed the beautiful scenery!! We have not been there in quite some time and had no idea how busy it would be!!!
I finished up on a few cards tonight after work and wanted to share with you!!! My first card is for the High Hopes challenge #3 posted on their blog yesterday. The challenge was to use stitching in your card. I chose to faux stitch around the image. This image is Bear-ly Warming Up. Isn't he fun!!!! I thought it would be an appropriate image given how cool it is starting to get. Yuck!! But I just love him, he is so fun!!!! I colored the image using my Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol and blending stumps. I added a small amount of Liquid Applique to the marshmallows. The image and base card are White Select from Papertrey, the image panel is mounted on Chocolate Chip. I added a piece of Handsome Hunter to the base card, cut the 2 small panels into 2 x 2 squares in Chocolate Chip cardstock, then adding a small sqare of dp from Stampin Up! that I received from my friend Cyndee (*waving hi*), thanks so much Cyndee!!!! I then added Espresso Bella Baubles to finish off the outside of the card. On the inside I stamped a few marshmallows along the bottom of the card.

My second card is for the Central Theme Dirty Dozen challenge. For the central theme we were to use vivid colors. I used a few of the new colors that Stampin Up! came out with in August. This card also qualifies for the Product and Materials challenge, coloring mediums. I used both Copic markers and of course my Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol and blending stumps. The image is from Inky Antics, Cupcake Chef. I really love cupcakes so when I needed to order more stumps I couldn't pass this one by!! The base card, image panel and Party Time panel is again White Select from Papertrey. I cut the cupcake chef out using my oval Nestabilities and cut out a scalloped oval in basic black. I used Riding Hood Red cardstock behind the chef and the Party Time panel. The ribbon is also Riding Hood Red. The Party Time sentiment is from Amuse. They have so many fun sentiments and the fonts are a lot of fun too!! I used my new tag Nestabilites for the sentiment panel, added some black brads and popped that panel up using dimentionals.


My final card for today is for the Dirty Dozen Sketch challenge. I had a lot of fun with this one!! I love sketch challenges!!!! This image is We're all Ears from High Hopes. They are so cute!!! For this card I used Very Vanilla for the base card and image panel. I colored the image using my Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol and blending stumps. I cut the image panel out using my circle Nestabilites, the second and third panels were cut out using my scallop Nestabilites. I used basic black and Always Artichoke. The designer paper is the fun paper that Denise sent me from K & Co. I love the paper!!! The card seemed to be missing something so I used some orange baubles I have and I really like the look of it.



Thanks so much for stopping by!!!!!

Home Sweet Home

Happy Sunday to you!!! I hope your weekend is going well!! The first card I have to share with you today is for the Featured Stamper challenge on Splitcoast. Today's Featured Stamper is Stephanie.Hargis and my inspiration came from this card! I really liked the layout and how you can use a small image but create a very nice card!!! I used my couch image and Home Sweet Home sentiment from Amuse. For both images I first stamped them in Versamark and then Chocolate Chip in, I then added clear embossing powder. I colored the couch with my Stampin Up markers and for the pillows on the couch I added fun flock just for fun!! The designer paper is from Stampin Up, a retired paper called Rebecca. I used my word window punch to cut out the sentiment and for the brown layer behind I used a cuttlebug die, the white against the designer paper really washed out the sentiment so I needed to add something, then I added pink Bella Baubles above and below the sentiment, there are Espresso Bella Baubles along the bottom side of the card.

My second card for today is for the Our Creative Corner challenge and the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast. The Our Creative Corner challenge was a beautiful inspiration piece. I chose the yellow and brown with a splash of green from the flowers in the picture. I used my new Birds of a Feather from Papertrey. This was my first time inking it up and I really like this set!! I chose the sentiment first and went with the theme the beginning of life, the eggs in the basket. I used Papertrey white cardstock for the card base, Chocolate Chip cardstock and finally Barely Banana. For the Barely Banana layer I used my Scor-Pal, I really like the look of the scored lines. I used Adirondak Espresso, Barely Banana, Lemon Tart and Wild Wasabi inks for this card. The sketch challenge was a lot of fun using the diamond shape!! I cannot beleive I did not use a single embellishment for this card but I really didn't think anything I have would fit on this card and I think the scored lines adds enough detail.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend!!