Christmas and Color Challenge

Good afternoon! I hope you're having a great week so far. I made this card for the color challenge on SCS, which was to use Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip and Riding Hood Red. I love this color combo! I also used last weeks Mojo Monday sketch challenge.

-Stamps-Impression Obsession What's Brewing, SU Upsy Daisy
-Paper-Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette and white cardstock; Riding Hood Red DSP
-Ink-Memento black and Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip marker
-Copics-RV000, RV10, R22, R27, R29, R46, E37, E47
-Accessories-Corner rounder punch, hole punch, white brads, Chocolate Chip twill

I started on this card probably a couple of months ago, and set it aside to work on something else. I found it under my radio the other day when I was cleaning up a little bit so I thought I'd finish it. I know I've used this layout before, and I'm thinking it's was a sketch challenge but I can't remember where I saw it.

-Stamps-SU Snow Flurries, Seeing Spots and Perfect Endings
-Paper-Bravo Burgundy, Soft Sky and White
-Ink-Bravo Burgundy, Soft Sky and Blue Bayou
-Accessories-Bravo Burgundy grosgrain, Rhinestones, HPH

Can you believe it..3 posts in 3 days! Oh, and I noticed when I was getting ready to start this post that this is my 250th one! Wow!

More Christmas cards =)

Good morning! I hope you all had a great weekend! I saw this color combo somewhere recently, but I can't remember where. The card I saw used Baja Breeze though, but I don't have that color yet, so I used Soft Sky. This first card looked a lot better before I put those huge brads on. Problem was though, I poked all the holes with my paper piercer, and then decided the holes I poked were too close to the edge so I poked new ones next to them. Then I decided that smaller brads would look much better, but by that point it was too late, because the small brads wouldn't cover up both holes. Duh! Oh, well. I'm still pretty happy with it though. The brads were silver, but I just embossed them to make them white. I don't think I'll ever get tired of this stamp set! I love coloring it! I wanted to use my Copics, but I didn't have the right colors, so I used an SU marker for the Burgundy and an Aqua Painter with my Soft Sky ink pad.
-Stamps-Crazy for Christmas, Polka Dots & Paisley, PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-Bravo Burgundy, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Kraft and Whisper White
-Ink-Palette Black, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky and Bravo Burgundy
-Accessories-Sewing machine, white thread, brads, Aqua painter and, Bravo Burgundy marker and 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" Circle punches

Loved the color combo so much I decided to make another . I just inked up the image with Soft Sky, and then went right over it with markers.

-Stamps-Season of Joy, Polka Dots & Paisley
-Paper-Bravo Burgundy, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Kraft and Whisper White
-Ink-Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky and Bravo Burgundy
-Accessories-Sewing machine, white thread, Build-a-Brad, 1/2" circle punch, White grosgrain ribbon and Bravo Burgundy & Chocolate Chip markers.

This one is exactly like my upside down card, only different colors...well and I didn't make this one upside down .

-Stamps-Snow Flurries, Seeing Spots and Many Merry Messages
-Paper-Bravo Burgundy, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke and Whisper White
-Ink-Bravo Burgundy, Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke
-Accessories-Burgundy grosgrain, Paper Piercer tool, mat pack.

More Christmas cards

I finally made an acetate card! I saw a really cute one on Lorie's blog yesterday, and it reminded me again that I need to make one! You can see Lorie's HERE. I didn't have much luck taking pictures today though. It's kinda hard to tell where the card ends, lol. It looks a lot better in person though. I think I'm going to have to make more of these. I really like them!

-Stamps-Crazy for Christmas and Season of Joy
-Paper-Real Red and Whisper White cardstock;Summer picnic DSP and Acetate.
-Ink-staz-on, Real Red & Old Olive markers & ink pads
-Accessories-White grosgrain ribbon

This one was for Beate's weekend sketch challenge 59. Her sketches are always so awesome!

-Stamps-Seeing Spots, Snow Flurries and Perfect endings
-Paper-Bravo Burgundy, Mellow Moss and Whisper White
-Ink-Bravo Burgundy and Always Artichoke
-Accessories-Mellow Moss grosgrain ribbon & Styled Silver HPH.

Easy Christmas card

This is a super simple Christmas card. I love Snow Flurries and Seeing Spots together. I made a card kinda similar to this the year before last, and then I made another last year based on the other, and now this one. Just casing myself I guess =). Too bad I made it upside down, lol. I didn't even realize it until I was standing it up to get a picture of it. Haha, I can't believe I did that. Oh well. I'll fix it later. Probably just flip it over and use the back.-Stamps-Snow Flurries, Seeing Spots and Many Merry Messages
-Paper-Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranate and Whisper white
-Ink-Blue Bayou, Soft Sky and Purely Pomegranate
-Accessories-Paper Piercer, Mat Pack and Blue Bayou double stitched ribbon.

Stamp Something Challenge 8

Happy Friday! It's time for another Stamp Something Challenge. Melissa is our hostess this week. Her challenge is to create something red, white and blue...........and have it be ANYTHING BUT A CARD! At first I wasn't sure what I was going to do for this challenge because I have no stamps that are even remotely patriotic (I know, shame on me). So I had to think outside of the box. I remembered one of my favorite color combos: Soft Sky, Whisper White and Bravo Burgundy which is perfect for Christmas, so that's what I went with. I know it's a stretch, but technically it's still Red, White and Blue right? =) The tin can be found HERE. It's filled with Hershey's Kisses.
-Stamps-Crazy For Christmas, Many Merry Messages and Snow Flurries
-Paper-Soft Sky, Bravo Burgundy and Whisper White
-Ink-Soft Sky, Bravo Burgundy and black Staz-on.
-Accessories-Scallop Punch, Circle Punches, Bravo Burgundy grosgrain and tin.

Spirelli Scallop

I just saw this idea on Samantha Parisi's blog. She has made an awesome tutorial you can see HERE. You can get many different looks from this just by how you wrap the cord. So cool! The layout was Beate's 28th Sketch challenge.
Here is is close up.
The Old Olive Circle behind the scallop is just the round tab punch layered.

Recipe
-Stamps-Big Pieces, Snow Flurries and Season of Joy.
-Ink-Old Olive, Real Red and River Rock
-Paper-Dashing DSP; Old Olive, Real Red, River Rock and Whisper white cardstock
-Accessories-Scallop punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, round tab punch, ticket corner punch, sponges, silver brads.

Beate's Sketch challenge Season of Joy

This card was for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #26. I really love Beate's sketches. I think this one is one of my favorites.
-Stamps-Season Of Joy, Perfect Endings, Snow Flurries
-Ink-Old Olive, River Rock, Real Red
-Paper-Dashing DSP; Old Olive, River Rock, Real Red and Whisper White cardstock
-Accessories-Pewter Hodgepodge hardware, Real Red grosgrain ribbon
And I'm such a cheapskate. Whenever most of a piece of DSP is going to be covered up anyway, I'll cut out as much as I can. It really does make your Designer Series paper go further though. I know the edges are really raggedy. I used my old fiskars paper trimmer for this, which I only use for scoring and stuff like this since i have the tabletop trimmer now.

Another Snowflake Spot card

This card was for the DSketch1007 challenge for Fan Club Members on SCS. The sketch was changed a pretty good bit though. The circle was supposed to be much smaller (like the SU scallop punch) but I didn't have that punch when I made the card, or a circle to punch to put inside (and my circle cutter won't go that small). This sketch was also rectangle. The scallop circle was punched using the corner rounder. See my tutorial HERE.-Stamps-The Snowflake Spot, Seeing Spots, Snow Flurries, and Spot On Jumbo wheel
-Ink-Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky and Blue Bayou
-Paper-Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky,Blue Bayou and Whisper White; Cutie Pie DSP
-Accessories-Hodgepodge hardware, Blue Bayou and Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon and Ticket Corner Punch.
This piece of hodgepodge I've actually never used before. I have a ton of them because I've never found a use for them. The Pomegranate ribbon was run through first and tied around the inner rectangle, then the Blue Bayou piece was run through. I think it looks a little bit funny, but I'm glad I finally found something to do with that piece.

Thursday Sketch # 5

Sorry I'm getting this up so late. I really need to start making the sketch cards the day before since normally I stamp at night, but I just never seem to get around to to it =).


I'm pretty happy with how this one came out. The picture looks pretty bad though. I was having a really hard time getting a decent picture of this card. My camera doesn't seem to like these colors.

-Stamps-Baroque Motifs, Linen Background, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Season of Joy & Snow Flurries
-Ink-Baroque Burgundy, Mellow Moss and Always Artichoke
-Paper-Baroque Burgundy, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Kraft, and Whisper White.
-Accessories-Mellow Moss 1/4" grosgrain and Glue dots.

Christmas & Springtime

I made these two cards today. I thought it was kinda funny. One is totally springtime, and the other one is for Christmas.

The layout of this one is a CASE from page 110 of the new catalog.
-Stamps-Simply Said
-Ink-Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, and Certainly Celery.
-Paper-Rose Red, Regal Rose
-Accessories-Certainly Celery 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.

I really like this one! It's such an easy card! I made one similar last Christmas. I'm so glad Snow Flurries made it to the new catalog.
-Stamps-Seeing Spots, Snow Flurries, Happy Everything, and Polka Dots & Paisley
-Ink-Bravo Burgundy and Always Artichoke
-Paper-Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke and Very Vanilla Cardstock
Accessories-Spot On jumbo stampin around wheel, Mellow Moss 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.