Pink Birthday Wishes

Hi Blog friends, big shout out to all my friends in Texas who are dealing with the wild fires.  My prayers are with you.  
My card today is being posted for two challenges.  The first is over at StampTV for the Mix It Up Monday Challenge.  DT AJ Otto will be celebrating her birthday next week and she's also fighting a battle with breast cancer.  The challenge is to pink it up for AJ and the details are HERE 

My second challenge is to enter my card in the exciting celebration over at JUGS.  They are celebrating their 100th challenge and there are some exciting give-a-ways.  Do check it out.  The sketch is ("what's old is new again")  their first sketch challenge - how fun is this?  

  This one is for you AJ!  Happy (pink, pink, pink) Birthday!  

Details:  Stamps:  "Whimsical Wishes" illustrated by Theresa Momber for Gina K Designs.  Spellbingers, Cherry Lynn Designs, Graphic 45 DP, Creative Inspirations paint, also used.


Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Cheri

Black, White and Read All Over

Greetings, blog friends! 
Can you believe it....another Labor Day has passed as well as another summer.  It amazes me how fast they go by.  I hope your weekend was a safe and happy one.
Here I am with another card challenge.  This time I'm playing along with the folks at CAS-ual Fridays  
and here is their challenge for this week - 

The answer is a book!

In honor of International Literacy Day on September 8th,

we have a special challenge involving papercrafting and books.

CFC18:  Create a Clean And Simple project inspired by a book, and use the colors black, white and red.

You can choose your book from any genre, just please tell us which book.  You may find your inspiration  on the cover, from a character or from within the story itself.  

Get creative and have fun with it.

For my card I used one of my all-time favorite stamps from B Line Designs.  While I love silhouette stamps, they don't cooperate with me very well and this one was no exception.  I had a really hard time getting a good image, but this one finally satisfied me.  

One of my favorite all time novels was "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote and this stamp always made me think of the main character in the book, "Holly Golightly"; the character Audrey Hepburn immortalized in the film.  

The sentiment stamp is from the set "Friends" by Gina K Designs.  The dp is also from GKD and is from the Vintage Chic stamp kit and I altered it using a technique called "Glassy Embossing" which I got from the February 2010 Technique Junkies Newsletter.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cheri

Soft, Sweet and Sentimental

Hi Blog friends!  To my U.S. friends, I hope you're having a fun-filled Labor Day Weekend and getting in those last summer excursions before the cooler weather gets here.  


I have some very exciting news!  (In case you didn't catch it), I was selected as "Chic of the Week" over at JUGS for their challenge #99!  My mini star-book won the 3-D Back to School Challenge and you'll notice I have the coveted "Chic of the Week" badge on my blog.  Clicking on it will take you to the post of the card if you'd like to see it.  I'm very excited to have won this honor.  


Now, on to more challenges.  The challenge I'm entering with this card is for the CR84FN37 which is a fabulous color challenge.  

And here's my card

The CS is GKD Pure Luxury White and Turquoise Sea. I inked up the EF with DI Tumbled Glass and ran it through the CB for the background effect.  I inked a second EF to create the words on the heart.  The hearts are dies from Spellbinders, wrapped with a ribbon and decorated with a mulberry flower/lace and pearls.  The sentiment, which is stamped and die cut with a Fancy Tag Die from Spellbinders, is from Gina K Designs "You Warm My Heart" stamp set by Rupa Shevde.   


So happy you stopped by and enjoy the weekend!
Cheri

It's a Maine Thing

Hi there blogger friends!  
Thanks so much for stopping by and checking things out with the Stamp'n Boomer.


Ever on the look out for challenges and fun things to create, I saw the latest challenge over at Crazy 4 Challenges and immediately thought about this new stamp I just got from my LSS.  The challenge #C4C102 is to  create a masculine project/card.  Nearly everyone knows about or has heard about 'Bean Boots", well, I couldn't resist this stamp....I've been wearing their boots for over 40 years....because when you wear them out (and it takes a long time), you just return them and they replace them (no charge)!  Google them and read the story it's truly fascinating.  

So, here's my card....bg is a technique called "Faux Barn Wood" I got from my Technique Junkies February/March 2011 Newsletter.   I used Copic Markers to color the boots (sorry, I didn't write the #s down), I layered them against a piece of CS embossed with a Sizzix EF.  The LLBean tag came from a product tag on a purchase I made.  I cut out the boots and popped them up with pop dots.  I put 3D Crystal Lacquer on the base of the boot to replicate the authentic look of the LLBean boot.  The inside sentiment reads "Wherever you go, go with all your heart".   The stamp is from Silver Fox Stamps and More.


Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Cheri
Note:  I sent my card to Silver Fox Stamps and More and Sheila (co-owner) pointed out that the boots were not actually Bean boots, as LLBean has a distinctive sole and this is not it.  Silver Fox Stamps and More calls these boots "Outdoor Boots".   My apologize to everyone for the mis-lead, I should have looked at my boots, I would have seen the difference.  Never-the-less, I hope you will check out their website....they have some fabulous rubber.  

Star School Book

Hi there blogger friends,


Well, Hurricane Irene came to visit and she blew extremely high winds and brought lots of rain, but by the time she got here, she was downgraded to a tropical storm.  We only had downed limbs and some trees around our home, but so many in the Adirondacks in Upstate New York and Vermont and other outlying areas had much worse; flooding, erosion and damaged property.  So glad Irene is gone.


I haven't created a 3-D project in a long time, but over at JUGS this week there's a "Back to School 3-D Challenge" and I just had to play along.  

Also, over at Gingersnapcreations their color challenge (which is ongoing until September 25) is featuring Primary Colors (Red, Yellow and Blue) in your projects.  A perfect matchup for a "back to school" theme.  

While I've never created a "Star Book" before I found a YouTube Tutorial on a mini star book and decided to give it a try.  I will post several photos of it, as I wanted to be sure a few of the pages got in as well as a photo of the book closed and then opened into a star.  

 

The images cut and pieced are all from the new Graphic 45 papers "An ABC Primer Collection.  The stamps are from Gina K Designs "Perfect Pennants" illustrated by Tami Mayberry and "Whimsical Autumn" illustrated by Carolyn King.  Also used DI, "Victorian Velvet" and "Walnut Stain".  Stickers from Webster's Pages. 

I had so much fun creating this book and I can't wait to make others.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and I would love to hear your comments on my Star Book creation.

Happy creating and stamping!

Cheri