DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT THE HOUSE

Happy Wednesday (aka "hump day") blog friends!!! 

I'm here with another Wednesday challenge from The House That Stamps Built and today its a DCC (designer's choice challenge) from the incredibly talented Rock Star, Joy Hadden.

Joy's challenge is "thankful".  Here's a great challenge that will get you to create a card for someone you want to thank or a card to put aside for a time to thank someone. 

 

Using the cup from RI #9303-P "Thanks a latte" I created this card by sponging DI in 4 colors in Laura Bassen's gradient fashion, on cs and then stamping the mug image on each colored cs piece and fussy cutting them out.  I arranged them 1/3rd in from the outer edge of the card after placing an embossed piece of black cs along the edge for design effect.  On one of the cups I stamped the sentiment then added the enamel dots in coordinating colors on the outer edge of the cups. 

Now swing on over to the other Rock Stars and see what they've done with Joy's thankful challenge.  Then create your own card and link it at The House (all the details are found there) and you'll be entered in a drawing for some awesome RI stamps.  

                        Debbie - Deonna - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Melissa - Patti J

Thanks a latte for stopping by! 

CAS HEARTS AND FLOWERS CHALLENGE AT OUTLAWZ

Hello, blog friends!!! 

There's a new CAS challenge over at Outlawz Challenges and I would be delighted if you'd come over and play along.   I am hosting the challenge and I think you'll like it.  

Here's the CAS challenge for this week:  

It's that time of year when we see a lot of hearts and flowers all around.  Your challenge for this week is to include hearts and/or flowers on your CAS project.  It doesn't have to be a Valentine theme - just be sure it includes hearts and/or flowers and it's CAS.

For this card I used "Spring Blooms" from WPlus 9 and Simon Says stamp set "Sending and Wishing".  This is my first attempt at using layering stamps sets such as the Spring Blooms, and it took me 4X to get the look I wanted.  There's a bit of a learning curve with these stamps, but oh, so much fun to use.  

We are expecting another big snowstorm today and tomorrow....if true, we're expecting another foot of snow.  It would add to the 3-4 feet we already have and the temps have been well below zero each and every day.  Spring can't come soon enough!  

I hope you all have a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you'll play along with the CAS challenge at Outlawz Challenges.  There are some great prizes to win.  

MUSE Challenge #103

Hi blog friends!

Just a quick post to show you a card I made for a challenge being hosted by my incredibly talented online friend, Vicki Dutcher, for MUSE. 

I don't often have the time to play along in challenges, but I loved Vicki's card and thought I'd give it a go. 

Here's her cute card

 

 

My inspiration first came from the colors; red, black and white, then the heart and circles (see my dot background).  Finally that standout sentiment.  Such a great card by Vicki.

 

 

 

 I love this floating hearts die from Simon Says...I've had it for awhile and have never used it. 

 



You can find the details on playing along in the challenge at the MUSE Card Club. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY COLOR CHALLENGE

Hello blog friends!!!  

It's time for another fun color challenge over at The House That Stamps Built!  I don't think you'll find this one too difficult, since it's almost Valentine's Day and most of us are thinking in pinks and reds these days.  

Here's the palette of colors for this challenge

Playing with these colors was easy, but deciding what stamps to use was so hard.....Repeat Impressions has so many fabulous stamps....I finally decided on the "Contain Yourself" set and had some fun with it.  If you're interested in getting some awesome RI stamps for yourself, you have an automatic 10% off if you use the code "rr10cw" when you order.  

The bg is actually layered.  I placed a piece of designer paper on the card base, and then took a piece of "woodgrain" card stock from Ellen Hutson and cut it into two pieces creating a peek-a-boo effect.  After stamping the jar image, RI# 9705-M I sponged it with DI "Worn Lipstick" in a gradient manner, fussie cut it, wrapped the top with gold thread and mounted it on the base layer.  I did the same with the tiny heart stamps, 9707-B, 9708-B and 9709-B.  The sentiment is RI# 2509-H "Love, Hugs". I punched out some tiny hearts with a punch I bought at Michaels for a dollar (I love those dollar deals).  

We hope you will come over to The House and play along with the challenge.  You might just win some of Repeat Impressions' awesome stamps.  

For some incredible inspiration using this color challenge, check out what the Rock Stars have done.  

                           Debbie - Deonna - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Melissa - Patti J

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hey there, blog friends!!!  Got snow?????  

There's plenty of snow here in Maine....we got slammed by the big snow storm of 2015...over 2 feet of snow and there's more predicted this coming week into the weekend!  It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so dang cold out to boot.  

Okay....enough about the awful weather in Maine...let's get to crafting and the WIW sketch challege at The House That Stamps Built.  It's another fun one.  

I took some creative liberty with this sketch, not a lot, just a tad.  I did some heat embossing on kraft cs with white ink and white embossing powerder.  This card has a masculine feel to it and although I didn't start out making a guy card, it's how it ended up.  Often my creations take on a life of their own right in front of me.  Does that ever happen to you?  Kinda fun, huh?

The Repeat Impression stamps I used for this card are RI#1609-J "Winter Tree"  and RI#1112-E "Just a Note".  

Thanks so much for stopping by.  For more inspiration for this sketch, check out the other Rock Stars.  Then come on over to The House, get the challenge details and join in.  We'd love to see you and your creations there.  

                               Debbie - Deonna - Joy - Karen - Kathy - Melissa - Patti J