Clearly a Challenge

Hello Creative People.  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  I got to stamp with my friends in Roanoke Rapids and we had a really good time.

Today I have 2 posts, if my computer will cooperate!  First up is this....

The Just Add Ink #50 challenge was to use these colors...

Elegant Eggplant and Riding Hood Red????? 

Then I wanted to do a card for the Clean & Simple Fall to Layout #122 challenge.  This is the layout they gave.

I flipped the layout because this card just needed to go vertical.  Two of the squares are stamped in So Saffron with the polka dot stamp from the For All You Do set and the other two with Pear Pizzazz and the floral stamp from Clearly for You.  The latter set is from the new Occasions Mini Catalog.  It has lots of really cute little stamps.

I inked 2 of the birds with my Elegant Eggplant marker and the branch with Early Espresso.  The stamp, also from the Clearly for You set, has 3 birds.  I want to use this for an anniversary card so I only inked 2 of the birds.  No threesome here!  After I stamped those little birds on a piece of scrap, I cut them out.  I must be crazy!  What some of us will do for these cards!

I inked the love from the love you stamp in the Short & Sweet set with the Elegant Eggplant marker and stamped it on the other polka dot square.

The heart, punched from a scrap of Riding Hood Red, completes the colors.

It wasn't the quickest or easiest card I ever did, but I'm satisfied with the results.

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Clearly for You, For All You Do, Short & Sweet, Sanded Background
Ink:  Elegant Eggplant Markers, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red
Accessories:  Scallop Trim Border & Heart to Heart Punches

I'll go drop these off at the challenge sites and hopefully be back with another card.  I can't wait to show it to you.

Enjoy,
Bonnie

Kissing Birds

Do you remember the CAS challenge on Monday at SCS?  I had some leftovers and I used them on this.

I punched the wings out of the leftovers.  The birds are from a leftover piece of embossed Cherry Cobbler and the white Top Note was in the UFO box.

I love it when I can use up those leftovers!

We're going to do this card at Creative Arts on Tuesday.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Elements of Style
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
Accessories:  Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Top Note Die, Extra Large Bird  & Heart to Heart Punches, Basic Pearls

Enjoy,
Bonnie

Pheasant Sketch

I love this handsome pheasant and he makes a great masculine card.

This picture looks kind of washed out but it was the best out of the ten pics that I took!

I used this sketch from the SCS Sketch challenge this week.

I looked in my UFO box to see if I had something in there that would work for this.  I had stamped this guy a while back and didn't like the placement, so I cut him out, colored him, and added some vegetation and sponging.

I dyed the twine by holding it on the Chocolate Chip ink pad with a sponge and dragging it.  It's messy, but it works!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Autumn Days

Ink:  Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Dusty Durango, Garden Green, Ruby Red, Baja Breeze, So Saffron

Paper:  Naturals Ivory, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Accessories:  Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Hemp Twine

My computer has gotten so slow that it takes longer to do my blog and drop my cards off at the challenges than it takes to make the card!  It's very frustrating, but I still have aother card I want to share  Hopefully I will be back soon.

Enjoy,

Bonnie

Warm Winter Wishes

Monday's SCS Technique Challenge was to paint with Stickles.  Joan graciously allowed to use glue and glitter if we didn't have Stickles.  That's one stamping supply I've never had!

I stamped the tree with Brown StazOn on a scrap of acetate, then applied glue and some Fine Supernova Glitter.  The snowflakes are stamped on the acetate with White StazOn.  Then I mounted the acetate on a scrap of Baja Breeze.

I don't know if you noticed it or not, but the white panel is scored to look like a fence.  Well at least it does to me.  I put a bow of twine on the "gate" for the Ways to Use It Challenge to use twine.  Does Linen Thread qualify as twine?

I used scraps including some hoarded DSP from 2 Christmas's ago so I'm pretty pleased with myself for taking something  the scrap box.

My friend Doris of The Stamping Tower issued an informal challenge to try a new technique using only supplies that we have on hand.  That sounds like a good idea to me.  But I do love to get new stamping stuff!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Season of Friendship, Beautiful Borders 

Ink:  Brown & White StazOn, Early Espresso, Real Red, Basic Black

Paper:  Whisper White, Early Espresso, Baja Breeze, Naturals White, DSP, Acetate

Accessories:  Fine Supernova Glitter, Scallop Border Punch, Stylus, 1/16" Circle Punch, Linen Thread

Enjoy,

Bonnie

Lots of Yellow

The One Layer Wednesday challenge this week over at Simplicity is to use yellow.  Well, I used lots of yellow!

After several false starts and stamping images in Daffodil Delight that seemed to get lost on the card, I brought out the Daffodil cardstock.

The butterfly needed something to light on so I embossed some flowers.

Pearls really looked nice on the center of the flowers but I want to make cards that can go through the mail and some of the pearls would have needed to be where the stamp goes.  So I used the White Signo Gel Pen on the centers then put a drop of Crystal Effects over the ink.  It gives the sheen of a pearl without the bump. Well, there is a little bump but not much.

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Nature Walk
Ink:  VersaMark
Paper:  Daffodil Delight
Accessories:  Big Shot, Elegant Bouquet EF, Black EP, Black Gingham Ribbon, White Signo Gel Pen, Crystal Effects

Enjoy,
Bonnie