Fall Meadow

This week's Color Challenge at SCS is called Cutting the Cherry Calypso Mustard! 

My first thought was, WHAT???

Then I read on.  The colors are Cherry Cobbler, Calypso Coral and More Mustard.

My next thought was, WHAT??????

My system of using colors is, if it doesn't hurt my eyes, I go with it!

This hurt my eyes!

But I had to give it a try.

I think these colors work after all!

Card Recipe

Stamps: Autumn Days, Itty Bitty Bits, Bring on the Cake

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard, Calypso Coral (Always Artichoke for some stems)

Paper: Naturals White, More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler

Other: Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Corner Rounder Punch

We're off to celebrate our oldest grandson's 12th birthday this evening.

He was born between Hurricanes Dennis and Floyd. He's quite a whirlwind! I can't believe that he's 12.

He loves that he's as tall as I am!

Smiling for the camera is not his favorite thing to do.

Isn't he handsome?

Better go.  We don't want to be late!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Enjoy!

Red Rose on Crumb Cake

Today's card is a CASE of this card by Lydia (Understandblue at SCS).  Lydia is one of the people who keeps things running smoothly at Splitcoaststampers and she's also an awesome stamper!  In fact she is this week's Featured Stamper.

I kept her layout and even used the same punch but jazzed it up with some ribbon.  I used a flower instead of the design piece and a different sentiment as well as different colors.

The colors are from the CAS challenge, also at SCS.  This week it's a color challenge; Kraft or Crumb Cake with Primary Colors.  A little white is allowed.

Last week I was playing around and wove this red ribbon through the punched lace.  I couldn't really figure out what to do with it.  I had an Ah Ha moment this morning and pulled out the Crumb Cake.

I'd been wanting to try some of these beautiful paper flowers.  In fact, I'd been thinking about having a class of just paper flowers.  I had printed out this wonderful tutorial by Joanne Leddy so I gave it a go.

I was really pleased with the results.

The sentiment was stamped with Real Red Craft Ink and clear embossed.

This is definitely not a card to mail, but it will look nice clipped to a plain white gift bag I think.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Curly Cute

Ink:  Real Red Craft

Paper:  Real Red, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Other:  Lace Ribbon Border, Fancy Flower, 5-Petal Flower & Boho Blossoms Punches, Water Spritzer, Real Red Satin Ribbon, Clear EP

Thanks for stopping by today.  I've really enjoyed reading all your comments and visiting your blogs.

Enjoy!

Bossy Sketch

I finally found time to join in the Friday Mashup challenge.  I always intend to join in, but sometimes the week just slips by.  So many challenges, so little time!

Here's the card I did.

Here's the challenge.

"MASHING IT UP" this week

Create a project using the provided "Sketch".

or Create a project that has a "Dry Embossing on it".

or "Mash it Up!" and create a card using the "Sketch with Dry Embossing".

Here's the sketch.

Here's a close up!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  French Foliage, Teeny, Tiny Wishes

Ink:  Old Olive

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Old Olive

Other:  Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Color Spritzer Tool, Tangerine Tango SU Marker, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, Nestie

I'm so glad you came to visit today.  Thank you for the awesome comments you left over the weekend. 

Enjoy!



Sailing Away

There's only 4 more days to order from the Summer Mini catalog.  That means that The Open Sea stamp set will be sailing into retirement.  What a great set for masculine cards!  So before we say bon voyage, here's one more clipper ship.

You may have guessed that this is a Less is More card.  Today's challenge is a

RECIPE

Take 3 Challenges

We want you to choose 3 from any of our previous 29 and combine them in your design.

I chose Week 7-Masculine card, Week 12 Off Centre,  and Week 18 Monochrome

I threw in Week 22 Shades of Blue and Week 29 Things that Move

Did you notice that the sails are full?

Maybe you can see it better here.  I stamped the ship twice and cut out the sails from one.   Then I cut dimensionals itty bitty and popped the sails up.  The SCS Free 4 All challenge yesterday was to do a stacked card .

Stack a paper shape to make something. A flower, a bug... use your imagination.

I'm not sure if the sails qualify for this, but I'll enter it and hope for the best.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  The Open Sea, Happiest Birthday Wishes (New Hostess set)

Ink:  Night of Navy

Paper:  Naturals White, Night of Navy

Other: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Nesties

Today I had my first Stamp and Share in my new studio.  I invited two of my neighbors and I think they had a good time.  They made some beautiful cards!  It's always fun and inspiring to stamp with others!  It was a Hurricane Party of sorts although we didn't get much of a blow here.  We were blessed.  East of us there is a lot of damage with trees down, power outages and flooding.  Let's pray for those who suffered damage and also those still in the path of this powerful storm. 

I'm so glad you stopped by today.  Wish you could have come to stamp with us.

Enjoy!

 

Paper Playin Queen

I'm coming in just under the wire with this one. I had baby Jack all day and he didn't cooperate with card making at all! He's still young. Hopefully I can train him to let Nana play!

The Paper Players Challenge this week is a sketch challenge. This is a great sketch for my favorite CAS style of card.

And the Queen for the Day at SCS is Linda aka Holstein. Linda has been so gracious to comment on my cards at SCS. I love her gallery and did a combination of two cards. You can see them here and here. What a pleasure to honor her!

I embossed the top of a piece of Whisper White cut 5 1/2" x 4" with the Elegant Lines Embossing Folder. Then I flipped it over and scored lines 1/4" apart on the bottom. Did you know that Stampin' Up! will be selling a scoring tool? It will be available to the public on September 1st.

The butterflies are stamped with StazOn and painted with a blender pen dipped into ink pads.

Card Recipe

Stamps: Kindness Matters, Three Little Words

Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Pool Party, Island Indigo

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White
Other: Big Shot, Elegant Lines EF, Simply Scored, Black Satin Ribbon, Corner Rounder Punch, Basic Pearls

Thanks so much for coming to visit today. I really love hearing from you.

Enjoy!