Good morning, Friends! It's time for the Thursday challenge from the Create with Connie and Mary team! This week we have a color challenge for you! Take a look at these fabulous colors!
Midnight Muse, Gumball Green and Summer Starfruit are the colors that we are assigned to work with. All part of the wonderful In Color family! Here is how I used them!
Another simple card for me! I took a piece of the Print Poetry designer paper and stamped the butterfly image from Summer Solstice in white StazOn. This is adhered to a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I stamped the flower in black StazOn onto Summer Starfruit and used the Summer Starfruit and a blender pen to give it more dimension. I stamped the leaf image twice in black StazOn onto Gumball Green and used a Gumball Green marker and blender pen to give them some dimension. The leaves are adhered to the back of the flower I popped this up onto the card. I used a marker to ink up the first part of the sentiment onto a strip of Crumb Cake and flagged the end. This is adhered to the card. Then I threaded some linen thread through a vintage faceted button and adhered it to the flower center.
Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to see what the other designers did with these colors! So many variations!! I hope that you are inspired to play along with us this week! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Crumb Cake, Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit, Print Poetry designer paper; Ink- black StazOn, white StazOn, Gumball Green and Summer Starfruit markers; Accessories- linen thread, vintage faceted button, blender pen, dimensionals
Good morning everyone! I hope you are having a great start to the weekend! I have been shopping with my dear friends over here on the eastern slope. We even made a long trek to Estes Park. Boy is it beautiful up there!! We have been shopping all things craft but we also made a stop at The Container Store. What a fun place that is!! I had never been but I sure was in dreamville while I was there!! I could imagine my craft space transformed into something beautiful! But I came back to reality and bought a paper towel holder - lol!! I have been wanting one but could never find "the" one till I went to this store. Now I can't wait to try it ou!
Today's card is one that I had originally done for the Create with Connie and Mary color challenge for this week but then I decided on doing something different. This idea came from the catalog and ended up being very simple! I started with a piece of Crumb Cake and stamped the image three time with Cherry Cobbler and then the sentiment down below. All the stamps are from Summer Solstice. Then I took a strip of Island Indigo and punched it with the dotted ribbon scallop punch and cut it in half. I carefully attached this to the piece and added some linen thread. This is popped up onto a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I added a Cherry Cobbler button with some linen thread. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Crumb Cake, Island Indigo; Ink- Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Cherry Cobbler button, dotted ribbon scallop punch, linen thread, dimensionals
Good Friday morning everyone! Time for another great challenge at Sketch Frenzy Friday! This week's sketch is provided by Tina Munzke. Take a look at this fun sketch!
Lots of fun elements on this one! I had a lot of ideas for this but this is what I finally came up with!
I kept my card very simple, just like the sketch. I stamped the leaves from Summer Solstice on a strip of Whisper White in Lucky Limeade. Then I stamped the leaves again on scrap paper and cut them out. I cut a strip of Lucky Limeade card stock with the Tasteful Trim die and adhered it to the stamped strip. Then I tied a piece of Lucky Limeade ruffled ribbon around this and glued it to a card base of Whisper White. The cut out leaves are popped up over the stamped leaves. Then I stamped the sentiment from Sincere Salutations in Lucky Limeade in the bottom left hand corner of the card.
Continue through the blog tour by clicking 'here' to see what Jennifer has done with this sketch. Continue through the tour to get inspired. I hope you will find some time to play along with us this week! Be sure to upload your creation to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog so that we can take a look, too! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice, Sincere Salutations; Paper- Whisper White, Lucky Limeade; Ink- Lucky Limeade; Accessories- Lucky Limeade ruffled ribbon, Tasteful Trim die, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I hope your week is going great! Seems like I have a lot to do this week and I am getting nothing done! Yikes! Yesterday I felt icky all day long! UGH! I guess we all had some side effects from the flu shot that we got on Monday. If I didn't know better I would have thought that I had the flu. I had the chills, my head ached, my body ached and I just felt awful! So I sat in a chair by the fire, curled up in a blanket and dozed most of the day. Thankfully, we all felt much better before we went to bed last night and we all seem to be back to "normal". So today I must go birthday shopping and do some stamping! I am way behind on these things!!
Today's card is one that I did quite a while ago. I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It's o.k. I like the clean and simple look of it. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Confetti Cream; Ink- Island Indigo, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade; Accessories- Very Vanilla narrow taffeta ribbon, mini brad, 1 3/8" circle punch, color spritzer, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! Geesh! I cannot believe how cold it has been these last two mornings! Cold enough to produce a hard frost in the mornings! And there is a good amount of snow on our nearby mountains! We have the heater going this morning. Nick is supposed to have a soccer game this afternoon. I do hope the other team can travel over the mountains. They play this afternoon and it is supposed to warm up a little. Good thing they run around a lot so they can keep warm! I will be bundled up!! So nice to have a weekend at home! I don't have plans to get a lot done but it is just nice to be at home!
Today's card is one that I did for a recent swap I was in. I took my colors from a card I saw in the catalog. I do like how it turned out. The Crumb Cake oval inside the frame is stamped with the Fine Flourish background stamp and sponged (hard to see it in the picture). Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! Have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice, Fine Flourish; Paper- Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, So Saffron, Pool Party, Confetti Cream; Ink- Peach Parfait, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake; Accessories- Soft Suede taffeta ribbon, Stripes embossing folder, mini brads, designer frames embossing folder, itty bitty shapes punch pack, extra large oval punch, sponge, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! The start of another week! I can't believe how fast these weeks seem to go by! I hope you all are enjoying your long weekend! I think we may try to catch a movie this afternoon. And then we will need to try and get Nick in the school mind-set. Ha!! It has been nice being able to sleep in and be lazy all weekend!
Today's card is one that I just put together in hopes of coming up with a swap card. I like the way it came out. I just didn't want to do it for a swap. So, back to the drawing board! I have a few other ideas. I combined the Summer Solstice set with the Spice Cake designer paper (hence the title). Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz, More Mustard, Pool Party, Spice Cake designer paper; Ink- VersaMark, Soft Suede; Accessories- clear emboss powder, Perfect Pennants die, gold brad, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! What a great weekend, so far! We went to a wedding yesterday evening and it was just beautiful! The weather was perfect! The setting was perfect! And the food was awesome!! Not to mention the bride and groom were so cute!!! I am so happy for Jeff and Sara! There is definitely a hint of fall in the air. It is much cooler in the mornings and evenings. The weather man even talked about snow in the mountains!
Today's card was inspired by Mary Jo's sketch challenge. Another great sketch! I was stumped with colors for this one. I found some different colors in a recent Stampin' Success magazine and thought they were pretty together. They had used Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla. So I thought I would give that a try. I do like the way it all turned out. The butterfly is stamped in Poppy Parade on Very Vanilla card stock and then colored with Calypso Coral. The scallop circle was die cut from the Perfect Pennants die in Crumb Cake and then stamped in Crumb Cake using the Fine Flourish stamp and then sponged. And can you see the Peach Parfait flower? It has a mini brad in it! Love those!! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla, In Color designer paper stack; Ink- Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake; Accessories- Perfect Pennants die, itty bitty shapes punch pack; mini brad, sponge, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I guess I got to sleep in a little and it felt great! I could use a little more sleep as I seem to be yawning a lot!! Hopefully my coffee will help a little, too! We didn't get home real late last night. I think it is the five hour drive combined with a little too much sun and a lot of cheering!! The boys won the championship game!! It was so exciting! This is the first tournament these boys have won and they fought so hard and gave it their all! So they deserved it! I love this tournament anyway, but to have the boys win, well, that just makes it even better!! It's a good thing that school didn't start today. Now they can completely recover.
Today's card is another that I made a while ago. It is really super simple and the layout came from my friend, Becky. She had done a card similar to this in one of her card classes. I just changed it up a bit to use Stampin' Up! products and here is the result! Easy! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White; Ink- Elegant Eggplant, Lucky Limeade; Accessories- Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon, Stripes embossing folder, scallop trim border punch, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I hope your week has gotten off to a great start! I have had a migraine since Saturday that I just can't seem to shake. It is SO annoying!! With a schedule like we have, I just can't slow down so I find a way to keep going. Ugh! Nick is sure enjoying goalie camp! I am glad that he is finding a new challenge to try. It will be fun to see him do it in a game! Well, I will probably be a nervous wreck - lol!
Today's card is another one that I did for a recent swap I was in. I really like the way this one turned out! I got the layout from My Favorite Things. I also really like the color scheme which came from the Color Coach. The flower and leaves are stamped in Basic Gray and then colored in with markers. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Basic Gray, Basic Black, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, neutrals paper stack; Ink- Basic Gray, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade; Accessories- Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon, Tasteful Trim die, Perfect Pennants die, antique brads, dimensionals
Good morning, Friends! I hope your week got off to a great start! I will have to make this pretty short as I am getting my hair cut this morning. But that is kind of nice as it leaves the rest of the day open to get other stuff done! And I realized that I need to get some more stamping done so that should work out perfectly!
Today's card is one that I did a while ago. I just love the new In Colors this year! And I just love this new ruffled ribbon! So much fun to use! It's a pretty simple card! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Island Indigo, Pool Party, So Saffron, Whisper White, In Color paper stack; Ink- So Saffron, Island Indigo; Accessories- Pool Party ruffled ribbon, Square Lattice embossing folder, corner rounder, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, silver brad, scallop edge border punch, dimensionals
Good Sunday morning, Friends! I hope that your weekend is going great! Yesterday my husband decided to that he and Nick would go fishing! It has been something that he has wanted to do all summer but we just haven't had the time due to either work or sports. So the two of them went shopping for some gear and their licenses and then loaded up the car and went to explore a new lake! I got to spend the afternoon and most of the evening all alone!! It was pretty nice! I got the living room picked up and the laundry done! That doesn't sound very exciting but there was a lot of blog surfing and other relaxing things in there, too! I think we are going out to breakfast this morning and then they want to go fishing again. So it looks to be another afternoon all to myself! Yeah!
Today's card was inspired by the one on page 141. I love the butterfly card on that page! So I re-created it by using the butterfly from the Summer Solstice set. I really like the way this one turned out. I know that flowers are brown and I did try out other colors but this color just seemed to work the best. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice, Friendly Phrases; Paper- Lucky Limeade, Very Vanilla, Wisteria Wonder, Peach Parfait, Pool Party, Soft Suede, In Color paper stack; Ink- Elegant Eggplant, Cajun Craze, Island Indigo, Soft Suede; Accessories- itty bitty shapes punch pack, dotted scallop ribbon punch, basic pearls, dimensionals
Good morning everyone! I can't believe that we are at the end of another week! And I can't believe that we have a weekend where we don't have anything scheduled! My husband asked me last night if there was something I wanted to do. And I was thinking, not really! Can't we just stay around here and do nothing? But we will see. I know we talked about going to the movies. And Nick would love to go up to the ranch and ride dirt bikes. That would be fun, too. But we will see...
Today's card was inspired by a card from the catalog on page 96. I did change it from pumpkins to butterflies. I do love this little butterfly from the Summer Solstice set. And since I seem to know so many people who are moving, I thought this sentiment (that also comes in the set) was very appropriate. Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice; Paper- Lucky Limeade, Elegant Eggplant, In Color paper stack; Ink- Wisteria Wonder; Accessories- mini silver brads, dimensionals
Good Friday morning! Time for another great sketch from the Sketch Frenzy Friday team! This week's sketch is from Sharon Field. Take a look:
And here is what I came up with:
I am really pleased with how this turned out! I really love this new In Color, Calypso Coral! I started with a card base of Calypso Coral and then cut down another piece of textured Calypso Coral, wrapped a piece of Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon around it and glued it to the card. I stamped a greeting from Perfectly Penned in Basic Black. For the focal point I started with a die cut from the Perfect Pennants die in Daffodil Delight. Then I used the Circles #2 die to cut the circle from Baja Breeze. This is popped up onto the card. To make my flower I first inked the flower from Summer Solstice in VersaMark and then in Calypso Coral and then stamped it onto Calypso Coral card stock and then I embossed it with clear embossing powder. I did this twice because I cut some of the petals out of one flower and popped them up onto the other flower to add dimension. Then I stamped the leaves in Lucky Limeade on Lucky Limeade card stock and cut them out. I put an antique brad in the center and popped it up on the circle. And there you have it!
So now I need you to click 'here' to go and see the creation that Jennifer has made with this sketch! Be sure and click your way through the inspiration tour and then create your own project using the sketch provided! We just love to see what you all come up with! Be sure to upload your project to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Perfectly Penned, Summer Solstice; Paper- Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze, Lucky Limeade; Ink- VersaMark, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Basic Black; Accessories- Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon, antique brad, Perfect Pennants die, Circles #2 die, clear embossing powder, dimensionals
Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week! It might have been a short one for you as Monday was the holiday. It is the time of year when the All-Star baseball teams are playing their tournaments around the Grand Valley. Nick chose not to do Little League this year and therefore, was not eligible for the All-Star teams. I have to say, that it is kind of nice! Nick and his dad went and watched a game last night and we are going to watch one this morning. That should be fun!
Today's card is another that I CASE'd from the catalog. And I happened to find a contest along these lines that Gretchen Barron is hosting! It is called the Inspiration In Action CASE Contest! Click 'here' to find more information about that. Copying the layouts in the catalog is what I do best at the moment!! I wonder how many times you can enter - lol! Anyway, I tried to post a picture of the card I CASE'd but I couldn't figure it out right now. But this card is on page 72 and it is the first card on the left of the page - the cat card. Love the layout of this one! I kept the colors pretty much the same. I did change the bottom part of my card and the focal point. The stamps are different as well and I shortened the length of the banner. I did use two little mini brads! Boy, are those thing CUTE!! Anyway, I do hope that you will check out her blog post for the specifics of the contest and then get to creating!! This will be fun! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Summer Solstice, Friendly Phrases; Paper- Pear Pizzazz, Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Pocket Full of Posies designer paper; Ink- Pear Pizzazz, Night of Navy; Accessories- mini brads, houndstooth embossing folder, 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, dimensionals
