4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #85, Retrosketches #7 and Paper Creations Ink! #23

Happy Tuesday Everyone!  Today I am entering this card in 3 fun challenges.  For the first time I am participating in the 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge #85 - "Material Girl"  which is to use fabric/material on a project ( and they say "ribbon/twine doesn't count!!!").  I am also entering this card in the Paper Creations Ink! Challenge #23 "April Showers Bring May Flowers" and Retrosketches #7.   I remembered that I had these fun felt flowers from a stash of retired products, which I had almost decided to "garage sale" and then decided I just wasn't quite ready to part with them (do you have that problem too ever?).  When I saw the theme of the first two challenges I was knew they would be perfect to use on my project and then Retrosketches Challenge provided me with a great sketch (see below) to use for my springy felt flower inspiration.  Lucky me! 

Hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by! I love to receive your comments - they always brighten my day - so please leave me a note if you would like. Hugs!

Details and Supplies (all from Stampin Up):  Cardstock - Peach Parfait, Melon mambo, Pumpkin Pie.  Patterned paper - Just Add Cake.  Felt flowers from my retired stash in Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Melon Mambo.  Sentiment from Pursuit of Happiness stamped in Classic Black Ink.  I used my scalloped edge border punch and the Finial Press textured embossing folder (on the card base). Oh and I almost forgot - I put a tiny little peach parfait brad in the middle of the flower group to finish it off.   

Freshly Made Sketches #30

Happy Monday Everyone!  Today I have put together a quick and simple card for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #30.  We spent the weekend doing college visits (gulp!) so I didn't have a lot of time to get my card together.  Fortunately I had this great designer paper that did most of the work for me :O).  Gonna make post this short and sweet as well since I need to dash off to work now too.  Thanks for stopping by - I'm sure glad you did! 

Supplies (all from Stampin Up):  Cardstock - Whisper White, Poppy Parade, Not Quite Navy.  Patterned paper - Big Top Birthday (122348) - I snipped the clouds from one of the pieces of DSP.
Sentiment - Petite Pairs (122495 wood or 1222497 clear).  Basic rhinestones (119246) finish it off and add a little silver lining to those clouds. 

Mojo Monday #236

Hello friends, I'm glad that you have stopped to visit!  I have been subscribing to Card Maker magazine for a couple years now and love the inspiration I get from it.  The magazine says that  Chevron patterns are one of the in things right now - so I thought I'd give it a try.  To help me get my "mojo" going on this card  I decided to use the Mojo Monday #236 sketch (did you get my humor there? I'm never as funny as I think I am LOL).  As you can see I modified the Mojo sketch in the sense that my lines are not straight (the zigzags), and I moved my ribbon to the bottom. I also took a small liberty with the sketch and added that one little extra piece with the sentiment on it.   I hope you enjoyed this card and maybe saw something to inspire you too.  Til' next time - hugs!

Supplies (all from Stampin Up): Cardstock - Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Peach Parfait, Whisper White and Real Red.  Patterned paper - Greenhouse Gala (retired).  Stamps - Fox and Friends (lion) and Sweet Cake (sentiment).  Ribbon - 1/2" Stitched Poly ribbon in Peach Parfait.  Punches used are the
1 3/4" Scallop circle and the 2 3/8" scallop circle.  I snipped off the bottom part of the DSP for the Soft Suede color to show through a little.  Ink is Chocolate Chip Classic ink.

Paper Players #90

Hello and Happy Friday!! Today I am entering The Paper Players Challenge #90 - A Color Challenge from LeAnne.  My goal here was to also create a "flat" card that didn't use embellishments such as buttons, brads, ribbon etc. (I got this idea from a past challenge at City Crafter's Challenge). This was good for me to try because I usually feel I have to add at least one of those elements somewhere.  But it's not truly "flat" as I used texture and lots of layering. I do like how it turned out.    
 

Here's a couple more views.  I was having a hard time getting it to photograph well so that you can see the subtle color mixing on the background. 

Supplies (all from Stampin Up): Cardstock - Not Quite Navy, Pool Party and Certainly Celery.  Sizzix Texture Embossing Folder "Manhattan Flower" (retired).  Stamp sets - Butterfly and sentiment from "Strength and Hope" (retired).  Background stamp - En Francais.  I stamped the background by first inking the stamp with certainly celery ink and then just quickly touching here and there with the Not Quite Navy stamp pad.  I heat set quickly to make sure it was dry before I used my finger daubers and added the Certainly Celery and Pool Party colors to it. I used that same method with the butterfly and then snipped it out to put on the card.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you saw something you liked or that inspired you. 

Retrosketches #6 and ColourQ Challenge 132

Hello!  I quickly got this card together tonight to enter in the Retrosketches #6 Challenge based on the sketch below.  I am also entering it in the ColourQ Challenge #132 as I used the colors from that challenge on my creation (as shown below).


The Retrosketches challenge closes soon so I'm gonna be quick on the details :o)  Thanks so much for stopping by to visit!

Supplies (all from Stampin Up): Cardstock - Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White and Lucky Limeade.
Tea cup and sentiment - from My Digital Studio "Tea Shoppe".  I textured the white background using the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.  The little flower was punched from one of my Itty Bitty Punches and a basic pearl finishes it off.

Crazy4Challenges - C4C131

Happy Thursday Everyone!  I have found another new challenge to participate in today called Crazy4Challenges (oh my how appropriately named!).  I popped into their blog and was just amazed at the beautiful creations that the design team have posted.  The challenge for this week is to use the colors blue and white and one other color of your choice on your creation.  I LOVE blue and white (and red) together so I just couldn't resist participating in this challenge.  So hello ladies at Crazy4Challenges -and please accept my entry in the C4C131 challenge this week.

Details and Supplies (all from Stampin Up - except Copic markers):  Cardstock colors - Poppy Parade, Whisper White and Island Indigo.  Stamps  -  Greeting Card Kids (girl) and P.S. I Love You (sentiment).  Ribbon is 3/8" pleated satin in Baja Breeze.  Patterned Paper is Sweet Shop Speciality DSP.  Flowers are some of the Paper Daisies. Basic pearls are the accents to everything.  I used the 2nd largest size of the Hearts Collection framelits dies for the beautiful red heart.  I used my 2 1/2" circle punche to pop out my sweet little girl and used sticky strip to wrap that fun ribbon around the back of the circle before I adhered to the heart layer.  The heart is also textured with the Sizzix Perfect Polka Dots textured embossing folder.  I colored the image with my Copic markers and the sentiment was colored with my Stampin Write markers using Island Indigo and Pool Party colors.  The sentiment was made with two punches the Word Window punch and the Modern Label punch. 

Thanks so much for stopping by - I'm sure glad you did and hope you saw something that inspired you.  I love to receive your comments so please feel free to leave me a note. 

Stamping 411 & Creative Card Crew Challenges

Happy "almost" Thursday friends!   Tonight I am entering this card in the Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge #250 and also in the Creative Card Crew #8 Kraft Challenge.  I found the Creative Crew Challenge through "inspiration viewing" (that means by popping into a couple of sites that I like to follow quite often) and thought it would be fun to give it a try. I think I might be becoming a challenge junkie and may need to seek therapy.  Oh wait... this is kind of my therapy LOL.  I digress..sorry.   I really liked the sketch at Stampin 411 and all the wonderful ideas from the design team and Kraft is definitely one of my least used colors of cardstock (though I don't know why) so this was fun for me to combine the two challenges.  Does anyone know of a challenge that requires the use of these other colors too? Just kidding - really!  I also incorporated an idea from a recent issues of one of my card magazines that used masculine papers and/or colors to create a feminine card.  I kind of like how it turned out and initially I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pull it off. 

Here is the sketch from Stampin 411 that I used and an alternate view of the card.  I did finish the inside but couldn't seem to get it to photograph well ;o( .  The sentiment inside says "Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee.  Psalms 55:22.

Thanks so much for stopping by - I'm sure glad you did.  I love to read your comments so please feel free to drop me a note if you saw something you liked or that inspired you.  Maybe I've inspired you to find a new challenge to try too :o)

Details:  Finished size is 5 1/4" x 5 1/4".  All Supplies are from Stampin' Up!. Cardstock colors are Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze and Not Quite Navy.  DSP is Well Worn.  Sentiment is from "Thoughts and Prayers".  Flower is the Triple Treat Flower.  I stamped one flower on Crumb Cake cardstock using Not Quite Navy ink and a second one using Cajun Craze ink.  To get the layered effect I first punched the Cajun Craze flower with the  Fancy Flower punch.  Then I used the 5-Petal Punch on the NQNavy flower to get the middle part and popped that layer up with dimensionals (after inserting that little brad in the middle).  I also had stamped one other flower with the Cajun Craze that hadn't turned out dark enough for my liking so I punched out the middle of it with my 1/2"circle punch and put another little brad in the middle.  It landed on the card while I was trying to get the glue dots out and I liked where it fell so I stuck it there.   The larger circles on the card are from my 2 1/2" circle punch.  I used the square lattice texture folder on the Cajun Craze strip on the left to give the card a little more "oomph" and added three little navy brads at the bottom.