Decorative Friday Mashup

It's time for another Friday Mashup...lets see if we can get everyone out from hiding again, since my patriotic challenge seemed to send all the crafters into their corners for the week!

This week our challenge is brought to us by Kasey and sad to say, this is her last challenge as a Friday Mashup design team member. She is moving on and we're all going to miss her. She definitely challenged me at times and got me to think out of the box, so thank you Kasey, its been a pleasure working with you!

This week Kasey wants us to use a decorative edge on our project, use ribbon  OR mash it up and use both decorative edges and ribbon. I went ahead and mashed it up...my decorative edges are in the middle of the card though so hopefully that still counts!

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup to check out the rest of the inspiration from the design team and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you come up with!

1. Make a project " with a Decorative Edge! "
2. Or Make a project with " Ribbon and or a Bow. "
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project " with a Decorative Edge & Ribbon ".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Lighthearted

Paper: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade, Attic Boutique DSP

Ink: Poppy Parade, Soft Suede

Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, So Saffron ribbon, Soft Suede ribbon, sponge

Folding with Friday Mashup

It's Friday and you know what that means.....another Friday Mashup challenge!

I feel bad...for what I believe is the first time ever I didn't mash up the challenge(sorry Kasey!). I just had too much going on this week and so I decided to do the special fold challenge of the Mashup.

I scrolled through Splitcoast, checking out the various folds and I finally settled on the joy fold card because, well, it's easy, LOL. I cant lie, I wanted a fold that wouldn't take me hours to figure out the math, or where to cut or how to fold. With the joy fold you can get down to business and be done in 15 mins or less. Now THAT is my kind of fold :)

Here is the entire Mashup challenge, brought to us this week from the creative Kasey!

1. Make a project using " a Special Fold".
2. Or Make a project using the " Tic Tac Toe Board".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a " Special Fold card using Tic Tac Toe".

Make sure you head over to the Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great projects from the design team and then play along with us!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Take It to Heart

Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP

Ink: Early Espresso, Riding Hood Red, Pear Pizzazz

Acessories: Framelits Hearts, D'Vine Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug, Dazzling Details, sponge, dimensionals

Sketchy Vintage with Friday Mashup

Happy Friday to everyone! I hope you have had a great week. Mine has been wonderful, lots to smile about and be thankful for!

Todays Friday Mashup is brought to us by Kasey and she is giving us a sketch to work with, plus she also wants us to make give our projects a shabby chic or vintage feel. Thats really not my type of thing so I had a tough time with that portion of the Mashup and I dont know if I really captured it or not, but at least I tried right :)

Now make sure you head on over to The Friday Mashup and play along with us and dont forget, you can still submit your ideas for the Fan Favorite Challenge! The link is open until Feb.22nd!

1. Make a project using the "Sketch".
2. Or Make a "Shabby Chic / Vintage" project.
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Shabby Chic/Vintage project using the Sketch".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: On The Grow

Paper: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Ink: Soft Suede, Black StazOn, Marina Mist, Basic Gray, Real Red, Lovely Lilac, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Photo Corners Punch, Color Spritzer Tool, sponge, dimensionals

Into the New Year with Friday Mashup!

It's the last Friday Mashup challenge of 2011, where has the year gone? I hope you've enjoyed the challenges that The Friday Mashup has brought to you in 2011 and I hope you'll come back for more in 2012!

Today's challenge comes to us from Kasey, and she wants us to create a project that sparkles, a project celebrating New Years or mash them up and do both!

I mashed them up but not in a traditional sense. I chose to use the very serene scene from A Scenic Season, one I've used quite a bit these last few months. I just love this stamp and its a reflection of how my family and I will be ringing in the New Year.....at home, surrounded by trees and snow, our own winter wonderland. We'll reflect on the year that has gone by and wonder what we will encounter in 2012.

The trees are covered in Dazzling Details, so in the light this card does sparkle and looks quite pretty! I also used this weeks color challenge over at Splitcoaststampers for my color scheme.

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

-Make a project that "Sparkles".
-Or Make a project "Celebrating the New Year".
-Or "Mash it Up" and create a project "Celebrating the New Year that Sparkles" .

Head over to the Friday Mashup challenge to see the rest of the inspiration from the design team and then play along with us! Also, don't forget that challenges 37 and 38 are open until Jan.4th. With the holidays we wanted to give everyone some more time to play along!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: A Scenic Season, sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments

Paper: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Whisper White

Ink: Bashful Blue, Real Red

Accessories: CB Swiss Dots folder, Dazzling Details, sponge

Getting Girly with Friday Mashup

This weeks challenge at The Friday Mashup is brought to us by Kasey and here is what she has to say:

Last time I bought you a masculine sketch mashup so this time I thought I'd go all girly, it seems like I'm seeing a lot of Chirstmas cards starting to appear on blogs and challenges so here is your chance to get back to creating with lovely ribbons, lace, bling and pretty girly colours before you go all out on the red and green.



The mash up is to use your favourite technique, so if you like embossing, or using alcohol inks or shaving cream or rock n roll stamping, die cuts - Whatever it is, use it on your girly project and enter the challenge.


So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :


Make a project featuring "A Girly Theme".
Or Make a project using "Your Favorite Technique".
Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Girly project using your Favorite Technique

Well, Kasey did mention Christmas cards and thats what I went with, but although there is some red I think I went pretty girly with the addition of pink, pearls and scallops!I used some retired DSP and for my favorite technique I did spotlighting(and some watercoloring too).

 I'm glad I got it done earlier in the week, in between snow storms, because right now I'm surrounded by a winter wonderland and I admit it, I would much rather be out in the snow than in the house stamping! LOL

Now dont be like me, ROFL...head over to the Friday Mashup blog and play along with us! We love seeing everyones creations every week!

My backyard right now :)

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps:  Greeting Card Kids, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Riding Hood Red, Close To Cocoa, Watercolor Paper, Candy Lane DSP

Ink: Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red, Garden Green, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: 1" square punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Modern Label Punch, Pearls, sponge, dimensionals, aquapainter

Friday Mashup Masculine Squared

Only one more Friday left in September! Where has the time gone? In just over a week I'll start decorating for Halloween and then before I know it Christmas! I love this time of year,so much going on.

And speaking of things going on, its time for another Friday Mashup and this weeks challenge is brought to us by Kasey. Kasey and I usually have very different tastes but this week I am totally digging her challenge, and here it is:

Make a project using the "Square Sketch above ".
Or Make a Project that has a "Masculine" theme.
Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Square Project using the Sketch, with a Masculine theme".

My uncles birthday is in October(so is mine, October is such an awesome month! LOL) so I decided to make a card for him. He lives in Massachusetts and doesn't like to fly,he and his family go on a lot of cruises and he commutes to Boston for work. I immediately thought of The Open Sea set....all of the stamps fit perfectly with a water/cruise/travel theme and the ship stamp makes me think of the USS Constitution, which is located in Boston at Pier 1 ( and is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel!).

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to check out all of the DT inspiration, and then play along with us! We love seeing your creations every week!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: The Open Sea, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Whisper White, Nautical Expedition DSP
Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Oval Punch, sponge, dimensionals

Friday Mashup Wings and Bling

This week at the Friday Mashup blog Kasey is bringing us the challenge and she is all about the wings and the bling, PLUS she has a color challenge in there also. What does all of this mean?

1. Create a project with "Butterflies and Bling".

2. Create a project using "Marina Mist, Perfect Plum and your Choice of ONE other color and ONE Neutral".
3. Or "Mash it Up!" and create a project that using "Butterflies, Bling and the Color Combo"!

I tell ya, Kasey comes up with challenges that definitely make me think! Thats what challenges are all about though right, to get people to think outside their comfort zone?

I MASHED it up this week, including both wings and bling and also doing the color challenge.  I went right off the color coach and added Rose Red as my 3rd color and I went with Whisper White as my neutral.

Make sure you head over to the Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great inspiration from the design team, leave some love, and play along with us! Make sure you also check out the other cards that are submitted and leave some love for your fellow stampers!

 I used a Perfect Plum marker to outline and color the branches, and then used stickles on the flowers colored in Marina Mist to help them really stand out.

 My bling...pearls plus the glitter on the flowers....

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Easter Blossoms, Small Script

Paper: Marina Mist, Rose Red, Whisper White, Thoroughly Modern DSP

Ink: Perfect Plum, Marina Mist

Accessories: Basic Pearls, Waterfall Stickles, Modern Label Punch, Embosslit Beautiful Wings

Friday Mashup Sketch and Colors

Its time again for Friday Mashup! Our challenge this week comes from Kasey and I love it because it got me thinking about fall with the great colors she chose. Now for many of us summer just started on the 21st but Kasey lives in Queensland Australia so therefore its winter for her :) I immediately thought of this stamp set, Autumn Days, and the spectacular fall and winter sunsets we have here in Alaska. The colors More Mustard and Cherry Cobbler were just perfect for that. I'd never attempted to do a sunset sky before and while it didnt turn out perfect I think it came out ok!

So the challenge is this:
This week for the Mashup Challenge, you are welcome to:

1. Create a project using More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla.
2. Create a project using the Sketch.
3. Or "Mash it Up!" and create a project using the Sketch & Color Combo.

Head over to The Friday Mashup blog to link up your creation and go check out the great inspiration provided by the design team and leave them some love!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Autumn Days, sentiment from Small Script
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard, Very Vanilla
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard
Accessories: Sponge, Corner Rounder Punch, Blender Pen, Modern Label Punch

Mashing Up Masculine

Its time for another Friday Mashup challenge and this week Kasey is bringing us the challenge! Here is what Kasey has to say:

Hi it's Kasey here, a big Hello from sunny North Queensland, and another first for me, I get to set the Challenge this week. I'm so excited to be bringing you one of my all time favourites. Just in case you haven't come across the term before...A Monochromatic scheme uses shades of the same colour or ONE colour plus a neutral. I for one don't make enough masculine cards, I prefer working with all the girly colours and bling, so in the theme Australia! and welcome to another Friday Mashup Challenge. I'm so pleased to be a full time member of the Friday Mashup Design Team of setting challenges... to Mash it up, make it Masculine.

1. Make a card with a Monochromatic colour scheme

2. Make a card with with a Masculine theme

3. MASH it all up and create a Monochromatic card that is for a Male!

I wasnt sure how I was going to handle this challenge. I knew I wanted to use a new set from the SU Summer Mini called The Open Sea...I fell in love with it the minute I saw it! I grabbed the Nautical Expedition DSP and just started from there. I mashed the challenge and used Not Quite Navy paired with some Whisper White and the DSP to create a Fathers Day card for my FIL. The ship was cut out and popped up with dimensionals.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: The Open Sea, sentiment from King of the Grill, inside sentiment from All-Year Cheer I
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Whisper White, Nautical Expedition DSP
Ink: Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Not Quite Navy brads, sponge, dimensionals