Spotlighting Penguins for Friday Mashup!

Hello and welcome to another Friday Mashup challenge, and it's time for me to host again!

If you've been by my blog before its easy to see that I love and adore moose. Well, I also happen to simply adore penguins! How cute are they? My house is filled with moose and penguin items, these 2 animals just always bring a big smile to my face. Today I'd love to see every ones projects that use a penguin image--it's winter(well, at least in this hemisphere!) and what better animal to create a project with when it's cold out? While you are at it spotlight the penguin or anything else in your project! I love the spotlight technique, I think its a great way to get an image to stand out.

For my card I went with some Christmas penguins. I love Christmas cards and make them all year long so I don't see a problem with jolly penguins in February :) I chose to spotlight the middle penguin and his letter "O".

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see all the great projects from the rest of the design team and play along with us! Also, our Fan Favorite Challenge is coming up so submit your idea for a Friday Mashup Challenge!!

-Make a project using the "Spotlighting Technique".

-Or Make a project featuring "Penguins".
-Or "Mash it Up" and create a project featuring "Penguins using the Spotlighting Technique".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Penguin Pals

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Whisper White, Holiday Treasures DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Ruby Red, Old Olive, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Dazzling Details, Simply Scored, dimensionals, brads

Enjoying Autumn with Friday Mashup!

Wow, I cant believe its my turn to host another Friday Mashup challenge. Time flies when you are having fun!

Here in my neck of the woods autumn is in full swing and I am enjoying every minute of it...the kids in school, the crisp air, fresh snow on the mtn peaks, and the leaves changing colors and falling to the ground! I grew up in New England, where some of the prettiest fall colors you'll ever see can be found but here in Alaska we pretty much only see our leaves turn shades of yellow and orange(which is pretty too!), hence the inspiration for this weeks challenge (how awesome is the picture Holly found for the graphic? I love it!).

I've been on a retired set kick, and this week is no different. I love this image from the Sweet Seasons set and made it the focal point of my card, with some bright Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight in the background to set it off.

Make sure you come by The Friday Mashup to play along with us....check out the great cards from the design team, leave them some love and then link up your own card!

 The inspiration I got from my own backyard:

Supplies(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Sweet Seasons, Happy Fall Y'All
Paper: More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Watercolor Paper
Ink: More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Night of Navy
Accessories: Brads, Aquapainter, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, sponge, dimensionals

SOS

No, its not a call for help, although I guess it might be appropriate when you see the pictures in this post, hahaha! Thanks to my friend Lisa over at Papergrace Designs I learned about a new blog on the block, Shopping Our Stash...its going to be all about using what you already have, instead of constantly buying more. I know my hubby will appreciate that :P

Anyway, to kick things off the design team is sharing pics of their work spaces and they're asking everyone else to play along and share too. I figured what the hell, my spot isnt going to win any neatness awards but its mine! If I had my way I'd build a cabin in the backyard for my stamping space...it would have a wood stove, and lots of windows so I could watch the snow fall as I stamped, and the moose could come say hi to me...oh man, I digress!


On the left I keep all my general stamps....birthday, nature, sentiments, etc. On the right is all Christmas, Halloween and fall stamps, although 99% of the sets you see on the right are Christmas, because I adore Christmas stamps.

 Hubby made the ribbon rack for me...I've got tons of crap, I mean goodies, stashed in the 6 bins that go under the desk and shelves and the post-its on my puffin poster remind me of all the great blog challenges I need to accomplish!

MU#5 May 6 Embossing (Dry or Heat) Nature Theme

Lisa here! Guess what? Yep, thats right! Its Friday and time for another Friday Mashup challenge! I am SO excited to bring this weeks challenge to you all. I live in Alaska and everyday I marvel at the extreme nature that surrounds me. I can be found outdoors all year round, just enjoying every thing Mother Nature has for us here. So this week I want all of you to make nature inspired cards OR just make us a card with some form of embossing on it, as I'm a big fan of embossing also. So here we go:

1. Make a card inspired by nature

2. Make a card with embossing on it somewhere

3. MASH it all up and create a nature card that uses embossing somewhere on it!

Here is the card I came up with it. Its TOTALLY me...the trees, the colors and of course, my favorite, moose! As you can see I MASHed it up and did both nature and embossing, dry and heat. The card base is embossed with the CB folder Distressed Stripes, and then I used a copper color to heat emboss the moose.

Now head over to The Friday Mashup blog and link up your card, and dont forget to go visit the other design team members and leave some love for them. Also, leave some love for the other folks who join in on the challenge!