Sending Healing Thoughts

This week the challenge over at Creative Confetti is to use a Power Poppy bouquet of flowers on your project. Our challenge hostess, Julie K, is ready for spring but not me, I'd keep my cold temps and snow all year if I could!

I knew right away that I wanted to use the set Daffodils. I think daffodils are so pretty and I love all the different shades of yellow they come in. Yellow is such a happy color and even though winter is my favorite season I do like seeing the spring flowers when they start to pop up, which is usually the end of May around my neck of the woods!

I tried to color the daffodils in 2 different shades of yellow...I went with a pale shade and then a darker yellow. The grape hyacinth are the perfect accent for the daffodils and I colored those in with a shade of blue-violet.

I actually took my card apart 3 times before I found a layout that made me happy LOL The sentiment is from the Nice Things to Say stamp set, I thought it went well with this bouquet.

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Stamps: Daffodils, Nice Things to Say (Power Poppy)

Paper: Pear Pizzazz (SU), Neenah Solar White, Delicate Dots DSP (SU retired), Tea Party DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Crushed Curry (SU)

Copics: B63, B66

YG01, YG05, YG09

Y15, Y19, Y38

Y000, YOO, Y11

Y02, Y04, Y08

BO1, B04, B06

C1, C3

Accessories: MFT Stitched Rectangles, MFT Blueprints 20

Feel Better Soon

It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Stamps and this week we have a fun color challenge!

As soon as I saw these colors I knew I wanted to use my new set from MFT, Too-Cute Turtles. My 19 yr old son is known for saying "I like turtles" (I think it has to do with a video he saw on YouTube?), it was even a decoration on his chair back for his high school graduation, so as soon as I saw this turtle set I had to get it!

I decided to incorporate the 2 shades of green via the turtle and the patterned paper I used, and I did the same with the Navy blue color. The white background was too stark for me so I brought in the off white with some splatters all across the card front. There are a few different sentiments in the set but I went with a get well one.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! We'd love to see how you use these colors!

My son's chair back for his high school graduation. See what I mean about turtles? :)

Get Wool Soon

A new Hues to Use came out on the Power Poppy blog on Tuesday and when I saw the colors I immediately thought of this set, Get Wool Soon. It's in the 50's in my neck of the woods, with clouds and rain, so I know there are a lot of  knitters hunkering down in front of the fire as Alaska ushers in fall, with winter right behind.

Blue is my favorite color so I decided to use the 2 different shades of blue on the yarn and also use it as the card base and some accents. I brought in the orange on the cup , labels and the fun plaid paper from Lawn Fawn.

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Stamps: Get Wool Soon (Power Poppy)

Paper: Pacific Point (SU), Neenah Solar White, Perfectly Fall Plaid (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: B02, B04, B14, B16, B26

YR07, YR09, YR18

W0, W2, W4

T0, T1

N1

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15 and 23, SU Oval Punch, Dimensionals

Get Well Sketch for Friday Mashup

It's a good thing that I'm in Alaska and its only 2:30am, because I totally lost track of my days and didn't realize it was Friday already, ooops! It's even my week to host the challenge over at The Friday Mashup. I need a vacation LOL

So what am I bringing to The Friday Mashup this week? A get well project and a sketch! Get well cards are always missing from my stash for some reason, so I need to get stocked up on those.

Here is what I came up with. I'll fill in the information on the card tomorrow when I'm awake and thinking clearly!

Get Well for MDS Monday

Whaaaattttt? 2 challenges done for MDS Monday within 24 hrs? I'm on a roll, woot woot! My oldest has to be at work at 4am today, and I drive him, so I figured why bother going to bed for 2 hrs or so just to get up again .I'll hit the hay at 0430 when I get home from taking him(ETA: Its now 0430 and I just got home. It was a great drive in to Wasilla, the Northern Lights were dancing in the sky! Pretty darn good way to start the week!).  This gave me a great excuse to whip out my laptop, work on the new MDS challenge and catch up my DVR'd shows from the week.

Joan has a card sketch for us this week and she'd also like us to try using the opacity feature. That's one of the few features I use regularly so I was pretty comfortable with that. I changed my mind several times on this card.....I think that's why MDS is so hard for me, I cant just throw paper and stamps on my desk and hold them and look them over. I have to keep doing the trial and error on my digital project and that's just really hard for me. I finally decided on using the splatter feature to bring in some color and its also where I used the opacity feature.

I started with a base color of Island Indigo and then using the square punch I created a panel of Whisper White. I matted that with some Pear Pizzazz. For the splatter I used Pear Pizzazz, Melon Mambo and Whisper White. I adjusted the opacity for the Pear Pizzazz and Melon Mambo splatters but left the Whisper White ones alone. The embellishments are Polka Dot ribbons and the sentiment is from Delightful Dozen and I colored it in Melon Mambo.

Have a great Monday, thanks for stopping by and make sure you go check out MDS Monday and play along with them!

Better Get Better

For this card I played along with 2 challenges....Dynamic Duos and The Paper Players.

Over at The Paper Players they have a Tic Tac Toe challenge and I went with the middle row...get well, bling and yellow. For the Dynamic Duos we were able to choose a color to pair Basic Gray with and I chose Daffodil Delight, I just love putting yellow with gray, I think its a great combo!

I used retired stamps for this but current paper. Ever have a card envisioned in your mind but when you go to put it together its a complete fail? That's what happened to me today. I had originally planned to use the retired set Oh, Whale but it wasnt coming together so I put that set back on the shelf. I perused all my current sets and nothing was jumping out at me. Upsy Daisy is such a great set, I refuse to let it collect dust, so I decided to use that one. Then the sentiment drove me crazy because again, none of my current stuff was making me happy. I ended up using an older retired set called Quick Thinking and finally, I was happy with my completed card! The banner with the sentiment is popped up with dimensionals.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Upsy Daisy (retired), Quick Thinking(retired)

Paper: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Gingham Garden DSP

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray

Accessories: Big Shot, Framelits Bitty Banners, Nestabilities Circles, Rhinestones, dimensionals

Friday Mashup Get Well with Fabric!

Its the 2nd Friday in June, only 2 more to go!! Are you all ready for another Friday Mashup challenge? We've got another great one for you this week and this time its from Kim, who came up with a great idea! Here is what she says:

Hey there Stampin' Friends! Kim here. I hope you are ready to create today!

Summer vacations are upon us, and everyone wants to get out and have fun. Nothin' puts a damper on vacation plans like poorly-timed allergy colds or a bad case of sun-burn! Sometimes we need to spread a little cheer to our friends with the ick-ies, and I never have enough get well cards.


Time to change that! Plus, adding fabric to paper crafting is a fun trend...see what you can do with it! Play along, and be sure to use keyword FM10 in your online gallery.

This week for the Mashup Challenge, you are welcome to:
1. Create a project with soft texture...fabric, felt, even cotton balls (ribbon doesn't count).
2. Create a get well card OR
3. MASHUP the challenge and create a get well card that has a soft texture!
I love my fellow design team members because they really get me thinking out of the box every week and I need that!

Now, I did MASHUP the challenge but I used a very small piece of fabric as more of an accent piece than anything else. I have to admit that I dont keep fabric on hand because I dont sew or anything like that, and I was too lazy to drive into town just to buy a small piece of fabric for the challenge. I dug through my stash and I did end up finding this fabric, and I have NO idea where it came from or why I had it, LOL.

I used the stamp set Pendant Park. I absolutely adore this set, it can be used for anything and its so nice and simple!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Pendant Park, Quick Thinking

Paper: So Saffron, Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla

Ink: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede

Accessories: Fabric, Pinking Shears, Soft Suede Ribbon, Modern Label Punch, sponge, dimensionals

Head over to the The Friday Mashup site and play along with us! The design team offers some FANTASTIC inspiration, so visit them and leave some love, and also check out your fellow crafters and leave them some love too!

Pulling For You

If you have been to my blog before then you probably know that my dad has been battling cancer. He lives in CO and I try and send him cards and other things to let him know that we are thinking of him and miss him terribly. He had surgery today for an infected wound so I wanted to get a card out in the mail ASAP.

I loved the colors for Color Throwdown Challenge #99 and thought they would be perfect for a masculine card!

I went with the SU set 'Boatloads of Love' and the sentiment inside the card is from the set 'Quick Thinking'. The base of the card is Chocolate Chip and I embossed it with the CB folder D'Vine Swirls.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise stated):
Stamps: Boatloads of Love, Quick Thinking
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Taken With Teal, Very Vanilla
Ink: Black StazOn, Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Creamy Caramel, Taken With Teal, Black
Accessories: 1 1/4" circle punch, dimensionals, Top Note die, white gel pen, D'Vine Swirl CB embossing folder, sponge

Thinking of You

A friend of ours had surgery the other day for cancer so I wanted to send her a little card just to let her know that we are thinking about her. I found this layout in the March/April 2010 Papercrafts magazine and thought I'd give it a shot. The card base is Old Olive, followed by layers of Kraft and Cottage Wall DSP.

Supplies(all supplies are SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: All Year Cheer I, Flight of the Butterfly

Paper: Whisper White, Kraft, Old Olive, Cottage Wall DSP

Ink: Old Olive, Purely Pomegranate

Accessories: Dimensionals, Staples, Paper Piercer,Sponge