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

Strength and Hope

I finally got a chance today to ink up one of the new sets I got recently, Strength and Hope! I love love love this set. Like many others my life has been touched by cancer, especially in the last few yrs. My stepmom is a breast cancer survivor(she recently hit her 5 yr clear mark, woohooo!), 3 yrs ago my best friend since I was 15 lost her mom to breast cancer(passing away only 3 months after she was diagnosed), and I lost my beloved father to squamous cell cancer on Oct.2,2010.

I've seen the Strength and Hope of cancer survivors and their loved ones up close and personal and this set just really speaks to me. Plus any money that goes towards breast cancer research is a wonderful thing! So I got inking today and made a card that incorporated 2 challenges, this weeks colors from The Color Throwdown, and this weeks sketch from Clean and Simple.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Strength and Hope

Paper: So Saffron, Rose Red, Whisper White, Springtime Vintage DSP

Ink: Rose Red, Taken With Teal

Accessories: Round Corner Punch, Rose Red Brads, Whisper White Ribbon, CB Swiss Dots 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!

Going Vintage

Well, I attempted to anyway. This weeks challenge over at the Jingle Belles blog is to go vintage, connect with Christmas Past. I grew up in MA and when I think of vintage I get images of Norman Rockwell. I LOVE his winter and Christmas images. However, I couldnt quite bring that sort of thing to life so this is what I came up with, a CAS card,lol.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Winter Post, sentiment from Bells and Boughs
Paper: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Deck the Halls DSP
Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler(inside sentiment, not shown)
Accessories: Always Artichoke brads, Early Espresso ribbon, sponge, Scallop Border Punch, dimensionals

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!

 

Birthday Yummy

Wow, 2 cards in 1 day? I must be sick!

This card was made for 2 challenges....the first is this weeks Clean and Simple challenge over at Splitcoast, where you are to use a sand color, a chocolate color, a light blue and a neutral. I went with Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue and Whisper White.

Next I used the sketch from Stamping 411. If you didnt know,  Stamping 411 is now strictly Stampin'Up products only for their challenges.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps:Birthday Bakery
Paper: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Cutie Pie DSP, Whisper White
Ink: Black StazOn, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: SU Watercolor Crayons, Bashul Blue Ribbon, Modern Label Punch, Brads

No DSP For Me

Or for any card made for the Jingle Belles challenge this week! The challenge comes from Jess Moyer and we're told "I've loved playing along with Jingle Belles and each week looking through my Christmas crafting supplies I realized I have lots of random embellishments that I bought during after Christmas sales that don’t necessarily match up with patterned paper, but I still adore. So I thought why not make a card with just embellishments and no patterned paper and my challenge was born."



Well, apparently my memory isnt that great because re-reading that challenge I noticed the whole thing about using embellishments and well, I didnt, LOL. I did however get the part of no DSP done, so I guess I got half the challenge right!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Fireside Christmas, Background Basics
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Black StazOn, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
Accessories: SU Watercolor Crayons, Blender Pen, Sponge, Dimensionals