Friday Mashup Blue and Green Rectangles

Happy Friday and welcome to another Friday Mashup challenge! Erica has a great challenge for us this week, using my 2 favorite colors in varying shades, and throwing rectangles in the mix also!

So what are the colors? She has Gumball Green, Lucky Limeade, Pacific Point and Marina Mist. I just love these colors, they are all so pretty and fun! For my rectangles I used strips of paper as banners going down the front, so I hope that counts! I thought these colors would work good for a birthday card I'm sending to a male cousin of mine.

So here is the full challenge:

Make a project with the colors "Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Gumball Green, and Lucky Limeade".
 Or Make a project using "Rectangles".
Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with the "Color Combination and Rectangles".

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to check out the inspiration from the rest of the design team, and then play along with us!

 

Christmas Snow Sketches

I was able to sneak some stamping time in today and created this card for 2 great challenges, Merry Monday and The Paper Players.

The sketch is the current one over at Merry Monday and The Paper Players have a Bingo challenge. I decided to do the top row, which is Christmas-Sparkle/Bling-Ribbon. I did have a bit of a time trying to decide how to add ribbon onto this card but finally I just made a 3rd banner strip across the bottom using some Cherry Cobbler ribbon. The sparkle/bling is in the form of Dazzling Diamonds, which I added along some of the lines in the image, to make it look like ridges of snow.

I just love this stamp from the set 'Winter Memories'. As a child growing up(and even into adulthood!) one of my favorite things has always been going out and making snowmen. It's always so much fun trying to create that happy little guy or girl to adorn your yard. In my neck of the woods the snow is very dry so we don't get to make snowmen that often here but when we do we sure take advantage of it!

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to go check out these 2 great challenges!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Winter Memories, Petite Pairs
Paper: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Watercolor Paper, Festival of Prints DSP
Ink: Black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue
Accessories: Dazzling Diamonds, Cherry Cobbler ribbon, 1 3/8" circle punch, Big Shot, Snow Burst Embossing Folder, Blender Pen, dimensionals, sponge

Sketchy Snowfall

Today's card was inspired by 2 challenges....Jingle Belles and Merry Monday.

The current challenge over at the Jingle Belles blog is to make a project that celebrates snow. No problem for me because I LOVE LOVE LOVE snow...heck, that's why I moved to Alaska and we even got our first dusting of snow this past weekend! I used my Polar Party stamp set and did my favorite thing to get the look of snow falling...I ran my image panel through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I just love how that looks! I also added glitter to all the raised dots but its hard to see in the picture.

The sketch is last weeks challenge from Merry Monday. Because of my crazy schedule lately I wasn't able to play along last week but wanted to make a card with this sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies used (all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Polar Party, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Sage Shadow(retired), Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Wintergreen DSP (retired)

Ink: Black StazOn, Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Lovely Lilac, Baja Breeze, Only Orange

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots EF, Always Artichoke ribbon, Modern Label punch, sponge, dimensionals

It's time for Sunday Stamps and this week Joan is bringing us a fabulous color challenge! She wants us to use the colors Gumball Green, Marina Mist and Soft Suede. Now Joan picked them because these hues remind her of fall but as soon as I saw them I instantly thought snowmen!! I've been in a snow mood and can you believe it, this morning we woke up to a dusting of snow! I was so excited! I was also jealous because parts of Anchorage (which is an hour south of me) got over 5 inches of snow....I cant wait for that!

Make sure you head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these great colors!

My backyard this morning:

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Frosty Friends, sentiment from Owl Occasions

Paper: Marina Mist, Soft Suede, Whisper White, Be of Good Cheer DSP, Polka Dot Parade DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Gumball Green, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze, Soft Suede, Primrose Petals, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Gumball Green Ribbon, Dazzling Details

Leaves and Twine for Friday Mashup

Welcome to another Friday Mashup! Lisa here with this weeks challenge for you!

Even though I am a winter girl I do enjoy autumn and here in southcentral Alaska it seems our autumn is just about over(and it's always short to begin with!). Most of the leaves are off the trees and the weather forecasters are saying the higher elevations in the area could see the first snowfall this weekend, woohooo! Until the snow flies though I do enjoy looking at the carpet of leaves in my yard, the beautiful oranges and yellows that fade the longer they lay there. To keep with the fall spirit I'd like to see projects that have autumn inspired leaves on them and while you're at it, go ahead and add some twine to your project! Or you can do a project that has twine on it and no leaves, that's all good too!

You will notice that I forgot to put twine on my card. I had every intention to do that, it is my challenge after all LOL, but I was concentrating so much on everything else that I forgot. Oooops!

Thanks to everyone that comes to play with us weekly, we really enjoy seeing all of your submissions! Make sure to head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see the rest of the great projects from the design team, and then play along with us!

 

Fall Feelings for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday from a soggy and flooding southcentral Alaska! Our storms have brought several inches of rain to my area and there is a lot going on, one of those issues being my internet cutting in and out, ugh!! Of course compared to the people whose homes are flooding my internet going out isnt that bad. I love the rain but hopefully we dry out soon.

Heidi has a great challenge this week over at The Friday Mashup....she wants us to create a project with an Indian summer in mind, create a project using 3 of these colors :Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade & Early Espresso or mash it up and create an Indian summer project using 3 of the colors. I love this image from Fall Blessings and chose it to represent an Indian summer. It reminds me of when we lived in MA and CT and we'd go to pumpkin farms and just enjoy a beautiful fall day with endless blue skies. For the color portion I ended up using all of the colors listed in one fashion or another!

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup to see the other great projects from the rest of the design team!


So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

Make a "Indian Summer" themed project. 
Or Make a project with any three colors from "Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade & Early Espresso".
Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Indian Summer Themed project with the color combo".

 

Merry Moose for Merry Monday

Sneaking in a card while I can...we did indeed lose power on Monday, but thankfully only for a few hrs. Now we're in the middle of yet another storm with wind gusts over 60 mph (over 100mph in the Anchorage area) and so the power going out again is a big possibility. We have a wood stove and our stove is run by gas so at least we can stay warm and eat when the power goes out :)

Today's card is for the Merry Monday challenge. Now I will fully admit to being a SU snob and generally only buy their stamps but when I saw this moose stamp from Whipper Snapper Designs at a local stamp store I HAD to have it. I mean hello, it's a moose AND Christmas. Perfect!

I wish I could get a better picture, because this one does not do the card justice. It is so cute in person, I just love it. I'm definitely going to have to make more to send out to family and friends at Christmas!

Stamps: Merry Kiss Moose from Whipper Snapper Designs
Paper: True Thyme(SU retired), Cherry Cobbler, Watercolor Paper, PP from My Minds Eye
Ink: Black StazOn, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Old Olive, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Cherry Cobbler ribbon, Aquapainter, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Big Shot, Snowburst EF, sponge, dimensionals