Colors and Patterns for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup Amy is bringing us a mashup that's all about color and patterns! She wants us to use different patterns on our project plus at least 3 of the challenge colors. The only color I didn't use was Summer Starfruit. I cannot lie...I do not like that color at all, it just does not work for me. But I included all the other colors! I didn't go crazy though with the patterns...does the embossing on my Island Indigo strip count?

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup and play along with us, we'd love to have you!

1. Make a project using "Different Patterns".
2. Or Make a project with the three or more colors from "Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo, Early Espresso and Sahara Sand".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Patterned Project with the Challenge Colors".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Friendship Preserves

Paper: Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Whisper White, International Bazaar DSP

Ink: Tangerine Tango, Sahara Sand, Early Espresso

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Framelits Window Frames, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Early Espresso brads, sponge, dimensionals

Sending Love for The Paper Players

I've been trying to squeeze in the current Paper Players challenge all week and finally got a moment this afternoon, just squeaking in! It's a theme this week, "Love is in the Air".

I decided to pull out this image from the retired set Wandering Words. I have used the Christmas image from the set but not this Valentine themed one and I thought of it the minute I saw the challenge. The hearts floating out of the mailbox are a perfect way to represent love in the air.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Wandering Words(retired)

Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green, Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Orchard Harvest DSP

Ink: Midnight Muse, Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Cuttlebug Seeing Spots EF, blender pen, sponge, dimensionals

A Sunday Sketch for a Merry Monday

Happy Monday to everyone! Today my youngest headed back to school, I start back to work tonight on my regular schedule and 2013 takes off. I don't believe in resolutions but one of my goals this year is to stay on track with all the challenges I like to play along with. It's not always easy to find stamping time with all that I have going on but I am going to work harder at trying to make time!

This card combines 2 challenges....Sunday Stamps has a great sketch and Merry Monday is back, this time with a color challenge for us.

I decided to ink up the hostess set Christmas Wishes, which was offered in the holiday mini. I loved it the minute I saw it and ordered back in Oct.2012 but it hasn't seen ink until today, isn't that sad? That's another goal of mine...I have well over 100 Christmas stamp sets of SU alone and I want to make sure that each and every set gets used this yr!

For the strip of paper that comes out from the banner, I kept it the same as the main embossed background. I had tried some DSP in that spot and didn't like it, so I went simple and just added another snowflake layer with some brads on the end. In person the embossed layer looks really nice against the main panel. The balloon is popped up with dimensionals.

My 14 yr old son saw the card and he asked why they had Santa in a hot air balloon and not a sleigh with reindeer. I told him because they were just being creative and he looked at the image again and went "oh". LOL Guess he is like his mom and is a bit more literal when it comes to things!

Make sure you head over to both challenges and check them out, they are great fun to play along with!

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Christmas Wishes(retired hostess), More Merry Messages(inside sentiment)

Paper: Pool Party, Confetti White, Candlelight Christmas DSP, Festival of Prints DSP

Ink: Pool Party, Real Red, Island Indigo

Accessories: Big Shot, Snow Burst EF, Real Red Brads, sponge, dimensionals

 

Happiness Sketch with Mambo and Indigo

I combined 2 challenges for this card....the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and the colors from Dynamic Duos. Thanks to the color challenge I now have the song "Mambo No 5" stuck in my head....anyone else remember that song? I used to play it over an over and drive my husband insane with it.....

"A little bit of Monica in my life,
A little bit of Erica by my side.
A little bit of Rita's all I need,
A little bit of Tina's what I see.
A little bit of Sandra in the sun,
A little bit of Mary all night long.
A little bit of Jessica here I am,
A little bit of you makes me your man!
Mambo number five. "

Ok, I digress LOL I decided to go for a Valentine themed card and used a retired set, Take It to Heart. I just love this set and knew I would use it for many years to come. This is my favorite image in the set. The sketch has 3 images on the right side so I used the main heart panel and then the pearl accents for the other 2 spots. A nice simple sentiment completes it. Both the sentiment and the main image panel are popped up with dimensionals.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Take It to Heart, Loving Thoughts

Paper: Melon Mambo, Island Indigo, Melon Mambo DSP, Whisper White

Ink: Island Indigo, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Framelits Hearts Collection, Framelits Bitty Banners, Basic Pearls, Scallop Edge Border Punch, sponge, dimensionals

Sketchy Hearts for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday to everyone! Did you recover nicely from your New Years celebrations? We had a nice time here, shooting off fireworks and eating lots of good food! Unfortunately Weds was my last day of vacation so Thurs night its back to the grind of work!

Liliana is bringing us the challenge this week over at The Friday Mashup and she is providing us with a sketch and also wants us to use hearts on our project. I am not going to lie, I got 90% through this card before I went "crud, I forgot the hearts"! I did manage to sneak a trio of hearts in though so I mashed it up, woohoo!

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

1. Make a project using the "Sketch".
2. Or Make a project featuring "Hearts".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project using the "Sketch and Hearts".

All supplies SU unless otherwise noted:

Stamps: Summer Afternoon

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade,Island Indigo, Watercolor Paper, Polka Dot Parade, International Bazaar

Ink: Black StazOn, Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Framelits Labels, Embosslits Fashionable Hearts, sponge, dimensionals

 

 

Patriotic Snowman Love

My favorite Christmas challenge blog is back with new challenges, wooohooo! Jingle Belles, how I have missed you these last few weeks and they have started things off with a great challenge.....use new craft goodies on your Christmas card, anything that Santa, or anyone else, gave you for Christmas.

I used a new stamp that I bought myself right before Christmas. I went to a stamp store in a town nearby and being a military vet I cant resist anything patriotic, and if its winter or Christmas themed I'm in even more trouble! It's from Whipper Snapper stamps and is called "Americana Snowman".

My inspiration for the layout came from Try Stampin' On Tuesday. I've never played along with this blog before but I saw a few friends post about it and thought I'd give it a try!

Woodland and Green

I posted how a friend ordered a set of cards from me and I posted 2 of the cards the other day, here and here. This post shows 2 of the other cards I made.

My friend lives here in Alaska also, a few hours north of me in Interior Alaska and like most Alaskans she is very much into the outdoors. She is a photographer and gets some of the most amazing shots of Alaska you'll ever see! That was the inspiration for these 2 cards.