History and a Volcano for MDS Monday

Since I work nights I'm up to 4am every night, even weekends. This can be quite nice, especially when the challenge blogs are updated. I happened to be online when the new challenge for MDS Monday was posted so I opened up my MDS and started creating! Joan has a sketch for us that definitely gets us to put our thinking caps on!

I think the hardest part for me when using MDS is trying to visualize the direction I want to go in. With my stamps and paper I can lay them on my desk, see how things go together and just play around. For the way *my* mind works trying to do this on MDS is much harder. I started with the pictures I was going to use for this project and then I moved to the paper/colors. I knew I wanted to use Gingham Garden but I changed the background about 3 times before I finally settled on the end result. I changed up the 3 layers on the left just a tad by using a flag punch and again used Gingham Garden DSP. All in all I'm pretty pleased with the way the page came out!

 

 

Tags and Colors for Friday Mashup

I'm late but I made it in with my card for this weeks Friday Mashup challenge!

Tara is our hostess this week and not only does she want us to include a tag on our project, she also wants us to use the following colors: Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky, Primrose Petals and Bermuda Bay.

I'm not a big fan of tags and I don't have any of the tag dies so I chose to make a circle tag. It kind of looks like an ornament but hey, as long as I know its a tag that's all that matters right? LOL

In the recent SU order I got one of the sets I bought was 'For the Birds' and so I broke it out for this card. I kept the card pretty clean and simple, with just a heart in the corner of the tag and paper piercing in the corners. My use of Soft Sky was very subtle....I used it on the mailbox and also lightly sponged the edges of the circle with it.

I hope you'll head over to The Friday Mashup blog to check out what the rest of the design team came up with, and we'd love to have you play along with us!

1. Create a project with a "Tag (as an embellishment on you project or as the project itself )."
2. Create a project using the colors "Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky, Primrose Petals & Bermuda Bay".
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "with a Tag using the color combo above".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: For the Birds

Paper: Crisp Cantaloupe, Bermuda Bay, Primrose Petals, Naturals White

Ink: Black StazOn, Bermuda Bay, Primrose Petals, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Big Shot, Stylish Stripes EF, Hearts Framelits, Nestabilities Circles, Paper Piercing Tool, Silver Stretch Cord, sponge, dimensionals, blender pen

 

Digital Christmas for MDS Monday

This week at MDS Monday Heidi has a card sketch for everyone, and also a tutorial for editing a punch shape. I followed the card sketch but didn't do the punch shape editing...all the shapes I have didn't seem to allow the editing(I don't have the chevron punch set that she used).

I went with a Christmas card (sorry Heidi, LOL) and kept it pretty simple(the usual for me on MDS so far). I think I might have this one printed out by SU and see how it looks, maybe I'll go digital for my Christmas cards this year.(I said that to my family the other day and they said 'yeah right' LOL)

Christmas Lodge for Jingle Belles

Time got away from me and I missed last weeks Jingle Belles challenge so I made sure to set time aside today to play along with them. This week they have a great challenge...

                                                        Make a card with a house on it

OR

Make a card with the word "HOME" on it

OR

Make a card that references building materials of some sort, such as wood-grain paper, a brick embossing folder, etc.

 

 

I grabbed the Christmas Lodge set because I love the large home featured in this set. I stuck with traditional Christmas colors and use papers from the retired Frostwood Lodge DSP, some of my most favorite Christmas paper ever! It's a pretty simple card, nothing fancy going on.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Christmas Lodge, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Frostwood Lodge DSP

Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Standard and Lacey Circles, SU Snow Burst EF, dimensionals, sponge

 

Birthday Poppies for Freshly Made

The husband took the boys to see Wolverine, the daughter is at work and so it's just me and the animals at home today.  I took advantage of the quiet to get some stamping done.

This card was made for the current challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. I think I changed my mind about 10 times before deciding to use the Pleasant Poppies in the center panel, and I'm glad I went with that. I completed ignored this set in the catalog last yr but got it last month and I just adore it!

I picked fall-ish colors, since I am realllllly wanting fall to hurry up and get here. We do have leaves starting to change so I know it's not too far around the corner! I used Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Early Espresso, along with Whisper White. The sentiment was popped up with dimensionals.

I'm also going to link this up at The Friday Mashup, since it fits our challenge for this week!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are enjoying your day!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Itty Bitty Banners

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Polka Dot Parade DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Real Red, Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Big Shit, Bitty Banner Framelits, dimensionals

Prom Pictures for MDS Monday

The hubby and youngest are out fishing, the oldest is sleeping and the daughter is about to leave for work so I grabbed my laptop to enjoy the quiet time and to play along with MDS Monday!

Rochelle has a great layout for us and I knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted to use my daughters prom pics. Her and her boyfriend attended different high schools so they went to 2 proms this past April. These pictures are from the prom for Lucas's school. They both looked so awesome, we were so proud of them!

I went with a 'less is more' mantra on this one. The blue background is pretty loud so I kept everything else simply, getting the number requirement in at the top and then just using a stamp at the bottom for the sentiment. Courtney and Lucas have been dating 2 yrs and so I thought this particular sentiment was a nice one to use. I then used a heart punch and reduced the opacity to have it highlight the sentiment.

I hope everyone has a great weekend, we finally have rain and cool temps in southcentral Alaska, wooohoooo!

Happy Dots for Friday Mashup

Did everyone have a good week? Mine was super busy! School starts Aug.15 and so at work we're running around like mad to get the building ready. I moved close to 100 old desks from upstairs to the back of the building, and then unpacked 90 new desks. Needless to say by the time I got home I was one pooped gal! Thankfully I had the Friday Mashup challenge to help relax me.

This week Erica brings the challenge to us and she is all about the polka dots! She also wants us to use the word 'happy' on our project.

I decided to go with a Daffodil Delight and Smoky Slate color scheme. Daffodil Delight is such a bright cheery color and it just makes me smile every time I use it. I also decided to use the Pleasant Poppies set for my image. These flowers are so versatile and can be cut into so many sizes after you stamp them. Although most people associate poppies with the color red there are yellow ones out there so I colored them in with Daffodil Delight.

I had trouble finding a sentiment that I liked. I thought the flowers deserved a nice  cheery sentiment and I finally pulled out a sentiment from a retired set called Apple Blossoms. I think it works wonderfully for this card! I also used retired brads(yellow).

My inspiration for the sketch came from this weeks The Paper Players challenge, which I just barely made it in for. I've been looking at this sketch all week, I just love it!

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

1. Create a project with "Polka Dots ".
2. Create a project using "the Word Happy".
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "with Polka Dots & The Word Happy on it ".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Pleasant Poppies, Apple Blossoms(retired)

Paper: Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Polka Dot Parade DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots EF, Rhinestone Brads(retired), dimensionals