Nature's Colors for TTS36

It's time for another challenge at 'Tis The Season and this time we have a color challenge. This challenge is right up my alley, I love outdoor colors and the darker the shade the happier I am!

I decided to use the Ornamental Pine set for my card. I used the colors Garden Green and Early Espresso to color in my branch, and then I used Early Espresso to color in the pine cone. I cut out the pine cone and then adhered it to the card, pulling up the edges for a little dimension.

My layout is from a recent Sunday Stamps sketch. I used Trim the Tree DSP for the strips along the left side. Nice and easy card!

I hope you'll come by the 'Tis The Season blog and join us. You don't have to use SU colors, any colors close to these ones will work!

Stamps: Ornamental Pine

Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Trim the Tree DSP Paper Stack

Ink: Garden Green, Early Espresso

Accessories: Sponge

Bird Love

To start off the week I'm playing along with The Paper Players (and I had also intended to play along with Freshly Made Sketches but due to a reaction from pain meds I spent all day yesterday sleeping and missed the FMS deadline this morning, oh well, what can ya do!) and the theme from Joanne, which is birds. I love birds and am always watching the ones at my feeders.

I grabbed the set For the Birds and chose the fun image of the wagon with flowers and a sweet little bird chirping away. My papers are from the Fresh Prints DSP paper stack.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: For the Birds

Paper: Crumb Cake, Real Red, Whisper White, Fresh Prints DSP

Ink: Various Copics and Blendabilities, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: dimensionals

Party Animals for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup  Heidi is our hostess and she would like us to create a project with a farm animal in honor of the Chinese New Year and to also include some party bling on it. She says "bonus points to anyone who has a goat on their project as it is the Year of the Goat".

Heidi's Chinese New Year challenges always scare me because I never have anything that I think represents it well. Thankfully this year SU had the perfect stamp in their Occasions catalog, the From the Herd set. It even has a goat so I had all bases of the challenge covered, woot woot! I added sequins as my bling but didn't add any other party themed stuff like hats or balloons because the looks on the animals faces just crack me up and seemed to go perfectly with the sentiment I used on the front of the card.

I wasn't sure how to place my image but thankfully Sunday Stamps had the perfect sketch for this image and once I had their sketch in front of me everything about the card came together pretty quickly!

Head over to The Friday Mashup to play along with us and don't forget to also stop by Sunday Stamps and check out their challenges!

***Friday Mashup 200th Challenge Celebration Coming Up on March 6***

• Create a project with a "Farm Animal". 
• Create a project with "Bling".
• or Mash it Up! and create a project "using a Farm Animal with some Bling".

Stamps: From the Herd

Paper: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweet Taffy DSP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Blendabilities: Old Olive, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, various skin tones, Daffodil Delight,  Blushing Bride, Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand

Accessories: Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh

Kinda Eclectic Sketch

I had some free time this afternoon and so I sat down to play along with the sketch over at Stampin' Celebration. The sketch had me stumped for a bit but I decided to think outside of the box and my comfort zone a little, and that's where the SU set Kinda Eclectic came in. I don't think I've used this set since getting it last year!

I stamped the diagonal portion in Old Olive,two strips one on top of the other. Then I stamped the sun in Daffodil Delight over the Old Olive portion. The butterfly was stamped in Cherry Cobbler and punched out. I added some small Basic Pearls to the butterfly for a little detail. The sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy. To finish the card off I did some paper piercing around the edges.

Make sure you head over to Stampin' Celebration and play along! 

Stamps: Kinda Eclectic

Paper: Old Olive, Whisper White

Ink: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy

Accessories: Butterfly Punch (retired), Paper Piercing Essentials Pack, Basic Pearls, dimensionals

You're a Great Catch!

I recently won a gift certificate to SugarPea Designs and I have had my eye on their set Great Catch so I knew right away what I was going to get. Living in Alaska we have so many opportunities for great fishing, most within a short walk/drive of the house. My husband and boys spend every free moment in the summer out trying to bring some fish home. I've still got salmon in my freezer they caught last summer, yum!! Anyway, this set is perfect for a house full of fisherman!

As soon as I saw the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches I wanted to try and use this set for the first time. I tried coloring the raccoon a few different ways but ended up going with water coloring. The hubby and boys all have brown and green fishing gear so that's where I drew my color inspiration from and I happened to have some retired SU DSP that worked perfectly with the color scheme! I fussy cut the raccoon and popped him up with dimensionals.

The husband and boys don't normally gush over my cards but they loved this one, go figure :)

*I'm  playing along with the Let's Get The Party Started linky party at Paper Issues* (celebrating love and nature!)

Stamps: Great Catch (SugarPea Designs)

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Woodland Walk DSP (retired) (all SU)

Ink: Smoky Slate, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Basic Black

Accessories: SU Watercolor Crayons (retired), Chocolate Chip Ribbon (retired), Big Shot, Large Polka Dot TIEF, dimenionals, SU Dazzle Marker-Silver

Showing the Love for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday! It's time for another Friday Mashup and this week Holly is our hostess with the mostess and she wants us to use the colors red, pink and white along with creating a project with a 'love' theme.

Now I fully admit that projects like this are hard for me. I don't like the color pink and trying to incorporate it always seems to stump me. I sat for a while staring at my ink pads and stamps before I finally decided what I was going to do. 

I used the Snuggles and Smooches set and using Real Red I stamped the thin line circle and then I also stamped part of the sentiment with Real Red. Using Blushing Bride I stamped the circle with the sentiment and then cut it out, popped it up and then used Blushing Bride to stamp "my silly". I cut out "Valentine" and popped it up next to the "my silly" so it reads "Snuggles and Smooches my silly Valentine".

To fill in some of the white space on the top of the card I popped in 3 sequins, and then I used Real Red ribbon to separate the top and bottom sections. My layout is from a recent Paper Players challenge. 

We also have some exciting news for The Friday Mashup! Our 200th Challenge anniversary is coming up!! How exciting is that? There are some great sponsors lined up and you aren't going to want to miss joining in on the fun for this!! Keep a close eye on the blog as we draw closer to the big celebration!

As for this week, head over to The Friday Mashup and check out what the rest of the DT came up with, and then play along with us!

• Create a project with the colors "Red, White & Pink". 
• Create a project with "a Love theme". 
• or Mash it Up! and create a "Love themed project using the above colors".

Stamps: Snuggles and Smooches

Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Maritime DSP

Ink: Real Red, Blushing Bride

Accessories: Real Red Ribbon (retired), Sequins (non-SU), dimensionals

A Campy Christmas for Tis The Season

This week at 'Tis The Season we have a fun inspiration photo. I decided to use the camper and car as the inspiration behind my card as I have the perfect set from Lawn Fawn to use!

I grabbed the Happy Trails set and matching dies to stamp the trailer, car and tree. The colors I used on the camper and car were also inspired by the photo, the wire brush trees in the background.

To create my scene I used the Forest Border die to create the treeline and then the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug EF to create a look of falling snow. I used a snippet of paper from the Snow Day collection to make it look like a snow covered dirt road that the vehicles are traveling on, bringing their Christmas tree home.

To finish it all off I popped up the panel with dimensionals on a base of Whisper White card stock and then scored a border around it. I stamped the sentiment underneath the image panel in Real Red, and called it good!

This card is also for the Lawnscaping Challenge. White space isn't something that I do often so it was fun to go outside my comfort zone and try something new!

I hope you'll come by the 'Tis The Season blog and play along with us!

Stamps: Happy Trails (Lawn Fawn), Winter in the Park (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Whisper White, Snow Day collection (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Real Red, Garden Green, Smoky Slate, Sahara Sand, Coastal Cabana Blendabilities

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots EF, Forest Border Die (Lawn Fawn), dimensionals