Falling Leaves for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday! It's been a long week and I am ready to veg at home with the family this weekend!

This week Liliana is our Friday Mashup hostess and I am so sad to say this is her last challenge on the design team. I just love Liliana's work and am going to miss her! If you don't already I highly suggest following Lili's blog HERE. Thanks for being such a wonderful DT member Lili, I learned a lot from you!

So what does Liliana want us to do? Well, she wants to see projects with leaves on them and she also wants us to use her favorite color...orange!

For my card I used the Bigz Autumn Accents die for the leaves, and punched them out of Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango. I then embossed the leaves and inked them up with their respective colors, plus sponged on some Chocolate Chip. I added some candy dots in the upper corners as I thought it looked a bit bare.

My layout came from last weeks sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. I didn't get a chance to play along but I loved the sketch!

I sure hope you'll head over to the Friday Mashup and join in on Liliana's challenge!

1. Create a project with a "Tree or Leaves."
2. Create a project using the "Color Orange."
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Project with Leaves/ Tree & the Color Orange."

 

Bright Colors for 'Tis The Season

I'd like to thank the wonderful crafters who played along with our very first challenge over at 'Tis The Season! I love Christmas cards and I just adore seeing what people come up with so again, thank you!

This week we have a color challenge for you...Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise and Pear Pizzazz, with the option of using glitter. I wont lie, I am very traditional when it comes to Christmas colors so this was a tough one for me.

I finally decided to use Tempting Turquoise as my main card base and then created a layered section with Pear Pizzazz and Melon Mambo. I embossed with Melon Mambo layer with the Stylish Stripes EF that can be found in the holiday catalog. For my image I grabbed the retired set Wonderful Winterland, I just love the sweet stamps in this set! To color in the figures I used the colors from the challenge and also added a few neutrals for some of the smaller details.

For the glitter I used Tempting Turquoise brads and also added some Dazzling Details under the images, like they were sitting on snow.

I sure hope you'll come join us over at 'Tis The Season! Our challenges last for 2 weeks so there is  plenty of time to join in!

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Wonderful Winterland

Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizzazz, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise DSP, Pear Pizazz DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Versamark, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Pretty in Pink, Sahara Sand, Pear Pizzazz

Accessories: Big Shot, Stylish Stripes EF, Nestabilities Standard Circles/Lacey Circles, Tempting Turquoise Brads, Dazzling Details, dimensionals

Spooky Sketch for Friday Mashup!

Happy Friday! This is a special Friday for me....it's my 40th birthday!! Wow, where have the years gone? I'm looking forward to the next 40 yrs and the adventures that await!

What better way to celebrate than with my gals from The Friday Mashup. Amanda is our host this week and she has a great sketch for us, plus she wants us to make our project spooky. I don't know if I succeeded with the spooky part but I did make a Halloween card. Does the name of the stamp I used, Frightening Feline, count as spooky? :)

I don't make a lot of Halloween cards so my Halloween supplies sit around and accumulate. The DSP and stamp on this card are both retired but I still love them. In place of the button I added some candy dots around the circle panel. I can never get buttons to look right on my projects and rarely use them.

I hope you'll come by The Friday Mashup and play along with us...you'll have a SPOOKTACULAR time :)

1. Create a project using "the Sketch."
2. Create a "Spooky" project.
3. Or Mash it Up and create a "Spooky project using the above sketch. "

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Frightening Feline(retired)

Paper: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Ghostly Greetings DSP(retired)

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Nestabilities Circles, Basic Black Candy Dots, sponge, dimensionals

 

Christmas has gone to the birds....

At least over at Merry Monday anyway :) If you haven't guessed, the prompt over at Merry Monday is to create a Christmas card with a bird on it. This gave me the perfect opportunity to use this sweet little Christmas bird from the For the Bids set.

I used the Winter Frost DSP from the holiday catalog and kept my colors from this DSP. I used Island Indigo with a splash of Pool Party (see what I did there...splash..pool party..LOL) and when I colored in the bird I also brought in some Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana with just a touch of Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight.

The circle image panel is popped up with dimensionals and the edges were lightly sponged with Island Indigo. I used a blender pen to widen the "merry" in the sentiment a bit.

My sketch was inspired by an older Friday Mashup challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: For the Birds, More Merry Messages

Paper: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Whisper White, Winter Frost DSP

Ink: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Scalloped Edge Border Punch, Rounded Corner Punch, 2 1/2" Circle Punch,  Island Indigo Ribbon, Blender Pen, sponge, dimensionals

Thankful for....MDS Monday!

I had some time late Saturday night to sit with my laptop so I headed over to the MDS Monday blog to play along with the latest card sketch challenge!

I used the Sweater Weather DSP and the Thankful stamp for this card. I just love that plaid background, and I tried several colors before settling on Soft Sky for the layer in the middle. All the other colors were just too overwhelming and I really wanted to keep the plaid.

Head over to MDS Monday and check them out! This particular challenge is open until Oct.11...my 40th birthday!!

Boise State Birthday

A friend of mine asked me to make a card for her sons grandpa, who happens to be a big fan of Boise State. It gave me the perfect opportunity to play along with Freshly Made Sketches!

I decided to keep the card pretty simple so I just focused on the team colors, blue and orange. I used the color spritzing tool to add some splatter on the Naturals White Background and the circle focal point was cut in Pumpkin Pie and then embossed with the Square Lattice folder. For the sentiment I used  Pacific Point and Pumpkin Pie to color the words. I lightly sponged Pacific Point around all the edges. The panel the sentiment is layered on is popped up with dimensionals. To finish it off I added brads in the corners.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Happy Birthday Wishes(retired)

Paper: Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, Naturals White

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Nestabilities Circle Dies, Color Spritzer Tool, Brilliant Blue Brads(retired), sponge, dimensionals

Ripped Paper and Fussy Cuts for Friday Mashup

Hello and happy first Friday of October! Can you believe it's October already? October is a mixed bag for me, lots of sadness associated with this month but also a lot of fun things to look forward too...like Friday Mashup challenges!This week our challenge is brought to us by Tara and she wants to see ripped paper and fussy cut images on our projects. Now, I fussy cut quite often so you'd think this would have been an easy challenge for me but nope, it had me stumped. Maybe it was the ripped paper portion, I don't know, but I came down to the wire on getting this card done LOL

I ended up creating a Christmas card using the set Remembering Christmas from the holiday catalog. This deer image will also be great for making masculine cards throughout the year! Anyway, I stamped it in Early Espresso and then cut it out. I mounted it with dimensionals on some ovals I cut out using Nestabilities dies. The paper is from the retired DSP Candlelight Christmas. I thought it looked like pretty wallpaper...perfect for hanging a deer against ;)

I stamped the sentiment below the ripped DSP in Early Espresso and added some Very Vanilla candy dots in the upper corners as I thought it looked a little plain.

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

1. Create a project with "Ripped paper."
2. Create a project with a "a fussy cut image." (Cut something out)
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "with some Ripped paper & something Fussy Cut."

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Remembering Christmas

Paper: Real Red, Very Vanilla, Candlelight Christmas DSP

Ink: Early Espresso, Real Red

Accessories: Big Shot, Nestabilities Ovals/Scalloped Ovals, Very Vanilla Candy Dots, sponge, dimensionals