Playing in Paradise Challenge #36

Yay! it's Friday!

And it's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, so Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians. :)

I am delighted to bring you another Playing in Paradise challenge, this week brought to you by Allison.

Great sketch huh?

I was a little intimidated at first as to how i was going to work this into my CAS style, but i think i managed!

I was excited to finally use my Hero Arts robot stamps.

head over to the Scrapbookers Paradise blog to play along. You have until Thursday, October 13th at noon to link up your creation.

Check out what the rest of the fabulous ladies have to offer!

Allison

Angie

Merlie

Nancy

Tracy

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a great weekend. :)

cqc#105

Well it's Tuesday, which means I have another fabulous ColourQ colour combo to share with you!

What a great chair! I wish I had the design sense to know how to fit a chair like this into my house. I feel like it would be too busy, but I see them and love them.

Anyway, the card I am sharing today was made using PTI's "all booked up". When it first came out I just had to have it, but sadly this is the first time it has seen ink. For some reason I have trouble figuring out what to do with it!



The black background was embossed using the Taylored Expressions "circles & scallops" impression plate. It really is amazing what you come across when you clean up, I mean reorganize your craft space!

Head on over to the ColourQ blog to take a look at what Arielle and the rest of the Royal Court has to offer. Then link up your own fabulous creation!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day. :)



Bows & Berries inspiration challenge

Good morning!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and was able to celebrate World Card Making Day by getting a little crafty.

Today I have a card to share for the newest Bows & Berries challenge, to take inspiration from this fabulous photo.

I was inspired by the house itself and all of those lovely oranges!

So I used Robin's Haunted House,

which i felt was appropriate for this time of year!

How cute, I mean how scary, is that image? :)

I so rarely make square cards, I thought what better time than now.

Please head on over to the Bows & Berries blog to check out what fabulous inspiration Robin and the rest of the design team has come up with then play along. You aren't required to use a Bows & Berries digi to play but Robin does have a new free digi image available every month, so grab it while you can!

Have a great Monday, thanks for stopping by!

playing in paradise

again, apparently Blogger & I are not on the same page for posting! This should have gone up yesterday. I think I need some Blogger lessons!! :)

Good morning! I am super excited to share that I have been asked to be a part of the Scrapbookers Paradise Challenge design team.

It is a local store here in Calgary but the also have an online store.

This week's challenge is brought to you by Merlie, it is a distress challenge.

This was DEFINITELY a challenge for me! I don't really know how to do "distress"! I mean I guess I am physically capable, but working it into a design, not so much. But as i was setting up my craft room (moved recently across the hall) and also my sewing machine, I thought of what I could do.

Yay! I distressed!!

Head over and check out what the other ladies have come up with then play along. You have until noon Thursday October 6th to play along at The Scrapbooker's Paradise blog.

Allison
Angie
Merlie
Nancy
Tracy

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a fabulous weekend. :) 

Happy Birthday ColourQ!!

Happy Birthday ColourQ!!

It's hard to believe but ColourQ is 2! How about that!

Arielle has been bringing us her fabulous colour combos for 2 whole years, that's 104 colour combos. WOW!!

To celebrate, we are honouring past Colour Queens. We all chose a Colour Queen to CASE, while using this week's colours.

I chose Carrie Gaskin from the Artistic Avenger, who has won a couple of times! I chose to CASE her fabulous card from ColourQ #77.

I loved the design, those fabulous textured butterflies, really what's not to love!

So using this weeks colours.........

....here's my version!

Join us in celebrating, and get your craft on!

Head on over to the ColourQ blog and check out the wonderful stuff the entire Royal Court has created for your inspiration.  Then link up your crafty creation.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a fabulous Tuesday!!



tie for baby

Hey! How's everyone's weekend? Good I hope!

I am stopping in quickly to share a card I made for a girlfriend who just had her baby. I have been seeing these adorable onesies all over with some fabulous appliques, and I though, hey this would work for a onsie card too right?

So here is the onesie "applique" card I made......

I had a bit of trouble figuring out where to put the sentiment so over the tie it went. The paper is from a 6x6 Basic Grey pack, Oliver. Cute huh?

I am loving these onesie cards. There are so many things you could "applique" on the front, the possibilities are endless. I think I might do a fuschia skull & cross bones for another friend!!

Have a great rest of your weekend. Thanks for stopping by. :)

grateful

Have you ever had an idea pop into your head and just HAD to create it?

Well that happened to me recently,

unfortunately it didn't turn out exactly as I planned but..........

The stamps are Close to My Heart, paired with some black Twinery twine.

That's it!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

 

P.S. anyone from Calgary going to the Scrapbook Carnival at the U of C this weekend? Just found out about it!

the reject post

Amber over at Damask Love hosts a fabulous reject blog hop, so I thought I would link up a couple of my latest rejects, from the most recent Papercrafts Magazine call. Head over and check out the blog hop and her other fabulous  designs.
I know I'm a tad late with this post, but better late than never right?

For some reason I was really drawn to the text category!

This first one came about because Polariods seem to be all the rage right now, or maybe were......and I was inspired by my friend Lindy who designs polaroid cards with her own photographs, find her at Crafted by Lindy on Etsy. 

I wanted to do something similar with my own photos but I wanted to do a mini picture with some text behind it? I actually LOVE how it turned out.

My second card uses some masking and this Hero Arts stamp I am so in love with lately.

I used the same size rectangle to mask that is typical me but I didn't do a blue background with it!! I stamped text instead! I kept the mask down then stamped the silhouette stamp twice, using my stampamajig. In hindsight I think next time I will stamp it a couple more times so you are unable to see the text behind the silhouette. I plan on trying this with some different colours, red, orange, yellow silhouette on black text maybe? I don't know. :)

Well that's my reject post, thanks for sharing it with me!

And thanks for stopping by!

colourQ 103

Time for another fabulous ColourQ colour challenge!

I just love Tuesdays don't you?

Well, maybe not if you are a Monday to Friday worker!!

 But what's better than a colour challenge to make your Tuesday happy? :)

These colours are sure to brighten your day.

Bright and cheery huh?

Well, I came up with a super duper simple card to share with you today.

It was made using PTI's melon berry felt and limitless layers die. The butterfly is from their Happy Trails set. I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to add the green, but I think the little bit of green bling is just enough!

Pop over to the ColourQ blog to admire what Arielle and the rest of the Royal court has cooked up to inspire you. Then get inky and link up your creations, so WE can admire them. :)

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a fabulous Tuesday!!

Bows & Berries #10

I am so late getting this up!

I am excited because I have been accepted on to a new DT! Bows & Berries is a digi stamp company designed by Robin. Check out her fab blog and digi stamp shop.

The challenges go up biweekly, this newest challenge is to use glitter on your project. For my card I used her "apple love" stamp.

I am also excited because we just got a laptop!

 This will make life soooo much easier.

Thanks so much for stopping by. :)