I can honestly say that I am NOT a fan of pink! So when I saw that this week's color throwdown was shades of pink, I saw it as not only a colour challenge, but a very personal mental challenge as well. :)
But I took it in stride and created not just 1 but 2 cards using the dreaded colour! (it's not that bad really!)
I have many friends with birthdays this month and a couple of them LOVE pink so it was for a great cause. This one was made using PTI cardstock (vellum and smokey shadow), the hearts are cut out from basic grey's olivia line (12 X 12 size), and the polka dot paper is from a digital kit by Jen Allyson called Ornament Ice Blue Papers available at 2peas. I altered the colour of it in Photoshop Elements. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and also the stripes I stamped in Versamark on the vellum.
This card was made using a another digi kit from 2peas called Rhinestones and Skulls by Holly Brooke Jones. The sentiment, I think, is Close to My Heart.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I am going to the Home and Garden show tomorrow in hopes of getting a glimpse of Ty Pennington and maybe even an autograph if I can handle waiting around that long! I can not watch one episode of Extreme Makeover without crying!
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Good day everyone! I love Halloween so much as it was always a big deal at my house as a kid. My mom LOVED to dress up, decorate, and make my costumes. My favourite one that she made was Maleficant from Sleeping Beauty.
It was unreal! She made the purple & black cape, the high neck, the horn headpiece and everything, the only thing I didn't have was the crow. Boy, I wish I still had it, even though there is no way I would still fit into it! My mom rocked! I guess it was very convenient that her child was born about 1030pm the night before Halloween. It was the perfect excuse to go overboard :D
I can't wait to have kids of my own to overdo this fantastic holiday! But for now I will have to make do creating the odd card.
This one is made using a stamp that was my mom's that I found amongst my halloween collection, by a company called Picture Show. I paired it with Papertrey Ink's halloween prints and some black saddle stitch ribbon. I just love this image, kinda spooky don't you think? (Please forgive the paper towel backdrop, I couldn't find my usual backdrop paper!)
I also made this card, feeling the need to use some googlie eyes. I think this monster needed them, badly!
The stamp is from Close to My Heart's merry monsters set, the patterned paper is basic grey (last year's halloween collection).
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Just a quick post and hello before we are off to Whistler for the weekend, yep just the weekend. My husband is a mountainbiking "freak" and is more than willing to do the 12hr-each-way trip for a day & a half of biking! I was supposed to be joining him on the hill but since I broke my wrist I'm going to go for the shopping!
This card is just for fun, using a Unity KOM (June 2010).
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
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Good day! Continuing on with using my current favourite paper (Basic Grey's olivia) and my self-made challenge here is another card.
The card was made for cas83 over at splitcoaststampers. The challenge was to make a card based on the "sketch" on this card by resqbarbie.
The patterned paper is Basic Grey, I have no idea whose flourish stamp that is, and the sentiment is from the Unity May 09 KOM.
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So I am on to a new Unity KOM set to keep on with my self-challenge. This card was made with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch.
I flipped it on it's side and tried to stay true to the design. I used more of Basic Grey's olivia paper (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!) and the sentiment stamp is Unity. I also used Papertrey Ink's linen/canvas impression plate.
I cut out along the scallops on one of the papers and cut out some of the hearts from another. This colour combo just makes me happy!
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When I come across a colour combo I like, I can't be stopped! The color throwdown combo for this week is kraft, so saffron and chocolate chip.
I made this card for my cousin who had a very surprise wedding at the beginning of August. They actually told everyone it was a surprise party for a specific family member or friend depending on what group they were trying to get to show up. It may seem strange but my cousin hates being the center of attention and didn't want all the bells and whistles that can go along with a wedding. Ingenious!
It's sort of hard to tell but behind the brown cut-out layer I stamped in yellow, an image from PTI's guidelines set. I also used one of PTI's impression plates. The felt, flower die and paper are all papertrey ink.
My next card is just for fun, made using a Unity stamp of the month kit, keeping with the same colour combo. Paper-pieced with PTI patterned paper (bitty dot basics and bitty box basics) and cardstock.
I have also decided to give myself a challenge, since I seem to like taking on others'. While I was sorting out all my clear/cling stamps I realized how many I have and how little (or not at all!) they have been used. So...I hve given myself the challenge of using at least a few from each set every week (or two) to get inking. We'll see how it goes. :)
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Now that I have some ordered time off, I have more time to play! And that is ALWAYS great! I have the slight problem of usually needing some sort of challenge, colour or sketch to get my mojo going. But all it took was the attempt of organizing all of my clear/cling mount stamps to start my mind a racin'. It was fun (and slightly sad) to see all the stamps I had that I had forgotten about.
The top one uses a Unity stamp from, actually a recent, kit of the month and Basic Grey's olivia paper pack. The second is from PTI's baby button bits and the gingham paper is altered from a digital paper pack I bought from 2peas.
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Well sort of! I was kind of looking forward to some crafting time now that our pressing (reno) duties were out of the way! But I sprained my wrist last night during our Rookie Rumble (I am newly playing rollerderby!).
Oh well, the healing time shouldn't be too long. I will say though, it takes a long time to type. :)
I am off to bed but wanted to share a card I made for a friend who lifted my spirits and sent me hugs on the anniversary of my Mom's passing. It meant a lot that she was thinking of me, as it's hard not to be blue sometimes.
It makes me happy to craft as I feel close to her when I do! And this card makes me happy! All products but the ink are Papertrey Ink, the felt, the stamps the cloud dies and the paper.
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Renos are mostly done, the house is up for sale, and finally we have some "free" time! I hope there's some summer left to enjoy! :)
I decided to come back to crafting with (surprise!) a challenge. For some reason I was really drawn to this colour combo in the ColorCue challenge on the Wplus9 blog.
I liked it so much I have made a few cards! The first set of cards was made with Papertrey Ink paper and Wplus9 stamps, woodgrain silhouettes.
They are fairly simple, but I guess that's how I roll!
I got so excited about the colours and decided to make another one. I used Papertrey Ink's Up Up and Away set and the background paper is from a digital paper kit from Two Peas by Katherin Teague called Into the Woods.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE balloons! I remember going to watch the balloon festival in Calgary when I was a kid. There was a dinosaur one (T-Rex I think!) that I always would look for, so there was no way I wasn't going to be buying this set! I'm glad I finally got to ink it up.
Thanks for looking, I hope it's a good day.
I had some trouble with this challenge! Moxie Fab is kicking off it's new edition magazine "Card Style" by challenging us to make a card in each style.
I was watching an episode of Dear Genevieve and got inspiration from a crazy wall pattern she did in a rec room. Hers looks great! Mine...well I don't think I do well with bright colours. I decided to make this one for a friend who's birthday is coming up. She is a very bright personality and she LOVES converse chucks. I was reminded that I had this print and cut in my silhouette library and thought I had better use it.
The paper is just random scraps from my bin and the sentiment is hero arts. I felt the pieces looked a little barren, so I stamped a letters background stamp from cornish heritage farms in versamark onto them.
This is a pic (of the TV) showing the inspiration wall.
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