The SCS Clean & Simple challenge today was to use teal with one other color. I so wanted to bling or glitter up this little chick, but resisted, so it is pretty much clean and simple!
Off to run many errands--have a blessed day!
Another Christmas card to add to my stash for 2010! This week's uses Kristin's lovely JUGS Color Challenge #16:
and Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch #52:
I used a retired SU set called To You & Yours and a CHF sentiment from Christmas Expressions. Both were stamped in Versamark first, then SU classic inks and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The dove was watercolored with Blush Blossom ink and liberally sprinkled with Dazzling Diamonds glitter! So pretty! Some BG Wassail papers complemented the Bravo Burgundy card which was also wheeled with the Baroque Borders wheel. A little bling is always nice---this adds just a little touch of special!
Today's card uses the color challenge from Stampin' Royalty Challenge#2 and the sketch from Stamping 411:
So here's my card:
I pulled out a set I haven't used in a while, Flight of the Butterfly. I just love how this card turned out, crisp, clean and easy; I need a couple belated birthday cards, so this is how these will be used. Thanks for looking today! Hopefully later today I will be able to post my Christmas card for this week !
Today, ColourQ means color quick! This is gonna be a fast one! Here's the ColourQ Challenge:
and here's the Crazy4Challenges sketch:
and here's my card: 
Stamps are all Cornish Heritage Farms; paper is Ambrosia by BG. Images are watercolored! TFL!
I love giving my club hostesses something a little extra special! This month, I cased an idea from Michelle Wooderson (Mish Mash), who always makes these cute little kits with basic cards or bookmarks, then includes lots of little embellishments to decorate them yourself. Mine are no where near as cute as hers, but I think my girls enjoyed what I came up with:
Each little kit comes with four 3x3" cards & envies plus some DP, heart cut-outs, ribbon and sentiments to play with, all in a sweet little Top Note container! Here are a few photos:
The fun papers to start out with:
the little embellishments contained in SU's new glassine bags;
which include sentiments from various SU sets:
and the fun goodies to add on:
and a little side view:
So what do you think? Do you want to know how to make this? Here you go, real quick (this sample is a little different from the above one, as I made two):
Cut two Top Notes and score them 7/8" along the LONG side. Cut 2 pieces of cardstock 1" x 2 5/8" and score 7/8" from each end, as shown below. It's a good idea to decorate your front now, before adhering all the pieces together.
Adhere the scored pieces of the Top Note together at the bottom fold; I like to use clothes pins to hold them together while they dry.
Now adhere a side tab to the inside of the Top Note, one on each side, next to the point:
And then adhere the other side of the side tab to the other Top Note; again, I used clothes pins:
I prefer to use the Tombow Multi Liquid Glue for these projects; it dries fairly quickly but you still have a few seconds of wiggle room time to move your pieces, unlike Sticky Strip! Then you can fill your little box with whatever you want! Hope this inspires you to make one too!
Challenge.....whew, that's a mouthful! This cute little blog has a nice sketch challenge this month:
and the SCS challenge from yesterday was to use a bird; the SCS challenge today was to make a tiny card & treat. Okay, I already messed up the tiny card because I used too many layers...so we'll just forget about that one. So here's my tiny (anyway) card, which neatly fits into the new small glassine envelopes that SU has in the mini catalog:
The card is 2 1/4"x4"; cardstock is Bashful Blue, Basic Black & Certainly Celery; DP is from Cosmo Cricket and the images are from My Cute Stamps. Sentiment is from MFT. I stamped on the little envy with Stazon and colored it with SU markers, then dried it with my heat tool....seems to be staying put and is very cute! Now I NEED to get off the computer, quit playing and get ready for stamp club! Bye!
Tomorrow is my anniversary, so I made a fairly simple card for my sweetie using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch #51:
I used my new little Heart Embosslit and found out two things. Number one, if you do not have your plates aligned properly, you can BEND embosslits. And then, they do not work properly! After much wiggling around (and breaking a hinge), I got it to where it will emboss almost properly but it was a lesson learned! If it is bent, it will "over" emboss--you will get little holes in your cardstock, and it is almost impossible to get the embossed piece off the embosslit! Anyway, that being said, I also found out number two (this may be old news but it was new to me!): you can punch a heart with the SU Heart Punch, then lay it on top of the embosslit:
A little Dotto helps keep it in place if you like:
Then run it through your Big Shot, and you get a nice smaller embossed piece:
which you can now layer over another one you've already run through the Embosslit:
Neat, huh? So I just made three sets of these to put on my card, added a little peek-a-boo sentiment at the bottom, a "love" heart from I {Heart} Hearts, and a little strip of ribbon. I imagine he'll think it's a little girlie, but he'll like it! Thanks for visiting today!
