I had a sweet girl from our church come to my home yesterday with a friend of hers to make a scrapbook for her cheerleading coach. They already know how to stamp, so I set them loose with some alphabet sets, ink pads, paper and punches, and off they went! I thought I would share a few photos:
Rachel and Laura--have tape gun, will scrap!
Look how FAST Rachel stamps! Her hands are a blur!
Didn't they do a great job? Go, Avon Grove!!!
I have a bridal shower today for one of my nieces and her colors are in the plum family. How coincidental that Clearly iStamp is having a stamping challenge that requires the color purple! That must be a popular hue this season! Unfortunately, I don't have any of those stamps, but I thought it would be fun to participate anyway. You can check out the details on their blog here if you're interested.
I chose Always and Tres Chic for my card, along with a sentiment (again) from Warm Words: 
The base is Elegant Eggplant (I still want to call it Eggplant Envy!!), with a layer of Brushed Silver and Pale Plum. I stamped the heart and the sentiment in Versamark, then embossed it with Silver EP. I watercolored the heart and shaded it with Pale Plum and Elegant Eggplant inks, then added a couple little rhinestones. My SU organdy ribbon was accented with a pearl pin and some little silver findings. The MS eyelet punch not only decorates the outside, but the inside as well:
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I have visited the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge many times, but have never played! I love Sankari and Brooke's styles--they are both just so creative. So I thought today I might try--you should go check it out! The movie today is James Bond's Goldfinger!!! They also have BLOG CANDY because this is their 25th challenge! Woohoo! I have to admit, when I was growing up, James Bond did not appeal to me at all. I was more of a Gidget kind of gal!! There was a tiny little movie theater in my town and when I was a little older, my mom would let me go to the movies with my girlfriend. Now, I do enjoy them, just because they are so hysterically campy; viewing the special effects makes you realize how far we've come in this computerized age!
Since I have a busy day ahead, and mainly because I am lazy, I chose a fairly simple card, kind of taking the title of "Goldfinger" literally:
I used Brushed Gold and Basic Black cardstock, and the engagement ring image from Holiday Blitz. I have two nieces getting married this year, so I think I could probably use this for one of them! The ring was filled in with a Zig Painty pen and the rock is glamourized with some DD glitter. I also embossed the sentiment from Warm Words in gold EP---I just love the look of gold on gold! The ribbon was a RAK from my wonderful friend Elaine, and it just goes so nicely with this card. I added some rhinestone bling and it is done! TFL!
Finally! The sun is shining here in SE PA, the birds are chirping, I have my window open a tiny little bit--it actually feels like spring! (I even took my picture outside!) So for today's No Time to Stamp Challenge #80 from Sharon, which is to mix stripes or dots along with another print or pattern, I chose some cute little spring tulips. What fun! This card is just full of blog candy goodness!
The image, the PTI floral paper and the button are all various blog candy yummies! The polka dots is PTI's Polka Dots Basics, which I felt I had to have and have hardly used. I love clear stamps but sometimes I feel they are intimidating to me; they "wiggle" and sometimes I get fuzzies on them that I can't seem to clean off. I guess I need to give them a bath, as Mishmash recommended. Anyone who can give me some tips on that, feel free to respond! Anyway, for the first time, I don't think I did too bad aligning it...just need some more practice. I added some sparkle to the tulips with my Sakura Gelly Roll pen, too! Hope it cheers you up! Enjoy your day!
I stumbled upon Kerry's blog where she is offering a nice little BG pad for playing her very own birthday challenge: a birthday card in the color purple, with glitter! I had just been thinking how neglected my glitter stash had been, so I decided to give it a whirl:
I incorporated the Mojo Monday 79 sketch into my card as well:
I went back to Sage Shadow as my base with Almost Amethyst and black for the panel. It's hard to see, but the AA is stamped with Linen. For the glitter, I edged a Lovely Lilac mat with strips of Sticky Strip, then deluged it with some MS glitter! My upline calls this the "marquis" technique--maybe it's too glam for this sedate image--but I thought it was pretty! My base was also stamped with Tres Chic and the sentiment is an old Verve's Wonderful Wishes.
challenge....this one is a color challenge! I love to see how they mix things up at the Diva Coffee Break Designs blog! Here's the cute inspiration:
and here's my clean & simple card:
The bottom edge of the front of the card is actually the scallops; the image is from Happy Heart Day; sentiment from Holiday Blitz. A little glitter, a little eyelet punching, a little bow--simple! I stamped that sweet little flower on the inside too:
Also, it's not too late (even if you are, there will be MORE chances to vote!) our own CTD diva, Barbara Anders, is in the running for the My Favorite Things Idol! Check out her awesome project here and here, and go vote in the poll here! You have until 10:00 p.m. tonight to enter!
Wheee! What a color challenge! Danielle really stirred up the bucket with these colors of Purely Pomegranate, Tangerine Tango and Kiwi Kiss! I was not quite sure what I was going to do with these!
Then I remembered I had received some blog candy DP with some of these colors--could I make it work? Someday, I'll show you my first attempt--maybe on April Fool's Day, because it is probably the most foolish card I've EVER made! But not today! There is actually not much stamping on this card:
Isn't this paper something else? I cut out a couple of the flowers, sponged them with Purely Pomegranate ink to give them some depth and popped them up on dimensionals. I also highlighted the edges with a Jelly Roll pen for a little bit of sparkle! The coordinating stripe goes across the top with my sentiment from Warm Words stamped in PP and mounted on a PP scallop from SU's new Scallop Oval punch. I also got some pretty flowers in my blog candy stash, so I used them as my embellishments. The whole shebang is mounted on a Kiwi Kiss card.
Now what can you come up with for this "challenging challenge"? Link your creation to Mr Linky found on the CTD blog (please link JUST your card, not the blog address, so we can find it easily) and if you choose to upload it to an online gallery, use the keywords CTD35. You may even be chosed as a Featured Stamper! Woohoo! Now here are the other CTD artists:
