ColourQ121

It’s Tuesday, and that means ColourQ challenge day!  The soft hues that Arielle chose prompted me to go vintage today:

I stamped this Crafty Secrets image with Memento brown ink on watercolor paper, and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to actually watercolor it without the ink bleeding….but it did pretty well:

I loosely colored the image with the challenge colors, then cut it out with the Labels Framelit, matting it with another label diecut in RHR in the same size, just cutting it apart and adhering it to the top & bottom of the image.  I added some stamped elements along the edges as well as a real 1917 postmark from an envelope in my stash:

I dyed some seam binding with Riding Hood Red ink and dried it in the microwave for my luxurious bow and added a little piece of lace from my stash.  The sentiment on the inside imitates that sweet vintage feel from the challenge photo:

And the sketch is from a la Card Monkey this week:

which I just LOVE!  I will definitely be using this one again!  I hope you’ll play along with the ColourQ challenge colors---they are just beautiful and I can’t wait to see what you create!  You can see all the details as well as the other designers’ creations on the ColourQ blog!  And by the way, I have had a few requests for a tutorial on my little lip balm holder shown here, so I will be working on that in the next couple days!

My little reader!

JUGS120 & CCMC-OCC1

Squeaking in another quick post today---I have been working on this card for a couple days and finally finished it!  It’s for the JUGS challenge:

and the Create with Connie & Mary sketch:

Another sweet Valentine:

Since I already had my Two Tags die on my desk, I cut out another one from textured Whisper White, added two leftover pieces of red Glimmer paper that had been punched with the Triple Layer Blossom punch and stamped a few heart embellishments to pop up over top of them:

This just makes me smile….and so does she, “playing” with our dominoes!

Have a great day!

Hostess Appreciation Party

Happy Monday!  I had a wonderful day yesterday with my club hostesses, showing them my appreciation!  I have my party in January, after the holidays, and it works out great that way!  We eat, chat, have some games & prizes and stamp, of course!  Here are the projects we made:

First, a quick little bag using the Hearts Framelits die (use it with the cutting side up and in front of the side folds of your bag!) and a little vellum window colored with pastels:

Second, a little lip balm holder using the Labels Framelits dies and some products from SAB:

And third, a card using some Sweet Shop products:

I got pictures of almost all my stampers….some I missed, I’m so sorry! 

 

Me and Ellen;

Lorraine & Beth;

Donna;

Ellen & Billie;

 

Wendie;

 

Linda;

  

and Joan!

We had a great time---if you have any questions about any of the projects, shoot me an email!  And be sure to come back tomorrow for the ColourQ challenge!

Paper Players 79

This will be a quick post today, as I am hosting my Hostess Appreciation party for my club girls!  I am so looking forward to spending time with my friends!  Today, Jaydee is our hostess for the Paper Players, and she has a clean and simple challenge:

I went really CAS on this one:

We were using the Creative Elements set last week at club and one of the stampers remarked at how nicely the flower fit the top of the scalloped tag from Two Tags…..it was a real “wow” to me!  So I took that idea and made my birthday tag using other elements from that set, as well as Elementary Elegance, stamped on  the Pink Pirouette tag in Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose.  Here’s a closeup:

I added a little watercolored shading around the edges of the image, and then embellished my tag with a 3D flower:

The sentiment is also from Elementary Elegance.  The background is Patterns DP in Regal Rose & Pink Pirouette. 

I actually had made another tag card the day before, using a premade tag that had been sitting on my desk for ages (one of my New Year’s resolution---finish the projects on my desk!) and embossed hearts:

I just didn’t like it as much as my PP one!  Thanks for visiting today and I hope you can share your CAS tag creation with us over at the Paper Players blog!

CFC36—Almost

This week’s CAS-Friday’s challenge was to make a CAS card only using black and white.  I tossed some ideas around in my head, started to work, and then realized that I FORGOT the “clean & simple” part!  Ooops!  But I still love the look of my card, so I am showing you anyway!!  Here ya go:

I think I would have been okay for the CAS part if I had left off the embossed layers….but they were so pretty with this Fresh Vintage SAB set, I just couldn’t help myself!  Edited to add:  I have had a couple requests about my "double embossing".....it's just two layers.  The black cardstock makes it difficult to see the layers, I think.  I did a 4 x 5 1/4" layer with the tulip embossing, and then a little strip of the polka dot embossing, and just adhered it on.  Nothing special!!   I added the “Amour” from Artistic Etchings and did a little stamping on the inside, but left it blank so I can stamp a sentiment when the occasion arises:

Thanks for visiting today!!!  We got a little snow and it’s great to be inside!

How’s this for bed head?!

FMS18

A lovely sketch from Freshly Made Sketches this week:

gave me a chance to use the new Valentine’s set from the mini, P.S. I Love You, as well as the beautiful Designer Cuts:

I cut the front panel from one of the Designer Cuts cards, mounted a piece of Riding Hood Red DP behind it and put it on a RHR card. 

A Blushing Bride mat and matching pleated ribbon complement the rich deep red, and I took a cue from my friend Donna at Butternut Sage and “unpleated” some ribbon to make a luscious rhinestone-clad bow!  I heat-embossed a little row of hearts at the bottom right and added a sentiment above:

On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from God’s Blessings in RHR and added the large heart  in Blushing Bride:

I just love this sweet set!  

Feeling a little bit better!

Merry Monday Challenge 3

Just a quick little post this morning…a Christmas card from Lesley’s Merry Monday Challenge sketch:

It’s actually a “Let It Snow” challenge, too, so I pulled out some pretty chipboard snowflakes from a Brenda Walton collection:

I mounted them on a Very Vanilla oval & scallop, which was then mounted on a Brushed Gold embossed panel.  A little banner with a sentiment stamped in Gold Encore finished it off! 

Thanks for visiting today!

 

Caught in the act AGAIN!