Inspired Cherries

SCS Inspiration Challenge 5/23/09
Scarlet Berries Handbag

Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Spring Party
Paper: WW, brocade blue DSP
Ink: real red, garden green, brocade blue
Accessories: red gingham ribbon, real red marker

Thinking of Summer

Stamp: Biker Bee - Stampendous
Paper: white, real red, real red DSP, pacific point, pacific point DSP
Ink: black
Accessories: Copic markers, CM custom cutting system, paper piercer, ribbon, buttons & thread, dimensionals, scallop circle Nestie (Wish RAK)

Limited Supply Challenge: Circle of Life
ssnotime88 - red, white & blue
Sketch - inspired by Jen Del Muro's TCP Tuesday card







Stamps: Here's the Scoop - My Favorite Things
Paper: bashful blue, white, Stampin' Up DSP, chocolate chip
Ink: Palette burnt umber, bashful blue SU marker
Accessories: ribbon, Copic markers, scalloped Nestie (Wish RAK)
Technique: masking

SCS Ways to Use It challenge: repeated stamping (I chose to use the masking technique with my repeated stamping.)

VSN - Celebrating You

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge N

"My challenge is to think back to all those performers in Vegas, new or old, they are in the SPOTLIGHT! Use the SPOTLIGHT TECHNIQUE anywhere on your card!! "

Stamps: main image (DRS Designs), leopard BG (SU ?) Aida Cloth BG (SU), Mixed Greetings (SU)
Paper: more mustard, chocolate chip, close to cocoa, white
Accessories: ribbon, Copic markers, designer label & circle punches
Technique: spotlight
Wish RAK: backgrounds

Color Challenge - You have a friend in me.

SCS Color Challenge: only orange, brilliant blue, rose red

I love brilliant blue, but it can be over-whelming.... kind of like a super rich chocolate dessert that's delicious but can only be tolerated in small quantities! :)

Stamps: Cheep Talk
Paper: brilliant blue, WW
Ink: brilliant blue, bashful blue (sky), rose red, only orange, close to cocoa, garden green
Accessories: gel pen, SU markers, Michael's ribbon, sponge

Double Challenge

CAS15 Challenge: Black & White & 1 Bold Bright

It also qualifies for a VSN challenge:
Virtual Stamp Night - May 15
Challenge B

"One of the first things I think of when I think of Vegas is weddings!! But not just any old traditional wedding. Vegas has some very non-traditional wedding’s and that is what I want to focus!! We can all make something simple and elegant, but I want quirky and out of the box!

My only requirement is I want to see bright bold colors on a wedding card!"

Stamps: Short & Sweet - Stampin' Up!
Paper: white, black, pink passion, DCWV spring mat stack
Accessories: black marker, ribbon (SU & Offray), square punches, Heart to Heart punch (SU)

This sketch is a modified version of Fall to Layout #26

A Note of Thanks

Featured Stamper: Joan Ervin

* similar layout and color scheme
* Different bird stamps
* Different shaped Nestie
* similar scallop punch and DP
* brads instead of pearls
* standard card size instead of a square card

I rarely make such a frilly card. It was soooo much fun! Here's Joan's beautiful card!

Stamps: Cheep Talk (SU)
Paper: white, pretty in pink, regal rose, soft sky, & kiwi kiss DP
Ink: close to cocoa, old olive, pretty ink pink, pumpkin pie, baja breeze
Accessories: primas, brads, eyelets & ribbon, SU scallop punch, Top Note die cuts, dimensionals
Wish RAK: Top Note dies, primas, SU markers

VSN - Fantastic News!

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge I

"My challenge for you is to try your luck at making a monochromatic green (with envy) card. You may only use shades of green with 1 neutral. All embellishments and papers must be green. No additional colors can be used. Your ribbon can only have green unless it contains your neutral color. This goes the same for your brads, buttons, charms, hardware, etc... ONLY GREEN!!! (if your dp has more than green, don't use it.)"


Fantastic News... I'm not green with envy. Really, I'm not.

LOL!

Wish RAKs: Upsy Daisy, CB Birds & Swirls, sclloped Nesties
Stamps: Upsy Daisy - SU, Tag Lines - Gina K Designs
Colors: certainly celery, white

VSN Show Girl - Flaunt It!

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge J

What gets crammed into the "suitcase":
*CHECK* 5 layers of dp and/or cardstock
*CHECK* 3 colors of ink
*CHECK* 1 image
*CHECK* 1 sentiment
*CHECK* 3 dew drops (brads, bling or liquid pearls)
*CHECK* Stickles, Shimmerz, glitter or glittery gel pen to glam it up!!
*CHECK* some sponging....
*CHECK* and to get the suitcase closed, you'll need some ribbon!!

Only part of the stickles is captured in the photo. It's on both shoes and on the feathered hat.

Stamps: Tickled Pink - TAC, Hey, Chick - Unity
Colors: black, rose red, pretty in pink
Accessories: organdy ribbon, gems, Stickles, rose red marker, sponge, dimensionals, Copic markers, DP

VSN - Knit Happens

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge K

Lucky #7 - 7 brads

Stamp: Sophia: Hanna Stamps
Colors: pretty in pink, regal rose, chocolate chip, white
Accessories: chocolate chip marker, brads, ribbons, Martha Stewart lace punch, Nestie (Wish RAK)

The sentiment is hand-written.

VSN - A Cupcake for Your Birthday

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge F

"Most people think lights, gambling, shows, fancy hotels, food, and shopping when they think of Vegas. Me? I think CSI! The original, the best, and my favorite TV show!

The amazing CSI team in Vegas *always* gets the bad guy...even if it's a season or two later, and even if the bad guy has *tried* to trick them. How do you try trick the CSI team? By FRAMING someone else, of course!

So... My challenge to you is to create a card (or project) using a FRAME.

You could stamp on the inside of your card and use dies or punches to create the frame on the front, you could add a frame embellishment, you could alter an actual frame for an inspiration quote...the possibilities are only as limited as your imagination (and those criminals can be pretty imaginative, so try to keep up!)"

Stamps: Oh, So Sweet (Wish RAK), It's Your Birthday
Paper: chocolate chip, real red, real red DSP, DCWV retro prints mat stack
Accessories: kraft taffeta ribbon, circle & scallop punches
Technique: window card

VSN - Birthdays are the Best

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge H

"My challenge to you leaves nothing to chance. You are sure to be a winner when you use this sketch reminiscent of a slot machine."

Stamp: It's Your Birthday - SU
Paper: rose red, ballet blue, white, DCWV spring mat stack
Ink: certainly celery, rose red, & ballet blue markers
Accessories: ribbon, gems, square punches, dimensionals

The middle square is popped up on dimensionals.

VSN - You're A Star

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge G

"My Challenge to you is to make a card using a grid technique (like a Bingo card~ squares, rectangles, embossing folders, scor-pal/it). In making your card you must use a "sponging" technique."

Stamps: Tiny Talk, Just So Sayings
Colors: more mustard, so saffron, barely banana, ballet blue
Accessories: ribbon, square punches, large & small SU star punches, dimensionals, more mustard & ballet blue markers, Nesties (Wish RAK)

VSN - Wonderful Performance!

Virtual Stamp Night - May 16
Challenge E

"I haven't been to Vegas in a very, very long time....but the one thing my parents are always talking about is the food! All the buffets, and gourmet pastry shops and cafes, and the restaurants out there are just top notch. It seems like whatever you want to eat....at whatever time you want it....is available to you.

My challenge to you.....create a card or project inspired by food (or non-alcoholic drink)!!! "



Ugh! I was planning on paper piercing the outer edge of the chocolate chip layer, but I can't find my template! I just had it in my hands while cleaning off my table from last night. I once heard of people misplacing remotes in the fridge. So, I'm trying to think of weird places I might of put it! LOL! DH is trying to help. He always finds things I lose... yep. I misplace things a lot!

Stamps: Here's the Scoop - My Favorite Things, Warm Words - SU
Colors: close to cocoa, chocolate chip, real red, cool caribbean
Accessories: Copic markers, ribbon, Swiss Dots CB (Wish RAK), scallop edge punch, dimensionals
Sketch: FTL42

This is for my niece after she performs her routines at this year's dance recital. We usually have dessert afterward! Yum!

VSN - Friday Night

Virtual Stamp Night - May 15
Challenge C

"When I first saw that the theme was going to be Vegas inspired it made me think of the tables. The card table, the roulette...well you get the idea. What do they all have in common the colors red and black baby!! The suits of the cards (red and black), the roulette wheel setup (red and black), are you starting to see a trend here?

Here is my challenge should you choose to accept:
Use red and black to make your project with the neutral being white. No other colors allowed...sorry them's the rules here in Vegas doll."

Stamps: Gina K - Langley Boy Designs - Gettin' Buggy with It
Colors: red, white, black
Accessories: circle punches, Martha Stewart ladybug punch, ribbon, black marker

I turned the Fall To Layout #41 found here.


Virtual Stamp Night - May 15
Challenge D

"When I hear “Viva Las VSN (Vegas)” … I think back to my childhood. ..… when my mother worked as a waitress there, she’d come home every once in a while and tell us how she saw Elvis eating with a whole bunch of his ‘buddies’ and occasionally even waited on his entourage.

So, thinking of Elvis … I tried to think slightly outside the box and kept coming back to his favorite snack:
“Fried Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches” Yummo!

So … I wanted to go for a color challenge … Here’s the “rules” – use them loosely if you don’t have the specific supplies, but give it a whirl …

1. Colors:
a. Banana (or Saffron)
b. Creamy Caramel (peanut butter)
c. Close to Cocoa (for the ‘fried’ part)
2. You must use something MUSICAL:
a. Can be background paper
b. Can be musical instrument or note as the focal point
c. Can be an image of singing

Have FUN with it!"

Stamps: Mini Mates
Paper & Ink: close to cocoa, creamy caramel, so saffron, white
Accessories: ribbon, ticket corner punch, close to cocoa marker

The sentiment is hand written. This card measures 3x3.

Only Summer Kisses

SCS Color Challenge: Only Summer Kisses
only orange, summer sun, kiwi kiss

I made another Rock & Roll CAS14 card with today's color challenge. I used so saffron on the lemons and used the Rock & Roll technique using summer sun. I repeated the same technique for the limes and oranges using certainly celery with kiwi kiss and apricot appeal with only orange.

Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Heard from the Heart (Stampin' Up!)
Designer paper (unknown source)

Follow Your Dreams

CAS Challenge #14 - Let's Rock & Roll!

I had a hard time Sunday evening (been sick for a few days) and finally stopped and decided on this card for this week's sample. I hope it's CAS enough!

Stamps: Seasonal Cuties, Treasure Seeker - The Angel Comapny
Paper: white, bashful blue, SAB designer paper (all SU)
Ink: bashful blue, so saffron, apricot appeal
Accessories: ribbon, homemade cloud template made with scallop scissors
Techniques: Rock & Roll, sponging

This card is 4.25 square. I use 4.5 A Muse envelopes.

There is also another CAS Challenge design team call for the summer months. You can read all about it here!

Although my Mother's Day was quite uneventful due to being sick, my DS insisted that I have breakfast in bed. He's so cute! There's no greater joy than being a Mom! And our family is all excited. My sister just received wonderful news on her Mother's Day! They are adopting a baby girl that will arrive in about a month! My sis and BIL have been wanting another baby since their first child was born 7 years ago. After losing two precious babies and a few miscarriages, they decided on adoption. I am so happy for them! I had no idea that this was possibly happening when I made the "Think Pink" card I posted last week (the post below). Now I have a person to send the card to!

FS117 card #2 - I love Sparkle's Gallery!

SCS's Featured Stamper: sparkplug17

* Same pink, flower, heart theme
* Used a different Stamping Bella image: Bella Baby Buggy Bumper instead of Love Beetle Huggabella
* Different embellishments and sentiment
* No sewing, baubles, stickles, or brads

Here's Sparkles sweet card.

Stamps: Bella Baby Buggy Bumper (Stamping Bella), Just So Sayings (SU)
Paper: pretty in pink, white, rose red, rose red DSP, unknown DP
Ink: black, rose red marker
Accessories: Copic markers, oval punches, taffeta ribbon, dimensionals

Have A Great Day!

Finally! My 3rd try at the sketch made me happy! So the sentiment was fitting! :)

Here's this week's CAS sketch challenge inspired by jpardoe.

The circles were punched from Basic Grey designer paper that I received in a Wish RAK. The butterfly punches are from Martha Stewart. Other cardstock: kraft, chocolate chip, baja breeze, pink pirouette, and riding hood red. The sentiment was stamped in brown and a chocolate chip marker was used on the butterflies and the border.

Oh, the adventures in stamping!

The card on the left was my first try at the CAS sketch challenge. Oh my, my punched circles were WAY too big! It only sort of resembles the sketch.

Here's the CAS sketch by jpardoe (Seen in the above post.)

The only stamping done on this card is the sentiment from Stampin' Up's Warmest Regards. All patterned paper (including cutting out the butterflies) are from DCWV's spring matstack. I also used bashful blue and white cs. I paper pierced the edge using the mat pack and used a bashful blue marker for faux stitching. Finally I sponged the edges with bashful blue and stamped the sentiment in pink passion.



The card at the right was my 2nd try at the CAS sketch challenge. It's closer to the original sketch!

Here's the CAS sketch by jpardoe (seen in the above post).

I used regal rose, white and retired Stampin' Up designer paper. I think it was called "Loves Me". The light pink swirly layer is one side of the DP. The punched circles were on the other side of the DP. The sentiment, stamped in brown, is from Stampin' Up's Heard from the Heart. And then I decided to add a little ribbon. AND WOW! I made an SUO card! It's been awhile. LOL!

Featured Stamper Challenge

SCS Featured Stamper: sparkplug17

* I used the same layout.
* I used a different dancing Bella.
* I used a similar sentiment.
* I kept yellow as the main color.
* I used different DP.
* Changes in embellishments: no gems, punched flower instead of a prima, and added ribbon
* I added leaves by hand-cutting them from scraps that had been stamped with a BG from By Design (SU)

Here's Sparkle's adorable card!

Stamps: Tinkerbella (Stamping Bella), By Design & Warm Words (SU)
Paper: summer sun, bashful blue, pretty in pink, rose red, DCWV spring matstack
Ink: black, rose red marker for dots
Accessories: Copics, ribbon, circle punches (CM), flower punch (EK Success)

This also qualifies for another card for Sharon's Stamp Simply #85 - Let it Shine (Use yellow on your card.) This challenge is found on Sharon's blog, No Time To Stamp

She has such an amazing gallery with images that I have. I hope I have more time today and during the week to be inspired by her talent!