Colour Me....Striking #28

Happy Wednesday! Wednesday means that the new Colour Me challenge is here. This week's challenge features the contrasting colors of a pale blue and dark purple. I honestly would have never come up with this pretty color combination myself.

I stamped my favorite flowers from Mums the Word in royal velvet and used a chevron square from Bitty Background Blocks as the 'vase' for the mums. I layered the white panel on aqua mist and then on a card base of royal velvet. And of course, I had to finish the card off with a few enamel dots....my favorite embellishment lately. 

Head on over to the ColourMe blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you today.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for July.. Anja Curvers

Hope you get a chance to play along this week! Can't wait to check out the gallery to see what you come up with.

Happy Birthday Darnell!!

Another Happy Birthday card to share....this one is for the fabulous Darnell. Darnell keeps this crafty world we all belong to happy, fun, and supportive and is always the first to chime in with encouraging words and has some of the funniest (& real!) craft blog posts out there. Happy Birthday Darnell! Hope this birthday week has been great!

You can check out Darnell's virtual birthday celebration on Ardyth's blog.

My card uses the Wishes Come True set featuring four brightly colored candles. I added a stitched border around the card base. Card design inspired by this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge.

Hope you are enjoying this great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday America!

In our house, the 4th of July isn't just about having or going to a BBQ and celebrating summer. Don't get me wrong, its a day where we eat well, enjoy the weather, and hang out with friends. We usually participate in our town's holiday festivities but we also take a moment with our kids to discuss why America's birthday is so important. As the daughter of immigrants, I can appreciate why this country is so special and the sacrifices it took for my parents to get and raise their family here. There are freedoms and opportunities here that made my parents leave their native county. And now as the spouse of a US Coast Guardsman, I understand the hard work and sacrifice of our military each and every day to preserve those freedoms and opportunities.

So in honor of USA's birthday tomorrow, I created this birthday card.  Makes for a great masculine birthday card too!

I was inspired by this week's CASology cue word FLOAT. As soon as I heard this, I knew I wanted to graphically depict something floating from a word in a sentiment. I decided on stars floating since the toppings option at Seize the Birthday is 'Stars or Stripes). I stamped the sentiment on the bottom (HAPPY from PTI Headline Alphabet, Birthday from Year Round Happiness) and then masked off a triangle coming from the Happy. I stamped stars in the ColourQ challenge colors within the masked area starting at the tip using the generation stamping technique as the stars floated higher toward the top of the card. I added a strip of soft stone (my closest match to sahara sand) bitty dot to the bottom to anchor it and put the whole panel on soft stone card stock.  

Happy 4th to those celebrating this holiday as well and wonderful weekend wishes to you all! Thanks for stopping by! 

Colour Me...Monochromatic #27

Happy Wednesday!

As many of you know, color challenges are my favorite type of challenge. So when Katie and Tara asked me to join the Colour Me Design Team, I was so honored and excited.

This week's Colour Me....Monochromatic features a deep purple color. I knew I wanted to make a birthday card for my cousin whose favorite color is purple.

I embossed the blooms from PTI Meadow Greens in white on dark purple Bazzill card stock. I love the texture heat embossing gives. I cut the panel diagonally and stamped my sentiment from PTI Think Big Favorites in the middle. I added a few white enamel dots to the centers. Quick and simple. This would probably make a nice sympathy card too.

I hope you will join me at Colour Me each week. The Colour Me team has made some beautiful cards this week so head on over their blogs and  check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for July...Anja Curvers

Hope you can play along with us this week. Can't wait to see you in the gallery!

Exciting News!

I'm excited to share some news with you today....

Yay! I'm joining the Design Team at Colour Me.... this week. My first DT position! 

Colour Me is a weekly color challenge blog that I've been playing with since they started about 6 months now. I was honored to be asked to be a part of their team for the rest of this year.  Hayley and Tara always put together such fun color combinations and their outgoing Design Team has been amazing and inspiring. No pressure for this newbie right??!! :) 

The challenge starts on Wednesdays and ends the following Monday at Noon EST.  You can get all the challenge details HERE. The DT team was revealed today and yesterday on the blog so do check out these fabulous ladies I will be working with.

 I hope you'll play along with me each week! 

CMCC #26

Hello,

First wanted to say WELCOME to the new friends who have started to follow my blog as well as THANKS the old ones who have been supportive.  I appreciate your visits and comments and will try hard to post things both interesting and inspiring.

I've been dying to play around a bit more with the Friendly Flowers set. I took one element out of that set - this pretty interlocking circles image - and used them as an image alone, not as part of a flower. I paired it with striped circles in two sizes from Sketched Shapes. Card design inspired by an old Studio Calico blog sketch and the gorgeous color combination inspired by this week's Colour Me Playful challenge.

I love this interlocking circle stamp....I'm pretty sure I'll be using this one over and over. 

Almost TGIF! Hope you are having a good one! Thanks for visiting.

Happy Wednesday

Happy Wednesday! School finished up yesterday so we're jumping into summer feet first, quite literally into the pool!

Before we head out, I wanted to share two cards I made last night while finishing up season 2 of Orange is the New Black.  Anyone watch that show? Wow, right? 

I'm working on replenishing my thank you card stash which was depleted last week with teacher/staff gifts. I stamped the thank you sentiment (from PTI Thank You Kindly) repeatedly on a angle in the ColourQ challenge colors this week. Then I thought more rows in a different direction would give the card a different twist. It looked a little bare in the center so I added a sentiment banner popped up with foam adhesive. 

For my second card I was inspired by this week's CASology cue word WOOD so I used the PTI Through The Trees stamp which has been sitting neglected for a while now. I stamped the tree block in the middle and used chalk to create the sunset colors in the background. Haven't used chalk in a long while but thanks to a recent PTI Make It Monday video, I've rediscovered how easy they are to use. 

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your day. 

Papertrey Blog Hop June 2014

Its the 25th and its Blog Hop day at Papertrey Ink! I was so happy when I saw the inspiration photo, colors and sketches this month. So bright, cheery, and fun!

There was so much inspiration this month that I made two cards. I wanted to incorporate both a sketch and color combination for each card.

For this first card, I used the big Oopsie Daisy flower for the circle in the sketch. I covered a few of the petals with washi when I inked it so it wouldn't stamp. Large Thanks is from Thanks All Ways. I added a strip of striped summer sunrise and hibiscus burst to the card panel.

For this second card, I used Tiny Triangles to make scattered banners across the middle of the card. Sentiment from Comfort Food Additions. I added some pink bakers twine to add to the festivity of the card.

Can't wait to spend some time looking at everyone's creations today! Enjoy the Hop and thanks for stopping by!