Color Play August 2014

As soon as I saw this month's Color Play challenge (PTI Inspiration Archives), I knew I wanted to pair it with the Summer Sweetness set. The color combo is gorgeous, screams summer, and boy does that picture make me hungry for those sugar coated sweets! 

Instead of using the stamps I wanted to play around with the dies because I also was inspired by this week's Cutting Edge challenge.  Its my first time playing with this challenge but I've been intrigued by it ever since it started.

I cut a banner from the wine bottle tag but cut off the top part. I die cut various popsicles in hibiscus burst, limeade ice, and berry sorbet and paper pieced the popsicle sticks in kraft.

I adhered the popsicles with foam tape so they jump off the banner and heat embossed the sentiment in white. I dry embossed the white card base with a tiny triangles embossing folder for a little more interest.

I'm excited to use this card for our end of year camp counselor gifts. Maybe I'll just copy this design for everyone....just have to cut and emboss in batches.

Thanks for stopping by!

Colour Me.....Monochromatic! #32

It's hard to believe that it's been a month since I joined the Colour Me design team. Time flies when you are having fun!

This week's monochromatic challenge features a pale green pistachio color. I don't use this color much in my crafting anymore so it was a bit of a challenge for me for sure! 

I used the new Shakers and Sprinkles kit to create a heart shaped shaker. Its my first attempt at shakers but the dies and foam adhesive make it relatively easy. I used some pretty gingham patterned paper for the top of the heart and cardstock for the banners and die cut word to complete the sentiment. The pretty sequins came with the kit and I'm using all the embellishments sparingly as I fear of running out! 

I stamped a background of a simple Happy Birthday sentiment in black so the pretty shaker and banners would stand out.  

I hope you will join me at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me team has made some beautiful cards for your inspiration 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 August is....Stephanie Keats.

Can't wait to see you what you create in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to stop by. 

CASology #107: Stripe

So back in June, the CASology challenge had a contest to celebrate it's 100th challenge....you had to guess the 100th cue word.  I didn't win that one :( but they did pick one of my guesses for their cue word.

I'm honored and excited to be their guest designer this week using the word I suggested STRIPE.

I've been in love with the Ombre Builders set so I wanted to use the dotted stripe stamp. I love this stamp because the stripes are subtle and can be used for making great CAS backgrounds. 

I stamped a monochromatic background using three colors - tropical teal, aqua mist, and hawaiian shores. I embossed the big sentiment from Wet Paint in black and stamped the rest of the sentiment below. To make the background stand out even more, I mounted the panel on a black card base. 

And while I had this set out, I made another card.....

What I love about this dotted stripe stamp is that it reminds me of string. I stamped it in four bold colors on a smaller card panel slightly overlapping to look like string being tied around the panel. I mounted it on tropical teal card stock to highlight the bold colors. 

Head on over to the CASology challenge to see what the DT has created with STRIPE. I'm excited to see what you all make....so many possibilities!  And thanks to CASology for the opportunity to play along with you all! 

Now maybe I should put this set away now and give some other stamps some love..... 

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are having a great week.

Another Rainbow

Quick share of another card I made for the CASology challenge. I'm LOVING the cue card RAINBOW, especially when it means rows of pretty colors of ink lined up on my desk.

I stamped a rainbow of circles from Sketched Shapes and used a sentiment from Reverse Confetti. 

Hoping this rainbow made you happy and maybe inspired you to make a card of your own. Thanks for stopping by!

Thank You Wednesday

Hi friends,

I'm trying to beef up my thank you stash so I'm sharing two cards I made last night.

First card uses a very OLD set in my collection - Trendy Tree Tops. Love this set but haven't used it in such a long time.  Thought it would be perfect for this week's Colors inspired by this week's ColourQ challenge. I adhered the sentiment banner and heart with foam tape for dimension and interest.

This week's CASology cue card is RAINBOW so for my second card I used repeated Thank You sentiment (from Thank You Kindly) in a rainbow of colors with the additional sentiment in black and a black card base to ground the colors. 

That's it for me today. Thanks for taking a peek! Enjoy your day.

Colour Me.....! #31

Wow, summer is flying by! Hard to believe its almost August already. Hope you are having a fabulous summer where you are.

This week marks the a special Colour Me! challenge since we have five weeks this month. For this challenge YOU get to choose which colors you want to create with.
You can either play along with ......

Option 1 - Strawberry Slush, So Saffron & Hello Honey 

(playing along with 'Team Hayley')

OR

Option 2 - Night of Navy, Soft Sky & Garden Green 

(playing along with 'Team Tara')

I'm playing on Team Tara this week. I LOVE this color combination.

I wanted to used the beautiful PTI butterflies because the cut out wings are perfect with some many   gorgeous color combinations. I layered a butterfly cut out of enchanted evening leaves patterned paper on top of aqua mist card stock.  I stamped green medallions from Snowflake Flurries to create the butterfly's path stamping a few twice to create lighter medallions. Sentiment from Wet Paint. 

I didn't adhere the top layer of the butterfly and folded the wings a bit to give the card more dimension. And of course, no card of mine seems complete without adding a few enamel dots. 

The Colour Me....!  team has made some amazing cards this week so head on over there to check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for July even create two cards this week.....
Anja Curvers

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

July 2014 PTI Blog Hop

The 25th means its Blog Hop Day! 

This month's theme is to draw inspiration from this photo. There's lots design inspiration in there but generally speaking I'm not drawn to it as a whole.  Maybe its too shabby chic for me? Birds, buttons, and sewing aren't really my thing so I don't have stamps along these lines in my stash (though I really wish I could sew on a button!)  And if you've read my blog before I'm not a bird person though I will admit that stuffed polka dotted one is quite cute. 

I can't wait to see what others create with these.  

I did find a few details to draw inspiration from. I liked the bit on the bottom right - the doily heart with the red flower.

My card uses a kraft doily I've had in my stash which I used as a background for my flower. My card bases is vintage cream instead of white. Haven't used vintage cream in a while. I cut the flower from Happy Hydrangeas and paper pieced the stem and bloom together. The hydrangea was cut from textured dotted paper from Bazzill. I liked the weathered wood background in the inspiration photo so I used woodgrain patterned paper for my sentiment banner.

I was inspired by the colors in the inspiration photo to make a second card. Love the cute little spools of thread in aqua mist, sweet blush, and pure poppy.  I used the dotted lines from Ombre Builders to create a background and used a die cut Wet Paint 'Happy' along with the birthday from another stamp. (UGH, can't find my 'birthday' Wet Paint sentiment!). 

That's it for me today. Can't wait to see what everyone made using this photo. It's always amazing to me how very different the Blog Hop cards look from the same starting point. Love that. Thanks so much for stopping by and see you around the Hop! 

Colour Me....Playful # 30

It's Wednesday and its time for a new Colour Me challenge. This week's playful colors include the fun colors of hot pink and gold.

These colors seemed perfect for the Wet Paint font so I stamped the sentiment repeatedly in the challenge colors. 

And of course, gold enamel dots finish off my card. LOL, I will probably have to replenish my enamel dot stash soon! 

The Colour Me team has made some fabulous and fun cards this week so head on over there to check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our lovely featured designer for July...!
Anja Curvers

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