colourQ challenge #134

Love this color combination for this week's ColourQ Challenge # 134! Never would have thought to put these colors together. I used Papertrey Ink's Scarlet Jewel, Aqua Mist, Canyon Clay, and Raspberry Fizz with my new Framed Out #2 set and my old favorite standby Mehndi Medallion.

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PTI Make It Monday # 63

To be honest, I don't like glitter. Two of my three little girls LOVE the stuff...on their clothing, in their artwork, everywhere if they had anything to do with it. But Heather Nichol's Make It Monday video encouraged me to try glitter die cuts because she made it look SO easy and neat. Well, my work space definitely did NOT look like Heather's afterward but it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be. Great idea to use the Xyron because it holds all the glitter on the die cut shape with minimal falloff.

So here's my card that I made inspired by one of Erin Lincoln's creations she featured during release of the Super Stars set. I had to go with blue stars since blue was one of the only colors of glitter I had.

I used the often neglected Blueberry Sky cardstock paired with Aqua Mist. I think I'm gonna have to use the Super Stars set more often.

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Papertrey April Blog Hop

Its that time of the month again! Papertrey's Inspiration Challenge for this month is this beautiful photo and I was inspired to make three cards since my card to-do list for April and May is so long!



For my first card, I was inspired by the colors in the inspiration photo so I made this card using Raspberry Fizz and Spring Rain with an older set - All About You & All About You Additions set. Finally used a bit of the Raspberry Fizz patterned paper too.



For my second card, I used these colors to make a card for my niece's upcoming birthday. I had just intended on using my newly acquired Just The Ticket border die but also wanted to incorporate something 'princessy' for her so I used the castle from the Little Princess set.



For my third card, I was drawn to the stack of patterns and colors in the photo which I tried to recreate here using the wine bottle tag die and foam dots.



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CPS 262

Another Teacher Appreciation card...this time using the sketch from Card Positioning Systems

I used patterned paper from Crate Paper and Bazzill Swiss dotted paper and embossed the small sentiment on the bottom with American Crafts Zing powder in Leaf.

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CAS-ual Fridays Challenge # 49

I've got TONS of Teacher Appreciation cards to make for the upcoming celebration week in May. Here's my take using the great sketch for this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge:

Used some bit of patterned paper from Creative Imaginations and embossed the sentiment from the All About You PTI set.

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MIM #62 - Step It Up Layering

Betsy Veldman's Make It Monday video for Papertrey Ink was so inspiring this week. It was wonderful to see a fabulous creative at work. Her challenge was to create two cards - a single layer card and another that is 'stepped up'. In her video she used the Rosie Posie and Turning a New Leaf sets which were two sets that I have rarely used so I decided to make a set of cards using these same stamps & design but with different colors - Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, and Scarlet Jewel. Why mess with a good thing?

My one layer card:



For my second layered card, I used bling instead of buttons and changed the sentiment to Happy Birthday since I needed a birthday card this weekend. I used half a Jillibean Soup Journaling Sprout as my grounding element.



Now that I've made my version of Betsy's card, I'm going to try to make another Step It Up set using different stamps.
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MIM #61 Take Two

Here's the original flower I made for this week's Make It Monday #61 challenge. It uses the Tree Tops die. It turned out a little bigger than I thought so I had to go through different card bases/designs until I finally found one that I think worked with such a big flower (my girls like it looks more like a snowflake than a flower!). Fell back upon my trusty Thing Big Sentiments to match it and some Fancy Pants patterned paper. Embossed the sentiment to make it stand out.

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PTI Make It Monday #61

What I love about Make It Monday Challenges is that it pushes me to do things outside my comfort zone. What I hate about it is that it isn't always easy for me, like last week's challenge with generational stamping. I usually start something as soon as I watch the video on Monday and sometimes it takes all week before I make something I like. This week wasn't a walk in the park either but it was a lot of fun.

Challenge #61 this week was to make a flower out of a non-flower die. I didn't want to use leaves but one of my very different dies. Here's the card I made using the recently released 'Tie' die. It was my second attempt at a flower.



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