Play Date Cafe Challenge 40

Love these challenges with black and white and a splash of color and this time it's green! Over at Play Date Cafe you will see some lovely creations. I love this stamp set by Stampin' Up...Asian Artistry...I think it has such an elegant look to it and pairs well with the black and white. I used my green inks to highlight the dragonfly and leaves, spica pen to add sparkle to the flowers and then sponged the edges. Hoping that everyone is looking forward to a great week-end. Still hot and muggy here in southwest Virginia and I can't wait until it cools off enough to turn the ac off and open my windows.

cs-SU white and black, Making Memories dp
ink-Memento new sprout and pear tart
stamps- SU Asian Artistry
acces- satin ribbon (Dollar Tree),gel pen star dust

Timeless Tuesday Lilacs

This is my first time entering a challenge at Flourishes Timeless Tuesday . We were to make a card using some type of pin (clothes, stick, straight, safety,etc) on our card. I have a few sets of their stamps and love the images. Today I used their set "Lilac" to coordinate with my dp by K&Co which is mounted on a piece of brown card stock and then layered on to textured ivory card stock. I love this satin ribbon in the chocolate brown, it is so rich looking. My pin and pearls are from Stampin' Up's Pretties kit.
Stop by and play with me if you have time this week...the challenge is open until Monday Aug 2nd at 6pm ET.

Quilts and Wreaths

Hey guys,
Just a quick post to show you the two cards that I made for the blast from the past and the inspiration challenges at StampTV . Linda Payne's blast this week is to create a quilt card with it being the focus and only using a sentiment and no stamped image. I made this card by punching scalloped squares and die cutting small peony shapes over the flowers in the dp. I added buttons and my sentiment on a die cut scalloped rectangle.
Brenda's inspiration picture was a lovely wreath and I usually am not so literal in my inspiration cards but decided to make a wreath. Again, I punched some of the flowers and then I stamped flower shapes and cut them out of the dp. I used pop dots to make different heights in my wreath. The sentiment is from Gina's new set Seeds of Kindness. I embossed the background with a cuttlebug embossing folder.
Hope you like them and will leave me a note..love hearing from everyone.


Wreath card: cs- SU white, rose red, DP Basic Gray Green at Heart
Ink-Versafine Onyx black
Stamps- GKD Seeds of Kindness
Accessories: Sizzix tag dies SU punches, Sizzix leaf die, GKD buttons, Cuttlebug embossing folder- Devine

Quilt card:
cs- Bazzill brown, unk green for base, dp- Basic Gray Origins
Ink- Versafine vintage sepia
stamps- Gina K Nana's Needlework
Accessories- SU scallop punch, nesties long scalloped rectangle, peony, buttons by GKD

Chillin' out at Isabella's

Happy Thursday everyone!
I am chillin' out at Isabella's Sketchbook for their anything goes this week as long as you use one of her images and blues and greens. Lovin' these colors....I decided to use her image Floral Tag 1 a little differently, by printing it out twice and coloring it, then I cut one of these in two and placed on the sides of the other one. I also trimmed off the tag part of the image and made it into a triptych. My dp is by Mind's Eye, their Bohemia collection. I colored the tags with prismacolor pencils and oms. The ribbon is a satin one that I picked up at the Dollar Tree. Please stop by and play at Isabella's....she has lovely images and even a freebie if you don't already have any. Thanks for stopping by. I have a couple of pictures to post for challenges at StampTV...will post them here later if you would like to see them.

Week 20 at the Shabby Tea Room

I am loving this card....the color inspiration for this came from Carla Suto at StampTV where she hosts the color challenge each Monday. We were to use black and ivory with one color as an accent. I am entering this in the week #20 1,2,3 challenge at The Shabby Tea Room where we are to use 1 ribbon, two buttons and three pieces die cut on our project. This is some of my favorite dp (K&Co), it is double sided, so I used the darker side as my base layer on a ivory card base and then cut with my labels 2 nesties by spellbinders a layer in the floral dp and one in the ivory to stamp my sentiment from the "Friends" set by GinaK. I used a SU scallop punch to make the back layer on my flower and then hand cut a flower from the dp. The brad attaching those two layers is also by K&Co. I used the aqua ribbon by Martha Stewart and the two buttons are GKD.I am also entering this at StampTV in Carla's color challenge. Hope that you can stop by both sites and play along. Let me know what you think of this....I appreciate all of you.

Edit: This card received an honorable mention at The Shabby Tea Room

Masculine in Neutrals

I am submitting this card for two separate challenges...The first is for Play Date Cafe and their challenge involving neutrals. I love these colors and the inspiration picture this week. Please check it out. And my second challenge spot is at Speedy the Cat and their masculine card. I created an easel card using card stock from Gina K: ivory, brown, black and tan leather. I love this set by Stampin' Up entitled Travel Post....haven't used it a lot but should because I love the vintage elements to it. I sponged Versafine vintage sepia over the focal image on the tan leather paper and then sponged the twill ribbon. My hardware is also by SU. This is a very simple and quick card but I know all my male friends would appreciate it. Thanks for stopping by and checking it out...please leave a note.

Dog Days of Summer

Happy Magical Monday!
It's time for a new challenge at There's Magic in the Air and free goodies. Our theme this week is Dog Days of Summer and whatever that means to you. With the heat wave that we have been having I certainly can relate to this phrase. All I would want to do if I had to be out in the heat would be to laze around and sleep just like the dogs that I had as a child used to love to do. When I was a child my Dad owned a wooden boat that we would take out on the New River here in southwest Virginia and just float and try to cool off when the heat was too much. It is a special memory and when I heard what the challenge was I thought of Nina's image "Beached Boat". I made an easel card and after coloring my boat, I cut it out with my long scalloped rectangle Nesties and attached to the front which I had sponged to make a sky and background scene. The cattails are from another set that I own, but I thought they made the perfect touch to the scene. I hope that you will find time to check out our site and try the challenge. Below is a picture of the goodies that Nina is giving away this week.

This is the inside of my card.


Hope this is a great start to your week. Please leave me a comment if you have time and stop by TMITA and play with us at Paper Cupcakes.

CS- GinaK Ivory base
Stamps--Image "Beached Boat" PCC, GKD Gone Fishing, SU Botanicals (sentiment)
Ink- Memento Cantaloupe, Danube Blue, Summer Sky, Bamboo Leaves, Cottage Ivy, Versafine Onyx Black, Prismacolor & Oms

Seeing Blue, Gray and Yellow

At Just For Fun that is. Those are the colors for this weeks challenge. I broke out a set from Stampin' Up that I haven't used in a long time and made this card. I completely forgot that I was going to wait until my new stamps from Just For Fun arrived. This senility thing keeps getting in the way.
I used blue and gray Bazzil textured paper along with a piece of SU barely banana. I embossed the damask image from my Sizzix texture plate on the blue piece then stamped the script on the yellow. I distressed this piece and sponged.I stamped the castle image and sponged it before removing it from the labels 3 nestie. I layered it on the next size labels 3 in the gray. My ribbon is gray satin that I picked up at the Dollar Tree. Really nice tying ribbon. Love the colors at Just for Fun...come on and play along if you have time. Up for grabs is a gift certificate to their store. Last post for the night....be sure and check back tomorrow for Magical Monday!

Birthday card for Joan's Garden

I made this birthday card for the challenge at Joan's Gardens where she asked us to create a bright birthday card and add a flower in some form. I used this paper from DCWV and layered on SU whisper white for the card base. My images are also from Stampin' Up's set Birthday Bliss. I used Versafine Onyx Black and Memento Summer Sky and Pear Tart as my inks. The ribbon is from American crafts and I punched the flowers out and layered before attaching a silver brad. This is a set that I got back in the spring and am just now inking it...can you believe it? You don't have anything setting around that you don't use, do you? Like how these colors look together...hope you do too.

Isabella's Challenge #17 Cut it Out!

Good Sunday afternoon!
I am entering this card for the challenge at Isabella's for their 17th challenge "Cut it out". I am using their image Notecard which I colored with SU markers and cut out before popping up on 1/8" pop dots layered over a piece of blue Bazzill textured card stock and a piece of Mind's Eye Bohemia dp. Very simple and quick....hope that you like it. I love the images at Isabella's...please check them out and play if you have time. They have a freebie in their store if you do not own any of their images.

cs- SU whisper white, Mind's Eye Bohemia, 140 watercolor paper
ink-- SU markers, aqua pen