Challenge 220- Switcheroo!

Hey there Crafty People!

I'm back with my sample for this week's Late Night Stamper Blog Challenge.  This week, the design team challenges you to switch it up a bit-that is, use a card as inspiration for a scrapbook page or other 3D project, or vice versa.  Maybe you've seen a sweet scrapbook layout that you want to scale down a bit into a card-GREAT!  Check out plenty of inspiration and post your own fabulous creation at the Late Night Stampers Blog!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

So, my sample for this week is a collection of goodies I made for my husband's 2 secretaries at work...since this past Wednesday was Secretary's Day.  I used the Happy Hello Simply Sent Kit that you may have gotten for FREE during Sale-A-Bration!  I got the idea for the purse from a Facebook post by Lyssa Zwolanek and CASEd the cards from a sample I saw by Josee Smuck. Both of these ladies are fantastic Stampin' Up! demonstrators whose work I love.

Here's the inspiration images:

Supplies:

Stamps:  Oh Hello, Perfect Words

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray, Baja Breeze and Gumball Green Stampin' Write Markers

Cardstock:  Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray

Accessories:  International Bazaar DSP, Big Shot, Chevron TIEF, Happy Hello Simply Sent Kit, Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon, Daffodil Delight 1/8" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Antique Brads, Stampin' Dimensionals

Ok...until next time-Thanks for Looking! 

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Challenge 217-Candy Bar Inspiration!

Hello Crafty People!

This week's challenge is a sweet one indeed.  We challenge you to create a project with a favorite candy bar in mind.  You can use the candy as color inspiration, or actually use the candy or its wrapper on your project-we're not picky!  Just show us your creativity!

For my card, I used the colors of a Mr. Goodbar.  It's not necessarily my favorite candy bar, but from the moment I heard of this challenge, it's the one that kept popping into my head, and I DO like the colors, so, why not?!

Stamps:  Oh Hello

Ink:  Real Red, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight

Cardstock:  Whisper White, Early Espresso, Real Red

Accessories:  Real Red and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Write Markers, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Ovals Collection Framelits, Daffodil Delight 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Real Red 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals, Basic Jewels Pearls, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

Tips:  To get just the look I wanted, and the repeating pattern I desired, I used my Stampin' Write Markers to ink up my stamp and the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig for perfect placement

If you need some inspiration, don't forget to check out the rest of the design team's samples...we have some fabulous ladies over there...including our lovely guest designers.  We would also love to see what you've created, so don't forget to upload your sample once you've finished it!

Click HERE to head over now and get started!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

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Challenge 213-Spring is in the Air!

Hello there!  It's Friday again, which means it's my turn to post for the LNS Challenge Blog!  This week's Challenge is all about Spring-specifically flowers!  I know everyone has flower stamps, and I suspected we'd see lots of gardens and boquets this week, PLUS, I've been dying to use this new stamp set I just got, soooo I resisted the urge to make a flowering meadow, and instead CASEd the super-talented Mary Brown!

Don't forget to visit the Late Night Stamper's Challenge Blog to submit your spring creation this week!  We'd love to have you play along!

Stamps: Million Dollar Moments
Ink: Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point
Cardstock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight
Accessories:  SAB Button and Ribbon Bundle, Piercing Tool, Essentials Piercing Templates, Basic Jewels Pearls, Stampin' Dimensionals

Have a great weekend!




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Challenge 212-Going Green!

Challenge 212-GREEN!

This week our challenge over at the Late Night Stampers Challenge Blog is to create a project with GREEN as the main color.  This could be anything from St. Patrick's Day cards and scrapbook pages to Spring Fling favors and gifts.  Just use your favorite shade of green, and GET CRAFTING!

Need some inspiration?  Check out the design team samples HERE  

When you get your creation completed, you can upload it to the blog HERE 

So here's my sample for this week...it's a CASE of a CASE of who knows who!  I've CASEd it myself in a couple different color schemes already...I'm in love with this collage type card!

Stamps: Collage Curios, Lovely Little Labels, Ciao Baby

Ink: Midnight Muse, Crumb Cake, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green

Cardstock:  gumball Green, Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, Summer Starfruit

Accessories: 1 3/8" square punch, Glimmer Brads Subtles, Brads Bold, Itty Bitty Buttons, Little Labels Punch Pack, 7/8" Scallop Circle Punch, Big Shot, Fancy Fan TIEF, Print Poetry DSP Pack, Basic Jewels Pearls, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack

   



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Challenge 211 Happy Birthday!

Challenge 211 Happy Birthday!

Hey there!  This week, over at the Late Night Stampers Challenge Blog, we challenge you to create a project with a Birthday theme.  It can be a card, a scrapbook layout, or a 3D item...anything you're imagination can dream up!

My creation for this week is a card, though I am going to start mixing it up a bit as I am getting back to my own scrapbooking soon (or that's the plan anyway).

I used some new-to-me product...things from this year's catalog that I only recently got around to ordering, and am now in love with!

Stamp Set:  You're Amazing

Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Midnight Muse

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler

DSP: Parker's Patterns

Accessories:  Big Shot, Woodgrain TIEF, Silver Brads, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Floral Frames Framelits, Designer Buttons-Neutrals, Daffodil Delight Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals

I hope you're able to play along with us this week!  We look forward to seeing your artwork!

  

Need some inspiration? Check out the design team samples HERE

Once you get your creation made you can add it to the blog HERE

Thanks for stopping by!

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Challenge 178 Add an Insect!

Hello!

Happy Friday to everyone!  I hope you're enjoying the dreadful heat and humidity!  At least, that's what the weather here in Northern Virginia is.  That's ok...perfect reason to stay inside where there's AC and CRAFT!

So today's share is for this week's LNS Challenge.  We have a great challenge this week to welcome in Summer.  We all know that Summer means more insects-bees, ants, ladybugs, etc.  So in honor of Summer having begun on Wednesday, we will be celebrating insects!

Challenge 178
Add an insect

This week you must have an insect on your card, scrapbook page, project or any thing else you can think of to papercraft.

As has been very popular this week, I too used the butterfly as my insect.  I've always kept a good distance from anything that crawls, buzzes, or scurries, so...I went with the "girly" insect...

I CASEd this card from Stampin' Connection, but can't remember whose work it was, so if you can identify it, please, let me know so I can give credit where it's due!

Need some inspiration?  Check out the design team creations HERE    

When you get your creation made you can upload it HERE    

Can't wait to see what insects you include in your projects!

Thanks for looking!

Stamps:  Kindness Matters, Word Play

Cardstock:  Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Pool Party

Ink:  Early Espresso

Accessories:  Daffodil Delight 1/4" stitched grosgrain ribbon, Pool Party, Gumball Green, and Raspberry Ripple Stampin' Write Markers, Mat Pack, Decorative Label Punch, Basic Jewels Rhinestones

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ABC Challenge

Hey there!

It's Friday again, so that means it's my turn to post for the LNS Challenge!  This week's challenge is an ABC Challenge, so we were supposed to make "Anything But a Card".  These little projects are doubling as my party favor gifts for guests of our Father's Day BBQ tomorrow, so I hope people like them.  I got the idea from Stampin' Connection...can't remember who did it.

So here they are:

Stamps: NONE (surprising, right?)
Ink:  NONE (no stamps, no ink!)
Carstock:  Tangerine Tango, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories:  Spring Fever (Retired) Simply Scrappin' Kit, Big Top Birthday Quick Accents, Melon Mambo and Crushed Curry Polka Dot Ribbon, Designer Label Punch, Big Shot, Scallop Square Die, Fabric, Canning Jars, Stampin' Dimensionals

Thanks for looking!  Comments appreciated!



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Liebster Award and LNS Challenge

Hey there! 

I have a couple things for ya today-first off, I wanted to share how excited I am that I have been chosen for the Liebster Award!

 I got a message yesterday from Shannon over at Shan's Scaredy Cat Creations that she was giving me the Liebster Award. Thanks Shannon!

For those of you that don't know about this, it's to promote up and coming blogs, ones that generally have less than 200 followers.

The rules are simple-

1- Thank your Liebster Blog Award Presenter on your blog (Thanks for making my day Shannon!)

2- Link back to the presenter

3- Pick 5 of your favorite blogs with less than 200 followers

4- Notify them by leaving a comment on their blog

5- Put the blog award on your blog

Here are my 5 picks.
1.)Melissa Sunde at Uptown Creations
2.)Kylie Clemmence at Stampin' With Kylie
3.)Jean Piersanti at Beauty and the Stamper
4.)Heidi Baks at Running With Scissors
5.)Tina Munzke at Crafted with Class

I hope you will all go visit these fantastic blogs and leave them some love!

Next up...it's Friday, which means it's my turn to post for the Late Night Stamper weekly challenge!

This week's challenge is a color challenge using the colors

 Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi

Our challenge is for you to make a card, scrapbook page, project, or any other item you can think of using the colors listed above.  We can't wait to see your beautiful works of art!

Need some inspiration?  

Check out the design team samples HERE    

When you get your creation made you can upload it HERE

So here's my creation-I hope you like it, and look forward to your comments.  Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:  Pennant Parade

Cardstock:  Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White

Ink:  Wild Wasabi

Accessories: Spring Fever Simply Scrappin' Kit DSP (Retired), DSP Pack Subtles, Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Daffodil Delight Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, 1" Square Punch, Gold Brads, Paper Piercer and Mat Pack, Lollipop Stick, Stampin' Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots

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Blog Candy Winner and LNS Challenge 174!

Hey there!  Whew!  It's been a busy week around here!  With the husband out of town, and the little man having a birthday (not to mention having to do all the preparations for his birthday party this Sunday), I have not had 5 minutes on the computer!  So...sorry for the long delay, but I did select a winner!  (Well, Random.org did, anyway).  

Follower #45 is Stampmomx2sc!  So...congratulations and email me your shipping address so I can get your goodies sent out!

And on to today's share!  Today's share is my submission for this week's LNS Challenge which is Masculine Cards.  When I chose the colors and the DSP, I was totally thinking masculine...then somehow, I ended up with a butterfly on there.  Oh well...my husband likes butterflies so this will likely be his Father's Day card.  For this card, I used the Mojo Monday Sketch for this week, and I also used some of my brand new sneak peek products that I got last week.  Can I just say that the new Firm Foam pads are FABULOUS!  And I really like the new In-Colors.  I'm a happy stamper!

So, here's the Mojo Monday Sketch:

And here's my card:

Supplies: (items in Green are BRAND NEW, and will be available June 1st!
Stamp Sets:  Papaya Collage, Priority Mail (Hostess Set )
Ink:  Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muse (all are new In-Colors)
Cardstock:  Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit (you guessed it-another new In-Color), Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Comfort Cafe' DSP, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Labels Collection Framelits, Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Basic Jewels Pearls, Basic Jewels Jumbo Pearls, Stampin Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots

We'd love for you to play along with our challenge!  Please click the link below to see what the design team has come up with, and then submit your Masculine and Father's Day cards when you get them done!

Challenge 174
Masculine  cards

In honor of the upcoming Father's day celebrations let's work on masculine cards this week.  Create any card or project for the boys in your life. 

Need some inspiration?  Check out the design team creations HERE

When you get your card created, you can upload it HERE

Thanks for playing with us this week!  Can't wait to see what you create!



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VC Rocks Blog Hop and BLOG CANDY!

Hello crafty hoppers!

Are you enjoying the hop so far?  I hope so...there's a lot of fabulously creative ladies in this group, and I love a reason to visit each of their blogs all in the same day.  My "ideas" folder is overflowing!  If you arrived here from an email, and not from the blog hop path, you're probably wondering what I'm talking about.  This weekend is the first Blog Hop for the VC Rocks group's 2012 Season.  This is an amazing group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators who get together online and host all sorts of challenges, blog hops, and lively conversations in an effort to celebrate the release of the new Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog.  It's really alot of fun to see what the ladies have to post, so please, check out the hop.

To start from the beginning, click HERE to go to the VC Rocks group homepage.  

Or you can just continue from me, and it will eventually loop you back around.  

So....here we go!

Today's share is a set of coasters I made using the Beau Chateau DSP, which of course will be retiring in just 13 short days.  This was one of my favorite paper packs of this year's catalog, and I will be sad to see it go.

To turn these tiles into coasters, I used a Mod Podge-like glue to adhere the DSP to the top of the coaster.  Then I applied 3 more thin coats of the glue on top of the paper, drying in between each coat with my heat tool.  This not only adheres the paper to the coaster and gives it a glossy look, but it waterproofs it from my sweaty ice-cold sweet tea glass!  To give the coasters a more finished look, I used my Crumb Cake Stampin' Write Marker to color the edges of the coasters so they wouldn't be such a stark white.  Finally, I applied cork feet to the bottom to make them more stable, and more end-table friendly.

BLOG CANDY!

I hope you like today's project...and at the end of the weekend, I will draw a name from all of my current subscribers/follwers, and the lucky winner will receive a set of these coasters and a few other goodies as blog candy!  So, if you like what you see, please be sure to sign up as a follower!

Ok...off you go to see what Tania has in store for you over at Something to Scrap About.

Click HERE to go to the next stop-and Happy Hopping!

Supplies Used:

Beau Chateau DSP
Mod Podge Glossy Decoupage Liquid
Stampin' Write Marker (Crumb Cake)
Cork "feet"





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