JUGS Color challenge

Hi Friends…Happy weekend!  Yahoo!!!!

Today my good card lovin friend and fellow DT member VICKI over at JUGS

has a wonderful color challenge for us to try!

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Love this color combo!!  And here is what I came up with!

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(The coral IRL is not quite that dark orange)

It’s that time of year when I am in the need Graduation Cards

and even though this card doesn’t scream graduation that is what it’s going to be used for!

I used some Washi Tape to make my arrow and that sentiment stamp I have had forever and I

believe it is from Michaels.   Also,  I Love my new Chevron folder from Stampin Up and

I can imagine it’s going to be getting a lot more use!  Finished it off with some twine, buttons and stars.

Now, the rest of the  JUGS team has some wonderful samples to get your inspiration going,

so just hop on over to the Just Us Girls blog, and check out what the Design Team has created for you.

Then put your creative genes to work and add your card/project to the challenge post on the JUGS blog

for the chance to be selected as our Chic of the Week.

Can’t wait to see what you all create!

I got this sketch idea from retro Sketches…..but the link closed before I could post this one! :(

Nancy

Anniversary Celebration @ DD

The Dynamic Duos are Celebrating a One Year Anniversary!

To celebrate they are asking us to create a project using one of our PAST COLOUR COMBOS.

I chose this one!

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 Pink and Black look amazing together…don’t ya think?

If this card looks familiar I made one almost like it a few months back and

I decided I liked it so well that I would do it again with some sentiment changes!

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I decided to go outside and take the photo for a change…since I still had daylight!

Hope you have an amazing day,

and CONGRATS to the Dynamic Duos for there one year Anniversary!  I love your Challenges!

Nancy

Details:

Cardstock: SU and Scraps

Stamps: Verve and Stamp TV

Tools: Cuttlebug-embossing folder,

MS Punches- leaves

Acc: ribbon,flowers, rhinestones, and pop dots

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Happy Mother’s Day!!

I have for you today the next challenge over

@ CAS on Sunday.  The challenge this time is to incorporate

pastels into your creation.  I have had a very stressful week, so this

card I will confess had to come together rather quickly.  If I had had

the time or strength to make it again… I would have.  Some of the pastel

colors didn’t come out as strong as I had hoped and it’s hard to

see them in the photo.

Please won’t you join the girls and I over @

Challenge

Just click on the logo!

We would love it if you did… and here is the cool prize you will receive if you win!

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Have a wonderful day…however you choose to spend it!

See you over @ CAS on Sunday!

Nancy

Card Details:

Cardstock: SU

Ink: Various

Stamps: SU-Delicate Doilies

Sentiment-Verve-So Happy

Embossing Folders- SU

Nestabilities- petite ovals

Acc: pop dots

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Long Post…stick with me!

What a crazy week we have had at the Leppek house!

Quick re-cap to explain my LACK of posts!

Last Friday, we moved my son from Tally to home for the summer

(Insert major happy face here!)

and while we were putting things in the storage shed

he cut his hand on a piece of aluminum siding…

off to the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for stitches.  Then my Uncle

who was visiting from out of town broke his hip on Sunday 3 hours

after he arrived….. off to the Hospital again.  Finally, on Tuesday my dad

took a terrible fall and has road rash all over his body,

stitches on his hand, along with a fractured

collarbone…off to the Hospital again.

I wish I had time to go into more details about

how my father was 1/2 mile from home and

managed to walk all the way back after he had fallen,

while bleeding profusely…..

but that is really not why you are here….now is it?

So that sums up why I have been so QUIET lately!

Things will probably remain rather quiet

for a little while longer until my dad can

take better care of himself.

But enough of that…let’s get to the GOOD stuff!

This week Tangii from the JUGS team has a wonderful technique for us to try.

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Here is what I did with it!

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It appears that I used a dusty blue pencil on my card…but I promise I didn’t.  It’s WHITE!

Although, I decided to capitalize on that color and used it behind the sentiment.

Details:

Cardstock: SU

Stamps: Wild Rose Background

Ink: Color Box White

White Prisma Colored pencil

Tools: SU punch

Acc: Pink ribbon and Pop dots

I so appreciate all my followers and my visitors ….

you make my day….. and all of this worth while!

The rest of the  JUGS team has some wonderful samples to get your inspiration going,

so just pop on over to the Just Us Girls blog, and check out what the Design Team has created.

  Then put your creativity to work and add your card/project to the

challenge post on the JUGS blog for the chance to be selected as Chic of the Week.

 Hope you have a great day!

Nancy

HB to you…

Hello my crafting friends,

Today I have a Birthday Card to share with you that was created

based on an awesome sketch by Maria my fellow Design Teammate over at Just Us Girls.

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I guess I am still in the pink and black mode from last week, but this week I did add some

Turquoise in there to give it some more POP!

Letters were cut out with my Cricut then Dry embossed.

Sentiment was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed.

Card Details:

Cardstock: SU

Paper: Bazzill and DCWV

Stamps: Hero Arts

Tools: Cricut, Cuttlebug, Heat Gun

Acc.  Embossing powder, ribbon, flowers, and brad

In honor of National Scrapbook day…you may also take our sketch and

make it into a Scrapbook page…we can’t wait to see what you do with it!

Now go and check out what my fellow

 JUG ladies have created for you!

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Have a wonderful day and
thanks for stopping by!
So sorry this is late…..had to make a quick trip to the ER last night with my son!
All okay now !!!
Nancy

Another JUGS Inspiration!

I still had all the colors from my last JUGS card all over my crafting table

and a co-worker asked me to make a”Girly” College Graduation card for her…..

so what else screams Girly then; Pink and Bling!

So here is another card that goes right along with my

Hostess challenge over at Just Us Girls!

It looks very similar to some of my latest work!

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Please won’t you play along…I would love if you would!

There is still time!

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I am also linking this up to a new site I stumbled

upon called ABC Challenges.

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They asked us to either make a Mother’s Day card or a

feminine card. I chose the latter!

 It has been 16 years since my mom has passed

and I still miss her as if it was yesterday!

I don’t believe I have even made a Mother’s Day card since.

Take care,

Nancy

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: SU

Ink: Memento-Black, Angel Pink, and Rose Bud

White cuEmbossing Powder

Stamps: Ret.-Stampin Up set-Flashy Florals

Sentiment- Dollar bin @ Michaels

Tools: Cuttelbug- SU-Embossing Folder-Sq. Lattice

Acc: ribbon, bling and Pop dots

Hip Hip Hooray….summer is on it’s way!

This card was tough to put together….it was just one of those days when nothing you tried quite worked exactly liked you had planned.

I found myself taping and glueing and then taking it apart, ripping it and then trying to do it again…with the same results!

I am sure you have had one of those days before….at least I hope so!

I almost tossed the entire card, but refrained so here it is!

Don’t look to closely….major flaws everywhere!

Beach Ball was made by hand!  Boy was it tough cutting out that Bikini top! LOL

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This card, as unsatisfied as I may be with it…. is still going to be linked up over at Fusion this week!

I decided to Fuse the challenge this week!

Although, I may have no flowers on my card…I went with the color scheme…along with the Sketch!

If you haven’t heard of this site…I highly recommend it!

So unique and fresh and loaded with talent…

both by the Design Team and the players!

Card Details:

Cardstock: Stampin Up

Paper: Bazzil, SU and CM

Ink: Various Pens

Stamps: Michaels, and CTMH

Die: Spellbinders- Picot Edge Circles

Cutting System: Creative Memories- Waves

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Have a fabulous day!

Nancy

A Different Sketch…

Second Post for the day so…..

If you are looking for CAS on Sunday…Please Scroll Down

As soon as I laid eyes on this sketch over at CAS(E) this week, I knew I wanted to play along.

The first thing that came to mind is this great tree stamp that I have

that I haven’t used in quite a while from Verve.

Then I went looking for a color challenge, and I didn’t have to go far.

I went right to my reliable Dynamic Duos, and then the creativity began.

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The polka-dot Washi tape looks peachier than it is!

Cardstock/Paper: SU,CM

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Stamps: Verve-Tree, Sentiment-CTMH

Ink: Memento Black and Spectrum Noir Pens

Acc: Pearls

Thanks as always for stopping by and brightening my day

with your wonderful comments!

Nancy

Sketch Challenge @ CAS on Sunday

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We have a Clean and Simple sketch challenge for you this time over at CAS on Sunday!

 It is once again sponsored by team Utopia…which is a Stampin’ Up team!

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This is the awesome Ink Pad you could win with some ribbon to match!

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I sure hope you are able to stop on over and join us sometime over the next two weeks!

Can’t wait to see what you come up with….just remember to keep it CAS!

This little bear is so cute isn’t he! He is from Bugaboo digi stamps.

 Still working on my coloring skills…some days are better than others!

I am also linking this card up to Addicted to Stamps and More.

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They asked us to “Make Your Mark”

Card Details:

Cardstock: Stampin up and Creative Memories

Stamp: Digi Image from Bugaboo Stamps

Sentiment: Gina K Designs

Pens: Spectrum Noir

Have a great day!

Nancy

Hosting @ Just Us Girls and More…

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I am thrilled to be your HOSTESS this week for my first hosting job as part

of the Design team at Just Us Girls.

 When I realized my first challenge was going to be a photo challenge,

I immediately thought of pink and black (my favs) and hopped on over to google images.

After just a couple of seconds, I found these two photos that I knew would be perfect!

 I picked two images so that you might have a few choices.

 You may either get inspirations from the color pallet and take that route,

reproduce some flowers like I have done,

or you may be intrigued by the damask pattern on the purse.

 You decide!

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Now the details:  I used my spectrum Noir pens and colored the BACK of my flowers

after I heat embossed them on Vellum with white embossing powder.

LOVE this look!

I first saw this technique over at Driven to Ink blog….a few years ago.

Over at the Pink Elephant that is the challenge this week… to “Lift” or “Case” a card or technique.

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So I chose the Technique of Embossing and Coloring on Vellum!

So, I will also be linking this card to their challenge as well as

over at Addicted to CAS.

My second entry!

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They asked us to use flowers.

The sentiment is from Close to My Heart.

I’m THRILLED to have hosted the fun with Just Us Girls, this week…

PLEASE  WON’T  YOU JOIN THE GIRLS AND I !!

Can’t wait to see what you link up!

Nancy